Two American aviation jet passengers, who collided with the Potomax River on Wednesday night, were a world -class ice skater who worked as a coach in the United States. The skaters, the two Russian champions, shared their partnership between ice and marriage.
Boston skate club Confirmed in social media posts On Thursday, 52 -year -old YEVGENIYA SHISHKOVA and 55 -year -old VADIM NAUMOV were on an airplane that collided with a military helicopter as we approached Ronal Dragon National Airport, leading to the killing of all passengers. Many passengers were athletes and coaches, and left the US figure skating national championship in Kang Wichita.
SHISHKOVA and NAUMOV, also known as Evgenia SHISHKOVA, participated in Russia in pair figures before moving to the United States in 1998.
In the 1990s, Naumov and Shishikova reached the top of their career. They earned gold in pair skating in the World Skating Championship in Japan in Japan in 1994, and participated in the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics. As a whole, they skated in six world championships and won the collection of gold, silver, and bronze medals.
They were not qualified for the 1998 Olympics and finished their skating careers to become a coach. Like many professional Russian skaters, they moved to the United States, but Russia had a sudden stagnation after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
They settled in Simsberry, Connecticut, where they participated in the International Skating Center in Connecticut. Apart from coaching, they participated in professional tournaments.
Coaching was not always easy. Talk to New England Yankee in 2007, Naumov said In the United States, children are “excessively exposed to competition.”
“My parents want to see the results of what they pay, and the coaches want to show their results,” he said. “In Russia, the government paid for our training. I practiced with the group, but I didn’t really start competing until I was 15.”
To him Profile page For the skate club in Boston, Naoumov said he liked “to create an environment where students are enjoying while working hard.”
Juliet Makuru Contributed report.