Roman Sergeyevich Kostomarow

Roman Kostomarov
Full name	Roman Sergeyevich Kostomarow
nation	Russia
birthday	February 8, 1977
place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union
size	183 cm
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Tatiana Navka
Former partner	Ekaterina Dawidowa, Anna Semenowitsch
society	SC Moskvich
Trainer	Alexander Schulin, Natalja Linitschuk, Gennady Karponosov, Jelena Tschajkowskaja, Natalja Dubowa
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 3 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Turin 2006 Ice dance  World figure skating championships gold Dortmund 2004 Ice dance gold Moscow 2005 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Malmo 2003 Ice dance gold Budapest 2004 Ice dance gold Turin 2005 Ice dance gold Lyon 2006 Ice dance
Personal best
Total points 227.81 World Cup 2005  Freestyle 117.14 Cup of Russia 2003  Original dance 68.67 World Cup 2005  Compulsory dance 45.97 World Cup 2005
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 3 1 0  Grand Prix competitions 7th 3 1
last change: 2011 bold font = world record

Roman Sergejewitsch Kostomarow ( Russian Роман Сергеевич Костомаров , born February 8, 1977 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian figure skater who started in ice dancing .

Career

Roman Kostomarov did not start figure skating until he was nine years old. Before that he was a swimmer. However, when there was no development in swimming, his mother took him to an ice rink. At the age of eleven he was discovered there by a trainer and brought to ice dance. In 1996 Kostomarow and his then ice dance partner Jekaterina Dawidowa became junior world champion in ice dancing. Nevertheless, this partnership broke up.

In 1998 Tatjana Nawka and Roman Kostomarow ran their first season together. They were trained by Natalja Linitschuk and Gennady Karponosov in Newark , Delaware . At Natalja Linitschuk's instigation, Roman Kostomarow changed partners and henceforth trained with Anna Semenowitsch , a former partner of Vladimir Fyodorow . In addition, Tatjana Nawka married the trainer and former ice dancer Alexander Schulin in 2000 and took a baby break. Their daughter Sasha was born in May 2000.

Kostomarow with ice dance partner Tatjana Nawka, 2004

After Roman Kostomarow broke up with Anna Semenowitsch due to unsuccessfulness and Tatjana Nawka had ended her maternity leave, both started together again. From then on, they trained with Nawka's husband Alexander Schulin and with Jelena Tschaikowskaja in Hackensack , New Jersey .

In 2003 Nawka and Kostomarow went for the first time as Russian champions . At the European Championships they won their first bronze medal at a major international championship.

The 2003/2004 season began with victories in all Grand Prix competitions in which they took part, namely Skate Canada , Cup of Russia and Cup of China . They also won the Grand Prix final . They also defended their title at the Russian championships. They became European champions for the first time in Budapest and world champions for the first time in Dortmund . Thus, they won all competitions in which they competed this season.

After Nawka and Kostomarow had defended their title at the Grand Prix final in the 2004/2005 season, they also defended their European championship title in Turin and their world championship title in Moscow .

In the 2005/2006 season, Nawka and Kostomarow won the Grand Prix final for the third time in a row. In Lyon they became European champions for the third time in a row. At the end of their careers they won Olympic gold in Turin . At the Olympic Games, the compulsory dance and the original dance were characterized by an unusually large number of mistakes and falls by medal candidates for ice dancing. After Nawka / Kostomarow had taken second place in the compulsory dance, they won both the original dance and the compulsory dance and thus became Olympic champions. They had made the fewest mistakes across all three sub-competitions.

Kostomarow married the multiple Austrian champion Julia Lautowa in June 2004 , but the couple later divorced. Kostomarow has been engaged to the ice dancer Oxana Domnina since 2010 , and their daughter was born in January 2011.

Results

Ice dance

(1999/2000 season with Anna Semenowitsch , otherwise with Tatjana Nawka )

Championship / year	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
winter Olympics				10.				1.
World championships	12.	13.	12.	8th.	4th	1.	1.
European championships	11.	10.	9.	7th	3.	1.	1.	1.
Russian championships	3.	2.	2.	2.	1.	1.		1.
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Grand Prix competition / season	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06
Grand Prix Final					2.	1.	1.	1.
Skate America				4th	2.
Skate Canada						1.
Eric Bompard Trophy							1.
Cup of Russia	3.		4th	4th	2.	1.	1.	1.
NHK Trophy	5.		6th				2.
Cup of China						1.		1.

(with Jekaterina Dawidowa )

Championship / year	1996
Junior World Championships	1.

Web links

Commons : Roman Kostomarow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nawka / Kostomarow in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Roman Sergejewitsch Kostomarow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.goldenskate.com/2003/08/navka-and-kostomarov-close-to-world-dance-podium/