Tatiana Malinina

Tatiana Malinina
Malinina at the 2001 Grand Prix Final
Personal information
Full name	Tatiana Valeryevna Malinina
Country represented	Uzbekistan
Born	(1973-01-28) 28 January 1973 (age 44) Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Former coach	Roman Skorniakov Igor Ksenofontov
Former choreographer	Rostislav Sinicyn
Skating club	Alpomish
Training locations	Dale City, Virginia Yekaterinburg Tashkent
Began skating	1978
Retired	2002
Medal record Figure skating: Ladies' singles Representing  Uzbekistan Four Continents Championships 1999 Halifax Ladies' singles Grand Prix Final 1998–99 St. Peters.. Ladies' singles Asian Winter Games 1999 Gangwon Ladies' singles 1996 Harbin Ladies' singles

Tatiana Valeryevna Malinina (Russian: Татьяна Валерьевна Малинина; born 28 January 1973) is a Russian-born figure skater who competed for Uzbekistan. She is the 1999 Grand Prix Final champion, the 1999 Four Continents champion, a two-time (1998, 2001) NHK Trophy champion, and a ten-time (1993–2002) Uzbekistani national champion.

Malinina was born on 28 January 1973 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR. Her mother was a gymnast and her father a figure skater. The family moved to Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, when she was a teenager. In 1996, Malinina returned to Russia and lived in Yekaterinburg until moving to Dale City, Virginia in 1998. She graduated from the Siberian Academy of Physical Culture in Omsk, Russia.

In January 2000, Malinina married Roman Skorniakov. Their son, Ilia Malinin (born in 2004), is the 2017 U.S. intermediate champion. Their daughter was born in 2014.

Malinina competed at ten consecutive World Championships beginning in 1993. She finished 8th at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Malinina began the 1998–1999 Grand Prix season with a 5th-place finish at the 1998 Skate America. Shortly afterward, in November 1998, Malinina and Skorniakov settled in Dale City, Virginia, drawn by better training conditions. In December, Malinina won her first Grand Prix title at the 1998 NHK Trophy and qualified for her first GPF Final. In February 1999, she competed at the inaugural Four Continents Championships and became its first ladies' gold medalist. The following month, she defeated both Maria Butyrskaya and Irina Slutskaya for the gold medal at the Grand Prix Final, held in Saint Petersburg. She finished her season by placing a career-best 4th at the World Championships.