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Elena Ilinykh & Nikita Katsalapov

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Russian ice dancers Elena Ilinykh (Russian: Еле́на Ильины́х), born 25 April 1994 in Aktau, Kazakhstan) and Nikita Gennadyevich Katsalapov (Russian: Никита Геннадьевич Кацалапов), born 10 July 1991 in Moscow, Russia, competed as a team between 2008 and 2014. They were 2010 Junior World Champions and competed at the 2014 Olympics. Nikita and Elena won a gold medal in the team event, and a bronze medal in ice dance.

On 11 April 2014, Katsalapov and Victoria Sinitsina (Виктория Синицина teamed) up, while Ilinykh teamed up with Ruslan Zhiganshin (Руслан Жиганшин).


Their ISU biography

Elena's Wikipedia

Nikita's Wikipedia

Nikita's Allskaters Bio

Their Tracings.net Entry

Their archived ice network bio




TypeScoreEvent
Best Total Score183.48XXII Olympic Winter Games 2014
Personal Best Score Short Dance73.04XXII Olympic Winter Games 2014
Personal Best Score Free Dance110.44XXII Olympic Winter Games 2014


2013-14 Season Notes
SD: Quickstep: "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" by Sholom Secunda; Slow Foxtrot: "Sixteen Tons" performed by LeAnn Rimes; Quickstep: "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Benny Goodman
FD: Music from Swan Lake by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky; choreo by Nikolai Morozov, Liudmila Vlasova

2014 Worlds FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wA761IIc-_8&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMDk=

2014 Olympics SD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qkj43-aZCo&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMDk=
2014 Olympics FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=farqQXFpCKs&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMDk=

2014 Europeans FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YVpZiSz3Mug&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTM=

2012-13 Season Notes
SD: "Andijan Polka" (Uzbek folk dance, specially composed)
FD: Music from the soundtrack of Ghost the Musical by by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard; choreo by Nikolai Morozov, Liudmila Vlasova

2013 Worlds SD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Gjqa3UCVk&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTM=
2013 Worlds FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YZPfIHAdPT4&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTM=

2013 Euros SD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yEPLFCUmLa0&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTI=

2013 Russian Championships SD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HfwhowkbzVI&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTM=

2013 GPF FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ax_47KGMDww&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTM=

2012 Rostelecom Cup SD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aKuUvgYCceg&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTLSBwkJAwsBhyohjO8=

2011-12 Season Notes
SD: Samba: "Hip Hip Chin Chin" by Club des Belugas, Rhumba: "Mas que Nada" by Sérgio Mendes and Samba: "Mujer Latina" by Thalía
FD: "Ave Maria" performed by Thomas Spencer-Wortley; choreo by Nikolai Morozov, Liudmila Vlasova

2012 World Team Trophy SD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YlKy7cLU56s&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTLSBwkJAwsBhyohjO8=
2012 World Team Trophy FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kKg0UmQTgAU&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTI=

2012 Worlds SD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hNx_KC7ncYA&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTI=
2012 Worlds FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRWoiJK2kHM&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTI=

2012 Europeans FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k7o6D1D4l_M&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTI=

2012 Russian Championships ID
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3LDwLUTk4e4&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTI=

2010-11 Season Notes
SD: Waltz: Agony soundtrack by Alfred Schnittke; Tango: "Red Tango" by Bayan Mix
FD: Don Quixote by Leon Minkus; choreo by Liudmila Vlasova

2011 Europeans OD
https://youtu.be/tnwoBGw9sEo?si=xRtUTiub8uFrbzD4
2011 Europeans FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y83tf3wFjKs&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTM=

2009-10 Season Notes
OD: "Sikuriadas" (Panpipes Of The Andes) by Incantation
FD: Schindler's List by John Williams; Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock with lyrics by Harnick, was adapted and conducted by John Williams.

2010 Junior Worlds FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ykghPwKuumc&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMDk=

2009 JGPF OD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5U4DdgTkoRw&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMDk=
2009 JGPF FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2KpWW6IuK4Q&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMDk=

2008-09 Season Notes
OD: "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Louis Prima
FD: "Sarabande" by Jon Lord

2009 Russian Cup Final OD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GROpw0XsOL8&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMDk=

2004-05 Season Notes
OD: Swing Combo
FD: Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber

2004 Ice Symphony, Exhibition to Cats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M_xz_Fb_oE

2005 OD Russian competition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srqBo5xjLbU
2005 FD Russian competition
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZf0xg_YnjA&list=PLKPUKUyccZeAUz17JIqPY80TH2JyM_Kpp&index=2&pp=iAQB


CompetitionCD1SDFDFinal
2013-14
2014 World Championships.514 (174.38)
2014 Olympic Winter Games.333 (183.48)
2014 Olympic Winter Games -- Team Event.-31 (Team)
2014 Russian National Championships.222 (168.01)
2014 European Championships.111 (170.51)
2013 Trophée Eric Bompard.322 (171.89)
2013 NHK Trophy.444 (155.37)
2012-13
2013 World Championships.9109 (157.52)
2013 European Championships.212 (169.14)
2013 Russian National Championships.222 (171.67)
2013 Grand Prix Final.656 (156.36)
2012 NHK Trophy.322 (156.62)
2012 Rostelecom Cup.222 (158.46)
2012 Crystal Skate of Romania.111 (174.56)
2011-12
2012 World Team Trophy.555 (Team)
2012 World Championships.555 (161.00)
2012 World Championships -- Preliminary Round...1 (92.40)
(PR)
2012 European Championships.733 (153.12)
2012 Russian National Championships.222 (161.94)
2011 Trophée Eric Bompard.444 (140.32)
2011 NHK Trophy.133 (149.48)
2010-11
2011 World Championships.6107 (154.50)
2011 European Championships.444 (153.48)
2011 Russian National Championships.243 (149.72)
2010 Cup of Russia.623 (134.79)
2010 NHK Trophy.344 (135.05)
2009-10
2010 World Junior Championships1111 (188.28)
2010 Russian Junior National Championships2222 (184.51)
2010 Junior Grand Prix Final.322 (139.36)
2009 Torun Cup [JGP]1111 (171.61)
2009 JGP Budapest1111 (166.06)
2008-09
2009 Russian Cup Final...1 (152.90)
2009 Spartakiad of students of Russia ...2 (163.61)
2009 Russian Junior National Championships...4 (155.71)
2008 4th Stage of Russian Cup...2 (146.76)
2008 3rd Stage of Russian Cup...6 (132.00)


2014 Worlds EX (last performance)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iMCsHVIVC9c&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTM=

2013 TEB EX. "Adagio" by Albinoni
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y6pVIe1oolk&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTM=

2013 Russian Championships EX
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kCBegoWNtZ0&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTM=

2012 Europeans Ex
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xoZ68HMHvRo&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTLSBwkJAwsBhyohjO8=


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Elena & Nikita Documentary Part 1
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5jketK6tg&pp=ygUXaWxpbnlraCBrYXRzYWxhcG92IDIwMTM=


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Ilinykh & Zhiganshin Fan Fest
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Thread 'Elena Ilinykh & Ruslan Zhiganshin'

Elena Ilinykh (Russian: Еле́на Ильины́х) & Ruslan Zhiganshin (Russian: Руслан Жиганшин) are ice dancers who represented Russia. Ilinykh was born in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on 25 April 1994, while Zhiganshin was born on 25 September 1992 in Moscow, Russia. The team has retired.

Elena pronounces her name

Biographical Information

Their ISU bio

Archived Icenetwork bio

Their tracings.net entry

Elena's Wikipedia

Elena's Russian Biography

Ruslan's Wikipedia

Ruslan's Russian biography

Social Media

Elena's...

Ilinykh & Shibnev Fan Fest
Mattieu

Thread 'Elena Ilinykh & Anton Shibnev'

Elena Ilinykh formed a team with Anton Shibnev for a very brief time at the start of the 2017-18 season.

The team split after one competition.

Elena is now coaching.

Her interview about moving on to the next stage of her life.

their Instagram page

And their tracings.net entry

2017-18
FD: "Spartacus" by Khachaturian

2017 OD
https://youtu.be/cbsr8hHKnsg?si=CUhqzRuhpvQZxs3G
2017 4th Stage Russian Cup FD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_3dn--oRz7s&t=20s&pp=ygUPSWxpbnlraCBzaGlibmV2


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Sinitsina & Katsalapov Fan Fest
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Thread 'Victoria Sinitsina & Nikita Katsalapov'

Victoria Alexandrovna Sinitsina (Russian: Виктория Александровна Синицина), born 29 April 1995 in Moscow, Russia, and Nikita Gennadyevich Katsalapov (Russian: Никита Геннадьевич Кацалапов), born 10 July 1991 in Moscow, Russia, are ice dancers who competed for Russia. They formed a team after the 2014 Olympics. Both were Junior World Champions and competed at the 2014 Olympics with their previous partners. Nikita and his former partner, Elena Ilinykh, won a gold medal in the team event, and a bronze medal in ice dance.

The team are the 2022 Olympic silver medalists in the ice dance...
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I'd say after their disaster programs last season, this looks like the perfect program vehicles for the Olympics season

they have the improved programs, better lifts and skating skills and if they continue to do well throughout the season
they have a chance of sneaking a bronze medal at the Olympics
 
This season, Ilinykh and Katsalapov are my favorite ice dance couple along with my all-time favorites Davis and White. I liked their SD and Swan Lake in NHK already, but their LD performance in TEB was the highlight of the competition for me. Stunning, intense, really drew me in. I was holding my breath throughout the dance. And not because of the drama or Ilinykh's looks or whatever I've read people assume, but because they brought the music alive and nearly every nuance of the music became a move. For me, they were the winners that day. :clap:

That said, I'm glad Ilinykh seems to have stopped miming antlers in the kiss & cry, or whatever that gesture was supposed to mean. The Black Swan looks far better without it. ;)
 
I didn't hear about them until this Olympics,but their performance really resonated. And the are both really goodlooking lol, (I'm ever so slightly shallow )
 
CelineSparrow said:
I didn't hear about them until this Olympics,but their performance really resonated. And the are both really goodlooking lol, (I'm ever so slightly shallow )
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Lol yes, they're by far the best looking pair right now. She looks a lot like Mila Kunis.
 
OMG yeah, and they were doing a black swan sort of thing, its incredible how well she performed her character. I completely forgot Nikita was there.
 
I wonder how good this team can become the next 4 years. The sky is the limit I would think. And on a side note Elena might be the best looking female figure skater since Katarina Witt. ;)
 
Scott512 said:
I wonder how good this team can become the next 4 years. The sky is the limit I would think. And on a side note Elena might be the best looking female figure skater since Katarina Witt. ;)
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I hope they continue together for the next 4! :) I really didn't know them much prior to the last two seasons, but they're fabulous! If I'm being honest, I wasn't sure I'd really like ice dance once my favs D/W and V/M retired...but, I/K really stepped up to the plate this year.
 
I became a fan after they caught my eye during this year's Olympics. I've seen a lot of Olympic figure skating performances on TV, growing up, but few really reel me in and captivate me. I kid you not, the Olympics were on TV at my local Max and Erma's, and I think Elena and Nikita had the entire audience spellbound during their first performance of their Swan Lake routine. Even the wait staff stopped to watch! The only other couple that's had that kind of an effect on me has been Tessa and Scott.

I really hope they're able to resolve the issues they're currently having, because I really don't want to see their partnership split, they have so much promise and potential! Both of them are so expressive, and it would be a shame for them to split up. If nothing else, I hope they can salvage their friendship. Their kiss-and-cry reactions were so cute, you could tell they cared deeply about each other! (My apologies, I'm still in denial over all of this.)

If they don't skate together next year, I don't know if I'll have any particular favorites in ice dance. They were the team I was going to watch out for during the next season.
 
OrdinaryDreamer said:
If they don't skate together next year, I don't know if I'll have any particular favorites in ice dance. They were the team I was going to watch out for during the next season.
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I totally feel your pain. :cry: Sadly, there aren't any other current senior teams that I find as fun/stop-what-you're-doing to watch... Granted, I/K's performances were only like that when they were really on, like Sochi. I'm hoping some of these upcoming junior moving onto senior teams will give me that same feeling.
But, it'd be nice if I/K could work things out

Elena's P&G video with her mom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCEt-ZSxGBE
- Really sweet!
 
I love figure skating since 2006 but I just interested in ladies and men events.They were the reason I love ice dance.Creative lifts, incredible flow and speed at the twizzles, new contents every year in the programs...Definitely there was a spell between them when they are skating on the ice.They had many misfortune moments in their career but I thought finally they have beaten the bad luck at the Olympics and took the bronze.I guess this will be a brand new start for them on this long road to PyeongChang.Also they were too close but had never won the gold in Euros, and maybe even gold medal in the Worlds this year.

They will be missed.:cry:
 
mustafakent said:
I love figure skating since 2006 but I just interested in ladies and men events.They were the reason I love ice dance.Creative lifts, incredible flow and speed at the twizzles, new contents every year in the programs...Definitely there was a spell between them when they are skating on the ice.They had many misfortune moments in their career but I thought finally they have beaten the bad luck at the Olympics and took the bronze.I guess this will be a brand new start for them on this long road to PyeongChang.Also they were too close but had never won the gold in Euros, and maybe even gold medal in the Worlds this year.

They will be missed.:cry:
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I am agree with you.I loved them very much when they were together.They were really successful and their chemistry was amazing.I miss them :(
 
Reviving this thread to let you know that Elena and Nikita have the honour of being the faces of Olympic Figure Skating on the Eurosport Player.

Here is the picture that is being used as the cover photo on the Figure Skating page:

https://cpe-prod.eurosportstatic.com/images/photos/24421711/raw.png

And here is the thumbnail version being used on the Olympics Index:

https://cpe-prod.eurosportstatic.com/images/photos/24421911/385x216/cut.png

The irony! :drama:

Makes you sad thinking about how good they were at the Sochi Olympics, and how neither of them are at the Pyeongchang Olympics. :cry:

CaroLiza_fan
 
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