Katerina Tikhonova

The 30-year-old is a top Russian acrobatic rock'n'roll dancer, a vice president at the World Rock'n'Roll Confederation (WRRC), and also a senior official in the sport's national federation, chairing its international committee and committee for Russian regional development. Her former dance coach heads the Moscow City Khamovniki state sports and dance school. Tikhonova and her dance partner Dmitry Alekseev are currently ranked 11th in the world and sixth in Russia after taking second place at the national championships in Saint Petersburg in November. She has competed for the Khamovniki school multiple times, competition records show, representing the school until at least 2014 before moving to join the Moscow Rock Comets club in 2015. The records also show Tikhonova was trained by the school's director and Russian national team coach Tatyana Bystrova, who sits on both the committees she heads at the Russian Federation of Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll.