Lyudmila Pakhomova

Lyudmila Pakhomova
Pakhomova on a 2013 Russian stamp from the "Sports Legends" series
Full name	Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova
Born	(1946-12-31)31 December 1946 Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR (now Russia)
Died	17 May 1986(1986-05-17) (aged 39) Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Soviet Union
Medal record Figure skating: Ice dancing Representing  Soviet Union Winter Olympics 1976 Innsbruck Ice dancing World Championships 1976 Gothenburg Ice dancing 1974 Munich Ice dancing 1973 Bratislava Ice dancing 1972 Calgary Ice dancing 1971 Lyon Ice dancing 1970 Ljubljana Ice dancing 1969 Colorado Springs Ice dancing European Championships 1976 Geneva Ice dancing 1975 Copenhagen Ice dancing 1974 Zagreb Ice dancing 1973 Cologne Ice dancing 1972 Gothenburg Ice dancing 1971 Zürich Ice dancing 1970 Leningrad Ice dancing 1969 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Ice dancing

Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova (Russian: Людмила Алексеевна Пахомова; 31 December 1946 – 17 May 1986) was a Russian ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. With her husband Aleksandr Gorshkov, she was the 1976 Olympic champion, one of the oldest female figure skating Olympic champions.

They are 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.