- Evgeny Platov
Evgeny Platov (born
August 7 ,1967 inOdessa , Ukrainian SSR) is a former competitiveice dancer who represented theSoviet Union , theUnified Team , andRussia in international competition and now works as afigure skating coach and choreographer. With former partnerOksana Grishuk , he is the 1994 and 1998 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion. After retiring from competitive skating, he had a falling out with Oksana, now known as Pasha. As a result, he skated professionally with former rivalMaya Usova , who Pasha depised. He was briefly married to former figure-skater turned actress Maria Anikanova in 1991, but they divorced in 1997. [http://www.figureskatingmystery.com/2007/05/shes-not-famous-skater-and-she-doesnt.html#comments]Platov was an assistant coach to his own former coach
Tatiana Tarasova from 2002-2004, along with Maya Usova, at the International Skating Center of Connecticut inSimsbury, Connecticut . He helped coach Olympic ChampionShizuka Arakawa to her only world title in 2004 and briefly worked withSasha Cohen andJohnny Weir under the guidance of Tarasova.In the fall of 2005 he moved to New Jersey and became the assistant coach to his former rival,
Alexander Zhulin , helping to coach theice dancing team ofTatiana Navka andRoman Kostomarov to European and Olympic gold medals. He started coaching on his own when Zhulin left New Jersey to go back to Russia. Among his students are Sinead & John Kerr. He formerly coachedGalit Chait &Sergei Sakhnovski and Alexandra &Roman Zaretski . The Zaretskis were forced to leave him because Boris Chait, the head of Israel Skating federation wanted them to be coached by his daughter Galit Chait.Platov currently coaches at the Princeton Sports Center in
Monmouth Junction, New Jersey .References
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External links
* [http://www.caretoicedance.com/gripla.html Care to Ice Dance? - Grishuk & Platov]
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