Tarasova, Tatyana Anatolyevna .
By 2004, her students had won a total of 41 gold medals at the World and European Championships, as well as seven Olympic gold medals in three of four possible disciplines.
Born into the family of Anatoly Tarasov, a famous Soviet hockey player and coach, and Nina Grigorievna Tarasova. The elder sister is Galina, a teacher.
When Tatyana was five years old, her father taught her to skate.
The couple Tatiana Tarasova and Georgy Proskurin were coached for a short time by E.A.Tchaikovskaya. Together with Georgy Proskurin, Tatyana Tarasova participated in the World Universiade in 1966. Soon after, she was forced to retire from her sports career due to injury.
In 1967, Tarasova began to engage in coaching and staging programs. Among her students in different years were:
Irina Rodnina, Alexander Zaitsev, Irina Moiseeva, Andrey Minenkov, Alexey Yagudin, Ilya Kulik, Denis Ten, Natalya Bestemyanova, Marina Klimova, Irina Romanova, Igor Yaroshenko, Sasha Cohen, Alisa Dray, Johnny Weir, Shizuka Arakava, Oksana Fischuk, Bar -Poly, Andrey Bukin, Evgeny Platov, Sergey Ponomarenko, Mao Asada, Evan Laysacek, Irina Nikolaeva and others .
