Sergei Starkin to coach Aliya Mustafina

 Russian newspaper rsport.ru informs us that the Russian Ministry of Sport has announced the nominee for the sports national awards for the 2012-2013 season. 

Gymnastics is represented by Aliya Mustafina who is nominee as the best female athlete along with the athlete Yelena Isinbayeva, the skater Tatiana Volosozhar, snowboarder Ekaterina Tudegesheva and swimmer Yuliya Efimova. The winners were chosen on December the 16^th

Aliya Mustafina is now having treatment in Munich. We came to understand that Aliya now has a personal coach, not just a personal coach but one of Russia’s best coaches, Sergei Starkin.

Sergei is well known as he coached World Champion Denis Ablyazin and many other Men Artistic Gymnasts on the National Team.

Sometime we would wonder   'can a men's coach train a female gymnast?' In 2001 he coached Olga Ugarnova, who won gold with the Russian team in 2001 Universiad.

Alexandrov great coach to many champions including Aliya. He coached the1983 and 1987 World Champion, Dimitri Bilozerchev.

Well good luck to Aliya and Sergei as they continue work together.