Andrei Minenkov
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Minenkov and Moiseeva in 1976
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| Full name | Andrei Olegovich Minenkov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alternative names | Andrey Minenkov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former country(ies) represented | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
6 December 1954 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Irina Moiseeva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach |
Tatiana Tarasova Natalia Dubova Lyudmila Pakhomova |
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| Skating club | VSS Trud (Moscow) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1983 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Andrei Olegovich Minenkov (Russian: Андрей Олегович Миненков; born 6 December 1954) is a Russian retired ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union. With partner and wife Irina Moiseeva, he is the 1976 Olympic silver medalist, 1980 Olympic bronze medalist, and two-time world champion (1975 and 1977).
Irina Moiseeva and Andrei Minenkov met at the rink when they were six years old and began skating together in 1967. They had their breakthrough during the 1974–1975 season. They were third at the Soviet Championships, behind Lyudmila Pakhomova/Aleksandr Gorshkov and Natalia Linichuk/Gennadi Karponosov, and placed just off the podium at the 1975 European Championships. However, they then went on to capture their first World title at the World Championships, in the absence of Pakhomova/Gorshkov but moving ahead of a few teams ranked higher than them earlier in the season, including Linichuk/Karpanosov.
The next season, Moiseeva and Minenkov were again ranked behind Linichuk/Karponosov at the Soviet Championships but edged past them in international competition to be second only to Pakhomova/Gorshkov. They won a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics, the first Games to include ice dancing. They also won silver at the World and European Championships.
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