Tatiana Tarasova

Tatiana Tarasova
Tarasova in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova
Country represented	Soviet Union
Born	(1947-02-13) 13 February 1947 (age 69)
Former partner	Georgi Proskurin Aleksandr Tikhomirov
Retired	1966

Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova (Russian:  Татья́на Анато́льевна Тара́сова​ , born 13 February 1947) is a Russian figure skating coach and national figure skating team adviser. Tarasova has been coach to more world and Olympic champions than any other coach in skating history. Her students have won a total of seven Olympic gold medals in three of the four Olympic figure skating disciplines, in addition to 41 gold medals at the European and World championships.

Tatiana Tarasova is the daughter of Anatoli Tarasov, a famed ice hockey coach, who introduced her to figure skating at the age of five. She lived for more than a decade in Simsbury, Connecticut before moving back to Russia in 2006. She is the widow of Vladimir Krainev, who died in April 2011.

Tarasova competed in pair skating with Aleksandr Tikhomirov and Georgi Proskurin. With Proskurin, she was a two-time Soviet national medalist. They finished 7th at the 1965 World Championships and 4th at the 1966 European Championships. At 18 years of age, Tarasova sustained a career-ending injury.