1. Alexei Urmanov
Russian figure skater
and coach
Kolosova Elena Andreevna
English teacher
GBOU school №31 of Vasileostrovskiy district,
Saint-Petrsburg
2. CAREER
Alexei Urmanov was born in Leningrad. He
started skating at the age of four. He won the
silver medal at the 1990 World Junior
Championships. After the fall of the Soviet Union,
Urmanov chose to compete for Russia. In 1991, at
age 17, he became the first skater to perform a
quadruple jump at the European Championships.
He competed at the 1992 Winter
Olympics, where he placed 5th. He
won the bronze medal at the 1993
World Championships. At the 1994
Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, he
won the gold medal.
3. CAREER
Urmanov chose to remain in the competitive ranks. He
became the 1997 European champion, but an injury forced
him out of the 1997 World Championships after the short
program and kept him from competing for a berth to the
1998 Olympics. Alexei retired from Olympic-eligible skating
in 1999 and won the World Professional Championships
the same year.
Urmanov trained at the Yubileyny Sports Palace, which
during the 1990s often had poor-quality ice and other
problems, resulting in limited training time. The skater is
an Honoured Masters of Sports of the Russian Federation.
4. AMAZING FACTS
In 1991 he made his debut
at the European
Championships,
becoming the second
skater in history to have
fulfilled purely jump in
four turns (toe loop),
repeated it at the World
Cup in 1991.
In December 1991, in Kiev,
Alexei became the latest
champion of the Soviet
Union in figure skating.
6. AWARDS
Olympic champion, 1994
European Championship winner, 1996-1997
Russian championship winner, 1991-1996
Skate Canada International winner, 1995-1996
Sparkassen Cup winner, 1996-1997
Cup of Russia winner, 1996-1997, 1998-1999
The Goodwill Games winner, 1993-1994
