Elena Germanovna Buianova (Russian: Елена Германовна Буянова, née Vodorezova, Водорезова; born 21 May 1963) is a Russian figure skating coach and retired competitive skater who represented the Soviet Union. She is the 1983 World bronze medalist and three-time European medalist.
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| Full name | Elena Germanovna Vodorezova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other names | Buianova/Buyanova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 May 1963 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Stanislav Zhuk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | CSKA Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
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Vodorezova was coached by Stanislav Zhuk at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow. A gifted free-skater, she represented her country at the 1976 Winter Olympics aged just 12. She was the first skater to complete a double flip-triple toe loop combination. She was noted for a spectacularly high double Axel and fast spins. She won the bronze medal at the 1978 European Championships; it was the first time a Soviet ladies' single skater had won a medal at the event. She missed the 1979–1981 seasons completely due to severe juvenile arthritis, which prevented her from even walking for months in 1979.
She won a second bronze medal at the 1982 Europeans and silver at the 1983 event. She also won bronze at the 1983 World Championships – the first World medal for a Soviet female single skater. Vodorezova placed 8th at the 1984 Winter Olympics.[1] She retired from competition in 1984. That year, she married a former skater, Sergey Buianov, and in 1987 gave birth to a son, Ivan.
She began coaching at the CSKK Club in Moscow. Irina Tagaeva often choreographs for her students.[2] Her former pupils include:
- Adelina Sotnikova[3]
- Maxim Kovtun[4]
- Elene Gedevanishvili
- Olga Markova
- Andrei Griazev
- Artem Borodulin
- Artur Dmitriev Jr
- Denis Ten
- Alexander Samarin
- Adian Pitkeev
- Alexandra Proklova
- Maria Sotskova
- Anastasiia Gubanova
- Polina Tsurskaya
- Elena Radionova
- Egor Rukhin
- Brendan Kerry
Buianova's current students include:
Competitive highlights
edit| International | |||||||
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| Event | 75–76 | 76–77 | 77–78 | 79–80 | 81–82 | 82–83 | 83–84 |
| Olympics | 12th | 8th | |||||
| Worlds | 11th | 7th | 6th | WD | 5th | 3rd | |
| Europeans | 8th | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | WD | |
| Moscow News | 1st | 1st | |||||
| National | |||||||
| Soviet Champ. | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||
| WD = Withdrew | |||||||
References
edit- ^ "Elena Vodorezova". Sports-reference. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008.
- ^ Tagaeva, Irina (6 November 2012). Действие происходит на льду: Особенности работы ледового хореографа с фигуристами. Moskovskiy Figurist (in Russian). Federation of Figure Skating in Moscow.
- ^ Adelina Sotnikova at the International Skating Union
- ^ Maxim Kovtun at the International Skating Union
