Aleksandra Stepanova

Figure skater Alexandra Stepanova and her partner Ivan Bukin are predicting leading positions in ice dancing for the coming years. For a long time, the athletes were in the shadow of the leaders of the Russian national team, tempered in the status of “forever second”, overcame the nervousness from being denied access to the main starts of the planet. Now the couple is approaching the peak of their form, which is noted by professionals and fans of figure skating.

Alexandra was born in St. Petersburg on August 19, 1995. Her parents were not professional athletes, but they were fond of some sports: her mother played volleyball, and her father tried his hand at the role of a speed skater.

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As soon as the girl was 4 years old, her parents took her to the rink. It was not a one-time family trip - serious training began. Sasha's parents, Yana and Nikolai, wished for a sports career for their daughter.

At the age of 7, Sasha went to school, but training was in the first place. The girl trained in solitary form - she confidently kept on the ice and skillfully performed pirouettes. In 2006, the family moved to Moscow.

For Alexandra, figure skating has supplanted her personal life, and there is no question of her husband and children. On Instagram, figure skaters often have new photos with partner Ivan Bukin, not only from training, but also from everyday life. On them Sasha and Ivan hug and spend time together.

Such pictures became food for rumors that young people were dating. But the athletes themselves say that they are more like brother and sister, so close mutual understanding both on the ice and outside the rink. The partners had a serious fight only once.

However, athletes remember one moment in their biography with a smile. Alexandra experienced a youthful crush on Ivan, and this feeling was mutual, but with a difference of a couple of years. The skaters performed at a show in Korea, and the girl received 181 roses from Bukin as a gift, which was unspeakably surprised, but she could not reciprocate with her colleague.

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Taking part in competitions, Alexandra often travels to different countries. The girl has a warm and trusting relationship with her mother Yana, who supports her in everything.

Stepanov likes to spend his vacation in the company of his skater friends. In 2018, together with Igor Eremenko and Grigory Smirnov, she visited Cyprus, and a year later she rested in Bali, where at that time were Evgenia Tarasova, Vladimir Morozov, Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov.

On vacation, Alexandra traditionally takes pictures in a swimsuit, which she then uploads to Instagram. The girl's figure makes an impression on her fans - with a height of 168 cm, her weight does not exceed 50 kg.

As Alexandra grew up, coaches began to notice that it was more and more difficult for her to be given such elements of single skating as jumping, but at the same time the skater behaves artistically on the ice and skates at high speed. Then she was advised to go from a solitary type to ice dancing.

The only thing left was to find a good partner. The task is not easy, but by coincidence, Sasha was lucky. The Bukin family, famous in figure skating, was looking for a partner for their son Ivan (father Andrei Anatolyevich is an Olympic champion, together with Natalia Bestemyanova he repeatedly won gold in the world and European championships).

Ivan Bukin has been skating since the age of 5. The boy was training together with Elena Ilinykh. But after a while, the partner went to Nikita Katsalapov. In 2014, athletes became Olympic champions in team competitions and received bronze medals in the individual championship.

Ivan was left alone. Then a video of Aleksandra Stepanova's skating came to him, his parents and coaches. The girl liked both the technique of performing the elements and her appearance - a blue-eyed blonde with a chiseled figure and an open face /

In 2008, Sasha and Ivan began skating in pairs. Stepanova later said that she had to reach the level of her partner, and conversations that a line of rivals had lined up for Andrei Bukin's son, and Alexandra, in her opinion, was much weaker, became a good motivator.

The duo is coached by two professionals - Alexander Svinin and Irina Zhuk. A year after the unification, the athletes joined the Russian national team. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra, paired with Ivan, became the winner of the Junior Grand Prix 6 times, which were held in France, Germany, Italy and other countries.

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In 2011, the couple began to take part in the World Junior Championships. At first they were second, and in the 2012/2013 season they won the first championship gold. At the end of 2013, they fought for prizes in adult competitions.

The highest places were achieved by Alexandra and Ivan at the Finlandia Trophy, an annual international competition held by the Finnish Figure Skating Federation. The famous figure skaters Evgeni Plushenko, Alexey Yagudin, Irina Slutskaya, Maria Butyrskaya, as well as the star of the Sochi Olympics, Yulia Lipnitskaya, won gold medals at the tournament.

Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin became gold medalists of the Finlandia Trophy twice: in 2014 and 2016, and in 2017 they took the honorable 2nd place. Also, from 2014 to 2017, figure skaters received bronze at the Grand Prix stages 4 times.

In the 2014/2015 season, they became third at the European Championships (held in Stockholm), and participation in the World Championships brought them 9th, 10th and 11th places.

In December 2016, Sasha and Ivan won silver medals at the Russian Championship for the first time. The guys performed a gentle and touching ice dance with many technically challenging elements. A total of 188.28 points allowed them to take the second step of the podium. Alexandra and her partner were preparing for new competitions in the hope of receiving the highest award and delighting the audience with their performance.

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Natalya Bestemyanova called the championship of the continent, which took place 3 months later, a shame for figure skating.

The Olympic champion believed that Bukin and Stepanova were stronger than the main competitors in the national team, but all efforts were directed towards ensuring that the first pair got gold, and Alexander and his partner were “sold, pushed aside. As a result: Bobrova and Solovyov are third, Stepanova and Bukin are fifth, and all this mouse fuss did not bring anything good to either one or the other. "

Soon, the skaters presented their program at the World Championships in Helsinki and entered the top ten pairs of the competition. At the beginning of the next season, the athletes finished second at the Trophy in Finland. The Grand Prix stage, which took place in Russia, brought them bronze. The guys achieved the same result in France. At the end of the year, summing up the results at the home championship, Stepanova and Bukin finished it in the status of vice-champions of Russia.

The duet of Stepanova and Bukin did not go to the long-awaited Olympics in Korea. The International Olympic Committee, without explaining the reasons, did not allow Ivan to the Games. According to Alexandra, at that moment the parents were more upset.

In such a nervous atmosphere at the World Championships in Italy, in the absence of the strongest couples on the planet, Ivan and Alexandra took 7th place. However, according to the partner, this is not at all a reason to give up. The duo had just begun to be considered equal to the recognized giants of figure skating, and the Russians got angry in a sporty way, they wanted to prove that they had done this in vain.

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In the summer, the Russian Figure Skating Federation presented the composition of the national team for the 2018/2019 season. Stepanova and Bukin are included in the main team. The athletes began the next 4 years feeling rested, with renewed vigor and a clear head.

At the test skates, Alexandra and her partner demonstrated a short program of tango and paso-doble, created by Irina Zhuk with the support of Tatyana Navka, and a blues free program - the fruit of Pyotr Chernyshev's fantasy. The costumes, which Tatyana Tarasova called outstanding, were invented by Valentin Yudashkin for the ice duet.

The first start of the new season confirmed that nothing will knock Alexander Stepanov and Ivan Bukin out of the saddle. At the next Finlandia Trophy, skaters from Russia set 3 world records at once - in short dance, free program and in the sum of both performances. At the same time, the athletes, at least outwardly, were not at all knocked down by intentional or not - it is unknown, but an unpleasant pause. In the rhythm dance (as the short program is now called), because of the streamer hitting the ice, the judges turned off the music and allowed the couple to skate after removing the "traumatic objects".

Sasha admitted that the break played into the hands - they rested after the performance of difficult elements. And since this happened for the first time in his career, we learned for the future what to do in such a situation and how the whistle sounds to stop the performance.

The only thing the skaters later regretted was that the audience did not fully feel the beauty of the program and did not receive all the emotions they hoped for.

At the beginning of the 2019/2020 season, Stepanova suffered a back injury, which unsettled her for 2.5 months. It was not a rupture or displacement - a small problem with joints caused pain to the athlete during the skates. Required treatment in Germany.

The couple prepared for the first stage of the Grand Prix in the United States for less than a month, but this did not prevent them from taking 2nd place in the competition. For the performance of rhythm dance and free dance, the Russians scored 206.57 points. The combined result of the American pair Maddison Hubbell and Zachary Donoghue was higher (209.55).

Once again becoming silver medalists of the Russian championship, in January 2020 Stepanova and Bukin took part in the European Championship, where they set a personal record, having received the best marks in their career for free dance - 127.64 points. The total score (211.29) allowed the Russians to take 3rd place. The first two were divided between the pairs Victoria Sinitsina - Nikita Katsalapov and Gabriela Papadakis - Guillaume Sizeron.

2011 - silver medal at the World Junior Championships 2012 - gold medal at the World Junior Championships 2014, 2016, 2018 - gold medal at the Finlandia Trophy international tournament 2015, 2018, 2020 - bronze medal at the European Championships 2014, 2015 - bronze medal at the championship Russia 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 - silver medal at the Russian championship 2019 - silver medal at the European championship 2019 - silver medal at the Skate America Grand Prix

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