Biography
Figureke Alexander Stepanova and her partner Ivan Bukin prophesied leading positions in ice dancing for the coming years. Athletes for a long time were in the shadow of the leaders of the Russian national team, hardened in the status of "forever seconds", overcame nervousness from the unaccepting to the main starts of the planet. Now the couple is approaching the peak of the form, which the professionals and fans of figure skating are noted.Childhood and youth
Alexandra was born in St. Petersburg on August 19, 1995. Her parents were not professional athletes, but were fond of some sports: Mom played volleyball, and his father tried forces as a skater.
As soon as the girl was 4 years old, the parents took her to the rink. It was not a one-time family campaign - serious training began. Parents of Sasha, Yana and Nikolay, desired for the daughter of a sports career.
At the age of 7, Sasha went to school, but in the first place was training. The girl was engaged in a single form - confidently held on ice and the masterfully performed pyruets. In 2006, the family moved to Moscow.
Personal life
Alexandra figured riding a personal life, about her husband and children and speeches. In "Instagram", the figure skater often appear new photos with a partner Ivan Bukin not only from training, but also from everyday life. Sasha and Ivan are hugging and spend time together.Such pictures have become food for rumors that young people meet. But the athletes themselves say that they are like a brother and sister, so closely mutual understanding and ice, and outside the rink. Partners were seriously quarreled only once.
However, about one moment in the biography of athletes remember with a smile. Alexandra survived youthful love in Ivan, and this feeling was mutually, that's just with a difference in a couple of years. The skaters performed on the show in Korea, and the girl received from Bukina as a gift 181 rose than it was extremely surprised, but I could not answer the colleague.
By participating in competitions, Alexandra often drives different countries. The girl has a warm and trust relationship with the mother of Yana, who supports it in everything.
Stepanova's vacation loves to hold their friends-figure skaters in the company. In 2018, together with Igor Eremenko and Grigory Smirnov, she visited Cyprus, and in a year he rested on Bali, where Yevgeny Tarasova, Vladimir Morozov, Victoria Sinitsyna and Nikita Katsalapov were at this time.
On vacation, traditionally Alexander takes pictures in a swimsuit, which then lays out in "Instagram". The figure of the girl gives the impression on her fans - with a height of 168 cm its weight does not exceed 50 kg.
Figure skating
With adulthood, Alexandra coaches began to notice that she was increasingly difficult for such elements of single skiing, like jumping, but at the same time the figure skater actually behaves on ice and rides at high speed. Then she advised from a single species to go to the dance on the ice.
The case remained for small - find a good partner. The task is not easy, but by coincidence, Sasha was lucky. Figured in figure skating Family of Bukins was looking for a partner for the son of Ivana (Father Andrei Anatolyevich - Olympic champion, a couple with Natalia Bestayyanova repeatedly conquered the gold championships and European championships).
Ivan Bukin from 5 years of age was ice skating. Boy trained in a pair with Elena Ilini. But after some time the partner went to Nikita Katsalapov. In 2014, athletes became Olympic champions in team competitions and received bronze medals in the personal championship.
Ivan remained alone. Then to him, his parents and coaches hit the video of Catania Alexandra Stepanova. The girl liked the technique of performing elements, and appearance - blue-eyed blonde with an accurate figure and an open face /
In 2008, Sasha and Ivan began to ride in a pair. Stepanov later told that they had to reach the level of the partner, and the good motivator was conversations that the son of Andrei Bukina was lined up from the rivals, and Alexander, in her opinion, was much weaker.
The duet is trained two professionals - Alexander Swinin and Irina Zhuk. A year after the union of the athletes became part of the Russian national team. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra in a pair with Ivan 6 times became the winner of the Junior Grand Prix, which were held in France, Germany, Italy and other countries.
In 2011, the couple began to take part in the World Junior Championships. At first they were the second, and in the season 2012/2013 won the first gold championship. At the end of 2013, they fought for prizes already in adult competitions.
Alexander and Ivan's highest places managed to achieve on Finlandia Trophy - annual international competitions held by the Finnish federation of figure skating. At one time, the tournament won the gold medals of the famous figure skaters Evgeny Plushenko, Alexey Yagudin, Irina Slutskaya, Maria Butyrskaya, as well as an asterisk of Olympiad in Sochi Julia Lipnitskaya.
Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin became gold medalists of Finlandia Trophy twice: in 2014 and 2016, and in 2017 they took the honorable 2nd place. Also from 2014 to 2017, figure skaters were obtained 4 times the bronze of the Grand Prix stages.
In the 2014/2015 season, they became the third at the European Championships (conducted in Stockholm), and participation in the World Championships brought them 9th, 10th and 11th place.
In December 2016, Sasha and Ivan first won silver medals at the Russian Championship. The guys performed a gentle and touching ice dance with many technically complex elements. The amount of points in 188.28 allowed them to occupy the second step of the pedestal. Alexandra, together with a partner, prepared for new competitions in the hope of getting the highest award and please the audience with their speech.
After 3 months, the championship of the continent Natalia Bestemyanova called shame for figure skating.
The Olympic champion believed that Bukin and Stepanov were stronger than major competitors on the national team, but all efforts were sent to the first pair of gold, and Alexander with a partner "sold, moved away. As a result: Bobrov and Solovyov - Third, Stepanov and Bukin - the fifth, and all this mouse did not bring anything good anything or the other. "
Soon, the skaters presented the program at the World Championships in Helsinki and entered the top ten pairs of contest. Already at the beginning of the next season at Trophy Finnish, the athletes finished the second. The Grand Prix stage, which passed in Russia, brought them bronze. The same result guys have achieved in France. At the end of the year, summing up at the home championship, Stepanov and Bukin completed him in the status of vice-champions of Russia.
For the long-awaited Olympiad in Korea, Duet Stepanova and Bukin did not go. The International Olympic Committee without an explanation of the reasons did not allow Ivan to play games. According to the stories of Alexandra, the parents were more upset at that moment.
In such a nervous setting at the World Championships in Italy, in the absence of the strongest pairs of the planet, Ivan and Alexander occupied the 7th place. However, this, according to the partner, is not the reason to lower the hands. The duet only began to consider equal to the recognized gards of figure skating, and the Russians were angry in sports, wanted to prove that in vain they did so.
In the summer, the Federation of figure skating Russia presented the composition of the national team for the 2018/2019 season. Stepanova and Bukin are included in the main command. The next 4th anniversary of the athletes began rested, with new forces and clear heads.
On the control rentals of Alexander with a partner, a short program from Tango and Pazeobl, created by Irina Beetle, with the support of Tatiana Navka, and blues arbitrary - the fruit of Peter Chernyshev's fantasy. Costumes that Tatiana Tarasova called outstanding, Valentin Yudashkin came up with the ice duet.
The first start of the new season confirmed that Alexander Stepanov and Ivan Bukin would not knock out of the saddle. At the next Finlandia Trophy Figurestone from Russia installed 3 world records at once - in a short dance, an arbitrary program and in the amount of both performances. At the same time athletes, at least externally, did not hit the intentionally or not - is unknown, but an unpleasant pause. In the rhythm dance (so now the short program is called) because of the sulfuting sulfutin, the judges turned off the music and allowed a pair to read after the removal of "traumatic objects".
Sasha admitted that the break was played on his hand - he shook after the execution of complex elements. And since such a career happened for the first time, they learned for the future, what to do in such a situation and how the whistle sounds, stopping the speech.
The only thing about the later skaters regretted, so this is that the audience did not feel the beauty of the program and did not receive all the emotions that were expected.
At the beginning of the 2019/2020 season, Stepanov suffered a back injury, which for 2.5 months knocked out her from the rut. It was not a gap and not offset - a small problem with the joints caused an athlete during the hopes of pain. It took treatment in Germany.
To the first stage of the Grand Prix in the US, the couple was preparing for less than a month, but it did not prevent the 2nd place in the competition. For the execution of rhythm dance and arbitrary dance, Russians scored 206.57 points. The total result of the American pair Maddison Habbell and Zahari Donohye turned out to be higher (209.55).
Once again, becoming silver winners of the Russian Championship, in January 2020 Stepanov and Bukin participated in Che, where they installed a personal record, having received the best estimates in their career for an arbitrary dance - 127.64 points. The total score (211.29) made it possible to raise the Russians 3rd. The first two were distributed between couples Victoria Sinitina - Nikita Katsalapov and Gabriela Papadakis - Guy Sizeron.
Alexandra Stepanova now
In December 2020, Alexander and Ivan stepped on the step above, won on the Russian championship in Chelyabinsk. Due to this, in March 2021, a couple went to the World Cartany Championship, passing in Stockholm. For two competitive days, athletes received 208.77 points, graduating from the 5th place.In April, on the air of the First Channel, Eter Tutberidze presented the champions on the ice champions, in which the pair of Stepanov took part and the pair.
Awards
- 2011 - Silver Medal at the Junior World Cup
- 2012 - Gold Medal at Junior World Cup
- 2014, 2016, 2018 - Gold Medal at the International FINLANDIA Trophy Tournament
- 2015, 2018, 2020 - Bronze Medal at the European Championship
- 2014, 2015 - Bronze Medal at the Russian Championship
- 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 - Silver Medal at the Russian Championship
- 2019 - Silver Medal at the European Championship
- 2019 - Silver Medal at the stage of the Skate America Grand Prix
- 2020 - Gold Medal at the Russian Championship