Maksim Kovtun

Maxim Kovtun is an outstanding Russian figure skater, a star of men's singles skating.

Maxim Pavlovich Kovtun is a native of Yekaterinburg. He was born on June 18, 1995 into a family of athletes. Dad Pavel Alekseevich devoted his whole life to figure skating: in his youth he went on the ice in pairs, and later became the coach of the children's sports school Lokomotiv. Mom Elena Alekseevna devoted herself entirely to children and their sports careers: Maxim has two older brother figure skaters.

The first time Maxim's foot stepped on professional ice, when the boy was barely 4 years old. Following his older brothers, his mother brought him to the stadium of the Youth Sports School “Lokomotiv” and gave him to the section of Marina Voitsekhovskaya.

It is noteworthy that figure skating was not the only goal of the younger Kovtun. On the contrary, as a child, he dreamed of a hockey career. However, by the age of 10, having felt his potential as a skater, he finally decided.

Around that time, really intense training began - the boy spent all his free time on the ice with a coach, picking up what was missing from his own father on the docks. And success was not long in coming: at the age of 12, Maxim Kovtun won an unconditional victory in the Crystal Horse competition.

The second significant award for the young figure skater was the Russian Cup - 2009 (first place among young men). Immediately after her - in 2010, followed by the silver medal of the European Olympic Festival. And in the spring of 2011, the family decided to move to Moscow. There Maxim began training under the guidance of Nikolai Morozov.

The period 2011/2012 was marked for the Ural athlete by winning the Junior Grand Prix in Romania. At the stage in Estonia, Maxim took “silver”, and by the end of the competition took 4th place. Already at this time, a tendency to "uneven" performances began to emerge: taking first places in some competitions, the skater was among the last in others.

This happened in 2012, when the bronze won at the Russian Championship was replaced by the twelfth place at the World Team Trophy in Japan. Not seeing a reliable stable athlete in his ward, Nikolai Morozov expelled Kovtun from his group. However, the famous Elena Vodorezova immediately took him under her wing.

With her, Maxim achieved great success:

mastered the most complex cascades; took 5th place at the Russian championship in December 2012; became one of the winners at the European Championship in Zagreb.

It is worth noting that it was at this time that Tatyana Tarasova noticed him, who later actively joined in the preparation of the athlete for the Sochi Olympics.

Experts noticed the obvious progress in skiing Maxim in November 2013. In two programs, Kovtun masterly performed four difficult quadruple jumps. This gave him the opportunity to take 2nd place at the Grap Prix stage in China, win the short program at the stage in Moscow and reach the final. Since 9 years before that our skaters did not show such results, the achievement was recognized as a great success.

But the real sensation was the performance of Maxim Kovtun at the end of 2013 - in the Russian championship he took 1st place, beating Evgeny Plushenko, who had held the championship since 2003. However, this did not affect the Federation's decision to send Plushenko to the Sochi Olympics, and Kovtun went as a substitute.

During 2014, Maxim's skating was again unstable. He was even compared with the controversial performances of fellow countrywoman Yulia Lipnitskaya: one school - one problem.

The obvious failures and failures were followed by successes and bright performances:

at the Chinese stage of the Grand Prix, Kovtun took first place; at the stage in Bordeaux, he made two gross mistakes and ended up in sixth place; finished fourth in the Grand Prix final; won a gold medal at the national championship and silver at the European championship; shared third place at the Barcelona Grand Prix with Sergei Voronov; dropped to 7th in the championship in Shanghai.

All this time, Kovtun trained under the guidance of Elena Vodorezova and was considered Tatyana Tarasova's ward.

The 2015-2016 season began quite well for Maxim. The first success was the victory at the tournament in Saransk, the second - the silver at the Grand Prix in France. Kovtun also skated brilliantly in his small homeland - he won the national championship in Yekaterinburg by performing 5 quadruple jumps.

Failure befell the athlete in April 2016, when in the world championship in Boston he uncertainly took only 18th place. And on May 16, all the news was full of news that Kovtun had changed his coach. Having left Vodorezova, who had once believed in him, Maxim asked to join Inna Goncharenko's group.

The popular skater did not even disclose the reason for leaving his Instagram subscribers, although it is with them that he most often shares his thoughts and plans. The only thing he noted was the need for further growth.

May 19, 2014 Maxim Kovtun was drafted into the army. He was to serve in Balashikha, near Moscow, where a sports company is stationed.

The first posts of the popular athlete on Twitter about this were full of optimism: he wrote that he was extremely interested in how the service in sports companies proceeds. However, later the optimism disappeared. In his interviews, the rookie often complained about the high workload.

Kovtun spent several weeks in the army, completing an accelerated course for a young soldier. He was later released to continue training.

With Inna Goncharenko Maxim prepared for Finlandia Trophy, where he took 3rd place and became the best in the short program. The next competition was the American stage of the Grand Prix, where Kovtun allowed a fall in the free program and was seventh in the end. And at the very end of 2016 he won a bronze medal at the next national championship.

For the first time, they started talking about Maxim's personal life in 2012. Then he was seen in connection with the 19-year-old figure skater Ekaterina Pushkash. Young people met for a long time, and Maxim's mother even said that her son considered Katya a bride. But the couple was not destined to stay together. The reason was the distance - Puskas decided to train in the USA.

More recently, pictures appeared on the network where Maxim was captured with the Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova. It turned out that young people go on vacation together, go to ski resorts, and celebrate birthdays. Numerous rumors were not long in coming. The fans' fantasies quickly grew before the imminent wedding.

However, this information is categorically denied by both the skaters themselves and their parents. According to them, Maxim and Adeline have known each other since childhood, often crossed paths at various competitions and now they simply maintain warm friendly relations.

Now his girlfriend is gymnast Chilita Bagji. It is rumored that he not only devotes all his free time to her, but also sacrifices training for the meetings. Whether this is true or not, one can only guess, but in the skater's microblog you can find many joint photographs taken at different times of the day.

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