Tatyana Malkova's presentation is about figure skater Alexei Urmanov from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Saint Petersburg is known for sports achievements like football club FC Zenit and being home to many famous athletes like Nikolai Valuev, Evgeni Plushenko, and Alexei Urmanov. Urmanov started skating at age 4 and trained under coach Alexei Mishin, winning silver at the 1990 World Junior Championships. He became the first to land quadruple jumps in international competition and won gold at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, cementing his status as a national hero. Now retired, Urmanov coaches figure skating and lives in Saint Petersburg with his wife and

1. Alexei Urmanov
Presentation by
Tatyana Malkova,
Saint-Petersburg

2. My native city, Saint-Petersburg, is famous not only for its history
and culture, but also for its sports achievements. SaintPetersburg is the city of football club FC Zenit. Except for football,
Petersburg is the home city of many famous sportsmen.
Very well known in Russia are Nikolai
Valuev (world champion in boxing),
Evgeni Plushenko (Olympic gold medal
winner in figure skating), Svetlana
Zhurova (Olympic and world champion
in speed skating), Alexander Khalifman
(chess world champion), Dmitri Shepel
(European champion in speed skating),
Alexei Mishin (world medalist and
famous figure skating coach), and
many others.
One of Mishin’s famous pupils is Alexei
Urmanov - Olympic gold medal winner
in figure skating.

3. Alexei Urmanov, born November 17, 1973 in Leningrad, is a
famous Russian figure skater, who currently works as a coach.
He started skating at the age of four and trained at the Yubileini
Sports Palace in Saint-Petersburg. His coaches were Nina
Monakhova, Natalya Golubeva and Alexei Mishin (since 1989).
At the 1990 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Alexei
won the silver medal and at the 1990 Soviet Figure Skating
Championships in Minsk he won the bronze medal and became
the first skater who performed a quadruple jump.

4. In 1991 Alexei Urmanov became the first skater who performed
quadruple jumps at the European and World Figure Skating
Championships.
At the 1992 Winter Olympics Alexei was the 5th, then in 1993 he
won the bronze medal at the 1993 World Figure Skating
Championships and successfully
participated in all national and international competitions.

5. As the result of his and Mishin’s work Alexei Urmanov became the
first Russian gold medalist in men's singles at the 1994 Winter
Olympics in Lillehammer. After his great success Alexei became
the 1997 European champion, but an injury after the short
program at the 1997 World Championships didn’t give Alexei a
chance to take part in the 1998 Olympics. In 1999 he turned pro
and won the World Professional Championships of 1999. He
presented one of his famous programs “Fantom of the Opera”,
and as always his performance was excellent.

6. Alexei Urmanov is currently a skating coach and an International
Skating Union technical specialist. He formerly coached Sergei
Voronov, Nodari Maisuradze, Zhan Bush, and Gordei Gorshkov. His
current pupils are Nikol Gosviani and Polina Agafonova.

7. Alexei Urmanov is an Honored Masters of Sports of the Russian
Federation and is awarded the Order for Personal Courage.
In 2004 he got married to Viktoria Urmanova and they are the
parents of twins: Ivan and Andrei.
Alexei lives and works in Saint-Petersburg and is devoted to
his native city and his family, to figure skating and his pupils.