Tatiana Tarasova is a Russian figure skating coach and national figure skating team adviser. Tarasova has been coach to more world and Olympic Champions that any other coach in skating history. She was born in a sport family. Her mother taught physical education. Her father Anatoli Tarasov kno known hockey coach. Tatiana childhood is interested in sport. Famous father making out with the daughter of commitment to the sport, took up her training, and in 5 years she was skated. Back in 1966 the future coach Tatiana Tarasova in partnership with George Proskurin was the best at 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, a victory over the other, deciding to stay in the sport. With a strong character, inherited from her father, she 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 her father opted for the coach. Deprived of opportunities to get on the podium glory as a figure skater Tatiana all the energy, all her talent invests in its students, which Begins to train in 1969. Tarasov the coach, whose biography included the names of beneficiaries Winners and world champions in figure skating: Bestemianova, Irina Rodnina, Andrei Bikin, Andrei Minenkov, Alexandr Zaitsev, Ilia Kulik, Marina Klimova, Sergei Ponomarenko, Oksana Grishuk, and many others. Her student have won a total of eight Olympic gold medals in three of four Olympic figure skating disciplines in addition to 41gold medals at the European and world championships. 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. She lived some times in Connecticut and coached for ten years in International Skating Center., before announcing her retirement from full time coaching and moving back to Russia in 2006. Try yourself in the role of writer. 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 is working as a trainer-consultant Figure Skating Federation of Russia, simultaneously acts as a strict judge the projects on the First Channel on TV. Tarasova is a Russian Figure Skating coach and national figure skating team adviser. She 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 medal a at the European and World championships. She was awarded Order of Friendship of Peoples in 1984. In 2008 she was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. Awards: Order of Merit for Fatherland,3rd class for outstanding athletic achievement at Olympic Winter Games. Order of Honor for outstanding contribution to the development of physical culture and sport Order of the Red Banner of Labor, twice Order of the Badge of Honor Order of Friendship of Peoples Honored coach of the USSR Honored Artist of the RSFSR Master of Sports of international class

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