Vladislav Vladimirovich Zhovnirski (; born 12 July 1978) is a Russian

pair skating 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 ...

coach and former competitor. With Victoria Maxiuta, he is the 1996 World Junior champion,

1997 Ondrej Nepela Memorial The Nepela Memorial () is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted in Bratislava, Slovakia, by the Slovak Figure Skating Association (). The competition debuted in 1993 and is ...

champion,

1998 Skate America The 1998 Skate America was the first event of six in the 1998–99 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan on October 29 – November 1 ...

bronze medalist, and

1999 Winter Universiade The 1999 Winter Universiade, the XIX Winter Universiade, took place in Poprad Tatry, Slovakia between January 22 and January 30. Medal table Sports * * * * * * * * * References 1999 1999 was designated as the Int ...

champion.

Personal life

Zhovnirski was born 12 July 1978 in

Kiev Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

, Soviet Union. He lives in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

, Russia. He is married to Russian former pair skater Arina Ushakova, with whom he has a child (born 2016).

Career

Partnership with Maxiuta

Zhovnirski competed for Russia and began appearing internationally with Victoria Maxiuta in 1993. They were awarded gold at the 1996 World Junior Championships, held from November to December 1995 in

Brisbane Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a ...

, Australia. The pair's first senior international medal, gold, came at the

Ondrej Nepela Memorial The Nepela Memorial () is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia, by the Slovak Figure Skating Association (). The competition debuted in ...

in September 1996. Maxiuta/Zhovnirski went on to take bronze at the 1997 World Junior Championships, held in November 1996 in

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, South Korea; bronze at the

1998 World Junior Championships 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water Ice is water tha ...

in December 1997 in

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, Canada; and silver at the 1997–98 Junior Series Final in March 1998 in

Lausanne Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway bet ...

, Switzerland. Maxiuta/Zhovnirski began the 1998–99 season with gold medals at both of their

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 ...

assignments – in

Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...

, Bulgaria, and

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

, Germany – before winning bronze at a senior Grand Prix event, the

. In November 1998, the pair stepped onto the World Junior Championship podium for the fourth consecutive year, taking bronze in

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, Croatia. In January 1999, they outscored

Pang Qing Pang Qing (; born December 24, 1979, in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese retired pair skater. With her husband Tong Jian, she is the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, the 2006 and 2010 World Champion, a five-time Four Continents champion (20 ...

Tong Jian Tong Jian (; born August 15, 1979, in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese retired pair skater. With his wife Pang Qing, he is the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, 2006 and 2010 World Champion, a five-time Four Continents champion (2002, 2004, ...

for gold at the

Winter Universiade The FISU World University Games, formerly the Universiade, is an international multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The former name is a portmanteau of the words "Universi ...

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, Slovakia. In March, they took bronze at the Junior Grand Prix Final in

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. The pair was coached by

Nina Mozer Nina Mikhailovna Mozer (; born 28 August 1964) is a Russian pair skating coach based in Moscow. She is best known for coaching Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov and Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, the 2014 Olympic gold and silver medalists. ...

Later career

From 2001 to 2003, Zhovnirski competed with Elena Ivanovich (also known as Jelena Jovanović) but finished no higher than 8th at the Russian Championships. Following the end of his competitive career, he began working as a pairs coach in collaboration with

. His students include 2012 JGP Final champions

Lina Fedorova Lina Alexeyevna Fedorova (; born 20 December 1997) is a Russian pair skater. With partner Maxim Miroshkin, she is the two-time World Junior bronze medalist, 2012 JGP Final champion, 2012 Winter Youth Olympics silver medalist, and 2013 Russi ...

/ Maxim Miroshkin and

Ksenia Stolbova Ksenia Andreyevna Stolbova (; born 7 February 1992) is a retired Russian pair skater who skated with Andrei Novoselov and Fedor Klimov. She is the 2014 Olympic silver medalist, the 2014 Olympic champion in the team event, the 2014 World silver ...

Fedor Klimov Fedor Alexandrovich Klimov (; born 7 September 1990) is a retired Russian pair skater. With partner Ksenia Stolbova, he is the 2014 Olympic silver medalist, the 2014 Olympic champion in the team event, the 2014 World silver medalist, a three-t ...

(from mid-2013).

Competitive highlights

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; JGP:

With Ivanovich

With Maxiuta

References

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