Alexander Gorshkov passes away

[Frau Muller]

Gorshkov died earlier today. In addition to being head of the Russian federation, he was the first ice-dance Olympic champion with his late wife Ludmila Pakhamova.

May he Rest In Peace.

Alexander Gorshkov, first Olympic ice dance champion, dies at 76

Alexander Gorshkov, who won the first ice dance gold medal at the 1976 Olympics and later became a leading official in Russian figure skating, has died.

olympics.nbcsports.com

 

[VGThuy]

Gorshkov died earlier today. In addition to being head of the Russian federation, he was the first ice-dance Olympic champion with his late wife Ludmila Pakhamova.

Alexander Gorshkov, first Olympic ice dance champion, dies at 76

Alexander Gorshkov, who won the first ice dance gold medal at the 1976 Olympics and later became a leading official in Russian figure skating, has died.

olympics.nbcsports.com

Before their dominance from 1970-1976, ice dance seemed to be an English, American, Canadian, and Czech (or Czechoslovakian) game.

World Figure Skating Championships - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

From skimming the world medalists, it's clear that while Groshkov/Pakhamova were not the first Soviet contenders for medals in ice dance, they were the first to win Worlds and dominate. Once ice dance went Soviet/Russian in the 1970s...it never looked back (with some exceptions...most famously Torvill/Dean). By the late 1980s at the earliest or around the early 90s, it seemed that ice dance became ONLY a Soviet/Russian game and the entire sport evolved into the ice dance as we know it today. Groskhov was probably one of the key actors in that happening.

 

[Andrea82]

ISU obituary

https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/obituaries/30085-obituary-alexander-g-gorshkov/file

 

[caseyedwards]

RIP