Elene Gedevanishvili

Elene Gedevanishvili
Elene Gedevanishvili at the 2010 European Figure Skating Championships
Personal information
Full name	Elene Gedevanishvili
Country represented	Georgia
Born	January 7, 1990 (1990-01-07) Tbilisi
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Coach	Brian Orser
Former coach	Robin Wagner Elaine Zayak Elena Buianova Tamara Anjaparidze Tatiana Tarasova Galina Zmievskaya Roman Serov Viktor Kudriavtsev
Choreographer	David Wilson
Former choreographer	Elena Blagova Nikolai Morozov
Skating club	Dinamo Tbilisi
Current training locations	Toronto
Former training locations	Hackensack, Wayne, Moscow
Began skating	1995
World standing	14 (As of 16 June 2011 (2011 -06-16))
Season's bests	23 (2010–2011)
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	165.93 2012 Europeans
Short program	61.92 2010 Winter Olympics
Free skate	108.79 2012 Europeans
Medal record Ladies' Figure Skating Competitor for Georgia European Championships Bronze 2012 Sheffield Singles Bronze 2010 Tallinn Singles

Elene Gedevanishvili (Georgian: ელენე გედევანიშვილი) (born January 7, 1990 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Georgian figure skater. She is a two-time (2012, 2010) European bronze medalist. In winning the medal in 2010, she became the first skater from Georgia to medal at an ISU Championships.

Career

As a child, Gedevanishvili lived and trained in Georgia and went to training camps in Moscow, Russia. At the age of nine, she and her mother settled in Moscow and at age eleven, she began working with Elena Buianova. She trained at CSKA Moscow with Buianova and Tatiana Tarasova. At the 2005-2006 Junior Grand Prix event in Estonia, she became the first Georgian skater to win a Junior Grand Prix event.

At her senior level debut, the 2006 European Championships, she finished 5th. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, her second senior competition, Gedevanishvili placed sixth after the short program, and finished tenth overall.

In October 2006, Gedevanishvili was forced to leave Moscow after the Russian authorities revoked her mother's visa on a technicality. She was later awarded the Order of Honor by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili for her achievements as an athlete and in recognition of her treatment in Russia.

Shortly thereafter, she contracted a case of whooping cough that went undiagnosed for several months. With these problems, Gedevanishvili withdrew from both of her Grand Prix events. In December 2006, she moved to Wayne, New Jersey to train with coach Galina Zmievskaya, former coach of Olympic gold medalist Oksana Baiul. She left Zmievskaya in April 2007 due to a personality conflict. She then moved to Hackensack, New Jersey to train with coaches Roman Serov and Viktor Kudriavtsev at the Ice House. In 2009, she changed coaches to Robin Wagner. She also occasionally worked with Roman Serov on her jumps and 1982 World Champion Elaine Zayak. Gedevanishvili can perform the Biellmann spin with a foot change.

In 2009, Gedevanishvili finished 25th at Europeans, the lowest result at the event in her career, but then achieved a career-best result at the World Championships where she finished 10th.

In 2010, Gedevanishvili became the first skater representing Georgia to medal at an ISU Championships when she won the bronze medal at the 2010 European Championships. She finished 8th at the 2011 European Championships but was able to repeat her career-best 10th place finish at the World Championships.

In July 2011, she switched coaches to Brian Orser in Toronto, Canada.

On January 28, 2012, Gedevanishvili won her second European bronze medal at the 2012 European Championships.

Personal life

Her younger brother, Dmitri Gedevanishvili, is a competitive alpine skier.

Programs

Gedevanishvili at the 2010 European Figure Skating Championships.

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2011–2012	Tango Jalousie by Jacob Gade	Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber	Unusual Way by Nicole Kidman
2010–2011	Cell Block Tango from Chicago (2002 film)	Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
2009–2010	Fever by Davenport	Carmen by Andrew Lloyd Webber	I Wanna Be Loved By You by Marilyn Monroe
2008–2009	Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb	Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Santa Esmeralda Besame Mucho by Perez Prado Historia de un amor by Perez Prado
2007–2008	Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb	Pretty Story by Francis Lai	Malaguena by Ernesto Lecuona
2006–2007	Two Guitars by Paul Mauriat	Flamenco Fantasia
2005–2006	Granada	Armenian Rhapsody by Ara Gevorkian
2004–2005	The Mexican Hat Dance	Ballet égyptien by Alexandre Luigini
2003–2004	The Mexican Hat Dance	Ballet égyptien by Alexandre Luigini

Competitive highlights

Event	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12
Winter Olympic Games					10th				14th
World Championships					14th	17th	20th	10th	18th	10th
European Championships					5th	8th	7th	25th	3rd	8th	3rd
World Junior Championships			12th	5th				6th
Georgian Championships	4th	1st	1st J.
Trophée Eric Bompard								7th	7th
Skate America							6th		6th	7th	7th
NHK Trophy							8th			6th	5th
Nebelhorn Trophy											2nd
Finlandia Trophy								4th
Karl Schäfer Memorial					4th	1st
NRW Trophy								1st
Junior Grand Prix Final					7th
Junior Grand Prix, Estonia					1st
Junior Grand Prix, Slovakia					3rd
Junior Grand Prix, Ukraine				6th
Junior Grand Prix, France				17th
Junior Grand Prix, Croatia			7th
European Youth Olympic Festival				7th
Coupe Haabersti				3rd

External links

• Official Homepage
• Elene Gedevanishvili at the International Skating Union