Jelena Jurjewna Betschke

Jelena Betschke
Jelena Betschke (right with partner Valeri Kornienko) at the XXI. International figure skating competition for the Blue Swords Cup on November 19, 1981
Full name	Jelena Jurjewna Betschke
nation	Soviet Union CIS United Team
birthday	7th January 1966
place of birth	Leningrad
size	158 cm
Weight	48 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Valery Kornienko, Denis Petrov
Trainer	Tamara Moskvina
status	resigned
End of career	1992
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver Albertville 1992 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Paris 1989 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Copenhagen 1986 Couples silver Sofia 1991 Couples silver Lausanne 1992 Couples

Jelena Jurjewna Betschke ( Russian Елена Юрьевна Бечке , born January 7, 1966 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian figure skater who competed in pair skating for the Soviet Union, the CIS and the United Team .

She initially competed with Valery Korniyenko from 1984 to 1987 . Together they won bronze at the 1986 European Championships .

From 1987 her figure skating partner was Denis Petrow . The couple trained with the well-known Russian pair trainer Tamara Moskwina . In 1989 they won the bronze medal straight away at their first World Cup in Paris . In 1991 and 1992 they became vice-European champions and in 1992 they were the last Soviet pair skating champions. The couple's greatest achievement was winning the silver medal at the 1992 Olympics behind their compatriots Natalja Mishkutjonok and Artur Dmitriev .

After this success, they withdrew from amateur sports and became professionals. After winning silver from 1992 to 1995, they became world champions there in 1996.

From 1990 to 1995 Betschke / Petrow were also married. Despite their divorce, they still started together with the professionals. Betschke also resigned from professional sports in 2000. She is married again and has a son (* 2002). Today she is a trainer in North Carolina .

Results

Pair skating

(until 1987 with Valery Korniyenko , from 1987 with Denis Petrow )

Competition / year	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992
winter Olympics							2.
World championships				3.		4th	4th
European championships	3.					2.	2.
Soviet championships			4th	4th	4th	3.	1.

Web links

• Jelena Jurjewna Betschke in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )