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- Birth nameTatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova
- Tatiana Tarasova was born in a sports family.Her mother taught physical education, Tanya's father, Anatoli Tarasov - the known hockey coach. Tatiana childhood is interested in sports. Famous father making out with the daughter of commitment to the sport, took up her training, and in 5 years Tatiana skated.
Back in 1966 the future coach Tatiana Tarasova in partnership with George Proskurin was the best at the World University Games. But at 19 years old athlete was forced to retire because of severe injuries. The first victory, which includes a biography of Tatiana Tarasova, a victory over the other, deciding to stay in the sport.
With a strong character, inherited from his father, Tatiana is not humbled, and successfully passed the entrance exams at the Institute of Physical Culture in 1964, which has successfully graduated in 1969. On the recommendation of his father Tarasova opted for the coach.
Deprived of opportunities to get on the podium glory as a figure skater Tatiana all the energy, all his talent invests in its students, which begins to train in 1969. Tarasov - the coach, whose biography includes the names of beneficiaries - winners and world champions in figure skating: Natalia Bestemianova, Irina Rodnina, Andrei Bukin, Andrei Minenkova, Alexander Zaitsev, Ilia Kulik, Marina Klimova, Sergei Ponomarenko, Sasha Cohen, Alexei Yagudin, Shizuka Arakawa, Evgeny Platov, Evgeni Plushenko, Pasha Grishuk and many others.
In the 1980 Tarasova together with former mentor Elena Tchaikovskaia created an ice theater "All Stars" and oversaw its activities. Theater artists were the stars of world renown, under the leadership of Tarasova participated in the performances "The Scarlet Flower", "The Sleeping Beauty", "Russian on Broadway," "Night on Bald Mountain", "Cats", "Cinderella", "West Side Story", "Cabaret" and other productions.
Try yourself in the role of Tatiana and writer. Tarasov - the coach, whose biography is described in the book "Beauty and the Beast", released in 2002. The book is not only an author, but also on the wrong side of the sport, because it contains many authentic details of how hard the champions got a great victory.
Since 2005, Tatiana Tarasova is working as a trainer-consultant Figure Skating Federation of Russia, simultaneously acts as a strict judge the projects of the First channel on TV: in 2006 - "Stars on Ice", in 2007 - "Ice Age", in 2008 - "Ice Age 2" and so on.- IMDb Mini Biography By: SportFit - Tatiana Tarasova is a Russian figure skating coach and national figure skating team adviser. Tarasova has been coach to more world and Olympic champions than any other coach in skating history. Her students have won a total of eight Olympic gold medals in three of the four Olympic figure skating disciplines, in addition to 41 gold medals at the European and World championships.
Tatiana Tarasova is the daughter of Anatoli Tarasov, a famed ice hockey coach, who introduced her to figure skating at the age of five. She lived for more than a decade in Simsbury, Connecticut before moving back to Russia in 2006.
Tarasova competed in pair skating with Aleksandr Tikhomirov and Georgiy Proskurin. With Proskurin, she was a two-time Soviet national medalist. They finished 7th at the 1965 World Championships and 4th at the 1966 European Championships.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- SpouseVladimir Krainev(? - April 29, 2011) (his death)
- In March 2008, she was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
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