Aleksandr Gorshkov (figure skater)
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Aleksandr Georgievich Gorshkov (Russian: Александр Георгиевич Горшков, 8 October 1946 – 17 November 2022) was a Russian ice dancer who competed internationally for the Soviet Union. With his wife Lyudmila Pakhomova, he was the 1976 Olympic champion.
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Full name | Aleksandr Georgievich Gorshkov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1946-10-08)8 October 1946 Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 17 November 2022(2022-11-17) (aged 76) Moscow, Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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They were also six-time World Champions (1970–74, 1976), as well as six-time European champions (1970–71, 1973–76), which makes them the most decorated athletes all-time at both events in the pair discipline.
Since 2010 and until his death, Gorshkov served as the president of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia (FFKKR).