Svetlana Evgenievna Lyapina (russian: Светлана Евгеньевна Ляпина) is a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

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 ...

coach and former

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 Georgi "Gorsha" Sur, she won two medals at the World Junior Championships for the Soviet Union. As a coach, she coached Australian ice dancers Portia Rigby and Francis Rigby, as well as many others in Australia. She is the mother of Russian ice dancer

Jonathan Guerreiro Jonathan Franciscovich Guerreiro (russian: link=no, Джонатан Францискович Гурейро; born 3 April 1991) is an Australian-Russian ice dancer. Representing Russia with Tiffany Zahorski, he is the 2018 NHK Trophy silver m ...

Competitive highlights

(with Sur)

References

Living people Russian figure skating coaches Soviet female ice dancers World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists Female sports coaches Universiade medalists in figure skating Year of birth missing (living people) Universiade gold medalists for the Soviet Union Universiade bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Competitors at the 1987 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 1989 Winter Universiade {{USSR-figure-skating-bio-stub