Melissa Gregory & Denis Petukhov - US Olympians

Melissa Gregory & Denis Petukhov - US Olympians Gregory & Petukhov International Skating Group. Melissa & Denis are World renowned, top-ranked figure skating athletes.

Just like diamonds our group stands as timeless symbols of excellence, resilience, agility, and the transformative power that makes them shine. Together they have a resume of US National medals, International Event Championships, and top World rankings. They represented the United States in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, and they have toured with "Champions on Ice". They have been skat

ing since they were 8 years old and since competed at the elite world, Olympic, & international level. Gregory won US National Junior title with James Shuford until they split. She was without an ice dancing partner for nearly three years and told her coach that she would quit skating and go to college if she could not find one by September 1, 2000. She met Russian ice dancer Denis Petukhov on an online skating partner search. He spoke little English and so had a friend write his messages for him. He arrived in the United States on a tourist visa on August 31, 2000 to try skating with her and several other prospective partners. After skating with Gregory first, Petukhov canceled his other tryouts and never used his return plane ticket to Russia. Their story included appearances on the Today show, Good Morning America, CBS Early Show, ABC World News, ESPN Cold Pizza, Lifetime Television Special. Featured on the front page of The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Jewish Ledger,Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, Time Magazine, MSN.com. Gregory and Petukhov were coached by Oleg Epstein and Sandra Hess but made a change in 2003 to Nikolai Morozov and Shae-Lynn Bourne. Following the 2005-2006 season, they switched again to Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karpanosov at the University of Delaware in Newark. Gregory and Petukhov won four silver medals and two bronze medals at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Petukhov is one of the few skaters to have competed at both the European and Four Continents Championships. Petukhov choreographs the majority of his and Gregory's programs and has also choreographed programs for other skaters such as singles skaters Johnny Weir and Evgeni Plushenko. Currently they consulting, coaching and choreographing for National, World & Olympic athletes, as well as NHL players.

02/14/2026

Our Valentine’s Day at the in Turin

02/12/2026

Waltz our way into the in Italy…20 years ago! Fun to watch it again 20 years later!

Dreams come true. 20 years ago we marched in the Olympic opening ceremonies as Watching brings back some of our best ...
02/06/2026

Dreams come true. 20 years ago we marched in the Olympic opening ceremonies as Watching brings back some of our best memories of our career. Good luck to all the athletes that qualified! You are an Olympian and that lasts forever!

25 years sounds like a lifetime…but feels like it passed in the blink of an eye. Cheers to us and our crazy, beautiful l...
02/02/2026

25 years sounds like a lifetime…but feels like it passed in the blink of an eye. Cheers to us and our crazy, beautiful life together 🥂

20 years ago our Romeo and Juliet freedance got us qualification for the U.S. Olympic Team in St. Luis. It was one of t...
01/11/2026

20 years ago our Romeo and Juliet freedance got us qualification for the U.S. Olympic Team in St. Luis. It was one of the most memorable moments that we will hold in our hearts forever. We send a big congratulations to all competitors that competed tonight and the best of luck to the ice dance teams that are going to represent USA at the in February!

Congratulations to our diamonds and for their 2nd Junior National title! And to .vac.14 and for their first Junior n...
01/06/2026

Congratulations to our diamonds and for their 2nd Junior National title! And to .vac.14 and for their first Junior national medal! Thank you to our team for helping to prepare for this great result! Thank you to parents for your dedication and sacrifice 👍🫶😍💎
Congratulations to all competitors!

12/14/2025

Come skate in the snow today!!!

12/07/2025

Thank you for being a wonderful warm host! Audience and arena was spectacular! Congratulations to all competitors and for making this memorable Grand Prix Final event such a joy and success!
Thank you to our entire team and for preparing us for this competition!

12/06/2025

🥇Gold Medal at Junior Grand Prix Final in Nagoya Japan .daniil

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