Gorshkov Alexander Biography

Father - Gorshkov Georgy Ivanovich Mother - Gorshkova Maria Sergeevna spouse - Gorshkova Irina Ivanovna G. Daughter - Pakhomova -Gorshkova Yulia Aleksandrovna, son of the wife - Belyaev Stanislav Stanislavovich G. The world famous pair Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov - the first Olympic champions in sports dancing on ice. They won the Olympic gold medals in the year at the Games in the Austrian city of Innsbruck, having traveled the path of difficult tests for 10 years, starting with almost zero mark and rising to the very top.

When in the year Lyudmila and Alexander first tasted their strength on ice, few believed that someday this couple could become the best of the best. True, Pakhomova was already, the champion of the Soviet Union with Viktor Ryzhkin, but Gorshkov, a pupil of the army club, did not know: he was a modest first -habitator without seemingly all prospects. However, the young couple believed in their strength.

As the young coach Elena Tchaikovskaya also believed in them, with whom together they began to create a completely new - Russian! It was not the standard, absolutely original approach to the ice dance theme, based on the achievements of the Russian and Soviet ballet school, Russian classical and folk music, which allowed Pakhomova and Gorshkov in just three years to make a dizzying leap on a sports hierarchical ladder.

Already in the year they became the bronze medalists of the European Championship, and at the world championship they lost only the world champions - the British Diana Tauler and Bernard Ford. It was then at a press conference after the end of the competition that English athletes called a Russian couple as successors. And they were not mistaken. In the year, Lyudmila and Alexander for the first time become champions of Europe and the world.

And in total, they were six times - more than anyone in the history of sports dancing on ice. Only once they lost to Pakhomov and Gorshkov the highest step of the podium of honor - at the European Championship of the year of the German couple to his brother and sister Buk, but two months later they delivered such a crushing response at the World Cup that German dancers were forced to complete their sports performances.

And they not only survived, but also went far ahead in their creative search. Together with Tchaikovskaya in these years, dancing unforgettable for millions of spectators - "Kumpersita", which became a standard for several generations, "waltz" to the music of A. Khachaturian, "memory of Louis Armstrong", "ditties" Rodion Shchedrin and dozens of original and arbitrary programs that received higher grades from the judges.

A year before the next year - the Olympic Games, a misfortune happened, which almost crossed out the entire creative and sports biography of Lyudmila and Alexander. After the European Championship of the year, which Pakhomov and Gorshkov won with a huge advantage, Alexander felt back in the back on his way home. At first it seemed that this was an elementary cold and in a few days it would be possible to start training.

But it turned out that everything is much more serious. As a result, Gorshkov got to the hospital, where he was done a unique operation on the lungs. Only this plus a tremendous sports hardening saved his life. Moreover, he returned to sports. And although at the World Cup to perform the star pair, they still went out on the ice and showed that the Olympic hopes were completely preserved for them.

So it happened. Their gap from the closest pursuers has become more than convincing. The first Olympic gold in sports dancing on ice went to Moscow. The same thing happened four years later, when the “dance gold” was again won by the students of the group of E. Tchaikovskaya - Natalya Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov, most of which was held and matured next to our first champions, on whose experience it was possible to create a strong foundation and their own success.

Sports life is fleeting. On the eve of the year, Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov leave the ice.

Pakhomova, to become a coach, Gorshkov - to become a sports functionary. Of course, vast experience helped them quickly and confidently start in a new life. Moreover, the young coach L. Pakhomova successfully graduated from the choreographer of GITIS and could fully equip her own students - young dance couples. It was hoped that soon she would grow new Russian champions, but the worst thing happened: a serious illness had a serious illness.

Lyudmila fought with her in the same way as she had fought in sports all her life. She continued to work until her very last days and left behind a galaxy of young dancers, who later became successful coaches. After the completion of the sports career A. in the year A. Gorshkov was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the OKR. Since the year, he is also the vice-president of the Moscow Regional Figure Skarevy Figure Federation and the president of the regional charitable public fund "Art and Sport" named after Lyudmila Pakhomova.However, the main thing in his life continues to be inextricable with his beloved sport and his activities in the Technical Committee on the ice of the International Union of Hibational Capaches ISU, whose member he first became back in the year, and was elected as its chairman in the year.

It is this committee, being a creative core of the development of sports dances on ice, which is designed to determine the development strategy of this sport in the international arena, to develop new competition rules, to correctly correct them, to control and evaluate the work of judges, to improve their knowledge and qualifications. This means that it is from Alexander Gorshkov to a large extent depends on which direction that ice dance art will develop.

As a result of his activities in this post, a number of significant changes in the rules can be called, which made it possible to further increase the technical complexity and entertainment of dancing on ice. Starting from the year, it became possible to use vocal music when creating compositions of original and arbitrary dances, and it also became mandatory to include specially defined technically complex elements in them.

All these and other innovations introduced by the Technical Committee and annually corrected rules demanded the transition to a higher level of informing of judges, without which their work will be ineffective. To this end, the Technical Committee began holding annual conferences-seminars for referees invited from all countries of the world, where this amazing sport is developing.

In the year, L. Pakhomova and A. Gorshkov for his contribution to the development of ice dancing and sports achievements were elected honorary members of the "Museum of Glory of the Figure Skating Federation of the United States". Like six -time world champions and Europe, they are inscribed in the Guinness Book of Records. The original dance of the Tango Romance, prepared by athletes along with the coach E.

Tchaikovskaya in the year, is included and is still being performed as a compulsory dance at all competitions in sports dancing on ice. There was practically no time left for a serious hobby of Alexander Georgievich. He loved the equipment, repairing his car himself, corrected all home appliances. In the literature, he preferred the works of his favorite writers - M. Bulgakov and I. W, with pleasure watched almost all Soviet films.

He loved to meet friends, among whom there are many artists: A. Domogarov, A. Mordvinov, V. Rakov and others.