Maxim Shabalin

Maxim Andreevich Shabalin (Russian Максим Андреевич Шабалин, born January 25, 1982 in Samara ) is a Russian former figure skater, who started ice dancing.

Life

The parents of Maxim Shabalin hot Olga and Andrei Vladimirovich Wassiljewna Shabalin. He has a younger sister named Olesja Andrejewna Schabalina.

Shabalin began figure skating at the age of five years. At the age of fifteen, he left the Soviet Union to train in Bulgaria with Margarita Totewa. The couple also started for Bulgaria. He returned in 1999 but returned to Russia to start first with Jelena Chaliawina ( for Russia). Shabalin / Chaliawina occupied at the World Figure Skating Junior World Championships in 2001 and a year later the third to second place. They trained with Oleg Sudakov.

In the spring of 2002 he made a trial with Oksana Domnina. For this trial was more and the pair started together from now on. Already in their first season together they became junior world champion and also won all other competitions in which they participated. Likewise, they were able to qualify through their third place at the Russian Championships for the World and European Championships.

2005, they were to be Russian champion in ice dancing in the absence of the reigning world and European champion Tatjana Nawka and Roman Kostomarow first time. Also in the international competitions they could ever improve. The following year, they were again second at the Russian Championships behind Nawka / Kostomarow. At the Olympic Games in Turin, they could occupy the eighth.

2007 won Domnina / Shabalin first time a medal at the European Championships when she took second place behind Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder. This year, they were again also Russian champions. In the same season they could for the first time in first place at a Grand Prix ( Cup of China) gain.

In the 2007 /08 season they won both the Cup of Russia, as well as the Grand Prix Final. However, at the Russian Championships, she could not participate due to an injury Shabalin, but were still provided by the Russian Federation for the European and World Championships as a participant. At the European Championships Domnina and Shabalin belehten second place both after the compulsory dance, and after the original dance. With outstanding freestyle they could but that lie ahead of them French Delobel / Schoenfelder intercept yet and was the first time in her career European champions. The subsequent World Championships had to cancel the couple due to a resurgence of injury Shabalin.

Domnina / Shabalin start for the Ice Skating School Odintsovo. The pair trained for a long time at Alexei Gorshkov in Domninas hometown Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast. But moved to the 2007/ 08 season their coach and train now at the former Olympic champions Natalia and Gennadi Linitschuk Karponossow in the USA.

In the 2008 /09 season Domnina / Shabalin won the Cup of China and took second place at the Cup of Russia. At the Grand Prix Final, they were second behind Delobel / Schoenfelder. The Russian Championships had to cancel again the couple. After a fall Maxim Shabalin in the compulsory dance of the European Championship, the pair finished the competition due to re- injury to Shabalin's knee. In the subsequent World Championships, she won the gold medal.

The following year, Domnina / Shabalin again won the European Championship, before they could win the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Vancouver. After this success, she withdrew from the amateur sport.

In November 2010, Shabalin married the Russian actress Irina Grinewa.

Results

Ice Dancing

( Oksana Domnina with )

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Winter Olympic Games 2009 World Figure Skating Championships 2007 European Figure Skating Championships 2008 European Figure Skating Championships 2010 European Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Samara, Russia World Junior Figure Skating Championships France List of Olympic medalists in figure skating 2003 World Figure Skating Championships 2004 World Figure Skating Championships 2005 World Figure Skating Championships 2006 World Figure Skating Championships 2007 World Figure Skating Championships 2003 European Figure Skating Championships 2004 European Figure Skating Championships 2005 European Figure Skating Championships 2006 European Figure Skating Championships Russian Figure Skating Championships Skate America Skate Canada International International Skating Union Jean Westwood (figure skater) Pamela Weight June Markham Courtney Jones Doreen Denny Pavel Roman Diane Towler Bernard Ford Aleksandr Gorshkov (figure skater) Jayne Torvill Christopher Dean Andrei Bukin Isabelle Duchesnay Paul Duchesnay Alexander Zhulin Gwendal Peizerat Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz Tessa Virtue Scott Moir Meryl Davis Charlie White (figure skater) Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte Christiane Guhel Jean Paul Guhel Linda Shearman Angelika Buck Erich Buck Sergei Novitski Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev Igor Shpilband Tanith Belbin Benjamin Agosto Evan Bates Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin Vladimir Fedorov
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