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Aleksey Yagudin
Алексей Ягудин
Birth at
18 March 1980
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Figure skater Alexei Yagudin was born in Leningrad, March 18, 1980. Alexey started skating at the age of four. In 1994, he performed internationally for the first time and won the World Championship in 1996. His first coach was Majorov. After Majorov left for Sweden, Mishin became his coach. In 1998, Alexey moved to the United States to train with the Tatiana Tarasova . The first large-scale tournament where Alexey won was the European Championship in 1998. A month later, Yagudin finished fifth
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Figure skater Alexei Yagudin was born in Leningrad, March 18, 1980. Alexey started skating at the age of four. In 1994, he performed internationally for the first time and won the World Championship in 1996. His first coach was Majorov. After Majorov left for Sweden, Mishin became his coach. In 1998, Alexey moved to the United States to train with the
Plyushchenko But at the European Championships ahead of him and won the Grand Prix final. An interesting fact is that Alexei has never been a champion of Russia, but he has won various titles in world figure skating.
In 1999-2000, Yagudin lost the Grand Prix final Plushenko, but the world championship in Nice. In subsequent seasons, he first lost Plushenko, but then continued to win all major competitions.
Yagudin remained in amateur sports and continued to compete. But in 2002, at the Grand Prix stage, his hip pain worsened, which forced him to abandon the competition. Doctors found out that he had a birth defect of the hip on both legs, which caused Yagudin to experience terrible pain. However, in 2003 he competed again and won. However, doctors later reported that he could not perform any more. By the end of 2003, Alexey announced his departure.
Before the operation, Yagudin returned to Russia and stayed in St. Petersburg, after which he participated in various projects of the First Channel, mainly it was a show with stars on ice, and in 2012 he led the show “Professional Cup”.
Alexei also tried himself as an actor in the series.
"Hot ice" and played the role of the President of the Russian Federation in the Theater of Satire in the play “President’s Vacation”.