Marina Pestova

Marina Pestowa (Russian Марина Пестова; born December 20, 1964 in Sverdlovsk ) is a former Russian figure skater, which was launched in pair skating for the Soviet Union.

Pestowas figure skating partner was Stanislaw Leonovich. Training was the pair of Stanislav Zhuk and Igor Ksenofontow.

Pestowa and Leonovich were in the years 1980, 1982 and 1983 Soviet champion in pair skating. Her debut at the World and European Championships they contested in 1978 with the seventh place respectively. In 1980, she won her first medals. Both at the European Championships in Gothenburg as well as at the World Championships in Dortmund, they won the bronze medal. Your only Olympics they finished 1980 in Lake Placid in fourth place. The most successful years of the pair was 1982. Was not until they were in Lyon Vice - European Champion and then in Copenhagen also runners-up, both times behind Sabine Bäß and Tassilo Thierenbach from the GDR. Your last international appearance had Pestowa and Leonovich in the World Cup 1983., Where they finished sixth. Then they finished their career.

Marina Pestowa married pair skater Marat Akbarow and has a daughter with him.

Results

Pair of running

( with Stanislaw Leonovich )

1980 World Figure Skating Championships 1982 World Figure Skating Championships 1980 European Figure Skating Championships 1982 European Figure Skating Championships 1978 World Figure Skating Championships 1978 European Figure Skating Championships Winter Olympic Games Tassilo Thierbach East Germany 1983 World Figure Skating Championships 1979 World Figure Skating Championships 1979 European Figure Skating Championships Russian Figure Skating Championships Igor Moskvin Nina Zhuk Oleg Protopopov Alexei Mishin Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Irina Vorobieva Denis Petrov
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