Skater Victoria Sinitsyna Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Pares with Nikita Katsalapov, took first place in the ranking of the International Union of ISU skaters according to the year. It has more than once became a winner of ice dancing in the championships of Russia, Europe and the world. In January, she became the owner of a gold medal in the European Championship, which was held in Tallinn.

At the Beijing Olympics, Victoria and Nikita won a silver medal in ice dancing. The girl’s father and his sister Tatyana were professional gymnasts. Vika was constantly sick and, in order to strengthen her daughter’s health, her parents brought her to a section of solitary figure skating when the baby was 4 years old. Victoria Sinitsina with her parents in childhood and now when Vika was 4 years old, her mother brought her to a section of solitary figure skating to the skating rink for coach Julia Vladimirovna Lebedeva.

Having pierced there for about five years, she, having failed to cope with fear during the jumps that appeared after an unsuccessful fall, thought to say goodbye to ice forever. Victoria Sinitsina in childhood, seeing that before the jump, Vika stops and cannot overcome and jump, Julia Vladimirovna advised Victoria to try herself in dancing - high growth and long legs said that an excellent dancer on ice would come out of her.

At the stadium of "young pioneers" I rode with Ira Slutskaya. She walked and looked at her training. The first real happiness came to me when Klimkin taught me to his corporate boat - Cantilere. As a child, the future champion dreamed of becoming a dentist more than a famous skater. Pares with Ruslan Zhiganshin under her leadership, Vika took up dancing on ice. Svetlana Lvovna put Vika in a couple with Ruslan Zhiganshin, who was three years older than her.

The results were not long in coming. At the Universiade in the Italian Terentino and at the Russian Championship, skaters won bronze medals. But the European Championship of the year, they became fourth, losing to “bronze” Penny Kums and Nicholas Bakland, but nevertheless climbed the Russian national team for the Olympic Games in Sochi. Victoria Sinitsin and Ruslan Zhiganshin at the Universiade in the year at the Victoria and Ruslan Olympics and Ruslan managed to take only 16th place, however, the athletes were included in the couples from Russia for the World Cup in Saitama.

Speaking at the Suitama Super Arena, they received 7th place. The surprise for the world of figure skating was the announcement of the collapse of two dance couples: Sinitsin -Zhigianshin and Ilyin -Katsalapov. At the same time, both couples showed excellent results in competitions. The initiative belonged to Katsalapov and Sinitsina. Ruslan Zhiganshin learned about this not from Victoria or coach, but from one of the Russian skaters, as his sister Nelly Zhiganshin said in an interview with Sovsport.

In pairs with Nikita Katsalapov, a couple of Sinitsin-Zhigangin broke up in the year, and Victoria began to ride with Nikita Katsalapov, by that time the Olympic champion Triumph at the Games in Sochi. The skaters began to train in the States, at the school of Marina Olegovna Zueva, who taught the children not only figured skating, but also life: from proper nutrition to a cultural horizons.

The move was not easy for the girl: a new situation, another country and ignorance of the language did not add confidence in their abilities. It helped a lot that Marina Olegovna paid special attention to the skater and did a huge job with her. I, it seems to me, did not get out of the hall. In fact, Marina in fact very much taught to constantly develop and improve.

The coach could call on a weekend and invite the guys to see the ballet on YouTube - a kind of visual training was obtained. After six months of life in America, due to differences in the culture of nutrition, Victoria began to have problems with excess weight. This interfered during training - Nikita at this time was restored after an injury. Having shown the willpower, the skater brought himself to the desired form.

Despite the hard discipline at the school and the hard work of the guys, Victoria and Nikita were rubbed and learned to ride harmoniously together for about three years. At the stage in Russia, athletes took third place. Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov on Skate America in the year Victoria and Nikita returned to Moscow, as Katsalapova needed rehabilitation after surgery on his shoulder.

At this time, Oleg Volkov, and then Elena Tchaikovskaya, became the coaches of the guys. In April, the coach replaced the athletes again. It became Alexander Vyacheslavovich Zhulin. Zhulin's team took a couple well. Katsalapov tore the ligament of the ankle of the right leg during the arbitrary program at the National Championship in St. Petersburg. At the stages of the Grand Prix in Canada and France, the second places were received and became silver prize-winners in the Grand Prix finals.

In the year, Victoria and Nikita became Russian dancing champions on ice, and during the sixth international team of figure skating championship in Fukuok they received bronze medals as part of the Russian national team.In the Japanese site at the World Cup, Sinitsin and Katsalapov, became the owners of silver medals, losing to French athletes, Gabrielle Papadakis and Guillaume Sisron, first place.

During a short program, when Russian skaters skated tango, the leading broadcast of the championship called their dance to the best tango on the ice during the entire existence of figure skating. Most of all they liked the Argentine tango, one of his differences from the classic is to press the elbows to the sides. Therefore, when a pair was set up by a short program for the World Cup, the guys already understood what they want and how to do it.

Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov at the European Championship for the World Cup in Stockholm Victoria and Nikita were preparing very carefully, despite the fact that after the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix, in which they took first place, both fell ill with coronavirus. Sinitsina transferred him in severe form with a partial lung defeat and could not participate in the Russian championship every training session for 3 weeks before leaving for competitions.

The skaters laid out completely on home ice and in Novogorsk, where the guys had the opportunity to ride with their rivals. They skated all training for “excellent”, except for one - on the day of an arbitrary program. Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov at the World Cup during the performance Victoria was very worried about the arbitrary program. Despite the fact that the partner tried to morally support her, calmness to the skater came only after she went out onto the ice and took a few steps.

By the middle of the program, Sinitsin had already enjoyed dancing on ice. The couple managed to fulfill the rental so high quality that the judges had no other choice, except how to award the skaters first place. Prizes in the year for the couple did not end. At the seventh international team of the world in Osaka Victoria and Nikita showed a program in which the finest mutual understanding of the dance couple was visible: during the performance they seemed to become one.

It is not surprising that in Osaka the skaters also won first place, and the Russian team first received gold medals in the world championship. The personal life of Victoria Sinitsina Victoria and Nikita partners on ice, but whether they are a couple in real life. Victoria does not advertise personal life, and Romance with Katsalapov does not deny and does not confirm. Nevertheless, on the girl's page in social networks there is her photo with Nikita, taken on Katsalapov’s birthday and signed by Victoria: “Happy Birthday My Man.

Be the happiest, and I will help to do it! On the First Channel in the project “90 seconds of Challenga” Victoria, answering the leading questions, said that she called Nikita a nickname Kota and her Katsalapov, Kotofei Moiseich, and admitted that he could get her out of his own quickly. They took the first place in the rhythm-dancer to the Russian Partion, but withdrew with participation in the championship due to Nikita’s back injury.

Today is a special day for us. Now we will completely focus on preparing for the Olympic Games. They were ahead of the French Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Sizeron, 98 points. In August, the media appeared in the media that Sinitsin and Katsalapov decided to complete his career. At least, their coach Alexander Zhulin spoke about this press: yes, we made such a decision that they themselves will determine their future.

Everything went to this, they achieved a lot. However, the information was false, and Alexander hastily apologized: it turned out that the news about the end of his career is a fake. Nikita is horrified! They do not complete a sports career. I myself confirmed me, and I confirmed because I thought they finished.