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Alexei Krasnozhon

Alexei Krasnozhon
2016 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Alexei Krasnozhon IMG 3018.jpg
Krasnozhon at the 2016−17 JGP Final
Personal information
Native name Алексей Дмитриевич Красножон
Full name Alexei Dmitriyevich Krasnozhon
Country represented United States
Former country(ies) represented Russia
Born (2000-04-11) 11 April 2000 (age 16)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Residence Dallas, Texas, United States
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Coach Peter Cain, Darlene Cain
Former coach Oleg Tataurov, Tatiana Mishina, Olga Kartashov
Choreographer Scott Brown
Former choreographer Tatiana Prokofieva
Skating club Stars FSC of Texas
Former skating club Yubileyny
Training locations Euless, Texas
Former training locations Saint Petersburg
Began skating 2005
World standing 69 (As of 17 December 2016)
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 223.60
2016 JGP Czech Republic
Short program 76.50
2017 Junior Worlds
Free skate 148.50
2016 JGP Czech Republic

Alexei Dmitriyevich Krasnozhon (Russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Красножон; born 11 April 2000) is a figure skater who competes for the United States. He is the JGP Slovenia champion, the 2017 U.S. national junior men's champion, and placed eighth at the 2017 World Junior Championships.

He skated for Russia until the end of the 2012–13 season.

Krasnozhan was born on April 11, 2000 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His mother, Natalia, is an endocrinologist and his father, Dmitri, is an oncologist. He has two younger sisters, named Dana and Sofia.

In 2014, Krasnozhon moved to Dallas, Texas with his mother so that he could train there. He enrolled in a private online high school and is interested in a business degree from Georgetown University or SMU.

Krasnozhon began skating at the age of five. When he was 7, he became a student of Alexei Mishin, as well as his wife Tatiana Mishina and their assistant coach Oleg Tataurov. He competed for Russia at the Volvo Open Cup in January 2013, winning gold on the advanced novice level, and placed 12th at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships. Due to a back injury following that event, he missed the 2013–14 season.

In March 2014, Krasnozhon announced that he planned to compete for the United States and would be coached by Peter Cain and Darlene Cain in Euless, Texas. He qualified for the 2015 US Championships on the junior level and won the pewter medal. On July 1, 2015, the Russian Figure Skating Federation released Krasnozhon so that he could compete internationally for the United States. While training in Moscow, Krasnozhon performed full run-throughs of his programs about once a week, but he began doing them daily after moving to Texas.


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