What is Ludmila Belousova?
{{Infobox sportsperson | name = Ludmila Yevgenyevna Belousova | image = Ludmila Belousova 1965.jpg | caption = Belousova in October 1965 | birth_name = Людмила Евгеньевна Белоусова | birth_date = 22 November 1935 | birth_place = [[Ulyanovsk]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]] | death_date = {{death date and age |2017|09|29 |1935|11|22 |df=yes}} | death_place = [[Interlaken]], [[Switzerland]] }} '''Ludmila Yevgenyevna Belousova''' ({{lang-ru|Людмила Евгеньевна Белоусова}}; 22 November 1935 – 29 September 2017) was a [[Russia]]n-[[Swiss]] [[Pair skating|pair skater]]. She was born in [[Ulyanovsk]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]]. == Career == Belousova represented the Soviet Union. With her partner and husband [[Oleg Protopopov]] she was a two-time [[Olympic Winter Games|Olympic champion]] (1964, 1968) and four-time [[World Figure Skating Championships|World champion]] (1965–1968). In 1979 the pair defected to Switzerland and became Swiss citizens in 1995.<ref name=ss020124>{{cite news|url=http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-print/34587 |script-title=ru:Людмила Белоусова, Олег Протопопов: Нас прятали в швейцарских отелях |language=ru |trans-title=Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov: We hid in a Swiss hotel |first=Daria |last=Srebnitskaya |work=[[Sovetsky Sport]] |date=24 January 2002 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/69HuvxUv2?url=http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-print/34587 |archive-date=20 July 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> They continued to skate at ice shows and exhibitions through their seventies. Belousova died on 29 September 2017 in [[Interlaken]], [[Switzerland]] at the age of 81.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tass.com/sport/968250 |title=Two-time Soviet-era Olympic champion pair skater Ludmila Belousova passes away |access-date=2017-09-30 |archive-date=2017-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001074015/http://tass.com/sport/968250 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Related pages== *[[The Protopopovs]] ==References== {