Six members of Boston skating club are among those killed in D.C. plane crash

Photographs of aircraft crash victims from The Skating Club are displayed rink side on Thursday in Norwood, Mass. Skating Club of Boston chief executive Doug Zeghibe said Thursday that skaters Jinna Han and Spencer Lane were among those killed, along with 1994 pairs world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov of Russia. “Figure skating is more than a sport — it’s a close-knit family — and we stand together.” One of the most prestigious training grounds in figure skating, the Skating Club of Boston produced Olympic and world champions Dick Button — who died Thursday at age 95 — and Albright, Olympic medalists Nancy Kerrigan and Paul Wylie and scores of U.S. champions — including Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov, who won the pairs in Wichita last week. “I’m heartbroken by the tragic loss of my fellow skaters in this devastating accident,” said reigning world champion Ilia Malinin, who won his third consecutive national title in Wichita. “In his home club in Boston, he was just loved by everyone from the adults running the club to the smallest skaters to the people that are competing for a shot at the Olympics,” Douglas Lane told WPRI in Providence, R.I. “They just adored him.” Naumov and Shishkova moved to the U.S. and became coaches, first at the International Skating Center of Connecticut and since 2017 at the Boston club that has served as a training ground for world-class skaters since 1912.