Figure skater Evgenia Tarasova has come a long winding path to the status of one of the best athletes in pair skating. She started as a loner. However, then it was successfully retrained and today rides with Vladimir Morozov, making together with him one of the strongest sports couples in the world.
Daughter of kazan
Evgenia Maksimovna Tarasova was born in Kazan, in Tatarstan, in 1994. Natives of this city, as a rule, achieve great success in volleyball, basketball. However, the little girl went her own way. Zhenya's parents dreamed of giving her to ballroom dancing. However, there were no suitable schools nearby, so I had to look for other options.
Not far from the house, the Raketa ice complex opened, where a small skating rink for the smallest worked. For some time, the young figure skater Evgenia Tarasova mastered the basics of skill at the local site, after which she was transferred to the city sports school.
The first coach of Zhenya was her namesake - Gennady Tarasov, who began to educate in her a strong single skater. After the tragic death of his mentor, Eugene began to engage in the group of Vyacheslav Golovlev. Zhenya's height was only 158 cm. She ideally suited the role of a figure skater and made significant progress in the early years.
There is safety in numbers
At the republican level, Evgenia Tarasova was not equal among young girls. She was rightly considered the strongest skater of Tatarstan. In 2007, she won her first medals, becoming the winner of the Olympics among schoolchildren in the Volga and Ural Federal District.
Soon she came to the attention of coaches from Moscow and became a member of the junior national team. It all started well for her. She participated in international tournaments, took prizes. In 2008, the girl participated in one of the stages of the Junior Grand Prix in Belarus and won gold medals.
However, in a short period of time, a real explosion occurred in women's figure skating in Russia. A whole galaxy of little girls appeared who were incredibly talented and mastered incredibly complex technical elements. At the national championship in 2009, Evgenia Tarasova took only twelfth place, missing a whole group of athletes 3-4 years younger than her.
Not wanting to be satisfied with the role of the statistician, Eugene began to look for other ways of self-expression in sports and decided to try her hand at pair figure skating.
Pair skating debut
In order to successfully develop and improve her skills, Evgenia Tarasova moved to Moscow, where she began to study in the group of one of the best specialists in the country - Nina Moser. The first partner of the girl was Yegor Chudin, and coach Andrey Hekalo became the curator of the guys. The new couple was developing in the right direction, and soon Eugene and Egor entered the country's junior team.
However, in 2011, Yegor Chudin decided to focus on performances in ice shows, where earnings prospects were more promising, and Eugene was left without a partner. Gritting her teeth, a native of Kazan began to look for a new partner and soon found her soul mate in the person of promising Vladimir Morozov. The well-known Ukrainian figure skater Stanislav Morozov, who ended his sports career, became the children’s coach.
Eugene and Vladimir quickly adapted to each other. Soon they began to win medals of junior national and international tournaments, were delegated to the Winter Universiade in 2013, where they became silver medalists.
Breakthrough
After the Olympic Games in Sochi, the young Russian couple changed their coaching staff. Andrei Hekalo returned to Eugene, and the famous figure skater Robin Sholkova volunteered to help him. In the first year, the guys significantly improved their results and quickly broke into the elite of national figure skating.
In 2015, Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov first got the opportunity to speak at the continent championship in Stockholm, where the debutants performed with dignity and won bronze awards. A year later, they repeated their achievement in Bratislava, and they were not supposed to speak and went to the tournament in the status of a reserve pair. However, due to the removal of partners in the national team, they got the opportunity to present their program at the European Championships.
On the eve of the Olympics, the results of Eugene and Vladimir are encouraging to their fans. The young stars of figure skating won the continental championship and became third at the 2017 World Cup.
The personal life of Evgenia Tarasova causes keen interest in her personal fans. However, now the girl is focused on her sports career and is not exchanged for casual relationships.