Tatiana Volosozhar

Tatjana Andrejewna Volosozhar (Russian Татьяна Андреевна Волосожар, Ukrainian Тетяна Андріївна Волосожар / Tetjana Andrijiwna Volosozhar, May 22nd, 1986 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian- Russian figure skater, which was launched in pair skating for her native Ukraine and since 2010 Russia compete.

Biography

Tatiana Volosozhar was born in a Russian-speaking family. Her father, an army officer, comes from Nizhny Tagil and her mother from Kaliningrad. She has a sister. Her native language is Russian; Ukrainian, she speaks not perfect, but understandable.

Volosozhar began at the age of five years with the figure skating. At the age of fourteen she appeared in pair skating with Petr Kharchenko on. With him it was 2002 Ukrainian Junior Champion and according to the runner-up title in 2003 in 2004 for the first time Ukrainian champion. In the same year she joined the skating partner ever since and started with Stanislav Morozov. Volosozhar / Morozov, four times national champion (2005, 2007, 2008 and 2010 ) of Ukraine, 12, of the 2006 Winter Olympics and fourth in the world championship in 2007 and the European Championships in 2008, 2009 and 2010. According to the World Championship in 2008 they changed the coach and trained up to the 2010 Winter Olympics at Ingo Steuer in Chemnitz.

After the sporting isolation of Stanislaw Morozov, who ended his skating career after the 2010 Winter Olympics, Volosozhar was looking for a new partner and found him in Maxim Trankov. They moved to Moscow and received the end of 2010, the citizenship of Russia. Volosozhar and Trankov were in December 2010 right off the bat Russian champion, winning in 2011 in Moscow with silver already their first World Cup medal. They achieved a total score of 210.73 points considerable. Thus already established themselves as the biggest challenger to the three -time world champion Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy.

In autumn 2011, Volosozhar and Trankov won with her ​​victory at Skate Canada, their first Grand Prix competition. Also in the Trophée Eric Bompard they were victorious. At the Grand Prix Final, they were subject to extremely scarce, by 0.18 points, Savchenko and Szolkowy and made with 212, 08 points, a new personal best in the overall performance.

In injury -related absence of their competitors Savchenko and Szolkowy and Volosozhar Trankov were European champions in Sheffield for the first time.

The 2012 World Championships in Nice began for the Russians with an unusual dropouts. In the short program Trankov had to get out of the death spiral. This and other errors meant being only rank eight, Savchenko and Szolkowy at the distance was considerable 8,15 points. In the freestyle, it was in spite of everything again unexpectedly exciting. Volosozhar and Trankov had nothing to lose and electrified the audience with her ​​powerful and flawless freestyle to the soundtrack of Black Swan. Savchenko and Szolkowy, however, were not error-free and so lost almost all their lead over the Russians. At the end of Volosozhar and Trankov were missing only 0.11 points on the title.

Volosozhar and Trankov 2013 could defend her title at the European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb successful and referenced here the German pair Savchenko and Szolkowy in second place. At the World Championships in London Volosozhar and Trankov Canadian won the World Cup for the first time. They achieved a world record points in the free skate and the overall performance.

At the Olympic Winter Games 2014, the pair won the gold medal.

Results

Pair of running

  • Russia Russia ( with Maxim Trankov )
  • For Ukraine Ukraine ( up to and including 2003/ 04 with Petr Kharchenko, then with Stanislav Morozov )
Nikolai Morozov (figure skater) Winter Olympic Games Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics 2011 World Figure Skating Championships 2012 World Figure Skating Championships 2013 World Figure Skating Championships 2012 European Figure Skating Championships 2013 European Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2007 World Figure Skating Championships 2008 European Figure Skating Championships 2010 European Figure Skating Championships Skate Canada International Black Swan (film) List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Russian Figure Skating Championships Skate America Cup of Russia NHK Trophy 2003 World Figure Skating Championships 2004 World Figure Skating Championships 2005 World Figure Skating Championships 2006 World Figure Skating Championships 2008 World Figure Skating Championships 2009 World Figure Skating Championships 2001 European Figure Skating Championships 2002 European Figure Skating Championships 2003 European Figure Skating Championships 2004 European Figure Skating Championships 2005 European Figure Skating Championships 2007 European Figure Skating Championships Cup of China International Skating Union Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Ria Baran Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Barbara Wagner Oleg Protopopov Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Oksana Kazakova David Pelletier Shen Xue Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson Karl Mejstrik Ludwig Wrede Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Jennifer Nicks John Nicks Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden Maria Jelinek Otto Jelinek Irina Vorobieva Tassilo Thierbach Barbara Underhill Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler Pang Qing Olga Orgonista Idi Papez Karl Zwack Marianna Nagy (figure skater) Silvia Grandjean Michel Grandjean Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov (figure skater) Yuri Larionov
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