2. PERSONAL INFORMATION
Aleksey Urmanov was born in Leningrad on
November 17th 1973
Height : 5'11" (1,80cm)
Weight : 158 lbs. ( 65 kg)
Parents: Galina Vladimirovna and
Evgeny Urmanov ( divorced)
Family: his wife is Viktoria, who gave birth
to twins, Ivan and Andrei (2001)
3. THE START OF THE CAREER
Urmanov started skating at the age of four.
Urmanov trained at the Yubileyny Sports Palace,
which during the 1990s often had poor-quality ice and
other problems, resulting in limited training time.
Competed for the Soviet Union, he won the silver
medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Urmanov
chose to compete for Russia. In 1991, at age 17, he
became the first skater to perform a quadruple
jump at the European Championships.
4. THE CAREER
He competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics,
where he placed 5th.
He won the bronze medal at the 1993
World Championships.
He is the Olympic champion (Lillehammerand,
1994) and Honoured Masters of Sports
of the Russian Federation.
5. THE CAREER
Urmanov chose to continue to participate in
amateur competitions, and won the European
Championships in 1997, but the injury
forced him to in the short program
and then withdrew from the world
championships the same year, also
therefore miss the 1998 Nagano
Winter Olympic games.
In 1999 he retired to occupation player,
won the 2000 world champion occupation.
6. NOWADAYS
Urmanov is currently a figure skating coach
and an ISU (International Skating Union)
technical specialist.
He formerly coached Sergei Voronov, Nodari
Maisuradze, and Gordei Gorshkov.
His current students include Nikol Gosviani,
Polina Agafonova, and Zhan Bush.
He is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia,
but sometimes holds summer camps or clinics
in other locations such as Luleå, Sweden
and Paris, France.
7. Urmanov is known for his colorful costumes
and ballet style.
He managed to embody on the ice all the
best qualities of the athlete and actor.
Aleksey's performances were little
spectacle in the insanely
complex world of figure skating
