Natalia Evgenevna Mishkutionok
Natalja Mishkutjonok | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Natalia Evgenevna Mishkutionok | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Soviet Union United Team Russia |
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birthday | July 14, 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Minsk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 159 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 50 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Pair skating | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partner | Artur Dmitriev | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Tamara Moskvina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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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. |
Web links
- Natalja Evgenjewna Mischkutjonok in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mishkutjonok, Natalja Evgenjewna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Мишкутёнок, Наталья Евгеньевна (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian figure skater |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1970 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Minsk , Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union |