Berezhnaya Elena Viktorovna Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Now in this city the skater is considered the most famous person, all the inhabitants of the city know her. Elena recently opened in Nevinnomi cafe "Axel", which is enjoying a great success. At three years old, Elena Berezhnoy's parents gave her to figure skating. Her talent immediately manifested itself. The famous coach Stanislav Zhuk drew attention to her, he wanted to deal with Elena.

However, fate ordered so that this did not happen. At 13, Elena went to Moscow to train there. For her family, who lived in a small town, it was a huge event. Mom was very worried, but the future of her daughter and her happiness was very important for her, so she overpowered herself and let Elena go to Moscow. It is worth noting that in this hostel she was the only girl.

Her partner in figure skating was Oleg Shlyakhov, who was four years older than Lena. The young couple constantly trained and gave great hopes. However, their relationship was not so good. The brilliant skater people who knew the guys closely in those years said that Oleg treated Lena very rudely, without respect. If Lena made a mistake, he began to scream at her and sometimes even beat her.

The guys from the club where they trained became sorry for Elena. Therefore, they struck Oleg one and tried to deal with him. Oleg apparently was very scared that Elena had defenders. Therefore, he took Lena and left with her to Latvia, from where he himself was born. Despite the stretched personal relationships, like a couple in figure skating, they were magnificent. They reached more and more heights.

Oleg and Lena became the leaders of the national team of Latvia.

Tamara Nikolaevna Moskvina drew attention to them and offered to take the guys to her. As a result, in the year the couple moved to St. Petersburg. Here they began to train with the famous Arthur Dmitriev and Oksana Kazakova. With the move, the situation has improved. Lena began to communicate with everyone and she had many friends. Oleg at first also pulled himself together and began to communicate normally.

But gradually everything fell into place, and the former nit -picking returned. Other athletes watched Oleg mocking Lena. They were very sorry for her and they wanted to help Lena. At that time, Anton was paired with Maria Petrova, with whom he won the world championships among juniors in the years. After acquaintance between Anton and Lena, a great sympathy for each other arose.

Oleg, seeing their warm relationship, was jealous of Lena, so he decided to go back to the Baltic states. There was a European championship ahead. Lena then decided that as soon as the European Championship rolled out, she would immediately leave Shlyakhov. However, fate decided differently. Elena Berezhnaya injury at the beginning of the year during the training took a terrible tragedy.

The partner applied Elena a serious traumatic brain injury with a blade of his skate. She was struck by the temporal bone, the fragments damaged the shell of the brain. The careless one received two neurosurgical operations, after which she learned to walk and speak again. Upon learning of this tragedy, the mother of Lena and Anton Sikharulidze immediately arrived in Riga.

After the operation, Lena was transported to St. Petersburg. At that time, Anton was only 19 years old. He threw almost everything and surrounded Lena with care. It was Anton that became for Lena at that time. He really wanted to help her, thanks to him Elena got to her feet and again became herself. At that time, Elena Berezhnaya was eighteen years old.

Doctors told her that figure skating should be forgotten. After the operation, she could neither move nor speak for a certain time. However, three months later, Lena and Anton went paired on the ice. Elena and her husband and children at first they just rode, holding hands. Anton has already stopped riding a couple with Masha, but he did not even think about getting up a couple with Lena.

However, over time, this desire came to them at the same time. They asked Tamara Nikolaevna to become their coach. So a new duet appeared in paired skating, which conquered a huge number of lovers of this sport and millions of spectators around the world! Twice Elena and Anton won the world championships in the years, and in the year they took second place. Also on their account are two victories of European championships and years, as well as bronze of the Paris Championship of the Year.

At the championships of Russia, Elena and Anton won four times - in, and m years. Elena Berezhnaya in a video in the year Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze became professionals where they performed up to a year, after which they announced the completion of their sports career. The first prize in the nomination "Portraits of athletes participating in the games in Salt Lake City" received the film of the First Channel "Rosa for Elena Berezhnoy", which tells about the brilliant pair of Russian figure skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, about their breathtaking and stellar paths to the rank of "Olympic champions".

After the contract was completed, they moved to St. Petersburg. In the year, the skater participated in the show of the first channel of Russian television "Stars on the ice."Berezhnaya performed with actor Alexander Nosik. When Anton Sikharulidze definitely decided to finish performances in the professional arena, Elena was without a couple. She decided to try to speak in professional ice shows as a loneliness.

In pairs with Mikhail Galustyan in the year, Elena took part in the third season of the show of the First Channel "Ice Age", where she performed with Mikhail Galustyan. In the year, she hit the show of the first channel “ice and flame”, where Igor Ugolnikov made her pair. In the year, Berezhnaya took part in the Canadian television show "Battle of Blades" paired with hockey player Curtis Leshishin.

State awards in the year received a cavalier of the Order of Friendship for outstanding achievements in sports, and heroism, manifested at the XVIII Winter Olympic Games of the year. In the year, she was awarded the title of cavalier of honor for a huge contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high sports achievements at the 19th Olympiads of the year in Salt Lake City.

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