Pavel Drozd

Loboda/Drozd at the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final

Personal information

Native name

Павел Игоревич Дрозд

Full name

Pavel Igorevich Drozd

Country represented

Russia

Born

14 December 1995
Saint Petersburg, Russia

Height

1.87 m (6 ft 1 ¹⁄₂ in)

Partner

Alla Loboda

Former partner

Anastasia Safronova, Valeria Podlazova

Coach

Ksenia Rumiantseva, Ekaterina Volobueva

Choreographer

Mikhail Kolegov

Skating club

Sambo 70

Training locations

Moscow
Novogorsk

ISU personal best scores

Combined total

164.37
2017 Junior Worlds

Short dance

67.59
2017 Junior Worlds

Free dance

96.91
2016 JGP Russia

Medal record

Representing Russia
Figure skating: Ice dancing
World Junior Championships
	2017 Taipei	Ice dancing
	2016 Debrecen	Ice dancing
Junior Grand Prix Final
	2016–17 Marseille	Ice dancing
	2015–16 Barcelona	Ice dancing
	2014–15 Barcelona	Ice dancing

Pavel Igorevich Drozd (Russian: Павел Игоревич Дрозд; born 14 December 1995) is a Russian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Alla Loboda, he is a two-time World Junior medalist (silver in 2017, bronze in 2016), a three-time JGP Final silver medalist (2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17), and the 2016 Russian junior national champion.

Personal life

Pavel Igorevich Drozd was born on 14 December 1995 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.^[1] He moved to Moscow in 2010. His younger sister, Daria, has also competed in ice dancing.^[2]

Career

Early years

Drozd began learning to skate at age five in Saint Petersburg.^[3] He had an ice dancing partnership with Anastasia Safronova from around 2008 to 2010.^[4] After they parted ways, Ksenia Rumiantseva invited him to join her group in Moscow.^[3] He then competed with Valeria Podlazova for two seasons.^[4]

Start of partnership with Loboda

On 10 March 2012, Drozd began skating with Alla Loboda, who trained under the same coaches.^[2] Led by Ksenia Rumiantseva and Ekaterina Volobueva in Moscow, they placed 11th at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships.

2013–2014 season

Loboda/Drozd debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in the 2013–14 season, obtaining bronze medals in Riga, Latvia and Gdańsk, Poland. They finished fifth at the 2014 Russian Junior Championships.

2014–2015 season

Loboda/Drozd's first assignment of the 2014–15 JGP season was in Courchevel, France. Ranked second in the short dance and first in the free dance, they won the gold medal by a margin of 2.82 points over Canada's Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang. They took silver in Aichi, Japan, finishing second to Edwards/Pang by 0.44 points. Loboda/Drozd qualified for the JGP Final in Barcelona, where they won the silver medal behind teammates Anna Yanovskaya / Sergei Mozgov. Having finished 4th at the 2015 Russian Junior Championships, they were not named in Russia's team to the 2015 World Junior Championships.

2015–2016 season

In the 2015–16 JGP season, Loboda/Drozd won the silver medal in Bratislava, Slovakia, and then gold in Linz, Austria, before taking silver behind Americans Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter at the 2015–16 JGP Final in Barcelona. After winning their first junior national title, they were awarded the bronze medal at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, having finished third behind McNamara/Carpenter and Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons.

2016–2017 season

Competing in the 2016–17 JGP season, Loboda/Drozd won gold medals in Saransk, Russia, and Tallinn, Estonia. In December 2016, they were awarded the silver medal behind the Parsons at the 2016–17 JGP Final in Marseille, France.

Programs

(with Loboda)

Season	Short dance	Free dance	Exhibition
2016–2017 ^[3]^[5]	Blues: St. Louis Blues Swing	Malagueña by Ernesto Lecuona choreo. by Benoît Richaud
2015–2016 ^[6]	Waltz: Nr. 10 in H minor, op. 69.2 by Frédéric Chopin March: Storming Pleven (from The Turkish Gambit)	Lo ti penso amore performed by David Garrett and Nicole Scherzinger Caprice No. 5 performed by Edvin Marton	The Winner Takes It All by ABBA
2014–2015 ^[7]	Samba: Samabando Rhumba Samba	Giselle by Adolphe Adam
2013–2014 ^[8]	Quickstep: Jeepers Creepers by Bennett Salvay Foxtrot: Work Song by Chantz	Vivo per lei performed by Andrea Boccelli, Hélène Ségara Dance of the Knights (from Romeo and Juliet) by Sergei Prokofiev Vivo per lei
2012–2013	That's Life Time to Swing by Helmut Lotti	Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Competitive highlights

Loboda/Drozd at the 2014-15 Junior Grand Prix Final

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Loboda

International^[9]
Event	12–13	13–14	14–15	15–16	16–17	17–18
GP France						TBD
GP Skate Canada						TBD
International: Junior^[9]
Junior Worlds				3rd	2nd
JGP Final			2nd	2nd	2nd
JGP Austria				1st
JGP Estonia					1st
JGP France			1st
JGP Japan			2nd
JGP Latvia		3rd
JGP Poland		3rd
JGP Russia					1st
JGP Slovakia				2nd
Ice Challenge	3rd J
National^[4]
Russian Jr. Champ.	11th	5th	4th	1st	2nd
J = Junior level; WD = Withdrew

Detailed results

Loboda/Drozd at the 2016-16 Junior Grand Prix Final

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

With Loboda

Date	Event	Level	SD	FD	Total
2016–17 season
15–19 March 2017	2017 World Junior Championships	Junior	1 67.59	2 96.78	2 164.37
1–5 February 2017	2017 Russian Junior Championships	Junior	1 69.40	4 88.59	2 157.99
8–11 December 2016	2016−17 JGP Final	Junior	1 67.58	2 94.29	2 161.87
28 September – 2 October 2016	2016 JGP Estonia	Junior	1 65.54	1 91.47	1 157.01
14–18 September 2016	2016 JGP Russia	Junior	1 64.96	1 96.91	1 161.87
2015–16 season
Date	Event	Level	SD	FD	Total
14–20 March 2016	2016 World Junior Championships	Junior	6 58.93	3 92.26	3 151.19
19–23 January 2016	2016 Russian Junior Championships	Junior	1 68.84	2 96.06	1 164.90
10–13 December 2015	2015−16 JGP Final	Junior	3 64.01	2 86.85	2 150.86
9–13 September 2015	2015 JGP Austria	Junior	1 61.73	1 91.91	1 153.64
19–23 August 2015	2015 JGP Slovakia	Junior	1 60.48	2 86.90	2 147.38
2014–15 season
Date	Event	Level	SD	FD	Total
4–7 February 2015	2015 Russian Junior Championships	Junior	2 61.84	5 78.53	4 140.37
11–14 December 2014	2014–15 JGP Final	Junior	2 53.72	2 82.59	2 136.31
10–14 September 2014	2014 JGP Japan	Junior	3 52.25	1 81.73	2 133.98
20–24 August 2014	2014 JGP France	Junior	2 50.10	1 82.34	1 132.44
2013–14 season
Date	Event	Level	SD	FD	Total
23–25 January 2014	2014 Russian Junior Championships	Junior	5 58.53	3 86.66	5 145.19
19–21 September 2013	2013 JGP Poland	Junior	3 54.55	3 79.56	3 134.11
29–31 August 2013	2013 JGP Latvia	Junior	3 50.93	1 75.50	3 126.43
2012–13 season
Date	Event	Level	SD	FD	Total
1–3 February 2013	2013 Russian Junior Championships	Junior	12 41.22	11 66.04	11 107.26

References

↑ Дрозд Павел Игоревич [Pavel Igorevich Drozd] (in Russian). Russian Figure Skating Federation. Archived from the original on 23 August 2014.
1 2 Flade, Tatjana (30 June 2016). "Russia’s Loboda and Drozd prepare for test skates; Junior Grand Prix". Golden Skate.
1 2 3 "Featured interview: Alla Loboda & Pavel Drozd (RUS)". International Skating Union. 15 September 2016.
1 2 3 Дрозд Павел Игоревич [Pavel Igorevich Drozd]. fskate.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 23 August 2014.
↑ "Alla LOBODA / Pavel DROZD: 2016/2017". International Skating Union.
↑ "Alla LOBODA / Pavel DROZD: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
↑ "Alla LOBODA / Pavel DROZD: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015. CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
↑ "Alla LOBODA / Pavel DROZD: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 26 March 2014. CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
1 2 "Competition Results: Alla LOBODA / Pavel DROZD". International Skating Union.

External links

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