Two-time Olympic champion in pair figure skating, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Oleg Protopopov, has died, the press service of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) reports.
Oleg Protopopov died at the age of 91.
— Oleg Alekseevich survived the siege of Leningrad and took up figure skating after the end of the Great Patriotic War. In 1954, he teamed up with Lyudmila Belousova. Together they came up with and were the first to perform many elements included in the obligatory program of figure skaters around the world.
The Russian Olympic Committee expresses its sincere condolences to the family and friends of Oleg Alekseevich, the ROC statement said.
Oleg Protopopov, together with Lyudmila Belousova, became champion of the Olympic Games in Innsbruck (1964) and Grenoble (1968). In addition, the couple won gold at the World Championships (1965-1968) and the European Championships (1965-1968) four times in a row. Additionally, Belousova and Protopopov won silver three times at the World Championships and silver at the European Championships. four times.
Source : MatchTV
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