Melissa Gregory
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| Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||
| Born | May 22, 1981 | ||||||||||||
| Residence | Hartford, Connecticut | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Partner | Denis Petukhov | ||||||||||||
| Former partner | James Shuford | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Shae-Lynn Bourne, Priscilla Hill, Natalia Linichuk, Gennadi Karpanosov, Nikolai Morozov | ||||||||||||
| Skating club | SC of New York | ||||||||||||
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| 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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Melissa Gregory (born May 22, 1981) is an American ice dancer. With partner and husband Denis Petukhov, she 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.
Gregory was born in Highland Park, Illinois to a Catholic father, Joseph, and a Jewish mother, Dale. She has one older brother, Michael.
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.
Gregory began skating at age eight. She competed in novice ladies' singles before deciding to concentrate on ice dance.
Gregory was US junior ice dance champion in 1998 with James Shuford. She was without an ice dancing partner for nearly three years and told her coach that she would quit skating and go to college if she could not find one by September 1, 2000. She met Russian ice dancer Denis Petukhov on an online skating partner search. He spoke little English and so had a friend write his messages for him. He arrived in the United States on a tourist visa on August 31, 2000 to try skating with her and several other prospective partners. After skating with Gregory first, Petukhov canceled his other tryouts 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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