Trainer mourns figure skating couple after DC plane crash in horrific family tragedy: ‘Best people have been taken away’ By . Jenna Lemoncelli. Published Jan. 30, 2025, 11:16 a.m. ET.

Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on ...

A longtime friend of the couple, renowned figure skating coach Rafael Arutyunyan, said Shishkova and Naumov were “very good professionals and very good people.” ...

Naumov, 23, competed at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita on Sunday, January 26, with his parents, Evgenia Shishkova and […] Celebrity News Entertainment ...

The US figure skating community is mourning the loss of the athletes who died in the tragic Washington, DC, plane crash. Tara Lipinski, Adam Rippon and others spoke out via social media.

Now, the couple travels to other U.S. Figure Skating Championships, having been to events in Greensboro, Detroit, and now Columbus. They’ve been here all week and said the athletes are amazing.

Russian figure-skating coaches and spouses Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among the passengers onboard the doomed American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk ...