Evgeni Platov

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 competitive ice dancer.

[6] He married Maria Anikanova, a Russian figure skater and later actress, but they eventually divorced.

[6] Boris Rublev arranged his first partnership and then paired him with Elena Krykanova a couple of months later.

They then left Russia and moved with Linichuk to Newark, Delaware for better training and living conditions.

[12] Injury kept them out of competition in the first half of the 1996–97 season but they returned to win their second European and fourth World title.

In 1997–98, Grishuk/Platov In 1997–98, Grishuk and Platov used Memorial Requiem by Michael Nymann for the music in their free skating program and dedicated it to the people of Sarajevo.

Writer and figure skating historian Ellyn Kestnbaum called it "an intense, relentless, abstract free dance".

At the event, they were slashed in a practice collision with Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsiannikov but were not seriously hurt and both teams said it was an accident.

[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.

Platov then decided to skate with their former rival Maya Usova and Grishuk teamed up with Alexander Zhulin.

[8] They also skated together in February 2008 in Nagano, Japan for their ten-year anniversary of winning the 1998 Olympic gold medal.

He helped coach Olympic Champion Shizuka Arakawa to her only world title in 2004 and briefly worked with Sasha Cohen and Johnny Weir under the guidance of Tarasova.

His current and former students include:[19] Platov formerly coached at the Princeton Sports Center in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.