Tatiana Alexejewna Schuk

Tatiana Schuk
Full name	Tatiana Alexejewna Schuk
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	January 1, 1946
place of birth	Leningrad,  Soviet Union
size	156 cm
Weight	52 kg
date of death	March 21, 2011 (age 65)
Place of death	Orechowo-Sujewo,  Russia
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Alexander Gavrilow, Alexander Gorelik
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 2 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 3 ×
winter Olympics silver Grenoble 1968 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Cortina d'Ampezzo 1963 Couples bronze Colorado Springs 1965 Couples silver Davos 1966 Couples silver Geneva 1968 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Budapest 1963 Couples bronze Grenoble 1964 Couples bronze Moscow 1965 Couples silver Bratislava 1966 Couples

Tatiana Alexejewna Schuk , married. Schesternjowa , Sokolova ( Russian Татьяна Алексеевна Жук (Шестернёва, Соколова) ; English Tatyana Zhuk * 1. January 1946 in Leningrad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ; †  21st March 2011 in Orekhovo-Zuyevo , Moscow Oblast ) was a Russian figure skater started in pair skating for the Soviet Union.

From 1960 to 1964 her figure skating partner was Alexander Gavrilow and from 1965 to 1968 Alexander Gorelik .

With Gavrilow, Schuk became Soviet pair skating champion in 1960. In the same year, the couple played their first European championship and finished them in tenth place. In 1963 Schuk and Gawrilow won the bronze medal both at the European Championship and at their first World Championship , both times behind Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler and their compatriots Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov . The same result was repeated at the European Championship the following year . At the 1964 World Cup , however, they could not repeat the result and were sixth. They finished the Olympic Games in Innsbruck in fifth place.

With Alexander Gorelik, Schuk immediately won bronze medals at both the European and World Championships in 1965 , both times in victories by Belousova and Protopopov. In 1966 Schuk and Gorelik improved and became vice European champions in Bratislava and vice world champions behind their compatriots in Davos . They achieved the same result in their last appearance at the World Championships in 1968 in Geneva and at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble , where they won the silver medal behind Belousova and Protopopov.

In 1969, Tatyana Schuk became pregnant. Then she ended her amateur career to the chagrin of Alexander Gorelik.

family

Tatjana Schuk is the younger sister of the three-time vice-European champion and successful figure skating coach Stanislaw Schuk .

She was married twice. From 1965 to 1973 she was married to the national soccer player Albert Schesternjow and had a daughter with him. In another marriage, she had a daughter.

Results

Pair skating

(with Alexander Gavrilow )

Competition / year	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964
winter Olympics					5.
World championships				3.	6th
European championships	10.			3.	3.
Soviet championships	1.		2.	2.

(with Alexander Gorelik )

Competition / year	1965	1966	1967	1968
winter Olympics				2.
World championships	3.	2.		2.
European championships	3.	2.
Soviet championships		2.

Web links

• Tatjana Alexejewna Schuk in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )