Svetlana Alekseeva | |
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Alexeeva at the 2010 Cup of Russia
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Personal information | |
Full name | Svetlana Lvovna Alekseeva |
Born |
Berlin |
16 March 1955
Residence | Moscow |
Former partner | Aleksandr Grigoryevich Boychuk |
Former coach | Viktor Ivanovich Ryzhkin |
Skating club | Blue Bird FSC |
Svetlana Lvovna Alekseeva (Russian: Светлана Львовна Алексеева; born 16 March 1955) is a Russian former ice dancer and currently a coach.
Alekseeva competed in ice dancing with Alexandr Grigoryevich Boychuk. They won the Soviet junior title in 1970.
Alekseeva began coaching in 1977 and worked with Tatiana Tarasova for thirteen years. Since 2001, she coaches with Elena Kustarova. In the summer of 2006, they moved to Blue Bird FSC in Moscow and then to a new rink in Medvedkovo in the summer of 2012.
Alekseeva coaches in collaboration with Elena Kustarova and Olga Riabinina. Her current students include:
Her former students include:
Alekseeva is the mother of Elena Kustarova.
(with Boychuk)