- Tatiana Tarasova
Infobox Figure skater
title= Tatiana Tarasova
caption= Tarasova coachingSasha Cohen in 2003.
country= RUS
dateofbirth= birth date and age|1947|2|13
formerpartner=Aleksandr Gorelik ,Georgi Proskurin
retired= 1966Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova ( _ru. Татьяна Анатольевна Тарасова) (born
February 13 ,1947 ) is aRussia nfigure skating coach who has coached more world and Olympic champions than any other coach in the world. As of2003 , her students have won a combined 41 gold medals at the European and World championships. As of2006 , her students have won a combined 9 Olympic gold medals in three of the four Olympic figure skating disciplines.Biography
Tatiana Tarasova is the daughter of
Anatoly Tarasov , often cited as the greatest hockey coach in the history of the game. Her father introduced her to figure skating at the age of 5. She competed inpair skating withAleksandr Gorelik and laterGeorgi Proskurin . With Proskurin, she placed as high as 7th at the 1965World Figure Skating Championships and 4th at the 1966European Figure Skating Championships . [ [http://www.eskatefans.com/skatabase/majors.html Skatabase] ]After suffering a career-ending injury, she had to quit skating. She was just 18 at the time. A year later, due to her father's insistence, she started coaching herself. Her students have included
Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev,Alexei Yagudin ,Ilia Kulik ,Natalia Bestemianova &Andrey Bukin ,Marina Klimova &Sergey Ponomarenko ,Sasha Cohen ,Johnny Weir ,Shizuka Arakawa ,Oksana Grishuk &Evgeny Platov ,Shae-Lynn Bourne , andBarbara Fusar-Poli , among others. Right now she coaches Japanese 2008 World Champion Mao Asada.For more than 25 years, Tarasova has been married toVladimir Krainev , a world-class pianist who resides inHanover . In the mid-1990s, she launched a hugely successfulice ballet show called Russian All-Stars.Tarasova lived for more than a decade in
Simsbury, Connecticut where she coached at the International Skating Center of Connecticut before announcing her retirement from full-time coaching and moving back toRussia in 2006.Tarasova was awarded
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984). [cite book|title=Panorama of the 1984 Sports Year|year=1985|pages=p. 38|publisher=Physical Culture and Sports publisher|location=Moscow|language=Russian] In March 2008, she was inducted into theWorld Figure Skating Hall of Fame .References
External links
* [http://www.tarasova.ru Tatiana Tarasova's official site]
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