Everyone who watched the film “Ice” (2017) is well aware that the actress Aglaya Tarasova, who played the role of the figure skater Nadezhda, could not have performed all the tricks herself and, in general, skated so beautifully and confidently. However, not everyone knows that her understudy was the famous skater Katarina Herboldt.
She not only performed complex figures for Aglaya, but also taught the actress to confidently skate for several months. Therefore, her contribution is that this film has become so popular.
The skater herself became famous after she began performing in various shows. She shone in “Ruslan and Ludmila” by Tatyana Navka, “The Snow King” by Evgeni Plushenko and others. Recently, skaters have become frequent guests during the performances of the stars, and Katarina was no exception: she adorned the concerts of Elena Vaenga, Svetlana Loboda.
Herboldt even tried her hand at sports commenting - she told the audience about figure skating tournaments.
Biography
Katarina Alexandrovna Herboldt was born in Leningrad in 1989. As a little girl, she came to the rink and fell in love with figure skating. She managed to combine her studies at school and training, because from childhood she was very purposeful.
Subsequently, this quality helped her become a Master of Sports of the international class and the Champion of Russia among juniors.
Skater career
At first, Katarina performed in single skating, and then decided to switch to doubles. Since 2010, she skated with partner Alexander Enbert, and this continued until 2014. Once in training, she was seriously injured and missed a whole season because of this. Her partner did not want to wait for recovery and began to dance with another partner. This was a big hit for the skater.
After the restoration, Herboldt announced that she would now perform with the Frenchman Jean-Sieber. However, after the couple danced in the show "The Snow King", Giber retreated. Katarina had high hopes for this union - it was like a second wind to her, but her dreams did not come true.
After that, Katarina still made training attempts with other partners, but then decided to end her career and do something else.
While she was thinking what sphere of activity to direct her attention to, Svetlana Sokolovskaya, who was her mentor, intervened in her fate. She persuaded Katarina to go on a coaching job. So the figure skater found herself in Moscow and became a coach. At first, she doubted that she had chosen the right profession for herself, but then she realized that this was exactly what she wanted: to teach children how to skate, to take their first steps in figure skating. And who knows - maybe the future Olympic champions are already skating among them now? After all, this is real creativity - to educate a good skater.
