Background
She is the daughter of Bulgarian immigrants and speaks Bulgarian fluently. Their daughter, Audriana, was born in May 2012.
professional figure skater Olympic athlete
She is the daughter of Bulgarian immigrants and speaks Bulgarian fluently. Their daughter, Audriana, was born in May 2012.
Nikodinov began skating at about the age of five. She trained in Lake Arrowhead, California. Nikodinov trained in Detroit during the 1999-2000 season.
Originally an alternate for the 2000 Worlds, she received the assignment after Sasha Cohen finished 6th at Junior Worlds and thus failed to meet the requirement for an age loophole.
Nikodinov finished 9th at the event. Nikodinov moved back to California in fall 2000 due to homesickness.
She withdrew from the 2001 Goodwill Games due to blurred vision in her left eye caused by viral conjunctivitis. Her coach, Elena Tcherkasskaia, with whom she was very close, died of pancreatic cancer in November 2001.
She placed 5th in her third appearance at the World Nikodinov missed the entire 2002-2003 season.
She dislocated her shoulder in February 2002 and again in September, and then had a virus which sapped her strength. She withdrew from the United States. Championships after the short program She had shoulder surgery in February 2003 and was off the ice for seven months.
While in Portland, Oregon, for the 2005 United States. National Championships, she and her family were involved in a car accident that killed her mother.
Nikodinov did not return to competition following the accident. During her career, her coaches included John Nicks, Peter Oppegard, Frank Carroll, Elena Tcherkasskaia, Richard Callaghan.
Choreographers, Anastasiya Sharenkova, Lori Nichol, Nikolai Morozov. Nikodinov coached Bulgarian figure skater Ivan Dinev in the 2005-2006 season.
As of 2014, she is the skating director at the Skating Edge in Harbor City, California and coaches alongside Dinev.
She occasionally skates in shows and was a guest skater on the Stars on Ice tour. The pairs team of Bianca Butler / Joseph Jacobsen and Tenile Victorsen are among her and Dinev"s former students that have qualified for the United States. Figure Skating Championships at the senior level General Practice: Grand Prix.