The Olympic Champion of Artistic Ski, World Champion and Europe 6 times, Alexander Goringov died at the age of 77.
Jorchkov was the first Olympic dance champion in the world, along with Lyodella Bachomova, where the duo won the Innsbruck Olympiad in 1976.
Thanks to a large extent, dance on the ice became an Olympic sport, and of course, they were the first Olympic heroes in this sport.
Invented their unique style and raised the Soviet School of Dance on the ice to a long -standing level.
Where they crowned 6 times the World Championship title, and won the same number of European Championships.
Jorshkov and Bakhumova won wide fame in the Soviet Union to the point that the golden tango dance “Comparetta” from the Innsbruck 76 Olympics round, turned into a dance between the wolf and the rabbit within the famous cartoon film “Well, wait”.
Jorshkov has served as President of the Russian Ice Slipping Federation since 2010.
He won the Honorary Master of Sports, and he was the honorary coach of the Soviet Socialist Republics, and the honorary factor of physical culture in the Russian Federation.
Source: “RIA Novosti”.
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