Maxim Marinin

Maxim Viktorovich Marinin (Russian Максим Викторович Маринин; born March 23, 1977 in Volgograd) is a Russian former figure skater, who started pair skating.

Career

Marinin is the first of two sons of the couple Tatiana Alekseyevna and Viktor Yakovlevich Marinin. His younger brother's name is Vladimir Viktorovich. Marinin began at the age of four years with the ice skating, but initially had no coach, because his parents could not afford it. He began first as individual runners, but after he was defeated in a tournament by the younger Yevgeny Plyushchenko, he decided to go to the pair of running. He went in 1993 on the advice of a trainer to Saint Petersburg. 1996 Tatjana Totmjanina was his figure skating partner. They approached the Jubilejny sports club and trained in Jubileiny Sports Complex. Their first coach was Natalia Pavlova.

In 1999, she denied her debut at World and European Championships, she finished in seventh and fifth respectively. Their first major international medal they won silver at the European Championships 2001 in Bratislava behind their compatriots Jelena Bereschnaja and Anton Sikharulidze. In the same year, the couple went to Chicago with Oleg Vasiliev, be able to train the pair skating Olympic champion from 1984.

2002 could Totmjanina and Marinin win her first major title. In Lausanne, they were European champions. A few weeks later, she won silver in Nagano with behind the Chinese Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo her first World Cup medal. Your first Olympics they finished in Salt Lake City in fourth place. 2003, they were after they had already won the first Grand Prix Final for the first time Russian pair skating champions. In Malmö they defended their European title at the World Championships and she again won the silver medal behind the Chinese. It was the last time the Totmjanina / Marinin did not win at a major tournament. In 2004 she defended her national championship title for the third year in a row, European Champion and World Champion in Dortmund for the first time. In October 2004, they had the Grand Prix Competition Skate America in Pittsburgh a serious accident when Marinin at a so-called Lasso elevation lost his balance and fell Totmjanina head first onto the ice. She suffered a severe concussion and had to be rushed to the hospital unconscious. She had no memory of the incident. However, they quickly recovered and lost the trust not in their partner. Marinin other hand, had to deal with panic attacks, as he should raise it again. With the help of a sports psychologist, he was able to overcome this. In February 2005, they were the undisputed European champion and a month later in Moscow also world champion again as the reigning Russian champions. So they went as favorites in the Olympic year. For the second time they won the Grand Prix Final in Lyon and for the fifth consecutive European title. At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin Tatjana Totmjanina and Maxim Marinin were two error-free programs Olympic champion in pair skating. In both the short program and in the free skate they bribed by security, elegance and expression. At the World Championships she no longer participated. She announced her resignation as amateurs and occurred only in ice revues such as the Champions on Ice.

Marinin and Totmjanina had during her career, a relationship, this ended however, and remained close friends. With his partner Natalya Somowa, a ballet dancer, Marinin has a son named Artemij Maximowitsch ( born September 29, 2007 in Krasnodar ). They live together in Moscow.

Results

Pair of running

( with Tatjana Totmjanina )

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