RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Central Virginia ice skating community is grieving the loss of fellow skaters, coaches and loved ones who perished in a devastating plane crash Wednesday night.

Figure skating coaches and former world pairs champions Vadim Naumov, 55, and Evgenia Shishkova, 52, were among those who are presumed dead in the fatal aircraft collision in Washington on Wednesday.

Denis Petukhov is a former U.S. Olympic ice dancer from Russia who knew Shishkova and Naumov from their time in Russia and at the skating center in Simsbury. Petukhov, who now coaches at the ...

The ice-skating community is devastated after learning elite ice skaters, coaches and families perished in a plane crash in Washington D.C. Wednesday night. American Airlines Flight 5342 crashed ...

ASHBURN, Va. — The ice skating community is reeling after a plane crash claimed the lives of 14 members, including several local skaters and a beloved coach. The crash has left a devastating ...

had skated as professionals and coached at the Simsbury ice rink from the time they moved to the U.S. in 1998 to 2017, when they moved to Boston to coach at the Skating Club of Boston. Naumov and ...

WELL, MICHELLE, THE U.S. ICE SKATING COMMUNITY IS HURTING. ITS MEMBERS ARE OBVIOUSLY HEARTBROKEN OVER THE LOSS OF THESE PROMISING YOUNG SKATERS. THEIR PARENTS AND COACHES. BUT THE SKATING DIRECTOR ...

Coach Alexandr "Sasha" Kirsanov was a member of Ice World, a skating rink in Edgewater, Md., according to Founder and CEO of Black Bear Sports Group Murry Gunty. Kirsanov was on the flight back ...

Bob Mock of Pittsburgh, a hall of fame coach and former U.S. Figure Skating board member, says the loss of the skaters in the D.C. plane crash is tough to bear. KDKA-TV's Chris DeRose reports.

A young, promising ice skating duo, their coach and their parents were among those who died in last week’s plane crash into the Potomac River, according to their loved ones. Ilya “Sean” Kay ...

Bob Mock of Pittsburgh is in the Professional Skaters Association Coaches Hall of Fame and is a former board member of U.S. Figure Skating. He says the loss of these young skaters is tough to bear.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A somber feeling left a nearly silent practice for figure skaters on the ice inside ... of the figure skating community. Raleigh figure skating coach Jason Wong US Figure ...