Marina Timofeieva (born 24 February 1984 in

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

) is an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

. With partner Evgeni Striganov, she is the 2003 & 2004 Estonian national champion. They were five time competitors at the

World Junior Figure Skating Championships The World Junior Figure Skating Championships are an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU). Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The first World J ...

, with the highest placement of 17th in 2003. They placed 22nd at the

2003 European Figure Skating Championships The 2003 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2002–03 season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was ...

and 26th at the

2003 World Figure Skating Championships The 2003 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., USA from March 24 to 30. The senior-level international figure skating competition was sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded ...

. They were coached by Lea Rand, the mother of fellow Estonian ice dancers

Kristjan Kristjan is a masculine given name in different European languages. It is a variation of the name Christian. Notable people named Kristjan include: * Kristjan Asllani (born 2002), Albanian footballer * Kristjan Čujec (born 1988), Slovenian ...

and Taavi Rand.

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Estonian female ice dancers Figure skaters from Tallinn Living people 1984 births Estonian people of Russian descent {{Estonia-figure-skating-bio-stub