Dmitry Aliev is a Russian figure skater. The athlete has two victories in the national championship, the silver of the world championship (among juniors), as well as the silver medal of the adult European championship.
Despite his rather young age, Dmitry Sergeevich Aliev has convincingly proved that there are no unapproachable peaks.
Difficult choice
The biography of the future skater began in 1999. The child was born on June 1 in Ukhta in the family of the famous hockey coach Sergei Aliyev. He has brought up several generations of talented athletes. Dmitry's mother was a skier in the past. Together with his eldest son Alexei, the youngest joined sports from childhood.
Dima demonstrated his first achievements in skiing. From an early age, the idol for the boy was the Norwegian skier Petter Nortug. Trying to be like him, Aliyev Jr. achieved a lot for his age. Everything went to the fact that a sports career was determined.
However, there were major changes ahead. Figure skating coach Vyacheslav Maksimov, who was friends with the boy's parents, invited Dima to attend one of the trainings. He showed the boy a few simple connections and a couple of elements. The boy immediately followed the movements of the coach. From that moment on, the hobby for figure skating began.
On skates, Aliyev learned to hold on, skating on the surface of a frozen lake. Until eleven, the boy successfully combined figure skating and skiing. Gradually the loads increased. As the intensity of the training increased, I had to make a choice. Dima preferred skates.
Now the novice athlete kept the alignment on Alexei Yagudin. The benchmark for a domestic star in the chosen sport set the highest bar, but this did not stop the boy. In training, he did his best.
First achievements
In 2012, Aliyev took part in the Winter Ybitsa festival. The Olympic champion and talented athlete Maxim Marinin became interested in the young figure skater. He recommended the boy's parents to see Alexei Mishin, Evgeni Plushenko's mentor.
Dima made an impression on the famous coach. The mentor invited the young man to train in St. Petersburg. After moving to the city on the Neva, a year later, classes began with Evgeny Rukavitsyn. In 2014 Dmitry took part in the international junior championship in Slovenia. He won the bronze medal. The next year, Aliyev was second in his group, and 2016 brought the young athlete the coveted “gold” of the country's youth championship.
Dmitry has shown an amazing sense of purpose. He not only achieved outstanding success in sports, but also did not interrupt his school studies. The teachers sent the assignments to the boy by e-mail.
In 2017, the premiere took place in adult competitions. The season kicked off with a setback. However, even an injury did not prevent the talented skater from achieving heights. Aliyev took the third place at the national championship. With this, Dmitry achieved the right to speak at European competitions.
Life outside the ice
At the beginning of 2018, the European Championship was held in Moscow at the Megasport ice arena. Even experienced judges and commentators were impressed by the program shown by Dima. True, there were some curiosities. Wanting to avoid force majeure during his performance, Dima wrapped the skate with electrical tape. The best athlete was in the free program.
The result of the competition was "silver". Aliyev let Spanish figure skater Javier Fernandez go ahead. Bronze went to Mikhail Kolyada. At its core, the championship was a qualifier for the main event of 2018, the Olympic Games in South Korea.
So far, the athlete does not seriously think about his personal life. He is occupied with creativity, he is completely absorbed in training. Dmitry also has other hobbies. He loves to play tennis, football, skiing in his hometown. The press published information about the romance that began between figure skaters Alisa Fedichkina and Dmitry Aliev. The reasons for this input were joint pictures of young people on Instragram and other social networks. The athletes reacted only to the guesses of the fans by admitting that the relationship between them was only friendly.
As it turned out later, the situation that arose at the 2016 championship could have caused confusion. The mentor of Alisa and Dima, Evgeny Rukavitsyn, did not have time due to problems with documents for the start of the competition in Nice. Aliyev acted as the girl's mentor, helped prepare the athlete for the performance. Later, Dima admitted that he was worried for Alice more than for himself.
To new heights
The skater was called one of the main favorites of the Pyeongchang Olympics. Aliyev had been preparing for the main event in his life for a very long time. The program was opened by team competitions. Russia was represented by Mikhail Kolyada. And because of an unsuccessful performance, the Russians lost to the Canadians, becoming the second.
Aliyev got all the chances to take the top of the podium in the individual championship. He updated his personal best in the short program. According to the intermediate result, the athlete took the second position. However, mistakes made during the execution of an arbitrary program pushed him to seventh place.
At the national championship in Saransk at the end of 2018, the athlete showed far from the best results. The skater admitted that he was disappointed, very tired, and needed a break. After the vacation I intend to continue honing my skills again. New victories await Dmitry.
In June 2018, the European championship silver medalist held a training session with the world break dance champion Aslan Nyrov. The skater at this master class received the necessary experience of preparatory work from a professional dancer.
The athlete will compete in the Grand Prix stage in the 2019/20 Skate America season on October 18-20.
