Personal life

Urmanov was born on 17 November 1973 in Leningrad, Soviet Union. In 2001, his partner, Viktoria, gave birth to twins, Ivan and Andrei. The couple married in 2004.

Career

Urmanov started skating in 1977. Early in his career, he was coached by N. Monakhova and Natalia Golubeva.

Competing for the Soviet Union, Urmanov won the silver medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships. After the end of the Soviet Union, he chose to compete for Russia. In 1991, at age 17, he became the first skater to perform a quadruple jump, at the European Championships.

Urmanov competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics, where he placed 5th. He won the bronze medal at the 1993 World Championships. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, he won the gold medal.

Urmanov chose to remain in the competitive ranks. He became the 1997 European champion, but an injury forced him out of the 1997 World Championships after the short program and kept him from competing for a berth to the 1998 Olympics. He retired from Olympic-eligible skating in 1999 and won the World Professional Championships the same year. Urmanov was coached by Alexei Mishin at the Yubileyny Sports Palace in Saint Petersburg. During the 1990s, the rink often had poor-quality ice and other problems, resulting in limited training time.

Urmanov is an Honoured Masters of Sports of the Russian Federation. He works as a skating coach and an International Skating Union technical specialist. His former students include Sergei Voronov, Nodari Maisuradze, Zhan Bush, Gordei Gorshkov, Nikol Gosviani, Polina Agafonova, and Anastasia V. Gubanova. Urmanov currently coaches Yulia Lipnitskaya and Deniss Vasiļjevs. He was based in Saint Petersburg until 2014, when he moved to Sochi, to coach at the Iceberg Skating Palace. He sometimes holds summer camps or clinics in other locations such as Luleå, Sweden, and Paris, France.

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
1998-99	Toccata and Fugue in D minor	Tanguera El Choclo Taquito Militar
1997-98		Tanguera El Choclo Taquito Militar
1996-97	Twilight Zone	Princess of the Circus	Beatles medley
1995-96	Night on Bald Mountain	Princess of the Circus
1994-95	Rigoletto	Swan Lake
1993-94	Rigoletto	The Barber of Seville
1992-93	Piano Concerto No. 1	Don Quixote	Piano Concerto No. 1
1991-92	Boléro	Don Quixote	Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Competitive highlights

GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix

International
Event	89-90	90-91	91-92	92-93	93-94	94-95	95-96	96-97	98-99
Olympics			5th		1st
Worlds		8th	8th	3rd	4th	4th	5th	WD	5th
Europeans		6th	3rd	5th	3rd	2nd		1st	3rd
Final							1st	3rd	2nd
Nations Cup							4th	1st
Cup of Russia								1st	1st
Skate America								2nd	3rd
Skate Canada							1st
Goodwill Games					1st				2nd
Inter. de Paris			3rd
Moscow News		1st
NHK Trophy			3rd	3rd	3rd
Skate America					3rd
St. Gervais		1st
International: Junior
Junior Worlds	2nd
National
Russian Champ.				1st	1st	1st	1st	2nd	3rd
Soviet Champ.	6th	3rd	1st

[ Source: Wikipedia ]