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Lyudmila Pakomova

Soviet ice dancer
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Lyudmila Pakhomova was a Soviet ice dancer who, along with her partner Aleksandr Gorshkov, won the Olympic gold medal in ice dancing in 1976. Ice dancing, introduced as an Olympic event in 1976, is similar to pairs skating but focuses on dance and intricate footwork rather than jumps and throws. Soviet teams, including Pakhomova and Gorshkov, dominated the sport in its early Olympic years, winning gold medals in 1976, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1994, and 1998. Pakhomova and Gorshkov also won six consecutive world championships between 1970 and 1974.12

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  1. figure skating - 20th-century champions
  2. Oleg Protopopov and Lyudmila Belousova
  3. figure skating - Ice dance

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