Alexander Gazsi
| Alexander Gazsi | |
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Zhiganshina/Gazsi during the free dance at the 2007 German Championships
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| Personal information | |
| Country represented | Germany |
| Born |
6 October 1984 Chemnitz, East Germany |
| Residence | Oberstdorf, Germany |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Partner | Nelli Zhiganshina |
| Former partner | Sandra Gissmann, Mandy Kästner, Julia Novikov |
| Coach | Rostislav Sinicyn, Martin Skotnicky |
| Former coach | Alexander Zhulin, Oleg Volkov, Elena Kustarova, Svetlana Alexeeva |
| Choreographer | Stéphane Lambiel |
| Former choreographer | Ilia Averbukh, Maxim Staviski, Rostislav Sinicyn, Elena Kustarova, Natalia Ulianova |
| Skating club | SC Berlin |
| Training locations | Oberstdorf |
| Former training locations | Moscow |
| Began skating | 1988 |
| Retired | 2015 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 154.27 2013 Worlds |
| Short dance | 62.27 2014 World |
| Free dance | 93.68 2013 Worlds |
Alexander Gazsi (born 6 October 1984) is a German ice dancer. With partner Nelli Zhiganshina, he is a six-time German national champion (2007, 2011–2015) and has won twelve international medals. They have placed as high as 6th at the European Championships and 10th at the World Championships.
Alexander Gazsi was born on 6 October 1984 in Chemnitz, East Germany. His mother is a German from Kazakhstan and his father is Hungarian. He is in the sports division of the German army.
Gazsi began skating in 1988 at the age of four. The kids in his kindergarten class in East Germany were tested in various sports and he was chosen for the first one tested, figure skating. He switched from singles to ice dancing at age nine.
Early in his career, Gazsi skated with Mandy Kästner and Julia Novikov. By 2003, he was competing with Sandra Gissmann. They appeared four times on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and placed 17th at the 2004 World Junior Championships.
In June 2005, Gazsi had a successful tryout with Nelli Zhiganshina in Moscow. At the start of their partnership, they trained mainly in Moscow with coaches Elena Kustarova and Svetlana Alexeeva and, during summers, in Berlin and Chemnitz due to Gazsi's army service. They later changed coaches to Alexander Zhulin and Oleg Volkov, also in Moscow.
Zhiganshina/Gazsi won bronze at their first German Championships in 2006, their only competition of the season. The next season they won their first national title, placed 16th at the 2007 Europeans and 18th at Worlds.
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