Background
Pavel Igorevich Drozd was born 14 December 1995 in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Early years
Early in his career, Drozd trained in Saint St. Petersburg and partnered with Anastasia Safronova from around 2008 to 2010. He then moved to Moscow and skated with Valeria Podlazova for two seasons. Partnership with Loboda
In 2012, Drozd teamed up with Alla Loboda.
Coached by Ksenia Rumiantseva and Ekaterina Volobueva in Moscow, they placed 11th at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships.
They finished fifth at the 2014 Russian Junior Championships. Loboda/Drozd"s first assignment of the 2014-2015 JGP season was in Courchevel, France.
Loboda/Drozd took silver in Aichi, Japan, finishing second to Edwards/Pang by 0.44 points. On February 5-7, Loboda/Drozd finished 4th at the 2015 Russian Junior Championships, they were not selected as Russia"s entry list to compete for the 2015 World Junior Championships.
Loboda/Drozd started the 2015-2016 JGP season by taking silver at their first JGP event in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Achievements
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With partner Alla Loboda, he is the 2016 World Junior bronze medalist, a two-time JGP Final silver medalist (2014-2015, 2015-2016), and the 2016 Russian junior national champion. Loboda/Drozd debuted on the International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix series in the 2013-2014 season, obtaining bronze medals in Riga, Latvia and Gdańsk, Poland. Ranked second in the short dance and first in the free dance, they won the gold medal by a margin of 2.82 points over Canada"s Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang. Loboda/Drozd qualified for the JGP Final in Barcelona where they won the silver medal behind teammates Anna Yanovskaya / Sergei Mozgov. Loboda/Drozd"s second assignment of the season was Linz, Austria where they won gold. These results qualified them for the 2015-2016 JGP Final where they won the silver medal with a total of 150.86 behind Americans Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter. On January 21-23, Loboda/Drozd competed at the 2016 Russian Junior Championships and won their first junior national title.
