Povilas Vanagas

Povilas Vanagas
nation	Lithuania
birthday	July 23, 1970
place of birth	Šiauliai
size	180 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Margarita Drobiazko
Trainer	E. Maslennikowa, Igor Schpilband , Rostislaw Sinitsyn , Jelena Tchaikovskaya
status	resigned
End of career	2002, 2006
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Nice 2000 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Vienna 2000 Ice dance bronze Lyon 2006 Ice dance
Personal best
Total points 196.18 EM 2006  Freestyle 100.89 EM 2006  Original dance 59.60 World Cup 2006  Compulsory dance 38.34 EM 2006
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 3  Grand Prix competitions 1 8th 5

Povilas Vanagas (born July 23, 1970 in Šiauliai , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Lithuanian figure skater who started in ice dancing .

With his ice dance partner Margarita Drobiazko he was Lithuanian champion from 1992 to 2006. During the same period Drobiazko and Vanagas took part in twelve World and European Championships and five Olympic Games . You are the first and so far only figure skater to contest five Olympic Games. In 2000 they won bronze medals at both the World Championship and the European Championship . It was the first medals for Lithuania at world and European championships. At their last European Championship in 2006 they won another bronze medal. Their best result at the Olympics was fifth place, which they achieved in Salt Lake City in 2002 .

Drobiazko and Vanagas have been married since June 2000.

Results

Ice dance

(with Margarita Drobiazko )

Competition / year	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
winter Olympics	16.		12.				8th.				5.				7th
World championships	17th	13.	9.	12.	8th.	10.	8th.	6th	3.	5.	4th				4th
European championships	15th	11.	11.	11.	6th	8th.	6th	5.	3.	4th	4th				3.
Lithuanian championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.			1.	1.
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Grand Prix competition / season	91/92	92/93	93/94	94/95	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06
Grand Prix Final								4th	3.	3.	3.
Skate America										2.	3.
Skate Canada				2.	8th.	4th	4th	2.	1.
Trophée Lalique				4th				3.	3.						3.
NHK Trophy				6th	5.	4th		2.	3.	2.	2.
Bofrost Cup				2.	5.	5.				2.

Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas at the 2001 Grand Prix Final in Kitchener

Web links

Commons : Povilas Vanagas  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Drobiazko & Vanagas in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Povilas Vanagas in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website of the ice dancing couple