Viktor Petrenko

Quick Facts

Full Name	Viktor Petrenko
Occupation	Figure Skater
Date Of Birth	Jun 27, 1969(1969-06-27)
Age	55
Birthplace	Odessa
Country	Ukraine
Birth City	Odessa Oblast
Horoscope	Cancer

Viktor Petrenko Biography

Viktor Petrenko is one of the most popular and richest Figure Skater who was born on June 27, 1969 in Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine.

For the Soviet Union, Petrenko was the 1984 World Junior Champion. He won the bronze medal at the 1988 Olympic Games, became one of the youngest male figure skating Olympic medalists. He also won the bronze medal at the 1988 World Figure Skating Championships. The podium finish came as a surprise, because the 3 former World Champions Brian Orser, Brian Boitano, and Alexander Fadeev were expected to land on the podium, but capatilizing on disastrous short and long program by Fadeev, Petrenko skated well enough at the championships to earn the bronze.

Viktor was born in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, the first of two sons born to engineers Tamara and Vasyl Petrenko. His younger brother Vladimir Petrenko was also a competitive skater and the 1986 World Junior champion. The Petrenko family spoke Russian which was dominant in Odessa, as well as a means of inter-ethnic communication throughout the USSR. Viktor Petrenko attended a Russian-speaking school where he chose to study English as a foreign language. Because Ukrainian was not used in his family or his school, he never learned to speak the native language of his own country fluently.

Viktor Petrenko Net Worth

Viktor Petrenko is one of the richest Figure Skater from Ukraine. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Viktor Petrenko 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Viktor Vasyliovych Petrenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Васильович Петренко ; born 27 June 1969) is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater who represented the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Ukraine during his career. He is the 1992 Olympic Champion for the Unified Team. Petrenko became the first flagbearer for Ukraine. Petrenko lives in the United States and works as an ISU Technical Specialist, tours professionally, and coaches figure skating.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Viktor Petrenko height 5 ft 10 in Kaoru weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Viktor Petrenko Dating?

According to our records, Viktor Petrenko married to Nina Melnik. As of December 1, 2023, Viktor Petrenko’s is not dating anyone.

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Petrenko turned professional following his Olympic win, moving to Las Vegas, Nevada, but when the International Skating Union ruled that professionals could return to competitive status in 1993, he moved back to Odessa, Ukraine and began training for another Olympics. He defeated another returning great Brian Boitano to win Skate America with a commanding 8 triple long program. He won his third European Championships in January 1994, competing for the first time for the independent nation of Ukraine, and went on to represent his homeland at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, where it was widely expected that he, 1988 Olympic gold medalist Brian Boitano and World Champion Kurt Browning would be the main challengers for medals. After the short program, Petrenko was in ninth place after stepping out of his triple axel and not completing the rotation on his triple lutz, and Boitano and Browning were in eighth and twelfth, respectively. His strong performance in the free skate pulled him up to a fourth-place finish, and might well have been enough to defend his title had he delivered a clean short program.

Facts & Trivia

Kaoru Ranked on the list of most popular Figure Skater. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ukraine. Viktor Petrenko celebrates birthday on June 27 of every year.

In March 2001, Petrenko organized the Viktory for Kids ice show in Simsbury, Connecticut and invited his celebrity friends from the international figure skating community to perform in order to raise public awareness and funds for the thousands of children still being affected by elevated radiation levels from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that had occurred in his homeland of Ukrainian SSR fifteen years earlier. $108,000 was raised, and later that year was used to open The Viktor Petrenko Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Odessa, Ukraine with state-of-the-art medical technology. In October 2003, Petrenko organized a second “Viktory for Kids” show, this time in Danbury, Connecticut. In addition to Petrenko, the show included Olympic champions Ekaterina Gordeeva (with her daughter, Daria Grinkova [Petrenko’s goddaughter]), Ilia Kulik, Evgeni Plushenko, Brian Boitano, and Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dimitriev.

Where is Viktor Petrenko now?

New Jersey, U.S. Petrenko moved to the United States in 1994 with his family and associates, living first in Simbury, Connecticut, the site of an international skating center. He works as an International Skating Union (ISU) Technical Specialist, tours professionally, and coaches figure skating.

Where is Oksana Baiul now?

She now uses the name Oksana Baiul-Farina. They reside in Las Vegas with their daughter, Sophia (born 2015).

What happened with Russian skater who tested positive?

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Monday Valieva will be allowed to compete in the single skating event because of “exceptional circumstances,” including the 15-year-old’s status as a “Protected Person” under the WADA code, and because she had not tested positive for drugs during the Olympics.

How old is Viktor Petrenko?

52 years (June 27, 1969)

Is Victor Petrenko married?

Nina Melnik