Ekaterina Gordeeva

Ekaterina Katia Alexandrovna Gordeeva is a Russian figure skater. Together with her partner and husband, the late Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and fourtime World Champion in Pair Skating. After Grinkovs death, Gordeeva continued performing as a singles skater.

Often called Katia, Gordeeva was born in Moscow, Soviet Union to Elena Lvovna Gordeeva, a teletype operator for TASS, and Alexander Alexeyevich Gordeev, a dancer for the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble. Gordeeva said, worked with me on movement very often when I was little. Gordeeva has a younger sister, Maria Alexandrovna Gordeeva , who lives in Moscow. Gordeeva began skating at age four, wearing multiple pairs of socks inside skates many sizes too big, because skates small enough for her feet were unavailable in the Soviet Union.

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