Elene Gedevanishvili ელენე გედევანიშვილი |
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Elene Gedevanishvili in 2012
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Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Georgia | |||||||||||||||
Born |
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
7 January 1990 |||||||||||||||
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 |
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Began skating | 1993 | |||||||||||||||
Retired | 2016? | |||||||||||||||
ISU personal best scores | ||||||||||||||||
Combined total | 165.93 2012 Europeans |
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Short program | 61.92 2010 Winter Olympics |
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Free skate | 108.79 2012 Europeans |
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Medal record
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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.