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Gennadi Karponosov has competed for Soviet Union Gennadi Karponosov has won 1 gold medal at the Olympic Games 


Gennadi Karponosov is a Russian figure skater who competed at the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games for the Soviet Union. Karponosov was partners with Natalia Linichuk, they retired from competitive skating in 1981. They turned to coaching several world and Olympic skaters when they moved to the United States including Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto, Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, Pasha Grishuk, Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov, Irina Lobacheva and Ilia Averbukh.

Personal Life[]

Karponosov married Linichuk on July 31, 1981. They have one child, Anastasiya (b. 02/1985).

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Result
1976 Ice Dancing 4th
1980 Ice Dancing Gold
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