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Cohen was born in Westwood, California, a neighborhood in Los Angeles. Her full name is Alexandra Pauline Cohen.[1][2] Her nickname "Sasha" is a Russian diminutive of "Alexandra".[2] As a university student, she has used the name Alex, rather than Sasha.[2]
Her mother, Galina (née Feldman), is a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine[1] and a former ballet dancer.
Her father, Roger Cohen, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. Roger Cohen was formerly a law partner atBrobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and Of Counsel at Dorsey and Whitney.[3][4] He is Founder and CEO of VerticalPoint Solutions, a company that simplifies and automates compliance for document intensive industries. VerticalPoint is based in Orange County, California.[1]
Sasha Cohen graduated from Futures High School in Mission Viejo, California in 2002. As of 2011, she was enrolled as an undergraduate student atColumbia University.[5][2] She has a younger sister, Natalia ("Natasha"),[1] who began college at Barnard College in August 2006.
In 2005, Cohen published her autobiography, Fire on Ice. The autobiography was republished in 2006 adding a new chapter on the 2006 season.
Cohen understands the Russian language
| Sasha Cohen | |
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 Cohen performs a spiral at the 2009 Stars on Ice.
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Alexandra Pauline Cohen |
| Country represented |  United States |
| Born | October 26, 1984 Westwood, Los Angeles, California |
| Home town | Newport Beach, California |
| Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) |
| Coach | John Nicks |
| Former coach | Rafael Arutunian, John Nicks,Tatiana Tarasova, Robin Wagner |
| Choreographer | Lori Nichol, Nikolai Morozov |
| Former choreographer | David Wilson, Tatiana Tarasova, Marina Zoueva,Igor Shpilband, Robin Wagner, Ekaterina Gordeeva |
| Skating club | Orange County FSC |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 197.60 2003 Skate Canada |
| Short program | 71.12 2003 Skate Canada |
| Free skate | 130.89 2003 Skate America |
| Olympic medal record | ||
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| Women's figure skating | ||
| Competitor for United States | ||
| Silver | 2006 Turin | Singles |
