Tatiana Totmianina

Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Gold	2006 Turin	Pairs

Tatiana Totmianina

Totmianina at the 2005 Russian Nationals
Personal information
Country represented	Russia
Born	November 2, 1981 (1981-11-02) Perm, Russia
Residence	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Partner	Maxim Marinin
Former coach	Oleg Vasiliev, Natalia Pavlova
Skating club	Yubileyny Sport Club
Retired	2006
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	204.48 2006 Olympics
Short program	70.12 2005 Worlds
Free skate	135.84 2006 Olympics
Medal record Competitor for Russia Pairs' Figure skating Olympic Games Gold 2006 Turin Pairs World Championships Gold 2005 Moscow Pairs Gold 2004 Dortmund Pairs Silver 2003 Washington, D.C. Pairs Silver 2002 Nagano Pairs European Championships Gold 2006 Lyon Pairs Gold 2005 Turin Pairs Gold 2004 Budapest Pairs Gold 2003 Malmö Pairs Gold 2002 Lausanne Pairs Silver 2001 Bratislava Pairs Grand Prix Final Gold 2005–2006 Tokyo Pairs Silver 2003–2004 Colorado Springs Pairs Gold 2002–2003 St. Petersburg Pairs

Tatiana Ivanovna Totmianina (Russian: Татьяна Ивановна Тотьмянина) (born November 2, 1981 in Perm, Russia) is a Russian pair skater. With partner Maxim Marinin, she is the 2006 Olympic Champion, two-time World Champion, and five-time European Champion. The pair began skating together in 1996 and retired from competition in 2006.

Career

Totmianina and Marinin at the 2004 Worlds

Early career

Tatiana Totmianina was born in Perm and was introduced to skating by her mother at the age of four.

At the age of 14, Totmianina was invited to train in Saint Petersburg. In 1995 at the Russian Nationals, she met Maxim Marinin who had switched to pair skating in 1993 but was without a partner at the time. They began skating together in 1996, trained by Natalia Pavlova in Saint Petersburg. Due to their earlier careers as singles skaters, they had strong single elements. Later in their career, the pair would also be known for the quality of their stroking and edges. They were also noted for their elegant style and long lines which they developed despite Totmianina not having taken ballet classes as a child.

Senior career

Totmianina and Marinin made consistent progress on the world scene through the late 90's. They left Pavlova just prior to the 2001 European Championships and moved to Chicago in the United States to train under 1984 Olympic pairs champion Oleg Vasiliev.

Totmianina and Marinin won their first major title at the 2002 European Championships, and went on to finish 4th at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Twice in a row, they finished second at the World Championships to their Chinese rivals Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, before finally winning gold in 2004. The day after winning their first World title, Totmianina suffered a dislocated shoulder in practice. They were unable to perform in the exhibition.

Accident

In November 2004, during the free skate at the 2004 Skate America in Pittsburgh, Marinin lost his balance while attempting a difficult lasso lift and Totmianina slammed to the ice head first. She suffered a severe concussion and spent the night in a local hospital. Totmianina recovered from her injuries rapidly and was able to return to the ice within days. She often stated that she has no memory of the incident and this made it easy for her to return to the ice. Although Totmianina did not blame him, the accident weighed heavily on Marinin and when the pair returned to training, he was unable to lift her due to panic. He began seeing a sport psychologist who helped him overcome it.

Continued career

Totmianina and Marinin perform a twist lift at Russian Nationals in January 2005

They returned to competition two months later in January 2005, winning gold at the Russian Nationals and then the European Championships. In March, they competed at the World Championships, held in Moscow, Russia. They won their second consecutive World title easily, with a total score 10 points higher than the second place finishers.

Totmianina and Marinin dominated world competition from that point onward. In December 2005, Totmianina was hospitalized with a gall bladder problem. They won their fifth consecutive European Championship the following month in January 2006. With their rivals Shen and Zhao recovering from an achilles injury, Totmianina and Marinin were the clear favorites for Olympic gold in Turin, Italy. They won the short program on February 11 and then the long program on February 13, capturing the 2006 Olympic pair skating title.

Totmianina and Marinin did not compete at the World Championships in March 2006. They later announced their retirement from competition. The pair toured with the Champions on Ice show, with other notable skaters including Michelle Kwan, Evgeny Plushenko, and Viktor Petrenko, among others.

Totmianina has appeared in several seasons of the Russian show "Ice Age", as a skater or judge. She also continues to skate with Marinin in Russian ice shows, alongside other famous skaters including her fiance, Yagudin.

Personal life

Totmianina had been close to her mother since childhood. Her father was emotionally distant and abandoned the family when she was seven, living nearby but doing nothing to assist them. They lived with his mother who had schizophrenia and became violent. Totmianina and her mother became nearly inseparable "like Siamese twins".

Early in their partnership, Totmianina and Marinin dated, but they ended their relationship and remained close friends. Totmianina has stated that he is like a brother to her.

Once Totmianina was more comfortable financially, she bought her mother a car and her own apartment in Saint Petersburg. Shortly after her engagement to Alexei Yagudin, tragedy struck when in January 2009, her mother was seriously injured in a car accident and died in hospital. Yagudin supported Totmianina as she overcame depression.

On November 20, 2009, Totmianina gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Elizaveta ("Liza"). The couple also have a Yorkshire Terrier named Varia.

Programs

Totmianina and Marinin with their coach Oleg Vasiliev

Season	Short program	Long program	Exhibition
2005–2006	Romance from The Snowstorm by Georgy Sviridov	Romeo and Juliet by Nino Rota performed and arranged by Edvin Marton	Color of the Night
2004–2005	Ave Maria by Franz Schubert	Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Have you ever really loved a Woman? by Bryan Adams
2003–2004	Variations on a Theme of Paganini	Art on Ice by Edvin Marton	Your Song
2002–2003	Morning Suite Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg	The Cotton Club by John Barry
2001–2002	The Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta ( Звезда и смерть Хоакина Мурьеты ) by Alexei Rybnikov and Pavel Grushko	West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein	A Girl Like You by Edwyn Collins
2000–2001	Liebestraum by Franz Liszt	West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein
1999–2000	Passion by Peter Gabriel	Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff
1998–1999	Grand Canyon Suite by Grofe Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn	The Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Results

(with Marinin)

Event	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–00	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06
Winter Olympics						4th				1st
World Championships			7th	6th	5th	2nd	2nd	1st	1st
European Championships			5th	5th	2nd	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st
Russian Championships	6th	5th	3rd	3rd	3rd	2nd	1st	1st	1st	WD
Grand Prix Final							1st	2nd		1st
Skate America			7th		3rd	3rd	1st		WD
Skate Canada International						2nd	1st	1st
Sparkassen Cup					3rd
Trophée Eric Bompard			5th	2nd		4th	1st	2nd		1st
Cup of Russia		5th	6th	3rd	6th			1st		1st
Karl Schäfer Memorial		5th
Skate Israel			2nd

External links

• Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin at the International Skating Union