Evgeni Platov

Grishuk and Platov at the1994 European Championships inCopenhagen
Personal information
Full name	Evgeni[1][2][3] Arkadievich Platov
Other names	Evgeny[4] Platov Yevgeny[5] Platov
Born	(1967-08-07)August 7, 1967 (age 58) Odesa,Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Figure skating career
Skating club	Army Sports Club, Odesa
Retired	March 1998
Medal record Figure skating:Ice dancing Representing Russia Winter Olympics 1998 Nagano Ice dancing 1994 Lillehammer Ice dancing World Championships 1997 Lausanne Ice dancing 1996 Edmonton Ice dancing 1995 Birmingham Ice dancing 1994 Chiba Ice dancing 1993 Prague Ice dancing European Championships 1998 Milan Ice dancing 1997 Paris Ice dancing 1996 Sofia Ice dancing 1994 Copenhagen Ice dancing 1993 Helsinki Ice dancing Grand Prix Final 1997–98 Munich Ice dancing 1995–96 Paris Ice dancing Representing CIS ( Unified Team) World Championships 1992 Oakland Ice dancing European Championships 1992 Lausanne Ice dancing Representing Soviet Union World Junior Championships 1986 Sarajevo Ice dancing 1985 Colorado Springs Ice dancing 1984 Sapporo Ice dancing

Evgeni Arkadievich Platov (Ukrainian to English: Ev'heni Arkadievich Platov) (Russian:Евгений Аркадьевич Платов; born August 7, 1967; Ukrainian: Євген Аркадійович Платов) is a Russian former competitiveice dancer. He is best known for his partnership withOksana Grishuk from 1989 to 1998. With Grishuk, he is a two-time Olympic champion (1994,1998), four-time World champion (1994–1997), and three-time European champion (1996–1998).

With previous partnerElena Krykanova, he was a three-timeWorld Junior champion (1984–1986). During his career, he represented theSoviet Union, theUnified Team, andRussia. Since retiring from competition, he works as afigure skating coach and choreographer.

Platov was born on August 7, 1967, inOdesa,Ukrainian SSR,Soviet Union.^[5] He lived in Odesa until his move toMoscow,Russian SFSR, in 1982.^[6] He married Maria Anikanova, a Russian figure skater and later actress, but they eventually divorced.^[7]

Platov settled inNew Jersey in 1998.^[8]

Platov coaches at Palm Beach Ice Works, West Palm Beach, Florida.^[9]

Platov switched from singles to ice dancing in October 1976.^[6] Boris Rublev arranged his first partnership and then paired him withElena Krykanova a couple of months later.^[6] The two were coached by Rublev inOdesa until 1982 when they moved to Moscow to train underNatalia Dubova.^[6] Krykanova/Platov won threeWorld Junior titles from 1984 to 1986.^[3]

Platov began competing on the senior level withLarisa Fedorinova in 1987. In 1988, they won gold at theKarl Schäfer Memorial and silver at thePrize of Moscow News. Their partnership ended in August 1989.^[6]

Dubova paired Platov withOksana Grishuk in September 1989.^[6] They trained in Moscow.^[10] Three months later, in December 1989, they won the bronze medal at the Soviet Championships. They were fifth in theirWorld Championship debut in 1990. Their first European and World medals, both bronze, came at the1992 European Championships and1992 World Championships.

In mid-1992, due to tensions between Grishuk andMaya Usova and their alleged love rivalry over Maya's then-husband and partnerAlexander Zhulin,^[11] Dubova allegedly expelled Grishuk from her group^[10] or Grishuk chose to leave.^[12] Dubova found a new partner for Platov (the then teenage future Olympic championTatiana Navka^[13]) while Grishuk briefly searched for a new partner in Germany before returning to Moscow and her previous coach,Natalia Linichuk.^[10] Platov decided not to follow Dubova and re-teamed with Grishuk in the fall of 1992.^[10]

During the 1992–93 season, Grishuk/Platov wonEuropean andWorld silver medals. In 1993–94, they won silver at theEuropean Championships. They won their first Olympic title at the1994 Olympics.^[14] They ended the season with their first World title at the1994 World Championships. They then left Russia and moved with Linichuk toNewark, Delaware for better training and living conditions.^[12]

Grishuk/Platov missed most of 1994–95 due to injury but returned to win the1995 World Championships. They had a full season in 1995–96 and won another set ofEuropean andWorld titles.

In 1996, Grishuk/Platov split from Linichuk and moved toTatiana Tarasova inMarlborough, Massachusetts.^[12] Injury kept them out of competition in the first half of the 1996–97 season but they returned to win their secondEuropean and fourthWorld title. In September 1997, she changed her first name to Pasha after being repeatedly confused withOksana Baiul,^[12] but later went back to Oksana.

In 1997–98, Grishuk/Platov In 1997–98, Grishuk and Platov usedMemorial Requiem byMichael Nymann for the music in their free skating program and dedicated it to the people ofSarajevo. Writer and figure skating historian Ellyn Kestnbaum called it "an intense, relentless, abstract free dance".^[15] They won their thirdEuropean Championships. At the event, they were slashed in a practice collision withAnjelika Krylova /Oleg Ovsiannikov but were not seriously hurt and both teams said it was an accident.^[16] Grishuk/Platov competed at their third Olympics in1998 in Nagano, where they became the first ice dancers to repeat as gold medalists.^[12][17]

Grishuk/Platov won 20 consecutive competitions from 1994 to 1998.^[12] They were entered in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1998 for becoming the first team in the history of ice dancing to win Olympic gold twice. Grishuk and Platov combined speed and difficult elements, and displayed their mastery of numerous styles of dance.^[12][18] On their partnership, Platov said in 1998: "It's like being a husband and a wife. Sometimes, you fight. Sometimes, you walk away and calm down. I met her a long time ago, and I still remember her as a little girl on the ice. She was so little. So active. Usually, little girls are boring. But that girl. Oh, there was a fire on ice."^[16] He also said: "It's hard to change her mind. She fights every step. But it works out. That's why she is so good."^[12]

Grishuk/Platov retired from competition and did not compete at the1998 World Championships. They skated together in shows until the summer of 1998. Platov then decided to skate with their former rivalMaya Usova and Grishuk teamed up withAlexander Zhulin.

Grishuk/Platov skated together at a Russian ice show in 2006.^[8] They also skated together in February 2008 in Nagano, Japan for their ten-year anniversary of winning the 1998 Olympic gold medal.

Platov was an assistant coach to his own former coachTatiana Tarasova from 2002 to 2004, along with Maya Usova, at the International Skating Center of Connecticut inSimsbury, Connecticut. He helped coach Olympic ChampionShizuka Arakawa to her only world title in 2004 and briefly worked withSasha Cohen andJohnny Weir under the guidance of Tarasova.

In the fall of 2005, Platov moved to New Jersey and became the assistant coach to his former rival,Alexander Zhulin, helping to coach theice dancing team ofTatiana Navka andRoman Kostomarov to European and Olympic gold medals. He started coaching on his own when Zhulin left New Jersey to go back to Russia. His current and former students include:^[19]

• Galit Chait /Sergei Sakhnovski^[20]
• Penny Coomes /Nicholas Buckland^[1]
• Sinead Kerr /John Kerr^[2]
• Alexandra Zaretsky /Roman Zaretsky^[21]
• Allison Reed /Otar Japaridze^[4]
• Olivia Smart /Joseph Buckland^[22]

Platov formerly coached at the Princeton Sports Center inMonmouth Junction, New Jersey.^[8] In mid-2009, he began coaching at the Igloo ice rink inMount Laurel, New Jersey.^[23][24]

In 2017, Platov worked alongside award-winning ice director Tony Mercer, to coach the world-famous Imperial Ice Stars for Cinderella on Ice.^[25]

GP:Champions Series (Grand Prix)

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