Alla Beknazarova

Alla Beknazarova
Beknazarova and Zuev in 2007.
Personal information
Full name	Alla Oleksandrivna Beknazarova
Country represented	Ukraine
Born	(1984-08-28) 28 August 1984 (age 32) Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
Former partner	Vladimir Zuev Yuriy Kocherzhenko Sergei Verbillo
Former coach	Galina Churilova Alexander Tumanovski Maria Tumanovskaia
Former choreographer	Galina Churilova
Former skating club	Kolos Kharkiv Dynamo Kiev
Former training locations	Kharkiv
Began skating	1989
Retired	2010
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	154.02 2008 Europeans
Comp. dance	28.90 2008 Europeans
Original dance	47.92 2008 Europeans
Free dance	77.20 2008 Europeans

Alla Oleksandrivna Beknazarova (Ukrainian: Алла Олександрівна Бекназарова, Russian: Алла Александровна Бекназарова, born 28 August 1984) is a Ukrainian former competitive ice dancer. She is a three-time Ukrainian national champion — in 2001 with Yuriy Kocherzhenko and in 2007 and 2008 with Vladimir Zuev. Her best ISU Championship result, fourth, came at the 2001 World Junior Championships, competing with Kocherzhenko.

Beknazarova teamed up with Yuriy Kocherzhenko in late 1999 or early 2000. They were sent to the 2000 World Junior Championships, held in March in Oberstdorf, and finished 18th. In the 2000–01 season, Beknazarova/Kocherzhenko won gold at two JGP events and qualified for the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final, where they placed fourth. They also finished fourth at the 2001 World Junior Championships in Sofia. They won one senior international medal, bronze at the 2001 Karl Schäfer Memorial, and competed at two senior Grand Prix events and two senior ISU Championships. Their partnership ended in 2003.

Later in 2003, Beknazarova began skating with Vladimir Zuev. They won a gold medal at the 2005 Ondrej Nepela Memorial and four international bronze medals — at the 2007 Nebelhorn Trophy, 2009 Winter Universiade, and 2009 Finlandia Trophy. They competed at one World Junior Championships, one senior World Championships, and four European Championships. Their best result, 11th, came at the 2010 European Championships.