Ekaterina gordeeva and sergei grinkov
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Gordeeva, Ekaterina 1971-
PERSONAL: Born 1971, in USSR (now Russia); daughter of Alexander and Elena Gordeeva; married Sergei Grinkov (a figure skater; died, 1995), April, 1991; married Ilia Kulik (a figure skater), June 10, 2002; children: (first marriage) Daria, (second marriage) Elizaveta.
ADDRESSES: Home—Los Angeles, CA. Agent—Author's Mail, Warner Books, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
CAREER: Figure skater. Narrator for videocassette Three Cheers for Catherine the Great!, 2001.
AWARDS, HONORS: First Place award, World Figure Skating Championships, 1986, 1987, 1989, and 1990, for pairs figure skating; Gold Medal, Olympic Games, 1988 and 1994, for pairs figure skating.
WRITINGS:
(With E. M. Swift) My Sergei: A Love Story, Warner Books (New York, NY), 1996.
(With Antonina W. Bouis) A Letter for Daria, Little, Brown (Boston), 1998.
SIDELIGHTS:Ekaterina Gordeeva is an Olympic champion figure skater who has chronicled her life's darkest hour in two different books. Gordeeva lost her first husband and skating partner, Sergei Grinkov, in 1
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Ekaterina Gordeeva
(1971-)
Who Is Ekaterina Gordeeva?
Ekaterina Gordeeva is a Russian champion ice skater. In their 13 years of skating together, Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov were first co-workers, became friends, then fell in love, married, became parents and won four world championships and two Olympic gold medals. In 1995, at age 28, her partner and husband Grinkov died of a heart attack.
Early Life
Gordeeva was born in Moscow, Russia, on May 28, 1971. Her father, Alexander Alexeyevich Gordeev, a folk dancer for the Moiseev Dance Company, wanted Gordeeva to become a ballet dancer. Her mother, Elena Levovna, was a teletype operator for the Soviet newsagent Tass. Gordeeva's parents both worked hard and traveled so much that Gordeeva and her sister, Maria, often stayed with their grandparents. Gordeeva's grandmother read Grimm's fairytales to her, not knowing that's how Gordeeva would later describe her life — like a fairytale.
Gordeeva, in My Sergei, also commented that "I was the luckiest girl on earth, wanting for nothing." At four, too young to try out for
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Short Biography
Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Gordeeva
Born on May 28, 1971 in Moscow
Family:
daughter Daria Sergeevna Grinkova
daughter Elizaveta Ilyinishna Kulik
mother Elena Lvovna Gordeeva
father Aleksandr Alekseevich Gordeev (died in March of 2008)
sister Maria Aleksandrovna Gordeeva (4 years younger)
Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov
Born on February 4, 1967 in Moscow.
Died on November 20, 1995 in Lake Placid (NY)
Family:
daughter Daria Sergeevna Grinkova
sister Natalia Mikhailovna Grinkova (7 years older)
mother Anna Filippovna Grinkova (died in March 2000)
father Mikhail Kondratievich Grinkov (died in 1990)
Accomplishments:
two-time Olympic champions: 1988 - Calgary, Canada; 1994 - Lillehammer, Norway
four-time World champions: 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990
three-time European champions: 1988, 1990, 1994
champions of USSR and Russia: 1991, 1992, 1994
Katia & Sergei had a state wedding on April 20, 1991 and church wedding on April 28, 1991
daughter Daria Sergeevna Grinkova was born on September 11, 1992 in Morristown, NJ
June 10, 2002
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