Yevgeny Plushchenko biography
Yevgeny Plushchenko, additionally spelled Evgeni Plushenko, in full Yevgeny Viktorovich Plushchenko, (born November 3, 1982, Solnechny, Russia, U.S.S.R.), world-champion Russian determine skater and the primary athlete to cleanly land the quadruple toe–triple toe–triple loop and triple axel–half loop–triple flip mixtures in competitors.
Plushchenko moved together with his household to Volgograd when he was a younger boy. He started skating at age 4 after household mates gave him a pair of skates they now not wished. It quickly turned obvious that Plushchenko had an actual expertise for skating, and he progressed quickly. In 1993, nevertheless, the skating faculty the place he was coaching closed as a result of, as an aftereffect of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the federal government might now not assist it. His mom took him to St. Petersburg, the place he started working with skating coach Aleksey Mishin on the St. Petersburg Figure Skating School. He was already capable of carry out the triple jumps roughly, and by the point he was 12 he had perfected them. At age 14 he landed a quad for the primary time. He additionally added the troublesome Biellmann spin to his repertoire of strikes, one of many few males to carry out it.
Plushchenko started competing in 1996 and inside a yr had received the world junior championships. He then moved into the senior ranks, taking a silver medal on the European championships and a bronze on the world championship in 1998 and the silver on the worlds the next yr. In 1999 Plushchenko made historical past when he executed the primary triple axel–half loop–triple flip mixture landed cleanly in competitors. Although in 2000 he might handle solely fourth place on the worlds, he got here again in 2001 to win his first world championship gold. Plushchenko took silver on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, however accidents saved him out of the worlds. Later that yr, nevertheless, on the Cup of Russia competitors, he entered the document books as soon as once more—this time with the primary quad toe–triple toe–triple loop mixture landed cleanly in competitors—and in 2003 he regained his world championship title.
Even although he was competing with an injured knee and was going through quite a few sturdy opponents, Plushchenko dominated the three applications of the 2004 world ice-skating championships and received his third title—his second consecutive—with a stunning free skate marred solely by a fall when his skate blade hit a sequin on the ice. In October he commemorated his 10 years of working with Mishin by performing in an exhibition program in St. Petersburg. He devoted his performances to the victims of the terrorist assault on a college in Beslan (see North Ossetia–Alania), and a portion of the present’s proceeds was channeled to the victims’ households. In 2006 he received his first Olympic gold medal, on the Winter Games in Turin, Italy. Plushchenko took a hiatus of three and a half years from aggressive skating after the Turin Games. He returned in 2009 to organize for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, the place he captured a silver medal. Plushchenko received a singles gold medal on the 2012 European championships however skipped the next world championships due to an harm. At the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, he received a gold medal within the new workforce competitors earlier than retiring from the singles occasion for medical causes. He retired from aggressive skating instantly after his Olympics withdrawal