Gennadi Karponossov

Gennadi Michailovitch Karponossov ( _ru. Геннадий Михайлович Карпоносов; born November 21 1950, in Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a Russian former competitive ice dancer and current ice dancing coach. Along with his partner, Natalia Linichuk, he was the 1980 Olympic gold medalist and a two-time World Champion.

Career

Gennadi Karponossov trained at Dynamo in Moscow. He skated first with Yelena Sharkova under legendary coach Tatiana Tarasova, but had greater success with his second partner, Natalia Linichuk.

Karponossov and Linichuk won the World Universiade in 1972, and were bronze medalists at the 1974 and 1977 World Championships. They also finished 4th at the 1976 Olympics, and were gold medalists at the World Championships of 1978 and 1979. They won the European Championships in 1979 and 1980, after taking a silver medal in 1978, and bronze medals from 1974 through 1977. The pair became Olympic champions in 1980 in ice dancing for the USSR, and won the silver at the 1980 World event. They were coached by Elena Tchaikovskaia.

In 1981 Linichuk and Karponossov retired from amateur competition. They were married on July 31, 1981. In February 1985, their daughter, Anastasiya Karponossova, was born.

Gennadi Karponossov studied international relations at the Public Institute Moscow.

The couple lived in Moscow when they were first married. As a team, they became very successful ice dance coaches. They later moved to Delaware in the United States.

Among others, they have coached Russian teams Oksana Grishuk/Evgeny Platov, Anjelika Krylova/Oleg Ovsyannikov, and Irina Lobacheva/Ilia Averbukh, as well as Israeli teams Galit Chait/Sergei Sakhnovsky and Natalia Gudina/Alexei Belezki and Bulgarian World champions Albena Denkova/Maxim Staviski. After the 2007/2008 season, they took on two of the top ice dancing teams in the world as their students: Americans Tanith Belbin/Benjamin Agosto and Russians Oksana Domnina/Maxim Shabalin.

In 2001, Karponossov, who is Jewish, was admitted to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Karponossov and Linichuk coached for a number of years at the University of Delaware, but now work out of the IceWorks Skating Complex in Aston, Pennsylvania.

Competitive highlights

(with Natalia Linichuk)

(with Yelena Sharkova)

World championships
* 1970 – 8th place
* 1971 – 8th place
* 1972 – 8th place

European championships
* 1969 – 11th place
* 1970 – 6th place
* 1971 – 6th place
* 1972 – 6th place

See also

* World Figure Skating Championships

External links

* [http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/GennadiKarponosov.htm Jewish sports bio]
* [http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=507 Jews in Sports bio]

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