Elena Grushina

Elena Hruschyna (Ukrainian Елена Грушина; born January 8, 1975 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a former Ukrainian figure skater who started in ice dancing.

Career

Hruschyna began at the age of four years with the figure skating. Your first Eistanzpartner was Mikhail Taschlitski who gave up figure skating because of his training.

1990 Ruslan Hontscharow Hruschynas Eistanzpartner was. Starting yet for the Soviet Union, they were fourth at the Junior World Championship 1992. 1994 she debuted at the Senior World Championships and at the 1995 European Championships. In the same year they got married. In 1998, she contested her first Olympics and finished it on the 15th Place. In 1999 she first went as a Ukrainian champion and reached for the first time placements in the top ten at the World and European Championships. In her second Olympics they finished in ninth place in 2002. In the season 2002/ 03 Hruschyna and Hontscharow Skate America, Skate Canada and the Trophée Lalique and thus all Grand Prix competitions in which they participated won. At the Grand Prix Final but they missed a medal in fourth. At the European Championships 2004, the Ukrainians won bronze with her ​​first medal at a major international championship. In 2005 she was vice - European champion and won bronze at the World Championships in Moscow their only World Championship medal. In 2006 they were again Vice - European Champion and won in Turin in her third Olympics, the bronze medal behind the Russians Tatiana Nawka and Roman Kostomarov, as well as the Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto. After this success Hruschyna and Hontscharow ended their competitive career.

Hruschyna and Hontscharow are divorced. Hruschyna today with the moderator of the Russian edition of Dancing on Ice, Mikhail Zelenski together. 2008 their daughter was born.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Ruslan Hontscharow )

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