Natalia Evgenevna Mishkutionok

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Natalja Mishkutjonok figure skating
Full name Natalia Evgenevna Mishkutionok
nation Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union United Team Russia
United teamUnited team 
RussiaRussia 
birthday July 14, 1970
place of birth Minsk
size 159 cm
Weight 50 kg
Career
discipline Pair skating
Partner Artur Dmitriev
Trainer Tamara Moskvina
status resigned
End of career 1994
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EM medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 3 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Albertville 1992 Couples
silver Lillehammer 1994 Couples
ISU World figure skating championships
bronze Halifax 1990 Couples
gold Munich 1991 Couples
gold Oakland 1992 Couples
ISU European figure skating championships
bronze Birmingham 1989 Couples
bronze Leningrad 1990 Couples
gold Sofia 1991 Couples
gold Lausanne 1992 Couples
bronze Copenhagen 1994 Couples
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Grand Prix competitions 5 0 1
 

Natalja Evgenjewna Mischkutjonok ( Russian: Наталья Евгеньевна Мишкутёнок ; born July 14, 1970 in Minsk ) is a former Russian figure skater who competed in pair skating for the Soviet Union , the United Team and Russia .

She trained in Saint Petersburg . Her trainer was Tamara Moskwina . From 1987 to 1994 she started together with Artur Dmitrijew .

In 1988 they made their European Championship debut and finished it in fourth place. A year later they won their first major international medal with bronze at the European Championships in Birmingham . They in turn defended them a year later in Leningrad . In 1990 they made their world championship debut in Halifax and immediately won the bronze medal. After the resignation of their compatriots Yekaterina Gordejewa and Sergei Grinkow , the four-time Soviet runners-up became European champions in Sofia in 1991 and world champions in Munich . In 1992 Mishkutjonok and Dmitrijew achieved total triumph by winning gold medals at the European Championships in Lausanne , the World Championships in Oakland and the Olympic Games in Albertville . They ran the Olympic freestyle to Franz Liszt's love dream.

After their Olympic victory, Mishkutjonok and Dmitrijew switched to the professionals. However, they let themselves be reamateurised for the 1994 Winter Olympics and won the silver medal behind the likewise reamateurised Gordejewa and Grinkow. Before that, they had become Russian runners-up and won the bronze medal at the European Championships . The couple created a new pair of pirouette, which is often copied today. After the 1994 Winter Olympics, the couple separated.

Natalja Mischkutjonok moved to the USA and married the ice hockey player Craig Shepherd there . With him she appeared occasionally at shows in the 1990s. However, they divorced and Mishkutjonuk remarried. In 2006 their daughter was born. Mischkutjonuk works as a trainer in Hurst , Texas .

Results

Pair skating

(with Artur Dmitrijew )

Competition / year 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
winter Olympics 1. 2.
World championships 3. 1. 1.
European championships 4th 3. 3. 1. 1. 3.
Soviet championships 2. 2. 2. 2.
Russian championships 2.

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