# Great Pairs and Dance Teams · Figure Skating Level 10: Professional

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Great Pairs and Dance Teams in Figure Skating (Level 10: Professional) on Insporta: 20 sourced facts behind 2 tests. Covers: rodnina; virtue and moir.

Irina Rodnina and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

## Test 1: Rodnina

- She won in 1972 with Ulanov and in 1976 and 1980 with Zaitsev. (Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina)
- With Ulanov and Zaitsev she won ten World titles and 11 European titles. (Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina)
- Coach and former champion Stanislav Zhuk searched the Soviet Union and found Alexander Zaitsev. (Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina)
- The music stopped mid-program; they kept going in silence, earned a standing ovation and won. (Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina)
- Ulanov had fallen in love with Liudmila Smirnova, who later became his wife, so the pair split. (Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina)
- She coached in the USSR and from 1990 in the USA, then entered politics in Russia's State Duma. (Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina)
- Rodnina and Zaitsev won six straight World titles between 1973 and 1978. (Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina)
- Sapporo 1972, Prague 1973, Innsbruck 1976, Lake Placid 1980. (Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina)
- Zhuk coached her from 1963 with Ulanov; Zaitsev came in after 1972. (Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina)
- C has gold at all three Games. A and B miss one, D wins only in 1980. (Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina)

## Test 2: Virtue and Moir

- They became the first North American ice dancers to be crowned Olympic champions. (Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue)
- Their free skate was set to Mahler's Symphony No. 5. (Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue)
- They won silver in ice dance and in the inaugural Olympic team event. (Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue)
- PyeongChang brought them the double they had missed in Sochi: first place in both events. (Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue)
- With two golds in 2018 they became the first figure skaters to own five Olympic medals. (Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue)
- They moved to Montreal in 2016 to work with two-time World silver medallists Dubreuil and Lauzon. (Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue)
- Their Flamenco-inspired original dance brought the house down in Vancouver. (Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue)
- One gold in 2010, two silvers in 2014 and two golds in 2018: five in all. (Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue)
- World juniors in 2006, Vancouver 2010, a break after Sochi, then Montreal in 2016. (Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue)
- B has one gold, then two silvers, then two golds. The other rows do not match. (Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue)

Sources: Olympics.com athlete pages (Button, Ito, Hanyu, Witt, Rodnina); Olympic.ca athlete pages (Browning, Virtue); ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (2026); Olympedia, Figure Skating overview. Every fact is recorded with its source in docs/FIGURE_SKATING_VERIFIED_FACTS.md. Records that can still move are not keyed. Original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

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