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Moscow

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) is a retired Russia

Russia

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n ice dancer

Ice dancing

Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

who represented the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Russia. With Maya Usova

Maya Usova

Maya Valentinovna Usova , born 22 May 1964 in Gorky is a Russian ice dancer. With Alexander Zhulin, she is the 1993 World champion, 1994 Olympic silver medalist, 1992 Olympic bronze medalist.- Career :...

, he is the 1993 World champion

1993 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1993 World Figure Skating Championships were the World Figure Skating Championships of the 1992-1993 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from ISU Member Nations competed for the title of World Champion...

, 1994 Olympic silver medalist

Figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Referee:* Britta LindgrenAssistant Referee:* Gerhardt BubníkJudges: Wendy Utley Jan Olesinski Jarmila Portová Alfred Korytek Yang Jiasheng Margaret Ann Wier Noriko Shirota Audrey Williams Jan Hoffmann Monique Petis -Pairs:...

, and 1992 Olympic bronze medalist

Figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Referee:* Benjamin T. WrightAssistant Referee:* Monique GeorgelinJudges: Reinhard Mirmseker Mary Pearson Yang Jiasheng Monique Petis Mieko Fujimori Ingelise Blangsted Igor Prokop Vanessa Riley* Marina Sanaya Maragaret Ann Wier...

Competitive career

Coach Natalia Dubova paired him with Maya Usova

Maya Usova

in 1980. In 1988, they made their first appearance at the European Championships

1988 European Figure Skating Championships

The 1988 European Figure Skating Championships were the European Figure Skating Championships of the 1987-1988 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU Member Nations competed for the title of European Champion...

, placing 4th. The next season, they won silver at Europeans

1989 European Figure Skating Championships

The 1989 European Figure Skating Championships were the European Figure Skating Championships of the 1988-1989 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU Member Nations competed for the title of European Champion...

and silver in their World Championships

1989 World Figure Skating Championships

The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. This event is considered the most prestigious of the ISU Championships...

debut. The next two seasons, they took bronze at Worlds.

In the 1991–92 season, Usova and Zhulin won silver at the European Championships

1992 European Figure Skating Championships

The 1992 European Figure Skating Championships were the European Figure Skating Championships of the 1991-1992 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU Member Nations competed for the title of European Champion...

and then captured their first Olympic medal, bronze, at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France

Figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

. They ended the season by winning their second World silver medal

1992 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1992 World Figure Skating Championships took place in Oakland, California, USA.-Medalists:- Medal table :-Men:-Ladies:-Pairs:-Ice Dancing:-References:*...

. They moved with Dubova from Moscow to Lake Placid, New York

Lake Placid, New York

Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....

in 1992.

In the 1992–93 season, Usova and Zhulin won the European

1993 European Figure Skating Championships

The 1993 European Figure Skating Championships were the European Figure Skating Championships of the 1992-1993 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU Member Nations competed for the title of European Champion...

title and followed that up by winning the World

1993 World Figure Skating Championships

title as well. The next season, they dropped to third at the European Championships

1994 European Figure Skating Championships

The 1994 European Figure Skating Championships were the European Figure Skating Championships of the 1993-1994 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU Member Nations competed for the title of European Champion...

behind Jayne Torvill

Jayne Torvill

Jayne Torvill, OBE is a British ice dancer. With Christopher Dean, she won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.-Early life:...

/ Christopher Dean

Christopher Dean

Christopher Colin Dean, OBE is a famous British ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill...

and Oksana Grishuk / Evgeny Platov

Evgeny Platov

Evgeny Arkadievich Platov is a Russian former ice dancer. He is best known for his partnership with Oksana Grishuk from 1989–1998...

. At the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway

Figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics

, they won the silver medal behind Grishuk and Platov.

Usova and Zhulin skated together professionally for four years before parting ways. Zhulin then skated with former rival, Oksana Grishuk, for one year.

Coaching career

After retiring, Zhulin became a skating coach and choreographer. He moved back to Russia in 2006, and is based in Moscow

Moscow

. Among others, he has coached and choreographed for:

Tatiana Navka
Tatiana Navka
Tatyana Aleksandrovna Navka is a Russian ice dancer who has also competed for the Soviet Union and Belarus...

/ Roman Kostomarov
Roman Kostomarov
Roman Sergeyevich Kostomarov is a Russian ice dancer. With partner Tatiana Navka, he is the 2006 Olympic champion, two-time World champion , three-time Grand Prix Final champion , and three-time European champion .- Career :Kostomarov began skating at the age of nine and a coach put him in ice...

, the 2006 Olympic Champions. Coached from 2000 to end of career.
Nathalie Péchalat
Nathalie Péchalat
Nathalie Péchalat is a French ice dancer who competes with Fabian Bourzat. They are the 2011 European Champions, the 2010–2011 Grand Prix Final silver and 2009–2010 bronze medalists, 2010 Cup of China champions, 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard champions, and two-time French national champions .- Career...

/ Fabian Bourzat
Fabian Bourzat
Fabian Bourzat is a French ice dancer. He competes with Nathalie Péchalat. They are the 2011 European Champions, 2010–2011 Grand Prix Final silver and 2009–2010 bronze medalists, 2010 Cup of China champions, 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard champions, and two time French national champions .- Career :-...

, the 2011 European Champions. Coached from July 2008 to April 2011.
Elena Ilinykh
Elena Ilinykh
Elena Ruslanovna Ilinykh is a Russian ice dancer. With partner Nikita Katsalapov, she is the 2010 World Junior Champion, 2009 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist and 2011 Russian senior national bronze medalist.- Career :...

/ Nikita Katsalapov
Nikita Katsalapov
Nikita Gennadievich Katsalapov is a Russian ice dancer. With partner Elena Ilinykh, he is the 2010 World Junior Champion, 2009 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist and 2011 Russian senior national bronze medalist.- Career :...

, the 2010 World Junior Champions, until the end of the 2010-2011 season.
Julia Zlobina
Julia Zlobina
Julia Zlobina is an ice dancer who competes with Alexei Sitnikov. They represented Russia until 2010 and began competing for Azerbaijan in 2011....

/ Alexei Sitnikov
Alexei Sitnikov
Alexei Sitnikov is an ice dancer who competes with Julia Zlobina. They represented Russia until 2010 and began competing for Azerbaijan in 2011....
Valeria Zenkova
Valeria Zenkova
Valeria Maximovna Zenkova is a Russian ice dancer who competes with partner Valerie Sinitsin.Zenkova and Sinitsin won the bronze medal at the 2008-2009 Junior Grand Prix in Mexico City and placed 10th at the 2008 Russian Junior Championships. In mid-2011, they changed coaches to Alexander Zhulin...

/ Valerie Sinitsin
Valerie Sinitsin
Valerie Yuryevich Sinitsin is a Russian ice dancer who competes with partner Valeria Zenkova.Zenkova and Sinitsin won the bronze medal at the 2008-2009 Junior Grand Prix in Mexico City and placed 10th at the 2008 Russian Junior Championships. In mid-2011, they changed coaches to Alexander Zhulin...

, from mid-2011.
Ksenia Korobkova / Daniil Gleichengauz
Daniil Gleichengauz
Daniil Markovich Gleichengauz is a Russian ice dancer and former single skater. In single skating, he is the 2007 Russian junior national bronze medalist and is a one-season competitor on the Junior Grand Prix circuit. He was coached by Viktor Kudriavtsev. He began competing in ice dancing in the...

Personal life

Zhulin was married to Usova in 1986 but the two eventually divorced. He was romantically involved with competitive rival Oksana Grishuk. He later married Tatiana Navka

Tatiana Navka

Tatyana Aleksandrovna Navka is a Russian ice dancer who has also competed for the Soviet Union and Belarus...

, with whom he has a daughter, Sasha, born in 2000. Navka and Zhulin later separated.

Programs

(with Usova)

Season	Original dance Original dance The original dance was a segment of an ice dancing competition. It was usually the second of three programs, sandwiched between the compulsory dances and the free dance. Until 1994, it was known as the original set pattern dance...	Free dance Free dance (figure skating) The free dance is a part of an ice dancing competition. It is the second part of the competition to be contested, after the short dance.-Structure and content:...	Exhibition
1997–1998			The Red Poppy The Red Poppy The Red Poppy or sometimes The Red Flower is a ballet in three acts and an apotheosis; score written by Reinhold Glière and a scenario by Mikhail Kurilko. This ballet was created in 1927 as the first Soviet ballet with a modern revolutionary theme.... La Belle Dame Sans Regret by Sting Windmills of your Mind (from the Thomas Crown Affair The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film) The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 film by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. It was nominated for two Academy Awards and won the Award for Best Song with Michel Legrand's "Windmills of Your Mind"... ) A Man and A Woman Where Do I Begin (from Love Story) The Summer Knows (from Summer of '42 Summer of '42 Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of how Raucher, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket Island, off the coast of New England, embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Dorothy,... )
1995–1996			Astor Piazzolla Prelude In C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
1994–1995			Fantasy in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music... Blues For Klook
1993–1994	A Day In The Life Of A Fool	Selected Melodies by Nino Rota Nino Rota Nino Rota was an Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...
1992–1993	Tales From The Vienna Woods	Blues For Klook by Eddy Louis	Tango Prelude in E Minor by Frederic Chopin Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano".... Autumn Leaves
1991–1992	Pizzicato Polka by Johann Strauss II Johann Strauss II Johann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...	Four Seasons The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The texture of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season... by Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...	Autumn Leaves
1990–1991	Blues For Klook by Eddy Louis	Summertime (from Porgy and Bess Porgy and Bess Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward... ) by George Gershwin George Gershwin George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...	Autumn Leaves
1989–1990		Tango
1988–1989		Mars, the Bringer of War (from The Planets The Planets The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst... ) by Gustav Holst Gustav Holst Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.... Prelude in E minor by Frederic Chopin Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

(with Grishuk)

Season	Programs
1998–1999	Un-Break My Heart Un-Break My Heart "Un-Break My Heart" is a song by American recording artist Toni Braxton from her second studio album, Secrets . Written by Diane Warren and produced by David Foster, the ballad was released as the album's second single... by Toni Braxton Toni Braxton Toni Michelle Braxton is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards and has sold over 60 million records worldwide... Smooth Operator Smooth Operator "Smooth Operator" is a song by the English group Sade, released as the fourth and final single from their debut album Diamond Life . It was released as a 7" single with "Spirit" as its B-side, and as a 12" maxi single with "Smooth Operator" and "Red Eye" on side A and "Spirit" on side B... by Sade Sade (band) Sade is a British smooth jazz band that formed in 1983, named for Nigerian lead singer Sade Adu. Their music features elements of R&B, soul, jazz, and soft rock.... Enigma

Results

(with Usova)

Event	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91	1991–92	1992–93	1993–94
Winter Olympic Games Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games is a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating...									3rd		2nd
World Championships World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...						2nd	3rd	3rd	2nd	1st
European Championships European Figure Skating Championships The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European Champion...					4th	2nd	2nd	3rd	2nd	1st	3rd
Soviet Championships Soviet Figure Skating Championships The Soviet Figure Skating Championships were a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of the Soviet Union...	2nd		3rd	3rd	3rd	2nd	2nd	1st
Skate America Skate America Skate America is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. It is organized by the United States Figure Skating Association. The location changes yearly...							1st			1st
Nations Cup Bofrost Cup on Ice The Bofrost Cup on Ice was a figure skating competition held in Germany between 1986 and 2004. It was part of the Grand Prix series until 2003, when it was replaced by Cup of China. Following being booted out of the Grand Prix series, a new form of competition was introduced to the Bofrost Cup...							1st
NHK Trophy NHK Trophy The NHK Trophy is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Figure skaters compete in the disciplines of ladies' singles, men's singles, pair skating, and ice dancing....						2nd		1st	1st	1st
Nebelhorn Trophy Nebelhorn Trophy The Nebelhorn Trophy is an international senior-level figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union and held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany. The competition is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain....			1st
Prize of Moscow News Prize of Moscow News The Prize of Moscow News , also known as the Moscow Skate, Nouvelles de Moscou, and the Moscow News Trophy, was an international, senior-level figure skating competition held in the former Soviet Union from 1966 to 1990...			4th	3rd	2nd
Winter Universiade		1st		2nd

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