Alexander Zhulin
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Full name | Alexander Viacheslavovich Zhulin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other names | Aleksandr Zhulin Sasha Zhulin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 20 July 1963|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Skating club | Profsoyuz Moskva / Spartak Moskva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alexander (Sasha) Viacheslavovich Zhulin (Russian: ; born 20 July 1963) is a Russian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With Maya Usova, he is a two-time Olympic medalist (1994 silver, 1992 bronze), the 1993 World champion, and the 1993 European champion. They also won gold medals at Skate America, NHK Trophy, Nations Cup, and Winter Universiade. They represented the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Russia.
Competitive career
[edit]Coach Natalia Dubova paired him with Maya Usova in 1980. In 1988, they made their first appearance at the European Championships, placing fourth. The next season, they won silver at the 1989 European Championships in Birmingham, England and silver in their World Championships debut, in Paris. The next two seasons, they took bronze at Worlds.
At the 1991 World Championships in Munich, Germany, they were very close to winning. They led after both the compulsory dances and original dance (although finishing 2nd in the original dance portion), and in the free dance received 4 1st place ordinals from the 9 judges. Nonetheless, a strange ordinal situation led to them finishing only 3rd in the free dance and dropping to 3rd overall behind the Duchensays and Klimova and Ponomarenko.[citation needed] They later described their 1991 free dance as "being about Paganini and his muse".[2] Zhulin wore brown tights and a loose beige shirt. Kestnbaum also reported that they skated their program with "intense emotion" and created "an overall aura of Romanticism and uncanniness", using little runs and turns on their toepicks, knee slides, and "sensuous flowing and intertwining movements" that were enhanced by their billowing costumes.[2] Kestnbaum also reported that as a "flamboyant performer", Zhulin displayed his partner as much as he displayed himself.[2]
In the 1991–92 season, Usova/Zhulin won silver at the 1992 European Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland and then captured their first Olympic medal, bronze, at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.
Usova and Zhulin's free skate during the 1991–1992 season, set to music from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi, centered on the theme of statues coming to life, was full of images of symmetry, parallelism, and equality. Figure skating writer Ellyn Kestnbaum described their program in this way: "It is not about sexual difference, but it does convey sexual attraction. These are passionate, eroticized statues, and the skaters' gazes are focused centripetally into the relationship, at each other's bodies and into each other's eyes".[3]
Usova/Zhulin ended their season with silver at the 1992 World Championships in Oakland, California. They moved with Dubova from Moscow to Lake Placid, New York in September 1992.[1][4]
In the 1992–93 season, Usova/Zhulin won the 1993 European Championships in Helsinki and the 1993 World Championships in Prague.
The next season, they were third at the 1994 European Championships in Copenhagen, behind Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean and Oksana Grishuk / Evgeni Platov. They had been sitting in 1st place and seemingly ensured the title as Grishuk & Platov were mathematically out of gold medal contention, after Torvill & Dean were placed behind them in the free dance 5 judges to 4. However Grishuk & Platov won the free dance and changed the ordinals between Usova & Zhulin, and Torvill & Dean, dropping Usova & Zhulin to a 3rd-place finish. This loss seemed to indicate a loss of their #1 Russian status and instilled fear in their chances for the Olympic Gold medal. Their new free program to a collection of Nina Rota tunes also received negative reviews from fans and judges alike as it was a sharp departure from their previous work, and many critics felt it did not suit their sensual and elegant style.
At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, they won the silver medal behind Grishuk/Platov. They tied for 1st place with Grishuk & Platov in the compulsory dances, and went into the free dance tied for overall 1st with Torvill & Dean who won the original dance, setting up an intense 3-way battle for gold. Unlike the Europeans all 3 teams in position to win gold simply by winning the free dance. In the free dance they received 3 1st place ordinals and 6 2nd place ordinals, but lost the gold to Grishuk & Platov who received 5 1st place ordinals, 1 2nd place ordinal, and 3 3rd place ordinals, losing the free dance and gold based on the majority rule, despite having no judges place them 3rd and a lower total of ordinals than Grishuk & Platov. Had 1 of 3 judges changed their mark by .1 Usova & Zhulin would have won the gold. Upset about the controversial Olympic loss, Usova & Zhulin withdrew from the 1994 World Figure Skating Championships, which they had intended to be their final competitive event.[citation needed] Usova and Zhulin were known for excelling technically and artistically and according to writer Ellyn Kestnbaum, "leaned toward drama and passion".[2]
Usova/Zhulin skated together professionally from 1994 to 1997. They toured with Champions on Ice and won the World Professional Championships. Zhulin then skated with former rival, Oksana Grishuk, for one year. His former partner, Maya Usova, would compete for many years with former rival, Evgeni Platov.
Further career
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After retiring, Zhulin became a skating coach and choreographer. He coached in New Jersey[5] before moving back to Russia in 2006.[6] He is based in Moscow and often coaches in collaboration with Oleg Volkov.[7] Zhulin has also been involved in Russian ice shows, such as Ice Age.[8]
Among others, Zhulin has coached:
- Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov, the 2006 Olympic champions.[9] Coached from 2000 to end of career.
- Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat,[10] the 2011 and 2012 European champions. Coached from July 2008 to April 2011.
- Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov,[11] the 2010 World Junior champions. Coached until the end of the 2010–2011 season.[12]
- Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev,[5] from 2000 to 2002.
- Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov,[13] from mid-2011 to mid-2013.
- Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar, from December 2012 to December 2015.
- Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin,[14] from mid-2013 to June 2016.[15]
- Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin,[16] from February 2012 to 2015.[17]
- Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro[18] from June 2014[19] to May 2017[20]
- Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin,[21][22] from mid-2011 to 2014.
His current students include:
- Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev,[23] from 25 April 2012 (2013 World bronze medalists).[24][25]
- Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin,[26] from 2016.[27]
- Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov,[28] from the end of the 2016–17 season (2021 World Champions, 2020 European Champions, 2019 World Silver Medalists, 2018 Grand Prix Final Silver Medalists).[29]
- Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev[30]
- Maria Stavitskaia / Andrei Bagin[31]
Personal life
[edit]Zhulin married Maya Usova in 1986[4] but the two eventually divorced.[32] He was romantically involved with competitive rival Oksana Grishuk.[33][34] In 2000, he married Tatiana Navka, with whom he has a daughter, Sasha, born in May 2000.[9]
Zhulin became an American citizen in 2006.[35] In April 2010, he and Navka filed for divorce.[7][36] He married Natalia Mikhailova in August 2018.[37] Their daughter, Ekaterina, was born on 10 January 2013 in Moscow.[38][39]
Controversies
[edit]In 2021, he connected the COVID-19 pandemic to the Black Lives Matter movement and transgender athletes, saying "the world is going to hell".[40]
In 2023, Zhulin attacked American skaters Adam Rippon and Ashley Wagner:[41]
We don't care what they think of us. This "Eva Rippon" [Eve; playing on Adam and Eve] is a boy whose dick got in the way of completing his jumps, so he never completed them and achieved nothing.
If he had done the operation [gender transition] on time and would have called himself "Eva Rippon", then he would have skated much better in women's single skating.
The second girl Ashley Wagner is also offended by God. She skated great, but she couldn't jump, she didn't twist. Naturally, they hate the Russians [who can jump].
These two people are not the cream of society to have the right to give their opinion about figure skating and about our great country. So I don't give a fuck about their opinion.
Along with partner and ex-wife Maya Usova, Zhulin received sponsorship from Marlboro and appeared in cigarette advertisements.[42]
Ukraine
[edit]According to Oleksandra Nazarova / Maksym Nikitin, Zhulin did not contact his former students after they survived weeks of Russia's bombardment of their hometown, Kharkiv, and documented what they had experienced in February and March 2022.[43] In late March 2022, Zhulin gave an interview to the Russian media in which he dismissed Nazarova and Nikitin as "brainwashed".[44]
Following sanctions announced by Ukraine in April 2023, Zhulin said: "It's like Katsalapov being banned from entering Uganda. Roughly the same. Who needs Ukraine, no one is going there for the next ten years. I hope sooner. I hope that it will already have another name."[45]
Programs
[edit]With Usova
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/UsovaSchulin_3.jpg/150px-UsovaSchulin_3.jpg)
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Season | Original dance | Free dance[46] | Exhibition[47] |
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1993–94 |
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1990–91 |
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With Grishuk
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Amateur career
[edit]With Usova
- Soviet Union (URS): Start of career through December 1991
- Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): 1992 European and World Championships
- Unified Team at the Olympics (EUN): 1992 Olympics
- Russia (RUS): 1992–93 to end of career
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Event | 82–83 | 83–84 | 84–85 | 85–86 | 86–87 | 87–88 | 88–89 | 89–90 | 90–91 | 91–92 | 92–93 | 93–94 |
Olympics | 3rd | 2nd | ||||||||||
Worlds | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | |||||||
Europeans | 4th | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | |||||
Skate America | 1st | 1st | ||||||||||
Nations Cup | 1st | |||||||||||
NHK Trophy | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||||||
Moscow News | 6th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | ||||||||
Goodwill Games | 2nd | |||||||||||
Nebelhorn | 1st | |||||||||||
St. Gervais | 1st | |||||||||||
St. Ivel / Electric | 1st | 1st | ||||||||||
Universiade | 1st | 2nd | ||||||||||
National | ||||||||||||
Soviet Champ. | 2nd | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | ||||
Spartakiada | 1st | |||||||||||
USSR Cup | 3rd |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Reiter, Susan (1 March 1995). "Ice dancing: a dance form frozen in place by hostile rules". Dance Magazine. The Free Library. (FindArticles)
- ^ a b c d Kestnbaum, Ellyn (2003). Culture on Ice: Figure Skating and Cultural Meaning. Middleton, Connecticut: Wesleyan Publishing Press. p. 234. ISBN 0-8195-6641-1.
- ^ Kestnbaum, p. 237
- ^ a b Hersh, Phil (22 February 1994). "Love Triangle (plus 1) Tops Torvill And Dean". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 24 December 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ a b Mittan, Barry (15 December 2001). "Lang and Tchernyshev Look Forward to Olympic Year". Golden Skate. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008.
- ^ "Interview with Alexander Zhulin. May 2007 in Moscow". figureskating-online. 27 July 2007. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
- ^ a b Vaytsekhovskaya, Elena (20 August 2012). Александр ЖУЛИН: "ТРЕНЕРСКУЮ ЧЕСТНОСТЬ СПОРТСМЕНЫ ЧУЮТ НЮХОМ" [Alexander Zhulin: Athletes sense the coach's honesty] (in Russian). Sport Express.
- ^ Ermolina, Olga (4 May 2012). Соперники оторвались от нас в космос. Moskovskiye Novosti (in Russian). Archived from the original on 5 May 2012.
- ^ Péchalat / Bourzat
- ^ Peret, Paul (4 July 2011). "Nathalie Péchalat, Fabian Bourzat and Florent Amodio Leave Russia". IFS Magazine. Archived from the original on 15 August 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
- ^ Фигуристы Ильиных/Кацалапов ушли к Морозову под нажимом ФФККР - Жулин [Zhulin: Skaters Ilinykh / Katsalapov switched to Morozov under pressure from the FFKKR] (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 17 May 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ^ "Julia ZLOBINA / Alexei SITNIKOV: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012.
- ^ "Alexandra NAZAROVA / Maxim NIKITIN". International Skating Union.
- ^ Samokhvalov, Anatoliy (29 June 2016). "Украинская пара фигуристов Назарова/Никитин перешла от тренера Жулина к Шпильбанду" [Ukrainian figure skating duo Nazarova/Nikitin changes coaches from Zhulin to Shpilband]. rsport.ru (in Russian).
- ^ Фигуристы Монько/Халявин перешли тренироваться в группу Жулина-Волкова [Figure skaters Monko/Khalivin switched to Zhulin and Volkov's group]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 18 February 2012. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012.
- ^ Monko / Khaliavin Archived 30 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Zahorski / Guerreiro
- ^ "Zahorski and Guerreiro hope for international debut this season". 2 August 2015.
- ^ "Загорски и Гурейро перешли от Жулина к Кустаровой и Алексеевой". 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Valeria ZENKOVA / Valerie SINITSIN: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012.
- ^ Zenkova / Sinitsin Archived 26 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bobrova / Soloviev
- ^ Vladimirova, Alexandra (25 April 2012). Фигуристы Боброва и Соловьев хотят поменять стиль катания - Жулин [Figure skaters Bobrova and Soloviev want to change their style of skating, says Zhulin]. rsport.ru / RIA Novosti (in Russian).
- ^ Vladimirova, Alexandra (25 April 2012). Фигурист Дмитрий Соловьев: у Жулина начали учиться кататься с нуля [Figure skater Soloviev: We're learning to skate from scratch under Zhulin]. rsport.ru (in Russian).
- ^ Hurtado / Khaliavin
- ^ "Sara Hurtado emigra a Moscú por su amor al patinaje". 23 September 2016.
- ^ Sinitsina / Katsalapov
- ^ "Fresh start for Russia's Sinitsina and Katsalapov". 31 May 2017.
- ^ Kavaliova / Bieliaiev
- ^ Stavitskaia / Bagin
- ^ "Aleksandr Zhulin". Sports-reference. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012.
- ^ Brennan, Christine (1998). Edge of Glory. Scribner. pp. 220–221. ISBN 0-684-84128-2.
- ^ Smith, Beverley (1994). Figure Skating: A Celebration. McClellan & Stewart. pp. 204. ISBN 0-7710-2819-9.
- ^ "Александр Жулин. История моей любви". 7days.ru (in Russian). April 2010.
- ^ Sukhova, Elena (16 April 2010). Татьяна Навка: "Жулин поступил не по-мужски" [Tatiana Navka interview]. 7dn.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 April 2010. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ^ "Александр Жулин женился в третий раз" [Alexander Zhulin has gotten married a third time]. Hello! (Russia) (in Russian). 13 August 2018.
- ^ Kriuchkova, Galina (18 February 2013). Александр Жулин стал отцом во второй раз [Alexander Zhulin a father for the second time]. starhit.ru (in Russian).
- ^ У Александра Жулина родилась дочь [A daughter born to Alexander Zhulin] (in Russian). dni.ru. 18 February 2013.
- ^ "Александр Жулин: "BLM, трансгендеры и коронавирус – это звенья одной цепи. Мир сходит с ума и куда-то катится"". www.sports.ru (in Russian). 25 August 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ^ Александр Жулин: «Риппону член мешал докручивать прыжки. Если бы он сделал операцию, назвался бы Евой Риппон, то гораздо лучше бы катался» (Alexander Zhulin: Rippon's dick made him fail his jumps. If he had done the gender transition on time and become Eve Ripppn, he would have skated better)
- ^ "«Платов всегда был в меня влюблен. Это сковывало и закрывало». Интервью суперфигуристки Оксаны Грищук, которая 30 лет живет в США". 13 July 2022.
- ^ Yoshida, Hiro; Gillis, Seán (1 April 2022). "Nazarova and Nikitin: Ukrainian Display of Courage and Defiance on World Stage". europeonice.com. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023.
- ^ "Жулин об украинцах на ЧМ: делают все, чтобы их не связывали с Россией". rsport.ria.ru (in Russian). 26 March 2022. Archived from the original on 17 April 2022.
- ^ Satdinov, Ildar (15 April 2023). ""Это все равно, что Кацалапову запретить въезжать в Уганду" — Жулин о санкциях Зеленского" ["It's the same as Katsalapov being banned from entering Uganda" – Zhulin on Zelensky's sanctions]. matchtv.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 April 2023.
- ^ "Skate Music List". Archived from the original on 2 April 2012.
- ^ a b "World Professional Figure Skating Championships – Landover, MD". Golden Skate.
External links
[edit]- 1992 Olympics free skate (YouTube clip)
Media related to Alexander Zhulin at Wikimedia Commons
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Russian male ice dancers
- Soviet male ice dancers
- Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Russian figure skating coaches
- Olympic silver medalists for Russia
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Unified Team
- Olympic figure skaters for the Unified Team
- Olympic figure skaters for Russia
- Figure skaters from Moscow
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships medalists
- European Figure Skating Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Winter World University Games medalists in figure skating
- Goodwill Games medalists in figure skating
- Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Competitors at the 1985 Winter Universiade
- Competitors at the 1987 Winter Universiade
- Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games