Biography

ICE DANCE


Date of birth:	19.08.1995	Alexandra STEPANOVA RUS
Place of birth:	St Petersburg
Height:	168 cm
Home town:	Moscow
Profession:	pupil
Hobbies:	music, dancing
Start sk. / Club:	1999 / UOR No 4 Moscow


Date of birth:	16.09.1993	Ivan BUKIN RUS
Place of birth:	Moscow
Height:	182 cm
Home town:	Moscow
Profession:	student
Hobbies:	music, movies, dancing
Start sk. / Club:	1998 / UOR No 4 Moscow
Former Partners	Elena Iliinykh

Coach:	Alexander Svinin, Irina Zhuk
Choreographer:	Irina Zhuk, Igor Pivorovich

Practice low season:	29 h / week at Moscow
Practice high season:	20 h / week at Moscow

Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2010/2011

Waltz: Faust Waltz by F. Liszt
Tango

Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2010/2011

The Pink Panther (soundtrack) by Henry Mancini

Personal Best Total Score	117.60	28.08.2010	ISU JGP Courchevel 2010
Personal Best Score Short Dance	47.98	28.08.2010	ISU JGP Courchevel 2010
Personal Best Score Free Dance	69.62	28.08.2010	ISU JGP Courchevel 2010

03/04

04/05

05/06

06/07

07/08

08/09

09/10

10/11

Olympic Games

World Champ.

European Champ.

Four Continents

World Juniors

National Champ.

S=Senior; J=Junior; N=Novice

International Competition	Year	Place
NRW Trophy Dance 2009 Dortmund	2009	2. J
ISU JGP Courchevel 2010 Courchevel	2010	1. J
ISU JGP SBC Cup 2010 Karuizawa	2010	1. J

Internation Competition	Year	Place
P. Roman Memorial 2010 Olomouc	2010	1. J
ISU JGP Final 2010/2011 Beijing	2010	3. J

Stepanova/Bukin teamed up in 2006. She was a single skater before and moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow to take up ice dance. Bukin is the son of 1988 Olympic Ice Dance Champion Andrei Bukin. Stepanova names two-time World Champions Albena Denkova/Maxim Staviski (BUL) and Ekaterina Rubleva/Ivan Shefer (RUS) as her idols in skating. Bukin looks up to Natalia Bestemianova/Andrei Bukin and his mother Elena Vasiuk, who also is an ice dancer.

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