Gennadi Karponosov

Karponosov with Linichuk in 2010
Personal information
Full name	Gennadi Mikhailovich Karponosov
Other names	Karponossov
Born	(1950-11-21)21 November 1950 (age 74) Moscow,Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Soviet Union
Partner	Natalia Linichuk Elena Zharkova
Coach	Elena Tchaikovskaia Tatiana Tarasova
Skating club	IceWorks
Retired	1981
Medal record Figure skating:Ice dancing Representing Soviet Union Olympic Games 1980 Lake Placid Ice dancing World Championships 1980 Dortmund Ice dancing 1979 Vienna Ice dancing 1978 Ottawa Ice dancing 1977 Tokyo Ice dancing 1974 Munich Ice dancing European Championships 1981 Innsbruck Ice dancing 1980 Gothenburg Ice dancing 1979 Zagreb Ice dancing 1978 Strasbourg Ice dancing 1977 Helsinki Ice dancing 1976 Geneva Ice dancing 1975 Copenhagen Ice dancing 1974 Zagreb Ice dancing

Gennadi Mikhailovich Karponosov (Russian:Геннадий Михайлович Карпоносов^ⓘ; born 21 November 1950) is an ice dancing coach and a former competitiveice dancer for the Soviet Union. WithNatalia Linichuk, he is the1980 Olympic champion and a two-timeWorld champion.

Gennadi Karponosov began skating becauseAlexei Ulanov was his neighbor.^[1] He initially competed withElena Zharkova under coachTatiana Tarasova but had greater success with his second partner,Natalia Linichuk.

Linichuk and Karponosov were coached byElena Tchaikovskaia atDynamo in Moscow. They won theWorld Universiade in 1972, and won the bronze medal at the 1974 and 1977 World Championships. They were fourth at the1976 Winter Olympics, the year ice dancing was introduced as an Olympic sport.

They won the bronze medals at theEuropean Figure Skating Championships from1974 through1977 and a silver medal in1978. Linichuk and Karponosov won the world championship in1978 and1979 and the European Championships in1979 and1980.

Linichuk and Karponosov won the1980 Olympics, but failed to defend theirWorld title, making them the only team ever to unsuccessfully defend a World title after winning the Olympics.^[2] In 1981, Linichuk and Karponosov retired from competition.

After coaching in Moscow, Linichuk and Karponosov accepted an offer to coach in the U.S.^[1] They moved with their students in June 1994 and coached at theUniversity of Delaware inNewark, Delaware.^[3][4] In September 2007, they moved to theIce Works Skating Complex inAston, Pennsylvania.^[4]

Their current and former senior-level students include:

• Tanith Belbin /Benjamin Agosto (coached from mid-2008 to 2010).^[5] 2009 World silver medalists for the U.S.
• Galit Chait /Sergei Sakhnovsky (World bronze medalists)
• Albena Denkova /Maxim Staviski (coached from mid-2005 to 2007).^[6] 2006, 2007 World Champions for Bulgaria.
• Oksana Domnina /Maxim Shabalin (coached from mid-2008 to 2010).^[7] 2010 Olympic bronze medalists for Russia.
• Oksana Grishuk /Evgeni Platov (Olympic and World champions)
• Natalia Gudina /Alexei Beletski
• Anjelika Krylova /Vladimir Fedorov (World bronze medalists)
• Anjelika Krylova /Oleg Ovsyannikov (World champions, Olympic silver medalists)
• Irina Lobacheva /Ilia Averbukh^[8] (World champions, Olympic silver medalists)

Their current and former junior-level students include:

• Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager (from May 2010)^[9] 2011 U.S. Junior silver medalists
• Ekaterina Pushkash andJonathan Guerreiro (coached from mid-2010 to present).^[10] 2011 World Junior silver medalists for Russia.

Karponosov studied international relations at the Public Institute Moscow. Linichuk accepted Karponosov's proposal after they retired from competition.^[1] They were married on 31 July 1981. Their daughter, Anastasiya Karponosova, was born in February 1985. The couple initially lived in Moscow and then moved to the United States in the early '90s.^[4] In 2001, Karponosov, who isJewish,^[11] was admitted to theInternational Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.^[12]

• List of select Jewish figure skaters

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