
MOSCOW, Aug 6 2014 Olympic champion in team figure skating Ksenia Stolbova announced that she was expecting a baby. The athlete posted on her Instagram page (Meta (Facebook and Instagram social networks) activities are banned in Russia as extremist) a photo in late pregnancy. Stolbova is 30 years old. At the Sochi Games, in a sports pair with Fedor Klimov, she won gold in the team and silver in the individual tournament. Stolbova and Klimov also became three-time champions of Russia (2014, 2015, 2017), silver medalists of the World Championship (2014) and Europe (2014, 2015 , 2018). The couple broke up after not being admitted to the 2018 Olympics. Andrey Novoselov became Stolbova's new partner, but after one joint season, the athlete ended her career in February 2020.

