Yana Khokhlova: a true professional will always be in demand

Career of professional athletes is not alwaysends according to plan. Sometimes very talented people are forced to leave the sport in the prime of their glory, and not at will, but simply because circumstances have developed. But, even after completing a career, many of them continue to realize their potential, doing what they love. Yana Khokhlova, a famous Russian figure skater, owner of many titles and awards, has not left ice, but with success is engaged in coaching and is a regular participant of ice shows.

The beginning of sports career

Yana Khokhlova, the native Muscovite, was bornin 1985 on the 7th of October. From early childhood, the girl was attracted to two sports disciplines. At the age of 5 she started classes in the rhythmic gymnastics section and at the same time she became skating for the first time.

But this load was too big, and in the endhad to do, perhaps, the most important choice in my life. Yana Khokhlova prefers figure skating and is engaged in children's ice theater Aleko until she is 13 years old. But soon there were events that radically changed the life of the future prize-winner.

First Partner

Yana Khokhlova interested in coaches whowere engaged with dancing duets. One boy just left without a pair, and Yana was offered to move to a team of dancers. Andrey Maximishin becomes the first partner of Khokhlova, though she does not skate for a long time in this pair.

2001 is turning point in the career of the youngskaters: a new pair of Khokhlov - Novitsky becomes a new discovery of the national figure skating and begins their journey to the summit of Olympus. It should be noted that the first successes of this dance duo are connected with the coach Alexander Svinin. It is he who leads the pair to victory at the Universiade 2002/03, and the first gold medal appears in the coin box of Yana.

The next season brings a couple more goldMedal of the Universiade and bronze of the Russian championship. After that, it became clear that on the horizon of figure skating there was an established and very talented dancing couple.

Yana Khokhlova - Sergey Novitsky

Perhaps, it is with Sergei Novitsky that sportsYana's achievements were most impressive. After the pair won the bronze medals of the national championship for the second time in a row, it became clear that they had a ticket for the Olympics in Turin in their pocket.

The first competitions of such a high levelthey did not bring medals to the duo, they took the 12th place in the overall standings at the first Olympic Games in 2006. In the following, 2007, the dance duet of Khokhlov - Novitsky again won medals at the Russian championship, but this time they manage to climb one step of the pedestal higher. The result is silver awards.

In the same year, they take part in the Europeanchampionship, and they do not have enough to occupy a prize-winning place. The pair becomes the fourth on the total points. Together with Yana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitsky, the well-known choreographer Irina Zhuk works.

Perhaps, the most successful in the career of this pairyou can name the next two seasons. Gold of national championship, bronze medals of European and world championships. Who knows what heights this duo could achieve if not for the partner's injury.

Damage to the knee joint was not allowed by SergeiNovitsky to continue participating in competitions, and the couple made an official statement about the end of the career of amateurs. The personal life of Yana Khokhlova was intensely discussed in the press, and the pair was credited with the novel, but the athletes denied these rumors, saying that there are only professional relations between them.

After Yana was left without a partner, I had to make a decision: to finally finish my sports career or still try to find a new candidate for co-riding.

On the advice of Marina Zueva, Khokhlova goes forOcean, where it becomes a couple with her son Fedor Andreev. Unfortunately, this promising duo also soon ceased to exist, and the cause of this again was the trauma of the partner.

Yana Khokhlova: biography after the sport

People like Yana do not represent their lifewithout a favorite thing, and after the sports career ended, the figure skater decided to try her hand at coaching. In this she is pleased to help well-known mentors, for example Tatyana Tarasova.

The Ice Age show, in which Yana constantly participates, helps the athlete maintain her excellent physical fitness and demonstrate her talent to the whole country.