Honored Master of Sports Adelina Sotnikova, champion of the Sochi Olympics and junior competitions, is one of the most recognizable athletes in our country. The beautiful brown-haired woman is rightfully considered the star of ice shows, dreams of returning to sports, simultaneously participating in candid photo shoots in lingerie and a swimsuit for Playboy magazine.
short biography
Adeline Sotnikova (photo in a swimsuit given below in the article) - international master of sports, 4-time champion of Russia, medalist of European competitions and the first Russian woman to win a gold medal in women's single figure skating, was born in July 1996, in Moscow, 2 months earlier due date.
From the age of 4, the sickly girl, in order to improve her health, was sent to figure skating, first to Anna Patrikeeva, and then transferred to CSKA to Irina Goncharenko. The future champion took her first steps at the Penguin (Yuzhny) skating rink in Biryulyovo. The girl decided to try her luck in rhythmic gymnastics, but after consulting with her parents, she chose ice.
Elena (Vodorezova) Buneeva became the third coach of Adelina, under whose leadership the girl was able to achieve previously unthinkable successes for Russian women in figure skating.
From childhood, Sotnikova was distinguished by her docile character and fearlessness, which helped her get into a student with a famous coach. Under the guidance of Vodorezova, the girl constantly improved her skating, making the program as difficult as possible with spins of the fourth difficulty level and triple jumps.
In 2008, Adelina first took part in large competitions and became the 1st in the Russian championship, for the first time combining 2 complex cascades in one program. The victory brings the girl the title of "prodigy figure skater" and the recognition of the coach, whose record Adeline was able to repeat.
Unlike her coach Elena Germanovna, due to her age, Sotnikova could not immediately participate in adult competitions. A year of success is followed by a sharp decline, but Vodorezova does not allow the girl to give up, and in 2010.
Sotnikova wins the Grand Prix championship in Austria, losing 0.27 points before setting a new world record.
In the same year, Adelina rises to the top of the podium in the international world championship among juniors. In 2012 and 2013. the figure skater becomes the silver medalist of the European Championship, losing the championship to Yulia Lipnitskaya, and receives the title of "Master of Sports of International Class".
2014 was a triumphant year for Sotnikova. For the first time in the history of the Soviet Union and Russia, an athlete was able to win Olympic gold in women's single skating. Before that, the national team had only silver and bronze medals by Irina Slutskaya. Having fallen unsuccessfully during training, Adeline suffers an ankle injury and is forced to take a break from her career.
After recovering from the operation, the girl tries to join the ranks of professional athletes, but an old injury forces her to miss the competition.
Having temporarily gone professional, Sotnikova is actively involved in television projects:
- In 2014, the Sotnikova-Savchenko pair became the second in the ice show "Dancing on Ice";
- In 2016, Adeline won the Ice Age together with A. Sokolovsky.
Having again tried to return to the sport, Sotnikova is faced with a number of setbacks, decides to change the coach, leaving for E. Plushenko. Now the girl is actively training, complicates the program and dreams of repeating her success at the upcoming international competitions. After the Olympics, Adelina entered the correspondence course at the Russian State University of Physical Culture, which she successfully completed, receiving a coach diploma.
The girl carefully hides her personal life, answering the persistent questions of journalists with a phrase that romantic relationships should not be publicly advertised. Earlier in the press, Adeline was credited with an affair with M. Kovtun, but young people denied the love affair, repeatedly stating that they were just colleagues and friends.
In 2016, it became known that Adeline was dating A. Molochko, but the relationship of the lovers did not last long and broke up after the betrayal of the young man. Since 2018, Adeline has several times published photos of her hand on Instagram, allegedly showing fans a wedding ring, but whether the skater got married and who became her chosen one is carefully hidden.
Sotnikova loves and appreciates her family very much, she always speaks kindly about her parents and younger sister. According to the skater, the mother and father dedicated their lives to their daughters. The younger sister Maria has been suffering from a severe genetic pathology since birth, causing deformation of the bones of the face and skull. The figure skater loves her very much, pays for treatment and helps in rehabilitation.
Sports achivments
Adelina Sotnikova (a photo in a 2019 swimsuit, exhibited by a figure skater on Instagram, caused a lot of negative feedback from fans) is a 4-time champion of Russia and a multiple winner of international competitions.
In 2012, the girl won gold for the first time at the national championship, but could not get to the European championship because of her age, because according to the rules at the time of the start of the championship, she was not 15 years old.
Junior olympics
The girl who won the Grand Prix bronze a year earlier is included in the Russian national team, which represents the country in the 1st Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck. Before the start, the skater in her interview with Sport Express told that she practically did not worry and felt confident.
Sotnikova knew her rivals, prepared a complex program that included a cascade of a triple sheepskin coat and a triple ritberger, and her task was simple - to skate cleanly. Coming out on the ice, Adelina coped with her task and won silver in women's single skating, receiving a total of 159.08 points and losing gold (and 14, 02 points) to her compatriot Elizaveta Tuktamysheva.
Sochi Olympics
Having become the champion of Russia for the second time, Sotnikova promised the President of the country V.V. Putin to win gold in Sochi and kept his promise. Adelina began the Olympic season with silver at the European Championship, losing gold to the “Nadezhda of Russia” to the miracle child Yulia Lipnitskaya.
Sotnikova was not announced to participate in the team championship at the Sochi Olympics. In the competition, all eyes were on the "girl in a red coat" Lepnitskaya, who was considered the triumph of the Olympic season ahead of schedule.
Adeline took to the ice in the singles competition and after a short program staged to the music of J. Bizet “Carmen”, she was second, yielding to the athlete from South Korea, Kim Yem 0.25 points. During a free skate, Adeline makes mistakes when performing a cascade, but she does spins of the 4th difficulty level, triple jumps, a cascade and gets the highest marks.
The romantic "Rondo Capricciose" by Sotnikova was appreciated by the jury, and by the sum of points brought the girl to the highest step of the podium, making her the first Russian figure skater to win gold in single figure skating at the Olympic Games. Before Sotnikova's triumph, only Irina Slutskaya could boast of a silver and bronze medal at the Olympics.
The South Korean Figure Skating Federation tried to challenge Sotnikova's leadership, but was refused by the International Committee, since the program performed by the Russian figure skater was much more difficult than her competitor.
Appearance, figure parameters
Adelina Sotnikova (a photo in a swimsuit and underwear of the girl was published by Playboy magazine) won the Olympic Games as a miniature brown-eyed brown-haired woman with a slender boy-like figure and long legs.
Skater parameters:
| Growth | 163 cm |
| Weight | 52 kg |
| Chest | 76 cm |
| Waist | 58 cm |
| Hips | 81 cm |
| Bust | 1st size |
Olympic gold and the popularity that followed the victory changed the girl a lot. Adeline abandoned the usual sports style, jeans and sweatshirts, replacing them with long dresses and heels. The skater blames her age and friends for changing her wardrobe, who have repeatedly argued that she lacks femininity.
After returning from an injury to big sports and failing at the 2017 European Championships, Adeline decided to fight depression by a radical change in her image. The girl cut her long hair and dyed her hair blonde. The star's loyal fans enthusiastically accepted the change, but most fans reacted negatively to the change in the figure skater's image.
Comments have repeatedly surfaced on the network urging Sotnikova to return to her usual style, since short hair and a light shade of a square visually add extra age to a 22-year-old beauty.
Adeline is distinguished by the thinness characteristic of all athletes. Teenage body parameters are caused by the need, which requires skaters to adhere to a strict diet. Extra pounds prevent you from making difficult jumps, and also increase the load on the joints, provoking severe health problems.
Did you do plastic
Adelina Sotnikova (the girl tries not to post a photo in a swimsuit on social networks, protecting her right to privacy) never resorted to plastic surgery. The athlete is calm about the medical correction of her appearance, but she believes that she does not need such operations yet.
Sports activities, a high pace of life and a strict diet help a girl to maintain her slimness, and proper skin care allows her to look good.
Adeline constantly performs the following procedures:
- Cleansing procedures. Sotnikova tries to wash off makeup without fail and does fruit peeling 1-2 times a week to remove dead skin cells.
- Moisturizing the skin. Every morning and evening, the skater applies a moisturizing serum and cream to her face, and once a week she applies a special mask to help saturate the tissue with moisture.
- Relaxing massage, relieves fatigue and makes it possible to recover from heavy physical exertion.
In everyday life, Adeline tries to put on a minimum of makeup, using a lot of makeup just before performances or during filming. Following the example of Hollywood stars, in the summer she does not leave the house without sunglasses. The girl is not afraid of the intrusive attention of fans, but simply seeks to protect the skin and eyes from premature aging.
The 22-year-old athlete is in great, natural shape, continues to train, hoping to repeat the success of 2014.
How I lost weight
Adelina Sotnikova is forced to adhere to a very strict diet. Figure skating requires athletes to have a teenage figure, long legs and low weight, since a large body weight interferes with jumping and creates additional stress on the joints.
In the family of Adelina, everyone is prone to being overweight and the girl has to adhere to a very strict diet, mainly consisting of boiled vegetables that her mother prepares for her. The choreographer of the national team is able to see an increase in weight even by 500 g, so the girl tries to eat very little.A couple of times a week, Adeline makes herself hungry days, during which she drinks only water.
The skater is completely forbidden to eat sweets and pastries. In her interview, the girl admitted that her cherished dream is a piece of cake, which she cannot afford due to the high calorie content of the product. In training, next to Adeline, there is always a personal doctor who helps the girl and monitors her health.
A blood test is taken from the athlete at least 1 time a week, which makes it possible to judge whether her body is receiving enough nutrients.
Despite the strict restrictions, Sotnikova assures that it is very easy for her to observe minimalism in food. Since childhood, the figure skater was more than indifferent to high-calorie food, and her favorite dish is boiled carrots, which she absorbs with no less pleasure than sweets.
Adelina Sotnikova now
Adelina Sotnikova, after winning the Olympic Games, has acquired many fans. The popularity of the star has increased several times after performing in ice shows and subsequent photo shoots in lingerie and swimwear, made for Playboy magazine.
Despite the stormy life, since 2016, Adeline has been persistently trying to return to big sport, but so far she has not succeeded. At the 2016 Russian Championship, Sotnikova became only 6th, and in the spring of 2017, the girl changed her coach, giving preference to the Olympic champion E. Plushenko. Under his leadership, Sotnikova persistently trains and complicates her program.
The world famous coach of champions T. Tarasova, who had previously helped Sotnikova pay for the treatment of her sick sister, repeatedly stated that it was time for Adeline to stop unsuccessful attempts and end her career, and not follow the example of her current coach, who could not leave the big sport at the peak of fame.
Figure skating experts constantly declare that in modern women's figure skating, teenage athletes stubbornly take the lead, and the figure skater who has reached the age of 20 almost automatically becomes a professional.
According to Tarasova, Sotnikova can never keep up with A. Zagitova and E. Medvedeva, so you just need to go into the shadows, take up a coaching career or continue participating in ice shows as a professional. In response to the offensive words, Adeline uploads photos from her workouts to Instragram.
Adelina Plushenko's coach confidently states that the failures that followed Sotnikova in sports are echoes of a serious ankle injury and subsequent surgery that followed in 2018.
The figure skater consistently demonstrates excellent physical shape and her own confidence in her ability to compete with the leaders of figure skating.
Adelina herself, in her interviews with reporters, informs that in the future she will definitely become a coach, and even graduated from the correspondence department of the Russian State University of Physical Culture in this specialty, but now she is forced to return to sports in order to pay for the expensive treatment of her younger sister, who suffers from a rare genetic disease - Treacher's syndrome -Collins.
In addition to coaching, Adelina plans to shoot a movie and participate in ice shows. In 2018, Sotnikova accepted invitations and starred for the spread of the Russian Playboy magazine. The skater's pictures were highly appreciated by the fans, and the star herself said that she was ready to take maximum opportunities from life.
The first Russian athlete to become the gold medalist of the Olympic Games among women singles, Adelina Sotnikova, is planning to return to sports, to act in films and train young children, and is also determined to seduce men, showing her body in swimsuits and underwear in photographs prepared for reversals Playboy.
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