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Aleksandr Gorshkov

Soviet ice dancer
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Aleksandr Gorshkov was a Soviet ice dancer who, along with his partner Lyudmila Pakhomova, won the gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. This marked the first time ice dancing was an Olympic event, and the Soviet Union began a period of dominance in the sport. Gorshkov and Pakhomova also won six consecutive European championships between 1969 and 1974, and the World Championship in 1970 and 1974. Their success set a precedent for subsequent Soviet and Russian ice dance teams.1

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  1. Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov
  2. figure skating - 20th-century champions
  3. Oleg Protopopov and Lyudmila Belousova

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