Galit and Sergei won the first medal for Israel in World figure skating championships– bronze in Nagano in 2002. Our most celebrated ice dance duo has taken part in 3 Winter Olympics, and has been on the podium of numerous ISU Grand Prix series - Cup of Russia, Skate Canada, Skate America and Cup of China. Galit carried the national flag of Israel at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In 2008, Galit and Sergei were named among the 60 Sports Heroes of Israel's modern history.

Galit and Sergei teamed up in 1995. They took part in their first World Championships in 1996 (Everett, Canada), placing 23 and since then climbing up quickly to the top 10 of the world's ice dance elite, where they stayed until their retirement in 2006 due to Sergei's foot injury. The duo was under the tutelage of the world's most renowned ice dance coaches – Nataila Dubova, Natalia Linnichuk and Gennady Karponosov, Tatiana Tarasova, Evgeny Platov, and Alexander Zhulin. 

 

A Brief Bio

 

Galit Chait

DOB – January 29th, 1975

Place of birth – Kfar Saba, Israel

Started skating – 1983, Sport-O-Rama Skating School, NY

Current occupation: coach (Alexandra and Roman Zaretsky, Ariana Weintraub and Avidan Brown)

 

Sergei Sakhnovsky

DOB – May 15th, 1975

Place of birth – Moscow, Russia

Started skating - 1979

Current occupation – skates and coaches in the Dance on Ice show on Russian TV channels

 

Career Highlights:

 

Personal Best Score

Total – 204.42, Cup of China 2004

Compulsory Dance – 40.98, Skate America 2004

Original Dance – 63.07, Cup of China 2004

Free Dance -106.46, ISU Grand Prix Final 2004, Beijing, China 

Medal at International Ice Skating Events:
World Championships 2002, Nagano, Japan – bronze
Skate Israel 2005, 2003, 2000, 1997-1999 - gold
ISU Grand Prix Series: 13 medals

 

Winter Olympic Games