Yasmina Kadyrova

Yasmina Rinarovna Kadyrova (Russian: Ясмина Ринаровна Кадырова, Tatar: Ясминә Кадыйрова, born 11 December 2004) is a Russian pair skater. With her partner, Ivan Balchenko, she finished fourth at the 2020 Rostelecom Cup.

Yasmina Kadyrova
Personal information
Native nameЯсмина Ринаровна Кадырова
Full nameYasmina Rinarovna Kadyrova
Alternative namesIasmina
Country represented Russia
Born (2004-12-11) 11 December 2004
Kazan, Russia
Home townPerm, Russia
Height1.54 m (5 ft 1⁄2 in)
PartnerIvan Balchenko
CoachPavel Sliusarenko, Valentina Tiukova
Former coachEteri Tutberidze, Tatiana Mishina, Rezeda Sibgatullina, Artur Gachinsky
ChoreographerIvan Malofeev
Former choreographerAgata Smorodina, Tatiana Prokofieva, Marianna Maksimova, Aliya Makarovskaya, Gulnara Mukhametzyanova
Skating clubPerm Krai Sports Center; Start Sports School
Former skating clubSSHOR Star Ice
Training locationsPerm
Former training locationsSt. Petersburg, Kazan
Began skating2008

Personal life

Kadyrova was born on 11 December 2004 in Kazan, Russia. Her mother, Rezeda Sibgatullina, is a figure skating coach and the director of the junior figure skating program in Kazan. She has a younger sister, Riana, who is also a skater. Kadyrova and her family are Volga Tatars and identify as Muslim.[1]

Career

Early years

Kadyrova began learning to skate in 2008, coached first by her mother in Kazan. She trained in Kazan as a single skater until the 2016–17 season when she moved to St. Petersburg to train under Alexei Mishin and his wife, Tatiana.[2] Kadyrova skated under Mishin for two seasons, only competing domestically, before being accepted into Eteri Tutberidze's camp in Moscow. She trained under Tutberidze for a portion of the 2018–19 season, during which time she was captured on video training a quadruple salchow; however, she was forced to leave the group due to injury and returned to her native Kazan to recover. Later in the season, she competed at her only international assignment as a single skater, the 2019 Children of Asia International Sports Games, where she finished fourth.

Kadyrova teamed up with her first and current partner, Ivan Balchenko, in September 2019. She'd admired pair skating since her time training under Alexei Mishin, and was inspired to try the discipline after skating in an Art on Ice show in Switzerland with 2018 Olympic champion Aljona Savchenko. She relocated to Perm to skate with Balchenko under 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.[3] 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.[4]

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.[5][6]

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.[7] The team fell to seventh in the free skate after struggling with their throw jumps, but maintained their standing of sixth overall.[8]

Programs

With Balchenko
Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2020–2021
[9]
2019–2020

As a single skater
Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2018–2019

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix

With Balchenko
International[10]
Event 2019–20 2020–21
GP Rostelecom4th
National
Russian Champ.6th
Russian Cup Final2nd
Russian Cup (Kazan)4th
Russian Cup (Moscow)2nd
TBD = Assigned

As a single skater
International [11]
Event 2018–19
Children of Asia ISG4th

Detailed results

With Balchenko

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

As a single skater

2018–19 season
Date Event SP FS Total
13–15 February 2019 2019 Winter Children of Asia ISG 4
62.44		 4
126.74		 4
189.18

References
  1. "От Тутберидзе – в парное катание. История казанской фигуристки Ясмины Кадыровой" [From Tutberidze to pair skating. The story of Kazan figure skater Yasmina Kadyrova]. Business-Gazeta (in Russian). 14 December 2020.
  2. "Ясмина Ринаровна Кадырова" [Yasmina Rinarovna Kadyrova] (in Russian). fskate.ru. Archived from the original on July 7, 2019.
  3. "KOLYADA, TRUSOVA SHINE AT 2020 TEST SKATES". International Figure Skating. September 14, 2020.
  4. "2020 CUP OF RUSSIA SERIES".
  5. Slater, Paula (November 19, 2020). "Mishina and Galliamov lead pairs at Rostelecom Cup". Golden Skate.
  6. Slater, Paula (November 21, 2020). "Boikova and Kozlovskii capture second Rostelecom Cup gold". Golden Skate.
  7. Flade, Tatjana (December 24, 2020). "Tarasova and Morozov storm to lead at Russian Nationals". Golden Skate.
  8. Flade, Tatjana (December 26, 2020). "Tarasova and Morozov rebound to claim third title at Russian Nationals". Golden Skate.
  9. "Iasmina KADYROVA / Ivan BALCHENKO: 2020/2021". International Skating Union.
  10. "Iasmina KADYROVA / Ivan BALCHENKO". International Skating Union.
  11. "Yasmina KADYROVA". rinkresults.com.

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