Were married from 1995 to 2007
Ilya and Irina got married in 1995 after three years of romance. The skaters have been dating since 1992, when they paired up. Then Irina was not in the mood for romance. She already had a bad experience with her first partner Alexei Pospelov, and she concluded that relationships interfere with sports. However, feelings prevailed, and soon Irina and Ilya began to live together. By the way, after that, the couple's sports career went uphill - Irina's fears did not come true. On account of Averbukh and Lobacheva - Olympic silver, gold of the world and European championships.
In 2004, the skaters had a son, Martin, but the couple divorced three years later.
Irina admitted that the reason was the work. Ilya was seized by the "gold rush". He wanted to earn more and more, but there was no time left for his family. Lobacheva practically did not see her husband, the relationship turned into a "marriage by phone." Divorce became a difficult period in Irina's life. Due to stress, she had a miscarriage.
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Oksana Domnina and Roman Kostomarov
Married since 2014
Oksana Domnina and Roman Kostomarov did not play together in official tournaments. Roman achieved sporting success in tandem with Tatyana Navka, and Oksana won more than one victory in tandem with Maxim Shabalin.
The skaters started dating in 2005, when both were at their peak. sports career, but the couple did not want to mix work and personal life.
There were difficult periods in the relationship of athletes. In 2013, the couple, who already had a two-year-old daughter Anastasia, broke up. Domnina fell in love with a partner in the Ice Age show, actor Vladimir Yaglych, and did not hide the office romance. Kostomarov was very upset by the gap and tried to keep Oksana. The skater made a tattoo on his arm “Love - crucifixion” (“Love is a crucifixion”), but this did not save him from parting.
However, the romance between Domnina and Yaglych did not last long, and the skater returned to Kostomarov. Oksana and Roman got married and later married. In 2016, the couple had a second child - son Ilya.
Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov
Married since 2015
Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, Sochi 2014 Olympic champions, started skating together in the 2010/2011 season and announced their retirement in early 2018. At the same time, Tatyana and Maxim remained a couple, but already in a new status - as husband and wife. However, at the beginning of their joint sports way each of them had a different relationship. Volosozhar performed in pairs and lived with Stanislav Morozov. When Morozov ended his career, Volosozhar continued to perform in tandem with Maxim Trankov. Morozov trained his wife and, as it turned out, her future husband.
In 2012, after a successful performance at the World Championships in Nice, the skaters kissed unexpectedly for the audience and themselves - emotions did their job. In 2015, the couple got married, and in 2017, Tatyana and Maxim had a daughter, Angelica.
Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland
Together since 2005
The British Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland are not officially married, but the couple have been together for 13 years, not only on the ice, but also in life. Their relationship began in 2005 when Penny and Nicholas started competing together in the juniors. Each of the partners was then only 16 years old. According to Nicholas, love helps them achieve success in sports, which athletes have confirmed with more than one medal. Coomes and Buckland are multiple British champions and have had three joint Olympics to their credit. On recent Games in Pyeongchang, the pair took only 11th place. Two years prior, Penny had suffered a serious knee injury that jeopardized her career. The couple missed the entire previous season, and their participation in the Games was in doubt, but Penny was able to pull herself together, and even this result was a success for the skaters.
Zachary Donoghue & Olivia Smart + Adria Diaz & Madison Hubbel
Tangled story with a happy ending
The story of the relationship between figure skaters Zachary Donoghue, Olivia Smart, Adria Diaz and Madison Hubbel is like a romantic comedy about how couples switched partners - and everyone got better.
Donoghue performs with Hubbell and lives with Smart, Diaz's on-ice partner. And Diaz is dating Hubbell.
This twisted love story began in 2011 when Zachary Donoghue and Madison Hubbel started representing the USA in ice dancing together. The newly minted partners began dating almost immediately, and their relationship lasted two and a half years. But romance prevented the skaters from achieving victories, so the couple decided to limit themselves only to working relationships.
In 2015, at the World Cup, Zachary met Olivia Smart, a Briton who plays for Spain. According to Donoghue, he and Olivia fell in love at first sight. Soon, Olivia's partner began courting former partner Zachary, and she reciprocated. Although lovers turn into rivals on ice, this does not interfere with anyone's relationship - neither sports nor romantic. Now both couples live in Montreal and are friends with families.
Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev
Were married from 1975 to 1985
Irina Rodnina is the most successful figure skater in the history of Soviet pair skating. She has three Olympic gold medals, ten victories at the world championships, eleven at the European championship, six at the USSR championship. She won two Olympic gold medals out of three in tandem with Alexander Zaitsev, who in 1975 became the husband of an athlete.
Irina began her career in tandem with Alexei Ulanov - they made their debut in 1966. There were rumors about a romance, but there were no feelings between Irina and Alexei. Ulanov was in love with another figure skater, Lyudmila Smirnova, whom he later married. According to rumors, Ulanov wanted to ride in a pair with his beloved, and because of this, communication between Rodnina and Ulanov became strained. They clashed, quarreled ... It's amazing how in such an environment the couple continued to win and break the applause. Rodnina and Ulanov won the 72 Olympics in Sapporo, and then a tragedy happened ... At the World Championships in Calgary, Ulanov dropped Rodnina. The figure skater received a concussion.
Rodnina thought about leaving big sport, but the coach picked her a new partner - Alexander Zaitsev. And already in 1973, Rodnina and Zaitsev overtook a pair of Ulanov-Smirnov at the European Championships in Cologne, taking first place.
The best dance couple in Russia this moment did not immediately tell the public about their relationship. For a long time, Victoria and Nikita tried not to advertise their personal lives. Moreover, it is widely believed on the net that Katsalapov's lover was Elena Ilyina, his former partner, in a duet with whom he achieved the highest achievements in career: gold of the 2014 Games, as well as silver and bronze of the world championships.
However, the 2014/15 season Nikita has already started in tandem with Victoria. The skaters achieved their first success four years later, defeating the Ondrej Nepela Memorial in Slovakia, and then winning gold medals at the national championship in Saransk.
Sinitsina and Katsalapov went to the European Championship as favorites, if not for victory, then for medals for sure, but due to unsuccessful performance in rhythm dance, they failed to enter the top three. As a result, the gold was won by the French Gabriella Papadakis and, the silver went to another Russian duo and, and the third place was taken by Charlene Gignard and Marco Fabbri from Italy.
At the same time, the skater herself did not rule out that a strained personal relationship with a partner could indirectly affect their results, and also stated that performing in tandem with a former lover can be called masochism.
Madison Chock and Evan Bates
The American dance duo have had an unbreakable bond for eight years now. Behind the figure skaters are two Olympics, six world championships, many national championships and Grand Prix stages, as well as several medals, including gold ones.
The skaters met before they became partners on the ice. At the age of 16, Bates invited Chalk to his birthday party. And for Evan, this was tantamount to a first date with a future lover. Since then, the couple has been in a close relationship, although in the early years of their career they skated with other skaters in a duet.
The need to finally reunite on the ice was emphasized by both athletes, stating that in this way it is possible to achieve better results and achieve new successes.
“Riding with Evan is much more comfortable. We get along well and understand each other. We can frankly discuss among ourselves our strengths and weaknesses, ”Chok quotes.
Interestingly, despite a long relationship since adolescence, the athletes are in no hurry to get married, although they are not at all limited in time. At least, this is what Bates claims, arguing that in addition to figure skating he gets to enjoy outdoor activities and traveling to other countries with his beloved.
Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donoghue
Another American dance duet, which, in addition to figure skating, is also connected by personal life. Or rather, connected. The story of Madison and Zachary is similar in outline to Tarasova and Morozov.
The couple was in a relationship for several years and regularly became the winner of national championships, and also won medals at various stages The Grand Prix. The Olympic season was decisive.
Hubbell and Donoghue made the decision to break up the day before Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. The skaters saw the main reason for the breakdown in relations that they were unable to pay due attention to sports.
“We had to leave. To achieve high results, you need to work hard and regularly, work out every element of your program. At some point, we realized that being with each other in such an environment every minute is explosive. We asked each other what is more important to us: figure skating or relationship. And we both chose the first, ”the skaters admitted.
It is noteworthy that the athletes do not pay any attention to their past romance: both Hubbell and Donoghue have couples that do not allow them to think about anything other than figure skating and ice dancing.
Marie-Jade Loriot and Romain Le Gac
And again, the case when ice dancing contributes to the creation of a new pair of lovers. This time from France. Until 2014, Marie-Jade and Romain skated with other partners, but after the skaters began to perform together, their life changed dramatically.
In the very first year of skating together, Loriot and Le Gac decided to get married. Such a lightning-fast course of events surprised even the athletes: in an interview, they repeatedly admitted that during their entire career they denied any opportunity to act in tandem with their lover.
“Indeed, it turned out to be a very difficult decision. However, love turned out to be stronger than anything, ”said the Canadian, who received French citizenship only in December 2017.
Before the World Championship, the duet also performed at the continental championship, but only took a place in the top ten, gaining a total of 172.33 points.
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Team Canada has one of the largest ice dancing quotas to compete at the World Championships. Caitlin Weaver and Andrew Pozhe, well-known to Russians, got into the final application of the team.
Paired with Pozhe Weaver has been performing since 2006. At the same time, she changed her US sports citizenship to Canadian. However, they held their first Olympics only in Sochi, failing to qualify for the Games in Vancouver.
In Russia, the duet performed unsuccessfully, taking the final seventh place, but the post-Olympic season for the Canadian couple turned out to be triumphant: victory in two stages of the Grand Prix, in the final, the gold of the Canadian championship, as well as the bronze of the world championship. The duo repeated the same thing in the 2015/16 season, this time winning gold at the Grand Prix stage in Russia, but failing to become a World Championship medalist.
After that, the results of Weaver and Pozhe deteriorated sharply, and this season they won the pre-season tournament of the Fall Classic, and also took first place in the Canadian Championship.
However, the couple, despite all the failures and frequent injuries, harmonizes well with each other. Weaver and Poje admitted that figure skating takes too much of their time, which is why athletes do not have friends. As a result, they share their experiences with each other.
“I'm too busy looking for any new connections and relationships. Kate is a wonderful person, honest, the one with whom I can easily discuss any problems, ”said Poje.
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Figure skaters who compete in pair figure skating or ice dancing often become spouses in real life. This is not surprising, because athletes not only spend a lot of time together, but during performances they must show feelings so that judges and spectators believe in them. Sometimes couples break up not only on ice, but also in life. However, some manage to keep their feelings throughout their lives.
Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov
They were pride Soviet sports and favorites of millions of fans. In ice dancing, Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov had no equal for 6 years. The skaters managed to win all conceivable awards, and at the insistence of Lyudmila they went to the registry office only after receiving the first gold medals at the World Championships.
They left big sport at the peak of their fame, remained undefeated, and began to arrange their lives outside ice arenas. They were incredibly happy, raised a little daughter and made plans for the future. However, in 1979, two years after the birth of Yulia, Lyudmila Pakhomova was diagnosed with cancer. For almost seven years, the athlete's struggle for life continued. Alexander was always there, supported, helped, did not sleep at night. But they lost this battle, Lyudmila left in 1986.
Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov
This couple was called legendary in every sense. They started skating quite late, already in their teens, they received their first gold medals at the USSR Championship when Oleg Protopopov was almost 30 years old, Lyudmila - 27. Becoming a couple in 1954, after three years they created their own family. And carried feelings through life.
They came up with many of the most difficult elements, which later became part of the mandatory program of figure skaters around the world, won many awards and left big sport when they began to lose to their rivals.
In 1979, they emigrated from the USSR during the Swiss tour of the Leningrad Ballet on Ice, where both worked. After that, their names were forgotten in their homeland. Only 24 years later they were able to come to Moscow again at the invitation of Vyacheslav Fetisov.
IN last time they took to the ice in 2015, when Oleg Alekseevich was already 83 years old, and Lyudmila Evgenievna was preparing to celebrate her 80th birthday. The couple lived together for 60 years and only death could separate them. In 2017, Lyudmila Belousova died of cancer. Oleg Protopopov is still on the ice. At 86, he performs a dance dedicated to his wife.
Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov
This is probably one of the most touching and at the same time tragic love stories on ice. Catherine was barely 10 years old, Sergei - 14, when they were forced to pair up. Results of young skaters in single skating the coaches were not impressed, the children were already being prepared to be recorded as unpromising, but they decided to give them a chance to try to work in pairs. But even in a duet, they were not able to prove themselves right away. The perseverance of little Katya helped, who all the time prescribed additional training.
However, over time, the ice obeyed this amazing couple, they won many medals at the World and European Championships, and became Olympic champions. But both of them considered the happiest day when Sergey confessed his love to his future wife. However, there was no reason to doubt their mutual feelings: Ekaterina and Sergey simply shone with happiness.
In 1991, the skaters became husband and wife, and a year later they had a daughter. Sergei dreamed of building a large spacious house, but in 1995, during a training session, a heart attack took his life. Catherine was able to go on the ice only a year later, devoting her first performance to her departed husband. They could live together for a lifetime, but history, unfortunately, does not know the subjunctive mood.
Irina Moiseeva and Andrey Minenkov
This duet was born in childhood. Irina herself chose Andrey from the proposed candidates, but could not answer the question why exactly him. They almost immediately felt sympathy for each other, which could not but affect the training. Irina Moiseeva and Andrey Minenkov, having once become a couple on ice, have remained in a couple for life.
By persistently and persistently training, we were able to achieve top awards in ice dancing. They were the first students of Tatyana Tarasova, who went with her from beginner figure skaters to world champions. Together with the coach, they were able to find a unique style and image of the couple. The judges did not immediately accept their skating style, the couple was so unusual both on ice and in life. They could take offense at each other, not talk for several days, but if a partner needed help, all misunderstandings were immediately forgotten.
Their path in sports was not easy, Irina Moiseeva and Andrey Minenkov could not become Olympic champions, but they won gold medals at the World Championship twice. They left the sport in 1983, in 1984 their daughter was born. When my daughter grew up, Irina went to coaching, and Andrei graduated from the Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation, defended his thesis, and later went into business. Irina soon decided to devote herself entirely to her family.
Natalia Bestemyanova and Igor Bobrin are two world figures in figure skating. Each of his numbers was a sensation, each performance paired with Andrei Bukin brought Olympic medals. Everyone believed that Natalya and Andrey not only ride together, but are also life companions. so that their hearts beat in unison.
Plushenko gave his wife a nominal ring for 150 thousand euros, and Navka gave her husband an expensive watch
Usually summer is not too rich in high-profile events. And here is the news: Olympic champion Tatyana NAVKA married the father of her second daughter, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. And we decided to remember how the marriages of the most famous skaters took place.
This was the case in 2009 when Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko married Yana Rudkovskaya. The details of the celebration and its cost were sucked up for many weeks. Rings for 150 thousand euros, a diadem for the bride for 1.5 million euros (though rented), a dress from Roberto Cavalli and the second, embroidered with semi-precious stones, from an Arab designer Zuhair Murad, a banquet at the Barvikha Hotel & SPA on Rublyovka for a hundred guests and the sale of exclusive photography rights to a glossy magazine. They said the total costs amounted to 1 million euros.
The Olympic champion in pair skating spent no less on a party Anton Sikharulidze and the daughter of an oligarch Leonid Lebedev Yana. In 2011, they quietly signed in the Moscow registry office, and went to Barcelona to celebrate, inviting a narrow circle of relatives and friends. The wedding took place in an old estate, the rings were from Cartier, the bride's dress from Vera Wang cost her dad 70 thousand euros, the tables were bursting with caviar, premium champagne flowed like water - in a word, all the attributes of a luxurious life were present. The marriage, however, broke up after two years. But we had a good walk.
Now compare the photos of those weddings with the celebration of Navka and Peskov. In my female opinion, in the old parties there is much more pathos than fun. And Tatyana and Dmitry have the opposite. Lively faces, sincere emotions, a bride who easily changed fashionable, but narrow shoes for beach slippers. And guests in vests and berets on the second day, which coincided with the celebration of the Day of the Airborne Forces. By the way, the newlyweds asked their friends not to post photos on social networks. But, of course, they didn't hold back. So, the holiday was a success and everyone liked it.
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Everything is like people
American Johnny Weir he was the first of the skaters to openly admit to being blue (there are his “compatriots” among the active athletes, but they don’t show it). And then he got married (or married?). Johnny constantly confessed his love for Russia, our culture and language. So he chose a husband (wife?) for himself of Russian origin. Marriage with a lawyer Viktor Voronov took place on December 31, 2011. "There will be no more life in sin!" - the skater rejoiced. However, in March last year, the publications suddenly became full of reports of a divorce. They were going to share property and even a dog. Weir accused his spouse of assault - apparently, he did not study Russian culture so well and did not know about “hitting means he loves”. And Voronov complained about betrayal, they say, Johnny sent love SMS to another man. But a month later, Johnny and Victor announced: we calmly talked and realized that we really love each other. We are together again!
friendship of Peoples
Our ice skater Denis Petrov, winning with Elena Bechke"silver" of Albertville in 1992, "silver" of two European Championships and "bronze" of the World Championships in 1989, married to a Chinese single skater Chen Liu. Their wedding took place in Russian traditions, and the children's names are Nikita and Anastasia. True, the family lives in China, where Chen Liu Petrova directs the Academy of Figure Skating.
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From the registry office to the skating rink
Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov
I found myself a partner. Such a beautiful boy with big sad eyes, - shared somehow Ludmila Pakhomova with my girlfriend Tatyana Tarasova. It was, of course, about sports, but later Alexander Gorshkov became a partner in life. They played a wedding after their winning season in 1970, when they were the first of the Soviet figure skaters to win the “gold” of the European and World Championships in ice dancing. There was a story that Lyudmila herself persistently hinted to Gorshkov, saying that it would be nice to go to the registry office. They lived together for 16 years, despite the fact that Alexander at some point fell in love with another woman. But he was next to Mila, who struggled with a terrible disease, until her death.
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Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev
What are these crowds? Meet astronauts? No, it's 1975, the skaters' wedding. Irina Konstantinovna recalled: - The grandmother fell from the second floor, examining us. She fell, thank God, on the crowd, so nothing happened to her. I have a photograph: the Wedding Palace, I am near the main entrance with my veil. I start walking up the stairs and don't have time to pick up my dress. On the second step I stand on my own hem, on the third step I step on it with the other foot and understand that I will fall now. Baba ... On the wedding cake - decoration in the form of Olympic rings. And they didn’t jinx it: spouses Rodnina And Zaitsev won the "gold" of the Games in 1976 and in 1980.
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Irina Moiseeva and Andrey Minenkov
They got together as teenagers - she was 12, he was 13. Since then, they have not parted either on ice or in life. They got married after the World Championships in Tokyo in 1977, where they won their second world gold. Irina bought her wedding dress there, in Japan, right after the competition. She called for help Tatyana Tarasova, who was then their coach. We spent the whole day, the outfit cost a lot of money, but it was incredible for the bride. After registering at the registry office, we arrived at the Luzhniki ice rink. No wonder he brought them together.
Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev
Their tandem on ice was, perhaps, more successful than in life. Twice European champions, three times world champions, winners of the 1984 Olympics. For the first time in pair skating, they made a triple parallel jump, a todes in the opposite direction, and an element was even named in honor of Elena - somersault Gross, officially registered by the ISU. And the first of our skaters went professional. They got married after winning the Olympics. Their marriage broke up seven years later, in 1992.
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Natalia Bestemyanova and Igor Bobrin
Looking at a flashy champion pair Bestemyanova - Bukin, the country was sure: they are husband and wife. But Natalia's companion was a single skater Igor Bobrin.- I remember that we were just starting to live together, and we weren’t even married. And if they quarreled, Igor collected his bag and left the house. I got so mad every time! Because you know what he took with him? No, not skates. Hairdryer, comb and toothbrush. I think: fir-trees, we quarrel, and you think about combing your hair in the morning or not. And then she said: Igor, we are arguing for some reason, maybe we should get married? She made an offer. And when we got married, we stopped quarreling, - Bestemyanova recalled. In 1983, almost all skaters walked at their wedding in the Prague restaurant. Suits for the newlyweds sewed Vyacheslav Zaitsev. By the way, the main victories for Bestemyanova and Bukin came just after this event.
Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov
Katya and Seryozha lived in neighboring houses, went to the same school and studied in the same section. But they found out about each other only when she was 10, he was 14. They got married, having already left amateur sports and winning two "gold" of the European championships, four - the world and one - Olympic Games. Sergei was almost late for the wedding: he had an operation in the USA, complications arose and a delay in departure. He managed to go to the registry office, but already there it turned out that he had forgotten his passport at home. Stamps were added to the document later. Their happy tale had a sad ending: in 1995, Sergei's heart stopped right during training.
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Oksana Domnina and Roman Kostomarov
At the first wedding of Roman, Oksana was a witness from the side of the bride - Yulia Lautova. The newlyweds believed that their relationship were tested for strength, but the marriage broke up a year later. This is probably why, having met with Domnina, Kostomarov was in no hurry to formalize the relationship. They lived together, they had a daughter, Oksana pretended that she did not need a stamp in her passport. Her high-profile romance with an actor Vladimir Yaglych that happened on " ice age”, many explained this. Like, the woman is tired of waiting. Was it a PR or an attempt to cause jealousy on the part of Roman, is unknown. Only a few months after the project, Kostomarov and Domnina got married.
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And these are there
This summer in the world of figure skating is just a wedding boom! And all this would be good after the Olympics, when the athletes exhaled and relaxed a little. So no, a new Olympic cycle has already begun, but they are impatient.
* Tied the knot with a longtime girlfriend Sochi Olympic champion in ice dancing Charlie White. His wife is now Tanith Belbin, silver medalist of Turin-2006.
* Italian dancer, world champion Anna Capellini married her fellow countryman Ondrey Hotarek.* Romantic wedding in Bermuda connected Canada Megan Duhamel with their couple's coach Bruno Marcotte.
We are waiting!
August 18 officially formalize the relationship Tatyana Volosozhar And Maxim Trankov. True, apart from the fact that the wedding will take place and will take place in Moscow, nothing else is known.
On the wedding day of the most beautiful Russian couple in figure skating, Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, Sportbox.ru remembered their story, as well as other bright duets of the last 20 years, who were together not only on the ice, but also in life.
Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov (Olympic champions 1994 and 1988)
One of the most beautiful couples in figure skating Gordeeva and Grinkov was real couple in life. Skaters started skating together since childhood - Ekaterina was 10, and Sergey was 14. One of his two Olympic victories they won in the status of husband and wife - in 1994. Athletes fell in love with each other six or seven years after they got married, and got married in 1991. The couple spent only four years in marriage, after which, in 1995, Sergei unexpectedly died of a heart attack. Ekaterina brings up a common daughter.
Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov (world champions 2000)
The athletes paired up when Maria was 21 and Alexei was 28. And their romantic relationship did not start right away, Petrova and Tikhonov were friends for several years, but then they realized that they should be together. Although at the Olympics (there were two of them in the joint career of Maria and Alexei), they could not climb the podium, the gold of the World Championship was submitted to the athletes. In 2010, the couple had a daughter.
Irina Lobacheva and Ilya Averbukh (silver medalist of the 2002 Games)
The Russian dance duet Lobacheva and Averbukh was one of the brightest in the "golden" time of the early 2000s. Competing with equally bright Sho-Lin Burn and Viktor Kratz, Marina Anisina and Gwendal Peizera, the Russians were remembered for their programs. The athletes got into a couple at the age of 19, and at 22 they were already married. Silver of the 2002 Olympics became highest point their careers, two years later they retired. It was not possible to save the family after leaving the big sport, although the couple had a son. In 2007, Lobacheva and Averbukh broke up.
Jamie Sale and David Pelletier (Olympic champions 2002)
Not the most joyful memories are associated with the Canadian duet among the domestic public. Second golden Olympic medal Salt Lake City, issued to the couple after a terrible scandal, has become a real fly in the ointment. After all, initially the only champions were the Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. Sale and Pelletier began dating in 1999, a year after they got together. David proposed to his girlfriend in 2004 at her parents' house. A year later, they got married, but in 2010 they broke up. The athletes have a common child.
Xu Shen and Hongbo Zhao (2010 Olympic champions)
Although many figure skating enthusiasts often find the performance of Chinese athletes too strict and restrained, Shen and Zhao clearly stand out from this list. Athletes trained together since childhood, but fell in love with each other only in 2005 - after the bronze of Salt Lake City and before the bronze of Turin-2006. After the Games in Italy, Shen and Zhao got married and began to thoroughly prepare for their last chance - the Vancouver Olympics. 2010 was a triumphant year for the Chinese, for the first time in 13 Olympics they took gold from Russian athletes.
Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov (two-time Olympic champions 2014)
https://instagram.com/p/6hUu3tmyye/Accomplished athletes paired up in 2010, but fell in love with each other later. Each of them had a relationship: Maxaim Trankov met a girl from the age of 16, Tatiana's couple was her former partner Stanislav Morozov. However, after the triumphant Olympics in Sochi, the athletes nevertheless admitted that they love each other and meet. Confirmation of this was received on August 18 - Tatyana and Maxim got married.
