Vitaliy Viktorovych Yehorov or Vitali Egorov ( uk, Віталій Вікторович Єгоров, born 23 March 1964) is a former competitive

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

for the

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. He is the 1986 Skate Canada International champion, the 1986

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champion, the 1979 World Junior champion, a two-time (1983, 1987)

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silver medalist, and the 1984 Soviet national champion. Egorov was one of the first skaters in the world to land a triple

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, performing it in April 1981, at the USSR Cup competition in Sverdlovsk, where he won the bronze medal. In March 1982, he won the 5th USSR Winter Spartakiada. He is a coach in Kharkiv.

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Soviet male single skaters Ukrainian male single skaters 1964 births Living people Sportspeople from Kharkiv World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists Universiade medalists in figure skating Universiade silver medalists for the Soviet Union Competitors at the 1983 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 1987 Winter Universiade {{USSR-figure-skating-bio-stub