Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova on her jubilee and noted that she wrote unique, “star” pages in the history of national and world figure skating. The text of congratulations on February 13 is published on the Kremlin website.
“It is with great pleasure that I join the congratulations addressed to you today. Over the years of fruitful coaching, you have written unique, truly “star” pages in the history of domestic and world figure skating,” the President noted.
The head of the Russian state stressed that largely due to Tarasova’s professionalism, talent and impeccable artistic taste, as well as the triumphs and victories of her students in Russia, figure skating enjoys special love and popularity.
Tatyana Tarasova was born on February 13, 1947 in Moscow. Tarasova started figure skating at the age of five. During her sports career, she twice became the winner of the USSR championship – in 1964 and 1965, and in 1966, together with Georgy Proskurin, she won the World Universiade, but soon ended her sports career due to an injury.
Since 1967, Tatyana Tarasova has been coaching and staging her own programs. Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev, Natalya Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin, Oksana (Pasha) Grischuk and Evgeny Platov, Ilya Kulik, Alexei Yagudin, as well as foreign figure skaters Sasha Cohen, Alisa Drey, Johnny Weir and others trained under her guidance. In total, Tarasova’s students have won 41 gold medals at the World and European Championships and eight Olympic gold medals in all types of figure skating.
In 2008, Tarasova was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, USA.
Source: IZ
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