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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.
Plushenko, who led Lysacek by half a point after the short figure skating program, was beaten out by the American in the final free skate despite performing a quadruple toe loop/triple toe loop. [3] Lysacek's free skate was regarded as having lower difficulty but better quality than Plushenko's. [4] [5]
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.
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.
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]
After she liked Plushenko's Instagram post supporting the invasion, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine announced her expulsion from the Ukraine national team. [ 18 ] In the summer of 2022, Margarita Drobiazko , a Russian-born ice dancer, and her husband, Povilas Vanagas , performed in a Sochi ice show organized by the wife of Kremlin ...
Reigning world champion Stéphane Lambiel was considered Plushenko's main competition for the gold. Other notable competitors coming into the event included Canadians Jeffrey Buttle (the reigning world silver medalist) and Emanuel Sandhu , France's Brian Joubert , Japan's Daisuke Takahashi , and the strong American team of Johnny Weir , Evan ...
Evgeni Plushenko (RUS) tied the record of four Olympic figure skating medals (in the early years of the sport, Gillis Grafström won four medals between 1920 and 1932). [5] Yulia Lipnitskaya (RUS) became the second-youngest Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, behind Maxi Herber who won pair skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics.