Biography
Recently, Russian figure skaters are increasingly appearing in news headlines as winners of prestigious competitions. She did not exception and talented Alexander Boykova, who a lot of time devoted to sports and managed to show excellent results in its field. With four years, it is confidently on skates, and zealous classes help her every year to improve in figure skating.Childhood and youth
Sasha was born in early 2002 in the cultural capital of Russia - St. Petersburg. Sport is present in her biography from an early age. In 2006, the parents recorded a daughter on figure skating, at first she performed alone. Mentor Boykova was the famous Russian coach Mishin Alexey Nikolaevich. In the women's single skating Alexander, for a long time, did not succeed in achieving high results, for this reason she decided to go into pair skating.
Personal life
About the personal life of the Boykova little known. There are rumors in the network that the figure skater meets with Dmitry Kozlovsky, but there are no confirmation of these conversations on the Internet. Young people argue that, besides figure skating, they do not bind anything else.In social networks, Sasha lay out a lot of pictures. Among them are photos in a swimsuit, with 165 cm growth (weight unknown) Alexander looks slim and tightened.
Figure skating
Dmitry Kozlovsky became the first partner of Sasha in pair skating, he switched to this discipline a few months earlier. Their joint training began in the fall of 2015 under the sensitive control of the new coach Arthur Minchuk. The first in life support the figure skater worried with him. According to the athlete, when these tricks she began to rehearse with Kozlovsky, she was much worse, as the partner has a high growth and is still inexperienced.
The second half of 2016 became decisive for Sasha. In September, together with a partner, she went to the first international start. The junior stage of the Grand Prix took place in Mordovia. According to his results, a talented couple from Russia won a silver medal. The second place at the competition of this level has become a huge achievement of the Boykova.
The second stage was made more difficult for Alexander, despite the prepared program, this time they managed to take only the 4th place, but this did not prevent young athletes to become participants in the final of the Junior Grand Prix. To this stage, they prepared especially carefully and managed to get the 3rd place, and at the same time and update the result to 159.72 points.
The first in the career of the Boyk Adult Championship of Russia ended with obtaining the 6th place, which also became good at the beginning. And already in 2017 at the Russian championship among juniors, the couple received cherished gold. A young age has not become a hindrance for them, and even on the contrary, helped in achieving the goal. At the World Junior Championships, they also tried very hard, but they took only the 2nd step of the pedestal. The first place was taken away athletes who speakers for Australia, Catherine Aleksandrovskaya (previously performed for Russia) and Harley Windzor.
Season 2017/2018 has become for the boykoy time to conquer new victories. On the Grand Prix among juniors a couple received 2 medals at once. The second place they got after the submission of the program in Riga, and the third for the performance in Zagreb. This result allowed them to go to the final. At this stage, among their competitors there were many other talented athletes, the Russians were awarded only the 5th place.
In the autumn of the same year, a couple of Boykova and Kozlovsky waited for a loud victory at the International Adult Tournament of the Challenger series: the skaters received the second gold. Almost well, their efforts paid off after speaking at Warsaw Cup in Warsaw, from where they returned home with silver.
The Russian Championship has given a duet more difficult: although they improved last year's performance, it was not possible to rise above the 5th place. So the Sasha and Dima season ended, according to the results of the Russian championship, they failed to get to the World Championship.
Before the start of the 2018/2019 season, Kozlovsky and Boykova announced the final transition to the adult level. This decision pair has reinforced two victories at the prestigious international competitions at once. From one stage of the Challenger series, which took place in Italy, the Russians returned to their homeland with silver. It was the traditional Lombardia Trophy tournament. They presented a good program on an indicative speech of Finlandia Trophy in the Finnish city of Espoo on the ice "Metro Arena", receiving a bronze medal for him.
The adult series of the Grand Prix waited for Russian athletes at the end of October, it was the second stage of Skate Canada International, which was held in the suburb of Montreal. Although that day the couple showed its best personal result, with the number of points earned, they managed to take only the 4th position. But in an arbitrary program, Duet was lucky more: the stage ended for Alexandra and Dmitry Silver.
On the speech in France, the skaters became bronze medalists, but it did not help them go to the Grand Prix finals. Although the duet won a short program, arbitrary failed. Despite numerous training, in the emission and parallel jump they made a mistake.
For the first time, the winners' pedestal at the Russian Championship Alexander and Dmitry got in 2019. Then the pair got the 3rd place. Such a result conducted them further, young people entered the application for the European Championship. The second place on that day went to the Canadians, and the 3rd - Alexandra compatriots.
Following this, a new season of competition started. The Grand Prix of Canada ended for Sasha and her partner victory. Almost immediately, the girl posted a photo in "Instagram" and the post with gratitude to fans, coaches, parents and everyone who supported it in this responsible moment.
The speech of Kozlovsky and Boykova at the European Championships of 2020 took place at the end of January in Minsk. Demonstrating a short and arbitrary program, the couple took the 4th place. But on the speech in the Austrian city of Graz, they deliberately demonstrated the planned short and arbitrary programs. In total, the pair managed to gain 234.58 points and take the 1st place, the second and third also went to the Russians - Evgenia Tarasova with Vladimir Morozov and Darya Pavlyuchenko with Denis Hodikin.
Alexandra Boykova now
Alexandra and now trains a lot, not stopping to prepare for new Russian and international competitions. In March 2020 Boykova and her partner Dmitry Kozlovsky had to submit Russia at the World Cup in Canada. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic of coronavirus infection, the competition was canceled.And in December of the same year, the couple took 2nd place in the Russian championship, giving the victory by Eugene Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov. The couple also took part in the Cup of the First Channel, which took place in February 2021.
In March, skaters went to the World Championship, passing in Stockholm. In the tournament of sports couples, they ranked 3rd, giving way to colleagues from Russia Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Galymov, who became winners, and the pair of Sui Wanjin - Han Tsung from China, climbing silver.
Achievements
- 2016/2017 - 1st place on the championship of Russia in figure skating among juniors
- 2016/2017 - 2nd place at the World Junior Cattery Championships
- 2017/2018 - 1st place at MINSK-ARENA ICE STAR Competitions
- 2018/2019 - 3rd place at the European Figure Skating Championship
- 2018/2019 - 3rd place at the Russian Figure Skating Championship
- 2019/2020 - 1st place at the European Figure Skating Championship
- 2019/2020 - 1st place at the Russian Figure Skating Championship
- 2019/2020 - 1st place at Skate Canada Grand Prix
- 2019/2020 - 1st place at the Grand Prix Cup of Russia
- 2020/2021 - 2nd place at the Russian Championship
- 2021 - 3rd place at the World Championships in the tournament of sports couples