Sergey Slavnov: biography and photo

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The famous figure skater Sergei Slavnov proved from his own experience that there are no easy victories in sports. Only daily training and determination helped him achieve high performance on the ice. His path to glory was difficult and thorny, but he proudly overcame all obstacles. He won awards at European championships, world tournaments, and at the beginning of his career became the first among juniors.

Biography

Sergey Slavnov is a native of the northern capital. He was born on April 11, 1982. The love for sports was instilled in the future figure skater by his grandmother. It was she who gave skates to her four-year-old grandson. Then she enrolled him in a figure skating group and the boy began to disappear on the ice for hours.

Sergey Slavnov, whose biography is a whole kaleidoscope of events and fateful meetings, very soon realized that in sports you need to be a real fighter. Very soon, his character began to harden: after training, hemotomes “decorated” his body and legs, but he endured and continued training.

Career start

Sergey Slavnov started performing on the ice together with Yulia Karbavskaya. Together with her, the athlete won silver medals at the World Championships2002 among juniors.

However, after this brilliant victory, the skater changed his partner. Now he began to ride with the fragile and petite Julia Obertas. Soon the couple became popular and a huge merit in this belonged to the coach Velikova. Colorful programs and filigree technique turned Sergey and Yulia into the brightest duet. They started talking about him not only in our country, but also abroad. Sergei Slavnov, together with Obertas, represented Russia at European and world championships. Their high skill could not go unnoticed: they were awarded medals many times.

The couple decided to change their mentor. Sergei Slavnov (figure skater) and Yulia Obertas started training with Tamara Nikolaevna Moskvina. For three years she worked with a star couple, but no serious success was achieved: the 2005-2006 season was a failure and the athletes again returned “under the command” of Lyudmila Velikova.

Injuries

In 2007, Slavnov and Obertas were supposed to go to the World Championships, but the skater's he alth problems interfered with their plans and Sergey was forced to go to the operating table. It was necessary to urgently remove the appendix. After some time, Julia received serious injuries and a period of calm began in the career of the star couple: Obertas and Slavnov were forced to miss a number of important competitions. In order to somehow support colleagues in the workshop and give them the opportunity to get in shape, the famous figure skater Evgeni Plushenko invited Yulia and Sergey to perform in his show.

Retirement

The duet Slavnov - Obertas will no longer perform at the most important competitions after suffering injuries.

This was announced by the skaters in the 2007-2008 season. But they gladly accepted the invitation to participate in professional shows and show their skills in entertaining television programs on ice. After some time, Julia will become the wife of the Czech figure skater R. Horak and will skate with him abroad.

Sergey Slavnov in the fall of 2008 became a member of the Star Ice television project, where he met actress Anastasia Zadorozhnaya.

Life after the "big sport"

At present, the experienced and venerable skater does not skate on ice in any competition, although he has a huge potential for this. The reasons why Sergey Slavnov left big-time sports are unknown.

In 2010, while talking to the sharks of the pen, he unexpectedly announced that he was returning to the ice arena, but things did not go beyond words.

And he could: age and he alth allowed…

Private life

The skater fell in love with his partner Obertas for the first time. Sergei Slavnov, whose personal life develops in a peculiar way, even wanted to tie the knot with Julia. But then a crisis came in their relationship and Obertas jumped out to marry a foreign figure skater.

For the second time Slavnov was struck by cupid's arrow when he met actress Anastasia Zadorozhnaya on the Star Ice TV show. He handed the girl a card toput her autograph on it. After that, a friendship developed between them.

The press writes that today Sergey and Nastya are no longer together. But Zadorozhnaya herself says that they decided to take a break in the relationship, they currently live in different cities.