The skater in Takhtamysheva Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Her sports career resembles a sinusoid. The athlete replaced tenth places in Russian competitions for successful seasons, and at fourteen she won two stages of the Grand Prix at once. In the year, she became a European champion and the world champion, but never climbed the Olympic Games. In the photo: Elizaveta Tuktamysheva only in the year Elizabeth made a breakthrough, restoring her crown triple axel, and again won the medal in the command of the World Cup.

In the year, the skater pleased her fans with personal silver and a gold medal in the team of figure skating championship. The girl’s mother taught algebra and geometry at school, dad, a former skier, cooked a football team. Seven years later, Lisa had Eugene's younger sister. Although in the family everything is by nationality Russians, an unusual surname spoke the opposite. Sports journalist Arthur Werner took up the study of the genealogical tree and found out that the family of the skater originates from Khan Tuktamysh, the nephew of Genghis Khan.

The stress in the surname is placed on the letter "s". Lisa Tuktamysheva in childhood to the left of early childhood, the daughter surprised her parents with plasticity and inexhaustible energy. It was decided to write it down in some kind of sports section. She made the choice, according to the recollections of the skater: in figure skating I was “by friendship”. My dad worked in a sports camp, and once took me with him.

I made friends with the girlfriends there and, in order not to part with them, I also went to train. I came to the group, for some time there was the smallest and most lagging there, but very quickly pulled up. For the first time, Lisa went on the ice at five. Its coach was Svetlana Veretennikova, whom the athlete considers her second mother. The girl’s abilities developed rapidly, soon she began to show excellent results and became the best in her group.

She was ten years old when she took first place at the Mishin Cup in Belgorod. Lisa distinguished good jumps from other participants in the competition. Lisa Tuktamysheva first went to the ice at the age of 5, she recalled at eleven at her first adult championship of Russia about a meeting with coach Alexei Mishin, who became a turning point for her sports fate: “Last year, Alexei Mishin, at a competition in Belgorod, invited me to come to him.

Before meeting with him, I jumped a triple sheepskin coat, Salkhov and a double axel. With Mishin, we learned Rittberger, then Lutz. The most difficult jump for me was a flip, but I also mastered it. Now we train the cascades "Three Plus Three". So far we are not ready to insert them into the program, but we are doing everything for this. Then I can be like my idols - Sasha Cohen and Mao Assad.

” Every two weeks a month, the coach and her pupil came to the city on the Neva, settled in a small room of a sports boarding school, where the toilet and shower were on another floor, and went to training daily. Lisa and her coaches baby Tuktamysheva was very tired of constant crossings, sometimes she left the house in tears. But the desire to win and become the first overpowered fatigue and spleen.

And success was not long in coming: in the year, Lisa won a silver medal at the Russian championship, losing several hundredths of Alene Sotnikova. An interview with summer Tuktamysheva in the year in the Tuktamyshev family, grief happened: dad Lisa died from the disease. Experiencing the loss, mother and daughter decided to change their place of residence and three of them moved to St.

Petersburg to a permanent place of residence. Eugene, who at first also engaged in figure skating, changed their skates to ballroom dancing, her mother began to teach at school, and Lisa entered the lyceum with an in -depth study of the Spanish language. Alexey Mishin, who continued to train Tuktamyshev, helped the family get housing in St. Petersburg with the help of the Olympic Hopes Foundation.

From the age of twelve, the athlete began to be called a child prodigy, since she already performed a cascade of triple Lutz - a triple sheepskin coat and performed a four sheepskin coat in training. In the year, the skater won two stages of the junior Grand Prix in Germany and was taken to the final. Soon, Elizabeth started in adult international tournaments. Tuktamysheva’s sports career at the age of fifteen became a member of the first official tournament for adult skaters for her.

She successfully passed the two stages of the Skate Canada and InternationalAux France Grand Prix and became the first athlete to win both stages in her first adult season.

It was included in the Russian team at the Youth Olympics in the Innsbruck, where she won first place. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva on the Skate Canada of the year soon the skater became the champion of Russia and was selected for an adult European Championship of the year. There she occupied a bronze pedestal, losing gold to Italian Carolina Costner and silver - Russian Adeline Sotnikova. It seemed that the success at the World Cup was predetermined, but Elizabeth could not be fixed, the athlete was in tenth place.

Tuktamysheva did not hit the Olympics in Sochi, because at the Russian championship she performed unsuccessfully, again only closing the top ten.In addition, the skater was injured and underwent a rehabilitation course. Elizabeth in training significant for Tuktamysheva has become a year. The athlete won gold medals at tournaments in Germany, Finland and Poland, took first place at the Nice International Cup, became the first in the Grand Prix finals and European champion.

But the brightest was Elizabeth’s performance at the World Cup in Shanghai. The skater brilliantly demonstrated a series of complex elements: an axel of three and a half turnover, triple Lutz, a cascade of a triple tulup plus a triple sheepskin coat. She became the first in the history of Russian single female skiing to show such a complex element as a triple axel. Tuktamysheva set a world record and entered the golden pedestal, bypassing her old rival Elena Radionova.

In her interview, Elizabeth admitted that she was nervous before the performance, because one wrong movement could leave her without a pedestal, but managed to pull herself together. Tuktamysheva’s short program at the World Cup, Vostok Vostok Hall, met the Bolero Tuktamysheva and pure triple axel with such a squall of applause that they even drowned out the commentator’s speech.

One jump brought the skater more than ten points, which provided a serious gap from competitors. She didn’t roll off the arbitrary program, but no one managed to get ahead of the “Winducind of Figure Skating” - Lisa won the gold medal and was recognized as the sexiest skiller from Russia. In the same year, the athlete left for Switzerland to work on a new program with a choreographer Stefan Lambiel.

In the year, Tuktamysheva won gold at the Warsaw Cup, the Sarajevo Cup and the International Nice Cup, as well as the Golden Horse at the tournament in Zagreb. In the ranking of the International Union of Skatyers, it took fourth place. The skater at the Grand Prix of the Canadian Federation Grand Prix turned out to be the same place. The Tuktamysheva interview for the St. Petersburg television channel a decline in Elizabeth’s career came in the year when she did not win a single gold medal.

According to the skater, she even sometimes thought: perhaps this is all that she managed to do for figure skating and it is time to complete her career. But soon the athlete again surprised her fans, triumphantly performing at the second stage of the Grand Prix of the year in Laval. Elizabeth told about the dance in the short program: my new images perfectly reveal my character.

A short program - tango to music from the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I always liked this topic. My tango is not quite ordinary. I skate different emotional states of the heroine of Angelina Jolie. How she worries, how passionate she can be, how she talks with men or recalls the touch of her husband or does not want to remember them - depending on the mood.

But most of all, the audience was struck by her incendiary demonstration dance of the stewardess under the popular TOXIC Britney Spears. He practically blew up the Canadian sports complex with applause. Performing complex elements, Tuktamysheva managed to stay only in underwear by the end of the room. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva: 90 seconds Chellendge Lisa are glad that the audience perceives her this way: if she goes on the ice, then there will be something more original and non-standard.

On the Grand Prix in Japan, the skater almost left without the upper part of the laundry, but assured that the construction of the bra did not let him fall. At this stage, the skater won bronze, as in the final of the Grand Prix Cup. In addition, in the control rental of Russian programs, Tuktamysheva managed to pay attention again, almost purely rolling her off numbers.

The media immediately predicted that Elizabeth has every chance of becoming a prima again. The skater in the season replenished the piggy bank of gold awards, participating in the Chellenger tournaments in Finland and Lombardy and taking silver in the Russian Cup final. But from the Russian championship, the athlete had to withdraw due to inflammation of the lungs. In the same year, Elizabeth started a channel on YouTube, promising subscribers to show funny and interesting videos from sports life and generally from the world of figure skating.

The artist devoted the first issue to the world champion, American Nathan Chen. Tuktamysheva took an impromptu interview with the skater, and soon shared a video from her training. Later, the girl stopped updating the channel, referring to employment. In the winter of the year, Tuktamysheva won the arbitrary program at the Russian Championship. But it was never selected on the World Cup: the decision of the figure skating federation remained in the spare ones.

Arbitrary program. Japan, but Elizabeth took part in the world championship in Fukuok, on which she set two of her own records: she received 80.54 points in a short program, and for an arbitrary - 89 points. With its help, the Russians won the bronze pedestal of the World Cup. The skater failed to go to the finals of the Grand Prix of the years, since she took only third places at the stages in America and China, where she was overtaken by the skater from Japan Satoko Mikayara.

The Grand Prix of China in the year at the Russian Championship Tuktamysheva made an attempt to fulfill the quadruple sheepskin coat, but she did not succeed. Despite the fact that in her personal blog, Lisa published a video with a cascade of a four-three-three sheepskin coat, in the competition she made a mistake. The commenting on the performances of the skaters Tatyana Tarasova noticed that Tuktamysheva could cope with the task if Evgeny Medvedev, who damaged the boots, were suddenly removed at the final warm -up.

She was supposed to act first, and so - Elizabeth had to go out on the ice, which influenced her not quite successful rental. As a result, the skater was in fourth place, and she was again assigned the role of a reserve at the European and World championships. Journalists from Canada recommended Elizabeth to take the citizenship of their countries in order to roll back Canadian national championships, after which it would be easier for large tournaments.

But Tuktamysheva said that such thoughts would sprinkle her. In the year, the athlete graduated with the red diploma of NSU named after Peter Lesgaft, participated in the show of Ilya Averbukh “Champions”, worked on her own project “Hot Ice.