Ekaterina Gordeeva
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Gordeeva in 2014
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| Full name | Ekaterina Alexandrovna Gordeeva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 Russia
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| Former country(ies) represented |
 Soviet Union
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May 28, 1971 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Home town | Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former partner | Sergei Grinkov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeeva (Russian: Екатерина Александровна Гордеева) (born May 28, 1971) is a Russian (former Soviet) figure skater. Together with her partner and husband, the late Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion in pair skating. After Grinkov's death, Gordeeva continued performing as a singles skater.
Gordeeva is now married to the 1998 Olympic men's singles champion, Ilia Kulik. Gordeeva and Kulik married in a private ceremony in San Francisco, California, USA, on June 10, 2002.
Often called "Katia," Gordeeva was born in Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) to Elena Lvovna Gordeeva, a teletype operator for TASS, and Alexander Alexeyevich Gordeev, a dancer for the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble. Gordeeva said, "[My father] worked with me on movement very often when I was little." Gordeeva has a younger sister, Maria Alexandrovna Gordeeva (born 1975), who lives in Moscow. Gordeeva began skating at age four, wearing multiple pairs of socks inside skates many sizes too big, because skates small enough for her feet were unavailable in the Soviet Union.
Gordeeva began figure skating at age four, when she entered Children and Youth Sports School of CSKA Moscow. She was not a particularly strong jumper, and in August 1981, coach Vladimir Zaharov paired the 11-year-old Gordeeva with the 15-year-old Sergei Grinkov. Because Grinkov frequently missed practice, their coach eventually insisted that Gordeeva pair with someone else, but she refused. Instead, the pair changed coaches.
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