ICE DANCE
Date of birth: 31.03.1987 Nelli ZHIGANSHINA
GER
Place of birth: Moscow RUS
Height: 166 cm
Home town: Oberstdorf
Profession: student
Hobbies: dancing
Start sk. / Club: 1990 / EC Oberstdorf
Former Partners Denis Bazdyrev (RUS)
Date of birth: 06.10.1984 Alexander GAZSI
GER
Place of birth: Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz)
Height: 184 cm
Home town: Oberstdorf
Profession: soldier
Hobbies: reading
Start sk. / Club: 1988 / EC Oberstdorf
Former Partners Mandy Kästner, Julia Novikov, Sandra Gissmann
Coach: Rostislav Sinicyn, Martin Skotnicky
Choreographer: Maxim Staviski
Former Coach: Alexander Zhulin, O. Volkov, E. Kustarova, S. Alexeeva
Practice low season: 34 h / week at Oberstdorf
Practice high season: 24 h / week at Oberstdorf
Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2011/2012
Rhumba: Desperados (from "Once Upon a Time in Mexico")
Mambo
Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2011/2012
Romeo and Juliet (soundtrack)
Personal Best Total Score141.3629.03.2012 World Championships 2012
Personal Best Score Short Dance57.8226.01.2011 European Championships 2011
Personal Best Score Free Dance85.4230.04.2011 World Championships 2011
 
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Olympic Games
World Champ.
European Champ.
Four Continents
World Juniors
National Champ.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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S=Senior; J=Junior; N=Novice
International CompetitionYearPlace
NRW Trophy Ice Dance 2010 Dortmund 2010 2.
P. Roman Memorial 2010 Olomouc 2010 1.
Bavarian Open 2011 Oberstdorf 2011 1.
Nebelhorn Trophy 2011 Oberstdorf 2011 2.
Internation CompetitionYearPlace
O. Nepela Trophy 2011 Bratislava 2011 1.
ISU GP Hilton HHonors Skate America 2011 Ontario, CA 2011 4.
ISU GP NHK Trophy 2011 Sapporo 2011 4.
Golden Spin 2011 Zagreb 2011 1.
(1): Sandra GISSMANN / Alexander GAZSI (GER), (2): Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Denis BAZDIREV (RUS)
Zhiganshina/Gazsi teamed up in 2005. Gazsi went to Moscow looking for a new partner and eventually found Zhiganshina and stayed in Russia. The couple moved back to Germany for training in spring 2009. Zhiganshina competed with Denis Bazdyrev until 2004, representing Russia. Her younger brother Ruslan is the 2012 World Junior Ice Dance Champion (with partner Victoria Sinitsina) competing for Russia.
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