Yuri Larionov
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Yuri Yuryevich Larionov is a Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n pair skater
Pair skating
Pair skating is a figure skating discipline. International Skating Union regulations describe pair teams as consisting of "one lady and one man." The sport is distinguished from ice dancing and single skating by elements unique to pair skating, including overhead lifts, twist lifts, death spirals,...

. With partner Vera Bazarova
Vera Bazarova
Vera Yevgenyevna Bazarova is a Russian pair skater. With partner Yuri Larionov, she is the 2011 European bronze medalist, 2010 and 2011 Russian bronze medalist and 2007 World Junior silver medalist. They have won four senior Grand Prix medals.- Career :...

, he is the 2011 European bronze medalist
2011 European Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 European Figure Skating Championships was the European Figure Skating Championships of the 2010–2011 season. Skaters competed in the categories of men's singles, ladies singles, pairs, and ice dancing....

, 2010 and 2011 Russian bronze medalist
Russian Figure Skating Championships
The Russian Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Russia. Skaters compete at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.The first Russian national...

 and 2007 World Junior silver medalist
2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition. The event is open to figure skaters from ISU member nations who have reached the age of 13 by July 1 of the previous year, but have not yet turned 19. The upper age limit for men competing in pairs and dance...

. They have won four senior Grand Prix medals.

Career

Larionov was born in Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...

 in Siberia
Siberia
Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...

 and later moved to Tashkent
Tashkent
Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...

, modern-day Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

, due to his father's army service. He was ill and overweight as a child. His mother wanted to enroll him in skating but his father was opposed and doubted he would be accepted. When his father was away on a business trip, his mother took him to the rink and her son quickly took a liking to the sport. The family later returned to Novosibirsk where he continued skating, before moving to Moscow where he skated for four years, and then to Perm
Perm
Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....

.

In spring 2005, coach Ludmila Kalinina
Ludmila Kalinina
Ludmila Alexandrovna Kalinina is a Russian pair skating coach. She was based in Perm until mid-2011 when she relocated to Saransk. Her students have included:* Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov* Elena Efaeva and Alexei Menshikov* Alexei Rogonov...

 paired him with Vera Bazarova
Vera Bazarova
Vera Yevgenyevna Bazarova is a Russian pair skater. With partner Yuri Larionov, she is the 2011 European bronze medalist, 2010 and 2011 Russian bronze medalist and 2007 World Junior silver medalist. They have won four senior Grand Prix medals.- Career :...

.
They trained in Perm at the Orlenok Ice Palace until 2011, unlike most elite Russian pairs who are based in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

 or Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

. They admire Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze
Anton Sikharulidze
Anton Tarielyevich Sikharulidze is a Russian pair skater. With Elena Berezhnaya, he is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion....

.
Bazarova and Larionov took silver at 2007 Junior Worlds
2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition. The event is open to figure skaters from ISU member nations who have reached the age of 13 by July 1 of the previous year, but have not yet turned 19. The upper age limit for men competing in pairs and dance...

. In October, they won their first senior international medal when they claimed the bronze at 2007 Skate America
2007 Skate America
Skate America is an international, senior-level invitation-only figure skating competition organized by the United States Figure Skating Association. It is the first ISU Grand Prix event to be held...

. In December of the same year, the pair won gold at the 2007 Junior Grand Prix Final. However, in January 2008, the team was stripped of the medal due to a doping violation
Doping (sport)
The use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is commonly referred to by the term "doping", particularly by those organizations that regulate competitions. The use of performance enhancing drugs is mostly done to improve athletic performance. This is why many sports ban the use of performance...

 on a blood sample Larionov gave before the Final. Larionov was also suspended for two years, beginning on January 18, 2008. His sentence was later reduced to 18-months, and ended on July 17, 2009.

Bazarova decided to wait for Larionov, "There were offers from others, but I said right away that I'm not going to skate with someone else." The pair made their return to competition during the 2009–10 season. Their first event was the 2009 Cup of Russia where they placed fourth and they won the bronze medal at Russian Nationals, earning them further assignments. In January 2010, the pair finished 5th at the European Championships
2010 European Figure Skating Championships
The 2010 European Figure Skating Championships were the European Championships of the 2009–2010 season. They are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of European Champion...

. In February, they placed 11th at the Olympics and then completed their season with an 8th place finish at the World Championships
2010 World Figure Skating Championships
The 2010 World Figure Skating Championships were the World Figure Skating Championships for the 2009–2010 season. Commonly called "Worlds", they are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

 in March. They were named Breakthrough of the Year (pair skating) at the 2010 Crystal Ice Awards held in October 2010 in Moscow.

Bazarova and Larionov began the 2010–11 season
2010–2011 figure skating season
The 2010–2011 figure skating season began on July 1, 2010, and ended on June 30, 2011. During this season, elite skaters competed on the ISU Championship level at the 2011 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships...

 with a win at 2010 Nebelhorn Trophy
2010 Nebelhorn Trophy
The 2010 Nebelhorn Trophy was the Nebelhorn Trophy for the 2010–2011 figure skating season. The competition is held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany and is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain....

 in September. Their first Grand Prix event was the 2010 NHK Trophy
2010 NHK Trophy
The 2010 NHK Trophy was the NHK Trophy Grand Prix competition of the 2010–2011 season and the first of six events in the 2010–2011 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. The event is organized annually by the Japan Skating Federation.The...

 in October, where they won the silver medal. At 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard
2010 Trophée Eric Bompard
The 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard was the Trophée Eric Bompard Grand Prix competition of the 2010–2011 season. Organized by the Federation Française des Sports de Glace, it was the last of six events in the 2010–2011 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational...

, they won another silver medal, in doing so setting new personal best scores in the short program (64.18) and long program (118.82). Their results qualified them for the Grand Prix Final
2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
The 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final is the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and the Junior Grand Prix Final competition of the 2010–2011 season...

, their first at the senior level, where they finished fifth. At the Russian Nationals
2011 Russian Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 Russian Figure Skating Championships are the national championships of Russia for the 2010–2011 season. The winners were crowned the 2011 Russian Champions...

 they won their second bronze medal.

At the 2011 European Championships
2011 European Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 European Figure Skating Championships was the European Figure Skating Championships of the 2010–2011 season. Skaters competed in the categories of men's singles, ladies singles, pairs, and ice dancing....

, they won the bronze medal after finishing third in both programs and setting personal best scores in the long program and combined total (188.24). Although many skaters, including those based at other Russian training centers, criticized the freezing conditions at the arena, Bazarova said, "At home in our ice rink in Perm, it can also be very cold so we are kind of used to it." At the 2011 World Championships
2011 World Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 World Figure Skating Championships are the World Figure Skating Championships for the 2010–2011 season. They are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion....

, they finished 5th.

In June 2011, it was reported that Bazarova and Larionov would move along with their coach, Ludmila Kalinina, from Perm to Saransk
Saransk
Saransk is a city in central European Russia and the capital of the Republic of Mordovia, as well as its financial and economic center. It is located in the Volga basin at the confluence of the Saranka and Insar Rivers, about east of Moscow...

. Bazarova said they felt comfortable in Saransk, also the host of the 2011 and 2012 Russian national championships
Russian Figure Skating Championships
The Russian Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Russia. Skaters compete at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.The first Russian national...

. The pair's first event of the 2011–2012 season
2011–2012 figure skating season
The 2011–2012 figure skating season begins on July 1, 2011, and ends on June 30, 2012. During this season, elite skaters will compete on the ISU Championship level at the 2012 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships...

 was Nebelhorn Trophy
2011 Nebelhorn Trophy
The 2011 Nebelhorn Trophy was an international figure skating competition for the 2011–2012 season. It is held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany and is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain....

, where they won silver. They were 5th at 2011 Skate America
2011 Skate America
The 2011 Skate America was an ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating competition in the 2011–2012 season. Organized by the United States Figure Skating Association, it was the first of six events in the 2011–2012 ISU Grand Prix, a series of senior-level international invitational competitions.The event...

, their first Grand Prix
2011–12 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
The 2011–2012 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating will be a series of senior international figure skating competitions in the 2011–2012 season. Skaters will compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing at six invitational competitions in the fall of 2011...

 event of the season. At 2011 Trophée Eric Bompard
2011 Trophée Eric Bompard
The 2011 Trophée Eric Bompard was the Trophée Eric Bompard Grand Prix competition of the 2011–2012 season. Organized by the Federation Française des Sports de Glace, it was the fifth event of six in the 2011–2012 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational...

, they won the silver medal with a new personal best in the free program.

Personal life

Larionov was a student at Perm State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Physical Education. In June 2010, Bazarova and Larionov confirmed they are dating.

Programs

Season Short program Long program Exhibition
2011–2012 Tosca
Tosca
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900...

 
by Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...

 
arranged by Maxime Rodriguez
Maxime Rodriguez
Maxime Rodriguez, born in Colombes, France, is a French composer. Many of his works, such as Esperanza, Child of Nazareth, and Tango Volver, D'Artagnan, Coeur Brave, L'enfant pur, have been used for figure skating programs....

 
Doctor Zhivago 
by Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre
Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor.Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores, and is particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films since Lawrence of Arabia...

 
2010–2011 Adagio
by Secret Garden
Secret Garden (duo)
Secret Garden is an award-winning Irish-Norwegian duo playing New Instrumental Music, also sometimes erroneously known as Neo-classical music.Secret Garden features the Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and the Norwegian composer/pianist Rolf Løvland...

 
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)
The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1998 British/American historical action film directed, produced, and written by Randall Wallace. It uses characters from Alexandre Dumas' D'Artagnan Romances, and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of The Vicomte de Bragelonne. It also bears several...

 
soundtrack by Nick Glennie-Smith
Nick Glennie-Smith
Nick Glennie-Smith is a film composer whose most prominent work is a collaboration with Hans Zimmer on the score to the 1996 action film The Rock as well as work on the 1993 drama Point of No Return...

 
Remember from Troy
Troy (film)
Troy is a 2004 epic war film written by David Benioff and directed by Wolfgang Petersen based on the events of the Trojan War. Its cast includes Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana as Hector.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design.-Plot:...

 
by Josh Groban
Josh Groban
Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. His four solo albums have been certified at least multi-platinum, and in 2007, he was charted as the number-one best selling artist in the United States with over 21 million records in that country...

 and Tanja Carovska
2009–2010 Sadness (Грусть)
from Satisfaktsiya (Сатисфакция) soundtrack
by Igor Kamensky (Игорь Каменский)
Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)
Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 film based on the book of the same name written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer on his experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War, the interim period, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army's invasion of Tibet in 1950. The film...

 
soundtrack by John Williams
John Williams
John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...


Tale of Wandering
by Alfred Schnittke
Alfred Schnittke
Alfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...

 
Remember from Troy
by Josh Groban and Tanja Carovska
2007–2008 Shadowboxing
Shadowboxing (2005 film)
Shadowboxing is a 2005 Russian 4-episode Sports drama movie.The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Denis Nikiforov, Elena Panova, and Andrey Panin, and it was directed by Aleksey Sidorov...


soundtrack by Alexei Shelgin (Алексей Шелыгин)
Eragon
Eragon (film)
Eragon is a 2006 fantasy-adventure film based on the novel of the same name by author Christopher Paolini. The cast includes Edward Speleers in the title role, Jeremy Irons, Garrett Hedlund, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich, Djimon Hounsou, Alun Armstrong, Joss Stone, and the voice...


soundtrack by Patrick Doyle
Patrick Doyle
Patrick Doyle is a Scottish musician and film score composer. A longtime collaborator of actor/director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work scoring such critically acclaimed films as Henry V , Sense and Sensibility , Hamlet , and Gosford Park , as well as noteworthy blockbusters as Harry...

2006–2007 Love Story
Love Story (1970 film)
Love Story is a 1970 romantic drama film written by Erich Segal and based on his novel Love Story. It was directed by Arthur Hiller. The film, well known as a tragedy, is considered one of the most romantic of all time by the American Film Institute , and was followed by a sequel, Oliver's Story...


soundtrack by Francis Lai
Francis Lai
Francis Lai is a French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores.While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene...

Amélie
Amélie (soundtrack)
Amélie is the soundtrack to the 2001 French film Amélie.Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet chanced upon the largely accordion and piano driven music of Yann Tiersen while driving with his production assistant who put on a CD he hadn't heard before. Greatly impressed, he immediately bought Tiersen's entire...

 
soundtrack by Yann Tiersen
Yann Tiersen
Yann Tiersen is a musician from France. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks with a distinctive sound that is always involved...


Competitive highlights

(with Bazarova)
Event 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12
Winter Olympics
Winter Olympic Games
The Winter Olympic Games is a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating...

 
11th
World Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

 
8th 5th
European Championships
European Figure Skating Championships
The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European Champion...

 
5th 3rd
World Junior Championships
World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion...

 
2nd
Russian Championships
Russian Figure Skating Championships
The Russian Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Russia. Skaters compete at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.The first Russian national...

 
7th 6th 3rd 3rd
Russian Junior Championships
Russian Figure Skating Championships
The Russian Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Russia. Skaters compete at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.The first Russian national...

 
2nd
Grand Prix Final
Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
The Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final is an international, senior-level figure skating competition. It is the culmination of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Skaters compete in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing....

 
5th
NHK Trophy
NHK Trophy
The NHK Trophy is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Figure skaters compete in the disciplines of ladies' singles, men's singles, pair skating, and ice dancing....

 
2nd
Trophée Eric Bompard
Trophée Eric Bompard
The Trophée Eric Bompard is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. The Trophée Eric Bompard was formerly known as the Trophée Lalique...

 
2nd 2nd
Cup of Russia
Cup of Russia
The Cup of Russia is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Figure skaters compete in the disciplines of ladies' singles, men's singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. It was held as the Rostelecom Cup in 2009 after...

 
4th
Skate America
Skate America
Skate America is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. It is organized by the United States Figure Skating Association. The location changes yearly...

 
3rd 5th
Nebelhorn Trophy
Nebelhorn Trophy
The Nebelhorn Trophy is an international senior-level figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union and held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany. The competition is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain....

 
1st 2nd
Junior Grand Prix Final
ISU Junior Grand Prix Final
The ISU Junior Grand Prix Final is the culminating competition of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, which is a series of junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union...

 
7th DQ
Junior Grand Prix, Great Britain
2007-2008 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2007–2008 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the 11th season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2007–2008 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level skaters...

 
1st
Junior Grand Prix, Germany
2007-2008 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2007–2008 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the 11th season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2007–2008 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level skaters...

 
2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Chinese Taipei
2006-2007 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2006–2007 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the tenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2006–2007 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for Senior-level skaters...

 
2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Norway
2006-2007 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2006–2007 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the tenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2006–2007 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for Senior-level skaters...

 
4th
J = Junior level; DQ = Disqualified
*Bazarova & Larionov did not compete in the 2008-2009 season due to Larionov's doping violation in 2008.

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