Mikalai Kamianchuk

Mikalai Kamianchuk (Belarusian: Мікалай Камянчук; born 9 August 1987) is a Belarusian pair skater. He has placed in the top ten at four European Championships, skating with Lubov Bakirova and Tatiana Danilova.

Mikalai Kamianchuk
Danilova / Kamianchuk in 2017
Native nameМікалай Камянчук
Born (1987-08-09) 9 August 1987
Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Figure skating career
CountryBelarus
PartnerTatiana Danilova
CoachDmitri Kaplun
Skating clubSkating School Minsk
Began skating1992

Career

Early career
Bakirova/Kamianchuk at the 2011 European Championships

Kamianchuk began learning to skate in 1992.[1] He switched from singles to pairs when he was 16 years old.[2]

Kamianchuk teamed up with Russia's Lubov Bakirova in 2009.[3] Appearing at six ISU Championships, the two achieved their best result, 10th, at the 2011 Europeans in Bern and the 2012 Europeans in Sheffield. They competed together until the end of the 2011−12 season.

Partnership with Danilova

Kamianchuk returned to competition in 2014–15, partnered with Russia's Tatiana Danilova. Making their debut as a pair, they placed 6th at the CS Golden Spin of Zagreb in December 2014. They won the silver medal at the Toruń Cup in January 2015. They were second at the Belarusian Championships behind Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov.

Danilova/Kamianchuk finished 10th at the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava and 20th at the 2016 World Championships in Boston, coached by Dmitri Kaplun in Minsk.[4]

The pair placed 10th at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava. They placed 23rd at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki.

Programs

With Danilova
Season Short program Free skating
2016–18
[1]
2015–16
[4]

With Bakirova
Season Short program Free skating
2011–12
[3]
2009–11
[5][6]

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series

With Danilova
International[7]
Event 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
World Champ.20th23rd
European Champ.10th10th
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb6th8th
CS Mordovian Ornament5th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy12th
CS Warsaw Cup4th6th
Toruń Cup2nd
National[7]
Belarusian Champ.2nd1st1st

With Bakirova
International[8]
Event 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12
World Champ.19th19th21st
European Champ.17th10th10th
Nebelhorn Trophy8th
NRW Trophy7th2nd
Warsaw Cup2nd
National[8]
Belarusian Champ.1st1st1st

References
  1. "Tatiana DANILOVA / Mikalai KAMIANCHUK: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017.
  2. Mikhalevich, Yuriy (20 February 2017). ""Хочется доказать Тарасовой, что мы не хромые лошади". История пары фигуристов из Беларуси" ["We wanted to show Tarasova that we're not weaklings]. tut.by (in Russian). Archived from the original on 22 February 2017.
  3. "Lubov BAKIROVA / Mikalai KAMIANCHUK: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012.
  4. "Tatiana DANILOVA / Mikalai KAMIANCHUK: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. "Lubov BAKIROVA / Mikalai KAMIANCHUK: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 16 August 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. "Lubov BAKIROVA / Mikalai KAMIANCHUK: 2009/2010". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. "Competition Results: Tatiana DANILOVA / Mikalai KAMIANCHUK". International Skating Union.
  8. "Competition Results: Lubov BAKIROVA / Mikalai KAMIANCHUK". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 April 2014.

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