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{{short description|Ukrainian figure skater (born 1969)}}
{{family name hatnote|Vasyliovych|Petrenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox figure skater
| image = Victor Pertrenko 2003.jpg
| caption = Petrenko in 2003
| country = {{UKR}} (1993–94)<br>{{URS}} (1983–92)
| full_name = Viktor Vasyliovych Petrenko
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1969|6|27}}
| birth_place = [[Odesa]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]],<br>Soviet Union
| height = {{height|m=1.78}}
| retired = 1994
| discipline = [[Single skating|Men's singles]]
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|NC = {{FS medal|g|NC|nationals=Ukrainian|1994|Kyiv|m}}
|EC = {{FS medal|g|EC|1994|Copenhagen|m}}
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|EC = {{FS medal|s|EC|1992|Lausanne|m}}
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'''Viktor Vasyliovych Petrenko''' ({{langx|uk|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 [[Figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics|1992 Olympic Champion]] for the Unified Team. Petrenko became the first flagbearer for Ukraine.

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.

== Early life ==
Viktor Petrenko was born in [[Odesa]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], the first of two sons born to engineers Tamara and Vasyl Petrenko.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} They both got involved in ice skating, training and competing from a young age. His younger brother [[Vladimir Petrenko]] also became a competitive skater and the 1986 [[World Junior Figure Skating Championships|World Junior champion]].<ref name=isuwj/>

The Petrenko family spoke Russian, which had become [[Russian language in Ukraine|dominant in Odesa]]. It was also 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 language|Ukrainian]] was not used in his family or his school, he never learned to speak the native language of his country fluently.

Petrenko was often sick as a young child, and doctors suggested to his parents that they put him in a sport in order to improve his strength and stamina. When he was five years old, they took him to the local ice rink and started him in figure skating.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} At the age of nine, his talent was noticed by Ukrainian figure skating coach [[Galina Zmievskaya]] and she took him on as a pupil at [[Spartak (sports society)|Spartak]] in Odesa.<ref name=in081229/>

== Career ==
=== Rising star 1984-1988 ===
Representing the [[Soviet Union]], Petrenko was the 1984 [[World Junior Figure Skating Championships|World Junior Champion]].<ref name=isuwj/> He won the bronze medal at the [[1988 Winter Olympics|1988 Olympic Games]],<ref name=isuOLYmed/> and became one of the youngest male figure skating Olympic medalists.

He also won the bronze medal at the 1988 World Figure Skating Championships. His podium finish came as a surprise, because three former World Champions [[Brian Orser]], [[Brian Boitano]], and [[Alexandre Fadeev|Alexander Fadeev]] were competing in this event. Capitalizing on disastrous short and long programs by Fadeev, Petrenko skated well enough at the championships to earn the bronze.

=== Disappointment 1989 ===

Expected to succeed to the position of top skater with the retirement of the Brians, Petrenko lost the Soviet Nationals to a resurgent Fadeev. At Worlds, a fall in the short program combined with a subpar long program cost him a medal. Upstart and eventual career rival [[Kurt Browning]] won a surprising victory at this event.

=== Road to Albertville 1990-1991 ===

Petrenko won his first two [[European Figure Skating Championships|European Championships]] in 1990 and 1991.<ref name=isuECmed/>  He was frustrated in trying to win a World title.  He won the short program at both the 1990 and 1991 World Figure Skating Championships, but his mistakes in the long program dropped him to silver both times.

The 1991 decision was particularly close. Petrenko skated a strong program, only stepping out of a triple loop, and omitting a planned triple axel-triple toe which he turned into a triple-double. He lost in a controversial 6-3 split by the judges. Browning completed 3 triple-triples, and edged Petrenko out of the gold because of the superior technical difficulty of his program.

=== Olympic and World Champion 1992 ===

After the dissolution of the [[Soviet Union]] in December 1991,<ref name=bbcend/> athletes from former Soviet states went to the Olympics together for the last time in 1992 on a [[Unified Team at the Olympics|Unified Team]].<ref name=nyt920225/> Petrenko competed for this [[Unified Team at the Olympics|Unified Team]]. With a free skate that was ranked above American [[Paul Wylie]]'s by seven of the nine judges, he won the gold medal. It was the first ever for a singles skater from the former [[Soviet Union]].<ref name=nyt920216/>  His skate was not his best, and some contested his win. His triple axel-triple toe in both programs gained him scores over both Wylie and European Champion [[Petr Barna]], in spite of the mistakes.

A month later Petrenko went to the [[1992 World Figure Skating Championships|1992 World Championships]] and won the gold medal there, as well, earning two 6.0's for presentation in his free program and receiving first-place ranking from all nine judges.<ref name=nyt920329/> In doing so he finally defeated his arch nemesis Kurt Browning, who took silver (after placing a disappointing 6th in Albertville). Petrenko used the same free program for the 3rd straight year, with his polish and familiarity gaining high marks for the artistic strength of the program.

=== Professional career and reinstatement ===

Petrenko turned professional following his Olympic win, moving to [[Las Vegas, Nevada]]. Ukraine was still struggling economically and he thought he had more opportunity in the US. When the [[International Skating Union]] ruled in 1993 that professionals could return to competitive status, Petrenko returned to Odesa, [[Ukraine]] and began training for another Olympics.<ref name=nyt940206/>

He defeated another returning competitor, 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.<ref name=nyt940121/> He represented his homeland at the [[1994 Winter Olympics|1994 Lillehammer Olympics]]. It was widely expected that he, 1988 Olympic gold medalist [[Brian Boitano]] and [[Figure Skating World Championships|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.

==Later life ==
After 1994, Petrenko competed as a professional. He had many successes, including winning the prestigious Challenge of Champions event three times. It is considered the top professional event. He failed to win the other major professional event, the Landover World Professional Skating Championships, and never placed higher than 3rd.

In 1992, Petrenko had convinced his coach [[Galina Zmievskaya]] to take in [[Oksana Baiul]], a 14-year-old Ukrainian orphan who was talented in skating. The coach became both her guardian and coach, having Baiul live with her. Petrenko covered Baiul's expenses. With their guidance, Baiul won the 1993 [[World Figure Skating Championship]] and the gold medal at the [[1994 Winter Olympics|1994 Olympic Games]].<ref name=disk07/><ref name=nyt940407/>

That year Petrenko married Zmievskaya's oldest daughter, Nina Milken, on 19 June 1992. Their daughter Victoria was born on 21 July 1997.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

After the [[1994 Winter Olympics]], Petrenko and Nina, Zmievskaya, Baiul and Viktor's brother Vladimir all left Ukraine and moved to [[Simsbury]], [[Connecticut]], United States. Petrenko and Baiul were invited to train for competition. Zmievskaya and Vladimir Petrenko joined the coaching staff at the new International Skating Center of Connecticut.<ref name=nyt970202/>

[[File:Petrenko viktor.jpg|thumb|Petrenko skates at an exhibition program at the 2002 [[Champions on Ice]] show in Buffalo, New York]]

In 1996, Petrenko performed as the Scarecrow for the CBS television special ''The Wizard of Oz on Ice''. 
In March 2001, Petrenko organized the ''Viktory for Kids'' ice show in Simsbury, Connecticut. He invited 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 Ukrainian homeland fifteen years earlier. $108,000 was raised, and later that year was used to open ''The Viktor Petrenko Neonatal Intensive Care Unit'' in Odesa, with state-of-the-art medical technology.<ref name=artukr/>

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]].

In January 2004, Petrenko was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI) after crashing his car into a utility pole in [[Connecticut]] and refusing to take a breathalyzer test.<ref name=dui040129/> His record was cleared after he completed an adult alcohol education program.<ref name=espn040315/>

Petrenko, wife Nina and mother-in-law Zmievskaya left the International Skating Center of Connecticut in 2005 and moved to New Jersey, where they began coaching together at the Ice Vault Arena in [[Wayne, New Jersey|Wayne]].<ref>[http://www.mceskating.com/viktortrain.shtml Petrenko Brings Added Prestige to Ice Vault] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304175254/http://www.mceskating.com/viktortrain.shtml |date=4 March 2008 }}</ref>  They have coached American men's figure skater [[Johnny Weir]] since the summer of 2007.<ref name=wokv080322/>

Petrenko toured as a performing skater with the US company of [[Champions on Ice]] for a record twenty seasons, until COI went out of business after the 2007 season.<ref name=st070508/><ref name=ifsm071213/> He is an ISU Technical Specialist for Ukraine<ref name=isu1467/> and was the Assistant Technical Specialist for the men's event at the [[2006 Winter Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isufs.org/results/owg2006/SEG001OF.HTM |title=XX Olympic Winter Games 2006 - Men's Short Program: Panel of Judges |access-date=12 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814025357/http://www.isufs.org/results/owg2006/SEG001OF.HTM |archive-date=14 August 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isufs.org/results/owg2006/SEG002OF.HTM |title=XX Olympic Winter Games 2006 - Men's Free Skating: Panel of Judges |access-date=12 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070417123836/http://www.isufs.org/results/owg2006/SEG002OF.HTM |archive-date=17 April 2007 }}</ref> In June 2008, he was elected to the Presidium of the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation.<ref name=ufsf08/>

In 2022, amidst Russia's [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|ongoing full scale invasion of Ukraine]], Petrenko was fired from his post as vice president of the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation (UFFK) and expelled from the organization for taking part in an event in Russia that was organized by Kremlin spokesman [[Dmitry Peskov]]'s wife, [[Tatyana Navka]].<ref>[https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-figure-skating-official-fired-russia/31938248.html Ukrainian Figure Skating Official Fired After Takin Part in Event In Russia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713171147/https://www.rferl.org/amp/ukraine-figure-skating-official-fired-russia/31938248.html |date=2022-07-13 }}, 11 July 2022,</ref>

==Programs==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" 
|- 
! Season
! [[Short program (figure skating)|Short program]]
! [[Free skating]]
! Exhibition
|-
! 1993-1994
| Toreador Song from Carmen <br><small>by [[Georges Bizet]]</small>
| "La donna e mobile" from "Rigoletto," <br> "Ah fors e lui" from "La Traviata," <br><small>both by [[Giuseppe Verdi]]</small>
| Baila Mi<br><small>by [[Gipsy Kings]]</small>
|-
! 1991-1992
| Carmen <br><small>by [[Georges Bizet]]</small>
| Raymond overture<br><small>by Thomas</small> <br> Le Cid ballet music <br><small>by [[Jules Massenet]]</small><br> Waltz op.64 No.2 <br><small>by [[Frédéric Chopin]]</small> <br> I Vespi Siciliani overture<br><small>by [[Giuseppe Verdi]]</small>
|[[Let's Twist Again]]<br><small>by [[Chubby Checker]]</small>
|-
! 1987-1988
| [[Flames of Paris]]<br><small>by [[Boris Asafyev]]</small>
| Don Quixote<br><small>by [[Ludwig Minkus]]</small> 
| Ave Maria<br><small>by Schubert</small>
|}

==Results==
{|  class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! colspan="11" style="background-color: #ffdead; " align="center" | '''International''' 
|-
! Event
! 83–84<br>{{small|(URS)}}
! 84–85<br>{{small|(URS)}}
! 85–86<br>{{small|(URS)}}
! 86–87<br>{{small|(URS)}}
! 87–88<br>{{small|(URS)}}
! 88–89<br>{{small|(URS)}}
! 89–90<br>{{small|(URS)}}
! 90–91<br>{{small|(URS)}}
! 91–92<br>{{small|(URS/CIS)}}
! 93–94<br>{{small|(UKR)}}
|-
| align = left | [[Figure skating at the Olympic Games|Olympics]]  || || || || || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd ||  ||  ||  || bgcolor=gold | 1st || 4th 
|-
| align = left | [[World Figure Skating Championships|Worlds]]  || || 9th || 5th || 6th || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || 6th || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=gold | 1st ||
|-
| align = left | [[European Figure Skating Championships|Europeans]]  || || 6th || 4th || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd ||  || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor="gold" | 1st 
|-
| align = left | [[Figure skating at the Goodwill Games|Goodwill Games]]  || || || || || || || || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || ||
|-
| align = left | [[Skate America]]  || || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || || || || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=gold | 1st || || bgcolor="gold" | 1st  
|-
| align = left | [[Skate Canada International|Skate Canada]] || || || || || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || || || ||
|-
| align = left | [[Bofrost Cup on Ice|Nations Cup]] || || || || || || || bgcolor=silver | 2nd  || || || bgcolor="gold" | 1st  
|-
| align = left | [[NHK Trophy]] ||  ||  || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || || || || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=gold | 1st || ||
|-
| align = left | [[Prize of Moscow News|Moscow News]] || || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || || || || || || || ||
|-
| align = left | [[St. Ivel International|St. Ivel]] || || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || || || || || || || ||
|-
! colspan="11" style="background-color: #ffdead; " align="center" | '''International: Junior''' 
|-
| align = left | [[World Junior Figure Skating Championships|Junior Worlds]] || bgcolor=gold | 1st || || || || || || || || ||
|-
! colspan="11" style="background-color: #ffdead; " align="center" | '''National''' 
|-
| align = left | [[Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships|Ukrainian Champ.]] || || || || || || || || || || bgcolor="gold" | 1st 
|-
| align = left | [[Soviet Figure Skating Championships|Soviet Champ.]] || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd ||
|}

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==External links==
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*[http://www.olympic.org/en/content/olympic-athletes/all-athletes/athletes-pa-to-pm/-viktor-petrenko-/ Athlete Profile - Petrenko]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*[https://www.championsonice.com/ Champions on Ice]
*{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/viktor-petrenko-1.html |title=Viktor Petrenko |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630155041/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/viktor-petrenko-1.html |archivedate=30 June 2009 }}

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