Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 14 minutes ago
This was Sergei's final amateur performance and in one of his best, he won the freeskate ahead of home town favourite Ondrej Nepela but was unable to gain enough ground to take the title overall.
This was Sergei's final amateur performance and in one of his best, he won the freeskate ahead of home town favourite Ondrej Nepela but was unable to gain enough ground to take the title overall.
![Daniela Silivas [ROM]1987 WC Compulsory FX [Dutch TV]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m52iZP_Sreg/mqdefault.jpg "Daniela Silivas [ROM]1987 WC Compulsory FX [Dutch TV]
The iconic compulsory floor from Rotterdam finally seen through the eyes of TV!")
![Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai - 1977 World Championship FS [QUAD TWIST]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oIFz7aN2H6s/mqdefault.jpg "Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai - 1977 World Championship FS [QUAD TWIST]
This has only previously been shared previously as a partial recording, so here is the complete programme including the first ever quad twist completed at a world championships. Their debut was controversial due to the profound size differene between the two and they quickly became known as a one-and-a-half pair. Their coach Stanislav Zhuk continued to pair tiny girls with fully grown men with considerable success paving teh way for the most famous of the one-and-a-half pairs, at least in their earliest days, Gordeeva & Grinkov.")
