Maxim Pavlovich Kovtun

Maxim Kowtun
Full name	Maxim Pavlovich Kovtun
nation	Russia
birthday	June 18, 1995
place of birth	Ekaterinburg
size	180 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
society	CSKA
Trainer	Inna Goncharenko (former Coach: Jelena Wodoresowa , Tatiana Tarasova , Maxim Sawosin, Nikolai Morozov , Marina Woizechowskaja)
choreographer	Anna Bilibina, Jelena Maslennikova (former choreographers: Irina Tagajewa , Peter Tschernyshev)
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 1 ×
European figure skating championships silver Stockholm 2015 Men's bronze Bratislava 2016 Men's silver Ostrava 2017 Men's
Personal best
Total points 266.80 EM 2017  Freestyle 172.27 EM 2017  Short program 94.53 EM 2017
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 2 3 0
last change: January 28, 2017

Maxim Pawlowitsch Kowtun (Russian Максим Павлович Ковтун, born June 18, 1995 in Yekaterinburg ) is a Russian figure skater who starts in a single run .

Career

Kowtun began ice skating at the age of four and took up figure skating training at the age of seven. In 2011 Nikolai Morozov became his trainer. Kovtun's first international senior tournament was the 2012 World Team Trophy , where he replaced the injured Sergei Voronov .

Before the 2012/13 season, Kowtun moved to Jelena Wodoresowa and Tatiana Tarasowa . He won both Grand Prix competitions as well as the Junior Grand Prix Final. At the Russian Championships he was fifth. Nevertheless, the Russian Federation nominated him for the European Championship . On his debut in Zagreb, he finished fifth. He achieved personal bests in all segments. Due to the good performance, the Russian Federation sent him to the World Cup as the only individual runner . He finished this debut in 17th place.

In 2014 Kovtun went for the first time as a Russian champion . By winning the silver medal in both of his Grand Prix appearances , the Cup of Russia and the Cup of China , he won his first Grand Prix medals and thus qualified for the Grand Prix final for the first time . On his debut, he finished fifth. As in the previous year, he finished fifth at the European Championships . The world championship in Saitama , on the other hand, brought fourth place, a significant increase over the previous year.

In the 2014/15 season, Kowtun won both of his Grand Prix appearances for the first time in his career . So he only won his first participation in the Eric Bompard Trophy before he could also win the Cup of China . He qualified for the second time in a row for the Grand Prix final . There he took fourth place. After Kowtun had defended his title at the national championships , he won his first European championship medal with silver at the European championship 2015 in Stockholm . He finished the world championship in seventh place.

In December 2015, Kovtun became Russian champions for the third time in a row . The European championship brought the bronze medal for the Russian. The world championship in Boston was disappointing , in which Kowtun only reached 18th place after numerous mistakes.

Kovtun lost his national championship title to Mikhail Kolyada in December 2016 . At the European Championships he was runner-up behind Javier Fernández and ahead of compatriot Koljada. At the World Championships in Helsinki he fell in the short program in his four-fold individual jump, the toe loop . After a faulty freestyle, it was enough for eleventh place in the end.

Results

Championship / year	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
World championships			17th	4th	7th	18th	11.
European championships			5.	5.	2.	3.	2.
Russian championships	11.	12.	5.	1.	1.	1.	3.
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Grand Prix competition / season	10/11	11/12	12/13	13/14	14/15	15/16	16/17
Grand Prix Final				5.	4th
Skate America							7th
Cup of Russia				2.
Eric Bompard Trophy					1.	2.
NHK Trophy						10.
Cup of China				2.	1.		7th

Web links

Commons : Maxim Kowtun  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Maxim Kowtun in the database of the International Skating Union (English)