Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, 1988 olympics, SP Ekaterina Gordeeva, born 28 May 1971 Is a Russian figure skater. Together with her partner and husband, the late Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion (1986, 1987, 1989, 1990) in pair skating. After Grinkov's death, Gordeeva continued performing as a singles skater. She wore multiple pairs of socks inside skates many sizes too big because skates small enough for her feet were unavailable in