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Yuri Vladimirovich Vlasenko was born on 20 November 1994 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Vlasenko began competing with Betina Popova in 2009. The two are coached by Ksenia Rumiantseva and Ekaterina Zhurina at the Sambo-70 club in Moscow. Popova/Vlasenko"s international debut came at the 2011 North Rhine-Westphalia Trophy.
They placed 7th at the Russian Junior Championships in the 2012-2013 season.
Popova/Vlasenko made their International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix debut in the 2013-2014 season. Their results qualified them for the JGP Final in Fukuoka, Japan, where they placed fourth.
After taking the bronze medal at the 2014 Russian Junior Championships, the two were assigned to the 2014 World Junior Championships and finished seventh in Sofia, Bulgaria. Popova/Vlasenko"s first assignment of the 2014-2015 JGP season was in Ostrava, Czechoslovakian Republic.
Ranked second in the short dance and fourth in the free dance, they finished second to Canada"s Mackenzie Bent / Garrett MacKeen by a margin of 6.75 points.
Popova/Vlasenko were awarded gold in Dresden, Germany after placing first in both segments and outscoring Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter of the United States by 7.96 points. The two finished 11th at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. Competing in the 2015-2016 JGP series, Popova/Vlasenko outscored Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron of France by 7.3 points for the gold in Riga, Latvia.
They took silver at their JGP assignment in Logroño, Spain – finishing second to another French team, Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac, by a margin of 1.78 points – and qualified for their third JGP Final.
At the final, held in December in Barcelona, Popova/Vlasenko finished fourth, having scored 0.45 less than the bronze medalists, Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons of the United States. After taking silver behind Loboda/Drozd at the Russian Junior Championships, they were assigned to the World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.
(with Popova).
