Gennadi Karponossov
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Gennadi Michailovitch Karponosov (Russian: Геннадий Михайлович Карпоносов; born November 21, 1950, in Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a former Soviet/Russian figure skater and now coach.
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.
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[edit] Career
Karponosov and Linichuk won the World Universiade in 1972, and were bronze medalists at the 1974 and 1977 World Championships. They also finished 4th at the 1976 Olympics, and were gold medalists at the World Championships of 1978 and 1979. They won the European Championships in 1979 and 1980, after taking a silver medal in 1978, and bronze medals 1974 through 1977. The pair became Olympic champions in 1980 in ice dancing for the USSR, and won the silver at the 1980 World event. They were coached by Elena Tchaikovskaia.
In 1981 Linichuk and Karponosov retired from amateur competition. They got married on July 31, 1981. In February of 1985, their daughter, Anastasiya Karponosova, was born.
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 U.S..
Among others they coached and have coached Oksana Baiul, 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 Karponossov, who is Jewish, was admitted to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
[edit] Competitive highlights
(with Natalia Linichuk)
| Event | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
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| Olympic Winter Games | 4th | 1st | ||||||
| World Championships | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | |
| European Championships | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 3rd |
(with Yelena Sharkova)
World championships
European championships
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