Igor Shpilband

Igor Yuryevich Shpilband is a former Soviet ice dancer and current ice dancing coach. He is the 1983 World Junior champion with former partner Tatiana Gladkova.

Shpilband was born in Moscow on July 14, 1964, to a Jewish family. In 1990, he and several other Soviet skaters were part of a U.S. tour headlined by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean when one of them, Gorsha Sur, decided to defect and Shpilband, Veronica Pershina and Elena Krykanova decided to join him.

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