Maya Usova

Maya Usova
Olympic medalist
Medal record
Figure skating
Competitor for the Unified Team
Bronze 1992 Albertville Ice dancing
Competitor for  Russia
Silver 1994 Lillehammer Ice dancing
Maya Usova

Usova and Zhulin at a 1989 exhibition in West Berlin.
Personal information
Full name Maya Valentinovna Usova
Alternative names Maia Usova
Country represented  Russia
Former country(ies) represented  CIS
 Soviet Union
Born 22 May 1964 (1964-05-22) (age 47)
Nizhny Novgorod
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Former partner Evgeny Platov
Alexander Zhulin
Alexei Batalov
Coach Natalia Dubova
Skating club Profsoyuz Moskva / Sportsclub Moskva
Retired 1994

Maya Valentinovna Usova (Russian: Майя Валентиновна Усова), born 22 May 1964 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) is a Russian ice dancer. With Alexander Zhulin, she is the 1993 World champion, 1994 Olympic silver medalist, 1992 Olympic bronze medalist.

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Career

Maya Usova initially competed with Alexei Batalov. At the age of nine, she moved from Gorky to Moscow to train with coach Natalia Dubova.[1] Dubova paired her with Alexander Zhulin in 1980. In 1988, they made their first appearance at the European Championships, placing 4th. The next season, they won silver at Europeans and silver in their World Championships debut. The next two seasons, they took bronze at Worlds.

In the 1991–92 season, Usova and Zhulin won silver at the European Championships and then captured their first Olympic medal, bronze, at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. They ended the season by winning their second World silver medal. They moved with Dubova from Moscow to Lake Placid, New York in 1992.[2]

In the 1992–93 season, Usova and Zhulin won the European title and followed that up by winning the World title as well. The next season, they dropped to third at the European Championships behind Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean and Oksana Grishuk / Evgeny Platov. At the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, they won the silver medal behind Grishuk and Platov.

Usova and Zhulin skated together professionally for four years before parting company. Usova then skated with former rival, Evgeny Platov.

From 2002 to 2004, Usova helped Tatiana Tarasova and skating partner Evgeny Platov coach numerous skaters, including Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovsky and Shizuka Arakawa. She coached at the Igloo in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. She currently coaches young ice dancers in Odintsovo, near Moscow. Usova is an International Technical Specialist for Russia.[3]

Personal life

Usova and Zhulin were married in 1986[2] but later divorced.[4] She is remarried to a Russian professor in medicine, Anatoly Orletsky.[5] In 2010, she gave birth to their daughter, Anastasia.

Off the ice, she has appeared in several Marlboro advertisements in Russia.

Programs

With Zhulin

Season Original dance Free dance[6] Exhibition[7]
1997–1998
  • La Belle Dame Sans Regret
    by Sting

1995–1996 Astor Piazzolla
Prelude In C Minor
by Sergei Rachmaninoff
1994–1995 Fantasy in D Minor
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Blues For Klook
1993–1994 A Day In The Life Of A Fool Selected Melodies
by Nino Rota
1992–1993 Tales From The Vienna Woods Blues For Klook
by Eddy Louis
Tango
Prelude in E Minor
by Frederic Chopin
Autumn Leaves
1991–1992 Pizzicato Polka
by Johann Strauss II
Four Seasons
by Antonio Vivaldi
Autumn Leaves
1990–1991 Blues For Klook
by Eddy Louis
Summertime
(from Porgy and Bess)
by George Gershwin
Autumn Leaves
1989–1990 Tango
1988–1989

With Platov

Season Programs[6][7][8]
2000–2001 Tango from The Addams Family
Desert Rose
by Sting
Carmen
by Georges Bizet
1999–2000 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
by Michel Legrand
Copa de la Vida/Historia de un Amor
Spente Le Stelle
by Emma Shapplin
1998–1999 Padam Padam
by Édith Piaf
When You Came Into My Life
Moonlight Sonata
by Ludwig van Beethoven

Results

(with Zhulin)

Event 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94
Winter Olympic Games 3rd 2nd
World Championships 2nd 3rd 3rd 2nd 1st
European Championships 4th 2nd 2nd 3rd 2nd 1st 3rd
Soviet Championships 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st
Skate America 1st 1st
Nations Cup 1st
NHK Trophy 2nd 1st 1st 1st
Nebelhorn Trophy 1st
Prize of Moscow News 4th 3rd 2nd
Winter Universiade 1st 2nd

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