Maxim Trankov

Maxim Leonidovich Trankov ( russian Максим Леонидович Траньков, born October 7, 1983 in Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ) is a Russian figure skater who starts in pair skating. He is the 2012-2014 European Champion, World Champion of 2013, and the Olympic champion from 2014.

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Biography

Trankov began at the age of eight years with figure skating. At 15, he moved from Perm to St Petersburg to find a new partner. First, he found this in the later Junior World Champion Natalia Shestakova ( with Pavel Lebedev ).

After the 2002/ 03 season a partner exchange took place. Trankov now ran with Marija Mukhortova and Shestakova with Lebedev. Already in the following year won Mukhortova / Trankov the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships and in 2005 Junior World Champion.

After this season they changed the coach and went to Tamara Moskvina by Nikolai Welikow. In August of the same year they changed after a dispute with Moskvina the coach and trained henceforth at their assistants and double Olympic champion Artur Dmitriev ( 1992 Natalja Mischkutjonok & 1998 Oksana Kazakowa ) before in December 2006 to Oleg Vasiliev (Olympic Champion with partner Jelena Walowa ) went. Mukhortova and Trankov start for St. Petersburg Skating School, St. Petersburg.

At the Russian Championships 2006, the pair finished third, but was not allowed to participate in international championships since the Russian top pair, the reigning world champion Tatjana Totmjanina and Maxim Marinin injury could not attend. Only after their Olympic victory and the subsequent resignation occupy Mukhortova / Trankov the third Russian launch pad at the World Championships, where they finished in 12th place.

2007 Mukhortova / Trankov first time Russian champions, but were unable to attend the European Championships due to an injury Muchortowas. At the World Championships, she improved on the previous year to a place and were 11

In the following season they were defeated at the Russian Championships Juko Kawaguti and Alexander Smirnov, however, won the European Championships silver medal behind the Germans Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy and their fellow countrymen Kawaguti / Smirnov. At the World Championships Mukhortova and Trankov occupied the 7th place, where they had to interrupt their freestyle because Maxim Trankov because of a too-tight costume sleeve had problems with blood circulation in his right arm.

At Skate America, the start of the 2008/09 season, Mukhortova and Trankov led a surprise after a clean short program even before the German world champions Savchenko / Szolkowy. After a botched freestyle with three falls, however, they were only third in the end. In a few weeks later Trophée Eric Bompard held in Paris, she took second place.

Skating partnership with Tatiana Volosozhar

Since the season 2010/11 Trankov takes on the side of Tatiana Volosozhar.

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 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.

2013 could Trankov and Volosozhar 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

(until 2010 with Marija Mukhortova, then with Tatiana Volosozhar )

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