An Aussie in Moscow
August 16, 2008

Article by J. Barry Mittan

It's not often that you see a skater from Australia in the top ten at an ISU championship but Sydney-born Jonathan Guerreiro was in that elite group at the 2008 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with his partner, Ekaterina Riazanova, both 17. And they were competing for Russia!

The couple finished sixth at Junior Worlds, capping a successful season in which they won a bronze medal at Russian Nationals, silver medals at the ISU Junior Grand Prixs in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania and Chemnitz, Germany and placed eighth at the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final. In their first season in 2006-07, the dancers placed fifth in Russia, fourth at the Golden Lynx and ninth at the Harghita Cup.

The unusual pairing was possible because Guerreiro has dual-citizenship for both Russia and Australia. His mother, Svetlana Liapina, is Russian. She won a bronze medal in ice dancing at World Juniors in 1984 with Gorsha Sur and a silver the following year. His father is from Portugal and was a tour manager for Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean for over eight years.

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