Background
Linichuk began skating due to her mother who enjoyed figure skating.
Linichuk began skating due to her mother who enjoyed figure skating.
They also finished 4th at the 1976 Winter Olympics, the year ice dancing was introduced as an Olympic sport.
She had a dozen coaches before ending up in the group of Elena Tchaikovskaia, who Linichuk soon sensed was the right coach for her. Linichuk and Karponosov trained at Dynamo in Moscow. Linichuk and Karponosov became World champions in 1978 and 1979.
In 1981, Linichuk and Karponosov retired from competition.
After coaching in Moscow, Linichuk and Karponosov accepted an offer to coach in the United States. They moved with their students in June 1994 and coached at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. In September 2007, they moved to the Ice Works Skating Complex in Aston, Pennsylvania.
Their current and former senior-level students include:
Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto (coached from mid-2008 to 2010). 2009 World silver medalists for the United States.
Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovsky (World bronze medalists)
Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski (coached from mid-2005 to 2007).
2006, 2007 World Champions for Bulgaria.
Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (coached from mid-2008 to 2010). 2010 Olympic bronze medalists for Russia. Oksana Grishuk / Evgeni Platov (Olympic and World champions).
Coached Grishuk from the age of 11 until 1989 and then from 1992 to 1996.
Natalia Gudina / Alexei Beletski
Anjelika Krylova / Vladimir Fedorov (World bronze medalists)
Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov (World champions, Olympic silver medalists)
Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh (World champions, Olympic silver medalists)
Their current and former junior-level students include:
Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager (from May 2010) 2011 United States. Junior silver medalists
Ekaterina Pushkash and Jonathan Guerreiro (coached from mid-2010 to present). 2011 World Junior silver medalists for Russia.