Aljona Savchenko

Aljona Savchenko is a retired Ukrainian-born German pair skater, born in Obukhiv near Kyiv in 1984. With Bruno Massot she won the 2018 Olympic title, and with Robin Szolkowy she won Olympic bronze medals in 2010 and 2014. She is a six-time World champion, a four-time European champion and a five-time Grand Prix Final champion, and she and Szolkowy received the first 10.0 component scores ever given by a judge under the ISU Judging System. She began skating at the age of five and first represented Ukraine, with Dmitri Boyenko and later Stanislav Morozov, winning the 2000 World Junior title with Morozov, before she received German citizenship in December 2005. In 2021 she unretired to pursue a competitive career in the United States and then returned to coaching.