Ruslan Honcharov

Ruslan Honcharov
nation	Ukraine
birthday	20th January 1973
place of birth	Odessa, Soviet Union
size	185 cm
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Elena Hruschyna
Former partner	Jelenora Gritsai
society	Army Sports Club Odessa
Trainer	Nikolai Morozov , Tatiana Tarasova , Natalja Linitschuk , Gennady Karponosov , A. Tumanowski
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Moscow 2005 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Budapest 2004 Ice dance silver Turin 2005 Ice dance silver Lyon 2006 Ice dance
Personal best
Total points 213.95 World Cup 2005  Freestyle 109.48 World Cup 2005  Original dance 63.23 Cup of Russia 2004  Compulsory dance 41.30 World Cup 2005
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 1 0  Grand Prix competitions 4th 6th 1

Ruslan Honcharov ( Russian Руслан Гончаров ; born January 20, 1973 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian figure skater who started in ice dancing .

Honcharov started figure skating at the age of six. Originally a single runner, when he got too big he switched to ice dancing at the age of 13. His first ice dance partner was Jelenora Gritsai . The ice dance partnership ended due to health problems.

In 1990 Elena Hruschyna became Honcharov's ice dance partner. Still starting for the Soviet Union, they finished fourth at the Junior World Championships in 1992. In 1994 they made their debut at the Senior World Championships and in 1995 at the European Championships . In the same year they got married. In 1998 they played their first Olympic Games and finished in 15th place. In 1999 they were Ukrainian champions for the first time and were among the top ten at World and European Championships for the first time. In their second Olympic Games in 2002 , they finished ninth. In the 2002/03 season, Honcharov and Hruschyna won Skate America , Skate Canada and the Trophée Lalique and thus all Grand Prix competitions in which they participated. At the Grand Prix final , however, they missed a medal in fourth place. At the 2004 European Championships , the Ukrainians won their first bronze medal at an important international championship. In 2005 they became vice European champions and won their only world championship medal with bronze at the world championships in Moscow . In 2006 they were again runner-up European champions and won the bronze medal in their third Olympic Games in Turin behind the Russians Tatjana Nawka and Roman Kostomarow and the Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto . After this success, Honcharov and Hruschyna ended their competitive careers. They are divorced.

Results

Ice dance

(with Elena Hruschyna )

Championship / year	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
winter Olympics						15th				9.				3.
World championships		18th	22nd	16.		13.	8th.	7th	8th.	6th	5.	4th	3.
European championships			14th	13.	13.		7th	8th.	7th	8th.	4th	3.	2.	2.
Ukrainian championships	2.	3.	2.	3.	2.	2.	1.			1.		1.	1.	1.
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Grand Prix competition / season	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	4th		2.
Skate America				8th.							1.	2.
Skate Canada							4th	2.	4th		1.			2.
Trophée Lalique											1.			1.
Cup of Russia					9.					3.			2.
Bofrost Cup					10.
NHK Trophy								4th	4th	5.		2.
Cup of China												2.

Web links

Commons : Ruslan Honcharov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Elena Hruschyna / Ruslan Hontscharow in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Ruslan Honcharov in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official website of the ice dancing couple

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.goldenskate.com/2002/11/grushina-and-goncharov-win-three-grand-prix-golds/