- Joined
- Dec 21, 2011
I have toyed around with the idea of creating threads for certain ice dance coaches/groups in the past, but with the news that Ilinykh/Zhiganshin plan to go to Igor Shpilband I decided the time had finally come for me to give him and his group a thread of their own. Fabian Bourzat currently also works with Igor and with his group. Please feel free to share any news about him, his students, or his group here
Igor's had a somewhat interesting life and career. He is the 1983 World Junior champion in ice dancing with former partner Tatiana Gladkova. In 1990 while on a skating tour in the USA he decided to defect from the Soviet Union and became a USA citizen 10 years later in 2000. His coaching history with (and ultimate split from) Marina Zoueva in Canton is well known, and he currently coaches several top teams of his own in Novi.
Biographical Information
Igor Shpilband Wikipedia
Articles and Interviews
Shpilband's influence felt across skating world (April 2014)
Current Students (all links to fan fests)
Madison Chock & Evan Bates
Penny Coomes & Nicholas Buckland
Elena Ilinykh & Ruslan Zhiganshin
Kavita Lorenz & Panagiotis Polizoakis
Isabella Tobias & Ilya Tkachenko
Pogrebinsky & Benoit
Lewis & Bye
Grosul & Colucci
Carreira & Ponomarenko
Abachkina & Thauron
Yura Min & Alex Gamelin
Payten Howland & Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette
Former Students (all links to fan fests)
Anna Cappellini & Luca Lanotte
Meryl Davis & Charlie White
Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani
Nathalie Péchalat & Fabian Bourzat
Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir
Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto
Lynn Kriengkrairut & Logan Giulietti-Schmitt
Igor's had a somewhat interesting life and career. He is the 1983 World Junior champion in ice dancing with former partner Tatiana Gladkova. In 1990 while on a skating tour in the USA he decided to defect from the Soviet Union and became a USA citizen 10 years later in 2000. His coaching history with (and ultimate split from) Marina Zoueva in Canton is well known, and he currently coaches several top teams of his own in Novi.
Biographical Information
Igor Shpilband Wikipedia
Articles and Interviews
Shpilband's influence felt across skating world (April 2014)
Current Students (all links to fan fests)
Madison Chock & Evan Bates
Penny Coomes & Nicholas Buckland
Elena Ilinykh & Ruslan Zhiganshin
Kavita Lorenz & Panagiotis Polizoakis
Isabella Tobias & Ilya Tkachenko
Pogrebinsky & Benoit
Lewis & Bye
Grosul & Colucci
Carreira & Ponomarenko
Abachkina & Thauron
Yura Min & Alex Gamelin
Payten Howland & Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette
Former Students (all links to fan fests)
Anna Cappellini & Luca Lanotte
Meryl Davis & Charlie White
Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani
Nathalie Péchalat & Fabian Bourzat
Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir
Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto
Lynn Kriengkrairut & Logan Giulietti-Schmitt
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