Best of Pole: Olena Minina (Pole Art, 2016)
ABOUT OLENA MININA
Born in 1992 in Kiev, Ukraine, Olena Minina started her career at the age of 3 with sport gymnastics. The result of more than 10 years hard trainings are some national titles and Candidate Master of Sport degree.
After she broke off with gymnastics, Olena found herself in figure skating and acrobatics on ice skates and rollerblades. For the next period of life she performed in the shows and small art projects as a skater.
Much later Olena visited her first lesson in the dance class. It became a new passion in a short time. She had tried a lot of dance styles ( Jazz-Funk, Jazz Modern, Broadway Jazz, Hip-Hop... ) before she visited her first Pole Dance lesson in 2012.
As Olena had a very good background it wasn't too difficult to master pole and started to create her own combos using acrobatic and dance base. In 2 months Olena performed first time on the stage as a pole dancer and became a pole dance instructor in Kiev, Ukraine.
OLENA'S AWARDS
finalist of Pole Art Championship 2013 in Kiev, Ukraine;
winner of Ukrainian Pole Sport Championship 2014 (Kiev, Ukraine);
2nd place on International Pole Dance Championship 2014 on Arnold Classic Europe (Madrid, Spain);
finalist of International Pole Sport Championship 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation;
finalist of Pole Art Cyprus 2014 (Cyprus, Limassol);
winner of Ukrainian Pole Sport Championship 2015 (Kiev, Ukraine);
-competitor on World Pole Sport Championship 2015 (London, United Kingdom);
-3rd place on Pole Art Spain 2015 (Palma de Mallorca, Spain);
-winner of Pole Art Cyprus 2015 (Cyprus, Limassol);
-2nd place on International Pole Performance 2015 (Kiev, Ukraine);
-2nd place on Ukrainian Pole Sport Championship (regionals competition of central region, Kiev, Ukraine);
-finalist of Pole Theatre Paris 2016 Pro Drama Category (Paris, France);
-finalist of Pole Art Italy 2016 (Milano, Italy);
-winner of Ukrainian Pole Sport Championship 2016 (Kiev, Ukraine);
-Best Performance Award on Exotic Stripper Style Pole Dance 2016 2016 (Odessa, Ukraine);
-2nd place on Pole Art France 2016 (Bordeaux, France);
-2nd place on International Pole Art Festival Competition 2016 (Lisbon, Portugal);
-finalist of World Pole Sport Championship 2016 (London, UK);
-1st runner up on World Pole Dance 2016 (Bucharest, Romania);
-winner of Pole Art Spain 2016 (Palma-de-Mallorca);
-finalist of Pole Art Cyprus 2016 Stars Category (Limassol, Cyprus);
-3rd place on IPSAF World Championship Pole Sport 2016 (Florence, Italy);
-finalist of IPSAF World Pole Art Championship 2017 (Torino, Italy);
-winner of IPSAF European Pole Sport Championship 2017 (Budapest, Hungary);
-finalist of Pole Art Greece 2017 (Athens, Greece);
-3rd place on POSA World Pole Sport Championship 2017 (Vaduz, Liechtenstein);
-winner of POSA World Pole Art Championship 2018 (Turin, Italy);
-1st runner-up on World Pole Dance 2018 (Tianjin, China);
-winner of POSA World Pole Sport Winter Cup 2018 (Castelletto sopranos Ticino, Italy);
-2nd place on CSIT World Games 2019 (Tortosa, Spain);
-finalist of Pole Emotion 2019 in Exotic Supreme (Latvia, Riga);
-3rd place on POSA World Pole Sport Championship 2019 (Hameenlinna, Finland)
