Aliona Savchenko

Aliona SAVCHENKO
Date of birth: 19.01.1984
Place of birth:  Kiev Ukraine
Height: 152 cm
Home town: Chemnitz  
Profession: student  
Hobbies: costume design, reading, music  
Start skating. / Club:  1989 / Chemnitzer EC  
Former Partners Dmitri Boenko, Stanislav Morozov

Aliona Savchenko, born 19 January 1984 in Kiev, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union is a German-Ukrainian pair skater. With partner Robin Szolkowy, Aliona Savchenko is a three-time (2008, 2009, 2011) World Champion, the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, a four-time (2007–2009, 2011) European Champion, the 2007–08 and 2010–11 Grand Prix Final Champion, and a seven-time (2004–2009, 2011) German National Champion.

With former partner Stanislav Morozov, Aliona Savchenko won the 2000 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and was the 2000 & 2001 Ukrainian Champion. They represented Ukraine at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where they placed 15th.

Savchenko & Szolkowy scored the first 10.0 ever given by a judge under the ISU Judging System.
As of May 2011, they are ranked 1st in the world by the International Skating Union (ISU).