Victoria Volchkova is a well-known Russian figure skater-loner, a multiple winner of European championships. After completing her sports career, she took up coaching and has already managed to achieve good results.
Athlete Biography
Volchkova Victoria Evgenievna was born in July 1982 in Leningrad. Until the age of thirteen, the skater trained in her hometown under the leadership of Galina Kashina.
After moving to Moscow in 1995, Viktor Kudryashov became her mentor, who helped her achieve many titles.
Sports and coaching career
At the age of 15, Victoria Volchkova won the bronze medal of the world championship among juniors. A year later, she again becomes the third in this tournament. In addition, in the 1998/99 season, Volchkova became the bronze medalist of the European Championship for the first time, and then repeated this result three times, thereby setting a kind of record among single skaters. Under the leadership of Kudryavtsev, the athlete also won medals of the national championship four times. The Russian woman took part in the Salt Lake City Olympics, where she took only ninth place.
Starting in July 2002, Victoria Volchkova, a figure skater who made rapid progress, began to train in the United States under the leadership of Oleg Vasiliev. With the new program, she sensationally won the Grand Prix stage in Moscow, confidently surpassing such eminent rivals as Irina Slutskaya and Sasha Cohen. Unfortunately, long-term cooperation with Vasiliev did not work. Due to conflicts with his other charges, Volchkova returned to Moscow in 2003.
Victoria began the new season under the leadership of Elena Chaykina, however, a disastrous performance at the Russian championship and injuries that were following the athlete led to their separation. Since 2004, Volchkova is again training in the Kudryavtsev group. Second place in the Russian championship in the pre-Olympic season allowed the skater to go to Turin as part of the national team, but because of a serious injury she refused to participate. Then there was a serious meniscus removal operation and a long recovery. As a result, after a short return to the ice, in 2007, Victoria Volchkova decided to end her sports career. But she was not going to leave completely from figure skating . Volchkova began working in the Kudryavtsev group as a coach. She practiced with such famous skaters as Sergey Dobrin and Arina Martynova.
Victoria Volchkova puts all her experience and soul into her students, and they answer their coach with high achievements. Among her young wards there are winners and medalists of prestigious tournaments in Canada and Finland. When young skaters are asked what or who inspires them to win, they answer without hesitation - Victoria Volchkova.
Personal life
The ex-skater married in 2010 to the famous hockey player Yuri Butsayev, who plays for the Moscow team CSKA. Since 2012, Victoria Butsaeva combines coaching with taking care of her own son.