Maria Ivanovna Monko (; born 26 November 1990) is a Russian former competitive
ice dancer
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...
. With
Ilia Tkachenko, she is the 2007
ISU Junior Grand Prix Final
The ISU Junior Grand Prix Final (titled the ISU Junior Series Final in the 1997–98 season) is the final event of a series of junior-level competitions – the ISU Junior Grand Prix – organized by the International Skating Union (ISU). Medal ...
champion.
Personal life
Maria Monko is the elder sister of
Ksenia Monko
Ksenia Ivanovna Monko (; born 8 February 1992) is a former competitive ice dancer for Russia. Alongside Kirill Khaliavin, she is the 2011 World Junior champion, a two-time (2009–10, 2010–11) Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and the 2015 R ...
, who has also competed internationally in ice dancing.
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Career
Early in her career, Monko competed with Alexander Bortsov on the national level. She trained mainly in Kirov and then briefly in Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of t ...
.[
Around late August 2006, Monko began training with Ilia Tkachenko in ]Odintsovo
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History
The village of Odintsovo was established in the la ...
under Alexei Gorshkov.[ They won the silver medal at the 2007 Russian Junior Championships and placed fifth at the 2007 World Junior Championships.
In the 2007–08 season, Monko/Tkachenko won a pair of medals on the ]Junior Grand Prix
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series and qualified for the JGP Final where they took gold. They finished fourth at the 2008 World Junior Championships after Monko fell on twizzles in both the original and free dance.
For the 2008–09 season, Monko/Tkachenko received two senior Grand Prix assignments, 2008 Skate America
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and 2008 Trophée Eric Bompard
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, and prepared new programs.[ They withdrew, however, from both events. Their partnership ended later in 2008.][
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Programs
(with Tkachenko)
Competitive highlights
With Tkachenko
With Bortsov
References
External links
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Maria Monko / Ilia Tkachenko
at Tracings.net
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Living people
1990 births
Russian female ice dancers
Figure skaters from Kirov, Kirov Oblast
21st-century Russian sportswomen