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Elene Gedevanishvili

Elene Gedevanishvili
ელენე გედევანიშვილი
2012 WFSC 05d 347 Elene Gedevanishvili.JPG
Elene Gedevanishvili in 2012
Personal information
Country represented  Georgia
Born (1990-01-07) 7 January 1990 (age 27)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
Coach Craig Maurizi, Igor Krokavec
Former coach Brian Orser, Ghislain Briand, Edouard Pliner, Konstantin Kostin, Robin Wagner, Elaine Zayak, Elena Buianova, Tamara Anjaparidze, Tatiana Tarasova, Galina Zmievskaya, Roman Serov, Viktor Kudriavtsev
Former choreographer Irina Yaroshenko-Romanova, David Wilson, Elena Blagova, Nikolai Morozov
Skating club Dinamo Tbilisi
Training locations Hackensack, New Jersey
Former training locations Toronto
Boxborough, Massachusetts
Wayne, New Jersey
Moscow
Began skating 1993
Retired 2016?
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 165.93
2012 Europeans
Short program 61.92
2010 Winter Olympics
Free skate 108.79
2012 Europeans

Elene Gedevanishvili (Georgian: ელენე გედევანიშვილი, born 7 January 1990) is a Georgian figure skater. She is a two-time (2012, 2010) European bronze medalist. In winning the medal in 2010, Gedevanishvili became the first skater from Georgia to medal at an ISU Championships. She has competed at three Winter Olympics: Turin 2006, Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014.

Elene Gedevanishvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. She is the elder sister of Dmitri Gedevanishvili, a competitive alpine skier. She studied at Felician College.

As a child, Gedevanishvili lived and trained in Georgia and went to training camps in Moscow, Russia. At the age of nine, she and her mother settled in Moscow and at age eleven, she began working with Elena Buianova (Vodorezova). She trained at CSKA Moscow with Buianova and Tatiana Tarasova. At the 2005–06 ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Estonia, she became the first Georgian skater to win a Junior Grand Prix event.


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