Marina Alexeyevna Yeltsova

Marina Yeltsova
Full name	Marina Alexeyevna Yeltsova
nation	Russia
birthday	4th February 1970
place of birth	Leningrad
size	157 cm
Weight	44 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Andrei Buschkow
Trainer	Natalia Pavlova
status	resigned
End of career	1999
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Chiba 1994 Couples gold Edmonton 1996 Couples silver Lausanne 1997 Couples  European figure skating championships gold Helsinki 1993 Couples gold Paris 1997 Couples
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 1 1  Grand Prix competitions 9 5 3

Marina Alexejewna Jelzowa ( Russian Марина Алексеевна Ельцова ; born February 4, 1970 in Leningrad ) is a former Russian figure skater who started in pair skating .

Yeltsova began her pair skating career on the side of Sergei Saizew. In 1988 they finished second at Skate America , but did not take part in any major championships. But she had international success with the seniors with her second figure skating partner Andrei Buschkow . The couple were trained by Natalia Pavlova. They started for the Jubilejni sports club.

Yeltsova and Buschkow were Russian champions in pair skating in 1995, 1997 and 1998. The couple won only two medals at European championships , but two gold medals . They succeeded in doing so at their first European Championship, in Helsinki in 1993 and a second time in Paris in 1997 . They won their first medal at world championships with bronze in 1994 in Chiba . In 1996 Buschkow and Jelzowa were world champions in Edmonton . A year later it was enough for the silver medal in Lausanne . They finished their only Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998 in seventh place.

In 1999 both ended their amateur careers . They then made a few appearances as professionals . Marina Jelzowa works as a trainer in Overland Park , Kansas .

Results

Pair skating

(with Andrei Buschkow )

Competition / year	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
winter Olympics								7th
World championships			6th	3.	4th	1.	2.	6th
European championships			1.		4th	4th	1.	Z
Soviet championships	4th	3.
Russian championships			2.	4th	1.	2.	1.	1.	4th

• Z = withdrawn because Buschkov's skid broke

Web links

• Marina Alexejewna Jelzowa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )