Alexei Yagudin

Alexei Yagudin

Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin (Russian: Алексей Константинович Ягудин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪ̯ kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪt͡ɕ ɪ̯ɪˈɡudʲɪn] ; 18 March 1980) is a Russian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2002 Olympic champion, a four-time World champion (1998, 1999, 2000, 2002), a three-time European champion (1998, 1999, 2002), a two-time Grand Prix Final champion (1998–1999, 2001–2002), the 1996 World Junior champion, and a two-time World Professional champion (1998, 2002). Yagudin is the only skater (all disciplines included) to have achieved a Golden Slam, a victory in all major championships (Olympic Games, World Championships, European Championships, Grand Prix assignments, Grand Prix Final) in the same season (2001–2002). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexei Yagudin has received more than 431,147 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Alexei Yagudin is the 107th most popular skater (down from 97th in 2019), the 1,958th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,836th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Skater.