Biography
In the piggy bank of the achievements of Betina Popova not so much victories at major sports competitions. Despite this, the figure skater managed to remember and love the audience a sense of humor, bright rooms and provocative interviews.Childhood and youth
Betina Vladimirovna Popova was born on November 2, 1996 in Vladivostok, by nationality she is Russian. About why at birth the girl received such an unusual name, her parents did not admit to her, but the celebrity considers it original.
When Betina was a child, she was taken to the rink in health purposes. At first, the young figure skater attended the lessons once a week, but then he was fascinated by the sport and began to study professionally. She trained under the leadership of Marina Selitsky, according to the champion, the singles out of it did not work out.
The girl often fell, cried and forgot the program, but he knew how to perform a triple Salkhov. Therefore, when the coach of Ksenia Rumyantseva offered her to stand in a couple with his pupil Yuri Vlasenko, she wouldingly agreed. So began a new stage of her sports biography.
As in figure skating, the girl also did not immediately find himself. At first she entered the pedagogical faculty, but I realized that she was uncomfortable to work with the children, then tried their strength on the psychological and also quickly gone. After a year, the athlete break chose the Russian Institute of Theatrical Art (Gityis), where he began to master the profession of the balletmaster. It had a positive effect on the dance performances of the figure skater and their emotional component.
Personal life
The girl's personal life has always been an object of increased interest of fans. Because of the warm relationships of Betina with her second partner Sergey Mozgov, they were repeatedly attributed to the novel. And at the beginning of 2020, the network has information that Popova is found with another Russian athlete Denis Hodikin, but the fans speculation remained without comment.Figure skating
Professional career Betina began in 2009, when she started training with Vlasenko in the dance category on ice. Soon, young people appeared on the championship of Russia among juniors, and then began to participate in sports competitions, but heights did not immediately appear, finding out the pedestal.
Only in 2013, partners began to make the first successes when they took silver at the stage of the Junior Grand Prix in Belarus and gold in the Czech Republic, which made it possible to enter the final, but they took the final 4th place there. In the same year, the couple took part in the championship of Russia, where she climbed the pedestal and got the opportunity to go to the World Cup.
In subsequent years, a couple of Vlasenko and Popova regularly occupied prizes at the Grand Prix stages and the championship of Russia, but they only once managed to enter the top three in the final - in 2014. As a result, after the next failure at the World Championship, the skaters decided to stop working together, and soon the girl stood in a couple with Sergey Mozgov.
She quickly managed to find a common language with a new partner, since they turned out to be similar temperaments and a similar sense of humor. Young people from nature are hot-tempered and removable, so it was easy to work on ice. Lucky pair and growth ratio. Despite the fact that the girl is high for the parkhouse (168 cm), partner almost 30 cm above it.
As partners, Sergey and Betina debuted at the Golden Konk Zagreb tournament, where they occupied the 5th place, but gradually began to improve the indicators. Already next season, they won the Warsaw Cup and took bronze on the memorial of the miss, but they failed to shine on Finlandia Trophy.
Progress contributed to the change of coach. After 8 years of cooperation, Popov decided to leave Xenia Rumyantsev and begin to engage in Angelica Krylova, who had lived in the United States for several years. The decision was due to the fact that at the old training base, he and Sergey received too little time on the ice, as well as with the desire to try something new.
Krylova turned out to be more loyal to the creative from the pupils. She allowed them to choose music themselves, and so in the arsenal of the couple appeared an arbitrary program for mystical music from the movie "Master and Margarita", with which they won the Winter Universiade in 2019.
At the end of the same year, during control rentals on the small arena of Luzhnikov, the greenhouses struck the audience with the number under the "Bohemian Rhapsody". It featured unusual support in which the girl becomes a partner on his backside. For rhythm dance, they chose images from the Musical Kaber.
Exchange dances over time became a kind of business card of Mozgov and Popova, because it was with them a couple remembered to the public. Over the years of collaboration, young people went on ice in the images of the characters of the "Mighty Rangers" series and the newlyweds, causing the audience admiration and laughter.
However, an athlete managed to interest fans not only with bright performances, but also bold statements. In 2019, the girl shared an opinion on the salary of the skaters and told about the possibilities of part-time. Later, she spoke on Eteri Tutberidze and her pupils, calling girls "in a good sense of choknuti."
The figure skater did not remain aside and during the conflict of Anna Pogroyoul and Elizabeth Tuktamysheva, who happened due to the provocative indicative number of the latter. Betina stood up for Lisa, which is her good friend, and accused Heyters in the Complexation. And when the press was discussed in the confrontation of Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedev, Popova posted a photo on a network, on which it can be seen how girls photograph each other after performances.
Betina Popova now
2020 began for fans of a pair of Popova and Mozgov with sad news. Young people were forced to give up a trip to the Russian Championship due to Sergey's injury. Now the figure skater is waiting for the return on the partner to the ice, pleaseing subscribers with new publications in VKontakte and in Instagram. The athlete is not hesitating to demonstrate the advantages of the shape and often takes pictures in a swimsuit.Achievements
Junior Career:
- 2013 - Stage of the Junior Grand Prix: Belarus. 2nd place
- 2013 - Stage of the Junior Grand Prix: Czech Republic. 1 place
- 2013 - Russian championship among juniors. 3rd place
- 2014 - Stage of the Junior Grand Prix: Germany. 1 place
- 2015 - Stage of the Junior Grand Prix: Latvia. 1 place
Adult Career:
- 2017 - Final of the Russian Cup. 2nd place
- 2017 - Warsaw Cup. 1 place
- 2018 - Golden Kind of Zagreb. 3rd place
- 2019 - Final of the Russian Cup. 2nd place
- 2019 - Winter Universiade. 1 place