![]() Gordeeva took his body back to Russia, and he was buried in Moscow's Vaganskovskoye Cemetery. Their partnership ended tragically when Grinkov died suddenly on November 20, 1995, while training for a Stars on Ice show in Lake Placid, New York. Audiences were mesmerized both by their artistic and technical skill and by the obvious passion and romance between the two. They had been married in 1991 and had a daughter, Daria, and their new maturity gave depth and passion to their performance. In 1988 they won a gold medal at the Calgary Olympics, and won another gold at the Lillehammer Olympics in 1994. However, in time the two skaters developed a deep rapport, and won their first world title in 1986. ![]() Grinkov was matched with the eleven-year-old Ekaterina Gordeeva, and initially told his coach, according to William Plummer in People, "I could never lift this girl!" When he was fourteen, his coach, Stanislav Zhuk, suggested that he become a pairs skater. Sergei, who had been dating other people, suddenly noticed in 1989 that the little girl who had been holding his hand all these years had become a woman. ![]()
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