Denis Petukhov
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Gregory and Petukhov at the 2004 Four Continents Championships.
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| Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||
| Former country(ies) represented | Russia | ||||||||||||
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October 6, 1978 Kirov, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Residence | Hartford, Connecticut | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||
| Partner | Melissa Gregory | ||||||||||||
| Former partner | Oksana Potdykova | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Shae-Lynn Bourne, Priscilla Hill, Natalia Linichuk, Gennadi Karpanosov, Nikolai Morozov, | ||||||||||||
| Skating club | SC of New York | ||||||||||||
| ISU personal best scores | |||||||||||||
| Combined total | 183.97 2005 4CC |
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| Comp. dance | 38.02 2005 4CC |
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| Original dance | 55.61 2006 Skate America |
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| Free dance | 92.74 2003 Skate America |
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Denis Alexandrovich Petukhov (Russian: Денис Александрович Петухов; born October 6, 1978) is a Russian-American ice dancer. With partner and wife Melissa Gregory, he is the 2005 Four Continents silver medalist, a 2006 United States Olympic team member, and a four-time (2004–07) U.S. national silver medalist.
Petukhov was raised in Kirov by his mother, Lubov. He has one younger sister, Natalia.
Gregory and Petukhov were married in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 2, 2001. The next month they flew to Kirov, Russia so that Petukhov's family could celebrate their marriage as well. The couple's son, Daxton Dale Petukhov, was born on November 21, 2014.
Petukhov became a U.S. citizen on February 22, 2005.
Petukhov began skating at age eight, in ice dancing from the start. He originally competed for Russia with partner Oksana Potdykova, with whom he was the 2000 Russian national bronze medalist and a two-time medalist at the World Junior Championships. That partnership ended in the spring of 2000 when she ruptured her achilles tendon and was forced to retire from skating.
Petukhov met American ice dancer Melissa Gregory through an online partner search for pairs skaters. He came to the United States on a tourist visa at the end of August 2000 to test with her and other prospective partners, but canceled his other tryouts after skating with Gregory first, and never used his return plane ticket to Russia.
Gregory and Petukhov were originally coached by Oleg Epstein and Sandy Hess but made a change in 2003 to Nikolai Morozov and Shae-Lynn Bourne. Following the 2005-06 season, they switched again to Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karpanosov at the University of Delaware in Newark. On September 7, 2007, they announced another coaching change, this time to Priscilla Hill at The Pond Ice Arena, also in Newark.
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