Klimov Fedor biography

Latest news Biography Fedor Klimov is a Russian skater who performed in paired skating. Having finished his sports career, he continued the family dynasty of coaches and began to educate a new generation of Russian skaters who were able to conquer medals at the international level. It was brought up without a father, in a women's team a mother, a grandmother and aunt.

Grandfather died when Fede had the whole decision that the boy would become a skater was accepted without him. Mother, Elena Klimova, herself was a figure skating coach, so it was predictable. At four years old, the boy was already cutting ice. Despite the constant travel trips and sports training camps, Klimov graduated from a school with a silver medal.

Until 16, he spoke in solitary figure skating and by this time he had already achieved considerable success. He regularly participated in children's and junior championships. Fyodor began to engage in paired skiing in the year. Lyudmila Velikova trained Klimov. And this tandem brought great results. Already the first joint season has become successful - the couple received bronze at the junior world championship.

Embed from getty images Fedor Klimov and Ksenia Stolbova in the year at the Russian Championship, the guys received silver medals, and they got rewards relatively easily. The fact is that the two strongest couples of the country-Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, Yuko Kawaguti and Alexander Smirnov-were forced to miss the championship due to injuries. Klimov received the title of master of sports of Russia of international class.

Fedor and Ksenia were declared as a spare pair to the European Championship. But Smirnov was injured, and it was decided to make a couple of Alexander and Yuko from the competition. Therefore, Klimov and Stolbova had to urgently replace his colleagues. The guys performed more than with dignity, conquering bronze. In the year, the couple participated in the Winter Universiade, which took place in Italy, where she took gold.

After the competition, Fedor received the gratitude of Russian President Vladimir Putin for high sports achievements. In the pre -Olympic season, Klimov and his partner went to great risk.

At that time, she trained the champions - Trankova and Volosozhar. But the guys did not think about rivalry, they made friends almost immediately. At the Olympic Games in Sochi, the couple won silver, losing only to their comrades in the group of coach Moser, and gold medals in the team standings. In February, Klimov became an honored master of sports of Russia. He was also awarded the Order of Friendship.

In the year at the Russian Championship, the couple took gold, silver at the European Championship. In the same year, the guys won silver medals at the Grand Prix finals. In the year it became known that Klimov did not perform at the European Championship due to a serious shoulder injury. Nina Moser later gave an interview in Sportbox, telling how serious the injury was.

According to her, Fedor could not raise his hand, and the shoulder just hung. Such a difficult situation lasted two and a half months. There was no question of continuing his sports career, the main task was to make the guy not remained disabled. But in the end, the will to victory and the patience of Fedor, as well as the work of doctors and massage therapists, allowed the skater to return to the ice.

In April, Fedor with his partner spoke at the World Cup, where he showed the fourth result. Embed from Getty images, figure of Fedor Klimov on ice in December Fedor and Ksenia performed at the Grand Prix finals in Nagoy, when they learned about the decision of the International Olympic Committee to allow only “pure” athletes to the Olympics under the white flag.

Ksenia Stolbov, among many Russians, decided to prevent the games at all. The beginning of the new sports season was overshadowed by the decision of Fedor and Ksenia to break the partnership. This was confirmed by the coach Nina Moser. And if Klimov ended his career as a skater, then Andrei Novoselov became a new partner of Stolbova. Having finished sports, Fedor decided to make a career in the ice show and even, as he himself said in an interview, performed in the New Year's program with another Olympic champion.

But the experience gained by the athlete’s feat to search for other areas for work. As Klimov admitted, he did not plan to train young people - before his eyes there was an example of his mother. But, being at the crossroads, the former athlete accepted the invitation of his ex-coach Nina Moser to come to ISU seminars as a consultant coach, where there was a desire to do coaching work.

A new stage began in the biography of the ex-musician: “I realized that I like another to say what to do, what to tell me.” At first, Klimov worked in the Nina Moser group in Moscow, then moved to Sochi, where he trained athletes in the paired ski section. Klimov called his goal as a coach a trip to the Olympic Games. Now Klimov continues the coaching career. Klimov, as a delegate from Russia, lost the opportunity to participate in the congress, elections and other official ISU meetings.

Personal life to Fedor constantly attributed an affair with Ksenia Stolbova, which, in principle, is not surprising. Athletes spent a lot of time together, and their dances are permeated with passion.But in an interview with R-Sport, Klimov said that this is just an image. He and Ksenia are too different: he is calm and balanced, and the girl is explosive. Yes, and their interests are also dissimilar.

But at the same time, Fedor emphasized that without a partner he would hardly have achieved such success. Klimov does not advertise the details of his personal life, on his page on Instagram the social network is prohibited in Russia, it belongs to the META corporation, which is recognized in the Russian Federation occasionally new photos from training and travel.

The pair had previously attributed a novel, but they did not give comments on this subject. And the athlete put a photo from the wedding with now her husband Klimov, signing a picture: “In my opinion, there are no words! The only difficulty in marriage, she called constant trips. While Tarasova performed and trained in the capital, her husband continued to work in Sochi. But at every free moment they flew to each other.

In the year, a couple was lucky - they got to one tournament. As for the duet of Akopova and Rachmanin, the athletes were forced to reduce the load, as the partner was injured in the back. Most of the coaching process took place in Sochi, Fedor was engaged in pupils at the Bolshoi ice rink. In the fall, journalists remembered the sports past of Klimov and Stolbova. The reason for this was the interview with Megan Duel.

And Canadka allegedly said that some Russian athletes regularly consumed some kind of liquid, similar in consistency and color to the resin. The professional community sharply reacted to Megan's attempts to blame the skaters of using doping. Nina Moser called the revelations Dayel with a far -fetched story. Stars ”, he was part of the jury. Having completed his sports career, Fedor decided to fulfill a long -standing dream and, together with Maxim Trankov, opened a bar in Moscow.

But the institution required too much time from partners, and therefore was closed.