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Maria Vigalova - Wikipedia

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Maria Vigalova

Vigalova and Zakroev at the 2014–15 JGP Final

Full name

Maria Olegovna Vigalova

Other names

Vygalova

Born

29 June 1999 (age 25)
Perm, Russia

Hometown

Perm

Height

1.48 m (4 ft 101⁄2 in)

Figure skating career

Country

Russia

Coach

Nina Mozer

Skating club

Vorobyovy Gory

Medal record

Representing Russia

Figure skating: Pairs
World Junior Championships
	2014 Sofia	Pairs
Junior Grand Prix Final
	2013–14 Fukuoka	Pairs
	2012–13 Sochi	Pairs
	2014-15 Barcelona	Pairs

Maria Olegovna Vigalova (or Vygalova; Russian: Мария Олеговна Выгалова; born 29 June 1999) is a Russian pair skater. With partner Egor Zakroev, she is the 2014 World Junior bronze medalist, a two-time JGP Final medalist (2013 silver, 2012 bronze) and the 2014 Russian national senior bronze medalist.

Personal life

Maria Olegovna Vigalova was born 29 June 1999 in Perm, Russia.^[1]

Career

Vigalova's first coach was Olga Amosova-Konkova.^[1] She took up pair skating in 2009 with Ivan Armeev.

Vigalova teamed up with Egor Zakroev in 2010. The two were coached by Valentina Tiukova, Valeri Tiukov, and Pavel Sliusarenko at the Figure Skating Academy in Perm. Olga Volozhinskaya visits the pair three to four times a year to work on choreography and presentation.^[2]

In the 2011–12 season, Vigalova/Zakroev finished tenth in their senior Russian Championships debut and placed fourth on the junior level.

Vigalova/Zakroev debuted on the Junior Grand Prix series in the 2012–13 season. They won the bronze medal at JGP Austria and silver at JGP Germany, qualifying them for the JGP Final in Sochi, Russia, where they won the bronze medal.^[3]^[4] At the Russian Championships, the pair finished ninth on the senior level and then fourth again on the junior level behind Kamilla Gainetdinova / Ivan Bich.

Vigalova/Zakroev's first event of the 2013–14 season was the 2013 JGP Latvia where they won the bronze medal behind teammates Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov. They won gold for the first time at the 2013 JGP Slovakia while posting new personal best scores – 57.75 (SP), 110.35 (FS), 168.10 points (overall). Their results qualified them to the JGP Final in Fukuoka, Japan. At the final, Vigalova/Zakroev placed third in the short program and first in the free skate, winning the silver medal behind Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang. After the event, Zakroev underwent treatment for cysts.^[2] At the Russian Championships, the pair won bronze on the senior level and silver on the junior level. They were assigned to the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, where they won the bronze medal after placing fourth in the short program and third in the free skate.

In preparation for the 2014–15 season, Vigalova/Zakroev spent some time training in Sochi and Novogorsk, near Moscow, as well as their regular training site in Perm.^[5] Their first event of the season was at the 2014 JGP Estonia where they won the gold medal with a score of 161.83 points. Their next event at the 2014 JGP Croatia, they won another gold with a total of 167.98 points qualifying them to their third ISU JGP Final held in Barcelona, Spain where they took the bronze medal behind teammates Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin.

Programs

(with Zakroev)

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2014-2015 ^[6]	The Messiah Will Come Again by Gary Moore	The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
2013–2014 ^[7]	Capone by Ronan Hardiman	Giselle by Adolphe Adam	Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis
2012–2013 ^[8]	Capone by Ronan Hardiman	Symphony on a Battle Lost by Benny Richter, Marc Terenzi
2011–2012	Adagio in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni	Pearl Harbor by Hans Zimmer

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Zakroev

International^[9]
Event	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15
CS Volvo Open				2nd
International: Junior^[9]
Junior Worlds			3rd	WD
JGP Final		3rd	2nd	3rd
JGP Croatia				1st
JGP Austria		3rd
JGP Estonia				1st
JGP Germany		2nd
JGP Latvia			3rd
JGP Slovakia			1st
Warsaw Cup			1st J.
National^[9]
Russian Champ.	10th	9th	3rd	WD
Russian Junior	4th	4th	2nd	1st
J. = Junior level; WD = Withdrew

References

^ ^a ^b Выгалова Мария Олеговна [Maria Olegovna Vigalova] (in Russian). Russian Figure Skating Federation. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
^ ^a ^b Ermolina, Olga (6 December 2013). Выгалова – Закроев: «Перед финалом в Сочи волновались больше» [Vigalova/Zakroev: "Before the JGP Final"]. Russian Figure Skating Federation (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2 January 2014.
^ Kondakova, Anna (9 December 2012). "Russia sweeps Junior Pairs at Figure Skating Final". GoldenSkate.
^ Kondakova, Anna (7 December 2012). "Fedorova and Miroshkin lead Junior Pairs in Sochi". GoldenSkate.
^ Zubakov, Alexei (10 June 2014). Егор Закроев: пока не знаем, будем выступать на взрослом уровне или нет [Egor Zakroev: I don't know yet if we will compete on the senior level or not]. team-russia2014.ru (in Russian).
^ "Biography". ISU Results. ISU Results. Archived from the original on 26 February 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
^ "Maria VIGALOVA / Egor ZAKROEV: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 25 March 2014.
^ "Maria VIGALOVA / Egor ZAKROEV: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 26 February 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Competition Results: Maria VIGALOVA / Egor ZAKROEV". International Skating Union.

External links

Media related to Maria Vigalova at Wikimedia Commons

Maria VIGALOVA / Egor ZAKROEV at the International Skating Union

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