Athletistic / Figure skating Olympic champion in the team competition, Russian figure skater Elena Ilyinykh spoke about her upcoming marriage to ballet dancer Sergei Polunin.

Elena and Sergey have two sons: Mir (born in 2020) and Dar (born in 2022).

“Getting ready for marriage. I didn’t know it was that hard. Although it’s definitely easier than giving birth to kids and winning the Olympics. Probably, you just need to relax and start enjoying the process,” the skater wrote on social media. networks, attaching a photo in a white dress.


Photo: personal archive of Elena Ilinykh

At the Sochi Olympics in 2014, Elena Ilinykh performed in ice dancing in a duet with Nikita Katsalapov. The couple won bronze medals at the Olympic tournament. Also, Ilinykh and Katsalapov won the European Championship three times. In the same year 2014, the couple broke up, after which the skater played in a duet with Ruslan Zhiganshin for three more seasons.