Aliona Savchenko (Ukrainian: Олена Валентинівна Савченко / Olena Valentinivna Savchenko, also Romanized Aljona Sawtschenko; born 19 January 1984 in Kiev, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union) is a German-Ukrainian pair skater. With partner Robin Szolkowy, she is a four-time (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012) World Champion, the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, a four-time (2007–2009, 2011) European Champion, a three-time (2007, 2010, 2011) Grand Prix Final Champion, and a seven-time (2004–2009, 2011) German National Champion.
With former partner Stanislav Morozov, she won the 2000 World Junior Championships and was the 2000 & 2001 Ukrainian Champion. They represented Ukraine at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where they placed 15th.
Savchenko & Szolkowy scored the first 10.0 ever given by a judge under the ISU Judging System.[6]
Aliona Savchenko was born in Obukhiv, near Kiev.[7] Her father is a former weightlifter and she has three brothers.[8] She is the only athlete of the four.[8]
In April 2010, Savchenko became godmother to Galina Efremenko's daughter.[8]
Savchenko became interested in figure skating after seeing it on television.[9] She began skating at age five and practiced with her father on a lake.[9][8] She convinced her parents to let her skate at a rink 50 km away, although it required her arriving at a bus stop at four in the morning for a two-hour ride to the rink.[10] Savchenko turned to pairs at age 13, saying "I saw the other skaters doing it and I wanted to do it myself. I liked all the acrobatic things like lifts and twists and throws."[9]
Savchenko and her first partner, Dmitri Boyenko, were coached by Alexander Artychenko, and represented Ukraine under the auspices of the club Dynamo Kiev. The pair split after the 1998 World Junior Championships where they placed 13th.
Her next partner, Stanislav Morozov, was also from club Dynamo Kiev. They were coached by Galina Kukhar and won the 2000 World Junior Championships,[11] twice won the Ukrainian National title, and placed 15th at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Savchenko's partnership with Morozov dissolved in 2002 because of health issues. She considered partnering with Anton Nimenko from Russia, however, the Ukrainian skating federation would not fund his move to Kiev.[12] She was frustrated by the lack of support for skaters in Ukraine.[7][12]
Savchenko told a German journalist she was looking for a partner. He spoke to German coaches and suggested Robin Szolkowy, whom she recognized from a competition.[9] In May 2003, Savchenko had a successful tryout with Szolkowy in Chemnitz, Germany. Three months later, she relocated to Germany and the new team began training in earnest with former World champion Ingo Steuer as their coach. When they first teamed up, they had to adjust to the fact that they had been taught different basics.[13]
In their first season together, Savchenko and Szolkowy won the German National title. They made their international debut as a team at the start of the 2004–2005 season. They again won the German National pair title, placed fourth at 2005 European Championships with 158.73 points and sixth at the 2005 World Championships earning 169.02 points.
During the 2005–2006 season, the pair earned their first ISU Grand Prix gold medal, at Skate Canada, where they won both the short program and free skate to score a total of 175.60 points. They won the bronze medal at the 2005–2006 Grand Prix Final, scoring 180.10 points. Savchenko and Szolkowy again won their third German National title. They placed second at 2006 Europeans receiving a total of 188.08 points, 7.79 behind Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin.
Savchenko was granted German citizenship on 29 December 2005, making it possible for the pair to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. Just prior to the Olympics, the National Olympic Committee of Germany decided to exclude their coach, Ingo Steuer, from the Olympic team due to his collusion with the Stasi.[14] After a court battle, he was granted accreditation.[14] Savchenko and Szolkowy finished sixth with 180.15 points. They also placed sixth at 2006 Worlds some weeks later, where they earned 170.08 points overall.
The German Ministry of Interior Affairs continued to put pressure on the German Skating Federation over the Steuer affair.[14] As a result, the pair's coach was denied accreditation for the upcoming competitions but the team challenged this in court and won.[14] However, the pair's refusal to leave their coach cost Szolkowy his place in the German army, which had sponsored his skating.[14] Private sponsors and fans supported the pair.[14]
Savchenko and Szolkowy placed third at the 2006 Cup of China and won the 2006 Cup of Russia, qualifying them to the 2006–2007 Grand Prix Final, held in Saint Petersburg. They finished second with a total of 180.67 points, 22.52 behind Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo, who won gold. In January 2007, they won their fourth German National pair title.
Savchenko and Szolkowy won the European Championships for the first time, becoming the first German pair skaters to win the title in 12 years; their coach, Ingo Steuer, had won with Mandy Wötzel in 1995.[15] They won the short program with 65.38 points, even though Savchenko fell in the throw triple flip. In the free skate they set new personal bests for their earning 134.01 points skating to the soundtrack of the film The Mission. The team also got a new personal best for combined total scoring 199.39 points overall, finishing 19.78 ahead of silver medalists Maria Petrova & Alexei Tikhonov.
At the 2007 World Championships, Savchenko and Szolkowy earned their first World Championship medal, a bronze. They received a new personal best for their short program (67.65 points, placing second in that segment of the competition). They finished third in the free skate with a score of 119.74 points. Overall they scored 187.39 points, 16.11 points behind gold medalists Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo.
Savchenko and Szolkowy with their coach
Ingo Steuer in 2007
At the beginning of the 2007–2008 season, Savchenko and Szolkowy competed at the 2007 Skate Canada, the 2007 Cup of Russia and the 2007 NHK Trophy, getting gold in all of those but the Cup of Russia in which they placed second behind Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao. At the 2007–2008 Grand Prix Final in December 2007, Savchenko and Szolkowy scored 72.14 in the short program, setting a new world record,[16] and a season's best of 127.09 points in the free skate to win the pair title with 199.23 overall.
In January 2008, Savchenko and Szolkowy successfully defended their European title. They finished first in both the short program, scoring 70.36 points and in the long program, setting a new season's best 132.03, to finish with a score of 202.39 points overall, a new personal best in their total segment score. They won their second European title by a 32.98 point margin lead over silver medalists Maria Mukhortova and Maxim Trankov.[17][18]
At the 2008 World Championships, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, they placed second in the short program with 72.00 points, 2.36 points behind Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao of China. Although they had some mistakes in the free skate, Savchenko and Szolkowy won that segment with a score of 130.86 points, 6.74 ahead of Jessica Dubé & Bryce Davison, who placed second in the long program. Overall, they achieved a new personal best of 202.86 points to win their first World Championship title finishing 5.04 points ahead of Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao, who won the silver medal.
Savchenko and Szolkowy began the 2008–2009 season at the 2008 Skate America and the 2008 Trophée Eric Bompard, and won both events. They finished third at the 2008–2009 Grand Prix Final. They earned a season's best of 70.14 in the short program but placed third in the long program with a score of 114.95. Overall, they earned 185.09 points to finish 6.40 points behind gold medalists Pang Qing & Tong Jian.
In January 2009, they competed at the European Championships. After placing second in the short program with a score of 66.64 points, 2.98 behind Maria Mukhortova & Maxim Trankov,[19] they skated a very strong free skate, receiving a season's best score of 132.43 and earning them first place in that segment of the competition and overall, with a total score of 199.07 points, 16.30 points, ahead of silver medalists Yuko Kawaguchi & Alexander Smirnov.[20]
Savchenko and Szolkowy went to the 2009 World Championships as the defending champions. Despite Savchenko fighting a flu,[21] they tallied a personal best 72.30 points in the short program to take the lead by a margin of 3.36 points over Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov. They also won the free skate, earning 131.18 points in that segment of the competition. A throw triple salchow on the last beat of their music in the long program ensured victory. They finished with a combined total of 203.48 points, another personal best, and won by almost 17 points over silver medalists Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao, who scored 186.52 points overall.[22] They were the first German pair since Marika Kilius & Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (1963 and 1964) to successfully defend a World Championship title.
Savchenko and Szolkowy began the 2009–2010 season with the 2009 Nebelhorn Trophy. Finishing first in the short program with a score of 72.80 points (13.24 ahead of the next best team), as well as in the free skate with 113.19 points, the pair earned the gold medal with a total score of 185.99 points.
For the 2009–2010 Grand Prix season, they were assigned to 2009 Trophée Eric Bompard and the 2009 Skate Canada. At the 2009 Trophée Eric Bompard, they placed first in the short program with a new personal best score of 72.98 points, leading by 6.1 points over Maria Mukhortova & Maxim Trankov, but committed several crucial mistakes in the free skate to finish fourth in that segment of the competition with 101.44. Overall they won the bronze medal with 174.42 points, 18.51 behind gold medalists Maria Mukhortova & Maxim Trankov. On the plane back to Germany, Steuer suggested scrapping their long program to You'll Never Walk Alone,[23] which had been recorded for them by André Rieu's orchestra in Maastricht.[24] Although they had worked on the program since May, Savchenko said it "just didn't suit us", so they decided to prepare a new one to the soundtrack of Out of Africa.[23]
At the 2009 Skate Canada they won the short program, improving their personal best to 74.16 points, and leading the rest of the field by 8.36 points. They also won the free skate with a score of 132.55 points, placing first overall with 206.71 points, 21 ahead of Maria Mukhortova & Maxim Trankov. They set a new world record for pairs' combined total under the ISU Judging System.[25] This was also the first time a judge gave a 10.0 under the Code of Points.[6]
Their placements in their two 2009–2010 Grand Prix events qualified them for the 2009–2010 Grand Prix Final that was held in Tokyo, Japan, in December 2009. They placed second in the short program with 73.14 points, 2.22 behind Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo. However, they finished fourth in the free skate with 127.24 points. They won the bronze medal overall with 200.38 points, 13.87 behind gold medalists Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo. Savchenko developed a flu during the Grand Prix Final which worsened and forced the pair to withdraw from German Nationals.[26]
At the 2010 European Championships, they led in the short program with 74.12 points, by just 0.2 over Yuko Kawaguchi & Alexander Smirnov. They placed second in the free skate with a new personal best 137.60 points, 1.63 behind gold medalists Yuko Kawaguchi & Alexander Smirnov, who consequently placed first in the free skate and overall. Overall Savchenko and Szolkowy earned a new personal best score of 211.72 points.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, the pair earned their personal best score of 75.96 points in the short program, yet only placed second. Rivals Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo took the top stop with a world record short program score of 76.66 points. They placed third in the free skating with 134.64 points, 7.16 behind Pang Qing & Tong Jian, who placed first in that segment. Overall they won the bronze medal with 210.60 points, 5.97 behind gold medalists and Olympic champions Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo and 2.71 behind silver medalists Pang Qing & Tong Jian.
They then competed at the 2010 World Championships. They placed third in the short program with 69.52 points, which was 5.76 behind leaders Pang Qing & Tong Jian. In the free skate they placed second with a score of 135.22 points, 0.89 behind Pang Qing & Tong Jian, who also won that segment to capture the gold medal. Overall the team totaled 204.74 points to win the silver medal. Following the Olympics, they both concluded they would like to continue competing at least another season.[27]
After performing in fifteen shows, Savchenko and Szolkowy began training for the 2010–2011 season in May 2010 in Chemnitz.[26][28] The pair experimented with a throw quad flip in training. Steuer said, "It did work sometimes, but it needs extremely high concentration."[29] In September 2010, Savchenko stated that they "plan to continue through 2014, but you never know if our bodies will work as we like them to work."[29]
Savchenko and Szolkowy won 2010 Skate America by over 20 points and 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard by 14 points, and were the top qualifiers for the 2010–2011 Grand Prix Final. On their way back from France, the airline lost their luggage containing their skates, resulting in concerns the pair would be forced to withdraw from the Grand Prix Final.[30] Skates are not permitted as part of hand luggage because the blades are considered potential weapons.[31] The airline found their luggage a few days later.[32] They placed first in both the short and long program at the 2010–2011 Grand Prix Final to win the title.[33][34]
At the European Championships, they won the short program by almost three points, receiving a perfect ten for performance and execution from one of the judges.[35] In the long program, the pair received zero points for a spin after an error by Savchenko; they placed second in the free program by less than a point, finishing first overall to win their fourth European title ahead of 2010 champions Kavaguti and Smirnov.[36][37] Their training ice was scheduled to be melted in late March, after they would normally have left for the World Championships, however, the competition was postponed to late April. They were able to get their ice time extended until Easter, with the city and sport association negotiating the finances.[38]
At the 2011 World Championships Savchenko and Szolkowy were in second place following the short program.[39] They went on to win their third World Championships with a record-breaking free skate. Their total score was also a new world record.[40] With this win, the pair capped off a season in which they won every event they entered.
Savchenko and Szolkowy perform their Pina LP at the 2012 World Championships
Savchenko and Szolkowy took up the option of competing at three Grand Prix events during the 2011–2012 season. They are entered in 2011 Skate America, 2011 NHK Trophy and 2011 Cup of Russia. In October, they confirmed Pina and Angels & Demons as their new music selections and said they were practicing a throw triple Axel,[41][42] successfully executed in international competition by only one previous pair, Americans Rena Inoue / John Baldwin at the 2006 Winter Olympics.[43] At Skate America, Savchenko and Szolkowy attempted the throw triple axel in the short program but experienced a hard fall.[44] They were given credit for completing the revolutions and finished in 5th place, 3.4 points off the lead.[45] They rebounded to place first in the free skate and won their second consecutive Skate America title and third in their career.[46] They added a reverse lasso lift to their free program but performed only a double twist because they were still working on a new entry to the triple.[47]
They attempted the throw triple axel again in the short program at 2011 NHK Trophy but Savchenko took another hard fall.[43] They finished third at the event.[48] Savchenko and Szolkowy rebounded to win the 2011 Rostelecom Cup.[49] They qualified for the 2011–12 Grand Prix Final. Although they did not attempt it in Russia, they said they had not ruled out the triple axel.[50] They also said they were considering missing the German Championships in order to rest.[50] At the Grand Prix Final, Savchenko and Szolkowy won the gold medal with a total score of 212.26, defeating Volosozhar and Trankov by a margin of only 0.18 points.[51][52][53] Savchenko and Szolkowy missed their nationals with the German Skating Union's okay and continued to work on the throw triple axel.[54] Savchenko ruptured a muscle fiber in her left upper thigh as a result of a fall in training on 12 January 2012.[55][56][57][58] Due to Savchenko not being fully fit, the pair considered withdrawing from the 2012 European Championships (pairs event 25–26 January) or reducing the level of planned difficulty but said they feared a withdrawal would result in a one-year ban from competition if they performed in 2–8 February Art on Ice shows, a significant source of income (around 80,000 euros)[59] for the pair which receives no funding from the German federation.[56][60] By the start of the competition, Savchenko was able to land jumps and throws but spins aggravated her injury, causing the pair to withdraw before the short program on 25 January.[61][58]
At the 2012 World Championships in Nice, France, Savchenko / Szolkowy were first in the short program on 28 March.[62] After falls on previous competition attempts, Savchenko landed the throw triple Axel for the first time in their career but her free foot touched the ice.[62] On 29 March, Szolkowy lost a court case seeking reinstatement to the Bundeswehr which funded his sports career until 2006 – the court stated he did not have an authorized coach.[63][64] Savchenko and Szolkowy were second in the free skate on 30 March but finished first overall. They won their fourth World title – becoming the fifth pair in the post-World War II period to do so – by a margin of 0.11 points over silver medalists Volosozhar and Trankov.[65]
Savchenko and Szolkowy have trained mostly in Chemnitz since teaming up. They train twice a day, six days a week.[10] Ingo Steuer has served as their sole coach and choreographer throughout their entire career together and he also cuts their music and sharpens their skates.[66][10][13] Savchenko designs the pair's costumes.[15] The ice rink in Chemnitz is typically melted from the start of April to mid-May; they train in Dresden if they need ice time during this period.[27][42]
Savchenko and Szolkowy have toured in multiple ice shows around the world, including the 2009 Ice All Stars, All That Skate,[67] the 2010 Art on Ice in Lausanne, Switzerland, and shows in Davos, Oberstdorf, and Ingolstadt.
In October 2011, Savchenko and Szolkowy were awarded the public prize at Germany's tenth and final Unity Prize ceremony.[68] In January 2012, they were voted Saxony's Sports Team of 2011.[69]
(with Szolkowy)
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Savchenko, Aliona |
| Alternative names |
Savchenko, Aljona |
| Short description |
Ukrainian-German pair skater |
| Date of birth |
19 January 1984 |
| Place of birth |
Kiev, Ukraine |
| Date of death |
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| Place of death |
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