Andrei Bukin

Personal information
Full name	Andrei Anatolyevich Bukin
Born	(1957-06-10)10 June 1957 (age 68) Moscow,Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Figure skating career
Retired	1988
Medal record Figure skating Ice dancing Representing Soviet Union Olympic Games 1988 Calgary Ice dancing 1984 Sarajevo Ice dancing World Championships 1988 Budapest Ice dancing 1987 Cincinnati Ice dancing 1986 Geneva Ice dancing 1985 Tokyo Ice dancing 1984 Ottawa Ice dancing 1983 Helsinki Ice dancing 1982 Copenhagen Ice dancing 1981 Hartford Ice dancing European Championships 1988 Prague Ice dancing 1987 Sarajevo Ice dancing 1986 Sarajevo Ice dancing 1985 Gothenburg Ice dancing 1984 Budapest Ice dancing 1983 Dortmund Ice dancing 1982 Lyon Ice dancing

Andrei Anatolyevich Bukin (Russian:Андрей Анатольевич Букин, born 10 June 1957) is a Soviet and Russian formerice dancer who represented theSoviet Union in his competitive career. With his partnerNatalia Bestemianova, he is the1988 Olympic Champion,1984 Olympic silver medalist, four-timeWorld champion, three-time World silver medalist, and five-timeEuropean champion.

Bukin began figure skating at age seven, entering theChildren and Youth Sports School ofCSKA inMoscow. The group trained at a small stadium in Chapayevsky Park near Pesochnaya Square. At age ten, he joinedSpartak and beganice dancing, originally training at the Small Sports Arena of theCentral Lenin Stadium. In his early career, he was coached by Nadezhda Shirokova and his ice dancing partner was Olga Abankina, whom he married. In 1977, he joined the group of the famous coachTatiana Tarasova,^[1] who paired him withNatalia Bestemianova. Bukin was theUSSR Olympic Team Flag Bearer at the1988 Winter Olympics. The duo capped their lengthy career by winning the gold medal there and at that year'sWorld Championships.

Bukin married former ice dancing partner, Olga Abankina, with whom he has a son Andrei (born 1983).^[2] With his current partner, Yelena Vasyukova, a former ice dancer, he has a son,Ivan Bukin, born in 1993, who is also a competitive ice dancer.^[3][2]

(With Bestemianova)

• "Bobrin's Moscow Stars on Ice official site"
• Care to Ice Dance? - Bestemianova & Bukin
• (in Russian)Biographies of Andrei and Natalia at Tatiana Tarasova's website

• 1957 births
• Living people
• Figure skaters from Moscow
• Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism alumni
• Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
• Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
• Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Olympic figure skaters for the Soviet Union
• Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics
• Figure skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
• Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
• Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
• Olympic medalists in figure skating
• Russian male ice dancers
• Soviet male ice dancers
• World Figure Skating Championships medalists
• European Figure Skating Championships medalists
• Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics
• Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics
• 20th-century Russian sportsmen

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