Larisa Selezneva

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Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Bronze	1984 Sarajevo	Pairs

Larisa Yurievna Selezneva (Russian: Лариса Юрьевна Селезнёва) (September 12, 1963) is a former Soviet pairs figure skater. She trained at Zenit in Leningrad. She won the World Junior Championships with her partner Oleg Makarov in 1980 and 1981. They then rapidly progressed in the senior ranks. In 1984, they won the bronze medal at the Sarajevo Olympics, which was the first major international competition for the pair. Selezneva was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Labor (1984).^[1]

Then, armed with strong pairs skills and difficult side-by-side triple jumps, they won the silver medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1985 in Tokyo, almost defeating the then-reigning world and Olympic champion team, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, also from the Soviet Union. Many in the skating community felt that Selezneva and her partner would become the top team toward the 1988 Olympics; however, their performances became less consistent over the seasons that followed.

Although they went on to win the European Championships in 1987 and 1989 and to come in third at the 1988 World Championships, the pair's career record was tainted by disastrous and uncharacteristic errors at other major competitions, such as the World Championships in 1986 and 1987 as well as the Olympics in 1988.

Selezneva and Makarov are married and currently coach at the Ice Time Sports Complex in Newburgh, New York. Their daughter, Ksenia Makarova, competed at the 2007 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Novice Ladies.

Contents 1 Competitive Results by Season 2 References 3 External links 4 Navigation

[edit] Competitive Results by Season

1978-1979

• Junior USSR National Championships - 2nd
• Junior World Championships - 2nd

1979-1980

• Junior USSR National Championships - 1st
• Junior World Championships - 1st

1980- 1981

• Junior USSR National Championships - 1st
• Junior World Championships - 1st

1981-1982

• Ennia Challenge Cup - 2nd

1982-1983

• Ennia Challenge Cup - 1st
• USSR National Championships - 2nd

1983-1984

• European Championships - 4th
• Olympics - 3rd
• World Championships - 4th

1984-1985

• USSR National Championships - 1st
• European Championships - 2nd
• World Championships - 2nd

1985-1986

• Moscow News Cup - 1st
• World Championships - 4th

1986-1987

• European Championships - 1st
• World Championships - 4th

1987-1988

• Moscow News Cup - 3rd
• USSR National Championships - 1st
• European Championships - 2nd
• Olympics - 4th
• World Championships - 3rd

1988-1989

• NHK Trophy - 1st
• USSR National Championships - 1st
• European Championships - 1st

1989-1990

• NHK Trophy - 2nd
• USSR National Championships - 1st
• Europeans - 2nd
• Worlds - 4th

1990-1991

• World Professional Championships - 3rd
• World Challenge of Champions - 3rd

1991-1992

• World Challenge of Champions - 2nd

[edit] References

1. ^ (1985) Panorama of the 1984 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 37. 

[edit] External links

• Selezneva & Makarov

[edit] Navigation

v • d • e European champions in figure skating – Pairs 1930–1931: Olga Orgonista & Sandor Szalay · 1932: Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet · 1933: Idi Papez & Karl Zwack · 1934: Emelie Rotter & László Szollás · 1935–1939: Maxi Herber & Ernst Baier · 1947: Micheline Lannoy & Pierre Baugniet · 1948–1949: Andrea Kékesy & Ede Király · 1950: Marianna Nagy & László Nagy · 1951–1952: Ria Baran & Paul Falk · 1953: Jennifer Nicks & John Nicks · 1954: Silvia Grandjean & Michel Grandjean · 1955: Marianna Nagy & László Nagy · 1956: Elisabeth Schwartz & Kurt Oppelt · 1957–1958: Vera Suchankova & Zdenek Delezal · 1959–1964: Marika Kilius & Hans-Jürgen Bäumler · 1965–1968: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov · 1969–1972: Irina Rodnina & Alexei Ulanov · 1973–1978: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev · 1979: : Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai · 1980: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev · 1981: Irina Vorobieva & Igor Lisovsky · 1982–1983: Sabine Baeß & Tassilo Thierbach · 1984–1986: Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev · 1987: Larisa Selezneva & Oleg Makarov · 1988: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov · 1989: Larisa Selezneva & Oleg Makarov · 1990: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov · 1991–1992: Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev · 1993: Marina Eltsova & Andrei Bushkov · 1994: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov · 1995: Mandy Wötzel & Ingo Steuer · 1996: Oksana Kazakova & Artur Dmitriev · 1997: Marina Eltsova & Andrei Bushkov · 1998: Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze · 1999–2000: Maria Petrova & Alexei Tikhonov · 2001: Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze · 2002–2006: Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin · 2007–2008: Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy

v • d • e World Junior champions in figure skating – Pairs 1976: Sherri Baier & Robin Cowan · 1977: Josée France & Paul Mills · 1978: Barbara Underhill & Paul Martini · 1979: Veronika Pershina & Marat Akbarov · 1980–1981: Larisa Selezneva & Oleg Makarov · 1982–1893: Marina Avstriskaia & Yuri Kvashnin · 1984: Manuela Landgraf & Ingo Steuer · 1985: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov · 1986–1987: Elena Leonova & Gennadi Krasnitski · 1988: Kristi Yamaguchi & Rudy Galindo · 1989: Evgenia Chernisheva & Dmitri Sukhanov · 1990–1992: Natalia Krestianinova & Alexei Torchinski · 1993: Inga Korshunova & Dmitry Saveliev · 1994–1995: Maria Petrova & Anton Sikharulidze · 1996: Victoria Maxiuta & Vladislav Zhovnirski · 1997: Danielle Hartsell & Steve Hartsell · 1998–1999: Julia Obertas & Dmitri Palamarchuk · 2000: Aliona Savchenko & Stanislav Morozov · 2001: Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao · 2002: Elena Riabchuk & Stanislav Zakarov · 2003: Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao · 2004: Natalia Shestakova & Pavel Lebedev · 2005: Maria Mukhortova & Maxim Trankov · 2006: Julia Vlassov & Drew Meekins · 2007: Keauna McLaughlin & Rockne Brubaker · 2008: Ksenia Krasilnikova & Konstantin Bezmaternikh