Professor Jean-François Ballester, age 53, died suddenly at his home in Switzerland after returning from a competition in Tallinn, Estonia. He was the coach of Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot. He actually coached Bruno from the time he was 7 years old. Recently he has been coaching international competitors Valter Virtanen (Finland), Laurine Lecavalier (France) and Miriam Ziegler & Severin Kiefer (Austria).
To read more (in French) see: https://www.arcinfo.ch/articles/sports/ ... W7oe6VRFL4
Coach Ballester with Valter Virtanen at a recent event
Well-known pairs coach has died
- Elizabeth
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I never knew him, although I may have seen his students from time to time. May he have blessings.
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Sad! I wonder what the problem was! He was so young! I remember him on the sidelines.
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