Elena Khaliavina

Personal information
Full name:	Elena Khaliavina
Country represented:	Russia
Date of birth:	December 8, 1983 (1983-12-08) (age 25)
Place of birth:	Kirov
Height:	1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Former partner:	Maxim Shabalin
Former coach:	Oleg Sudakov
Former choreographer:	Sergei Petukhov
Skating club:	CSK Moscow
Retired:	2002

Elena Khaliavina (born December 8, 1983 in Kirov, Russian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian ice dancer. With former partner Maxim Shabalin, she had a lot of success on the junior level, winning the Junior Grand Prix Final in the 2001/2002 season and winning two medals at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships: a bronze in 2001 and the silver in 2002. They teamed up in 1999 and broke up following the 2001/2002 season. Khaliavina retired to pursue a career in ballet.^[1]

[edit] Competitive highlights

(with Shabalin)

Event	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002
World Junior Championships	10th	3rd	2nd
Russian Junior Championships	3rd	2nd	1st
Junior Grand Prix Final		2nd	1st
Junior Grand Prix, Italy			1st
Junior Grand Prix, Poland			1st
Junior Grand Prix, Czech Republic		1st
Junior Grand Prix, Norway	3rd	1st
Junior Grand Prix, Slovenia	1st

[edit] References

• Khaliavina & Shabalin at the International Skating Union

v • d • e Junior Grand Prix Final champions in figure skating – Ice dancing 1997: Federica Faiella & Luciano Milo • 1998: Jamie Silverstein & Justin Pekarek • 1999: Natalia Romanyta & Daniil Barantsev • 2000: Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto • 2001: Elena Khaliavina & Maxim Shabalin • 2002: Oksana Domnina & Maxim Shabalin • 2003: Nóra Hoffmann & Attila Elek • 2004: Morgan Matthews & Maxim Zavozin • 2005: Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir • 2006: Madison Hubbell & Keiffer Hubbell • 2007: Maria Monko & Ilia Tkachenko • 2008: Madison Chock & Greg Zuerlein

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