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Russian ice dancers Ilia Averbukh and Irina Lobacheva, who train at the University of Delaware, won the gold medal in the 2002 World Figure Skating Championships held March 18-24 in Nagano, Japan.
This was the first world championship for the skaters, who are from Moscow.
Averbukh and Lobacheva won a silver medal in the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. This was their first world championship.
They are two-time ice dance bronze medalists at the European Championships (2001 and 2002), as well as 2001 bronze medalists at the World Championships and four-time Russian national champions.
The team is coached by former Olympian Natalya Linitchouk and Guennadi Karponossov. Both Linitchouk and Karponossov are national, international, world and Olympic coaches. Linitchouk specializes in choreography for the ice dancing teams.
Under the direction of Ron Ludington, the University of Delaware has developed a leading training center for American and international figure skaters.
March 26, 2002
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