Anna Tarusina

Anna Sergeyevna Tarusina (Russian: Анна Сергеевна Тарусина; born 24 January 2003) is a Russian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2018 CS Alpen Trophy champion. On the junior level, she is the 2018 JGP Slovakia and 2018 JGP Slovenia silver medalist.

Anna Tarusina
Tarusina at the 2019 Russian Championships
Full nameAnna Sergeyevna Tarusina
Native nameАнна Сергеевна Тарусина (Russian)
Born (2003-01-24) 24 January 2003
Moscow, Russia
Height1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country Russia
CoachSergei Davydov
Skating clubCSKA Moscow
Began skating2008
Retired25 September 2019[1]

Personal life

Tarusina was born on 24 January 2003 in Moscow. She was diagnosed with vision problems shortly after birth.[2] As a child, Tarusina studied at a music school.[2]

Career

Early career

Tarusina began learning to skate in 2008. Until 2013, she trained in Odintsovo under former coach Sergey Chemodanov.

Tarusina finished 12th at the 2015 Russian Junior Championships and 7th at the 2016 Russian Junior Championships.

Tarusina was supposed to make her ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating debut in August 2016 at the 2016 JGP St. Gervais, alongside Russian teammate Alina Zagitova. However, she and her coach Sergei Davydov, along with other athletes, were in a car accident on the shuttle bus en route to the rink where the competition was taking place.[3] Tarusina sustained a knee injury requiring surgery and was forced to withdraw from the competition.[4] She missed most of the 2016–17 season because of the accident but placed 10th at the 2017 Russian Junior Championships.[5]

Tarusina finished 12th at the 2018 Russian Championships, which was her first senior national championships.

2018–19 season

Tarusina made her Junior Grand Prix debut in August 2018 at the first JGP competition of the season in Bratislava, Slovakia. Tarusina placed second behind teammate Anna Shcherbakova and ahead of South Korean competitor You Young with a score of 186.68 points.

At her second assignment, JGP Slovenia, Tarusina placed second in both the short program and the free skate to claim the silver medal behind Russian teammate Anastasia Tarakanova and ahead of South Korean competitor Lee Hae-in. Tarusina set a new ISU personal best in her free skate, earning 122.50 points. Both Tarusina and her teammate Alena Kanysheva won two silver medals during JGP season, but since Kanysheva accumulated more combined total points from her two JGP events than Tarusina did, Kanysheva won the tiebreaker for the final qualification place at the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final. Kanysheva accumulated only about 4 points more than Tarusina.[6] Tarusina was the first alternate for the event.

In mid-November, Tarusina made her senior international debut at the 2018 CS Alpen Trophy, a Challenger Series competition held in Innsbruck, Austria. At the Alpen Trophy, she was ranked first in both the short program and the free skate and won the gold medal by a margin of about 24 points over the silver medalist, her teammate Serafima Sakhanovich. At this event, Tarusina also scored her personal best score of 198.76 points.

At the 2019 Russian Championships, Tarusina placed eighth.

2019–20 season

Tarusina had knee surgery related to the injury she sustained in the 2016 bus accident prior to the season. After being unable to compete on the Junior Grand Prix due to an extended recovery period, she retired from the sport on 25 September 2019.[1]

Programs
Season Short program Free skating
2019–2020
2018–2019
[5]
2017–2018
[7]
2015–2017
[8]
  • Street Passion
    by DiDuLa

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[9]
Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20
CS Alpen Trophy1st
International: Junior[9]
JGP FranceWD
JGP Slovakia2nd
JGP Slovenia2nd
Ice Star1st
National[10]
Russian Champ.12th8th
Russian Junior Champ.12th7th10th5th
Russian Cup Final6th
Levels: J = Junior
WD = Withdrew, TBD = Assigned

Detailed results

Junior level
2018–19 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
1–4 February 2019 2019 Russian Junior Championships Junior 5
71.51		 5
134.62		 5
206.13
19–23 December 2018 2019 Russian Championships Senior 9
70.01		 7
135.15		 8
205.16
11–18 November 2018 2018 CS Alpen Trophy Senior 1
67.48		 1
131.28		 1
198.76
3–6 October 2018 2018 JGP Slovenia Junior 2
65.74		 2
122.50		 2
188.24
22–25 August 2018 2018 JGP Slovakia Junior 2
67.14		 3
119.54		 2
186.68
2017–18 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
19–24 December 2017 2018 Russian Championships Senior 11
66.46		 12
129.13		 12
195.59
26–29 October 2017 2017 Ice Star Junior 1
64.00		 1
123.84		 1
187.84
2016–17 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
1–5 February 2017 2017 Russian Junior Championships Junior 10
62.62		 8
117.60		 10
180.22
24–27 August 2016 2016 JGP France Junior WD WD WD
2015–16 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
21–23 January 2016 2016 Russian Junior Championships Junior 8
61.13		 7
110.84		 7
171.97
2014–15 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
4–7 February 2015 2015 Russian Junior Championships Junior 14
52.71		 12
95.03		 12
147.74

References
  1. Samokhvalov, Anatoly (25 September 2019). "Фигуристка Анна Тарусина завершила карьеру в 16 лет" [Figure skater Anna Tarusina completed her career at age 16] (in Russian). RIA Novosti.
  2. Adamov, Alexey (3 November 2020). ""Больше не могу". Как карьеру талантливой российской фигуристки сломала автокатастрофа" ["I cannot anymore." How the career of a talented Russian figure skater was broken by a car accident]. Championat (in Russian).
  3. "Accident at ISU Junior Grand Grix of figure skating event in St. Gervais". International Skating Union.
  4. "Newcomers step up as ISU Junior Grand Prix kicks off". International Skating Union. International Skating Union. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  5. "Anna TARUSINA: 2018/2019". International Skating Union.
  6. "ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018 / 2019 Qualification - Junior Ladies" (Press release). International Skating Union. 15 October 2018.
  7. "Anna TARUSINA: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2018.
  8. "Anna TARUSINA: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  9. "Competition Results: Anna TARUSINA". International Skating Union.
  10. "Анна Сергеевна Тарусина" [Anna Sergeyevna Tarusina]. fskate.ru (in Russian).
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