Sergei Dobrin
| Sergei Dobrin | |
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Dobrin in 2007.
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| Personal information | |
| Native name | Сергей Владимирович Добрин |
| Full name | Sergei Vladimirovich Dobrin |
| Country represented | Russia |
| Born |
22 September 1986 Lipetsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Former coach | Victoria Volchkova, Alexei Mishin, Zhanna Gromova, Valeriy Dudko |
| Former choreographer | Margarita Romanenko, V. Voituk |
| Skating club | Trade Union Club |
| Began skating | 1991 |
| Retired | 2010 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 193.50 2006 TEB |
| Short program | 66.14 2007 NHK Trophy |
| Free skate | 130.65 2006 TEB |
Sergei Vladimirovich Dobrin (Russian: Серге́й Владимирович Добрин, born 22 September 1986) is a Russian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2005 World Junior bronze medalist and a two-time ISU Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist. On the senior level, he won bronze medals at the 2006 Trophée Éric Bompard, 2006 Finlandia Trophy, and two Russian Championships (2006 and 2007).
Dobrin was born on 22 September 1986 in Lipetsk and has a sister, Maria, who is 18 years younger. He learned ballroom dancing from age 7 to 10.
Dobrin started skating in 1991 and trained in Lipetsk until the age of 11. He then relocated to Moscow at the invitation of Zhanna Gromova. She would coach him until 2007.
Dobrin debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in September 2000. After winning silver medals in Ukraine and the Czech Republic, he qualified for the JGP Final in Ayr, Scotland, where he also took silver. After winning the Russian junior title, he was sent to the 2001 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. He placed 5th in his qualifying group, 20th in the short program, 12th in the free skate, and 12th overall.
During the 2002–03 JPG season, Dobrin was awarded gold at both of his assignments – Chemnitz, Germany and Milan, Italy – and silver at the JGP Final in The Hague, Netherlands. He won silver at the Russian Junior Championships and gold at the 2003 European Youth Olympic Festival in Bled, Slovenia. He finished 5th at the 2003 World Junior Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, after ranking fourth in his qualifying group, second in the short, and sixth in the free.
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