Marina Anissina

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  France
Ice dancing
Gold	2002 Salt Lake City	Ice dancing
Bronze	1998 Nagano	Ice dancing

Marina Anissina

Anissina and partner Gwendal Peizerat compete in 2001.
Personal information
Full name	Marina Vyacheslavovna Anissina
Alternative names	Marina Anisina
Country represented	France
Former country(ies) represented	Russia  Soviet Union
Born	August 30, 1975 (1975-08-30) (age 36) Moscow
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Partner	Gwendal Peizerat
Former partner	Ilia Averbukh (RUS & URS) Sergei Sakhnovski (URS)
Former coach	Muriel Boucher-Zazoui
Skating club	CSG Lyon
Retired	2002
Medal record Figure skating Ice dancing Competitor for  France Olympic Games Gold 2002 Salt Lake City Ice dancing Bronze 1998 Nagano Ice dancing World Championships Silver 2001 Vancouver Ice dancing Gold 2000 Nice Ice dancing Silver 1999 Helsinki Ice dancing Silver 1998 Minneapolis Ice dancing European Championships Gold 2002 Lausanne Ice dancing Silver 2001 Bratislava Ice dancing Gold 2000 Vienna Ice dancing Silver 1999 Prague Ice dancing Bronze 1998 Milan Ice dancing Grand Prix Final Silver 2001-2002 Kitchener Ice dancing Gold 1999-2000 Lyon Ice dancing Silver 1998-1999 St. Petersburg Ice dancing Bronze 1997-1998 Munich Ice dancing Bronze 1996-1997 Hamilton Ice dancing Competitor for  Russia World Junior Championships Gold 1992 Hull Ice dancing Gold 1990 Colorado Springs Ice dancing

Marina Vyacheslavovna Anissina (Russian: Марина Вячеславовна Анисина, born August 30, 1975 in Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a French-Russian ice dancer. With partner Gwendal Peizerat, she is the 2002 Olympic champion.

Career

Marina Anissina was born into a skating family, her mother being a pair skater and her father a hockey player.^[1] She began skating at the age of four and by nine she was already determined to become a champion.^[2] Her mother, having been injured in pair skating, did not wish her daughter to take those risks so she went into ice dancing.^[1]

Early in her career, Anissina competed with Sergei Sakhnovski, representing the Soviet Union. Following that partnership, she teamed up with Ilia Averbukh. They represented the Soviet Union and, after that country's dissolution, Russia. They were the 1990 and 1992 World Junior Champions. Their partnership ended at the end of the 1991-92 season;^[3] Averbukh decided to leave Anissina to skate with Irina Lobacheva with whom he had fallen in love.^[2]

Russia at the time had a number of top ice dancing teams and was not especially concerned with helping Anissina find a new partner.^[1] She and her mother studied videotapes of international competitions and selected Gwendal Peizerat and Victor Kraatz.^[2] Anissina sent letters to both and, although the one to Kraatz did not reach him, she received a response from Peizerat.^[2] She arrived in Lyon, France, in February 1993, declaring her goal of becoming World and Olympic champion.^[3] She wanted to bring Peizerat back to Russia with her but his family was opposed so she settled in France.^[3] She focused intensely on skating and insisted her partner, who was dividing his time between skating and his education, be equally focused on their career.^[3] Their first year together was difficult with major quarrels and they came close to splitting up.^[3] Nevertheless, their coach Muriel Boucher-Zazoui immediately felt it was a promising partnership, saying "They are like fire and ice".^[2]

Anissina and Peizerat won the 1998 Olympic bronze medal and 1998 and 1999 World silver medals behind Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov. The Russians retired due to injury and Anissina and Peizerat then developed a rivalry with the Italians Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio. The French won the 2000 European and World Championships.^[1] In 2001, Anissina and Peizerat won European and World silver behind the Italians but surged past them in 2002 to reclaim their European title and become the Olympic Champions. At the 2002 Olympics, they led after the compulsory dances and the original dance. Their free dance, Liberty, mixed music with sections from the famed freedom speech by Martin Luther King Jr.; a 5-4 split of the judges' panel had them in first place in this segment ahead of Lobecheva and Averbukh, and they became the first French ice dancers to win the Olympic gold medal.^[4]

After the Olympics, Anissina and Peizerat ended their competitive skating careers. The two continued skating together for many years in shows around the world.^[5] Both have also worked as choreographers.^[6] Anissina coached for several years in Marseille at S.O.G.M.A. 13 before her family settled in Moscow.^[7]

They skated for the club Lyon TSC. Their signature move is a "reverse lift", wherein Anissina lifts Peizerat off the ice, rather than vice versa. This set the two apart from other dance couples, as most lifts in ice dance involve the man lifting the woman.

Personal life

Marina Anissina's mother, Irina Cherniaeva, is a former pair skater who placed sixth at the 1972 Winter Olympics.^[2] Marina Anissina's father is Vyacheslav Anisin, a World and European champion in ice hockey. Her brother is Mikhail Anisin, also a hockey player. Marina Anissina received French citizenship in 1994.^[2]

On February 23, 2008, Anissina married Russian actor Nikita Djigurda in Moscow after the two met when they were partnered on a celebrity ice dancing television show. Their son, Mick-Angel Christ (in Russian: Мик-Анжель Крист), was born in Biarritz on January 7, 2009.^[8] Their daughter, Eva Vlada,^[9] was born on January 23, 2010.^[7][10] Their children were baptized in an Orthodox church in Moscow.^[9] The family currently lives in Moscow,^[11] but Anissina spends some time in France and works with young ice dancers.^[5]

Programs

Season	Original dance	Free dance	Exhibition
1993–1994	Quizás, Quizás, Quizás (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps) by Osvaldo Farrés	Borrasca by Ottmar Liebert	J'en ai Marre by Hugues Le Bars Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
1994–1995	Sing, Sing, Sing by Louis Prima	Tango by Astor Piazolla	Still Loving You by Scorpions J'en ai Marre by Hugues Le Bars
1995–1996	Ay Mi Sombrero by Genaro Monreal	Latin mix by Xavier Cugat	Kozachok
1996–1997	Docteur Petiot (1990 film) by Michel Portal	Ahla Leila by Muhammad Sultan	Kozachok I'm Sorry performed by Brenda Lee
1997–1998	Snatch and Grab It performed by Dana Gillespie	Romeo and Juliet: "The Montagues and the Capulets" and "Death of Juliet" by Sergei Prokofiev	Time To Say Goodbye performed by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli
1998–1999	Masquerade Suite Waltz by Aram Khachaturian Waltz from My Sweet and Tender Beast A Hunting Accident (Мой ласковый и нежный зверь) by Eugen Doga	The Man in the Iron Mask: "Heart of a King" and "Surrounded" soundtrack by Nick Glennie-Smith	Time To Say Goodbye performed by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli
1999–2000	Black Machine by Jazz Machine Feeling the Passion by Latin Drums Tres Deseos by Gloria Estefan Black Machine by Jazz Machine Nostalgia de Palmeras by Celia Cruz Tres Deseos by Gloria Estefan	Carmina Burana: "O Fortuna imperatrix munda" and "Fortune plango vulnera" by Carl Orff	Danse mon Esmeralda from Notre-Dame de Paris (musical) sung by Garou
2000–2001	More by Nat King Cole Dancing Fool Mr Pinstripe Suit by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy More by Nat King Cole	Beethoven's Last Night: "Overture", "Ode to Joy", "Dreams of Candlelight" and "Beethoven" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra	Susanna by VOF de Kunst
2001–2002	Malagua Tango de Guell	Non Merci from Cyrano de Bergerac soundtrack by Jean-Claude Petit Canone Inverso by Ennio Morricone	Susanna by VOF de Kunst

Competitive highlights

Results for France

(with Peizerat)

Event	1993–94	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–00	2000–01	2001–02
Winter Olympic Games					3rd				1st
World Championships	10th	6th	4th	5th	2nd	2nd	1st	2nd
European Championships	12th	5th	4th	4th	3rd	2nd	1st	2nd	1st
French Championships	2nd	2nd	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st
Grand Prix Final				3rd	3rd	2nd	1st		2nd
Trophée Lalique	3rd	1st	2nd	1st	2nd	1st	1st	1st	1st
NHK Trophy	5th	3rd	1st	2nd		1st	1st	1st	1st
Skate Canada			2nd	2nd				1st
Skate America		2nd				1st
Sparkassen Cup		1st			2nd
Ondrej Nepela Memorial	1st
Piruetten	5th

Results for Russia and the Soviet Union

(with Averbukh)

Event	1989–1990	1990–1991	1991–1992
World Junior Championships	1st	4th	1st

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Lecaudey, Martine (1 April 2000). "Anissina-Peizerat enfin au sommet [Anissina-Peizerat finally at the top]" (in French). La Dépêche du Midi. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/63DH3R4q8. Retrieved 31 May 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Lecaudey, Martine (2 April 2000). "Marina a choisi Gwendal sur une vidéo [Marina chose Gwendal after watching him on video]" (in French). La Dépêche du Midi. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/63DGzmyZM. Retrieved 30 May 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Anissina-Peizerat, un couple de glace [Anissina-Peizerat, an ice couple]" (in French). Le Point. 1 March 2002. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/63DGveJEw. Retrieved 30 May 2011. 
4. ^ "France's Anissinal, Peizerat claim ice dancing event". Associated Press (Sports Illustrated). 18 February 2002. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/figure_skating/news/2002/02/18/ice_dancing_ap/. Retrieved 31 May 2011. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "L'œil de Marina Anissina [Under the eye of Marina Anissina]". Sud-Ouest (newspaper). 5 October 2011. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/63DGozRMC. Retrieved 6 October 2011. 
6. ^ Bangs, Kathleen (15 September 2003). "Peizerat still 'Peaking'". GoldenSkate. http://www.goldenskate.com/articles/2003/091503.shtml. Retrieved 13 April 2011. 
7. ^ ^{a b} "LA FAMILLE DU PATINAGE ARTISTIQUE S'AGRANDIT [The skating family grows]" (in French). S.O.G.M.A. 13. 24 January 2010. http://www.sogma13.com/news/id_news/139115-la-famille-du-patinage-artistique-s-agrandit-/detail. Retrieved 6 October 2011. 
8. ^ "...Я предложил Марине: давай станем любовниками. Она ответила как отрезала: меня это не устраивает — но о замужестве подумаю" (in Russian). teleweek.ru. http://teleweek.ru/nikita_djigurda. Retrieved 30 May 2011. 
9. ^ ^{a b} Kukhianidze, Sergo (4 June 2010). "Джигурда — Анисина: "Мы не остановимся!" [Dzhigurda - Anissina : "We will not stop!"]" (in Russian). 7dn.ru. http://7dn.ru/article/7days/458411. Retrieved 24 January 2011. 
10. ^ Pustynnikova, Tatiana (25 January 2010). "Джигурда стал отцом в пятый раз во Франции [Dzhigurda's fifth child born in France]" (in Russian). lifenews.ru. http://www.lifenews.ru/news/10479. Retrieved 6 October 2011. 
11. ^ Kukhianidze, Sergo (20 January 2011). "Никита Джигурда: "С Мариной мне везде по кайфу!" [Nikita Dzhigurda: With Marina]" (in Russian). 7dn.ru. http://7dn.ru/article/7days/525945. Retrieved 24 January 2011. 

• World Junior Figure Skating Championships: ISU Results: DancePDF (11.0 KB)
• Profile

External links

• Marina Anissina at the International Skating Union
• http://www.peoples.ru/sport/fskating/anisina/ (in Russian)
• http://mgforever.free.fr (in French)
• http://figureskating.online.fr/anissina-peizerat.htm (English)

Persondata
Name	Anissina, Marina
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Date of birth	August 30, 1975
Place of birth	Moscow
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