Ekaterina Gordeeva and the Golden Rectangle

Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares (Ekaterina Gordeeva).

Ekaterina Gordeeva (born May 28, 1971) often called Katia, Gordeeva is a Russian (former Soviet) pair skater. Together with her late partner and husband Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion. Grinkov and Gordeeva won virtually every competition they entered. In the 31 competitions they completed at the Senior and professional levels, they finished first an impressive 24 times.

On November 20, 1995, Grinkov collapsed on the ice and died at age 28 from a massive heart attack.

On June 15, 2001, Gordeeva gave birth to her second daughter, Liza Kulik, whose father is 1998 Winter Olympics men's gold medalist Ilia Kulik. Gordeeva and Kulik married in 2002. Gordeeva, Kulik, Daria Grinkov and Liza made their first televised appearance as a family for Kristi Yamaguchi's Friends and Family in 2005, and they repeated that appearance in the 2006 and 2007 versions of the show. See Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov skating to "The Nutcracker".

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A golden rectangle is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio, one-to-phi, that is, approximately 1:1.618. A distinctive feature of this shape is that when a square section is removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle, that is, with the same proportions as the first. Square removal can be repeated infinitely, which leads to an approximation of the golden or Fibonacci spiral.
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