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Yuriy Kocherzhenko (born September 9, 1979) is a former competitive ice dancer. Along with Alla Beknazarova, he is the 2001 Karl Schäfer Memorial bronze medalist and 2001 Ukrainian national champion. Their best ISU Championship result, fourth, came at the 2001 World Junior Championships.

Career

Kocherzhenko and Tetyana Kurkudym began competing together internationally in 1995. In the 1998–99 season, they medaled at their ISU Junior Grand Prix assignments, taking gold in France and bronze in Germany, and placed fifth at the 1999 World Junior Championships, held in Zagreb in November 1998. In the second half of the season, they competed on the senior level at the 1999 World Championships in Helsinki. They were coached by Yulia Moskalska and then Alexander Tumanovsky.

Kocherzhenko teamed up with Alla Beknazarova in late 1999 or early 2000. They were sent to the 2000 World Junior Championships, held in March in Oberstdorf, and finished 18th. In the 2000–01 season, Beknazarova/Kocherzhenko won gold at two JGP events and qualified for the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final, where they placed fourth. They also finished fourth at the 2001 World Junior Championships in Sofia. They won one senior international medal, bronze at the 2001 Karl Schäfer Memorial, and competed at two senior Grand Prix events and two senior ISU Championships. Their partnership ended in 2003.

Kocherzhenko moved to the United States and works as a skating coach in Santa Monica, California.

Programs

With Beknazarova

With Kurkudym

Results

With Beknazarova

With Kurkudym

Notes

1. Ukrainian: Юрій Кочерженко, romanized: Yurii Kocherzhenko

References

1. ^ "2013 - 2014 Coach/Instructor Compliance" (PDF). U.S. Figure Skating. 25 April 2014. p. 151. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
2. Коротко / СПОРТ [Sports in brief] (in Ukrainian). day.kyiv.ua. 3 September 1998.
3. ^ "KURKUDYM Tatiana / KOCHERZHENKO Juri". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 17 June 2014.
4. "1998 JGP St. Gervais". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
5. "1998 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
6. ^ "Alla BEKNAZAROVA / Juri KOCHERZHENKO: 2002/2003". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 19 October 2003.
7. ^ "Alla BEKNAZAROVA / Juri KOCHERZHENKO: 2001/2002". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2 June 2002.
8. ^ "Alla BEKNAZAROVA / Juri KOCHERZHENKO: 2000/2001". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 28 April 2001.

External links

• Alla Beknazarova / Yuriy Kocherzhenko at the International Skating Union

• Ukrainian male ice dancers
• 1979 births
• Living people
• Figure skaters from Odesa
• Ukrainian emigrants to the United States
• Competitors at the 2003 Winter Universiade