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Plushenko was born on 3 November 1982 in Dzhamku , Solnechny District, Khabarovsk Krai, Soviet Union. [5] His mother was originally from Volgograd, Russian SFSR, and his father, a carpenter, [6] was born in Donetsk, Russia. [7] He has an older sister. [6] Plushenko lived in Volgograd before moving to Saint Petersburg in 1994.
31-year-old Evgeni Plushenko, a ten-time national champion, was first in the men's short program by over five points ahead of 18-year-old Maxim Kovtun, with Sergei Voronov coming in third. In the free skate, Kovtun upset Plushenko to win his first national title, outscoring him by 11.09 points in the segment and 5.76 points overall.
Russian pair Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin and Evgeni Plushenko skate accompanied by Edvin Marton at the violin, playing from the ice. At the end of the gala, the skaters all gathered together to close the show with their bows.
The men's short program took place on February 14. Plushenko took the early lead after the short program. He set a new personal best (also the world record) score with a massive 90.66 points, over 10 points ahead of Weir, who finished in second with 80.00 points.
Evgeni Plushenko won gold in men's singles in 2006 and team event gold in 2014. Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov were the first skaters to win multiple events at a single Olympics, winning in both pairs and the team event. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir matched this feat four years later, earning golds in ice dance and the team event.
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Later in March 2008, a video was produced for the song. The whole team took part in the production – Dima Bilan, Evgeni Plushenko, Edvin Marton, and Yana Rudkovskaya –Dima Bilan's producer–. The action of the video starts in a hospital where a mother finds out that her son has leukaemia and needs an expensive surgery.
Artur Gachinski narrowly won the short program ahead of Plushenko. [8] Plushenko won the free skate and took his seventh European title, while Gachinski took the silver and France's Florent Amodio won the bronze. [9] 23 ladies competed in the preliminary round, with the top ten advancing to the short program to join 18 direct entries. [10]