Svetlana Alekseeva (figure skater) explained

Svetlana Alekseeva
Fullname:	Svetlana Lvovna Alekseeva
Birth Date:	16 March 1955
Birth Place:	Berlin, West Germany
Residence:	Moscow, Russia
Formerpartner:	Aleksandr Grigoryevich Boychuk
Formercoach:	Viktor Ivanovich Ryzhkin
Skating Club:	Blue Bird FSC

Svetlana Lvovna Alekseeva (Russian: Светлана Львовна Алексеева; born 16 March 1955) is a Russian figure skating coach and former ice dancer.

Career

Competitive

Alekseeva competed in ice dancing with Alexander Boychuk. They won the Soviet junior title in 1970.

Later career

Alekseeva began coaching in 1977 and worked with Tatiana Tarasova for thirteen years. Since 2001, she coaches with Elena Kustarova. In the summer of 2006, they moved to Blue Bird FSC in Moscow and then to a new rink in Medvedkovo in the summer of 2012.

Alekseeva coaches in collaboration with Elena Kustarova and Olga Riabinina. Her current students include (years coached in brackets):

• Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin.
• Polina Ivanenko / Daniil Karpov.
• Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand.
• Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin (c. 2013–present), 2018 World Junior champions.
• Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro (2017–present).

Her former students include:

• Svetlana Liapina / Gorsha Sur.
• Elena Kustarova / Oleg Ovsyannikov.
• Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (2000 – April 2012), 2011–12 European silver medalists.
• Maria Borounov / Evgeni Borounov.
• Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin (2014–2016), 2015 Russian national champions.
• Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin (2009 – February 2012), 2011 World Junior champions.
• Anna Nagornyuk / Viktor Kovalenko (2011–2013).
• Anastasia Platonova / Alexander Grachev (2007–2009).
• Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro (2006–2009), 2009 World Junior bronze medalists.
• Ekaterina Rubleva / Ivan Shefer (?–2006).
• Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin (c. 2008 – April 2014), 2012 World Junior champions.
• Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov (2011–2016), 2015 World Junior champions.
• Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi.
• Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov (2009–2011).

Personal life

Alekseeva is the mother of Elena Kustarova.

Competitive highlights

(with Boychuk)

International
Event	1969–70	1970–71	1971–72	1972–73	1973–74
align=left		6th	5th	4th		bgcolor=cc9966	3rd
National
align=left		4th			4th	bgcolor=cc9966	3rd
align=left		bgcolor=gold	1st

External links

• Svetlana Alekseeva at fskate.ru