Gennadi Karponossov
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Gennadi Michailovitch Karponosov (Cyrillic Геннадий Михайлович Карпоносов, born November 21, 1950 in Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a Russian figure skater.
Gennadi Karponosov trained at Dynamo in Moscow. He skated first with Yelena Sharkova. They were one of the first students of coach Tatiana Tarassova. However he was more successful with his second partner Natalia Linichuk. The pair became Olympic champions 1980 in ice dancing for the USSR. They were coached by Elena Tchaikovskaia.
In 1981 Linichuk and Karponosov retired from amateur competition. They got married on July 31, 1981.
Gennadi Karponosov studied international relations at the Public Institute Moscow.
The couple lived in Moscow at first. As a team, Gennadi Karponosov and Natalia Linichuk became very successful ice dance coaches. Later they moved to Delaware in the USA. Among others they coached and have coached Oksana Grishuk/Evgeny Platov, Anjelika Krylova/Oleg Ovsyannikov, Irina Lobacheva/Ilia Averbukh (all Russia), Galit Chait/ Sergei Sakhnovsky and Natalia Gudina/Alexei Belezki (all Israel).
In 2001 Gennadi Karponossov was admitted to the "International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame".
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[edit] Results (if not mentioned otherwise with Natalia Linichuk)
[edit] Olympic Winter Games
[edit] World championships
- 1970 – 8th place with Yelena Sharkova
- 1971 – 8th place with Yelena Sharkova
- 1972 – 8th place with Yelena Sharkova
- 1973 – not participated
- 1974 – 3rd place
- 1975 – 4th place
- 1976 – 5th place
- 1977 – 3rd place
- 1978 – 1st place
- 1979 – 1st place
- 1980 – 2nd place
[edit] European championships
- 1969 – 11th place with Yelena Sharkova
- 1970 – 6th place with Yelena Sharkova
- 1971 – 6th place with Yelena Sharkova
- 1972 – 6th place with Yelena Sharkova
- 1973 – not participated
- 1974 – 3rd place
- 1975 – 3rd place
- 1976 – 3rd place
- 1977 – 3rd place
- 1978 – 2nd place
- 1979 – 1st place
- 1980 – 1st place
- 1981 – 3rd place
[edit] See also
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1976: Lyudmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1980: Natalia Linichuk & Gennadi Karponossov | 1984: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean | 1988: Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin | 1992: Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko | 1994: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov | 1998: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov | 2002: Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat | 2006: Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov |
Categories: 1950 births | Living people | Jewish sportspeople | Russian figure skaters | Soviet figure skaters | Dynamo sports society athletes | Olympic figure skaters of the Soviet Union | Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union | Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics | Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics | Ice dancers | Winter Olympics medalists
