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Larisa Yurievna Selezneva (Russian: Лариса Юрьевна Селезнёва) (September 12, 1963) is a former Soviet pairs figure skater. She trained at Zenit in Leningrad. She won the World Junior Championships with her 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 disastrous 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.
[edit] Competitive Results by Season
1978-1979
- Junior USSR National Championships - 2nd
- Junior World Championships - 2nd
1979-1980
- Junior USSR National Championships - 1st
- Junior World Championships - 1st
1980- 1981
- Junior USSR National Championships - 1st
- Junior World Championships - 1st
1981-1982
- Ennia Challenge Cup - 2nd
1982-1983
- Ennia Challenge Cup - 1st
- USSR National Championships - 2nd
1983-1984
- European Championships - 4th
- Olympics - 3rd
- World Championships - 4th
1984-1985
- USSR National Championships - 1st
- European Championships - 2nd
- World Championships - 2nd
1985-1986
- Moscow News Cup - 1st
- World Championships - 4th
1986-1987
- European Championships - 1st
- World Championships - 4th
1987-1988
- Moscow News Cup - 3rd
- USSR National Championships - 1st
- European Championships - 2nd
- Olympics - 4th
- World Championships - 3rd
1988-1989
- NHK Trophy - 1st
- USSR National Championships - 1st
- European Championships - 1st
1989-1990
- NHK Trophy - 2nd
- USSR National Championships - 1st
- Europeans - 2nd
- Worlds - 4th
1990-1991
- World Professional Championships - 3rd
- World Challenge of Champions - 3rd
1991-1992
- World Challenge of Champions - 2nd
[edit] References
- ^ (1985) Panorama of the 1984 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 37.
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