Evegnia Shiskova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 passengers killed aboard American Airlines 5342. Their son Maxim Naumov ...

Shiskova and Naumov would win silver at the 1995 World Figure Skating Championships and the Champion Series (Grand Prix) Final title in 1996, their last major win. They retired in 1998 to coach ...

The couple, who coached at the Skating Club of Boston, were married and had one son Maxim, 23. Maxim had competed at the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita and finished fourth in ...

They finished just off the podium in fourth, behind compatriots Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov and Natalia Mishkutionok and Artur Dmitriev. With those two couples retiring after the Olympics, ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 passengers killed aboard American Airlines 5342 when it collided with a ...

At least 14 elite figure skaters were on board American Airlines flight 5342 that crashed into a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in the ...

Two other skaters had previously attempted the quad Axel. Artur Dmitriev Jr., then competing for Russia and now for the United States, landed forward and fell at the 2018 Rostelecom Cup.

Russian-turned American Artur Dmitriev Jr. worked on a quad Axel for years but not mastered it. He was credited with an under-rotated quad Axel at January’s nationals, where he stepped out of ...

US skater Artur Dmitriev also attempted the jump at US Nationals last season, but it was marked under rotated and he fell out of the landing, making it invalid.