Elena Borisovna Batanova (russian: Елена Борисовна Батанова) is a 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 ...

for the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. She is a two-time (1980, 1981) World Junior champion with partner Alexei Soloviev. On the senior level, they won the 1982

NHK Trophy The NHK Trophy is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Organized by the Japanese Skating Federation, it began in 1979 and was added to the Grand Prix series in 199 ...

and 1984 Soviet national title. They were coached by

Lyudmila Pakhomova Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova (russian: Людмила Алексеевна Пахомова; 31 December 1946 – 17 May 1986) was an ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. With her husband Alexandr Gorshkov, she was the 1976 Olympic c ...

and later

Tatiana Tarasova Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova (; born 13 February 1947) is a Russian figure skating coach and national figure skating team adviser. Tarasova has been coach to more world and Olympic champions than any other coach in skating history. Her students h ...

. Earlier, Batanova competed with Andrei Antonov, with whom she is the 1979 World Junior silver medalist. Batanova is the daughter of football player

Boris Batanov Boris Alekseyevich Batanov (russian: Борис Алексеевич Батанов; July 15, 1934 in Moscow – June 18, 2004 in Moscow) was a Soviet football player. The father of figure skater Elena Batanova, father in law of hockey playe ...

. She is married to hockey player

Igor Larionov Igor Nikolayevich Larionov (russian: Игорь Николаевич Ларионов; born 3 December 1960) is a Russian ice hockey coach, sports agent and former professional ice hockey player, known as "the Professor". Along with Viacheslav ...

, with whom she has two daughters and a son.

Results

With Soloviev

With Antonov

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