Kostornaya revealed the details of the transition to pair skating

Russian figure skater Alena Kostornaya, in an interview with Lente.ru, revealed the details of the transition to pair skating. In January 2023, it became known that the athlete was training in tandem with Georgy Kunitsa in the group of Sergei Roslyakov.

“Back in October, as soon as she left the hospital (Alena underwent hip surgery – approx. “Tapes.ru”), I wrote to Elena Germanovna [Буяновой]that is ready to go there and there. I had to finish learning the elements for the show. And then at some point I realized that I had more prospects in doubles. It took me a month to decide. All the right people knew from the very beginning, but officially it was still too early to say, ”said the athlete.

Kostornaya stressed that she had not yet fully rebuilt. “As a single skater, the desire to go and jump all the time does not leave me, especially if something doesn’t work out. But I’m not alone, we need to do everything together. At such moments, a nightmare begins, you can just go hang yourself (laughs). But it gets better and better all the time, I’m not the same as I was at the beginning, ”she said.

The figure skater added that some elements of pair skating are already getting stable. “We do spins, parallel jumps and double throws well. I’m still falling off triples. In the hall we do a double twist, we tried a triple – it’s also good. Not directly excellent, as if we had been training for ten years, but tolerable, ”Kostornaya explained.

The athlete is the European champion in 2020 and the winner of the World Grand Prix final in single skating. Over the years, she trained with Eteri Tutberidze, Evgeni Plushenko, Elena Buyanova.