Maxim Shabalin
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Domnina and Shabalin at the 2009 Worlds
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| Full name | Maxim Andreyevich Shabalin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former country(ies) represented | Bulgaria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
25 January 1982 Samara, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Oksana Domnina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former partner |
Elena Khalyavina Margarita Toteva (BUL) |
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| Former coach |
Natalia Linichuk Gennadi Karponosov Alexei Gorshkov Oleg Sudakov Larisa Filina |
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| Former choreographer | Natalia Linichuk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Odintsovo Ice Skating School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 207.64 2010 Winter Olympics |
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| Comp. dance | 43.76 2010 Winter Olympics |
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| Original dance | 64.68 2009 Worlds |
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| Free dance | 104.99 2008 Europeans |
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Medal record
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Maxim Andreyevich Shabalin (Russian: Максим Андреевич Шабалин; born 25 January 1982) is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. He and partner Oksana Domnina are the 2010 Olympic bronze medalists, the 2009 World Champions, the 2008 & 2010 European Champions, the 2007 Grand Prix Final champions, and three-time (2005, 2007, 2010) Russian national champions.
Shabalin began skating aged four in Samara – although pushed into the sport by his parents, he grew to enjoy it by the age of 11. He began competing in ice dancing aged 11 or 12. At the age of 15, he moved to Bulgaria to skate with Margarita Toteva for that country but the partnership ended due to her injury. He then competed with Elena Khalyavina for Russia.
Shabalin was paired with Oksana Domnina in May 2002 by coach Alexei Gorshkov. In their first season together, they won every junior level competition they entered, including the 2002–03 Junior Grand Prix Final and the 2003 World Junior Championships.
Shabalin sustained a meniscus injury in spring 2007 and had surgery on his right knee in May. They initially worked on a free dance to Schindler's List but when they wanted to add a faster section they thought it looked too much like a hodgepodge; after consultation with Tatiana Tarasova, they began working on a new free dance to Masquerade Waltz at the start of August. In September 2007, Shabalin also had surgery due to appendicitis. He then had problems with his left knee and had another operation in December. He returned to win the 2008 Europeans but limped off the ice. The pain persisted despite therapy, preventing them from training fully and resulting in their withdrawal from the 2008 World Championships. Shabalin spent five weeks in treatment in Munich, Germany, while Domnina trained on her own in Odintsovo, near Moscow.
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