| Viacheslav Tkachenko | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Native name | В'ячеслав Володимирович Ткаченко |
| Full name | Viacheslav Volodymyrovych Tkachenko |
| Country represented | Ukraine Soviet Union |
| Born | 4 September 1973 |
| Residence | Dnipro, Ukraine |
| Former partner | Svitlana Prystav |
| Retired | 1994 |
Viacheslav Volodymyrovych Tkachenko (Ukrainian : В'ячеслав Володимирович Ткаченко, born in 1973) [1] is a Ukrainian figure skating coach and former competitive pair skater. Competing with Svitlana Prystav for the Soviet Union, he became a three-time World Junior medalist in the early 1990s. [2] Later in their career, the pair represented Ukraine. They appeared at three senior-level ISU Championships, placing 10th at the 1993 European Championships in Helsinki (Finland), 13th at the 1993 World Championships in Prague (Czech Republic), and 14th at the 1994 European Championships in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Ukrainian is an East Slavic language. It is the official state language of Ukraine, one of the three official languages in the unrecognized state of Transnistria, the other two being Romanian and Russian. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic script.
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport included in the Olympics, in 1908. The four Olympic disciplines are men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Non-Olympic disciplines include synchronized skating, Theater on Ice, and four skating. From juvenile through senior-level competition, skaters generally perform two programs which, depending on the discipline, may include spins, jumps, moves in the field, lifts, throw jumps, death spirals, and other elements or moves.
Svitlana Prystav is a Ukrainian former pair skater. Competing with Viacheslav Tkachenko for the Soviet Union, she became a three-time World Junior medalist in the early 1990s. Later in their career, the pair represented Ukraine. They appeared at three senior-level ISU Championships, placing 10th at the 1993 European Championships in Helsinki (Finland), 13th at the 1993 World Championships in Prague, and 14th at the 1994 European Championships in Copenhagen (Denmark).
After retiring from competition, Tkachenko became a skating coach. He began working at the Meteor Sports Complex in Dnipro in 1998. [3] His most notable student is Anna Khnychenkova, [4] who qualified a spot for Ukraine at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Dnipro, called Dnipropetrovsk until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is 391 kilometres (243 mi) southeast of the capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central part of Ukraine. Dnipro is the administrative centre of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Administratively, it is incorporated as a city of oblast significance, the centre of Dnipro municipality and extraterritorial administrative centre of Dnipro Raion. Its population is approximately 1,000,000 (2018 est.).
Anna Yuriivna Khnychenkova is a Ukrainian figure skater. As a single skater, she is the 2016 Ice Star champion, 2017 International Cup of Nice bronze medalist, and 2017 Ukrainian national champion. She has competed in the free skate at five ISU Championships and qualified a spot for Ukraine at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as PyeongChang 2018, was an international winter multi-sport event that was held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February 2018, the eve of the opening ceremony.
