“Absence from classes will not allow you to make Semenenko a real doctor” – Mishin

Honored Coach of the USSR in Figure Skating Alexei Mishin said the combination of studies and a professional sports career could interfere with his student Yevgeny Semenenko become a good doctor.

In 2021, Semenenko entered the medical faculty of the First St. Petersburg State Medical University named after academician IP Pavlov.

– As you said, I myself graduated from a very serious technical university. And at the same time, he had no concessions or advantages. These situations that were typical of sport and higher education in the 1960s cannot be directly transposed to today either. Speaking about Zhenya, I met with the management of the university, as a result of which a training program was formed in which he manages to combine, on the one hand, passing exams, and, on the other, s engage in figure skating, from which he enjoys unconditional priority.

Of course, skipping classes won’t make Zhenya a real doctor. You can be a bad skater, but you can’t be a bad doctor. I see a reasonable solution to the problem by increasing the period of study, which, in principle, is approved by the university management so that the doctor turns out to be excellent, and the little time given to a person for sports would be used in the most rational way possible,” Mishin told The Championship.

Semenenko is 19 years old. He is the champion of Russia (2023), the winner of the world team championship (2021), the champion of Russia in juniors (2021), the winner of the final of the Russian Cup (season 2020/2021), the winner of the Federation Cup Final (season 2019/2020). Participation in the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing.

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