Natalia Filimonovna Bestemyanova

Natalia Bestemyanova
Full name	Natalia Filimonovna Bestemyanova
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	January 6, 1960
place of birth	Moscow
size	170 cm
Weight	51 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Andrei Bukin
society	Trud Moscow Locomotive Moscow
Trainer	Tatiana Tarasova
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 5 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Sarajevo 1984 Ice dance gold Calgary 1988 Ice dance  World figure skating championships bronze Hartford 1981 Ice dance silver Copenhagen 1982 Ice dance silver Helsinki 1983 Ice dance silver Ottawa 1984 Ice dance gold Tokyo 1985 Ice dance gold Geneva 1986 Ice dance gold Cincinnati 1987 Ice dance gold Budapest 1988 Ice dance  European figure skating championships silver Lyon 1982 Ice dance gold Dortmund 1983 Ice dance silver Budapest 1984 Ice dance gold Gothenburg 1985 Ice dance gold Copenhagen 1986 Ice dance gold Sarajevo 1987 Ice dance gold Prague 1988 Ice dance

Natalja Filimonovna Bestemyanova (2019)

Natalja Filimonowna Bestemjanowa ( Russian: Наталья Филимоновна Бестемьянова , born January 6, 1960 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian figure skater who competed in ice dancing for the Soviet Union.

Her ice dance partner was Andrei Bukin from 1977 until the end of her career . The ice dancing couple was trained in Moscow by Tatiana Tarasova .

1979 Bestemjanowa and Bukin had their debut at world championships and 1980 at European championships and the Olympic Games . As early as 1981 they won their first medal with bronze at the world championships . In the first half of the 1980s, Bestemjanowa and Bukin were the strongest rivals of Britons Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean . However, you could never defeat them. In 1982 , 1983 and 1984 they were vice world champions and in 1982 and 1984 they were vice European champions behind the British. Their only title during this period they won at the 1983 European Championships in Dortmund , but in the absence of Torvill and Dean. Even at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo , Bestemjanowa and Bukin had to be content with the silver medal. After Torvill and Dean resigned, Bestemjanowa and Bukin became the world's best ice dance couple by the end of the 1980s. From 1985 to 1988 they won all international championships in which they participated. They won the European Championships in 1985 , 1986 , 1987 and 1988 and the World Championships in 1985 , 1986 , 1987 and 1988 . In 1988 in Calgary they became Olympic champions .

With four World Cup titles and five European Championship titles, they are only surpassed by their compatriots Lyudmila Pachomowa and Alexander Gorschkow , who achieved a total of six World Cup and European Championship titles.

Bestemyanova is married to the former Soviet figure skater and choreographer Igor Bobrin . Since 1986 Bestemjanowa has appeared together with Bukin in Bobrin's Ice Theater ( Bobrin Ice Theater Moscow - Moscow Stars on Ice ).

From 2006 to 2008 she hosted the Russian version of the British television show Dancing on Ice in Russia. In 2007 she participated as a jury member on the British television show Dancing on Ice ( ITV ).

From 2011 to 2012 she participated as a jury member on the TV show "Cup of Professionals" on the Pervy Canal in Russia .

Results

Ice dance

(with Andrei Bukin )

Competition / year	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
winter Olympics			8th.				2.				1.
World championships		10.		3.	2.	2.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.
European championships			6th	4th	2.	1.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.
Soviet championships	3.	4th	2.	3.	1.	1.		2.		1.

Web links

• Natalia Bestemianova in the database of Sports-Reference (English, archived by the original )
• "Bestemyanova at Moscow Stars on Ice"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Cup of Professionals"