Adel Tankova (born 22 May 2000) is an Israeli Olympic
figure skater
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. She competed for
Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Israel competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with ten competitors in four sports.
Competitors
The following is a list of the number of Israeli competitors participating at the Games per sp ...
with
Ronald Zilberberg in
Figure Skating
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in
ice dancing
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...
and a
team event in
Pyeongchang
Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...
, South Korea.
Early and personal life
Tankova was born in
Dnipro
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...
(formerly known as Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine, and is Jewish.
["Adel Tankova,"]
isuresults.com. Her hometown is
.
Figure skating career
Tankova began skating in 2004.
["Figure Skating , Athlete Profile: Adel TANKOVA - Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games,"]
olympic.org. Her former partner in pairs was
Evgeni Krasnopolski
Evgeni Krasnopolski ( he, יבגני קרסנופולסקי ukr, Євгеній Краснопольський; born 4 October 1988) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli retired pair skater. Krasnopolski and Andrea Davidovich were the first pair represen ...
.
Her current partner is
Ronald Zilberberg, with whom she began competing in 2016.
Her coach and choreographer is
Galit Chait Moracci.
In 2017/2018, the pair won the Israeli National Championship, and came in 28th in the ISU European Ice Dance Championship.
Tankova and Zilberberg competed for
Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Israel competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with ten competitors in four sports.
Competitors
The following is a list of the number of Israeli competitors participating at the Games per sp ...
in
Figure Skating
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...
in
ice dancing
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...
and a
team event in
Pyeongchang
Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...
, South Korea. They scored 46.66 in the short dance event for an overall finish of 24th place.
">"Israel fails to qualify for Olympic figure skating finals,"
''The Times of Israel''.
References
2000 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Dnipro
Sportspeople from Hackensack, New Jersey
Figure skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Israeli female ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters of Israel
Ukrainian emigrants to the United States
Jewish Ukrainian sportspeople
Jewish Israeli sportspeople
Israeli people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
People of Israeli descent
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