Javier Fernandez
46-year, 12-Olympic-gold-medal streak. Mishin is one of the most successful and
Ross Miner
innovative coaches of the sport. His students have won three Olympic gold medals (Alexei Urmanov, 1994; Evgeni Plushenko, 2006; and Plushenko’s team event gold, 2014), five World titles, 10 European crowns and 22 Russian championships. Skating choreogra- pher and director Kawahara is known for her television, film and touring ice shows. She has won two Primetime Emmys for “Scott Ham- ilton: Upside Down” (1997) and the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. The hall’s Legends Committee, which
Marissa Castelli and Mervin Tran skated
to “Groove Is in the Heart,” and U.S. medalists Emmy Ma and Megan Wessenberg also per- formed, as did several synchronized skaters and Theatre on Ice teams. Castelli and Tran are not eligible for the
Olympics since he is not a U.S. citizen, but the team is making the best of the situation. “We like to skate; that’s why we’re doing
it,” Castelli said. “We’re not doing it to go to the Olympics; we’re doing it because we enjoy skating and we hope everyone enjoys our skating along with us.”
— Sarah S. Brannen
Olympic champions elected to World Figure Skating Hall of Fame Olympic champions Trixi Schuba (AUS),
Alexei Yagudin (RUS) and pairs team Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao (CHN) headline the 2017 class of the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame, nominating chair Lawrence Mondschein announced in April. They are joined by coach Alexei Mishin (RUS) and choreographer Sarah Kawahara as this year’s inductees. Schuba is the 1972 Olympic champion
and a two-time World champion (1971–72). She won two European titles and is a six-time Austrian champion. In just six senior seasons, Yagudin won the 2002 Olympic gold medal, became a four-time World champion (1998– 2000, 2002), a three-time European champion (1998–99, 2002), and a two-time Grand Prix Final champion (1998, 2001). Shen and Zhao ended almost a half century of Soviet and Russian pairs dominance and laid the founda- tion of the Chinese national team. Their 2010 Olympic title is China’s first gold medal in any figure skating discipline, and ended Russia’s
Trixi Schuba Xue Shen/Hongbo Zhao
considers contributions in 1960 and prior, posthumously selected 1936 Olympic bronze medalist and coach Vivi-Anne-Hulten of Sweden; 1908 Olympic pairs silver medalists Phyllis Wyatt Johnson and James Johnson of Great Britain; Switzerland’s Hans-Rudi Mauch, better known as “Mr. Frack” of the ice skating comedy team of “Frick and Frack”; and three- time World silver medalist Werner Rittberger of Germany, who at age 17 invented the loop jump in 1910.
Alexei Yagudin
SKATING 7
PHOTOS BY SARAH BRANNEN
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