Rožin Aleksandar was a Croatian citizen from 1998., born in Latvia 03.10.1941. He finished the university of physical culture in Svrdlovski, and worked as a teacher of physical culture until 1982. He has been working with skaters for the last 43 years.
Since 1962. he's been training skating pairs, male and female skaters, first in Russia, and from 1990. in Croatia. His best accomplishments are the raising of Russian champions in sports pairs and junior champions of the world Vjeronika Persin, Marak Agbavov, Juri Kvasnjin, champions of Ukraine, world's silver sports pairs Irina Mironjinko, Dimitri Sticenko, Svjetlana Pristav. In Croatia he has coached Tomislav and Željka Čižmešija, Ivana Jakupčević and Idora Hegel. For the past 10 years Rožin Aleksandar makes club and state champions. He was state champion in every club where he coached.
Oksana Gorbačov started to skate at the age of 5. One of her first coaches was Aleksandar Rožin. In 1980. she started to attend school "Olimpijske Rezerve" in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, and skate in USSR's junior team. Then she switches to sports pairs and passes through the school of Mr. Moskvinoj. After her injury she returns to single skating and again enters USSR's national team, but because of her injury T. Rožina puts her into dance pairs. She changed many partners to end up in the school of N. Linichuk and G. Korponosov in Moscow. She was second in pair on the World Championships, but because of her injury she wasn't able to continue skating.
From 1986. she starts to work as a coach-choreographer, and has worked with, among others, O. Bajul and T. Navka. In 1991. she was invited to Croatia to work as a choreographer. Since then she has worked with Tomislav and Željka Čižmešija, Ivana Jakupčević and Idora Hegel. She has also done a lot of work for Slovenia (made programs for Mojca Kopač). At the moment she works in Croatia.
