2. Alexei Yagudin was born in Leningrad in 1980
on the 18 of March.His mum - Zoya
Alekseevna Yagudin was a researcher at the
Leningrad Institute of Informatics and
automation of the Academy of Science in the
USSR. Konstantin Yagudin father left the
family in 1984 and he didn’t take part at the
education of his son.He started skating in
autumn in 1984 .His mother took him to the
skating rink and she played a big role in the
first sport victories of her son.
Until he was 12 Alexei Yagudin trained
under Alexander Mayorov who was a
student of Alexey Nikolaevich Mishin.When
he was 13 years old Alexei Yagudin took
the fourth place in his first world
championship among juniors, in 1996 he
won the championship.
3. 1998 year was a turning point in Alexey Yagudin’s
career. He left his trainer A. N. Mishin for Tatyana
Anatolyevna Tarasova and went to train in the United
States.
Since 1998 up to 1999 Yagudin won 11
competitions out of 13, including Skate
America, Sparkassen Сuр.The discovery
of his artistic talent is Tatiana Tarasova’s
merit. «He's a great actor. He can make
the audience break into tears they not
just get up but jump seeing him on the ice
watching him!» she says about her pupil.
4. In the autumn of 1999 Yagudin won all the
tournaments of Gran pree series.He became
the first in the history of Russia who was a
three-time world champion, and managed
to win the title three times! In 2000 - 2001
he created one of his famous programmes
«A Gladiator», set to the soundtrack from
this movie.
The victory at the Olympic games in Salt Lake City is the
peak of his sports career, one of the most brilliant
victories in the history of the figure skating in Russia .
Brilliantly performed at the Games the short programme
«Winter», staged by T. A. Tarasova is still considered
perfect. The programme « A Man in the Iron Mask»
brought to Yagudin special Olympic records - he was
declared as a winner by all nine judges.
5. His sports career is like a duel that left a bright trace in the history of the
figure skating. His fans still remember the late 20th and early 21st
century as the era of confrontation between the two giants of Russia Yagudin and Plushenko.It was incredibly intensive struggle from which
both skaters certainly won, rapidly developing themselves and making a
considerable contribution to the development of one of the most beautiful
sports in our country.
6. The season after the Olympic games 20022003 also began as a victory. However the
pain in his hip made him leave sport.In
November in 2003 Alexei Yagudin gave up
his sports career.
Alexei Yagudin returned from the USA
where he lived the last seven years to
Russia and settled in his hometown StPetersburg. He took part in many projects
of the First TV Channel.In November in
2009, Alexei Yagudin and Tatiana
Totmianina became parents. Their
daughter was
named Elizabeth
