Their love was so strong that it could be felt and seen by onlookers whenever they skated together. Shortly after, Sergei and Katia were caught kissing while hiding behind a newspaper on a tour bus. During a competition in Germany, Sergei saw Katia differently for the first time and told his sister that he thought that Katia had become so beautiful. However, growing up and spending so much time together, their professional skating partnership eventually turned romantic and the two fell madly in love with one another. In 1990, when Katia was 19 and Sergei was 23, they turned pro and won several more competitions and medals.įriends of the couple recalled that during the early years of their relationship Katia was in love with Sergei but it took Sergei a little while longer to see Katia more than just a skating partner and friend. Their hard work and dedication paid-off and in 1988, it landed them in the Calgary Winter Olympics where they won a gold medal. Then the following year, they won the first of four World Figure Skating Championships, and held both junior and senior world championship titles back-to-back. In just a few short years of skating together, Sergei and Katia won their first competition -The World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 1985. Over time, they got to know each other better and their relationship turned more playful like that between a brother and sister.įigure skating was their life and it was their goal to be on top in pairs figure skating. Despite her rigid demeanor, Sergei did not take Katia very seriously. Katia was very serious while Sergei was more easy-going and liked to tell jokes and laugh a lot.

Katia was 11, and Sergei was 15-years-old when the couple first met and became skating partners. It can be said that there has never been a more beautiful love story than that between Sergei and his wife Katia.

Russian Olympic figure skaters Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov and Ekaterina Alexandrovna Gordeeva were one of the most beloved couples in the world of pairs figure skating.

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