Alexei Urmanov

Alexei Yevgenyevich Urmanov (Template:Langx; born 17 November 1973) is a Russian figure skating coach and former competitor. He is the 1994 Olympic champion, the 1993 World bronze medalist, the 1997 European champion, the 1995–96 Champions Series Final champion, a four-time Russian national champion, and the 1992 Soviet national champion.

Personal life

Urmanov was born on 17 November 1973 in Leningrad, Soviet Union.<ref name=ISU-AU/> In 2001, his partner, Viktoria, gave birth to twins, Ivan and Andrei. The couple married in 2004.<ref name=Neva040913/>

Career

Urmanov started skating in 1977.<ref name=ISU-AU/> Early in his career, he was coached by N. Monakhova and Natalia Golubeva.<ref name=ISU-AU/>

Competing for the Soviet Union, Urmanov won the silver medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships. After the end of the Soviet Union, he chose to compete for Russia. In 1991, at age 17, he landed a quadruple jump at the European Championships.

Urmanov 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, becoming one of the youngest male figure skating Olympic champions.

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.<ref name=SE040113/> He retired from Olympic-eligible skating in 1999 and won the World Professional Championships the same year. Urmanov was coached by Alexei Mishin at the Yubileyny Sports Palace in Saint Petersburg.<ref name=ISU-AU/> During the 1990s, the rink often had poor-quality ice and other problems, resulting in limited training time.<ref name=SPT1994/><ref name=SPT1995/>

Coaching career

Urmanov is an Honoured Masters of Sports of the Russian Federation. He works as a skating coach<ref name=NI080402/> and an International Skating Union technical specialist. He was based in Saint Petersburg until 2014, when he moved to Sochi, to coach at the Iceberg Skating Palace.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref> He sometimes holds summer camps or clinics in other locations such as Luleå, Sweden, and Paris, France.<ref name=IFS111110/>

His current and former students include:

• Template:Flagicon Sergei Voronov<ref name=SV/>
• Template:Flagicon Nodari Maisuradze<ref name=NM/>
• Template:Flagicon Zhan Bush<ref name=ZB/>
• Template:Flagicon Gordei Gorshkov<ref name=GG/>
• Template:Flagicon Nikol Gosviani<ref name=NG/>
• Template:Flagicon Polina Agafonova<ref name=PA/>
• Template:Flagicon Anastasiia Gubanova<ref name="AS130121" />
• Template:Flagicon Deniss Vasiļjevs<ref name=DV/>
• Template:Flagicon Yulia Lipnitskaya<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Template:Flagicon Stanislava Molchanova<ref name=SM/>
• Template:Flagicon Mikhail Shaidorov<ref name=MS/>

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
1998–99 <ref name=ISU-AU/>	Toccata and Fugue in D minor Template:Small	Tanguera Template:Small El Choclo Template:Small Taquito Militar Template:Small
1997–98
1996–97	Twilight Zone	Princess of the Circus Template:Small <ref>Template:Usurped. www.skatemusiclist.com. </ref>	Beatles medley
1995–96	Night on Bald Mountain Template:Small
1994–95	Rigoletto Template:Small	Swan Lake Template:Small
1993–94		The Barber of Seville Template:Small<ref>Skating Music Template:Webarchive. www.frogsonice.com.</ref>
1992–93	Piano Concerto No. 1 Template:Small	Don Quixote Template:Small	Piano Concerto No. 1 Template:Small
1991–92	Boléro Template:Small		Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Competitive highlights

GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix

International<ref name=ISU-AU/>
Event	Template:Tooltip	90–91	91–92	92–93	93–94	94–95	95–96	96–97	98–99
Olympics			5th		1st
Worlds		8th	8th	3rd	4th	4th	5th	WD	5th
Europeans		6th	3rd	5th	3rd	2nd		1st	3rd
Template:Small Final							1st	3rd	2nd
Template:Small Nations Cup							4th	1st
Template:Small Cup of Russia								1st	1st
Template:Small Skate America								2nd	3rd
Template:Small Skate Canada							1st
Goodwill Games						1st			2nd
Inter. de Paris			3rd
Moscow News		1st
NHK Trophy			3rd	3rd	3rd
Skate America					3rd
St. Gervais		1st
International: Junior<ref name=ISU-AU/>
Junior Worlds	2nd
National<ref name=ISU-AU/>
Russian Champ.				1st	1st	1st	1st	2nd	3rd
Soviet Champ.	6th	3rd	1st
WD: Withdrew

External links

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