Larisa Selezneva

Larissa Yuryevna Selezneva (Russian Лариса Юрьевна Селезнёва; born September 12, 1963 in Leningrad) is a former Russian figure skater, which was launched in pair skating for the Soviet Union.

Your figure skating partner was Oleg Makarov. They trained with Igor Moskvin. 1980 and 1981 were Selezneva and Makarov Junior World Champion. In 1984 she had her debut at the major international tournaments in the elderly. They finished their first World Cup and European Championship in fourth place and won at the Olympic Games in Sarajevo once the bronze medal. 1985 Selezneva and Makarov for the first time Soviet champion. With strong parallel triple jumps, they won silver at the World Championships in Tokyo and the European Championships in Gothenburg their first medals. They narrowly missed the gold medal behind the Olympic champions Jelena Walowa and Oleg Vasiliev.

Selezneva and Makarov could the upward trend, they had experienced since the beginning of her career, but does not continue. They were less constant in the following years. At the World Championships in 1986 and 1987 and the 1988 Olympic Games, they made ​​mistakes and missed a medal in fourth. In 1988, she won bronze behind their compatriots Walowa and Vasilyev and Yekaterina Gordejewa and Sergei Grinkow their last medal at the world championships. At the European Championships, they were successful, however. 1988 and 1990 they were Vice-European Champion and 1987 in Sarajevo and 1989 in Birmingham European champions. In the Soviet championships they won in the years 1988 to 1990 their titles from two to four. In 1990, she ended her career.

Selezneva and Makarov are married and currently working as a trainer at the Ice Time Sports Complex in Newburgh, New York. They have a daughter and a son. Her daughter is the Russian Champion of 2010, Xenia Makarova.

Results

Pair of running

( with Oleg Makarov )

  • J = Junior
Winter Olympic Games 1985 World Figure Skating Championships 1988 World Figure Skating Championships 1985 European Figure Skating Championships 1987 European Figure Skating Championships 1988 European Figure Skating Championships 1989 European Figure Skating Championships 1990 European Figure Skating Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships 1984 World Figure Skating Championships 1984 European Figure Skating Championships 1986 World Figure Skating Championships 1987 World Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating 1990 World Figure Skating Championships Russian Figure Skating Championships Olga Orgonista Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Idi Papez Karl Zwack Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Marianna Nagy (figure skater) Ria Baran Jennifer Nicks John Nicks Silvia Grandjean Michel Grandjean Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Oleg Protopopov Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Irina Vorobieva Tassilo Thierbach Ingo Steuer Oksana Kazakova Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov (figure skater) Maxim Trankov Barbara Underhill Kristi Yamaguchi Julia Vlassov Sui Wenjing Han Cong Nina Zhuk Alexei Mishin Marina Pestova Denis Petrov
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