Marina Anissina

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Marina Anissina

Anissina and partner Gwendal Peizerat compete in 2001.
Personal Info
Country:	France
Partner:	Gwendal Peizerat
ISU Personal Best Scores

Olympic medal record
Ice dancing
Gold	2002 Salt Lake City	Ice dancing
Bronze	1998 Nagano	Ice dancing

Marina Anissina (Cyrillic Марина Анисина) (born August 30, 1975 in Moscow, Russia) is a French figure skater and the 2002 Olympic champion in ice dancing.

Her last name is spelled with a double "s", as opposed to the literal translation "Anisina", to facilitate correct pronunciation outside Slavic language areas.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Results with Gwendal Peizerat 2.1 Olympic Winter Games 2.2 World championships 2.3 European Championship 2.4 French National Championship 3 Results with Ilia Averbukh 3.1 Junior World Championship 4 See also 5 External links 6 Navigation

[edit] Biography

Marina Anissina's mother, Irina Cherniaeva, is a former pairs skater who participated in the 1972 Winter Olympics and finished in sixth place with her partner Vasili Blagov. She is now a pairs figure skating coach. She followed her daughter to France and worked as a coach in Paris but moved later with her daughter to Lyon.

Marina Anissina's father is Wiatscheslaw Michailowitsch Anissin (born July 11 1951). He was World and European champion in ice hockey and works as an ice hockey coach in Moscow in Russia. He was also a member of the Soviet team that participated in the 1972 Summit Series against Canada.

Before her partnership with Gwendal Peizerat, Marina Anissina teamed up with other skating partners, first with Sergei Sakhnovski and later with Ilia Averbukh

Anissina's partnership with Sergei Sakhnovski did not last long. He left her to skate with Galit Chait for Israel.

The pair of Marina Anissina & Ilia Averbukh, representing Russia, became Junior World Champions in 1990 and 1992. Ilia Averbukh fell in love with Irina Lobacheva and left Marina Anissina to skate with Lobacheva.

Marina Anissina wrote several letters to find a new skating partner. She searched internationally. Finally, she teamed up with Gwendal Peizerat from France in 1993. Since then, her coach has been Murielle Boucher-Zazoui. They skated for the club Lyon TSC and also represented France at the Olympic Winter Games. Marina Anissina has taken French citizenship.

In 2002 Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat became France's first Olympic Champions in ice dancing. After winning the Olympic gold medal they finished their amateur skating career, turned pro and now appear in shows, such as Champions on Ice.

Their signature move, a "reverse lift," happens when, in her arms, he lifts both blades off the ice and both of her blades are still on the ice.

[edit] Results with Gwendal Peizerat

[edit] Olympic Winter Games

• 2002 – 1st place
• 1998 – 3rd place

[edit] World championships

• 2001 – 2nd place
• 2000 – 1st place
• 1999 – 2nd place
• 1998 – 2nd place
• 1997 – 5th place
• 1996 – 4th place
• 1995 – 6th place
• 1994 – 10th place

[edit] European Championship

• 2002 – 1st place
• 2001 – 2nd place
• 2000 – 1st place
• 1999 – 2nd place
• 1998 – 3rd place
• 1997 – 4th place
• 1996 – 4th place
• 1995 – 5th place
• 1994 – 12th place

[edit] French National Championship

• 2001 – Did not compete
• 2000 – 1st place
• 1999 – 1st place
• 1998 – 1st place
• 1997 – 1st place
• 1996 – 1st place
• 1995 – 1st place
• 1994 – 2nd place
• 1993 – 2nd place

[edit] Results with Ilia Averbukh

[edit] Junior World Championship

• 1990 – 1st place
• 1991 - 4th place
• 1992 – 1st place

[edit] See also

• List of Olympic medalists in figure skating
• World Figure Skating Championships
• European Figure Skating Championships
• Figure Skating

[edit] External links

• http://www.peoples.ru/sport/fskating/anisina/ (in Russian)
• http://home.snafu.de/figureskating/anissina-peizerat/ (official website)
• Care to Ice Dance? - Anissina & Peizerat
• http://mgforever.free.fr (in french)

[edit] Navigation