Alexander "Sasha" Viktorovich Abt (Russian: Александр "Саша" Викторович Абт) (born October 22, 1976 in Moscow) is a Russian figure skater and coach. He competed as an elite senior skater for about ten years. He placed fifth at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Abt's first experience with figure skating came at the age of six when his grandmother first took him to a figure skating rink. He first began training with Sergei Volkov; however, Volkov was suffe...
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Alexander "Sasha" Viktorovich Abt (Russian: Александр "Саша" Викторович Абт) (born October 22, 1976 in Moscow) is a Russian figure skater and coach. He competed as an elite senior skater for about ten years. He placed fifth at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Abt's first experience with figure skating came at the age of six when his grandmother first took him to a figure skating rink. He first began training with Sergei Volkov; however, Volkov was suffering from cancer and sent Abt to be trained by Rafael Arutunian before he died. Soon after, Abt began to make a name for himself on the junior circuit, placing second at the 1991 Junior World Championships.
His early career was hindered by a series of injuries, including two knee surgeries, and the most serious injury which took place in 1996,while performing at a rink in Mexico, Abt crashed into the boards, causing his skate blade to cut into his leg's quadricep muscle, forcing Abt into the hospital for several weeks and off the ice for...
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