Andrejs Vlascenko

Andrejs Vlascenko

nation

Germany Latvia (until 1994)

birthday

June 15, 1974

place of birth

Weimar, GDR

size

183 cm

Career

discipline

Individual race men

society

Munich ice skating club

Trainer

Alexander Vedenin
Steffi Ruttkies
Anzelika Surupowa
Viktor Kudriawtsew

choreographer

Igor Bobrin

status

resigned

End of career

2004

Personal best

Total points	188.54	Skate America 2003
Freestyle	123.68	Skate America 2003
Short program	64.86	Skate America 2003

Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix

Podium placements	1.	2.	3.
Grand Prix competitions	0	0	3

Andrejs Vlascenko ( Russian Андрей Влащенко , German transliteration Andrei Vlaschtschenko ; born June 15, 1974 in Weimar ) is a German figure skater and coach of Russian-Latvian origin. He was multiple Latvian and German champions in the individual run .

biography

Andrejs Vlascenko's parents worked in Weimar (then GDR ) for the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany . When Vlascenko was two years old, his Russian father, an army officer, was transferred back to the Soviet Union in Latvia . Vlascenko grew up in Riga , where he started figure skating in 1980 at the age of six. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , Vlascenko's parents separated; he stayed with his mother and took Latvian citizenship. As a student of Anzelika Surupova he became Latvian champion in 1992 and 1994, started in 1993 at the Junior World Championships for Latvia and reached 8th place.

After the 1994 World Cup, Andrejs Vlascenko moved with his trainer Anzelika Surupova to his native Germany and found a new sporting home at TuS Stuttgart Eissport. Supervised by his trainer and long-time partner Anzelika Surupova, he immediately won the national title in 1995. A year later he was given the right to start the German team. At the 1996 World Cup in Canada , Vlascenko was the second German runner after Norbert Schramm to take a three-time Axel in an international competition.

In autumn 1997, at the beginning of his internationally most successful season, Vlascenko's naturalization to Germany was rejected because he had become conspicuous while driving a car shortly beforehand. He drove once without a license and once under the influence of alcohol. The lack of German citizenship prevented Germany from starting the Olympics.

Vlascenko trained with Surupowa in Füssen from 1999 , but moved to Steffi Ruttkies in Munich the following year . Most recently (since 2002) the athlete who was active for the Munich EV was supervised by Alexander Wedenin . In 2004 he ended his amateur career as a figure skater.

Andrejs Vlascenko first lived and worked in Dortmund and Herford as a trainer, and has been in this position in Munich since March 2007. He is married to Mrs. Olena and has had a son Alexander since August 2005.