Elena Riabchuk | |||||||||||||||
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Born | Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 27 July 1985||||||||||||||
Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Country | Russia | ||||||||||||||
Skating club | CSKA Moscow | ||||||||||||||
Began skating | 1990 | ||||||||||||||
Retired | 2003 | ||||||||||||||
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Elena Riabchuk (Russian: Елена Рябчук; born 27 July 1985) is a former pair skater who competed for Russia. She is the 2002 World Junior champion with partner Stanislav Zakharov.[1] She was hospitalized for a couple of weeks in the summer of 2000 after her partner's blade struck her head while practicing a side-by-side spin.[2][3]