Alena Savchenko

In any sport there is a special person who does everything better than others. In figure skating, an athlete from Ukraine, performing under the German flag, Alena Savchenko, became special. In the sports biography of the girl, there are more than 10 gold medals in international competitions, and after performing at the Olympics in 2018, there is also a world record.

Alena Valentinovna Savchenko was born on January 19, 1984 in the town of Obukhov near Kiev, Ukraine. Valentin and Nina Savchenko have four children: three sons and a daughter, Alena. Although the parents of the future skater worked as teachers, the girl inherited sports genes and the will to win from them.

Valentin Savchenko taught physical education at school, and at some point in his life taught athletics in Germany. Valentin himself bears the title of Master of Sports of the Soviet Union in weightlifting. Nina Savchenko also attended sports training, although she did not achieve serious achievements.

Alena was barely 3 years old when the girl asked her father for skates as a gift for the holiday. Valentin Savchenko took his little daughter to the lake near his home and taught how to stand and move on the ice. At first, the girl was terrified of falling, but she quickly overcame her fears. After 2 years, 5-year-old Alena was sent to the figure skating section located in Kiev. It was there that the coach first noticed the girl's talent.

Considering that the salary of Ukrainian teachers is not high, Alena's parents were unable to rent an apartment in Kiev, and for almost 10 years her daughter went to trainings 50 km in each direction. Parents had to wake up at 4.30 in the morning to take their daughter to training in Kiev at 7.00. After several months of training, the girl was transferred to the doubles category - the most difficult one in figure skating.

Even in her youth, the girl performed in competitions, invariably taking prizes, but the entire burden of financial support for training and performances lay on the shoulders of her parents - Valentina and Nina Savchenko. At some point, they really wanted their daughter to play the piano instead of exhausting training at the rink.

Alena Savchenko began her career in the sports society "Dynamo Kiev". The first partner of the girl was the novice skater Dmitry Boenko. Despite the busy training schedule, the guys performed unsuccessfully at the World Youth Championship, taking only 13th place.

After that, Alena changed both coach and partner. Having paired with Stanislav Aleksandrovich Morozov under the leadership of the champion of the Soviet Union Galina Vladislavovna Kukhar, the girl achieved brilliant results. Having performed at the World Youth Championship in 2000, the guys brought home gold medals.

Then there were victories at the national championship, and in 2002 the athletes represented Ukraine at the Olympic Games held in Salt Lake City, where they took 15th place. After the performance, Morozov was seriously injured and even thought about ending a career in sports, as a result of which Alena began to look for a new partner.

The next partner for Alena was invited from St. Petersburg. Russian Anton Nemenko was already preparing to move to Kiev, but the couple did not receive funding and soon broke up - Anton returned to Russia. The girl did not want to leave Ukraine and even complained to her parents that she could not imagine life in Germany and performances under the German flag.

But soon Alena became a German citizen, and was coached by the athlete Ingo Steuer. Free at that time, Robin Sholkovy became an excellent partner for Alena. Together, the guys took gold at the national championship, at the European championship they became fourth, and at the world championship they got only sixth place.

In 2006, the Savchenko and Sholkovs represented Germany at the Olympics, which took place in February in Turin, Italy. The pair took 6th place. But a year later, the athletes took third place in the World Championship and first in Europe. The following season, the couple confirmed the title of European champions and won gold at the World Championships. By 2011, the athletes had 3 gold at the World Championships and 4 at the European Championships.

On the eve of the continental championship, the guys refused to participate due to Alena's injury. But already in March 2012, the skaters took first place at the World Championship. At the same time, the couple successfully performed at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Winsor, Canada.

However, she refused to participate in the next stage of the tournament, since Alena fell ill. At the World and European Championships this season, the Savchenko and Sholkovs lost to the Russians Volosozhar and Trankov.

Alena's parents in an interview say that in Germany the Ukrainian athlete has remained a stranger - the Germans do not worry about the success of the athlete and do not accept her as their own, although the girl invariably achieves victories in international competitions under the German flag.

In 2014, the skaters went to the Sochi Olympics for gold, so the third place was a serious disappointment for them. The failure was caused by gross errors in the execution of an arbitrary program.

In the same year, Robin Szolkovy announced that he was ending his sports career and plans to become a coach, and the Frenchman Bruno Massot became Savchenko's new partner. The coach of the Savchenko-Masso duet was the German Alexander Koenig.

Alena devoted her entire youth to persistent training and sports achievements, so there was no time or energy left for the guys. But in the German city of Oberheim, Alena and Bruno were invited to a party where the skater met the artist from Great Britain Liam Cross.

Despite the difference in age, which is 8 years, sympathy flared up between the young people, and soon Liam became the official husband of the Ukrainian athlete. The wedding took place in Germany in an old castle. Alain and Liam invited only family members and closest friends to the celebration. Alena posted several romantic photos from the wedding on her Instagram page.

The athlete has so far refused to take her husband's surname because of the upcoming performance at the 2018 Olympic Games, but in the future she plans to become Alena Cross.

Speaking at the World Championships in March 2017, Ukrainian Alena and Frenchman Bruno took second place for Germany, losing to a duo from China. Immediately after the competition, the athletes began tense preparations for the 2018 Olympics.

On the eve of the performance, it became known that Alena's health worsened - the skater caught a cold, she was worried about pain in her leg. But even that did not stop - Savchenko and Masso won gold medals at the 2018 Olympic Games.

Alena and Bruno skated their free program not only successfully, but setting a world record - 159.31 points, breaking their own record last season in the Grand Prix finals.

2006 - Bronze medal at the European Championship 2007 - Gold medal at the European Championship 2008 - Gold medal at the European Championship 2008 - Gold medal at the World Championship 2009 - Gold medal at the European Championship 2009 - Gold medal at the World Championship 2010 - Silver medal at the European Championship 2010 - Bronze medal at the 2011 Olympics - Gold medal at the 2011 European Championships - Gold medal at the 2012 World Championships - Gold medal at the 2013 World Championships - Silver medal at the 2014 European Championships - Bronze medal at the 2014 Olympics - Gold medal at the 2016 World Championships - silver medal at the European Championship 2017 - silver medal at the European Championship 2017 - silver medal at the 2018 world championship - gold medal at the Olympic Games

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