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Sergei Chetverukhin
Full name	Sergei Alexandrovich Chetverukhin
Native name	Серге́й Александрович Четверухин
Born	(1946-01-12) 12 January 1946 (age 78) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Figure skating career
Country	Soviet Union
Coach	Tatyana Tolmacheva, Stanislav Zhuk
Skating club	VSS Trud
Retired	1973
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Figure skating: Men's singles Winter Olympics 1972 Sapporo Men's singles World Championships 1973 Bratislava Men's singles 1972 Calgary Men's singles 1971 Lyon Men's singles European Championships 1973 Cologne Men's singles 1972 Gothenburg Men's singles 1971 Zürich Men's singles 1969 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Men's singles

Sergei Alexandrovich Chetverukhin (Russian: Серге́й Александрович Четверухин; born 12 January 1946) is a former Soviet figure skater. He is the 1972 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World medalist, and a four-time European medalist.

Personal life

Chetverukhin was born on 12 January 1946 in Moscow, Soviet Union. He moved to Canada in 1990 at the invitation of Canadian figure skater Donald Jackson. He holds Russian and Canadian citizenship. He is married and has a daughter.

Career

Chetverukhin trained at VSS Trud in Moscow. He was coached by Tatyana Tolmacheva and later by Stanislav Zhuk.

Chetverukhin began appearing at major international events in 1965 and won his first Soviet national title in the 1966–67 season. The following season, he repeated as the national champion and also took gold at the 1968 Winter Universiade in Innsbruck, ahead of Marián Filc of Czechoslovakia. He finished 5th at the 1968 European Championships in Västerås, Sweden; 9th at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France; and 9th at the 1968 World Championships in Geneva, Switzerland.

Chetverukhin's first ISU Championship medal, bronze, came at the 1969 Europeans in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany. The following year, he finished just off the podium at the continental event.

Chetverukhin was awarded medals at both ISU Championships in the 1970–71 season. After winning silver at the 1971 European Championships in Zurich, where he finished second to Czechoslovakia's Ondrej Nepela, he received bronze at the 1971 World Championships in Lyon, France, behind Nepela and France's Patrick Péra. He was the first Soviet male skater to medals at Worlds.

The following season, he won silver at the 1972 European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden; 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan; and 1972 World Championships in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Each time he finished second to Nepela. At the Olympics, Chetverukhin was third in the compulsory figures and first in the free skate.

In his final competitive season, Chetverukhin received silver medals at the 1973 European Championships in Cologne, West Germany, and the 1973 World Championships in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. At both events he placed second to Nepela.

Chetverukhin worked as a skating coach in Montreal before relocating to Toronto.

Results

References

1. ^ "Coach Sergei Chetverukhin" (in Russian). SpurtUp. 8 September 2008. Archived from the original on 22 June 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
2. ""Тарасова все замечает"". Gazeta.ru (in Russian).
3. "Tolmacheva (Granatkina) Tatiana" (in Russian). Museum of Sport. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
4. ^ Hines, James R. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8108-6859-5.
5. "Sergey Chetverukhin". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
6. "Впереди идущий". tulup.ru (in Russian).

• 1946 births
• Living people
• Figure skaters from Moscow
• Soviet male single skaters
• Figure skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics
• Olympic figure skaters for the Soviet Union
• Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
• Russian figure skating coaches
• Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
• Olympic medalists in figure skating
• World Figure Skating Championships medalists
• European Figure Skating Championships medalists
• Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics
• Winter World University Games medalists in figure skating
• FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union
• FISU World University Games silver medalists for the Soviet Union
• Competitors at the 1966 Winter Universiade
• Competitors at the 1968 Winter Universiade
• Competitors at the 1970 Winter Universiade
• Soviet emigrants to Canada