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Sergei Ponomarenko
Figure skater

Sergei Ponomarenko

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Place of birth
Balkhash
Age
64 years
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Biography

Sergei Vladilenovich Ponomarenko (Russian: Серге́й Владиленович Пономаренко; born October 6, 1960) is a Russian former competitive ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union and the Unified team. With skating partner and wife Marina Klimova, he is the 1992 Olympic champion, 1988 Olympic silver medalist, 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, three-time World champion, and four-time European champion.

Career

Ponomarenko trained at Spartak in Moscow. Early in his career, he competed with Tatiana Durasova, becoming the 1978 and 1979 World Junior champion. Following their split, he teamed up with Marina Klimova.

Klimova and Ponomarenko were fourth in their European Championships debut in 1983. Their breakthrough came the following season when they won the bronze medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics and 1984 European Championships. In 1985, they won their first World medal, silver. They were four-time consecutive World silver medalists from 1985 to 1988. In 1988, they also won the Olympic silver medal, behind Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin.

In 1989, Klimova and Ponomarenko won the first of their four consecutive European titles. They also won the 1989 World Championships and followed that up with another World gold the following year.

At the 1991 World Championships, they had a setback when they placed second to Isabelle Duchesnay & Paul Duchesnay. Four months before the Olympics, they decided to leave coach Natalia Dubova. They re-established themselves as the top ice dancers in the world by winning another 1992 European title and then capturing the 1992 Olympic title. They ended their season with their third World title. They retired from eligible skating after the World Championships and turned to professional and show skating.

In addition to winning three World championships and four European Championships, Klimova and Ponomarenko are the first figure skaters in any discipline to have won Olympic medals in three different colors. They won the bronze medal in 1984 Sarajevo, the silver medal in 1988 Calgary for the Soviet Union and the gold medal in 1992 Albertville for the Unified Team.

Klimova and Ponomarenko were inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2000. Ponomarenko is an ISU technical specialist for Russia. He and his wife coach young figure skaters at Sharks Ice at San Jose, California.

Personal life

Klimova and Ponomarenko married in September 1984. They now reside in the United States in Morgan Hill, California. They have two sons, Tim Ponomarenko, born in 1998, and Anthony Ponomarenko, born on January 5, 2001 in San Jose, California. Anthony is a competitive ice dancer for the United States.

Programs

(With Klimova)

SeasonOriginal set pattern
/ Original dance
Free danceExhibition
1992–1996
  • Evergreen
    by Luther Vandross

  • Gone with the Wind
    by Max Steiner

  • Summertime from Porgy and Bess
    by George Gershwin

  • Romeo and Juliet
    by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

  • Clowns March to Sousa

  • The Brides
    from Dracula (1992 film)
    by Wojciech Kilar

  • Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
    by Aram Khachaturian

  • Masquerade Waltz
    by Aram Khachaturian

  • Song of India
  • Symphony No. 5
    by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
1991–1992
  • Air from Suite No.3
    by Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
    by Johann Sebastian Bach, Leopold Stokowski
  • E lucevan le stelle
    from Tosca
    by Giacomo Puccini
1990–1991
  • Lawrence of Arabia
    by Maurice Jarre
1989–1990
  • My Fair Lady
    by Frederick Loewe
1988–1989
  • Mack the Knife
    by Kurt Weill
1987–1988
  • Yesterday
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand
  • Let It Be
  • Get Back
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
    by The Beatles
  • La cumparsita
    by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez
1986–1987
  • Hungarian Rhapsody
    by Franz Liszt
1985–1986
1984–1985
1983–1984
  • The Circus Princess
    by Emmerich Kálmán
1982–1983

Results

Results

(ice dance with Sergei Ponomarenko)

International
Event1980-811981–821982–831983–841984–851985–861986–871987–881988–891989–901990–911991–92
Olympics3rd2nd1st
Worlds4th2nd2nd2nd2nd1st1st2nd1st
Europeans4th3rd2nd2nd2nd1st1st1st1st
Goodwill Games1st
Fujifilm Trophy1st
Moscow News3rd1st2nd1st1st1st
Nebelhorn1st1st
Golden Spin2nd
Int. St. Gervais1st1st
National
Soviet Champ.8th6th5th1st1st1st1st1st
Spartakiada3rd

Professional career

Event1994–19951995–1996
World Pro. Championships2nd2nd

With Durasova

International
Event1977–19781978–19791979–1980
Nebelhorn Trophy3rd
International: Junior
Junior Worlds1st1st

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