Elena Hruschyna

Elena Hruschyna
nation	Ukraine
birthday	January 8, 1975
place of birth	Odessa ,  Ukrainian SSR
size	168 cm
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Ruslan Honcharov
Former partner	Mikhail Tashlitsky
society	Army Sports Club Odessa
Trainer	Nikolai Morozov , Tatiana Tarasova , Natalja Linitschuk , Gennady Karponosov , A. Tumanowski
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Moscow 2005 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Budapest 2004 Ice dance silver Turin 2005 Ice dance silver Lyon 2006 Ice dance
Personal best
Total points 213.95 World Cup 2005  Freestyle 109.48 World Cup 2005  Original dance 63.23 Cup of Russia 2004  Compulsory dance 41.30 World Cup 2005
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 1 0  Grand Prix competitions 4th 6th 1

Elena Hruschyna ( Ukrainian Елена Грушина ; born January 8, 1975 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian figure skater who started in ice dancing .

Career

Hruschyna started figure skating at the age of four. Her first ice dance partner was Mikhail Taschlitsky , who gave up figure skating because of his training.

In 1990 Ruslan Honcharov became Hruschynas ice dance partner. Still starting for the Soviet Union, they finished fourth at the Junior World Championships in 1992. In 1994 they made their debut at the Senior World Championships and in 1995 at the European Championships . In the same year they got married. In 1998 they played their first Olympic Games and finished in 15th place. In 1999 they were Ukrainian champions for the first time and were among the top ten at World and European Championships for the first time. In their second Olympic Games in 2002 , they finished ninth. In the 2002/03 season, Hruschyna and Hontscharow won Skate America , Skate Canada and the Trophée Lalique and thus all the Grand Prix competitions in which they participated. At the Grand Prix final , however, they missed a medal in fourth place. At the 2004 European Championships , the Ukrainians won their first bronze medal at an important international championship. In 2005 they became vice European champions and won their only world championship medal with bronze at the world championships in Moscow . In 2006 they were again runner-up European champions and won the bronze medal in their third Olympic Games in Turin behind the Russians Tatjana Nawka and Roman Kostomarow and the Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto . After this success, Hruschyna and Honcharov ended their competitive careers.

Hruschyna and Honcharov are divorced. Hruschyna is today with the presenter of the Russian edition of Dancing on Ice, Mikhail Zelensky . In 2008 their daughter was born.

Results

Ice dance

(with Ruslan Honcharov )

Championship / year	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
winter Olympics						15th				9.				3.
World championships		18th	22nd	16.		13.	8th.	7th	8th.	6th	5.	4th	3.
European championships			14th	13.	13.		7th	8th.	7th	8th.	4th	3.	2.	2.
Ukrainian championships	2.	3.	2.	3.	2.	2.	1.			1.		1.	1.	1.
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Grand Prix competition / season	92/93	93/94	94/95	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06
Grand Prix Final											4th	4th		2.
Skate America				8th.							1.	2.
Skate Canada							4th	2.	4th		1.			2.
Trophée Lalique											1.			1.
Cup of Russia					9.					3.			2.
Bofrost Cup					10.
NHK Trophy								4th	4th	5.		2.
Cup of China												2.

Web links

Commons : Elena Hruschyna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ruslan Hontscharow / Olena Hruschyna in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Elena Hruschyna in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website of the ice dancing couple

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.goldenskate.com/2002/11/grushina-and-goncharov-win-three-grand-prix-golds/
2. ↑ http://www.goldenskate.com/2002/11/grushina-and-goncharov-win-three-grand-prix-golds/
3. ↑ http://7dn.ru/article/privatelife/577152
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.