Marina Zoueva
Marina Zoueva | |
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Full name | Marina Olegovna Zueva |
Born | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 9 April 1956
Figure skating career | |
Country | Soviet Union |
Marina Olegovna Zoueva or Zueva (Russian: Марина Олеговна Зуева; born 9 April 1956) is a Russian figure skating coach, choreographer, and former competitor in ice dancing. Representing the Soviet Union with Andrei Vitman, she placed 5th at the 1977 World Championships and won two medals at Skate Canada International. She has coached a number of skaters to Olympic medals, including Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (gold in 2010), Meryl Davis / Charlie White (gold in 2014), and Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani (bronze in 2018). She is based in Canton, Michigan.
Competitive career
Zoueva competed for the Soviet Union as an ice dancer with partner Andrei Vitman. They won two national bronze medals at the Soviet Championships. They finished fifth at the 1977 European and World Championships. The next season, they were sixth at the 1978 European Championships and seventh at the World Championships.[1]
International | ||||
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Event | 75–76 | 76–77 | 77–78 | 78–79 |
World Championships | 5th | 7th | ||
European Championships | 5th | 6th | ||
Prize of Moscow News | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | |
Skate Canada | 2nd | 3rd | ||
National | ||||
Soviet Championships | 3rd | 3rd |
Coaching and choreography career
Zoueva retired from ice dancing at the end of the 1970s to become a choreographer. Her final assignment toward receiving her choreography degree at the National Theatre Institute in Moscow in 1982 was the creation of a routine for Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov. Throughout the 1980s, she continued to choreograph for this elite pair, creating their programs to Moonlight Sonata, Vocalise, and Romeo and Juliet. In 1993, Gordeeva and Grinkov hired Zoueva to work with them again on their 1994 Olympics routines, and their collaboration continued until Grinkov's death in late 1995. Zueva then choreographed most of Gordeeva's solo programs through 2000.[1]
Zoueva left Russia in 1991[2] to work as a coach and choreographer in North America. She currently coaches at the Arctic Figure Skating Club in Canton, Michigan as part of the International Skating Academy. In 2001, she began coaching in partnership with Igor Shpilband.[3] On 3 June 2012, she confirmed that they were no longer working together.[4][5]
Zoueva's current students include:
- Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani [6]
- Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye
- Taylor Tran / Saulius Ambrulevičius [7]
- Kimberley Hew-Low / Timothy McKernan [8]
Zoueva's former students include:
- Patrick Chan [9]
- Nathan Chen [10] (with Rafael Arutyunyan)
- Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir [11]
- Meryl Davis / Charlie White [12]
- Katherine Copely / Deividas Stagniūnas
- Charlotte Lichtman / Dean Copely
- Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto
- Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
- Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein
- Madison Chock / Evan Bates [13]
- Jana Khokhlova / Fedor Andreev [14]
- Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
- Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis
- Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed
Her choreography clients have included Sasha Cohen, Marin Honda, Takahiko Kozuka, Yukari Nakano, Alissa Czisny, and Yulia Lipnitskaya.
Personal life
Zoueva was born on 9 April 1956.[15] She is the mother of Fedor Andreev – born 2 March 1982 in Moscow – who competed for Canada as a singles skater and Russia as an ice dancer.[16][17] She is a naturalized Canadian citizen but works mainly in the United States. Zueva was formerly married to Alexei Tchetverukhin.[16] She holds a master's degree of physical science from Saint Petersburg State University and loves animals.
References
- ^ a b "A Kind of Magic". pairsonice.net. Archived from the original on June 7, 2008. Retrieved March 2, 2010.
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- ^ "U.S. endures ice dance shakeup". Associated Press. ESPN. June 5, 2012.
- ^ Barnas, Jo-Ann (June 3, 2012). "Coach Igor Shpilband fired from position at Canton's Arctic Figure Skating Club". Detroit Free Press. Archived from the original on June 4, 2012.
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- ^ "Biography". www.isuresults.com. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011.
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- ^ "Biography". www.isuresults.com. Archived from the original on May 4, 2010.
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- ^ "Coach Profile - Marina ZOUEVA". pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original on April 19, 2018.
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External links
- Russian figure skating coaches
- Canadian figure skating coaches
- Soviet female ice dancers
- People from Canton, Michigan
- Figure skating choreographers
- Living people
- Russian expatriates in Canada
- Russian expatriates in the United States
- 1956 births
- Saint Petersburg State University alumni
- Naturalized citizens of Canada
- Female sports coaches