Oleg Protopopov

Oleg Protopopov
Protopopov in 1965
Full name	Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov
Born	(1932-07-16)16 July 1932 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	31 October 2023(2023-10-31) (aged 91) Interlaken, Bern, Switzerland
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Soviet Union
Partner	Ludmila Belousova
Retired	1969
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union Pairs' Figure skating Olympic Games 1968 Grenoble Pairs 1964 Innsbruck Pairs World Championships 1969 Colorado Springs Pairs 1968 Geneva Pairs 1967 Vienna Pairs 1966 Davos Pairs 1965 Colorado Springs Pairs 1964 Dormund Pairs 1963 Cortina d'Ampezzo Pairs 1962 Prague Pairs European Championships 1969 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Pairs 1968 Västerås Pairs 1967 Ljubljana Pairs 1966 Bratislava Pairs 1965 Moscow Pairs 1964 Grenoble Pairs 1963 Budapest Pairs 1962 Geneva Pairs

Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov (Russian: Оле́г Алексе́евич Протопо́пов; 16 July 1932 – 31 October 2023) was a Russian pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With his wife Ludmila Belousova he was a two-time Olympic champion (1964, 1968) and four-time World champion (1965–1968).^[1] In 1979, the pair defected to Switzerland and became Swiss citizens in 1995. They continued to skate at ice shows and exhibitions until their seventies.