Betina Popova
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| Full name | Betina Vadimovna Popova | ||||||||||||
| Country represented | Russia | ||||||||||||
| Born |
2 November 1996 Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia | ||||||||||||
| Residence | Moscow | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||
| Partner | Yuri Vlasenko | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Ksenia Rumiantseva, Ekaterina Volobueva | ||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Mikhail Kolegov | ||||||||||||
| Skating club | Sambo 70 | ||||||||||||
| Training locations | Moscow | ||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2002 | ||||||||||||
| ISU personal best scores | |||||||||||||
| Combined total |
150.94 2015 JGP Spain | ||||||||||||
| Short dance |
61.85 2015–16 JGP Final | ||||||||||||
| Free dance |
90.54 2015 JGP Spain | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Betina Vadimovna Popova (Russian: Бетина Вадимовна Попова, born 2 November 1996) is a Russian ice dancer. With partner Yuri Vlasenko, she is the 2014-15 JGP Final bronze medalist.[1]
Personal life
Betina Vadimovna Popova was born on 2 November 1996 in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.[2]
Career
Popova's first coach was Marina Selitskaya.[2] She began competing with Yuri Vlasenko in 2009.[3] The two are coached by Ksenia Rumiantseva and Ekaterina Zhurina at the Sambo-70 club in Moscow.[2]
Popova/Vlasenko's international debut came at the 2011 NRW Trophy. They placed 7th at the Russian Junior Championships in the 2012–13 season.
Popova/Vlasenko made their ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in the 2013–14 season. They won the silver medal in Minsk, Belarus and then gold in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Their results qualified them for the JGP Final in Fukuoka, Japan, where they placed fourth. After taking the bronze medal at the 2014 Russian Junior Championships, the two were assigned to the 2014 World Junior Championships and finished seventh in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Popova/Vlasenko's first assignment of the 2014–15 JGP season was in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Ranked second in the short dance and fourth in the free dance, they finished second to Canada's Mackenzie Bent / Garrett MacKeen by a margin of 6.75 points. Popova/Vlasenko were awarded gold in Dresden, Germany after placing first in both segments and outscoring Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter of the United States by 7.96 points. At the 2014–15 JGP Final in Barcelona, they won the bronze medal behind Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd. The two finished 11th at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.
Competing in the 2015–16 JGP series, Popova/Vlasenko outscored Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron of France by 7.3 points for the gold in Riga, Latvia. They took silver at their JGP assignment in Logroño, Spain – finishing second to another French team, Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac, by a margin of 1.78 points – and qualified for their third JGP Final. At the final, held in December in Barcelona, Popova/Vlasenko finished fourth, having scored 0.45 less than the bronze medalists, Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons of the United States. After taking silver behind Loboda/Drozd at the Russian Junior Championships, they were assigned to the World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.
Programs
(with Vlasenko)
| Season | Short dance | Free dance |
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| 2015–2016 [4] |
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| 2014–2015 [5] |
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| 2013–2014 [6] |
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Competitive highlights
JGP: Junior Grand Prix
With Vlasenko
| International[1] | ||||||
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| Event | 10–11 | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 |
| Junior Worlds | 7th | 11th | TBD | |||
| JGP Final | 4th | 3rd | 4th | |||
| JGP Belarus | 2nd | |||||
| JGP Czech Rep. | 1st | 2nd | ||||
| JGP Germany | 1st | |||||
| JGP Latvia | 1st | |||||
| JGP Spain | 2nd | |||||
| NRW Trophy | 4th J. | 8th J. | ||||
| National[3] | ||||||
| Russian Jr. Champ. | 14th | 12th | 7th | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd |
| J. = Junior level | ||||||
References
- 1 2 "Competition Results: Betina POPOVA / Yuri VLASENKO". International Skating Union.
- 1 2 3 Попова Бетина Вадимовна [Betina Vadimovna Popova] (in Russian). Russian Figure Skating Federation. Archived from the original on 5 September 2014.
- 1 2 "Попова Бетина Вадимовна" [Betina Vadimovna Popova] (in Russian). fskate.ru.
- ↑ "Betina POPOVA / Yuri VLASENKO: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 20 August 2015.
- ↑ "Betina POPOVA / Yuri VLASENKO: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 3 October 2014.
- ↑ "Betina POPOVA / Yuri VLASENKO: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014.
External links
Media related to Betina Popova at Wikimedia Commons