Veronica Pershina is a former Soviet 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,...

. With partner Marat Akbarov

Marat Akbarov

Marat Akbarov is a former Soviet pair skater. With partner Veronika Pershina, he was the 1985 European bronze medalist and 1979 World Junior champion. He married fellow pair skater Marina Pestova. Together, they have a daughter, Angela....

, she was the 1985 European bronze medalist

1985 European Figure Skating Championships

The 1985 European Figure Skating Championships were the European Figure Skating Championships of the 1984-1985 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU Member Nations competed for the title of European Champion...

 and 1979 World Junior champion

World Junior Figure Skating Championships

The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion...

. She was trained by Stanislav Zhuk

Stanislav Zhuk

Stanislav Alekseevich Zhuk was a pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With partner and wife Nina, he won three silver medals at the European Figure Skating Championships and finished sixth at the 1960 Winter Olympics.He later went on to a long career as a coach...

 and Irina Rodnina

Irina Rodnina

Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina is one of the most successful figure skaters ever and the only pair skater to win 10 successive World Championships and three successive Olympic gold medals . She initially competed with Alexei Ulanov and later teamed up with Alexander Zaitsev...

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From 1986 until 1990 she skated with "Russian All Stars" under Tatiana Tarasova

Tatiana Tarasova

Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova is a Russian figure skating coach and national figure skating team adviser. Tarasova has been coach to more world and Olympic champions than any other coach in skating history. As of 2003, her students have won a total of 41 gold medals at the European and World...

 management. She made a worldwide tour with Jane Torvill and 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...

 from 1988 until 1990. On January 24, 1990 she defected to the United States rather than return from New York to London with the Torvill & Dean / Russian All Stars tour group. Others who defected with her were her future husband Igor Shpilband

Igor Shpilband

-Personal life:Shpilband was born in Moscow. In January 1990, he and other skaters were part of a U.S. tour headlined by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean when one of them, Gorsha Sur, decided to defect and Shpilband, Veronika Pershina and Elena Krikanova decided to join him. He got a coaching...

, future US ice dancing champion Gorsha Sur

Gorsha Sur

Georgi 'Gorsha' Sur is a former ice dancer who represented the United States and the Soviet Union. With Svetlana Liapina for the Soviet Union, he is a two-time World Junior medalist. With Renée Roca for the U.S., he is a two-time U.S...

 and former Junior World ice dancing champion Elena Krikanova

Elena Krikanova

Elena Krikanova is a former Soviet ice dancer. With former partner Evgeni Platov, she is a three-time World Junior champion . In January 1990, she defected to the United States along with Gorsha Sur and other skaters.-Results:...

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She now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...

 and works as a coach. She was married to the ice dancing coach Igor Shpilband

Igor Shpilband

-Personal life:Shpilband was born in Moscow. In January 1990, he and other skaters were part of a U.S. tour headlined by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean when one of them, Gorsha Sur, decided to defect and Shpilband, Veronika Pershina and Elena Krikanova decided to join him. He got a coaching...

. Their daughter, Ekaterina Shpilband, placed 4th in the Juvenile ladies division of the 2009 U.S. Junior Championships

2009 United States Figure Skating Championships

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. At the 2010 United States Junior Championships

2010 United States Figure Skating Championships

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, Ekaterina won the intermediate ladies division.

Results

(with Akbarov)

Event	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86
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...		6th	6th	5th	8th	6th	6th
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...			5th	4th	4th		3rd
World Junior Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion...	1st
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...			1st	2nd	2nd		3rd	3rd
Skate Canada International Skate Canada International The Skate Canada International is an international, senior-level invitation-only figure skating competition organized by Skate Canada. It is the second competition of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. The location changes yearly. Medals are awarded in four disciplines: Ladies' singles, Men's...								2nd
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....		4th				1st	2nd
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...		2nd		2nd	1st	2nd	2nd	2nd

External links

• Pairs on Ice: Pershina & Akbarov

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