Klimova Ponomarenko Biography

Born on June 28 in Sverdlovsk is now Yekaterinburg. Soviet and Russian skater. She performed in sports dancing on ice in a couple. The Olympic champion paired with Sergey Ponomarenko three -time world champion,, four -time European champion,, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Marina Klimova was born on June 28 in Sverdlovsk now Yekaterinburg. From an early age, she began to engage in figure skating at the Youth rink in Sverdlovsk.

She performed paired with Oleg Volkov. At some point, Natalya Dubova drew attention to Marina Klimova - at that time a young coach. She invited her to train in the Moscow Spartak, putting a couple with a new partner - Sergey Ponomarenko, who was six years older than Marina. At adult competitions, they debuted in the year and took 4th place at the European Championship. The next season, the pair of Klimov and Ponomarenko win bronze medals at the Olympics in Sarajevo and at the European Championship in Budapest.

In the year, the coach of the skaters Natalya Dubova put a golden waltz for a couple, who became a phenomenon in figure skating. The program was developed precisely for a couple of Klimov-Ponomarenko, which perfectly owned the skate at the beginning of an adult career. Later, the Golden Waltz has become an obligatory type of program in ice dancing. Marina Klimova in his youth from a year, the duet was the second after another Soviet couple - Natalya Bestemyanova and Andrei Bukin.

At all the most important competitions of this period, they won silver medals. After the Olympic season, the pair of Bestemyanov-Bukin leaves amateur sport and Klimova-Ponomarenko becomes unconditional world leaders and the first number in the strongest national team of figure skating. Since the year, having become world leaders, Klimov and Ponomarenko sought to find new forms and style of skiing in connection with the appearance of a pair of Isabel and the Fields of Dyushena France and new trends in ice dancing.

However, their permanent coach Natalya Dubova was categorically against. As a result, creative disagreements with the coach led to a break in their relationship in the year. Despite the leadership of the Russian couple and their perfection in technical terms, in artistry and the originality of skiing, the French begin to surpass the couple of Klimov-Ponomarenko. In the year, pair Isabelle and Paul Dyushena wins gold at the World Cup in Munich, pushing the duet Klimov-Ponomarenko to the second position.

The new coach of the couple - Tatyana Tarasova - dramatically changed the style to the avant -garde that came into fashion at that time, with unusual original choreography and costumes. Together with the honed technique and new dance motifs, the duet Klimov-Ponomarenko triumphantly regained their leadership in the year, winning all the most important tournaments, including the Olympic Games in Alberville.

Marina Klimova and Sergey Ponomarenko.

Alberville at the Olympics of the year their rivalry with the French reached their climax. Isabelle and Paul Dyushen were considered favorites on his native land after last year's gold of the World Cup. They demonstrated the avant -garde dance to the music of Bach. Four judges put the French in the first place, five preferred the Russian duet. The competition ended with a score in favor of Klimova and Ponomarenko and they became Olympic champions.

Because the dance couples never climbed again to the upper step of the pedestal as soon as they came from the first place. Such examples in the history of dances are not recorded. And they not only rose, rose above everyone for many years, I would say, for the rest of my life. They are so creative people that they did not lose interest in self-renewal, in training, in all new, in music, in classes, in art, which are usually among professionals who have reached the top, you hardly meet.

"After the triumphal season of the year, Klimov-Ponomarenko went to professional sport. They performed in the show, two second places at the world's championships and their names were included in the room of their names. The glory of the lord of the velvet season. ” research institute And using the materials, a link to Stuki-Druki pins when quoting and using Hyperlink Hyperlink Hyperlink on the Internet or Stuki-Druki.