Nikolai Moroshkin

Nikolai Moroshkin

Kosigina and Moroshkin at the 2012–13 JGP Final
Personal information
Full name Nikolai Yurievich Moroshkin
Country represented Russia
Born 15 November 1993
Tolyatti, Russia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Partner Evgenia Kosigina
Former partner Valeria Starygina
Coach Oleg Sudakov
Alexei Gorshkov
Choreographer Igor Shpilband
Former choreographer Victor Kanevski
Sergei Petukhov
Skating club UOR No. 4 Tolyatti
Winter Sport Center Odintsovo
Training locations Odintsovo
Tolyatti
Began skating 1998
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 135.24
2012 JGP USA
Short dance 59.44
2012 JGP USA
Free dance 78.42
2014 Warsaw Cup

Nikolai Yurievich Moroshkin (Russian: Николай Юрьевич Морошкин: born 15 November 1993) is a Russian ice dancer who competes with Evgenia Kosigina. They are six-time medalists on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and two-time (2011, 2013) Russian Junior medalists.

Career

Moroshkin began skating at the age of 5 to improve his health, and took up ice dancing at 11.[1] He began skating with Evgenia Kosigina in June 2010 after their previous partners left them.[1] Following the tryout in his hometown of Tolyatti, Moroshkin moved to train with her in Odintsovo, near Moscow, coached by Alexei Gorshkov.[1]

During the 2010–2011 season, Kosigina/Moroshkin won bronze at their first JGP event, in Courchevel, France.[2] At their second event, in Dresden, Germany, they won a gold medal.[3] These medals qualified them for the Junior Grand Prix Final,[4] where they finished sixth. At the 2011 Russian Junior Championships, Kosigina/Moroshkin won the bronze medal and then placed sixth at the 2011 World Junior Championships.

Kosigina/Moroshkin competed in the 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix, winning silver in Latvia and bronze in Estonia. They finished fifth at the 2012 Russian Junior Championships and were not assigned to Junior Worlds.

Kosigina/Moroshkin received additional coaching from Igor Shpilband in preparation for the 2012–13 season.[5] They won a pair of silver medals at their events in Lake Placid, New York and Zagreb, Croatia, and finished sixth at the JGP Final in Sochi, Russia. They then won silver at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships and finished sixth at the 2013 World Junior Championships.

Kosigina/Moroshkin finished fourth at the 2014 Russian Junior Championships. Initially first alternates, they joined the Russian team to the 2014 World Junior Championships after Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin withdrew.[6]

Programs

(with Kosigina)

Season Short dance Free dance Exhibition
2014–2015
2013–2014
[7]
  • Bei mir bist du schoen
    performed by Puppini Sisters
  • Juke Box
    by Dimie Cat
  • Bei mir bist du schoen
    performed by Puppini Sisters
  • Flamenco
  • Oblivion
    by Astor Piazzolla
2012–2013
[5]
Blues and swing:
2011–2012
[8]
  • Chilly Cha Cha
  • ?
2010–2011
[9]
  • Shar Goluboy
    (Russian: шар голубой)
    by unknown

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Kosigina

International[10]
Event 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15
Universiade 4th
CS Golden Spin 5th
CS Warsaw Cup 4th
Ice Star 2nd
International: Junior[10]
Junior Worlds 6th 6th 9th
JGP Final 6th 6th
JGP Croatia 2nd
JGP Estonia 3rd
JGP France 3rd
JGP Germany 1st
JGP Latvia 2nd
JGP Poland 4th
JGP USA 2nd
Istanbul Cup 2nd J.
National[10]
Russian Champ 6th
Russian Junior 3rd 5th 2nd 4th
J. = Junior level

With Starygina

National
Event 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10
Russian Junior Championships 11th 9th 10th

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Flade, Tatjana (17 October 2010). "A quick start for ice dancers Kosigina and Moroshkin". GoldenSkate.com.
  2. Brown, Mickey (28 August 2010). "Team USA scores four medals at JGP opener; Russia also garners four medals in Courchevel". Icenetwork.
  3. Felton, Renee (10 October 2010). "Tuktamisheva dominates at JGP Germany". Icenetwork. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
  4. "ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2010/2011 Junior Ice Dance". International Skating Union.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Evgenia KOSIGINA / Nikolai MOROSHKIN: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 5 March 2013.
  6. Ermolina, Olga (6 March 2014). Радионова и Косыгина – Морошкин выступят на чемпионате мира среди юниоров [Radionova and Kosigina/Moroshkin will compete at the World Junior Championships]. Russian Figure Skating Federation (in Russian). Archived from the original on 6 March 2014.
  7. "Evgenia KOSIGINA / Nikolai MOROSHKIN: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014.
  8. "Evgenia KOSIGINA / Nikolai MOROSHKIN: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012.
  9. "Evgenia KOSIGINA / Nikolai MOROSHKIN: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 19 May 2011.
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Competition Results: Evgenia KOSIGINA / Nikolai MOROSHKIN". International Skating Union.

External links

Media related to Nikolai Moroshkin at Wikimedia Commons