On Nov. 20, 1995, two-time Olympic pairs champion Sergei Grinkov, aged 28, died of a heart attack in Lake Placid, New York, while practicing with his wife and partner, Ekaterina “Katia” Gordeeva, for ...

As the soft piano music from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata filled the Hartford Civic Center, 19 champion skaters dressed in black and white took the ice to remember their late friend and comrade, ...

To watch Sergei Grinkov and Ekaterina Gordeeva skate, said choreographer Sandra Bezic, was like heaven. They had been together since he was 15 and she 11. At first like an older brother and younger ...

Sergei Grinkov and Ekaterina Gordeeva didn’t skate their best performance at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, but they won a second gold medal in the pairs competition anyway. Afterward, one judge ...

Sergei Grinkov had the heart of a champion. He proved that last year in Lillehammer, where an array of legendary Olympic skaters--Katarina Witt, Brian Boitano, and Jayne Torvill and Christopher ...

Before the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, Canada, the Soviet Union had won six consecutive gold medals in pairs skating. Ekaterina Gordeyeva and Sergei Grinkov looked to add to that legacy. Gordeyeva and ...

Last week the world of sports was stunned as Olympic champion pairs skater Sergei Grinkov collapsed and died while practicing for a show. The cause of death: A massive heart attack that struck the ...

SAN FRANCISCO – It was the tragic, sudden death of Olympic skater Sergei Grinkov that triggered Pascal Goldschmidt's quest to solve the intricate genetic puzzle of heart disease. The Russian Grinkov ...

LANDOVER — For four days afterward, Alexander Zhulin and Maia Usova went back to the rink in Lake Placid, N.Y., where their friend and countryman, Sergei Grinkov, had died. For four days, they tried ...

Sergei Grinkov, who with his wife won two Olympic gold medals for a romantic skating style that mirrored their off-ice love story, died Monday while practicing for a show. Grinkov, 28, was practicing ...

Before the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, Canada, the Soviet Union had won six consecutive gold medals in pairs skating. Ekaterina Gordeyeva and Sergei Grinkov looked to add to that legacy. Gordeyeva and ...