Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals, before moving to the U.S. and coaching generations of

Evegnia Shiskova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 passengers killed aboard American Airlines 5342. Their son Maxim Naumov, a competitive figure skater,

Once again, figure skaters representing the past, present and future of the sport perished in a catastrophic plane crash.