Figure Skating - Record Book - Pairs and Ice Dance - by Anne Shier (a.k.a. "Annie")

(Based on the book, “Winter Olympics:  An Insider’s Guide to the Legends, the Lore, and the Games”, Vancouver Edition, copyright 2008 by Ron C. Judd)

copyright 2014, Anne Shier.  All rights reserved.

RECORD BOOK:  PAIRS  FIGURE SKATING:

Athletes	Country	Medal(s) Won	Olympic Games
Irina Rodnina and Alexandr Zaytsev	Russia	Gold Gold	Innsbruck 1976 Lake Placid 1980
Irina Rodnina and Alexsey Ulanov**	Russia	Gold	Sapporo 1972
Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriyev***	Russia	Gold	Albertville 1992
Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriyev***	Russia	Gold	Nagano 1998
Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriyev***	Russia	Silver	Lillehammer 1994
Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze ****	Russia	Gold	Salt Lake City 2002
Sherwin Badger and Beatrix Loughran	United States	Silver	Lake Placid 1932
Karol and Michael Kennedy	United States	Silver	Oslo 1952
Nancy and Ronald Luddington	United States	Bronze	Squaw Valley 1960
Kitty and Peter Carruthers	United States	Silver	Sarajevo 1984
Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard	United States	Bronze	Calgary 1988
Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul	Canada	Gold	Squaw Valley 1960
Suzanne Morrow and Wallace Diestelmeyer	Canada	Bronze	St. Moritz 1948
Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden	Canada	Silver	Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956
Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell	Canada	Bronze	Innsbruck 1976
Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler	Canada	Bronze	Albertville 1992
Jamie Sale and David Pelletier****	Canada	Gold	Salt Lake City 2002

**NOTE 1:  Alexei Nikolaevich Ulanov (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Ула́нов) (born November 4, 1947 in Moscow^[1]) is a retired pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With Irina Rodnina, he is the 1972 Olympic champion and a four-time (1969-1972) World champion. With later partner Lyudmila Smirnova, he is a two-time World silver medalist.

***NOTE 2:  Artur Valeryevich Dmitriyev (Russian: Артур Валерьевич Дмитриев; born 21 January 1968)^[1] is a Russian pair skater who competed internationally for the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Russia. He is a two-time Olympic champion, having won gold with Natalia Mishkutenok in 1992 and with Oksana Kazakova in 1998. He and Mishkutenok also won Olympic silver in 1994. Along with Irina Rodnina, Dmitriev is the only pair skater to win the Olympics with two different partners.

****NOTE 3:  The Russian pairs skaters, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, shared the gold medal with Canadian pairs skaters, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, at the Salt Lake City 2002 Games in the wake of the infamous judging scandal that took place there.

RECORD BOOK:  ICE DANCE  FIGURE SKATING:

Athletes	Country	Medal(s) Won	Olympic Games
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean	Britain	Gold Gold	Sarajevo 1984 Lillehammer 1994
Marina Klimova and Sergey Ponomarenko	Russia	Bronze Silver Gold	Sarajevo 1984 Calgary 1988 Albertville 1992
Tracy Wilson and Robert McCall	Canada	Bronze	Calgary 1988
Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto	United States	Silver	Turin 2006
Colleen O’Connor and James Milton	United States	Bronze	Innsbruck 1976