Figure skating-Olympic champion Kulik's coach Kudriavtsev dies aged 88 (opens original article in a new tab)

Viktor Kudriavtsev, the coach of 1998 Olympic champion Ilya Kulik, has died at 88. He was a former Soviet champion and coached multiple Olympic and world medallists.

• Viktor Kudriavtsev, who coached Ilya Kulik to the 1998 Nagano Olympics men's gold medal, has died at 88.
• Kudriavtsev was a Soviet champion and 1956 Winter Games team member before becoming a coach to multiple Olympic and world medallists.
• He coached several notable skaters including Lyudmila Smirnova, Andrei Suraikin, Sergei Volkov, Kira Ivanova, and Maria Butyrskaya.