Elena Ilinykh
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Elena Ilinykh and Ruslan Zhiganshin at the 2014–15 Grand Prix Final
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| Full name | Elena Ruslanovna Ilinykh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25 April 1994 Aktau, Kazakhstan |
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| Home town | Moscow, Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Ruslan Zhiganshin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former partner | Nikita Katsalapov, Ivan Bukin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Elena Kustarova, Svetlana Alexeeva, Olga Riabinina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Nikolai Morozov, Maria Voitsekhovskaia, Denis Samokhin, Tatiana Tarasova, Alexander Zhulin, Oleg Volkov, Irina Lobacheva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Antonio Najarro, Alexey Arapov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Ilia Averbukh, Nikolai Morozov, Liudmila Vlasova, Alexander Zhulin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former skating club | Vorobievye Gory Moskvich |
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| Training locations | Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former training locations | Ventspils, Canton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season's bests |
4 (2013–14) 5 (2012–13) 7 (2011–12) 9 (2010–11) 10 (2009–10) |
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| Combined total | 185.19 2016 CS Tallinn Trophy |
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| Short dance | 76.04 2016 CS Tallinn Trophy |
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| Free dance | 109.15 2016 CS Tallinn Trophy |
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Medal record
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Elena Ruslanovna Ilinykh (Russian: Еле́на Русла́новна Ильины́х; born 25 April 1994) is a Russian ice dancer. With partner Ruslan Zhiganshin, she is the 2015 Russian national champion.
With former partner Nikita Katsalapov, she is a 2014 Olympic champion in the team event, a 2014 Olympic bronze medalist in ice dancing, a three-time European medalist (silver in 2013 and 2014; bronze in 2012), and the 2010 World Junior champion.
Elena Ilinykh was born in Aktau (Shevchenko), Kazakhstan and raised in Moscow, Russia. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. From around 2006 to 2008, Ilinykh lived in Michigan with her grandmother and became fluent in English. Her mother adopted a two-year-old boy in around 2010.
As a child, Ilinykh trained in single skating, under Natalia Dubinskaya, until her mother decided she should try ice dancing. She was paired with Nikita Katsalapov, who had trained in the same singles group.Irina Lobacheva and Ilia Averbukh were the team's first coaches.
In 2005, Ilinykh/Katsalapov attended a training camp under Alexander Zhulin — who was preparing Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov for their Olympic gold-medal winning season — but split soon after. In 2010, Ilinykh said that they were too young at the time to understand partnership. She left Russia and trained in Marina Zueva and Igor Shpilband's group in Canton, Michigan for two years without a partner.
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