Aliki Stergiadu (born 5 October 1972) is a former competitive ice dancer. She is the 1991 World Junior champion with Juris Razgulajevs for the Soviet Union.

Personal life

Stergiadu was born on 5 October 1972 in

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, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union. She lived in

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, Russia until she took a coaching position in Skellefteå, Sweden in 2006. She married Lennart "Lelle" Erinder in September 2012 in Skellefteå.

Career

Stergiadu began skating at age five. Early in her career, she competed for the

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with Juris Razgulajevs. Coached by

Natalia Linichuk Natalya Vladimirovna Linichuk (; born 6 February 1956) is a Russian ice dancing coach and former competitive ice dancer for the Soviet Union. With partner and husband Gennadi Karponosov, she is the 1980 Olympic champion and a two-time World cham ...

in Moscow, they won the 1991 World Junior Championships in

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, Hungary. Stergiadu/Razgulajevs moved up to the senior level in the 1991–92 season. The Soviet Union having dissolved, they decided to compete for

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. They placed tenth at the 1992 World Championships in

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. In the 1992–93 season, Stergiadu/Razgulajevs began representing

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. They won a silver medal at the

1992 Piruetten Piruetten was a senior international figure skating competition held in Hamar, Norway. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing. It later became a junior event held in some years as part of the ISU Junior Grand Prix s ...

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and finished tenth at the 1993 World Championships in

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. They were awarded bronze at the

1993 NHK Trophy The NHK Trophy was held in Chiba on December 9-12. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the ska ...

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, Japan. In February 1994, Stergiadu/Razgulajevs competed at the Winter Olympics in

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and finished 13th.Skatabase: 1994 Olympics
Their last competition together was the 1994 World Championships in Chiba, where they placed 11th. Stergiadu is an international technical specialist in ice dancing for Sweden.

Results

(with Razgulajevs for the Soviet Union, Latvia and Uzbekistan)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stergiadu, Aliki 1972 births Living people Pontic Greeks Soviet female ice dancers Latvian female ice dancers Uzbekistani female ice dancers Olympic figure skaters of Uzbekistan Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists Sportspeople from Tashkent Uzbekistani people of Greek descent Soviet people of Greek descent