MOSCOW, April 22, Svetlana Bonopartova. The main task of a sports couple Alena Kostornaya/Georgy Kunitsa is getting into the national figure skating team, said Honored Coach of Russia Sergey Roslyakov.
In January, coach Elena Buyanova announced that she had completed work with Kostornaya because of the athlete's desire to compete in pair skating. In February, Kostornaya and Kunitsa began training in the Roslyakov group.
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"If initially Alena regarded pair skating more as a hobby, now the mood is different. Everything is working. And today's performance of Alena and Georgy was not the worst. He showed the moments on which it will be necessary to work. There is an idea for an arbitrary one, but it is still in the works. I think this couple is very promising. I think now the main task is to get into the national team,» Roslyakov said.
Kostornaya won the European Championship in 2020. She is also the winner of the Grand Prix Final of the 2019/20 season and the Russian Cup Final (2018), silver (2020) and two-time bronze (2018, 2019) medalist of the Russian championships.