Irina Slutskaya



Irina Slutskaya Edoeardovna ( Russian : Ирина Эдуардовна Слуцкая) ( Moscow , February 91979 ) is a former Russian figure skater.

Slutskaya was active as an individual figure skater and was coached by Zhanna Gromova .

In 1994 she finished third at the World Figure Skating Championships in the junior and in 1995 she became world champion in the juniors. In 1996, Slutskaya became the first Russian European champion and she defended the title in 1997, also in the years 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2006, she became European champion and the first woman who won seven European titles. In 2002 and 2005 she became World Champion in seniors . She was also the first Russian figure skater who won a silver medal won at the Winter Olympics (in 1984 only had Kira Ivanova a bronze medal in the women earned for then the Soviet Union ), they did so in the 2002 Olympic Games and the Games in 2006 she later added a bronze medal to add.Slutskaya used as the first-ever double Biellmann-pirouette, by switching to the other foot.

On 10 April 2007 she made to stop the competitions known. ==Important results [ edit] ==