Evegnia Shiskova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 passengers killed aboard American Airlines 5342. Their son Maxim Naumov, a competitive figure skater,

A pair of 16-year-old figure skaters, their mothers and two world champion coaches were among 14 members of the skating community on board

The European figure skating championships carried on Thursday, even as the skating world mourned athletes who died when an American Airlines jet collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.

Shishkova and Naumov were among many Russian skaters who sought a new life as coaches in the U.S. following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Their profiles on the Skating Club of

Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday night,