Anna Sergeyevna Tarusina (; born 24 January 2003) is a Russian former competitive
figure skater
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. She is the
2018 CS Alpen Trophy champion. On the junior level, she is the
2018 JGP Slovakia and
2018 JGP Slovenia silver medalist.
Personal life
Tarusina was born on 24 January 2003 in
Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...
. She was diagnosed with vision problems shortly after birth.
As a child, Tarusina studied at a music school.
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Career
Early career
Tarusina began learning to skate in 2008. Until 2013, she trained in Odintsovo under former coach Sergey Chemodanov.
Tarusina finished 12th at the 2015 Russian Junior Championships and 7th at the 2016 Russian Junior Championships.
Tarusina was supposed to make her ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating debut in August 2016 at the 2016 JGP St. Gervais, alongside Russian teammate Alina Zagitova. However, she and her coach Sergei Davydov, along with other athletes, were in a car accident on the shuttle bus en route to the rink where the competition was taking place.
2018–19 season
Tarusina made her Junior Grand Prix debut in August 2018 at the first JGP competition of the season in Bratislava
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, Slovakia
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. Tarusina placed second behind teammate Anna Shcherbakova and ahead of South Korean competitor You Young with a score of 186.68 points.
At her second assignment, JGP Slovenia, Tarusina placed second in both the short program and the free skate to claim the silver medal behind Russian teammate Anastasia Tarakanova and ahead of South Korean competitor Lee Hae-in. Tarusina set a new ISU personal best in her free skate, earning 122.50 points. Both Tarusina and her teammate Alena Kanysheva won two silver medals during JGP season, but since Kanysheva accumulated more combined total points from her two JGP events than Tarusina did, Kanysheva won the tiebreaker for the final qualification place at the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final. Kanysheva accumulated only about 4 points more than Tarusina.
2019–20 season
Tarusina had knee surgery related to the injury she sustained in the 2016 bus accident prior to the season. After being unable to compete on the Junior Grand Prix due to an extended recovery period, she retired from the sport on 25 September 2019.
Programs
Competitive highlights
''CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix''
Detailed results
Junior level
References
External links
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Russian female single skaters
2003 births
Living people
Figure skaters from Moscow
21st-century Russian sportswomen