Ivan Balchenko

Ivan Andreevich Balchenko (Russian: Иван Андреевич Бальченко, born 12 June 1999) is a Russian pair skater. With his current partner, Yasmina Kadyrova, he finished fourth at the 2020 Rostelecom Cup.

Ivan Balchenko
Personal information
Native nameИван Андреевич Бальченко
Full nameIvan Andreevich Balchenko
Country represented Russia
Born (1999-06-12) 12 June 1999
Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Home townPerm, Russia
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8 12 in)
PartnerYasmina Kadyrova
Former partnerNatalya Khabibullina, Sofya Dmitrenko, Alina Solovyova, Diana Mitina
CoachPavel Sliusarenko, Valentina Tiukova
Former coachLyudmila Kulbatskaya, Nadir Kurbanov, Tatiana Kokoreva, Sergei Dobroskokov
ChoreographerIvan Malofeev
Skating clubPerm Krai Sports Center; Start Sports School
Training locationsPerm
Began skating2006

Personal life

Balchenko was born on 12 June 1999 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. His younger sister, Darina, is also a skater.

Career

Early years

Balchenko began learning how to skate in 2006. Until the 2015–16 season, he trained as a single skater at Sports School #6 in his native Rostov-on-Don before switching to pairs. During the first four seasons of his career as a pair skater, Balchenko changed partners four times, skating with Diana Mitina, Alina Solovyova, Sofya Dmitrenko, and Natalya Khabibullina each a season. Khabibullina/Balchenko competed at one international event, the 2018 Ice Star, where they placed second in the junior division, before splitting at the end of the 2018–19 season.[1]

Balchenko teamed up with his current partner, Yasmina Kadyrova, in September 2019. Kadyrova relocated to Perm to train with Balchenko and his coaches, Pavel Sliusarenko and Valentina Tiukova. Due to the six year age gap between Kadyrova and Balchenko, the team were forced to begin their career as seniors, despite Kadyrova's lack of pairs experience. Kadyrova/Balchenko competed domestically in the Russian Cup series during the 2019–20 season.

2020–21 season

Kadyrova/Balchenko opened their season at the 2020 Russian test skates, an unscored event which allows the Russian Figure Skating Federation to evaluate the programs and condition of their national team members.[2] They next competed at the second stage of the domestic Russian Cup series, the qualifying competition series to the national championships, in Moscow, where they finished second in a field of two behind Pavliuchenko/Khodykin. At their second Russian Cup assignment, the fourth stage in Kazan, they finished just off the podium in fourth place, and with a combined total of 28 points qualified to nationals.[3]

Although the team was not initially slated to compete at the event, Kadyrova/Balchenko were assigned to the 2020 Rostelecom Cup after Pavliuchenko/Khodykin withdrew due to illness in November. At the competition, Kadyrova/Balchenko placed fourth in both the short program and the free skate to place fourth overall, just behind training-mates Panfilova/Rylov.[4][5]

At the 2021 Russian Championships, their first nationals as a team, Kadyrova/Balchenko cleanly skated their short program to place sixth in the segment amidst a strong field of competitors.[6] The team fell to seventh in the free skate after struggling with their throw jumps, but maintained their standing of sixth overall.[7]

Programs

With Kadyrova

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2020–2021
[8]
2019–2020

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix

With Kadyrova

International[9]
Event 2019–20 2020–21
GP Rostelecom4th
National
Russian Champ.6th
Russian Cup Final2nd
Russian Cup (Kazan)4th
Russian Cup (Moscow)2nd
TBD = Assigned

With Khabibullina

International[9]
Event 2018–19
Minsk-Arena Ice Star2nd J

Detailed results

With Kadyrova

2020–21 season
Date Event SP FS Total
23–27 December 2020 2021 Russian Championships 6
68.69
7
127.35
6
196.04
20–22 November 2020 2020 Rostelecom Cup 4
70.62
4
134.05
4
204.87
8–12 November 2020 2020 Cup of Russia Series, 4th Stage, Kazan
domestic competition
4
71.95
4
133.12
4
205.07
10–13 October 2020 2020 Cup of Russia Series, 2nd Stage, Moscow
domestic competition
2
64.69
2
121.70
2
186.39

With Khabibullina

2018–19 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
18–21 October 2018 2018 Minsk-Arena Ice Star Junior 3
45.29
2
97.98
2
143.27

References

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