MOSCOW, April 18, Andrey Simonenko. Sports couple Yasmina Kadyrova/Valery Kolesov created at the school of Tamara Moskvina, said the coach of the group Artur Minchuk. Kadyrova previously performed with Ivan Balchenko. The skaters have been training in the Moskvina group in St. Petersburg since the summer of 2021, they became bronze medalists of the Grand Prix stage of the 2021/22 season in Sochi. Kolesov, paired with Ksenia Akhantyeva, became the silver medalist of the 2020 junior world championship, the medalist of the Grand Prix Final of the 2019/20 season. Akhantyeva and Kolesov, pupils of the coaching dynasty of Lyudmila, Nikolai and Vasily Velikov, last season trained in the group of Dmitry Savin and Fedor Klimov in Sochi. The day before, Klimov announced that the couple broke up, Akhantyeva remained in their group, and Kolesov left for St. Petersburg. «We have formed a new couple — Yasmina Kadyrova and Valery Kolesov. They have been skating together for two weeks now. We will put on programs, work for a great future, so that they show the result, like all our couples. They look very good, the partner is tall, the partner is thin,» Minchuk said. «Ivan Balchenko, who skated with Yasmina, left our group,» the coach added.
