Ilya Averbukh, director and director of ice shows, said that he sees Roman Kostomarov as the person of 2023. “Championship”.
“Athlete of the year? I don’t even know. The character and personality of the year for me is Roman Kostomarov. This is not even debatable,” Averbukh said.
At the beginning of January 2023, Kostomarov was hospitalized after New Year’s performances at an open-air show. The champion was taken to intensive care and put on a ventilator with pneumonia, and his condition was assessed to be extremely serious. The athlete was transported to a hospital in Kommunarka, resuscitated and connected to an artificial blood oxygen saturation device (ECMO), after which he remained on a ventilator for a long time.
Complications caused by the disease led to the development of gangrene, for which doctors had to perform a series of amputation surgeries: the skater lost both legs, the hand of one hand and the fingers of the other hand. On July 6, Kostomarov was discharged from the hospital in Kommunarka, where he spent 175 days.
Previously Kostomarov showed a dance with his wife on the soundtrack of the TV series “The Boy’s Word”.