Larisa Selezneva
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Larisa Yurievna Selezneva (Russian: Лариса Юрьевна Селезнева) (September 12, 1963) is a former Soviet pairs figure skater. She trained at Zenit in Leningrad. She won the World Junior Championships with partner Oleg Makarov in 1980 and 1981. They then rapidly progressed in the senior ranks. In 1984, they won the bronze medal at the Sarajevo Olympics, which was the first major international competition for the pair. Selezneva was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Labor (1984).[1]
Then, armed with strong pairs skills and difficult side-by-side triple jumps, they won the silver medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1985 in Tokyo, almost defeating the then-reigning world and Olympic champion team, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, also from the Soviet Union. Many in the skating community felt that Selezneva and her partner would become the top team toward the 1988 Olympics; however, their performances became less consistent over the seasons that followed.
Although they went on to win the European Championships in 1987 and 1989 and to come in third at the 1988 World Championships, the pair's career record was tainted by disasterous and uncharacteristic errors at other major competitions, such as the World Championships in 1986 and 1987 as well as the Olympics in 1988.
Selezneva and Makarov are married and currently coach at the Ice Time Sports Complex in Newburgh, New York. Their daughter, Ksenia Makarova, competed at the 2007 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Novice Ladies.
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- ^ (1985) Panorama of the 1984 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 37.
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