Aleksandr Gorelik
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Short description|Soviet pair skater (1945–2012)}}
{{MedalTop}}
{{MedalSport | Figure skating}}
{{MedalSilver | 1968 Grenoble | Pairs}}
{{MedalBottom}}
{{Infobox figure skater
|name= Aleksandr Gorelik
|image= Bundesarchiv Bild 183-A1115-0007-001, Berlin, Siegerehrung Irene Müller, Hans-Georg Dallmer (cropped) - Aleksandr Gorelik.jpg
|caption= Aleksandr Gorelik in 1962
|fullname= Aleksandr Yudaevich Gorelik
|altname=
|country= {{URS}}
|formercountry=
|birth_date= {{Birth date|1945|8|9|df=y}}
|birth_place= Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
|hometown=
|residence=
|death_date= {{death date and age|2012|9|27|1945|8|9|df=y}}
|death_place=
|height=
|partner=
|formerpartner= Tatyana Zhuk
Tatiana Sharanova
|coach=
|formercoach=
|choreographer=
|formerchoreographer=
|skating club=
|retired= 1969
|show-medals=yes
|medaltemplates=
{{MedalCountry|{{URS}}}}
{{MedalSport | Pairs' Figure skating}}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalSilver | 1968 Grenoble | Pairs}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver| 1968 Geneva|Pairs}}
{{MedalSilver| 1966 Davos|Pairs}}
{{MedalBronze| 1965 Colorado Springs|Pairs}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalSilver| 1968 Västerås|Pairs}}
{{MedalSilver| 1966 Bratislava|Pairs}}
{{MedalBronze| 1965 Moscow|Pairs}}
}}
Aleksandr Yudaevich Gorelik ({{langx|ru|Александр Юдаевич Горелик}}; 9 August 1945 – 27 September 2012) was a Soviet pair skater. He competed with Tatiana Zhuk. They are the 1965 World bronze medalists and the 1966 and 1968 World silver medalists. At the European Figure Skating Championships, they won the bronze medal in 1965 and the silver in 1966. They won the silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics.
Personal life and career
Gorelik is Jewish.{{Cite web |url= http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |title=YIVO {{!}} Sport: Jews in Sport in the USSR |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150429023935/http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |archive-date= 29 April 2015 |url-status= dead }} Earlier in his career, he competed with Tatiana Sharanova.{{cite web |url= http://www.lokomotiv.info/publish/lokomotiv50/?id=159 |title=Публицистический сборник "Локомотиву - 50" |last= Shelukhin |first= Anatoly |publisher=Lokomotiv Stadium |language=Russian |accessdate=3 July 2009}}{{cite web |url= http://www.solovieff.ru/main.mhtml?Part=49&PubID=207 |title=Aleksandr Gorelik |last=Solovyev |first=Vasily |language=Russian |accessdate=3 July 2009}} They placed 7th at the 1964 European Championships. They were the first in the world pair with a great difference in height. Earlier in his career, he competed with Tatiana Sharanova. They placed 7th at the 1964 European Championships. They were the first in the world pair with a great difference in height.
His competitive career ended in 1969 when Zhuk became pregnant. She and her husband Albert Shesternyov decided to keep the baby and retire from competitive skating. Gorelik did not want to look for a new partner and start skating over again. After trying without success to train with Irina Rodnina, he also retired. Gorelik worked as a figure skating commentator on radio and was invited to play the main role (Sergei Berestov) in 1969 movie about figure skating Goluboi led.
He performed at circus on ice shows with Tatiana Zhuk and later worked as a coach. He was a figure skating commentator for Russia TV for a time.
Results
= With Sharanova =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" | |||
| style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=4 align=center | International | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Event
! 1961–62 ! 1962–63 ! 1963–64 | |||
| align=left | World Championships | 15th | ||
| align=left | European Championships | 7th | ||
| align=left | Blue Swords | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | ||
| style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=4 align=center | National | |||
| align=left | Soviet Championships | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | 6th | bgcolor=silver | 2nd |
= With Zhuk =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" | ||||
| style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=5 align=center | International | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event
! 1965 ! 1966 ! 1967 ! 1968 | ||||
| align=left | Winter Olympics | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | |||
| align=left | World Championships | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | |
| align=left | European Championships | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | ||
| style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=5 align=center | National | ||||
| align=left | Soviet Championships | bgcolor=silver | 2nd |
See also
References
{{Reflist|refs=
{{cite web | url= http://www.lokomotiv.info/publish/lokomotiv50/?id=159 | script-title=ru:Публицистический сборник "Локомотиву - 50" | last=Shelukhin | first=Anatoly | title=Lokomotiv.info | publisher=Lokomotiv Stadium | language=Russian | accessdate=3 July 2009}}
{{cite web | url=http://www.trud.ru/article/2001/03/20/moda_na_don_kixota.html | title=Moda na Don Kihota | date=20 March 2001 | publisher=Trud | work=№ 051 | language=Russian | accessdate=30 July 2009}}
}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110710202212/http://www.eskatefans.com/skatabase/europairs1960.html Skatabase: 1960s Europeans]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110710202216/http://www.eskatefans.com/skatabase/worldpairs1960.html Skatabase: 1960s Worlds]
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070129005713/http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=346 Jews in Sports bio]
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0992494/bio IMDB bio]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gorelik, Aleksandr}}
Category:Figure skaters from Moscow
Category:Jewish Russian sportspeople
Category:Figure skaters at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Category:Olympic figure skaters for the Soviet Union
Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
Category:Soviet male pair skaters
Category:Olympic medalists in figure skating
Category:World Figure Skating Championships medalists