Marina Vyacheslavovna Anissina

Marina Anissina
Full name	Marina Vyacheslavovna Anissina
nation	Soviet Union Russia France
birthday	August 30, 1975
place of birth	Moscow
size	162 cm
Weight	52 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Gwendal Peizerat
Former partner	Ilja Awerbuch, Sergei Sachnowski
society	CSG Lyon
Trainer	Muriel Boucher-Zazoui
status	resigned
End of career	2002
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Nagano 1998 Ice dance gold Salt Lake City 2002 Ice dance  World figure skating championships silver Minneapolis 1998 Ice dance silver Helsinki 1999 Ice dance gold Nice 2000 Ice dance silver Vancouver 2001 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Milan 1998 Ice dance silver Prague 1999 Ice dance gold Vienna 2000 Ice dance silver Bratislava 2001 Ice dance gold Lausanne 2002 Ice dance

Marina Wjatscheslavowna Anissina ( Russian Марина Вячеславовна Анисина ; born August 30, 1975 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian - French figure skater who competed in ice dancing for the Soviet Union, Russia and France .

Career

Anissina's mother Irina Tscherniajewa is a former pair skating coach who, together with Vasily Blagow, took sixth place at the 1972 Olympic Games . Marina Anissina's father is Vyacheslav Anissin . He was world and European champion in ice hockey and now works as an ice hockey coach in Moscow.

Marina Anissina initially started with Ilja Awerbuch and Sergei Sachnowski . With Ilja Awerbuch Marina Anissina became Junior World Champion for Russia in 1990 and 1992 . Awerbuch left the partnership because he fell in love with Irina Lobacheva and from then on started with her. The collaboration with Sergei Sachnowski was also short-lived. He went to Israel and from then on started with Galit Chait .

Marina Anissina wrote several letters in order to find a new partner. In 1993 she found him in the French Gwendal Peizerat . Your trainer was Murielle Boucher-Zazoui . They started for the Lyon TSC and therefore also for France at the Olympic Games. Marina Anissina has taken on French citizenship.

In 1994 Anissina and Peizerat made their debut at world and European championships . In 1998 they won their first medals. They won the bronze medal at the European Championships and the Olympic Games and the silver medal at the World Championships . Until the end of their career in 2002, they always reached the podium. In 1999 they became vice European champion and again vice world champion ahead of Russians Anselika Krylova and Oleg Ovsjannikow . When they finished their careers, the Italians Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio became their first challengers. In 2000, Anissina and Peizerat did not lose any competition in which they participated. They won the Trophée Lalique and the NHK Trophy as well as the Grand Prix final . They became European champions in Vienna and world champions in Nice , always ahead of the Italians. In the following year the tide turned and the French had to be content with the silver medal behind Fusar-Poli and Margaglio at both the European and World Championships . In 2002 Annisina and Peizerat managed to get their revenge by winning the European Championship . At the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , Annisina and Peizerat became the first French ice dancing couple to win Olympic gold. In the freestyle they were five to four votes ahead of the Russians Irina Lobacheva and Ilja Awerbuch .

After their Olympic victory, Anissina and Peizerat resigned from competitive sports. They ran together in various ice revues and also worked as choreographers.

In 2013, Anissina announced that she was aiming to take part in the Winter Olympics in Sochi with Peizerat . Such a comeback - the two athletes would have been the oldest participants at 41 (Peizerat) and 37 years, had not trained at competitive level for years and were not familiar with the new rating system introduced after their retirement - was generally considered unlikely and proved to be true after all not.

At the beginning of 2008, Anissina married the Russian actor Nikita Dschigurda , whom she met in the Russian version of Stars on Ice . The couple have two children (born in 2009 and 2010) and live in Moscow.

Results

Ice dance

(with Gwendal Peizerat )

Competition / year	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
winter Olympics					3.				1.
World championships	10.	6th	4th	5.	2.	2.	1.	2.
European championships	12.	5.	4th	4th	3.	2.	1.	2.	1.
French championships	2.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
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Grand Prix competition / season	93/94	94/95	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02
Grand Prix Final				3.	3.	2.	1.		2.
Skate America		2.				1.
Skate Canada			2.	2.				1.
Trophée Lalique	3.	1.	2.	1.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.
Sparkassen Cup		1.			2.
NHK Trophy	5.	3.	1.	2.		1.	1.	1.	1.

(with Ilja Awerbuch )

Competition / year	1990	1991	1992
Junior World Championships	1.	4th	1.

Awards

• 1998: Chevalier de l'Ordre National du mérite
• 2003: Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur

literature

• Marina Anissina: "Je ne suis pas de glace" , Atlantica, ISBN 2-758-80064-0

Web links

Commons : Marina Anissina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Marina Vyacheslavovna Anissina in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Anissina-Peizerat - official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Give me gold - France's Anissinal, Peizerat claim ice dancing event ( Memento from May 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Ice Dancers Anissina, Peizerat in Shock Comeback for Sochi ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), English-language article on rsport.ru
3. ↑ Klaus-Reinhold Kany: No talk of Anissina's comeback In: pirouette - International magazine for ice sports and roller sports Volume 46, No. 10, 2013, p. 7.