Jelena Ruslanovna Ilyinych

Jelena Ilyinych
Full name	Jelena Ruslanovna Ilyinych
nation	Russia
birthday	April 25, 1994
place of birth	Aqtau, Kazakhstan
size	164 cm
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Nikita Kazalapov
Former partner	Ivan Bukin
Trainer	Alexander Schulin, Oleg Volkov
choreographer	Lyudmila Vlasova
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi team bronze 2014 Sochi Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Sheffield 2012 Ice dance silver Zagreb 2013 Ice dance
Personal best
Total points 161.00 World Cup 2012  Freestyle 95.66 World Cup 2012  Short program 65.70 Cup of Russia 2012
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 0 1 2
last change: January 25, 2013

Jelena Ruslanowna Iljinych ( Russian Елена Руслановна Ильиных ; born April 25, 1994 in Aktau , Kazakhstan ) is a Russian figure skater who starts in ice dancing .

Her ice dance partner is Nikita Kazalapow . The couple trains with Alexander Schulin and Oleg Volkov in Moscow.

In 2010, Ilyinych and Kazalapow became junior world champions in The Hague .

In 2011 they came third in the Russian championships and contested their first world and European championships . They finished fourth at the European Championships and seventh at the World Championships .

As Russian runners-up , Ilyinych and Kazalapov won their first medal at the European Championships in Sheffield in 2012 with bronze . At the World Championships in Nice they improved by two places to fifth compared to the previous year, making them the best Russian ice dance couple.

In 2013 Ilyinych and Kazalapov won the silver medal at the European Championships in Zagreb behind their teammates Yekaterina Bobrowa and Dmitri Solowjow .

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Ilyinych was able to win the bronze medal in ice dancing with Kazalapov and also achieve the Olympic victory with the team. With 183.48 points (73.04 points in the short program / 110.44 points in the freestyle), they were only worse than Meryl Davis and Charlie White from the USA and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir from Canada in ice dancing . In the team competition they got 103.48 points in the freestyle, which meant that they were only beaten by Davis / White and Virtue / Moir. Jekaterina Bobrowa and Dmitri Solowjow had danced the short dance .

Results

Ice dance

(with Nikita Kazalapow )

Championship / year	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
winter Olympics					3.
Olympic Winter Games (team)					1.
World championships		7th	5.	9.
European championships		4th	3.	2.
Junior World Championships	1.
Russian championships		3.	2.	2.
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Grand Prix competition / season	09/10	10/11	11/12	12/13	13/14
Grand Prix Final				6th
Cup of Russia		3.		2.
NHK Trophy		4th	3.	2.
Eric Bompard Trophy			4th

Ilyinych and Kazalapov at the 2010 Cup of Russia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eistanz, accessed on February 21, 2014 ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 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.  
2. ^ ARD Olympia, figure skating team competition. Archived from the original on April 4, 2015 ; accessed on February 21, 2014 . 

Web links

Commons : Jelena Iljinych  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jelena Iljinych / Nikita Kazalapow in the database of the International Skating Union (English)