Evgeni Viktorovich Plushenko (Russian:  Ð•Ð²Ð³ÐµÌÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ Ви́кторович Плю́щенко​ (help·info); born 3 November 1982) is a retired Russian figure skater. He is the 2006 Olympic gold medalist, 2014 Olympic Team gold medalist, 2002 Olympic silver medalist, and 2010 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World champion (2001, 2003, 2004), a seven-time European champion (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012), a four-time Grand Prix Final champion (1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2004–05), and a ten-time Russian national champion (1999–2002, 2004–06, 2010, 2012–13). Plushenko is the only male figure skater in the modern history of the sport to have won four Olympic medals competing in four Olympics: 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics, 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, and 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. (Gillis Grafström won four in the early years of the sport, from 1920–1932).