Maxim Viktorovich Marinin

Maxim Marinin
Totmjanina and Marinin during the Russian Championships 2005
Full name	Maxim Viktorovich Marinin
nation	Russia
birthday	March 23, 1977
place of birth	Volgograd
size	187 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Tatiana Totmjanina
society	Jubileyny Sports Club
Trainer	Oleg Wassiljew, Natalia Pavlova
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 5 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Turin 2006 Couples  World figure skating championships silver Nagano 2002 Couples silver Washington 2003 Couples gold Dortmund 2004 Couples gold Moscow 2005 Couples  European figure skating championships silver Bratislava 2001 Couples gold Lausanne 2002 Couples gold Malmo 2003 Couples gold Budapest 2004 Couples gold Turin 2005 Couples gold Lyon 2006 Couples
Personal best
Total points 204.48 Olympia 2006  Freestyle 135.84 Olympia 2006  Short program 70.12 World Cup 2005
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 2 1 0  Grand Prix competitions 7th 3 4th
last change: February 7, 2011

Maxim Viktorovich Marinin ( Russian Максим Викторович Маринин ; born March 23, 1977 in Volgograd ) is a former Russian figure skater who started in pair skating .

Career

Marinin is the first of two sons of Tatiana Alexejewna and Viktor Jakowlewitsch Marinin. His younger brother is called Vladimir Viktorovich. Marinin started ice skating at the age of four, but initially did not have a trainer because his parents could not afford it. He started out as a single runner , but after being defeated in a tournament by the younger Yevgeny Pljuschtschenko , he decided to switch to pair skating. He went to Saint Petersburg in 1993 on the advice of a coach . In 1996 Tatjana Totmjanina became his figure skating partner. They competed for the Jubileyny sports club and trained in the Jubilee sports complex . Her first trainer was Natalja Pavlova.

In 1999 they made their debut at World and European Championships , which they finished in seventh and fifth place respectively. They won their first major international medal with silver at the 2001 European Championships in Bratislava behind their compatriots Jelena Bereschnaja and Anton Sicharulidze . In the same year, the couple went to Chicago to train with Oleg Wassiljew , the 1984 Olympic pair skating champion .

In 2002 Totmjanina and Marinin won their first major title. They became European champions in Lausanne . A few weeks later they won their first world championship medal in Nagano with silver behind the Chinese Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo . They finished their first Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in fourth place. In 2003, after winning the Grand Prix final for the first time, they became Russian pair skating champions for the first time. In Malmö they defended their European championship title and at the world championship they again won the silver medal behind the Chinese. It was the last time that Totmjanina / Marinin did not win a major tournament. In 2004 they defended their national championship title, became European champions for the third time in a row and world champions for the first time in Dortmund . In October 2004 they had a serious accident at the Skate America Grand Prix competition in Pittsburgh when Marinin lost his balance while lifting a lasso and Totmjanina fell headfirst onto the ice. She suffered a severe concussion and had to be taken to the hospital unconscious. She was left with no memory of the incident. However, she quickly recovered and did not lose confidence in her partner. Marinin, on the other hand, had panic attacks when he was asked to lift her again. With the help of a sports psychologist, he was able to overcome this. As early as February 2005, as the reigning Russian champions, they became the undisputed European champions and a month later in Moscow they were also world champions. So they went into the Olympic year as favorites. For the second time they won the Grand Prix final and in Lyon for the fifth time in a row the European Championship title. At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , Tatjana Totmjanina and Maxim Marinin became Olympic champions in pair skating with two faultless programs . Both in the short program and in the freestyle, they impressed with their security, elegance and expression. They no longer took part in the World Cup. They announced their retirement as amateurs and only appeared in ice revues like Champions on Ice.

Marinin and Totmjanina had a relationship during their careers, but ended it and remained close friends. With his partner Natalja Somowa, a ballet dancer , Marinin has a son named Artemij Maximowitsch (born September 29, 2007 in Krasnodar ). They live together in Moscow .

Results

Pair skating

(with Tatjana Totmjanina )

Competition / year	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
winter Olympics						4th				1.
World championships			7th	6th	5.	2.	2.	1.	1.
European championships			5.	5.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
Russian championships	6th	5.	3.	3.	3.	2.	1.	1.	1.	Z

gallery

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  Totmjanina and Marinin with coach Oleg Wassiljew, 2004

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  Tatjana Totmjanina and Maxim Marinin at the 2004 World Cup in Dortmund

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  Maxim Marinin before the 2003/04 Grand Prix Final

Web links

Commons : Maxim Wiktorowitsch Marinin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Totmjanina / Marinin in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Maxim Wiktorowitsch Marinin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• The Ice Story - Unofficial fansite (Russian, English)
• Totmjanina / Marinin Photo Page (Eng., Japanese)