Igor Shpilband
Igor Shpilband (Russian: Игорь Шпильбанд, born July 1964) is a former Soviet ice dancer and current ice dancing coach of Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue, who won the gold medal for ice dancing at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Personal life
[change | change source]Shpilband was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. He defected to the United States in January[1] 1990[2][3] with Veronica Pershina, Gorsha Sur, and Elena Krikanova and went to live with Lucile Begrow in Huntington Woods, Michigan for a few months. Shpilband became a United States citizen in 2000.[4]
He was married to Veronica Pershina. Their daughter Ekaterina Shpilband is also an ice skater.
Competitive & coaching career
[change | change source]He won the 1983 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with his partner Tatiana Gladkova. They were coached by Ludmila Pakhomova. Shpilband retired from competitive skating after Ludmila died in 1986.
He worked as a coach at the Detroit Skating Club when he came to the US.[3] He later began coaching in Canton, Michigan.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Hayes, Marcus. "Marcus Hayes: Torch passed as Canadians take ice-dancing gold". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "NBC Sports Gold Figure Skating Pass". NBC Sports. 10 September 2018.
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