Halyna Smijewska

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Halyna Smijewska and Johnny Weir

Halyna Smijewska ( Ukrainian Галина Змієвська , English transcription Galina Zmievskaya ; * 1952 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian figure skating coach.

Many of Smijewska's former students were represented in the top of the world - so they led Viktor Petrenko in 1992 and Oksana Bajul to Olympic victory in 1994. In addition to her role as trainer for Oksana Bajul, she has also been her legal guardian since her mother's death. She also trained the US master Scott Davis , the Italian master Silvia Fontana , European master Vyacheslav Sahorodnjuk , the Japanese master Takeshi Honda , the Ukrainian master Natalja Popowa and Elene Gedewanishvili in 2007 and Stéphane Lambiel in 2008. She has been training the US since 2007 Master Johnny Weir .

After Bajul's Olympic victory in 1994, Smijewska moved to Simsbury , Connecticut , where she taught at the International Skating Center of Connecticut for around ten years . She then moved with her daughter Nina and her husband Wiktor to Wayne , New Jersey , where she trained students in the Ice Vault Arena .

Smijewska is married to a building contractor from Odessa . Their older daughter Nina is married to Viktor Petrenko and has created choreographies for many of Halyna Smijewska's students. Smiyevska's second daughter is also called Galina.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natalja Popowa: I'm not one of those for whom everything is easy , on ukrinform.de, December 6, 2013. Accessed February 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ Kathleen Bangs: New Coach For Johnny Weir: Three-Time US Men's Champion to Train With Galina Zmievskaya ( Memento April 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), on ifsmagazine.com, July 15, 2007 (archived version). Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  3. ^ When Olympic Champions Moved In, They Put Simsbury on the World Map. The New York Times , February 2, 1997. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ Oksana: Happy at Last. Life Magazine , June 1994, Volume 17, Issue 6, p. 72
  5. ^ Window on the World: Having Triumphed Over Tragedy, Oksana Baiul Eyes the Games . Sports Illustrated , Feb. 7, 1994, Volume 80, Issue 5, p. 78
personal data
SURNAME Smijewska, Halyna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Змієвська, Галина; Zmiyevska, Halyna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian figure skating coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa , Ukrainian SSR