Julia Lautowa: biography and personal life

Julia Lautowa - known figure skater of Russian origin, speaking for the team of Austria. Dancing in singles. At the moment, she completed a professional career.

Biography skater

Julia Lautowa was born in Moscow in 1981. Up to 12 years lived in the capital, it is here that start skating. Initially trained in the USSR Honored coach Helena Tchaikovsky. Later he moved to the two-time champion of the USSR Marina Kudryavtseva, who raised and Elena Sokolova, Alexander Uspensky, Ivan Barieva. Later she worked with her throughout his sports career.

Soon after the Soviet Union's parents Julia decide to move abroad. With 12 years Julia Lautowa lives in Austria. In the future, I start to play for the team of this country. At the same time he did not change his coach and most of the training takes place in Moscow, Marina Kudryavtseva.

In the Austrian championship

Already at the age of 13 Julia Lautowa won the Austrian championship in Klagenfurt in the women's figure skating. She suddenly becomes the leader of the national team. Successfully participates in international competitions.

During her career she won the Austrian Championship for 5 times - in 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Competition in that time she could only make Andrea Kus, Yubili Yenna Mandl and Anna Wenzel.

The Olympic Games in Nagano,

In 1998, Julia Lautowa, photo which at that time most decorated Austrian sports publications, seeks to participate in the Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan. For the Austrian national team is a great success, athletes from this country rarely get on the biggest sports forum in figure skating. Although medal Lautova not initially expected. In the competition was attended by all 28 athletes. Moreover, 4 of them were selected in an arbitrary program. This stage was successfully Julia Lautowa. Skater in the short program showed the result of 21, but in an arbitrary acted much better, finishing in 13th place. In the final table Lautova was on the 14th row.

Performance in this tournament it has brought itself into an asset. She managed to surpass such famous athletes as Hungarian skater Júlia Sebestyén, Azerbaijani Yulia Vorobyova, American Nicole Bobek, French Leticia Hubert and Alice Finn Dray.

Victory at the Olympics in the women's figure skating won American Tara Lipinski, also medals were won by another representative of the United States Michelle Kwan and Chinese Chen Lu.

Lautova at the world championships

Julia Lautowa whose biography throughout his career has been linked with figure skating, has represented Austria at the world championships.

For the first time at the world championship she came in 1995. The tournament was held in the English Birmingham. Young skater was only 14 years old.

Lautova able to successfully qualify for the performance in the short program, but in the arbitrary is no longer hit. As a result, content with 27th place. Victory then gained Chinese Chen Lu.

The next time at the world championships she was two years later, 1997. This time the competition took place in Lausanne, Switzerland. And with a short and free program she performed. And with quite good results. Lautova became 11th in the short program and took the sixth place in any speech. As summarized in Table Austrian skater located on the eighth line. It was her best performance at the World Figure Skating Championships. Win in 1997, he won the American Tara Lipinski. During his career Lautova participated in the world championships 4 more times. In 1999 in the Finnish capital Helsinki has become only 22 in the short program, barely getting the right to come up with any program. But the final performance worked much better - 15th place in the final table.

In 2002, the Japanese Nagano took only 17th place in their qualifying group and did not get even in the short program. In 2003 in the US capital Washington again became the 15th, the 12th showing the result in the free dance. In 2004, Dortmund, Germany has shown 25-th result after the short program and do not arbitrarily selected.

International tournaments

For many years he Lautova regularly represented Austria at the largest international figure skating tournament.

6 times participated in the World Junior Championships. The best result achieved in 1997 in the South Korean Seoul. He ranked third in the long program, which is always better than she could. But failed previous performances allowed her to take only six final place.

Also in 1997 he participated in the European Youth Olympic Festival in the Swedish Sundsvall, which has managed to win a silver medal.

8 times participated in the European championships, twice taking the 8th place. Twice won the annual open tournament on figure skating in Austria - Karl Schäfer Memorial, won silver and bronze medals at the Memorial of Ondrej Nepela in Slovakia.

She has performed on the stages of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Most successful for her turned Rostelecom Cup, which was held in 1996 in St. Petersburg. Lautova became the second, second only to Russian Irina Slutskaya.

Life

Figure skater has completed his career in 2004. The marriage was not as successful as in sports, Julia Lautowa. Personal life athletes did not work. Her husband was a Roman Kostomarov, Russian figure skater, speaking in ice dance with Tatiana Navka.

Kostomarov - Olympic champion. Victory paired with Tatiana Navka he won in Turin in 2006.

With Lautova he played a wedding in 2004. In 2007, shortly after the Olympic Games, they divorced. In the world of figure skating, he had the reputation of a drunkard, a womanizer and brawler. Apparently, it is infidelity caused his separation from the Austrian skater.

After returning to her former husband, Lautova moved to the United States, where he began his coaching career. After that, Kostomarov for 7 years he lived in a civil marriage with another skater - Oksana Domnina. Only in 2014 they were married.

Lautova second time married did not come out. Currently she continues to live and work in figure skating in the United States. She is 35 years old.