Evgeni Plushenko

1. Evgeni Plushenko Презентация подготовлена Учителем ГБОУ СОШ 567 Казаковой Викторией Николаевной. Г. Санкт-Петербург

2. Yevgeny Plyushchenko is a Russian figure skater . He is the 2002 Winter Olympics silver medalist 2006 Winter Olympics gold medalist 2010 Winter Olympics silver medalist Skating career Three-time (2001, 2003, 2004 ) World champion , seven-time (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012) European champion , a four-time Grand Prix Final champion and a ten-time (1999–2002, 2004–2006, 2010, 2012–2013) Russian national champion.

3. Biography Plushenko was born in Solnechny , Khabarovsk Krai , Soviet Union(November 3, 1982). Since he frequently suffered from colds, his mother decided he needed exercise and enrolled him in figure skating lessons at age four. After Plushenko's ice rink in Volgograd closed when he was 11 years old, his mother took him to Saint Petersburg to train under the tutelage of Alexei Mishin . Plushenko made quick progress on the international scene. He became the youngest-ever World Junior Champion and World medalist. As a 14-year-old, he won the 1997 World Junior Championships. The following year, at 15, he took the bronze medal at the senior 1998 World Championships.

4. Political career In 2006, Plushenko joined the political party A Just Russia and in March 2007, he was elected to the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly. Following the 2010 Olympics, he announced his intention to quit politics. In April 2010, he came under fire for poor attendance, having attended only 11 of 123 parliamentary sessions since his election. In December 2011, he announced he was leaving politics to train for the 2014 Olympics. He quit A Just Russia and said he had no plans to join another political party.

5. Personal life On June 18, 2005, Plushenko married Maria Ermak , a sociology student at the University of St. Petersburg, in a lavish ceremony at the Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg. Their son, Egor Evgenievich , was born on June 15, 2006. In February 2008, they were officially divorced. In August 2009, Plushenko announced he was engaged to marry Yana Rudkovskaya . They were married on September 12, 2009. In July 2012, the couple stated that they were expecting a child. Their son, Alexander, was born in January 2013.