Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov (February 4, 1967 – November 20, 1995) was a Russian pair skater

Pair skating

Pair skating is a figure skating discipline. International Skating Union regulations describe pair teams as consisting of "one lady and one man." The sport is distinguished from ice dancing and single skating by elements unique to pair skating, including overhead lifts, twist lifts, death spirals,...

. Together with partner Ekaterina Gordeeva

Ekaterina Gordeeva

Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeeva is a Russian figure skater. Together with her late partner and husband Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion in pair skating...

, he was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic

Olympic Games

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 Champion and four-time World

World Figure Skating Championships

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 Champion.
Sergei Grinkov was born in Moscow

Moscow

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 to Mikhail Kondrateyevich Grinkov and Anna Filipovna Grinkova. The younger of two children, he had an older sister named Natalia Mikhailovna Grinkova.

He first took the ice at the age of five, entering Children and Youth Sports School

Children and Youth Sports School

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 of CSKA

CSKA

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 in Moscow.