Alena Kostornaia

Alena Kostornaia
Kostornaia during the short program at the 2019 Internationaux de France
Personal information
Native name
Алёна Сергеевна Косторная (Russian)
Full nameAlena Sergeevna Kostornaia
Other namesAliona or Alyona Kostornaya
Born (2003-08-24) 24 August 2003
Moscow, Russia
Height1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Figure skating career
Country Russia
PartnerGeorgy Kunitsa
CoachEvgeni Plushenko
Skating clubCSKA
Began skating2007
Medal record
Representing  Russia
Figure skating: Ladies' singles
European Championships
2020 Graz Ladies' singles
Grand Prix Final
2019–20 Torino Ladies' singles
Russian Championships
2020 Krasnoyarsk Women's singles
2018 Saint Petersburg Women's singles
2019 Saransk Women's singles
World Junior Championships
2018 Sofia Ladies' singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
2018–19 Vancouver Ladies' singles
2017–18 Nagoya Ladies' singles

Aliona Sergeevna Kostornaia (Russian: Алёна Сергеевна Косторная; born 24 August 2003) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2020 European champion, the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final champion, a six-time Grand Prix medalist (including gold at the 2019 Internationaux de France and the 2019 NHK Trophy), and the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy champion. Competing domestically, she is a three-time Russian senior national medalist (silver 2020, bronze 2018 and 2019). She previously held the world record for the highest senior short program score in women's skating.

At the junior level, Kostornaia is the 2018 Junior World silver medalist, the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, the 2017–18 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and a two-time Russian junior national silver medalist (2018, 2019). She currently holds the world record for the highest junior short program score in women's skating.

Kostornaia is the tenth woman in history to have landed the triple Axel jump in a senior international competition. Kostornaia is the third woman after teammate Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Rika Kihira of Japan to attempt and land the maximum number of triple jumps allowed in one senior international competition: four in the short program and eight in the free skate (see Zayak rule). She first accomplished this at the 2019 Internationaux de France, and later landed all twelve triples cleanly at the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final.