33 Facts About Anastasia Tarakanova

Anastasia Anatolyevna Tarakanova is a Russian retired figure skater.

Anastasia Tarakanova has won seven medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.

Anastasia Tarakanova's father is a swimmer and her mother is an athlete.

Anastasia Tarakanova tried both sports and won her first swimming competition as the youngest competitor, receiving her trophy from three-time Olympic gold medalist Yevgeny Sadovyi.

Anastasia Tarakanova eventually chose to focus on skating, considering it beautiful and enjoying the support of the audience.

Anastasia Tarakanova learned her basics with Lyudmila Puchkova and a year before leaving Volgograd, she went to train with Irina Aksenova.

In 2011, Anastasia Tarakanova moved to Moscow due to her father's work.

Anastasia Tarakanova's first coach in Moscow was Irina Klimova, who was a student of the famous Stanislav Zhuk.

Anastasia Tarakanova then switched to coach Maria Butyrskaya, World Figure Skating Champion.

Anastasia Tarakanova began competing her double axels early the season and placed third at Volkov Memorial.

Later that season, Anastasia Tarakanova eventually gained all her triples and competed at Moscow Championships Elder Age with a sixth-place finish, earning her a spot at Russian Nationals Elder Age, where she finished 5th after Polina Tsurskaya, Alisa Fedichkina, Alina Solovyova and Stanislava Konstantinova.

Anastasia Tarakanova went on to win the Moscow Championships Younger Age.

Anastasia Tarakanova started off her season with a fifth place at Moscow Open Championship.

Anastasia Tarakanova then experimented her triple-triple combination at Volkov Memorial, where she placed second.

Anastasia Tarakanova then earned her ticket to the Russian Junior Nationals as the youngest competitor.

Anastasia Tarakanova completed a triple Lutz-triple toe combination at the Moscow Open Championship and finished fifth at the competition.

Anastasia Tarakanova won gold at the Russian Nationals Younger Age, placing ahead of Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova with a score of 246.18 points.

Anastasia Tarakanova then went on to win the Russian Nationals Elder Age.

Anastasia Tarakanova changed coaches ahead of the season, joining Eteri Tutberidze and Sergei Dudakov, who coach in Moscow.

Anastasia Tarakanova placed third at her second JGP assignment, in Zagreb, Croatia.

Anastasia Tarakanova started her season by competing in the 2018 JGP series.

Anastasia Tarakanova was ranked second in both the short program and the free skate and finished about 5 points behind the gold medalist, her teammate Anna Shcherbakova.

Anastasia Tarakanova was ranked third in the short program but first in the free skate and won the gold medal by a margin of less than 2 points over the silver medalist, her teammate Anna Tarusina.

Anastasia Tarakanova placed eighth in the free skate after skating first out, and finished thirteenth overall.

Anastasia Tarakanova decided to leave Evgeni Plushenko's school at the end of the season.

Anastasia Tarakanova was instead assigned to two competitions on the ISU Junior Grand Prix.

Anastasia Tarakanova started her season off at the JGP United States where she finished in 3rd place and won the bronze medal.

Anastasia Tarakanova placed fourth in the short program after falling on her triple lutz and failing to complete a jump combination.

Anastasia Tarakanova then finished third at JGP Poland three weeks later.

Anastasia Tarakanova placed first in the short program with a personal best score after landing a backloaded triple lutz-triple toeloop jump combination.

Anastasia Tarakanova placed third in the free skate with a clean performance, and won the bronze medal behind Alysa Liu and teammate Viktoria Vasilieva.

In July 2020, Anastasia Tarakanova was seen training in Russian roller sports national team coach Irina Klimova's camp on social media.

In July 2021, rumours began to circulate that Anastasia Tarakanova had retired after she was spotted coaching a class of young students, though this was not officially confirmed by Anastasia Tarakanova.