Lubov Raifovna Bakirova (; born 11 January 1993) is a former Russian competitive

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. In 2009, she teamed up with

Mikalai Kamianchuk Mikalai Kamianchuk (; born 9 August 1987) is a Belarusian pair skater. He has placed in the top ten at four European Championships, skating with Lubov Bakirova and Tatiana Danilova. Career Early career Kamianchuk began learning to skate i ...

to represent

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. Appearing at six ISU Championships, they achieved their best result, 10th, at the 2011 Europeans in

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and the 2012 Europeans in

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. They competed together until the end of the 2011−12 season.

Programs

(with Kamianchuk)

Competitive highlights

''JGP:

Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...

With Kamianchuk for Belarus

With Patlasov for Russia

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bakirova, Lubov Russian female pair skaters Belarusian female pair skaters 1993 births Living people Figure skaters from Perm, Russia 21st-century Belarusian sportswomen 21st-century Russian sportswomen