Tatiana Tarasova is a world-leading figure skating coach, who holds the record for coaching the most World and Olympic figure skating champions in ice skating history. Her students have won a combined 42 gold, 17 silver and 6 bronze medals at the European and World championships, including 7 Olympic gold... Read more
Tatiana Tarasova is a world-leading figure skating coach, who holds the record for coaching the most World and Olympic figure skating champions in ice skating history.
Her students have won a combined 42 gold, 17 silver and 6 bronze medals at the European and World championships, including 7 Olympic gold medals in 3 of the 4 Olympic figure skating disciplines. Tarasova started coaching at age 19. Her most notable students have been Alexei Yagudin, IIia Kulik, Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin, Oksana Grishuk / Evgnei Platov, Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov, Marina Kilmova / Sergey Ponomarenko, and Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev. She is also a choreographer and has choreographed programmes for Evan Lysacek, Sasha Cohen and Michelle Kwan.
In her youth, Tarasova was a world-class pair skater, competing with Aleksandr Tikhomirov and Georgi Proskurin. With Proskurin, she was a two-time Soviet national medallist, achieved 7th at the 1965 World Championships, and 4th at the 1966 European Championships. However, at 18 years of age, she sustained a career-ending injury.
In 1993Tatiana Tarasova and Elena Chaikovskaya created the All Stars ice theatre, an ice ballet. For 14 years, the Ice Theatre toured many countries of the world and Tarasova worked as a coach, ballet master and director. She then coached for 10 years at Simsbury, Conneticut’s International Skating Center, before announcing her retirement from full-time coaching and moving back to Russia in 2006.
Tatiana Tarasova is an Honoured Coach of the U.S.S.R. (1975), and has received numerous national awards including, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour, the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984), Award of Honour (1976), Special Award of the Russian Federation (1998), and Order of Honour (2007). In March 2008, she was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
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Tatiana Tarasova speaks on a range of business, leadership and industry subjects. Talks can be shaped around your audience, industry and strategic objectives - share your event brief with London Speaker Bureau and we will work with Tatiana to align the content with your delegates and goals.
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Virtual and hybrid keynotes are now a standard part of the speaking industry. Please contact London Speaker Bureau to confirm whether Tatiana Tarasova is available to deliver a virtual session for your event and on which platform (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, a bespoke studio or your own).
Most keynote speeches run between 45 and 60 minutes, often followed by a 15-30 minute Q&A. Other formats - shorter conference slots, panel appearances or longer workshop sessions - may also be possible. Share your agenda with London Speaker Bureau and we will confirm what Tatiana can accommodate.
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Tatiana Tarasova delivers keynotes in English. This profile may not list every language available; ask London Speaker Bureau to confirm. If you require simultaneous interpretation or a multilingual format, please mention this in your enquiry and London Speaker Bureau will arrange it for you.
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Tatiana Tarasova can be booked through London Speaker Bureau for corporate conferences, leadership events, internal team meetings, association gatherings and private client engagements where expertise in a range of business, leadership and industry subjects is relevant. Details of Tatiana's background and previous engagements are included in the biography above; contact us if you would like a more detailed list of past clients or case studies.
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We generally recommend enquiring at least three to twelve months in advance to secure your preferred date with Tatiana Tarasova, particularly during peak conference seasons. Where possible we also accommodate shorter lead times - please contact London Speaker Bureau to check Tatiana's current availability for your dates.