Elena Valova

Yelena Alexandrovna Walowa (Russian: Елена Александровна Валова; born January 2, 1963 in Leningrad) is a former Russian figure skater, which was launched in pair skating for the Soviet Union.

Walowa began figure skating at a small public skating rink near her home. But with the professional and regular exercise she began when her grandmother she registered in a child's figure skating group. She was 7 years old. Tamara Moskvina recommended her because of their abilities to try pair skating. Oleg Vasilyev was elected to her partner. So the sports pair Jelena Walowa / Oleg Vasiliev was born. They were 15 and 18 years old. Their only coach during their amateur and professional career was Tamara Moskvina.

During their European Championship debut in 1983 in Dortmund were Walowa and Wassilijew European vice-champion behind Sabine Bäß and Tassilo Thierenbach from the GDR. A little later they defeated in their first World Championship in Helsinki, the East German couple and were thus at once a world champion. In 1984 she won in Budapest her first European title. In Sarajevo, they were in their first Olympic Games Olympic champion in front of Caitlin and Peter Carruthers of the U.S. and its compatriots Larissa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov. At the World Championships in Ottawa, the reigning Olympic champion defeated by the Canadians Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini and could defend its world title not be. 1985 managed Walowa and Wassilijew it to be both European champion as well as world champion for the first and only time in her career in the same year. This they succeeded at the European Championships in Gothenburg and the World Championships in Tokyo Selezneva and Makarov. 1986 won Walowa and Wassilijew the first and only time in her career in the Soviet championships and were in Copenhagen for the third and final time European champions. In Geneva, they were runner-up behind their compatriots Ekaterina and Sergei Gordejewa Grinkow that they could defeat at the European Championships yet. In 1987, she won both the European Championship as well as the World Championship silver medal, while they lost only Selezneva / Makarov and then like at the World Cup last year Gordejewa / Grinkow. In 1988 she took part in her second Olympic Games. In Calgary, they managed to win as defending the silver medal behind Gordejewa and Grinkow. The conclusion of her career was the 1988 World Championships in Budapest, where she for the third time world champion, were referred by their two largest competitors in the courts.

Jelena Walowa and Oleg Wassilijew were the first pair that showed a three-fold jump side by side, the first pair, which showed a three-fold jump in the combination next to each other and the first Soviet figure skaters who still appeared professionally after her amateur career.

Jelena Walowa and Oleg Wassilijew were married from 1984 to 1992 together. Jelena Walowa is remarried and has a son. She works as a trainer in the USA.

Results

Pair of running

( with Oleg Vasiliev )

Winter Olympic Games 1983 World Figure Skating Championships 1984 World Figure Skating Championships 1985 World Figure Skating Championships 1986 World Figure Skating Championships 1987 World Figure Skating Championships 1988 World Figure Skating Championships 1983 European Figure Skating Championships 1984 European Figure Skating Championships 1985 European Figure Skating Championships 1986 European Figure Skating Championships 1987 European Figure Skating Championships Tassilo Thierbach List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Kitty Carruthers Russian Figure Skating Championships Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Ria Baran Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Barbara Wagner Oleg Protopopov Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Oksana Kazakova David Pelletier Shen Xue Maxim Trankov Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson Karl Mejstrik Ludwig Wrede Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Jennifer Nicks John Nicks Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden Maria Jelinek Otto Jelinek Irina Vorobieva Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler Ingo Steuer Pang Qing Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy Olga Orgonista Idi Papez Karl Zwack Marianna Nagy (figure skater) Silvia Grandjean Michel Grandjean Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov (figure skater) Igor Moskvin Nina Zhuk Alexei Mishin Marina Pestova Denis Petrov
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