Maria Butyrskaya of Russia dethroned Michelle Kwan for the women's title at the World Figure Skating Championships today with a magnificent performance in the free skating. Butyrskaya was an artist on ...

Don’t be deceived. Michelle Kwan may have finished in second place Saturday, but her skating at these world championships was decidedly second-rate compared with the standard she has established since ...

Early last fall the calm that had allowed Maria Butyrskaya to become world figure skating champion still was evident. The Russian skater sat alone at a table in a hotel in Green Bay, devouring a book ...

PARIS, Nov 17: Russia’s former world champions Alexei Yagudin and Maria Butyrskaya held the lead in their respective individual short programs on Friday at the Lalique Trophy, which is part of the ...

2002-02-21 04:00:00 PDT Salt Lake City-- For those fans to whom the execution of a perfect triple Lutz indicates the existence of a higher being, the XIX Winter Olympics begins and ends tonight. It's ...

Russia's top Olympic hopefuls struggled at the European figure skating championships in Lausanne, Switzerland on Saturday. Maria Butyrskaya reclaimed the title from defending champion Irina Slutskaya ...

Maria Butyrskaya won the short program in the European Figure Skating Championships at Lausanne, Switzerland, skating with ease Friday while the other top Russian and Olympic gold hopeful made another ...

Former world champion Maria Butyrskaya of Russia edged American Angela Nikodinov in the short program of the women's event Friday at the Sparkassen Cup, the third event of the Grand Prix figure ...

Russia’s Maria Butyrskaya reclaimed the women’s title from defending champion Irina Slutskaya in the European Figure Skating Championships on Saturday at Lausanne, Switzerland, but in ...