Ekaterina Gordeeva

Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Gordeeva is a Soviet and Russian figure skating star. Together with Sergei Grinkov, she became a two-time Olympic champion, four-time world champion and three-time European champion. In 1988 she was recognized as the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, and in 1994 - the Honored Master of Sports of Russia.

Ekaterina was born in Moscow on May 28, 1971. Father Alexander Alekseevich Gordeev at that time was listed in the troupe of Igor Moiseev. Mother Elena Lvovna worked in the famous Telegraph Agency (future "ITAR-TASS").

4 years after her birth, Katya became an older sister - another girl appeared in the family. It is worth noting that the children in this family have never needed anything. Parents were considered wealthy at that time and invested a lot in their daughters.

The future figure skater spent her early years on the ice, already at the age of three her parents assigned her to the CSKA children's sports school, to the group of Vladimir Zakharov. From that moment on, Catherine's life was subject to a strict schedule: skating, stretching and choreographic sketches were replaced by school lessons and homework.

It is not surprising that Gordeeva met her partner at the rink. Young Sergei Grinkov trained there - at the CSKA Sports School. The first meeting took place in 1981, and in 1982 Gordeeva and Grinkov became the official sports couple, who performed under the leadership of Vladimir Zakharov. It is believed that he was the one who determined the success of the skaters by bringing them together in time.

Despite their young age and little experience in pair skating, Ekaterina and Sergey quickly learned to interact with each other. Katya was tiny - her height was 152 cm, and her weight was 40 kg, against her background Sergei looked like a real Russian hero.

At the 1983 junior world championship, they took sixth place, and in 1984 they returned from there with gold. At that time, the coach Nadezhda Shevalovskaya, the silver medalist of the USSR championship in 1974 and 1976, supervised their training. Choreographer Marina Zueva was responsible for the content of the programs and the dance form of the skaters.

In the fall of 1985, the couple joined the group to Stanislav Zhuk. The sports biography of Ekaterina Gordeeva was replenished with several more successful performances. The couple took second place at the USSR Championship, won a silver medal at the European Championship and became champions at the World Championship in Geneva.

Fifteen-year-old Katya turned out to be the youngest world champion. And the Gordeev-Grinkov couple had an unprecedented number of fans. Photos with their image flaunted on the covers of all printed publications of the Union.

Just at this time, a scandal erupted related to a complaint about Zhuk. Figure skater Anna Kondrashova accused the famous coach of "immoral behavior", harassment in her address and in the address of Elena Vodorezova, who trained with him. Her letter of accusation to the Central Committee of the CPSU was signed by the choreographer Marina Zueva and several of Stanislav Alekseevich's wards, among whom were Sergei and Yekaterina.

They say that the couple was pressured by the "authorities", but, nevertheless, "the job was done." And the couple had to change their leaders again. This time it was Stanislav Leonovich.

The skaters had to skip the 1987 season - during training, Katya fell from a height of three meters, hitting her head hard on the ice. Doctors diagnosed a severe concussion and banned sports until he recovered. However, this did not stop the professional growth of athletes. Already in 1988, they demonstrated the highest aerobatics at the Calgary Olympics.

A perfectly executed free program and a short full of complex technical elements became an exemplary performance of our partners. Until now, these numbers are shown to novice skaters as the highest achievements of Soviet sports.

The next season was marked by victories at the 1989 and 1990 world championships. However, the programs in both cases were executed with flaws - the advantage over the rivals turned out to be small. Ekaterina and Sergei decided to leave the big sport and began to take part in the tours of the ice theater of Tatiana Tarasova.

In fact, this was a necessary measure. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many skaters were left without work, and therefore without a livelihood. To avoid this, the couple moved to the United States, where they began skating in an ice show.

It has been known for a long time that Katya and Sergei are connected not only by skates. But the couple came to the decision to enter into an official marriage only in 1991. On April 20, the young people got married, and on 28 they got married. On September 11 of the following year, their daughter Dasha was born. Close and native families claim that it was an ideal relationship, pure and strong love.

Unfortunately, family happiness did not last long. While in Lake Placid in November 1995, Sergei felt unwell. Doctors were called to the stadium, who diagnosed acute heart failure. The young skater was quickly transported to the hospital, but did not have time to help. Grinkov died suddenly. Later, Catherine learned that the cause of her husband's death was a massive heart attack.

Later in an interview, Ekaterina said that when your loved one dies in your arms, you realize how little all these victories, cups and medals mean.

After her husband's funeral, the skater did not have a question about figure skating. How to live on became the main question of her life. She was acutely worried about the loss of her husband. Only she knows how she had to convince herself that she needed to pull herself together and move on.

Catherine managed to pull herself together, and after a few months the skater again took to the ice - however, already alone. When she appeared on the ice arena, the audience stood up. And after the show, she burst into tears. And her three-year-old daughter Dasha came out on the ice to calm her down.

After the death of her husband, Gordeeva wrote a book-memoir "My Sergey". The book immediately became a bestseller. Later, Katya admitted that she regretted that she had revealed so many personal secrets. Although she does not hide the fact that at that time writing a book became an outlet for her. In 1998, Gordeeva starred in a documentary about Grinkov. They say that she still wears on a gold chain the wedding ring he presented - her main talisman.

In 1998-1999 Ekaterina Gordeeva took part in popular ice shows. Her partners were Anton Sikharulidze, John Zimmerman, Artur Dmitriev. In 2000, in the StarsonIce show, the skater went on the ice with Ilya Kulik, and in 2001 it became known that the couple were married.

They did not arrange a magnificent celebration, they just signed between tours at the Russian embassy in San Francisco. They tried not to advertise their relationship, as many fans of the Gordeev-Grinkov couple were jealous of her new life. The new alliance seemed to some to be a betrayal.

In the summer of 2002, their daughter Lisa was born in a private clinic in Los Angeles. Ilya is 6 years younger than Katya.

Rumors of the famous figure skater Gordeeva's romance with actor Yegor Beroev appeared on the eve of the final release of the Ice Age television show. Journalists vied with each other to quote eyewitnesses claiming that the couple regularly meets in one of the largest hotels in the capital. And the paparazzi even provided some pictures of Katya and Egor in the cozy atmosphere of a romantic dinner.

However, both of them categorically denied a love affair. Ekaterina was already married to Kulik at that time, and Beroev's wife, Ksenia Alferova, even starred with them in the same show (her partner was Povilas Vanagas).

By the end, passions around the scandalous couple flared up serious - some publications managed to notify readers that Ksenia divorced her husband because of his betrayal. But the divorce never took place.

The legendary figure skater today is a loving wife and caring mother. And Ksenia and Yegor are raising their daughter Evdokia together.

Ekaterina Gordeeva is still very good and graceful and admits few people into her private life, although she is an active user of Instagram. It is known that she lives with her family in America, and occasionally visits Russia. As the skater herself says, they come to celebrate the New Year in Russia and spend it at their dacha.

In America, Gordeeva and Kulik opened their own figure skating school. In 2016, they began work on the Romeo and Juliet ice show. In 2017, it was presented to the public.

The eldest daughter Dasha gave up figure skating, preferring to study. In June 2018, a photo appeared on Gordeeva's Instagram, in the caption to which she congratulates her daughter on graduating from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM). But the younger Lisa trains hard. At one time she skated in Moscow with Inna Goncharenko, today she is coached by her father, Ilya Kulik.

In April 2018, Ekaterina took part in the Ice Age. Children ”, where she was invited as a judge.

1986 - gold medal at the World Championships in Geneva 1987 - gold medal at the World Championships in Cincinnati 1988 - gold medal at the European Championships in Prague 1988 - gold medal at the Olympic Games in Calgary 1989 - gold medal at the World Championships in Paris 1990 - gold medal at World Championships in Halifax 1990 - gold medal at the European Championships in Leningrad 1994 - gold medal at the European Championships in Copenhagen 1994 - gold medal at the Russian Championships 1994 - gold medal at the Olympic Games in Lillehammer

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