Youth Olympic champion in figure skating Grigory Smirnov switched to coaching. This was reported to by his former coach Denis Samokhin.
Smirnov, 25, previously skated in tandem with Anastasia Shpileva, the duo broke up due to the state of health of their partner. Together they won the 2016 Youth Olympics and the Russian Junior Championship, as well as the Bavarian Open tournament. Last year, Smirnov was paired with American Evonli Nguyen.
– Smirnov was going to train with Igor Shpilband, preparing to play for the United States. I worked for several months, but something did not work. Now Grigory has returned to Moscow and started raising children, Samokhin told .
Also, as it became known to , the 22-year-old winner of the junior stages of the Grand Prix Andrey Filatov has ended his career. Last spring, the coaches chose a partner for him from another country, they began to slip, but due to problems with obtaining documents, Andrei decided not to wait. Now he trains in one of the Moscow schools.
Read the report on the training of the group of Maria Borovikova and Denis Samokhin in the coming days on the site.
Source : MatchTV
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