Biography
The brightest representative of figure skating, champion of Russia, Europe and the world, which collected a huge number of awards, Evgeny Plushenko has repeatedly confirmed his title. Like any media person, the figure skater is always in the center of attention, and the biography and personal life of the athlete is interesting to his fans.Childhood and youth
Eugene was born in the village of Jamku Sunny District, Khabarovsk Territory, in November 1982, under the sign of the Zodiac Scorpio. His father is Viktor Plushenko, a native of Ukraine, there is almost no information about relatives on the maternal line, so it's hard to say about the nationality of an athlete. Together with the boy in the family, Sister Plushenko Elena was brought up.
In the Khabarovsk Territory, his parents participated in the construction of Bama. However, the stern Siberian climate has fallen into the child's health and once led to two-sided pneumonia, because of which the family was forced to move to Volgograd.
Due to poor health, doctors advised Eugene to play sports, the choice stopped on figure skating. In February 1987, 4-year-old Plushenko went to the section where his coach became Tatiana Rock. Already in early childhood, he was waiting for the first significant achievements: the mentor led a 7-year-old figure for the first prizes - "Crystal Skate".
At the same time, Mikhail Makovyev drew attention to a promising child. And when the Ice Areau, where the young man was trained, closed, Makovyev did not throw a student and took him to St. Petersburg to submit Alexey Mishin. Plushenko had to show all his talent to impress. He succeeded, and at the age of 12 Yevgeny accepted the team where he trained with Alexei Yagudin.
Zhenya remained quite alone in a foreign city, which at first did not give a special sympathy for a young figure. Plushenko lived in a small hostel room and burst between workouts and school. Soon Mom moved to his son, and the life began to improve. Father and sister remained in Volgograd.
Personal life
The first marriage of the skater registered in 2005, his wife became a student of the Sociological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University Maria Ermak. In 2006, the son of Yevgeny Plushenko, who was named Egor. The attitude of the athlete with his wife was not the best when he met Yana.The fateful meeting of Evgenia Plushenko and Yana Rudkovskaya occurred in January 2007. A spark broke out between them, but before finding each other, in love, it was necessary to overcome the mass of obstacles, including broken-water processes. Yana issued a divorce with Viktor Baturin, and Eugene - with the first wife.
A pair brought together a joint preparation for Eurovision-2008, where Rudkovskaya was producer Dima Bilan. Plushenko performed on an artificial ice specially prepared for him, and Edwin Marton's violinist played a violin. Later, Eugene has repeatedly played a musician accompaniment.
The wedding took place on September 12, 2009, and January 6, 2013, the son of Alexander was born in the family. Interestingly, Dima Bilan became the godfather of the boy. In September 2017, the spouse married in the Moscow church of St. Nicholas on three mountains.
What is happening between him and the son of Egor, Eugene calls the "constructive dialogue", although the eldest son with younger rarely communicate. Plushenko hopes that in the future everything will change, but still do not force events. For children, Jana's skater, not at all pretending to the place of his father, became a close friend.
September 25, 2020, Yana and Eugene born the second son. This time the couple took advantage of the services of a surrogate mother. The boy gave the name of Arseny.
Most of the time the family spends in its own house on Rublevka, this is a 3-storey mansion with a total area of 1 thousand square meters. m. In addition to bedrooms and bathrooms, there is a gym, swimming pool and hockey playground. But the garage is characterized by special size, where all Plushenko cars cost. Eugene more than once recognized that he was experiencing a passion for cars.
The yana itself was engaged in the arrangement of the house, the design was made in bright shades, interior items and furniture pair ordered in Germany and Italy. But this is not the only real estate of the stellar pair. They also have apartments in Moscow and St. Petersburg, a house in the northern capital and housing in Sochi.
Figure skating
After a year of persistent training, the figure skater took 6th place at the Junior Championships. At 14, in front of Cupof Russia, he felt back pain, despite who, still participated in competitions and took the 4th place, leaving behind adult figure skaters. These were the first, but not the latest problems with the back in Plushenko.
Thanks to the complete dedication, the piggy bank of personal achievements has become replenished with new awards - the Bronze Medal of the Championship of Russia, the Silver of the European Championship and the 3rd place of the World Cup.
At about the same time, his close friend and companion Alexei Yagudin begins to train from Tatiana Tarasova, and rivalry begins between two skaters. For the first time on ice, they met in 1998 at the World Championships. Then Plushenko took the 3rd place, and Yagudina managed to win the Gold Medal.
However, Eugene's grand victories were still ahead. Next season, the athlete won the gold medals of many prestigious competitions, including European and Russia championships. Zhenya is the first figure skater who came the cascade of the Quadrup - Triple Tulup - Triple Rittberger, a bundle of Triple Axel - Oil - Triple Flip.
After Plushenko, the singles are higher than Eugene (178 cm with weight in 72 kg), the growth began to try to insert similar items to their own programs. It turned out that the physical parameters are not the main obstacle in the development of multi-turn jumps.
In 2002, Eugene had to participate in the Olympiad in Salt Lake City. Because of the injuries, Plushenko takes 2nd place at the Grand Prix and refuses the European Championship to better prepare for games. It seemed above the figure skater navis evil rock. He fell on the first box office, but the sum of the points could take a silver medal from Salt Lake City.
The next year became for a triumphal figure: left a long-time rival Alexey Yagudin. Zhenya takes the 1st place at the World Cup, repeating this victory and in 2004. It is noteworthy that that year presented Evgeny 4 estimates 6.0 for artistry in an arbitrary program. But the championship of the 2005 Plushenko's championship had to skip due to injury.
Olympiad-2006 has become much more successful for the magnitude. In the short program, Yevgeny Plushenko, absolutely without blots completed all 8 elements, for which he received a higher assessment by setting the world record, and the advantage over rivals in 11 points. Arbitrary program also passed on top. As a result, Plushenko won gold in Turin, ahead of the silver winner on 27 points.
It was the best performance of Eugene. After that, the Plushenko tournament announced a pause in a sports career to recover after the injuries received, and the old one was given themselves to know.
In 2009, he returned to the ice, but he fell into an awkward position at the Olympics in Vancouver in 2010. Having taught the 2nd place on his step on the pedestal, he rose through the center intended for the winner. Plushenko later explained to the foresight of the judges who gave the Golden Medal Evan Laysacheku.
Further acknowledged career was full of surprises, which is again associated with injuries. Participation in the 2010 World Championship is canceled on the recommendation of doctors. 2012 brought the figure championship championship for the European Championship, but the back injury did not allow to continue participation in the season. At that time, Plushenko suffered a complex operation in Israel - replacing the intervertebral disk to artificial.
Olympiad in Sochi 2014 for Eugene turned around simultaneously by Furore and failure. His home in domestic games questioned. Many believed that Maxim Kovtun would come to the ice, but Plushenko called the national team. In the team tournament, he scored 91.39 points, ahead of the current world champion of Patrick Chan, but by giving way to the Japanese Yudzuru Khan.
The second place of his wife brought a short program of the team tournament, and in arbitrary he turned out to be the best and brought the Russian team victory in team competitions, becoming a two-time Olympic champion. On February 13, Plushenko was to participate in the personal championship. However, due to problems with his back, Eugene starred from the competition for just a minute before the start. As it turned out later, one of the screws broke into his spine, which was fixed previously established artificial intervertebral disk.
After surgery in Israel, Evgeny Plushenko, despite the earlier statements about the end of the career, said that in the summer of 2014, he will continue to train and will work on its own ice project.
In March 2017, Evgeny Plushenko announced the completion of the sports career, explaining that with age ceased to have the strength to compete with the new generation of skaters who have already achieved high mastery. In addition, he recalled that for all sports activities suffered 15 complex operations.
Then the man did not excuse that he would go to Pyonchhan, where the Winter Olympic Games held in 2018, only as a coach.
Social activity
Paying attention to the development of sports, Eugene participates in the public life of the country. From 2007 to 2011, Plushenko - a deputy from the Party "Fair Russia" in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. In addition, he is a member of the Organizing Committee for the preparation of the application of the city of Sochi to hold the 2014 Olympics.In the elections of the President of Russia in 2018, Plushenko, along with Tatiana Tarasova, Ilya Averbukh, Elena Isinbaeva and Tatiana Navka, became a member of the group of trusted persons Vladimir Putin.
The World Cup, who passed in Russia, also did not cost without Plushenko. This time, Zhenya was appointed to the Ambassador of Sochi as the city - the organizer of the Mundial.
School and Ice Show
A loud statement about the departure of Eugene from sports sounded a week before the opening of his own academy of figure skating, where children were taken from three years. In the first days of the ice school, the name "Angel Plushenko", it turned out that 1 lesson in the group cost 2 thousand rubles. Photo and video rentals of young athletes are periodically published in the "instagram" of the famous founder of the educational institution.
Popularization of figure skating Eugene pays special attention. In 2015, together with his wife, Yana Rudkovsky athlete presented the Snow King show, which was played by.
A year later, the Show "Nutcracker" appeared, where holographic technologies were used for the first time in the world. In 2017, a Viennese Symphony Orchestra participated in the updated ice musical, modern special effects, bright scenery and costumes were used.
Then the skater continued experiments on combining a beloved sport with other directions of art. In 2018, Evgeny prepared the project "Swan Lake", in which ice riding elements are connected to ballet. Modern technologies allowed changing the space of the scene, the magical mood of the fairy tale passed the symphony orchestra.
Another Ice show "Cinderella", together with Yana Rudkovskaya Evgeny presented by the end of 2019. Plushenko came out on the ice along with the son of Alexander, and besides them, to participate in the project, the Olympic champions of Sochi Adeline Sotnikov and Yulia Lipnitskaya were attracted.
Scandals
As a public person, Plushenko often gets under a squall of critics from subscribers in "Instagram" and other network users. So, not everyone appreciated the desire of Yana and Yevgeny to call her son in a gnome dwarf, considering this nicknamed mocking over the child. Moreover, Little Sasha has a page in "Instagram", too, under this name. Obviously, communication with subscribers from his face leads Rudkovskaya.No misunderstanding arise from Eugene and in sports. An example of this is the online skirmish of Plushenko with the trainer Eteri Tutberidze, which broke out in the second half of 2019. It all started with the speech of Alina Zagitova in the program "Time", where the girl declared the suspension of the career. Plushenko spoke about this situation. He did not say anything concrete, but noted: so that her desire would be returned to return, the athlete needs to be given more time. The figure skater hinted that, perhaps, Alina would want to change the coach.
On his words, the coaching headquarters of Khrustal reacted negatively, accusing Eugene in an attempt to undermine the figure skater in his own group. Plushenko's response did not make himself wait, the skater explained that he did not buy athletes, emphasizing: in "Crystal" children fall only with the ability to make triple jumps, that is, ready athletes, and not "grown" on their own. The point in this conflict was delivered by Zagitov, answering that he was not going to complete his career, but simply took a pause and intend to continue with the same coaches.
The new scandal around the name Plushenko broke out in January 2020. The press appeared in the press that the finalist of the TV project "People's Artist - 3" and the Folk Song Artist Marina Devyatova allegedly told the media in an interview about the novel with a figure skater. Judging by the news, they met at the ceremony of choosing a city for the Winter Olympic Games, where Eugene was the ambassador of the Sochi Application. Maria as a invited artist performed the song "Katyusha". After the event, they met for some time, but their relations ended as quickly as they began.
Evgeny reporters said that he did not know this woman at all. At the same time, Devyatova published a post in which this information was false, she never talked about the novel with Plushenko press. Yes, they intersected at the specified event, but a close acquaintance, according to women, they did not have.
And after that, in the press with a new force, the Plushenko's family began to discuss, this time due to the publication of the Starhit magazine, which led the opinion of the doctor's doctor's mental health regarding the mental health of the Son of the Sal . To endure such Rudkovskaya did not become and wrote an angry letter to publishers of the magazine, contacting Natalia with a demand to delete an article.
The reaction followed the belated, only after some time, Yane brought apologies, but the article from the site did not disappear. Then Rudkovskaya officially stated that it would not allow to negatively speak about his child and now intends to sue the publication.
Evgeny Plushenko now
Despite the prolonged quarantine, which began in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Plushenko continues to work, although he had to be transferred most of the affairs to the "remote". So, in May, it became known about the transition to his team Alexandra Podovoy, who had been engaged in Tutberidze before. Evgeny officially confirmed that the process of submitting documents on the transition of the figure skater began.
This situation was not ignored by Alexei Zheleznyakov, who worked as a guest specialist in "Crystal" with the group ETE Georgievna. The act of the cowroom, he compared with a knife stuck in his back and advised Eugene to turn to Tutberidze for help when creating productions for Alexandra.
Plushenko continues to work diligently and train athletes who fill his group.
Awards and achievements
- Honored Master of Sports of Russia
- Tenfold champion of Russia
- Seven champion in Europe
- Three-time silver medalist of the European Championship
- Three-time world champion
- Two-time champion of the Olympic Games
- Two silver winner of the Olympic Games
- Cavalier two orders of honor