Great stubborn. How Alena Savchenko defeated the Olympic gods
The Ukrainian figure skater, who advocates Germany, at its fifth Olympiad managed to finally win the Gold Medal."THERE IS! THERE IS!"
In a special room, where current leaders are waiting for the end of the competition, she sat almost motionless, closing his face to the eye with a nose handkerchief. Even when the main competitors from China received 0.43 points less, and her partner Bruno massually gave free to the feelings, she did not externally respond in any way. After all, there was another couple - Eugene Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov.
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And the estimates of the Russian duet launched on the scoreboard, which eventually became the fourth. There was nothing more to be afraid, and Alena Savchenko threw off the sofa, as if from the catapult. "There is! There is!" - she screamed, swinging swinging fists over his head.
And in the zone "Tears and Kisses", next to Tarasova and Morozov, Ponuro was sitting by her former partner of Robin Solkova, who won the five World Championships in the same pair of Catania (the first one - ten years ago), but in 2014 she concluded a figure skateman and became coach. He was tired then beat into the wall of the Olympic bad luck, pursuing their duet: with a huge number of victories in the international arena, everything they managed to achieve on games, these are two bronze - in Vancouver-2010 and then in Sochi. Szolkov decided that it was pretty. Now he works in the Moscow group of coaches under the leadership of Nina Moser.
Savchenko did not want to give up. For one season, she disappeared with radar, but in 2015 it appeared on ice again - with little-known hefty (184 cm of growth) French. Many shrugged. Who is it? Where does she climb? What for?..
Educator partners
But a native of the town of Obukhov, which in the Kiev region, knew perfectly what he wanted. After all, she has repeatedly ever started again with a new partner (on his first Olympics in Salt Lake City-2002 Savchenko still ride for Ukraine and held the 15th place with Stanislav Morozov) and, it became a sense in them . Mass Alena chose itself from several possible options. He made German citizenship, and they slowly began to speak.
At first, the Frenchman looked very underess. Yes, and Savchenko itself flew often. Return aged 30 with a bunch of old injuries is not the simplest event. Nevertheless, gradually the duet began to open. Already last season everyone saw what Alena saw from the very beginning: a huge potential mass. She raised a real star from this guy. And when now Bruno in the twist throws it under the very ceiling or "pulls" on the elongated hand during the most complex support, the stands are ahaut from admiration, and the judges automatically exhibit maximum points.
To the Olympic season, they prepared excellent programs with beautiful images and "chips" (in anything, and in this Savchenko knows). And in December, in the final of the Grand Prix beat everyone, having broken the world record in an arbitrary program! It became clear: in the last attack on Olympus Alena Valentinovna Savchenko (in January she turned 34) will be fulfilled, as in the best years.
Although in Phenchhans, they at first, they were going on Nor Shalko nor Valko. In the team tournament, Savchenko fell out of emission, and the German national team was not displayed in an arbitrary program. Yesterday in the short (already personal) mass "drank" parallel Salkhov, which cost them five to six points behind the leaders from China and Russia. And finally, here he is, the last Olympic rental.
In any sport, there is a special person who succeeds better than others. In figure skating special was the athlete from Ukraine, protruding under the German flag - Alena Savchenko. In the sports biography of the girl there are more than 10 gold medals at international competitions, and after speaking at the Olympics in 2018, the world record.
Childhood and youth
Alena Valentinovna Savchenko was born on January 19, 1984 in the town of Obukhov near Kiev, Ukraine. Valentina and Nina Savchenko four children: Three sons and daughter Alena. Although the parents of the future figure skater worked as teachers, sports genes and the will to victory girl inherited from them.
Valentin Savchenko led the lessons of physical education at school, and in some period of his life he taught an easy athletic in Germany. Valentine himself is the title of Master of Sports Soviet Union for weightlifting. We attended sports training and Nina Savchenko, although he did not achieve serious achievements.
Alena was barely 3 years old when the girl asked her father as a gift for the holiday skates. Valentin Savchenko drove a little daughter on the lake near the house and taught to stand and move on ice. At first, the girl was panically afraid to fall, but rather quickly overcame their fears. After 2 years, 5-year-old Alane was given to the figure of figure skating, located in Kiev. There, the coach first noted the girl's talent.
Considering that the salary of Ukrainian teachers is low, to rent an apartment in Kiev, the parents of Alena did not die, and the daughter almost 10 years traveled to workout 50 km in each direction. Parents had to wake up at 4.30 am to take daughter to 7.00 for training in Kiev. After several months of training, the girl was transferred to the paired discharge - the most difficult in figure skating.
The girl was still in his youth at competitions, invariably occupying prizes, but all the load on financial support and speeches lay on her parents' shoulders - Valentina and Nina Savchenko. At some point, they really wanted the daughter to play the piano instead of exhausting training on the rink.
Figure skating
Savchenko began her career Alena Savchenko in the sports society "Dynamo Kiev". The first partner of the girl became a novice figure skater Dmitry Benko. Despite the busy schedule of training, on the youth world championship, the guys were unsuccessful, taking only the 13th place.
After that, Alena changed both the coach and partner. Becoming a couple with Stanislav Alexandrovich Morozov under the direction of the champion of the Soviet Union Galina Vladislavovna Kchechen, the girl achieved brilliant results. Speaking in 2000 on the youth World Championship, the guys brought home gold medals.
Then there were victories at the National Championship, and in 2002, athletes represented Ukraine at the Olympiad, held in Salt Lake City, where they took the 15th place. After the speech, Morozov was seriously injured and even thought about the completion of a career in sports, as a result of which Alena began to look for a new partner.
The next partner for Alena was invited from St. Petersburg. Russian Anton Nemenko has already prepared for moving to Kiev, but the couple did not receive funding and soon broke up - Anton returned to Russia. The girl did not want to leave Ukraine and even complained to his parents, which does not imagine life in Germany and performances under the German flag.
But soon Alain became a civilianized Germany, and he trained the athlete Ingo Sten. Free at that time Robin Scholkov became an excellent partner for Alena. Together, the guys took gold at the National Championship, on the European Championship became fourth, and at the World Championships received only sixth place.
In 2006, Savchenko and Scholkov represented Germany at the Olympics, which took place in February in Italian Turin. Couple ranked 6th. But after a year, athletes took the third place at the World Championships and the first in Europe. Next season, the couple confirmed the title of European champions and received gold at the World Championships. By 2011, athletes turned out 3 gold at the World Championships and 4 - on European championships.
On the eve of the continental championship, the guys abandoned participation in connection with the Alena injury. But in March 2012, the skaters took the first place at the World Championships. At the same time, the pair successfully performed the Grand Prix in figure skating in Winsor, Canada.
However, from participation in the next stage of the tournament refused, since Alain fell ill. On the championships of the world and Europe, this season Savchenko and Shutkov gave way to Russians and.
Alena's parents in an interview say that in Germany, the Ukrainian athlete remained somehow - the Germans are not worried about the success of the athlete and do not accept her, although the girl invariably achieves victories at international competitions under the German flag.
In 2014, skaters went for gold to the Olympics in Sochi, so the third place was taken for them serious disappointment. The reason for the failure was gross errors in the execution of an arbitrary program.
In the same year, Robin Scholkov said that she completes the sports career and plans to become a coach, and the French partner became the French Mass. German Alexander König became coach of Duet Savchenko-Masso.
Personal life
All the youth of Alena devoted persistent training and sporting achievements, so there was no time or strength on guys. But in the German city of Oberheim Alane and Bruno invited to a party where the figure skater met the artist from the UK Liam Crosse.
Despite the difference in age, which is 8 years, a sympathy broke out between young people, and soon Liam was already the official husband of the Ukrainian athlete. The wedding took place in Germany in an old castle. On the celebration of Alena and Liam invited only family members and closest friends. Several romantic photos from the wedding Alena posted on her page in "Instagram".
The athlete has yet refused to take the surname of the spouse due to the approaching speech at the 2018 Olympic Games, but in the future it plans to become Alana Cross.
Alena Savchenko now
Speaking at the World Championships in March 2017, Ukrainian Alain and Frenchman Bruno ranked second place for Germany, giving way to Duet from China. Immediately after the competition, the athletes began to prepare for the 2018 Olympics.
On the eve of the performance, it became known that the well-being of Alena worsened - the figure skater was withered, she was disturbed by pain in the leg. But even this did not prevent - Savchenko and Masso at the 2018 Olympics.
The arbitrary program of Alena and Bruno rolled back not just successfully, and by installing the world record - 159.31 points, having broken a record last season in the Grand Prix final.
Achievements
- 2006 - Bronze Medal at the European Championship
- 2007 - Gold Medal at the European Championship
- 2008 - Gold Medal at the European Championship
- 2008 - Gold Medal at the World Cup
- 2009 - Gold Medal at the European Championship
- 2009 - Gold Medal at the World Cup
- 2010 - Silver Medal at the European Championship
- 2010 - Bronze Medal at the Olympic Games
- 2011 - Gold Medal at the European Championship
- 2011 - Gold Medal at the World Cup
- 2012 - Gold Medal at the World Cup
- 2013 - Silver Medal at the European Championship
- 2014 - Bronze Medal at the Olympic Games
- 2014 - Gold Medal at the World Cup
- 2016 - Silver Medal at the European Championship
- 2017 - Silver Medal at the European Championship
- 2017 - Silver Medal at the World Cup
- 2018 - Gold Medal at the Olympic Games
On his fifths in the account of the Olympic Games, the 34-year-old figure skater Alena Savchenko, who advocated Germany, reached his cherished dream, winning the Olympic gold in sports couples along with Bruno Mass.
Without a doubt, it can now be called a great athlete who has proven to everyone that the world can be missed for itself.
What to amaze, for what to differ from competitors, how to overcome yourself, do not pay attention to failures, go ahead and fight to the end - about it and not only in an interview with Alena Savchenko for the site.
- Alena, tell me, using the obligatory steps of Quixtepa in our competitive programs and inviting former dancers as choreographers for programming - is it purposefully and conscious?
- Yes, probably. This proposal went from the choreographer. Stained John Kerr, so there was a mixture of styles. Inged the idea to create programs to look like in ice dancing, only with elements of Ultra Si. The goal is to dilute pair skating to make it more interesting for the viewer.
- The trend when the dancers take the elements of the greenhouses, the same rotations, it took place before, and the inverse outflow of the elements was not observed. For this reason, I drew attention to your production.
- Therefore, they tried. It yourself wanted to use in the program not only paired elements, but also dance. To after viewing the spectators and judges, the effect of performing a program for dancers owning pair elements appeared.
- Recently, there are talk about whether it is time to combine pair skating and dancing in one species, because the dances, as such, were outlined.
- If you look directly on dancing, there are many new new, and a variety of support, rotation with support, departure, is a lot of things that can be borrowed. And the dancers, in turn, we have elements take.
- I understand, such a symbiosis, in your opinion, is there a place to be?
- Of course, it is impossible to make a sports couple at the dance pair. Dancers will never be able to perform multi-turn jumps or emissions. They have other blades. And take some steps or mines, why not. Because the mining and item is easy. And steps and element - bundles from one element in another element, between this only two runs - not everyone can do it.
- Even when worked with Ingo Stenhaer, you always differed from other couples with their originality and creativity in search of elements. Speak often as the choreographer of their programs. What made you on this: did you risen to try yourself in another capacity or just wanted to make a program and turn out to be ahead of the rest?
- I always want to do with yourself. If you do not like yourself, you will not love the other. So in our sport. If you do not try for myself a loved one, then others will not love what you are doing. Therefore, first of all, we wanted to do something you need to promote themselves.
You need to go ahead. We always came up with such programs that first of all we were interested in rolling. Something new, with a highlight. And, of course, to become better than others.
- very much comes from us. I take part in the programming. Now and Bruno participates. We are all combined. We wear out and present the idea, and the choreographer comes up with how to embody her.
- Are there any ideas for using elements that are not associated with figure skating?
- The problem is that there are rules. To use some chips, you need to begin to wait for permission. That is, it is necessary to know exactly that they will not be a violation, for which the judges will punish. There are a lot of items that we would with great pleasure performed, but it cannot be done.
Just as we put a departure from the twist when Bruno drove me around myself and put on the ice. No one had previously done so. Goals to use in programs. But since there is no agreement with the rules of the ISU, so you have to refuse. Because the novelty as a result will be very expensive. You can not lose points on some small raisins, unfortunately.
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| Alena Savchenko and Bruno Mass | Famous twirl twist Alena Savchenko and Bruno Mass |
- Creativity applies not only to new choreographic elements, but also to create their costumes when you are the fashion designer. And not only for speeches, but also for training rentals. Sometimes the workout process turns into a kind of fashion show. There was a feeling that you have a whole wardrobe, designed to work out each of their program elements. When, at the right moment, the pants are lightly moving into shorts and not only.
- Yes, maybe this. For workout you need to be warm, then to be comfortable, and then it is beautiful.
- And some original pieces you yourself invent yourself, so that it was to train, for example, the same emission?
- A kind of airbag is needed. You have to put on training. This is reinsurance. It is better to let it look terribly or ridiculous, but the fall will not be so painful and can be exercised further.
Sometimes you remove everything with Duri, you think, but everything is fine, then you go and fall very painful, and the week is going to heal. We, girls, all these places are beaten. If you fall into the same place several times, then it may be so that we will have two weeks not to go on ice and fly out of the training process.
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| Alena Savchenko, her coach Alexander Kenig and spouse Liam Cross outdoor ice | "Pants with a slight movement of the hand turn ..." |
Alena Savchenko and Bruno Mass - With motivation, everything is clear. I have long been watching you, without ceasing to be surprised by your iron character and such a huge power of will. Where do you take strength to start and start everything from scratch again and once again climb to the top?
- This is a congenital love for figure skating. Probably passed from my dad, because he dreamed of riding, but he had no opportunity. And when I was born, he did not even think and did not try to make a figure skater from me.
The initiative proceeded from me. When two or three years began to ask the skates and constantly say to him that I want to be like this or I want to be like this, my father began to think. He realized that my desire was serious. Therefore, I am sure that this love for figure skating gives me such forces to progress in your work, makes go ahead and try everything new.
- But there are some secrets, for example, how to keep health, how to competently build a training process, to reach the peak of a sports form at the right time, making up between takeoff and drops? Or while the career in full swing to give them not?
- In fact, there are no secrets. Train, train and train once again. Love what you do, and the result will not make yourself wait.
Alena Savchenko and Bruno Mass - You have a very positive and optimistic look at life. Looking back at such a long sports career with numerous victories and lesions, take-offs and drops, share your experience, how to forget about what happened or did not happen yesterday and start a new day from a new sheet?
- Oh I do not know. Maybe it helps motivation that is stronger than circumstances. Or the whole thing is that I grew up in such conditions when nothing easily was given to me.
At the time when I lived in Ukraine, it was very hard, "I have a sick brother, and my mother was forced to spend all his time in the hospital. They drove me on the training session that sisters, then brothers, then aunt, then uncle, other relatives.
At four years I had to get to the rink and back the same for two hours. I do not think that everyone was able at such age to wake up at four in the morning to attend six on the ice.
And so lasted for a very long time - then there were very difficult times. It hardered me. I am not thinking about failures now. Well, think, yesterday I rolled out too well, it all means that today you need to fight.
More, perhaps, because when my mother was pregnant, she fell into the hospital and had to give birth to a seventh number, and I appeared only nineteenth. In general, it is not easy for me from birth in life. It is possible that my fate is such - constantly difficulty overcome. So I never look back.
- Do you often see with your family?
- Yes. My parents come to me when they appear such an opportunity. Dad is engaged in general physical preparation with us. They were at my wedding. I am infrequently chosen to them, but they come.
- Mom grabs nerves watch daughter speeches online?
- Enough. She has a lot of patience. I know others do not stand and go. No, my parents are calm. Father himself performed and knows how difficult it is.
- Ask him, how best to tune in for hire?
"My dad still gives advice, very correct, I want to say, and more than half of my success is his merit."
- In principle, the overwhelming majority of athletes have parents participate in a process in a particular quality in which they are able to help their child. And this support is of enormous importance, if it is not financial participation, it is morally to support the child, to come to important competitions, everything is very important. I sit and think, and what will you become mom?
- I? When I was mom, then I can say what mom I am (laughs). Then let's talk.
- One dream came true, you already have your own family.
- Well yes. But while I'm not going to get my mom while on the agenda other tasks.
- You never know, maybe you will take an example from the Volosozhar family - Trankov.
"I never watched and not looking at anyone." We have our way.
- If you think, it turns out to get acquainted with your future husband, you needed to pass through a certain series of events in a sporting life, change the place of residence, partner, yourself in the end. Changes have led not only to the realization of themselves as athletes, but in personal plan everything has developed.
- I dreamed of having such a man next to him like my dad, like my husband now. But so that I come to Oberstdorf and only found it there, I could not think about such a thing. This is a gift of fate.
Liam Cross and Alena Savchenko - How comfortable to train in Oberstdorf, still spent a lot of time with another coach, another team and in other conditions? Switch turned out to be difficult?
- Well no. Although initially it was a shame that the Ingo Stenhader threw us. Then they thought, it means for the better and need to move forward. In Oberstdorf, very beautiful and calmly. For me, if there is ice, I don't need anything else. There are mountains - even better. Snow fell - generally wonderful.
I love snow and winter. And if a husband is close, then I feel happy. House and family there. At the moment we love Oberstorf very much. Good conditions and rink. We do not complain about what.
- In one time why the choice fell on Bruno as a partner? There were rumors that even Dylan Moskobi from Canada was considered.
- First, the Canadian and North American athletes have never been taken into account, because citizenship is very hard, so it makes no sense in such a choice.
About Bruno. Why he? In general, Alexander Enbert from Russia was considered. He did not answer the offer, answered later, but by this time I already decided to ride with the mass.
I looked through the video of two partners. Because, if you reconsider everyone, the skaters with whom I see I can do is really little. And if I do not see, then why should I disturb anyone.
Secondly, what I reached with Robin, I no longer need. I needed a partner with whom it is possible to go differently and learn to be new. This requires other dimensions, strength, emotions. Therefore, only these two skaters were considered.
Looking back, I understand, it's good that it happened, - Enbert is very high. So we have a big difference in growth, it would not come true to me. Bruno agreed first, and we tried.
- Well, they do not refuse such a proposal.
- You know, it's easy to say! This on the one hand it seems that they do not refuse. And if you think about it, then this is a very big cargo, it is a huge responsibility.
- match the level offered to achieve? Difficulties were?
- There were, eat and every day appear. Therefore, the work is daily so that they are not in the end.
- Your first joint medal of the 2016 World Championship inspired you, did you justify all the difficulties and redeemed the time spent in anticipation of the permission of the French Federation for the transition of Bruno Masso?
- I think yes. She served as a kind of plus, positive, approval that everything was not in vain and we will work on. Such a small sweetie as a remuneration.
- I understand, then there was confidence that the main candy was still ahead?
- You know, there are such New Year calendars in our Germany. They start on November 1st. You open every day until Christmas holidays. And every day - a new sweetie. And then you will open the last day, and there - a gift! So in life.
- In one of the interviews, you said that you are going to ride until you wish it. That is, regardless of motivation, which means, the result of the Olympic Games. Alena, in Minsk in 2019 there will be the European Championship. Well, you understand what I will ask about now?
- Everything can be. Everything can be!
- And if it happens that with the mass of the situation, as with Szolkov, will repeat? And your partner will one day tell you, they say, go to ride a show. I am just enough that I have already won. What then will you find a new one and start all over again?
- I do not think he will say such.
- Not the case?
- No, not that. I am sure that Bruno has a lot of potential about which he does not even suspect. And at first I had to prove that he had him, just let's work and splashing.
- I understand, you also learned difficulties to not notice.
- the locomotive goes and drags the car behind him (laughs). So, what else is your options?
- In the sense, where does it go from the submarine?
"Of course, at the beginning of the way it turned out hard because there was another pace of work, and at first Bruno behaved according to the principle of" somehow hiding-hiding ", and then I got used to it.
But I think he himself wished to develop himself as an athlete.
Bruno Mass and the second coach Couples Jean-Francois Ballester for the analysis of the results of the Competition Protocol - There were moments when you swear at some reason, do not talk to each other, and you need to go out on the ice? How do you cope with this?
- No, serious reasons did not happen. If there are disagreements, then because of various views on anything. First you need to "pour", to convey, that this is not what you really think about. So sometimes it happens, and this is normal.
- Who then goes first for reconciliation?
- I'm going. Because I have already passed through it with Robin. Sometimes now I can say what I understand how hard it was with me. It turned out that with us with Bruno characters like.
And now I look at the situation from Robin. And I think that I often put myself in his place, realizing that it is worth treating many things. Sometimes there is no "no", or just silent than to argue and prove, if you do not see that the partner does not want to meet you, does not let you go to yourself.
Then there is always a chance to wait that he will later come back, apologize and hears you. It is better to restrain what to say something in the sorry and offend a person. If I am sure that I am right, still once I will find a way to convey it to a partner.
In Milan at the World Cartoon Championships, sports couples made arbitrary programs. The final victory was observed by representatives of Germany Alena Savchenko and Bruno Masso, Russians Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov - 2nd.
Alena Savchenko / Bruno Mass (Germany) coped with 100% with an arbitrary program at the World Cup. Triple twist twist, throine flip release, triple slut cascade - double Tulup - double Tulup, parallel triple Tulup, triple Salkhov emissions (hard). With the result of 162.86 points for an arbitrary program and 245.84 points over the amount of athletes become world champions 2018.
Savchenko / Mass established a new world record in an arbitrary program - 162.86 points, and also broke the record of the pair of Volosozhar / Trankov in the amount of two programs - 245.84 points. German champions gathered a collection of 21 higher grades in 10 points for program components. Alena Savchenko is now one of the most titled figure skaters in the history of figure skating: a six-time world champion, the Olympic champion and a two-time bronze medalist of the Olympiad, four-time champion of Europe. Bruno won his first world champion title.
"It was hard, but we were focused and did everything planned. We tried to enjoy the moment even more than at the Olympic Games, but everything was different. I really focused on the elements. At the end, I kissed the ice and thanked this arena, "said Savchenko.
"Physically it was hard. We are tired, we did not have planned preparations for the World Cup, and therefore we really did it in many ways thanks to the power of will, as we really wanted to show good results for our families who sit there on the stands. It was hard, but it was a magical moment, "added Masso.
Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (Russia) could not avoid mistakes in an arbitrary program. The quadruple twist of the second level of complexity, double Salkhov from a partner, a triple release of Salkhov, a cascade of Triple Tulup - Double Tulup - Single Tulup from a partner, triple release Rittberger. For an arbitrary program, the pair receives 144.24 points, by the sum of two programs of 225.53 points become silver winners of the World Cup.
We are glad that they could cope with stress and fatigue. Not everything was at the highest level, but we tried, and posted 100 percent. We were able to take a revenge after an unsuccessful performance in Korea, Tarasova said.
It was a feeling that even simple things are given with difficulty. So we just walked on the rolled, trying to avoid some unpleasant randomilities. At the end of the season on the rolled down, it's pretty easily: the program is already told, all the elements on the spot, ride them and ride. I do not even remember what kind of start is the ninth or tenth. After all, we did not miss any: they performed in the European Championships, and in the Grand Prix Finals, and at the Russian Championship - said Morozov
Vanessa James / Morgan Sipre (France) almost coped with an arbitrary program. Triple twist of the fourth level of complexity, cascade of Triple Tulup - Double Tulup - Double Tulup, Falling on Triple Salov. Parallel Triple Salkhov, release triple flip. The French couple receives an arbitrary program of 143.04 points, as the amount of points is gaining 218.36 points and thereby guaranteeing a place on the prize poedee.
"Finally, a dream came true. We are just happy. We did not expect a medal at the World Cup this season, at the European Championships we had such ambitions, but not here. Today it is like a gift. 18 years old did not have a medal from France in a double riding in the world championships, "said Sipre Press
Natalia Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert (Russia) in the first half of the program looked extremely convincing, in the second, unfortunately, made a lot of blots. The triple twist of the third level of complexity, a triple toulup cascade - a single rhythberger, a triple parallel salum (landing into two legs and touching a partner), release a triple flip, release a triple rhythberger (touch of ice). For an arbitrary program, a pair received 133.50 points. This result was only 6 in an arbitrary program.
Results of an arbitrary program
| M. | Athletes | Country | Sum | Tes. + |
PCS. + |
SS. | Tr | PE | Co. | IN. | Ded. - |
| 1 | Alena Savchenko - Bruno Mass | Ger. | 162.86 | 83.90 | 78.96 | 9.75 | 9.71 | 10.00 | 9.89 | 10.00 | 0.00 |
| 2 | ROS. | 144.24 | 70.30 | 73.94 | 9.39 | 9.11 | 9.14 | 9.36 | 9.21 | 0.00 | |
| 3 | Fra | 143.04 | 71.24 | 72.80 | 9.14 | 9.00 | 9.00 | 9.25 | 9.11 | 1.00 | |
| 4 | Can | 133.84 | 67.73 | 66.11 | 8.21 | 8.14 | 8.29 | 8.32 | 8.36 | 0.00 | |
| 5 | It. | 133.53 | 65.74 | 68.79 | 8.57 | 8.46 | 8.61 | 8.71 | 8.64 | 1.00 | |
| 6 | ROS. | 133.50 | 64.07 | 69.43 | 8.75 | 8.64 | 8.54 | 8.79 | 8.68 | 0.00 | |
| 7 | Yu Xiaoyuy - Hao Zhang | WHALE | 132.05 | 66.38 | 65.67 | 8.36 | 8.04 | 8.21 | 8.32 | 8.11 | 0.00 |
| 8 | It. | 130.65 | 63.58 | 68.07 | 8.43 | 8.29 | 8.43 | 8.71 | 8.68 | 1.00 | |
| 9 | ROS. | 130.54 | 66.11 | 66.43 | 8.36 | 8.11 | 8.18 | 8.50 | 8.36 | 2.00 | |
| 10 | Cheng Peng - Jin Yang | WHALE | 130.09 | 62.46 | 67.63 | 8.50 | 8.36 | 8.36 | 8.61 | 8.43 | 0.00 |
| 11 | Anna Duskov - Martin Bidar | CZECH | 123.31 | 64.47 | 58.84 | 7.39 | 7.29 | 7.32 | 7.46 | 7.32 | 0.00 |
| 12 | CHE OK EM - Chu Sik Kim | DPRK. | 122.45 | 62.11 | 60.34 | 7.68 | 7.46 | 7.61 | 7.57 | 7.39 | 0.00 |
| 13 | Ger. | 121.57 | 62.43 | 59.14 | 7.43 | 7.21 | 7.50 | 7.39 | 7.43 | 0.00 | |
| 14 | ABC | 119.09 | 60.71 | 58.38 | 7.32 | 7.21 | 7.32 | 7.32 | 7.32 | 0.00 | |
| 15 | Alex Shimek - Chris Pen | USA | 112.49 | 54.59 | 59.90 | 7.79 | 7.54 | 7.11 | 7.57 | 7.43 | 2.00 |
| 16 | AVL | 112.44 | 56.61 | 55.83 | 7.21 | 6.86 | 6.86 | 7.14 | 6.82 | 0.00 |
Final status
| M. | Athletes | Country | Sum | KP | PP |
| 1 | Alena Savchenko - Bruno Mass | Ger. | 245.84 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Evgenia Tarasova - Vladimir Morozov | ROS. | 225.53 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Vanessa James - Morgan Sipre | Fra | 218.36 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Natalia Zabiyako - Alexander Enbert | ROS. | 207.88 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | Nicole della Monica - Matteo Guariza | It. | 206.06 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Kirsten Mur-Towers - Michael Marinaro | Can | 204.33 | 10 | 4 |
| 7 | Yu Xiaoyuy - Hao Zhang | WHALE | 203.36 | 9 | 7 |
| 8 | Christina Astakhova - Alexey Rogonov | ROS. | 202.16 | 7 | 9 |
| 9 | Cheng Peng - Jin Yang | WHALE | 202.07 | 6 | 10 |
| 10 | Valentina Markey - Ondrey Hotrees | It. | 202.02 | 8 | 8 |
| 11 | Anna Duskov - Martin Bidar | CZECH | 189.60 | 13 | 11 |
| 12 | CHE OK EM - Chu Sik Kim | DPRK. | 188.77 | 12 | 12 |
| 13 | Annica Hockey - Ruben Blammart | Ger. | 184.83 | 16 | 13 |
| 14 | Miriam Tsigler - Severin Kifer | ABC | 184.30 | 14 | 14 |
| 15 | Alex Shimek - Chris Pen | USA | 182.04 | 11 | 15 |
| 16 | Ekaterina Aleksandrovskaya - Harley Zainsor | AVL | 177.46 | 15 | 16 |
About this incredible victory today they write all the world media without exception, and several film companies are ready to take into a decree. It is not necessary to invent anything - the plot of this real story is one of the most incredible Olympic triumphs. "The Grand History is about the power of will", the "Great Victory" - which epithets only did not accompany the most dilated gold medal in the history of the Olympic Games.
Some dry facts. February 15, 2018, in Pchenchkhan, Ukrainka and Frenchman brought the Gold of the Olympic Games of Germany. And this is a real sensation. On the victory of the German pair - Alena Savchenko and Bruno Masso - did not put anyone. The favorites were considered the Chinese couple of Sui Wenjin and Han Tsung, in the extreme case, Canadians Megan Duhamel and Eric Radford, and after the excellent performance of Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov in a short program - and Russians. But everything went through another scenario.
It was the fifth Olympiad in the life of the figure skater Alena Savchenko. Today she is 34 years old, she speaks with a third partner, and this perseverance until yesterday's professionals caused unless smile. Even a little laughed at her - they say, it would be time to accept the situation.
The story of Savchenko's figure skater is so phenomenal, which really requires adaptation. Judge for yourself: she was born in a large family of teachers in the city of Obukhov, 45 km from Kiev, at the age of 3 asked the parents of the birthday skates. Sporting career girls always stumbled into many bureaucratic problems: it was difficult to equal on the talent of the partner in Ukraine difficult. In a pair with Stanislav Morozov, she became a world champion among juniors in 2000, and then the search for a new partner began.
She more than once had to start again. On his first Olympiad, Savchenko still rode Savchenko and held the 15th place with Stanislav Morozov. Then for a long 10 years in her life there was a partner of Robin Sankov - and in May 2003, Alena went to Germany. In 2004, in his first season, Savchenko and Scholkov won the German Championship. Next season, they became the fourth at the European Championships and the sixth at the World Cup. Savchenko received German citizenship. In Turin, they were six.
Sports merit pairs Savchenko - Scholkova are quite impressive: 5 times world champions, twice bronze at the Olympics. But the maniac persistence of Alena over the years did not subside. She dreamed of a gold medal. Coach Inho Steno noted that Savchenko was a leader in a pair of Scholkov. "The main thing is not to stand on her way when it goes to the goal," the mentor noted. Robin eventually could not stand. Gold at the games remained a unfulfilled dream, but tortured by ambitious and eternal third places Scholkova left the sport and took up the coaching career.
At that moment, when Alena's career, a cross was put on the career, she suddenly finds a new partner - a powerful guy, Frenchman named Bruno Masso. The French fiction of figure skating for a long time did not want to let go of his athlete to Germany. But he risked.
Many shrugged. Who is it? Where does she climb? What for? Is she believed in what could achieve more than more guy? It seemed to be pure madness: he was young, inseparable, not accustomed to morally to championships of this level. She - returned to the sport after 30, with a bunch of old injuries and complexes. But gradually the duet began to develop. True, no one, apart from Alena, did not allow the thoughts of gold for them.
Until now, the mystery, as she managed to see such a huge potential in this. In fact, it is she, Alena Savchenko, which since yesterday is called the "great" figure skater, raised a real star from this guy.
February 15 became the day of Alena Savchenko in the history of sports. How it was? Olympics, Pytenchhan 2018, figure skating, sports couples. After a short program, they were fourth - it seemed to not get to gold. But an arbitrary program perfectly rolled down with the world record, as well as the errors of competitors, Savchenko helped and climb the pedestal mass.
Alena Savchenko and Bruno Mass at the 2018 Olympics