Anton Sikharulidze

Anton Sikharulidze is a Russian figure skater who became famous for working together with Elena Berezhnaya. Athletes became Olympic medalists, two-time world and European champions.

Today he is a successful businessman who is involved in construction in the energy sector.

Russian figure skating star Anton Tarielievich Sikharulidze was born on October 25, 1976 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), into a family that was not associated with sports. He attended a simple general education school. Dad Tariel Sikharulidze worked as vice-rector of the Maritime Technical University. Despite his nationality, Anton had never been to Georgia in his childhood. The trip to Tbilisi was postponed every time "for later".

The boy started skating at the age of 4: when he saw a neighbor's boy, he demanded to buy the same. Parents bought their son the first skates, which were attached to felt boots with leather straps. So the sports biography of Anton Sikharulidze began.

At the open skating rink of the Krasny Vyborzhets stadium, figure skating coach Tatyana Kositsyna, who recently graduated from the Institute of Physical Culture and Sports, drew attention to the talented boy. She opened the way for Anton to the big sport. After graduation, the young man entered the Lesgaft St. Petersburg State Academy of Physical Culture, which he successfully graduated from.

When Anton was 15 years old, the coach decided that it was time for him to move from single skating to pair skating. Sikharulidze's first partner on the ice was Maria Petrova, with whom they took first places at the World Junior Championships for 2 years in a row (in 1994 and 1995).

Anton Sikharulidze met another figure skater and future ice partner Elena Berezhnaya at the Russian Cup stage. Their joint work was preceded by a tragedy. In Latvia, where in the winter of 1995, the athlete, together with her partner Oleg Shlyakhov, began preparations for the European Championship, an accident occurred: Shlyakhov, while performing a rotation, terribly injured the skater by driving the blade of a skate into her head.

Upon learning of the incident, Sikharulidze took Berezhnaya to Petersburg, where she was assisted by the best doctors. Anton supported the girl throughout the postoperative period. Persistent training, excellent physical data, temperament allowed this couple to achieve high results.

Already in the 1996/1997 season, the Berezhnaya-Sikharulidze pair took 3rd place at the Trophee Lalique competition, and then won a bronze medal at the European Championship. In 1998, the couple competed at the Nagano Olympics. The athletes skated the program flawlessly, but failed at the end of the performance. They took only 2nd place, losing gold to their colleagues from Russia - Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev.

The history of figure skating included the program "Charlie Chaplin", which Sikharulidze and Berezhnaya skated in the 2000/2001 season as a free program, and then as an indicative number. In 2002, this flamboyant couple represented Russia at the Olympic Games, winning the highest award.

At the Salt Lake City Olympics, the situation was tense to the last. Before the performance, during a rehearsal on the ice, an athlete from a Canadian pair crashed into Anton Sikharulidze. The Russian narrowly escaped the fall. He only managed to push his partner away and protect Elena from danger. A new injury after a difficult recovery could be fatal for Berezhnaya. This incident confused the public, but the skaters themselves remained in a collected state.

After a brilliant performance, there was a scandal involving a pair of Sikharulidze-Berezhnaya. The Russian couple, it seemed, should win and get the maximum marks. However, the judges were in no hurry to bring the Russians into the unequivocal champions, and as a result, one judge's vote decided everything in their favor.

Canadian pair Sale-Pelletier challenged silver, filed a protest and secured the removal of the French referee, whose decision was decisive. As a rule, judicial decisions do not change after the fact, but in this case, Olympic officials decided to award gold medals to both pairs. Anton and Elena had to go to the awards ceremony for the second time.

Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya left professional sports immediately after the end of the Olympic Games and from 2002 to 2006 toured the United States with the Stars on Ice show. At the end of the contract, they returned to St. Petersburg.

After the end of his career, Sikharulidze began appearing in television programs and shows related to figure skating. He participated in the projects of Channel One "Stars on Ice" with the singer Natalia Ionova (Gluk'OZA) and "Ice Age" together with the ballerina Anastasia Volochkova. In 2010 he appeared in the project of the First Channel "Ice and Fire" together with the singer Zara.

And in 2010-2011, Anton and his former partner Elena Berezhnaya met again on the ice. This time, the athletes took part in the ice performance “Big City Lights” by Ilya Averbukh. They performed the number "Chaplin and the Flower Girl".

Anton's biography is multifaceted. In the spring of 2005, Sikharulidze tried himself in the restaurant business, but a year later he went into politics and became a member of the United Russia party, was elected to the State Duma. From 2008 to 2012 - Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports.

While in public service, Anton helped his coach, who made him an Olympic champion, Tamara Moskvina, to open a figure skating club in St. Petersburg. The ice arena was provided by Gazprom, the city administration has undertaken to pay utility bills. By this time, Sikharulidze organized a construction company that was engaged in the construction of panel and monolithic civil houses. Later he switched to construction in the energy sector.

The fans perceived the Sikharulidze-Berezhnaya couple as one whole. A stately athlete (with a height of 182 cm, his weight reached 76 kg), an athlete and a fragile partner looked harmoniously on the ice. The skaters had a romantic period, but Anton always remained Lena's best friend and figure skating partner.

To the disappointment of the fans of the star couple Sikharulidze-Berezhnaya, their love story never ended with a happy ending. The athletes were close, supported each other, became, according to the skater, each other "brother and sister". Later, each went his own way, warm friendly relations remained.

The couple reunited in 2014, on the eve of the premiere of the film "The Champions". To the authors of the sports film almanac, consisting of a number of short stories, it was the plot of this pair that seemed worthy of filming.

Anton often struck up short novels with models, ballerinas, students. The tabloids were constantly writing about this romantic relationship. In his native St. Petersburg, Anton had an affair with Zarifa Mgoyan, the singer Zara. But the idea of ​​getting married came to him only in 2008, when the skater met with a student of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, Nadezhda Obolontseva. They even set a wedding date and invited guests, but the girl never became the athlete's wife.

A serious relationship arose between Sikharulidze and the young gymnast, Olympic champion Evgenia Kanaeva. They had a difference in age, but Anton saw in the athlete a girl who was suitable for the role of the mistress of his house. Over time, the lack of common interests divorced the couple.

Anton went to the crown only in August 2011, when he was 35 years old. His wife was the daughter of a politician and Russian billionaire Leonid Lebedev, 24-year-old Yana Lebedeva. A luxurious wedding took place in an old Spanish castle. In 2011, Anton Sikharulidze and Yana Lebedeva became Glamor's Couple of the Year, but this did not save their marriage.

In 2013, the relationship ended in divorce. But soon a fateful meeting took place in the athlete's personal life.

In 2014, 37-year-old Anton Sikharulidze became a father for the first time. The kid was called George. He was born on March 24 in the elite Lapino hospital near Moscow. The boy's mother is 41-year-old Victoria Shamanskaya, who runs a fashionable St. Petersburg boutique "Butterfly" on Nevsky Prospekt.

The couple did not register their relationship immediately; Victoria took her husband's surname.

In 2016, Anton became a father for the second time. The second son, born in the summer, was named Victor. Now the skater and his wife Victoria devote all their free time to children. And not only their own. Sikharulidze travels around the country and organizes master classes for pupils of sports schools.

Anton Tarielievich does not maintain a personal Instagram, it is not on other social networks either, so rare photos of the skater only appear on the pages of his colleagues and fans.

Now the former athlete continues to do business. Sikharulidze's company Gazenergoservice LLC closely cooperates with the Russian concern Gazprom. The organization is engaged in the construction of storage facilities, oil and gas production points in the cities of Novy Urengoy, Syktyvkar, Ukhta, Vologda. In 2018, the company entered into an agreement for the additional equipment of the second experimental section of the Achimov deposits of the Urengoyskoye field. The cost of the state contract was 1.24 billion rubles. During the year, 6 projects were implemented for 7.8 billion rubles.

Business does not prevent Anton Sikharulidze from passing on his experience to the younger generation. The former athlete supports figure skating schools in the regions. In the fall of 2018, he visited Tula, where the ceremonial opening of the skating rink on the main square of the city took place. At the festive ceremony, an ice show was held, in which the former figure skater also became a participant. Earlier Anton held a master class for local young talents. For the same purpose, he visited Novomoskovsk.

1998 - silver medalist of the Winter Olympic Games 1998, 1999 - 2-time world champion 1998, 2001 - 2-time European champion 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 - 4-time Russian champion 2002 - Olympic champion

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