Gorshkov was born on 8 October 1946. He began skating at age six after his mother heard that the Sokolniki skating school was taking new students. He was moved to the weakest group after a year but his mother brought him to a stronger one when a new coach took over.
Who is Lyudmila Pakhomova?
Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova ( 31 December 1946 – 17 May 1986) was an ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. Her husband Alexandr Gorshkov, was the 1976 Olympic champion, one of the oldest female figure skating Olympic champions.
Pakhomova was the daughter of Alexei Pakhomov, an aviation general. She began figure skating at age seven when her grandmother brought her to the Children and Youth Sports School by the Young Pioneers Stadium in Moscow.
They were six-time World Champions (1970–74, 1976), as well as six-time European champions (1970–71, 1973–76), which makes them the most decorated of all-time at both events in the pair discipline. From 2010, Gorshkov was the president of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia