| Alena Kostornaia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Kostornaia with her partner Georgy Kunitsa at 2024 Russian Test Skates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Alena Sergeyevna Kostornaia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Native name | Алёна Сергеевна Косторная (Russian) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other names | Aliona or Alyona Kostornaya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 August 2003 Moscow, Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Figure skating career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country |  Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Georgy Kunitsa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Sergei Roslyakov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | CSKA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alena Sergeyevna Kostornaia (Russian: Алёна Сергеевна Косторная; her first name is properly pronounced Alyona as the Cyrillic ё is pronounced yo;[4] born 24 August 2003) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2020 European champion, the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final champion, a six-time Grand Prix medalist (including gold at the 2019 Internationaux de France and the 2019 NHK Trophy), and the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy champion. Competing domestically, she is a three-time Russian senior national medalist (silver 2020, bronze 2018 and 2019). She previously held the world record for the highest senior short program score in women's skating.
At the junior level, Kostornaia is the 2018 Junior World silver medalist, the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, the 2017–18 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and a two-time Russian junior national silver medalist (2018, 2019). She currently holds the world record for the highest junior short program score in women's skating. She used to be in a group made up by the figure skating fandom, named 3a.
Kostornaia is the tenth woman in history to have landed the triple Axel jump in a senior international competition. Kostornaia is the third woman after teammate Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Rika Kihira of Japan to attempt and land the maximum number of triple jumps allowed in one senior international competition: four in the short program and eight in the free skate (see Zayak rule). She first accomplished this at the 2019 Internationaux de France, and later landed all twelve triples cleanly at the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final.[5][6]
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