Alexei Yagudin

Alexei Yagudin
In 2022
Full name	Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin
Born	(1980-03-18) 18 March 1980 (age 44) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Russia
Discipline	Men's singles
Retired	2003
Event Olympic Games 1 0 0 World Championships 4 1 1 European Championships 3 2 0 Grand Prix Final 2 1 0 Russian Championships 0 4 1 World Junior Championships 1 0 0 Medal list Olympic Games 2002 Salt Lake City Singles World Championships 1998 Minneapolis Singles 1999 Helsinki Singles 2000 Nice Singles 2002 Nagano Singles 2001 Vancouver Singles 1997 Lausanne Singles European Championships 1998 Milan Singles 1999 Prague Singles 2002 Lausanne Singles 2000 Vienna Singles 2001 Bratislava Singles Grand Prix Final 1998–99 Saint Petersburg Singles 2001–02 Kitchener Singles 2000–01 Tokyo Singles Russian Championships 1998 Moscow Singles 1999 Moscow Singles 2000 Moscow Singles 2001 Moscow Singles 1997 Moscow Singles World Junior Championships 1996 Brisbane Singles

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). In 2003, Yagudin was awarded with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland IV degree of the Russian Federation. In 2017, he was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

After his retirement from eligible skating, Yagudin has toured as a professional skater and appeared as a show host, an actor and a figure skating commentator for Russian television networks. In 2019, he opened the Figure Skating Center Alexei Yagudin in Minsk, Belarus where he coaches.