Elizaveta Tuktamysheva

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva

at the Grand Prix Final
Personal information
Full name Elizaveta Sergeyevna Tuktamysheva
Country represented  Russia
Born December 17, 1996 (1996-12-17) (age 15)
Glazov, Russia
Home town Glazov, Russia
Residence Saint Petersburg, Russia
Height 1.56 m (5 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
Coach Alexei Mishin
Svetlana Veretennikova
Choreographer Georgi Kovtun[1] Stéphane Lambiel
Former choreographer Tatiana Rodionova
Edvald Smirnov[1]
Skating club Yubileyny
Current training locations Saint Petersburg
Former training locations Glazov
World standing 18 (As of 5 December 2011 (2011 -12-05))[2]
Season's bests TBD (2011–2012)[3]
12 (2010–2011)[4]
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 182.89
2011 Trophee Eric Bompard
Short program 62.04
2011 Trophée Eric Bompard
Free skate 120.85
2011 Trophée Eric Bompard

Elizaveta Sergeyevna "Liza" Tuktamysheva (Russian: Елизавета Сергеевна Туктамышева; born December 17, 1996 in Glazov, Udmurtia, Russian Federation) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2011 World Junior silver medalist, 2010 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, three-time senior Russian Nationals medalist, and 2011 Russian Junior champion.

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Personal life

Tuktamysheva's mother teaches algebra and geometry and has been the class teacher of her daughter from the 5th to 9th grade.[1][5] Her father was a former skier who later coached soccer.[1] He died in April 2011.[6] She has a sister, Evgenia, who is seven years younger and has also taken up skating.[1] Tuktamysheva started skating at the age of four, after meeting girls interested in the sport at a summer camp.[1][7]

Career

Early career

Coached by Svetlana Veretennikova, Tuktamysheva appeared at competitions in Belgorod where she was noticed by Alexei Mishin.[1][8] Initially, he thought her technique was too incomplete and did not invite her into his group.[1] A year later he saw her again and changed his mind due to her ability to jump high,[1] but she had to rework the technique on all her jumps.[5] Tuktamysheva's family could not afford to move to a big city, so she remained in her home town Glazov where she continued to train under Veretennikova, and regularly visited Mishin in Saint Petersburg, where she lived in a dormitory.[9][10] The train trip from Glazov to Saint Petersburg took 27 hours.[1] Until the summer of 2011, she would spend between one to two weeks there on average and the rest of the month in Glazov.[11][1][12]

Tuktamysheva was called a figure skating prodigy by Russian media, because at the age of 12 she performed difficult jumps, such as the triple axel in practice,[13] but she has never attempted the triple axel in competition. In 2008, she placed 10th at the Russian Championships.[14] Mishin was criticized for making Tuktamysheva participate in the senior Russian Championships (2008) at only 12 years old.[15]

In 2009, Tuktamysheva won the silver medal at the Russian Championships, after placing 4th in the short program and first in the free skating.[16] She placed 2nd with a margin of 0.67 points behind champion Adelina Sotnikova, who is half a year older than Tuktamysheva.[17][18] Mishin said his student was Russia's "main hope for the gold medal at the Sochi Olympics".[9] Despite her medal, she was not sent to any ISU Championships, including Junior Worlds, because she was not old enough according to ISU rules.

At the 2010 Russian Championships, Tuktamysheva was 10th after the short program but earned 124.57 points in the free skate and was able to win a bronze medal.[19] Her technical marks were higher than even those of male competitors, except Evgeni Plushenko.[20] In March, she skated in the Kings on Ice ice show.[21] During the summer, she took part in training camps in Estonia, Italy and Germany in preparation for the new season.[1]

In the 2010–2011 season, Tuktamysheva was old enough to compete in ISU Junior competition. She won her Junior Grand Prix events in Germany and Romania and qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final.[22] At the Final, she placed second in both programs to win silver behind Adelina Sotnikova.[23] At the 2011 Russian Championships, she placed 7th in the short program and 3rd in the long, to win the bronze medal.[24] She won the Russian Junior Championships by placing first in both programs. At the 2011 Junior Worlds, she won the silver medal behind teammate Adelina Sotnikova.[25][26]

Following her father's death, Tuktamysheva's family settled in Saint Petersburg in August 2011,[27][12] with Mishin assisting her mother in locating work at a school.[6] In preparation for the new season, Tuktamysheva took part in Mishin's training camps in Jaca (Spain), Tartu (Estonia), and Pinzolo (Italy).[27][28]

According to ISU age rules, Tuktamysheva is barred from the senior World or European Championships until 2013 but was permitted to debut on the senior Grand Prix circuit during the 2011–2012 season. She decided to take up this option and was assigned to 2011 Skate Canada and 2011 Trophee Eric Bompard. Tuktamysheva replaced the injured Sarah Meier at the Japan Open in October and won the event.[29][30] Tuktamysheva debuted on the senior Grand Prix circuit at Skate Canada,[31] where she won the gold medal with a combined personal best score of 177.38 points, becoming the youngest champion in the event since Tracey Wainman in 1981.[32] She dedicated the win to her late father.[6] Tuktamysheva then won gold at 2011 Trophée Eric Bompard to qualify for her first senior Grand Prix Final. She is the first ladies skater to win her senior debut event and to win both events in her senior Grand Prix debut. [33] At the Grand Prix Final, she finished fourth with a combined total of 174.51 points.

At the 2012 Russian Championships, Tuktamysheva was seveth in the short program and fourth in the free skate and finished 6th overall .

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2011–2012[27] Adiós Nonino
by Ástor Piazzolla		 Harem
by R.E.G. Project
2010–2011[34] Harem
(from The Casbah)
by R.E.G. Project		 Asturias
by Isaac Albeniz		 In The Closet
by Michael Jackson
2009–2010 Asturias
by Isaac Albeniz
2008–2009 Gypsy Dance
(from Don Quixote)
by Léon Minkus		 Memoirs of a Geisha
by John Williams
2007–2008 Swan Lake
by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Competitive highlights

Event 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12
Russian Championships 10th 2nd 3rd 3rd 6th
World Junior Championships 2nd
Grand Prix Final 4th
Skate Canada 1st
Trophée Eric Bompard 1st
Russian Junior Championships 8th[35] 9th[36] 2nd 4th 1st
Junior Grand Prix Final 2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Germany 1st
Junior Grand Prix, Romania 1st
Coupe de Nice 1st N. 1st N. 1st J.
Japan Open (TE) 1st/2nd
N = Novice level; J = Junior level; TE = Team event (Individual result/Team result)

Detailed results

2011–2012 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
December 25-29, 2011 2012 Russian Figure Skating Championships Senior 7
58.32		 4
116.08		 6
174.40
December 8-11, 2011 2011–2012 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Senior 5
54.99		 2
119.52		 4
174.51
November 17–20, 2011 2011 ISU Grand Prix Trophée Eric Bompard Senior 1
62.04		 2
120.85		 1
182.89
27 October – 30 October, 2011 2011 Skate Canada International Senior 1
59.57		 2
117.81		 1
177.38
2010–2011 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
February 28 – March 6, 2011 2011 World Junior Championships Junior 2
58.60		 2
110.51		 2
169.11
February 2–4, 2011 2011 Russian Junior Championships Junior 1
60.96		 1
132.60		 1
193.56
December 26–29, 2011 2011 Russian Championships Senior 7
56.30		 3
124.41		 3
180.71
December 9–12, 2010 2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final Junior 2
53.76		 2
107.11		 2
160.87
October 6–10, 2010 2010 JGP Germany Junior 1
57.35		 1
115.43		 1
172.78
September 8–12, 2010 2010 JGP Romania Junior 4
46.11		 1
86.21		 1
132.32

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