Yekaterina Gordeeva

Gordeeva and Grinkov were teamed at age 11 and 15, respectively, and initially appeared to many critics as an awkward couple owing to a large disparity in height (Grinkov was about a foot [30 cm] taller than Gordeeva). In 1985 they proved the critics wrong…

…Dean, and Russian pairs skaters Yekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov. Among these past champions, however, only Gordeeva and Grinkov managed to earn a gold medal at Lillehammer. In the women’s competition the major story centered on Americans Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. About a month before the Games were to…

…Dean, and Russian pairs skaters Yekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov. Among these past champions, however, only Gordeeva and Grinkov managed to earn a gold medal at Lillehammer.