Alena Savchenko is a blonde figure skating nymph. Ukrainian by origin, she achieves success with any partner, no matter what nationality.
Childhood and family
Alena Savchenko was born in 1984 near Kiev. Her parents were school teachers, but sports were always present in their lives. My father was engaged in weightlifting, has the title of master of sports. Alena's mother was also a very athletic woman, although she did not achieve serious success in sports. Perhaps because she devoted all her time to her family - besides Alena, she has three more sons.
Becoming an athlete
Alena Savchenko first skated at the age of three. Her first coach was her father, and her first skating rink was a frozen pond near her home. At the age of five, Alena was sent to a sports school, which was located in Kiev. Alena's parents had to take the girl to workouts almost every day, 50 kilometers in one direction. But Alena began to make progress, and it was worth it. Although sometimes parents got tired of this lifestyle and dreamed that their daughter went to a music school near their home.
Career
At the beginning of her career, Alena played for Ukraine. Her first experience with the young figure skater Dmitry Boenko was not very successful, but soon Alena paired up with Stanislav Morozov, and the athletes took first place in the youth competitions. But this duet did not last long, Stanislav was seriously injured.
A long and painful search for a partner for Alena began, which, as a result, brought Savchenko to Germany. It should be noted that the girl resisted moving to a foreign country for a long time, fearing that she would miss her native Ukraine very much.
But in the interests of sports and her future career, Alena Savchenko nevertheless moved to Germany and began to perform under the German flag. Her partner for a long time was Robin Sholkovy, with whom Alena achieved the best world awards.
But this duo was destined to disintegrate, Robin ended his career and became a coach. But Alena did not stop there, she soon began to skate with the Frenchman Bruno Massot. At the 2018 Olympics, Alena and Bruno won gold medals, brilliantly skating the program and setting a world record at the same time.
Personal life
Throughout her youth, Alena skated, and she constantly did not have enough time for young people. Although the famous athlete had enough fans. Alena Savchenko found her feminine and family happiness only recently. The artist Liam Cross became her chosen one, and then her husband.
Alena's husband was born in Great Britain and has brilliant English manners, but this is not at all the main thing in family life. In a pair of Alena and Liam, love, harmony and mutual understanding reign, despite the language and cultural barriers. In the future, Alena promised to take her husband's surname, since all the most important things in her life associated with Savchenko's surname had already taken place.
