Evgeni Plushenko is a Russian figure skater who is considered the pride of Russia. He has won gold at the 2006 Winter Olympics, silver at the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics, and is a three-time World champion, seven-time European champion, and ten-time Russian national champion. Plushenko made quick progress internationally from a young age, becoming the youngest World Junior Champion and medalist.

1. Evgeni Plushenko
By Alisa Ivanova
student of 7a form
gymnasia 49
Saint Petersburg
Teacher Eyn I.G.

2. .
Evgeni is the pride of Russia

3. Evgeni Viktorovich Plushenko was born
November ,3 1982.
Evgeni is a Russian figure skater.
He is the 2006 Winter
Olympics gold medalist,
2002 Winter Olympics
silver medalist, and
2010 Winter Olympics
silver medalist, threetimes (2001, 2003,
2004) World champion,
seven-times(2000, 2001,
2003, 2005, 2006, 2010,
2012) European
champion, a four-times
Grand Prix Final
champion and a tentimes (1999–2002,
2004–2006, 2010,
2012–2013) Russian
national champion.

4. Plushenko has made a quick progress on the
international arena. He became the youngestever World Junior Champion and World
medalist.
As a 14-year-old
boy, he won the
1997 World Junior
Championships.
The following year,
at age of 15, he
took the bronze
medal at the senior
1998 World
Championships.
At the age of 16, Plushenko was the youngest
male skater to ever receive a perfect score of 6.0.

5. Plushenko is the only male figure skater in
the modern history of sport to have won
three Olympic medals in singles.
He was the first skater in the world to perform
a 4T–3T–2Lo combination in competitions, at
the 1999 NHK Trophy (he has since landed the
combination 26 times so far).