Alisa Agafonova
Alisa Alexandrovna Agafonova (married name: Besseghier, Ukrainian: Аліса Олександрівна Агафо́нова, born 15 January 1991) is a former competitive ice dancer. She is best known for her partnership with Alper Uçar. Representing Turkey, they competed at two Winter Olympics (2014 and 2018) and won eight international medals, including silver at the 2011 Winter Universiade and three medals on the ISU Challenger Series. They skated in the final segment at six European Championships and four World Championships.
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Agafonova/Uçar in 2018. | |||||||||||||||
| Full name | Alisa Alexandrovna Agafonova | ||||||||||||||
| Native name | Аліса Олександрівна Агафо́нова | ||||||||||||||
| Other names | Alisa Besseghier | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 January 1991 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Turkey | ||||||||||||||
| Partner | Alper Uçar, Dmitri Dun | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Anjelika Krylova, Pasquale Camerlengo, Alexander Zhulin, Oleg Volkov, Natalia Dubova, Oleg Voyko, Alexander Gorshkov, Svetlana Chernikova, Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva, Valeri Egorov, Halyna Churylova, Valeriy Barats | ||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Detroit SC Kolos Kharkov | ||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 1997 | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | 25 March 2018 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Competing with Dmitri Dun for Ukraine, Agafonova won five medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and placed as high as 7th at the World Junior Championships (2008).
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