Jonathan Guerreiro

Jonathan Guerreiro
Pushkash and Guerreiro in 2009.
Personal information
Full name	Jonathan Guerreiro
Country represented	Russia
Former country(ies) represented	Australia
Born	(1991-04-03) 3 April 1991 Sydney, Australia
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Partner	Ekaterina Pushkash
Former partner	Ekaterina Riazanova (RUS) Daria Panfilova (RUS) Kiah Pilz (AUS)
Coach	Anjelika Krylova
Former coach	Nikolai Morozov, Denis Samokhin, Natalia Linichuk, Gennadi Karponosov, Alexander Svinin, Irina Zhuk, Svetlana Alexeeva, Elena Kustarova
Former choreographer	Nikolai Morozov, Natalia Linichuk, Irina Zhuk, Elena Kustarova, Igor Pivorovich
Skating club	Vorobievie Gory
Training locations	Novogorsk, Moscow
Former training locations	Aston, Pennsylvania
Began skating	2000
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	136.80 2010 JGP Czech Skate
Short dance:	57.88 2010 JGP Czech Skate
Free dance	78.92 2010 JGP Czech Skate
Medal record Figure skating Ice dancing Competitor for the  Russia World Junior Championships Silver 2011 Gangneung Ice dancing Bronze 2009 Sofia Ice dancing Junior Grand Prix Final Bronze 2008–2009 Goyang Ice dancing

Jonathan Guerreiro (Russian: Джонатан Гурейро; born 3 April 1991) is a Russian-Australian ice dancer who currently competes internationally for Russia. With current partner Ekaterina Pushkash, he is the 2011 World Junior silver medalist and 2011 Russian Junior silver medalist.

With earlier partner Ekaterina Riazanova, he is the 2009 World Junior bronze medalist.

Early career

After early partnerships with Australians Kiah Pilz and Rachael Reading, Guerreiro competed on the Russian regional level with Daria Panfilova.^[1] He teamed up with Ekaterina Riazanova in the summer of 2006.^[1][2] They competed together for three seasons and won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Junior Championships. They were coached by Elena Kustarova and Svetlana Alexeeva at Blue Bird FSC in Moscow.^[3] Shortly after the 2009 Junior Worlds, Riazanova ended the partnership to skate with Ilia Tkachenko.^[4]

Partnership with Pushkash

Junior career

Coaches Irina Zhuk and Alexander Svinin arranged a tryout with Ekaterina Pushkash and they teamed up in May 2009.^[4] They finished 5th at the 2009–2010 Junior Grand Prix Final and won the bronze medal at the 2010 Russian Junior Championships. At the end of the season, they switched coaches to Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponossov, which required them to move to Aston, Pennsylvania in the United States.^[4]

During the 2010–2011 season, they finished 4th at the JGP Final. At the 2011 Russian Junior Championships, they won the silver medal and were assigned to the World Junior Championships where they won silver.

Senior career

Pushkash and Guerreiro moved up to the senior level for the 2011–2012 season. Guerreiro fractured his left foot in training in June 2011, causing them to miss a few weeks of training.^[5] They competed at two Grand Prix events, 2011 Skate Canada and 2011 Cup of Russia. At the end of the season, they changed coaches to Nikolai Morozov in Moscow.^[6]

Prior to the 2013–14 season, Pushkash and Guerreiro began training with Anjelika Krylova and Pasquale Camerlengo in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Personal life

Guerreiro's mother is Svetlana Liapina, a former Soviet ice dancer, and his father is from Portugal.^[1] Guerreiro was born in Australia and grew up there before moving to Moscow with his family in 2005.^[1] He holds dual Russian-Australian citizenship.^[1]

Programs

With Pushkash

With Riazanova

Competitive highlights

With Pushkash

Guerreiro and Pushkash at the 2010–11 JGP Final

With Riazanova

Guerreiro with former partner Ekaterina Riazanova at the 2009 Junior Worlds

With Pilz

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jonathan Guerreiro.

• Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro at the International Skating Union
• Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro at the International Skating Union
• Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro at Tracings.net