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Galina Zmievskaya

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Figure Skating Coach

BIO

Galina Zmievskaya has been a figure skating coach for over forty years. Formerly based in Odessa, Ukraine, Zmievskaya was part of the Soviet sports machine that produced multiple Olympic and World champions and made the Soviet Union the most powerful figure skating nation. She coached Viktor Petrenko and Oksana Baiul to Olympic and World gold medals in the early 1990s. After the 1994 Olympic season, Zmievskaya relocated to the United States. She currently coaches Johnny Weir at the Ice Vault in New Jersey.