10 Facts About Tatiana Tarasova

Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova is a Russian figure skating coach and national figure skating team adviser.

Tatiana Tarasova's students have won a total of eight Olympic gold medals in three of the four Olympic figure skating disciplines, in addition to 41 gold medals at the European and World championships.

Tatiana Tarasova is the daughter of Anatoly Tarasov, a famed ice hockey coach, who introduced her to figure skating at the age of five.

Tatiana Tarasova lived for more than a decade in Simsbury, Connecticut before moving back to Russia in 2006.

Tatiana Tarasova is the widow of Vladimir Krainev, who died in April 2011.

Tatiana Tarasova competed in pair skating with Aleksandr Tikhomirov and Georgi Proskurin.

At 18 years of age, Tatiana Tarasova sustained a career-ending injury.

Tatiana Tarasova started coaching at age 19, at her father's insistence.

Tatiana Tarasova coached for ten years at Simsbury, Connecticut's International Skating Center before announcing her retirement from full-time coaching and moving back to Russia in 2006.

In March 2023, Tatiana Tarasova lashed out at Canadian athletes who signed a petition calling for a continuation of the ban on Russian athletes amidst the Russo-Ukrainian War:.