- Oleg Vasiliev (figure skater)
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Olympic medal record Figure skating Gold 1984 Sarajevo Pairs Silver 1988 Calgary Pairs Oleg Vasiliev 
Valova and Vasiliev in 1987Personal information Country represented 
Soviet Union/
RussiaBorn November 22, 1959
LeningradHeight 5'7" (170 cm) Former partner Elena Valova Former coach Tamara Moskvina Retired 1988 Medal recordCompetitor for Soviet UnionPairs' Figure skating Olympic Games Silver 1988 Calgary Pairs Gold 1984 Sarajevo Pairs World Championships Gold 1988 Budapest Pairs Silver 1987 Cincinnati Pairs Silver 1986 Geneva Pairs Gold 1985 Tokyo Pairs Silver 1984 Ottawa Pairs Gold 1983 Helsinki Pairs European Championships Silver 1987 Sarajevo Pairs Gold 1986 Copenhagen Pairs Gold 1985 Gothenburg Pairs Gold 1984 Budapest Pairs Silver 1983 Dortmund Pairs Oleg Kimovich Vasiliev (Russian: Олег Кимович Васильев; born November 22, 1959) is a Russian pair skater who competed internationally for the Soviet Union. With partner Elena Valova, he is the 1984 Olympic Champion, 1988 Olympic silver medalist, and three-time World Champion (1983, 1985, 1988). Their coach throughout their career was Tamara Moskvina. After the pair ended their career, Vasiliev became a pair skating coach, leading the team of Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin to the 2006 Olympic title.
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Biography
Elena Valova and Oleg Kimovich Vasiliev in Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1983
Vasiliev was born in Leningrad, Russia, to parents Ludmila Konstantinovna Vasilieva, a nurse, and Kim Mihailovich Vasiliev. He was a sickly child, and his doctor recommended he get exercise and fresh air. Thus he began skating at age five, and his health improved greatly.
As a single skater, Vasiliev won a Junior Nationals title. Later he became interested in pair skating. Coach Tamara Moskvina paired him with Elena Valova. Vasiliev was 18 years old, Valova just 15. He represented the Armed Forces sports society.
Valova and Vasiliev enjoyed success throughout their career, winning gold at the 1984 Olympics and silver in 1988, as well as the 1983, 1985 and 1988 world championship titles. They competed in the amateur ranks from 1979 to 1988, and as professionals until 1998. They were the first Soviet skaters to skate in professional events after retiring from eligible competition. Oleg Vasiliev was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples.[1]
He coached the team of Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin, 2006 Olympic and two-time World champions (2004, 2005), and the team of Maria Mukhortova and Maxim Trankov (2008 European silver medalists), until the pair decided to split after the 2010 World championships.
Personal life
Valova and Vasiliev were married from 1984-1992. He later married a woman named Valentina and had a daughter, Katia (or Katenka in the familiar form), but they have since divorced.[2]
Vasiliev moved to the United States in December 1997 and currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Competitive highlights
Event 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 Winter Olympics 1st 2nd World Championships 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 1st European Championships 2nd 1st 1st 1st 2nd Soviet Championships 3rd 2nd 1st Skate America 3rd 1st NHK Trophy 1st Nebelhorn Trophy 1st Prize of Moscow News 6th 3rd 3rd 1st Grand Prix St. Gervais 2nd Other events
Event 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1997–98 World Professional Championships 2nd 4th 4th 4th 3rd World Challenge of Champions 2nd 5th 4th 2nd 3rd US Open 5th 2nd 5th Masters Miko 3rd Canadian Professional Championships 4th Legends 2nd References
- ^ (in Russian) Panorama of the 1984 Sports Year. Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1985. p. 37.
- ^ Yazeva, Elena (25 November 2009). "Я тренировал психически больного человека!" (in Russian). mk-piter.ru. http://www.mk-piter.ru/2009/11/26/013/. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
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Olympic champions in figure skating - Pairs 1908: Anna Hübler & Heinrich Burger • 1920: Ludowika Jakobsson & Walter Jakobsson • 1924: Helene Engelmann & Alfred Berger • 1928: Andrée Joly & Pierre Brunet • 1932: Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet • 1936: Maxi Herber & Ernst Baier • 1948: Micheline Lannoy & Pierre Baugniet • 1952: Ria Baran & Paul Falk • 1956: Sissy Schwarz & Kurt Oppelt • 1960: Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul • 1964: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov • 1968: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov • 1972: Irina Rodnina & Alexei Ulanov • 1976: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev • 1980: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev • 1984: Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev • 1988: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov • 1992: Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev • 1994: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov • 1998: Oksana Kazakova & Artur Dmitriev • 2002: Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze and Jamie Salé & David Pelletier • 2006: Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin • 2010: Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo
European champions in figure skating – Pairs 1930–31: Olga Orgonista & Sandor Szalay • 1932: Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet • 1933: Idi Papez & Karl Zwack • 1934: Emília Rotter & László Szollás • 1935–39: Maxi Herber & Ernst Baier • 1947: Micheline Lannoy & Pierre Baugniet • 1948–49: Andrea Kékesy & Ede Király • 1950: Marianna Nagy & László Nagy • 1951–52: Ria Baran & Paul Falk • 1953: Jennifer Nicks & John Nicks • 1954: Silvia Grandjean & Michel Grandjean • 1955: Marianna Nagy & László Nagy • 1956: Sissy Schwarz & Kurt Oppelt • 1957–58: Věra Suchánková & Zdeněk Doležal • 1959–64: Marika Kilius & Hans-Jürgen Bäumler • 1965–68: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov • 1969–72: Irina Rodnina & Alexei Ulanov • 1973–78: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev • 1979: Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai • 1980: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev • 1981: Irina Vorobieva & Igor Lisovsky • 1982–83: Sabine Baeß & Tassilo Thierbach • 1984–86: Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev • 1987: Larisa Selezneva & Oleg Makarov • 1988: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov • 1989: Larisa Selezneva & Oleg Makarov • 1990: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov • 1991–92: Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev • 1993: Marina Eltsova & Andrei Bushkov • 1994: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov • 1995: Mandy Wötzel & Ingo Steuer • 1996: Oksana Kazakova & Artur Dmitriev • 1997: Marina Eltsova & Andrei Bushkov • 1998: Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze • 1999–2000: Maria Petrova & Alexei Tikhonov • 2001: Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze • 2002–06: Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin • 2007–09: Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy • 2010: Yuko Kavaguti & Alexander Smirnov • 2011: Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy
Soviet champions in figure skating – Pairs 1920: А. Konopatova & Ivan Bogoyavlenski • 1924: Alexandrа Bykovskaya & Yuri Zeldovich • 1927: Tatiana Kuznetsova & Mikhail Stankevich • 1928: Maria Laskevich & Igor Vonzblein • 1933: Valentina Krylova & Ivan Krylov • 1937: Raisa Gandelsman & Alexander Gandelsman and Tatiana Granatkina & Alexander Tolmachev • 1938: Tatiana Granatkina & Alexander Tolmachev • 1939: Raisa Gandelsman & Alexander Gandelsman • 1941: Tatiana Granatkina & Alexander Tolmachev • 1945-1951: Tatiana Granatkina & Alexander Tolmachev • 1952-1954: Maya Belenkaya & Igor Moskvin • 1955-1956: Lidia Garasimova & Yuri Kiselev • 1957-1959: Nina Zhuk & Stanislav Zhuk • 1960: Tatiana Zhuk & Alexander Gavrilov • 1961: Nina Zhuk & Stanislav Zhuk • 1962-1964: Liudmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov • 1965: Tamara Moskvina & Alexander Gavrilov • 1966-1968: Liudmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov • 1969: Tamara Moskvina & Alexei Mishin • 1970-1971: Irina Rodnina & Alexei Ulanov • 1972: Irina Chernyaeva & Vasili Blagov • 1973-1975: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev • 1976: Irina Vorobieva & Alexander Vlasov • 1977: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev • 1978-1979: Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai • 1980: Marina Pestova & Stanislav Leonovich • 1981: Veronika Pershina & Marat Akbarov • 1982-1983: Marina Pestova & Stanislav Leonovich • 1984: Marina Avstriskaya & Yuri Kvashnin • 1985: Larisa Selezneva & Oleg Makarov • 1986: Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev • 1987: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov • 1988-1990: Larisa Selezneva & Oleg Makarov • 1991: Evgenia Shishkova & Vadim Naumov • 1992: Elena Bechke & Denis Petrov
Categories:- 1959 births
- Living people
- Russian pair skaters
- Soviet pair skaters
- Olympic figure skaters of the Soviet Union
- Figure skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Russian figure skating coaches
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
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