Irina Moiseeva

Irina Moiseeva
Minenkov and Moiseeva in 1976
Personal information
Full name	Irina Valentinovna Moiseeva
Alternative names	Moiseyeva
Former country(ies) represented	Soviet Union
Born	(1955-07-03) 3 July 1955 (age 61) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Partner	Andrei Minenkov
Former coach	Tatiana Tarasova Natalia Dubova Lyudmila Pakhomova
Skating club	VSS Trud (Moscow)
Retired	1983
Medal record Figure skating Ice dancing Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1980 Lake Placid Ice dancing 1976 Innsbruck Ice dancing World Championships 1982 Copenhagen Ice dancing 1981 Hartford Ice dancing 1980 Dortmund Ice dancing 1979 Vienna Ice dancing 1978 Ottawa Ice dancing 1977 Tokyo Ice dancing 1976 Gothenburg Ice dancing 1975 Colorado Springs Ice dancing European Championships 1982 Lyon Ice dancing 1981 Innsbruck Ice dancing 1980 Gothenburg Ice dancing 1979 Zagreb Ice dancing 1978 Strasbourg Ice dancing 1977 Helsinki Ice dancing 1976 Geneva Ice dancing

Irina Valentinovna Moiseeva (Russian: Ирина Валентиновна Моисеева; born 3 July 1955) is a Russian retired ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union. With partner and husband Andrei Minenkov, she is the 1976 Olympic silver medalist, 1980 Olympic bronze medalist, and two-time World champion (1975, 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.