A Celebration of His Life & Legacy
One year has passed since the world learned of the tragic death of Denis Ten on July 19, 2018. Despite their grief, his parents, Oksana and Juri, have vowed to continue the projects their son had started, and to fulfill his dreams through the Denis Ten Foundation.
On the first anniversary of his death, his parents organized a memorial show to celebrate Ten’s life and legacy. They invited friends, skaters, coaches, skating officials and other guests to join their family in remembering their beloved son.
It was an emotional week in Almaty, Kazakhstan, as many gathered to celebrate and remember Denis Ten this past July. A year later, the wounds are still deep and the grief was palpable for those who had a strong connection to Ten during his lifetime.
Mao Asada, Jeremy Abbott, Sergei Voronov, Elena Radionova, Takahito Mura, Dabin Choi and Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje all made the trek to Kazakhstan to pay their respects. Two of Ten’s coaches — Elena Vodorezova, who coached him from childhood until the end of the 2014 season, and Frank Carroll, who became his new coach that summer — also came to Almaty.
Alexander Kogan, the general director of the Russian Figure Skating Federation — who was instrumental in the Vodorezova-Ten coaching arrangement so many years earlier — and Natalia Bestemianova and her husband Igor Bobrin were also in attendance.
Tatiana Tarasova, who choreographed Ten’s programs in the early days of his career, was scheduled to attend but had to cancel at
