By Alisa Ivanovastudent of 7a form gymnasia 49Saint Petersburg

Teacher Eyn I.G.

Evgeni Plushenko

. Evgeni is the pride of Russia

Evgeni Viktorovich Plushenko was born November ,3 1982. Evgeni is a Russian figure skater.

He is the 2006 Winter Olympics gold medalist, 2002 Winter Olympics silver medalist, and 2010 Winter Olympics silver medalist, three-times (2001, 2003, 2004) World champion, seven-times(2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012) European champion, a four-times Grand Prix Final champion and a ten-times (1999–2002, 2004–2006, 2010, 2012–2013) Russian national champion.

Plushenko has made a quick progress on the international arena. He became the youngest-ever World Junior Champion and World medalist.

As a 14-year-old boy, he won the 1997 World Junior Championships. The following year, at age of 15, he took the bronze medal at the senior 1998 World Championships.

At the age of 16, Plushenko was the youngest male skater to ever receive a perfect score of 6.0.

Plushenko is the only male figure skater in the modern history of sport to have won three Olympic medals in singles.

He was the first skater in the world to perform a 4T–3T–2Lo combination in competitions, at the 1999 NHK Trophy (he has since landed the combination 26 times so far).