Marina Anissina

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Marina Anissina

Anissina and partner Gwendal Peizerat compete in 2001.
Personal information
Full name Marina Vyacheslavovna Anissina
Alternative names Marina Anisina
Country represented France
Former country(ies) represented Russia
Soviet Union
Born (1975-08-30) 30 August 1975
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Partner Gwendal Peizerat
Former partner Ilia Averbukh (RUS & URS)
Sergei Sakhnovski (URS)
Former coach Muriel Boucher-Zazoui
Skating club CSG Lyon
Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Competitor for  France
Gold 2002 Salt Lake City Ice Dancing
Bronze 1998 Nagano Ice Dancing

Marina Vyacheslavovna Anissina (Russian: Марина Вячеславовна Анисина, born 30 August 1975) is a French-Russian ice dancer. With partner Gwendal Peizerat, she is the 2002 Olympic champion.

Career

Marina Anissina was born into a skating family, her mother being a pair skater and her father a hockey player.[1] She began skating at the age of four[2] and by nine she was already determined to become a champion.[3] Her mother, having been injured in pair skating, did not wish her daughter to take those risks so she went into ice dancing.[2][1]

Early in her career, Anissina competed with Sergei Sakhnovski, representing the Soviet Union. Following that partnership, she teamed up with Ilia Averbukh. They represented the Soviet Union and, after that country's dissolution, Russia. They were the 1990 and 1992 World Junior Champions.[4] Their partnership ended at the end of the 1991–92 season;[5] Averbukh decided to leave Anissina to skate with Irina Lobacheva with whom he had fallen in love.[3]

Russia at the time had a number of top ice dancing teams and was not especially concerned with helping Anissina find a new partner.[1] She and her mother studied videotapes of international competitions and selected Gwendal Peizerat and Victor Kraatz.[3] Anissina sent letters to both but the one to Kraatz did not reach him.[3] Peizerat did not respond immediately but when his partnership with Marina Morel fell apart, he contacted Anissina.[6] She arrived in Lyon, France, in February 1993, declaring her goal of becoming World and Olympic champion.[5] She wanted to bring Peizerat back to Russia with her but his family was opposed so she settled in France.[5] She focused intensely on skating and insisted her partner, who was dividing his time between skating and his education, be equally focused on their career.[5] Their first year together was difficult with major quarrels and they came close to splitting up.[5] Nevertheless, their coach Muriel Boucher-Zazoui immediately felt it was a promising partnership, saying "They are like fire and ice".[3]

Anissina and Peizerat won the 1998 Olympic bronze medal and 1998 and 1999 World silver medals behind Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov. The Russians retired due to injury and Anissina and Peizerat then developed a rivalry with the Italians Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio. The French won the 2000 European and World Championships.[1] In 2001, Anissina and Peizerat won European and World silver behind the Italians but surged past them in 2002 to reclaim their European title and become the Olympic Champions. At the 2002 Olympics, they led after the compulsory dances and the original dance. Their free dance, Liberty, mixed music with sections from the famed freedom speech by Martin Luther King Jr.; a 5–4 split of the judges' panel had them in first place in this segment ahead of Lobecheva and Averbukh, and they became the first French ice dancers to win the Olympic gold medal.[7]

After the Olympics, Anissina and Peizerat ended their competitive skating careers. The two continued skating together for many years in shows around the world.[8] Both have also worked as choreographers.[9] Anissina coached for several years in Marseille at S.O.G.M.A. 13 before her family settled in Moscow.[10]

They skated for the club Lyon TSC. Their signature move is a "reverse lift", wherein Anissina lifts Peizerat off the ice, rather than vice versa. This set the two apart from other dance couples, as most lifts in ice dance involve the man lifting the woman.

2013 Comeback

In 2013 she contacted Russian and French media and said she would attempt with Peizaret to qualify to compete in the 2014 Sochi Olympics. [11]

Personal life

Marina Anissina's mother, Irina Cherniaeva, is a former pair skater who placed sixth at the 1972 Winter Olympics.[3] Marina Anissina's father is Vyacheslav Anisin, a World and European champion in ice hockey. Anissina is of Ukrainian descent on her mother's side.[12][13] Her brother is Mikhail Anisin, also a hockey player. Marina Anissina received French citizenship in 1994.[3]

On February 23, 2008, Anissina married Russian actor Nikita Djigurda in Moscow after the two met when they were partnered on a celebrity ice dancing television show.[14] Their son, Mick-Angel Christ (in Russian: Мик-Анжель Крист), was born in Biarritz on January 7, 2009.[15] Their daughter, Eva Vlada,[16] was born on January 23, 2010.[10][17] Their children were baptized in an Orthodox church in Moscow.[16] The family currently lives in Moscow,[18] but Anissina spends some time in France and works with young ice dancers.[8]

Programs

(with Peizerat)[19]

Season Original dance Free dance Exhibition
1993–1994 Quizás, Quizás, Quizás (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps)
by Osvaldo Farrés		 Borrasca
by Ottmar Liebert 		J'en ai Marre
by Hugues Le Bars
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
1994–1995 Sing, Sing, Sing
by Louis Prima		 Tango
by Astor Piazolla 		Still Loving You
by Scorpions
J'en ai Marre
by Hugues Le Bars
1995–1996 Ay Mi Sombrero
by Genaro Monreal		 Latin mix
by Xavier Cugat 		Kozachok
1996–1997 Docteur Petiot (1990 film)
by Michel Portal		 Ahla Leila
by Muhammad Sultan 		Kozachok
I'm Sorry
performed by Brenda Lee
1997–1998 Snatch and Grab It
performed by Dana Gillespie		 Romeo and Juliet:
"The Montagues and the Capulets" and "Death of Juliet"
by Sergei Prokofiev 		Time To Say Goodbye
performed by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli
1998–1999 Masquerade Suite Waltz
by Aram Khachaturian
Waltz from My Sweet and Tender Beast
A Hunting Accident (Мой ласковый и нежный зверь)
by Eugen Doga 		The Man in the Iron Mask:
"Heart of a King" and "Surrounded"
soundtrack by Nick Glennie-Smith 		Time To Say Goodbye
performed by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli
1999–2000 Black Machine
by Jazz Machine
Feeling the Passion by Latin Drums
Tres Deseos
by Gloria Estefan
Black Machine
by Jazz Machine
Nostalgia de Palmeras
by Celia Cruz
Tres Deseos
by Gloria Estefan		 Carmina Burana:
"O Fortuna imperatrix munda" and "Fortune plango vulnera"
by Carl Orff		 Danse mon Esmeralda
from Notre-Dame de Paris (musical)
sung by Garou
2000–2001 More
by Nat King Cole
Dancing Fool
Mr Pinstripe Suit
by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
More
by Nat King Cole 		Beethoven's Last Night:
"Overture", "Ode to Joy", "Dreams of Candlelight" and "Beethoven"
by Trans-Siberian Orchestra		 Susanna
by VOF de Kunst
2001–2002 Malagua
Tango de Guell		 Non Merci
from Cyrano de Bergerac soundtrack
by Jean-Claude Petit
Canone Inverso
by Ennio Morricone		 Susanna
by VOF de Kunst

Results

With Peizerat for France

Results[20]
International
Event 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02
Olympics 3rd 1st
Worlds 10th 6th 4th 5th 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd
Europeans 12th 5th 4th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 1st
GP (CS) Final 3rd 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd
GP Int. Paris /
Troph. France/Lalique 		3rd 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st
GP Nations Cup 1st 2nd
GP NHK Trophy 5th 3rd 1st 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st
GP Skate Canada 2nd 2nd 1st
GP Skate America 2nd 1st
Ondrej Nepela 1st
Piruetten 5th
National
French Champ. 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
GP = Became part of Champions Series in 1995–96, Grand Prix from 1998–99

With Averbukh for Russia and the Soviet Union

Event 1989–1990 1990–1991 1991–1992
World Junior Championships 1st 4th 1st

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lecaudey, Martine (1 April 2000). "Anissina-Peizerat enfin au sommet" [Anissina-Peizerat finally at the top] (in French). La Dépêche du Midi. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mittan, J. Barry (1996). "Fire on the Ice - Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat". Archived from the original on May 12, 2012. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Lecaudey, Martine (2 April 2000). "Marina a choisi Gwendal sur une vidéo" [Marina chose Gwendal after watching him on video] (in French). La Dépêche du Midi. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. 
  4. ↑ World Junior Figure Skating Championships: ISU Results: Dance PDF (11.0 KB)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Anissina-Peizerat, un couple de glace" [Anissina-Peizerat, an ice couple] (in French). Le Point. 1 March 2002. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. 
  6. ↑ Paramygina, Svetlana (16 April 2012). "Сокровенное: плюс и минус. Марина Анисина: мой нежный и ранимый Дракоша-Джигурда". pressball.by (in Russian). 
  7. ↑ "France's Anissina, Peizerat claim ice dancing event". Associated Press (Sports Illustrated). 18 February 2002. Retrieved 31 May 2011. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "L'œil de Marina Anissina" [Under the eye of Marina Anissina]. Sud-Ouest (newspaper) (in French). 5 October 2011. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. 
  9. ↑ Bangs, Kathleen (15 September 2003). "Peizerat still 'Peaking'". GoldenSkate. Archived from the original on 7 August 2008. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "LA FAMILLE DU PATINAGE ARTISTIQUE S'AGRANDIT" [The skating family grows] (in French). S.O.G.M.A. 13. 24 January 2010. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. 
  11. ↑ http://en.rsport.ru/other_sports/20130618/668768612.html
  12. ↑ http://hockey.sport-express.ru/reviews/37020/
  13. ↑ http://hcdonbass.com/news/donbass_1/dinamo_donbass_kommentarii_trenerov_komand_22_10/
  14. ↑ Kuprina, Yulia (23 February 2008). "Марина Анисина и Никита Джигурда поженились" [Marina Anissina and Nikita Djigurda have married]. Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). 
  15. ↑ "...Я предложил Марине: давай станем любовниками. Она ответила как отрезала: меня это не устраивает — но о замужестве подумаю" (in Russian). teleweek.ru. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Kukhianidze, Sergo (4 June 2010). "Джигурда — Анисина: "Мы не остановимся!"" [Dzhigurda – Anissina : "We will not stop!"] (in Russian). 7days.ru. Retrieved 24 January 2011. 
  17. ↑ Pustynnikova, Tatiana (25 January 2010). "Джигурда стал отцом в пятый раз во Франции" [Dzhigurda's fifth child born in France] (in Russian). lifenews.ru. Archived from the original on 16 April 2010. 
  18. ↑ Kukhianidze, Sergo (20 January 2011). "Никита Джигурда: "С Мариной мне везде по кайфу!"" [Nikita Dzhigurda: With Marina] (in Russian). 7days.ru. Retrieved 24 January 2011. 
  19. ↑ "Free dances – Original dances – Exhibitions – Compulsories list". Archived from the original on 19 July 2006. 
  20. ↑ "Marina ANISSINA / Gwendal PEIZERAT: 2001/2002". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 25 October 2003. 

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