Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov
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Oksana (Pasha) Grishuk (born March 17, 1972 in Odessa, Ukraine) and Evgeny Platov (born August 7, 1967, also in Odessa) were a Russian ice dancing pair, who won two Olympic gold medals and four wolrd championships.
Grishuk began training in skating at the age of four. She moved to Moscow in 1986, and studied at the Sport University of Moscow from 1988 to 1992. Platov began skating when he was nine years old. He studied at the Physical Institute of Culture in Moscow.
After they won the gold medal in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Platov started skating as a professional with a different partner: Maya Usova. Grishuk then began skating professionally as a single woman.
[edit] Amateur competitions
- World Championships: first in 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997
- Olympics: gold medal in 1994 and 1998
- European Championships: first place in 1996, 1997, and 1998
