Sergei Ponomarenko
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| Full name | Sergei Vladilenovich Ponomarenko | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 Unified Team  Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
October 6, 1960 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former partner |
Marina Klimova Tatiana Durasova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Medal record | ||
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| Figure skating | ||
| Representing the Soviet Union
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.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1988 Calgary | Ice dancing |
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1984 Sarajevo | Ice dancing |
| Representing the Unified Team
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.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1992 Albertville | Ice dancing |
Sergei Vladilenovich Ponomarenko (Russian: Серге́й Владиленович Пономаренко; born October 6, 1960) is a Russian former competitive ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union and the Unified team. With skating partner and wife Marina Klimova, he is the 1992 Olympic champion, 1988 Olympic silver medalist, 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, three-time World champion, and four-time European champion.
Career
Ponomarenko trained at Spartak in Moscow. Early in his career, he competed with Tatiana Durasova, becoming the 1978 and 1979 World Junior champion.[1] Following their split, he teamed up with Marina Klimova.
Klimova and Ponomarenko were fourth in their European Championships debut in 1983. Their breakthrough came the following season when they won the bronze medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics and 1984 European Championships. In 1985, they won their first World medal, silver. They were four-time consecutive World silver medalists from 1985 to 1988. In 1988, they also won the Olympic silver medal, behind Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin.
In 1989, Klimova and Ponomarenko won the first of their four consecutive European titles. They also won the 1989 World Championships and followed that up with another World gold the following year.
At the 1991 World Championships, they had a setback when they placed second to Isabelle Duchesnay & Paul Duchesnay. Four months before the Olympics, they decided to leave coach Natalia Dubova.[2] They re-established themselves as the top ice dancers in the world by winning another 1992 European title and then capturing the 1992 Olympic title. They ended their season with their third World title. They retired from eligible skating after the World Championships and turned to professional and show skating.
In addition to winning three World championships and four European Championships, Klimova and Ponomarenko are the first figure skaters in any discipline to have won Olympic medals in three different colors. They won the bronze medal in 1984 Sarajevo, the silver medal in 1988 Calgary for the Soviet Union and the gold medal in 1992 Albertville for the Unified Team.
Klimova and Ponomarenko were inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2000.[3] Ponomarenko is an ISU technical specialist for Russia.[4] He and his wife coach young figure skaters at Sharks Ice at San Jose, California.
Personal life
Klimova and Ponomarenko married in September 1984. They now reside in the United States in Morgan Hill, California. They have two sons, Tim Ponomarenko, born in 1998, and Anthony Ponomarenko, born on January 5, 2001 in San Jose, California.[5] Anthony is a competitive ice dancer for the United States.[5][6]
Programs
(With Klimova)
| Season | Original set pattern / Original dance |
Free dance | Exhibition |
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| 1992–1996 |
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| 1991–1992 |
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| 1990–1991 | |||
| 1989–1990 | |||
| 1988–1989 | |||
| 1987–1988 | |||
| 1986–1987 | |||
| 1985–1986 | |||
| 1984–1985 | |||
| 1983–1984 | |||
| 1982–1983 |
Results
(ice dance with Sergei Ponomarenko)
| International | ||||||||||||
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| Event | 1980-81 | 1981–82 | 1982–83 | 1983–84 | 1984–85 | 1985–86 | 1986–87 | 1987–88 | 1988–89 | 1989–90 | 1990–91 | 1991–92 |
| Olympics | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | |||||||||
| Worlds | 4th | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | |||
| Europeans | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |||
| Goodwill Games | 1st | |||||||||||
| Fujifilm Trophy | 1st | |||||||||||
| Moscow News | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||||
| Nebelhorn | 1st | 1st | ||||||||||
| Golden Spin | 2nd | |||||||||||
| Int. St. Gervais | 1st | 1st | ||||||||||
| National | ||||||||||||
| Soviet Champ. | 8th | 6th | 5th | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||
| Spartakiada | 3rd | |||||||||||
Professional career
| Event | 1994–1995 | 1995–1996 |
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| World Pro. Championships | 2nd | 2nd |
With Durasova
| International | |||
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| Event | 1977–1978 | 1978–1979 | 1979–1980 |
| Nebelhorn Trophy | 3rd | ||
| International: Junior | |||
| Junior Worlds | 1st | 1st | |
References
- ↑ "World Junior Figure Skating Championships: ISU Results: Dance" (PDF). (11.0 KB)
- ↑ Vaytsekhovskaya, Elena (1991). Марина Климова, Сергей Пономаренко: "ЗА ВСЕ НАДО ПЛАТИТЬ САМИМ. ЗА ОШИБКИ ТОЖЕ" [Klimova & Ponomarenko interview] (in Russian). Retrieved September 9, 2011.
- ↑ "Hall of Fame Members". World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ↑ "ISU Communication No. 1467".
- 1 2 "Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on September 6, 2014.
- ↑ Whetstone, Mimi (September 15, 2012). "Feng and Ponomarenko, Kang nab novice gold". Ice Network.
External links
Media related to Sergei Ponomarenko at Wikimedia Commons
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