Alexei Beletski (also Alexei Beletsky and Hebrew אלכסיי בלצקי; born 22 May 1979) is an Israeli former competitive

ice dancer 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 ...

. With his wife

Natalia Gudina Natalia Gudina ( uk, Наталія Гудина, russian: Наталья Гудина, born 11 November 1977) is an Israeli former competitive ice dancer. Representing Israel with husband Alexei Beletski, she placed as high as 14th at the World C ...

, he placed as high as 14th at the World Championships, as high as 9th at the European Championships, and competed at the Winter Olympics. Gudina and Beletski married in 1999. They competed together for

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

until the end of 1998/1999 season, after which they switched to competing for Israel. Gudina and Beletski the 2000–05 Israeli national silver medalists. They placed 19th at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

Programs

(with Gudina)

Competitive highlights

(with Gudina)

References

External links

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Care to Ice Dance: Gudina & Beletski
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beletsky, Alexei 1979 births Ukrainian male ice dancers Israeli male ice dancers Ukrainian people of Israeli descent Figure skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters for Israel Sportspeople from Odesa Living people