Tatiana Ivanovna Totmjanina

Tatiana Totmjanina
Totmjanina and Marinin during the Russian Championships 2005
Full name	Tatiana Ivanovna Totmjanina
nation	Russia
birthday	November 2nd 1981
place of birth	Perm
size	160 cm
Weight	44 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Maxim Marinin
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

Tatiana Iwanowna Totmjanina ( Russian Татьяна Ивановна Тотьмянина ; born November 2, 1981 in Perm ) is a former Russian figure skater who started in pair skating .

Career

Totmjanina started ice skating at the age of four on the initiative of her mother. At the age of 14 she was invited to Saint Petersburg . She felt that she had no chance in the individual run . At the Russian championships in 1995 she met Maxim Marinin , who had already switched to pair skating two years earlier, but still had no partner. So he became her 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 .

Totmjanina and Marinin with coach Oleg Wassiljew, 2004

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.

Personal

Totmjanina and Marinin had a relationship during their careers, but ended it and remained close friends.

Totmjanina had a very close relationship with her mother. Her father was emotionally distant and left the family when Totmjanina was seven years old. He continued to live nearby, but without supporting the family. Totmjanina and her mother lived with the father's mother, who suffered from schizophrenia and became violent.

When Totmjanina had money, she bought her mother a car and an apartment of her own in Saint Petersburg. Shortly after Totmjanina's engagement in 2008 with the Olympic champion and multiple world and European champion Alexei Jagudin , her mother was fatally injured in a car accident. Jagudin supported her and helped her cope with her depression . Their child Jelisaveta was born on November 20, 2009, followed by their second daughter Michelle (Мишель) on October 2, 2015. The two married in February 2016.

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

Results

Pair skating

(with Maxim Marinin )

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

Totmjanina and Marinin during the Russian Championships 2005

Web links

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

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Татьяна Тотьмянина: "Я не знала, как пережить предательство Ягудина" ( Memento from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} daughter for Totmianina and Yagudin . In: pirouette . Volume 48, No. 9, 2015, p. 7.
3. ↑ Ярослав КОРОБАТОВ: Татьяна Тотьмянина родила Алексею Ягудину дочь. Komsomolskaya Pravda , November 21, 2009; accessed July 30, 2010 (Russian). 
4. ↑ Totmianina and Yagudin married . In: pirouette . Volume 49, No. 3, 2016, p. 19.