Betina Vadimovna Popova (russian: Бетина Вадимовна Попова, born 2 November 1996) is a Russian retired 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 partner
Sergey Mozgov
Sergey Alexandrovich Mozgov (russian: Серге́й Александрович Мозгов; born 10 March 1995) is a Russian retired competitive ice dancer. With former partner Betina Popova, he is the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup champion. With former ...
, she was the
2017 CS Warsaw Cup
The 2017 CS Warsaw Cup was a senior international figure skating competition, held in November 2017 in Warsaw, Poland. It was part of the 2017–18 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, ...
champion. With former partner
Yuri Vlasenko
Yuri Vladimirovich Vlasenko (russian: Юрий Владимирович Власенко, born 20 November 1994) is a Russian ice dancer. With former partner Betina Popova, he is the 2014–15 JGP Final bronze medalist.
Personal life
Yuri Vla ...
, she was the
2014–15 JGP Final bronze medalist.
Early life
Betina Vadimovna Popova was born on 2 November 1996 in
Vladivostok
Vladivostok ( rus, Владивосто́к, a=Владивосток.ogg, p=vɫədʲɪvɐˈstok) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The city is located around the Zolotoy Rog, Golden Horn Bay on the Sea ...
,
Primorsky Krai
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, Russia.
She started skating in 2002.
[ Her first coach was Marina Selitskaya.]
Partnership with Vlasenko
Popova and Yuri Vlasenko
Yuri Vladimirovich Vlasenko (russian: Юрий Владимирович Власенко, born 20 November 1994) is a Russian ice dancer. With former partner Betina Popova, he is the 2014–15 JGP Final bronze medalist.
Personal life
Yuri Vla ...
began competing together in 2009.[ The two were coached by Ksenia Rumiantseva and Ekaterina Zhurina at the Sambo-70 club in ]Moscow
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.
Popova/Vlasenko's international debut came at the 2011 NRW Trophy. They placed seventh at the Russian Junior Championships in the 2012–13 season.
2013–14 season
Popova/Vlasenko made their ISU Junior Grand Prix
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debut in the 2013–14 season. They won the silver medal in Minsk
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, Belarus
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and then gold in Ostrava
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, Czech Republic
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. Their results qualified them for the JGP Final in Fukuoka
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, Japan, where they placed fourth. After taking the bronze medal at the 2014 Russian Junior Championships, the two were assigned to the 2014 World Junior Championships and finished seventh in Sofia
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, Bulgaria.
2014–15 season
Popova/Vlasenko's first assignment of the 2014–15 JGP season was in Ostrava
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, Czech Republic. Ranked second in the short dance and fourth in the free dance, they finished second to Canada's Mackenzie Bent
Mackenzie Bent (born June 11, 1997) is a Canadian ice dancer. With partner Dmitre Razgulajevs, she is the 2016 Canadian junior champion. With former partner Garrett MacKeen, she is the 2014 Canadian junior champion and finished 5th at two Wor ...
/ Garrett MacKeen
Garrett MacKeen (born March 23, 1994 in Burnaby) is a Canadian ice dancer. With former partner Mackenzie Bent, he is the 2014 Canadian junior champion and finished 5th at two World Junior Championships.
Career
Bent/MacKeen won the novice bro ...
by a margin of 6.75 points. Popova/Vlasenko were awarded gold in Dresden
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, Germany after placing first in both segments and outscoring Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter of the United States by 7.96 points. At the 2014–15 JGP Final in Barcelona
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, they won the bronze medal behind Alla Loboda
Alla Andreyevna Loboda (russian: Алла Андреевна Лобода; born 10 December 1998) is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. With her former skating partner Pavel Drozd, she is a two-time World Junior medalist (silver in 2017, br ...
/ Pavel Drozd
Pavel Igorevich Drozd (russian: Павел Игоревич Дрозд; born 14 December 1995) is a Russian ice dancer who currently competes with Elizaveta Shanaeva. With his former skating partner, Alla Loboda, he is a two-time World Junior med ...
. The two finished eleventh at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn
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, Estonia.
2015–16 season
Competing in the 2015–16 JGP series, Popova/Vlasenko outscored Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron
Louis Thauron (born 5 August 1995) is a French ice dancer. With his former partner Adelina Galyavieva, he is the 2021 French National Champion. With Angélique Abachkina, he represented France at four World Junior Championships, finishing with ...
of France by 7.3 points for the gold in Riga
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, Latvia. They took silver at their JGP assignment in Logroño
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, Spain – finishing second to another French team, Marie-Jade Lauriault
Marie-Jade Lauriault (born 10 November 1996) is a Canadian-French ice dancer who currently represents Canada with her partner and husband Romain Le Gac, in which capacity she is the 2022 Skate America bronze medalist.
Lauriault and Le Gac init ...
/ Romain Le Gac
Romain Le Gac (born 31 May 1995) is a French-Canadian ice dancer who currently represents Canada with his partner and wife Marie-Jade Lauriault, in which capacity he is the 2022 Skate America bronze medalist.
Lauriault and Le Gac initially rep ...
, by a margin of 1.78 points – and qualified for their third JGP Final. At the final, held in December in Barcelona, Popova/Vlasenko finished fourth, having scored 0.45 less than the bronze medalists, Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons of the United States. After taking silver behind Loboda/Drozd at the Russian Junior Championships, they were assigned to the World Junior Championships in Debrecen
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, Hungary.
Partnership with Mozgov
On 2 May 2016, Popova confirmed that she and Sergey Mozgov
Sergey Alexandrovich Mozgov (russian: Серге́й Александрович Мозгов; born 10 March 1995) is a Russian retired competitive ice dancer. With former partner Betina Popova, he is the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup champion. With former ...
had formed a partnership, with Elena Kustarova
Elena Vladimirovna Kustarova (russian: Елена Владимировна Кустарова; born 26 July 1976) is a Russian ice dancing coach and former competitor. She is a two-time (1990, 1991) World Junior medalist with Sergei Romashkin, a ...
and Svetlana Alexeeva serving as their coaches.[
Popova/Mozgov made their international debut at the 2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb where they placed fifth.
]
2017–18 season
In 2017–18 season they competed at three ISU Challenger Series
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competitions. They won the gold medal at the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup
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with a personal best score of 164.07 points. They also won the bronze medal at the 2017 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy. At the 2017 CS Finlandia Trophy they placed fifth.
In October 2017 they made their Grand Prix
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Grand Prix or grand prix may refer to:
Arts and entertainment ...
debut at the 2017 Rostelecom Cup where they placed sixth. In December 2017 they competed at the 2018 Russian Championships where they placed fourth after placing fifth in the short dance and third in the free dance.
In May 2018 Anjelika Krylova
Anjelika Alexeyevna Krylova (russian: Анжелика Алексеевна Крылова; born 4 July 1973) is a Russian retired Ice dancing, ice dancer. With partner Oleg Ovsyannikov, she is the 1998 Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics, ...
and Oleg Volkov became their new coaches.[
]
2018–19 season
Popova/Mozgov started their season in mid September at the 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy where they won the bronze medal with a personal best score of 170.47 points. In early November they placed seventh at the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki. Three weeks later they finished eighth at the 2018 Internationaux de France
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. In early December they won their second Challenger Series bronze medal of the season at the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.
They placed fourth at the Russian Championships for the second consecutive year.[
In March, Popova/Mozgov have participated in the 2019 Winter Universiade in ]Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk ( ; rus, Красноя́рск, a=Ru-Красноярск2.ogg, p=krəsnɐˈjarsk) (in semantic translation - Red Ravine City) is the largest city and administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is situated along the Yeni ...
Russia. They finished first in the short and second in the free, earning the gold medal with a total of 183.01 points.[
]
2019–20 season
Popova/Mozgov took time off to heal injuries following their Universiade victory, and then resumed training for the new season. The two selected "Bohemian Rhapsody
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen, released as the lead single from their fourth album, '' A Night at the Opera'' (1975). Written by lead singer Freddie Mercury, the song is a six-minute suite, notable for its lack ...
" as their free dance music, believing it would be a new sort of material for them.[ They placed fourth at the 2019 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial and then won the bronze medal at the ]2019 CS Finlandia Trophy
The 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy was held in October 2019 in Espoo. It was part of the 2019–20 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
Entries
The Internatio ...
. Given one Grand Prix
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assignment, they placed eighth at the 2019 Skate Canada International
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.[
Popova/Mozgov announced their retirement from competition on February 14, 2020, with Popova indicating that she was dealing with an ]eating disorder
An eating disorder is a mental disorder defined by abnormal eating behaviors that negatively affect a person's physical or mental health. Only one eating disorder can be diagnosed at a given time. Types of eating disorders include binge eating d ...
.[
]
Post-competitive life and career
Popova began working as a skating choreographer in Moscow, including with the pairs team of Daria Pavliuchenko
Daria Maksimovna Pavliuchenko (russian: Дарья Максимовна Павлюченко, born 31 December 2002) is a Russian pair skater. With her skating partner, Denis Khodykin, she is the 2020 European bronze medalist, the 2019 Internati ...
and Denis Khodykin
Denis Sergeevich Khodykin (russian: Денис Сергеевич Ходыкин, born 6 July 1999) is a Russian pair skater. With his skating partner, Daria Pavliuchenko, he is the 2020 European bronze medalist, the 2019 Internationaux de Fran ...
. Popova and Khodykin married in August of 2020, but did not announce this until the following May.[
Popova indicated her disaffection with the realities of ice dancing at a young age, sharing in 2020 that she was asked to show “sex” and “passion” towards her older partner when she was fourteen.]
Programs
With Mozgov
With Vlasenko
Competitive highlights
''GP: Grand Prix
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Grand Prix or grand prix may refer to:
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; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
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''
With Mozgov
With Vlasenko
Detailed results
''Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. At team events, medals awarded for team results only.''
With Mozgov
With Vlasenko
References
External links
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1996 births
Russian female ice dancers
Living people
Sportspeople from Vladivostok
Universiade gold medalists for Russia
Universiade medalists in figure skating
Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade