Tatyana Tolmachova

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Tatyana Aleksandrovna Tolmachova (Russian: Татьяна Александровна Толмачёва, née Granatkina, Гранаткина; 21 January 1907 – 21 October 1998) was a Russian figure skater, figure skating coach and one of the founders of Soviet figure skating school, Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She started skating as single skater and represented the club of Dynamo in the 1930s. Then she moved to pair skating with her husband Alexander Tolmachev.

Tatyana Tolmachova
Full nameTatyana Aleksandrovna Tolmachova
Born(1907-01-27)27 January 1907
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died21 October 1998(1998-10-21) (aged 91)
Moscow, Russian Federation
Figure skating career
Country Soviet Union
CoachAleksey Andrianov[1]

Tolmachova was the leading ladies' coach.[2] She worked in Moscow. Her husband Alexander Tolmachev headed the Moscow department of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia.

Since 1946, Tolmachova worked as a figure skating coach at the Young Pioneers Stadium school in Moscow, established with her help. Among her pupils were Vladimir Kovalev, Elena Tchaikovskaia, Lyudmila Pakhomova, Galina Kuhar, Alexander Vedenin, Tatiana Nemtsova, Elena Sheglova, Sergei Chetverukhin, Valentin Piseev.[3][4][5]

Her brother Valentin Granatkin was a football, ice hockey and bandy player.

Results

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Singles

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Event 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
Soviet Championships 1st 1st 1st

Pairs

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(with Tolmachev)

Event 1933 1937 1938 1941 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
Soviet Championships 2nd 1st* 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
* Co-champions with Raisa Gandelsman and Alexander Gandelsman.

References

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  1. ^ Solovyov, Vasily. "Tatiana Tolmacheva" (in Russian). Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  2. ^ Vaytsekhovskaya, Elena (25 August 2009). "Igor Moskvin: I have never thought that my wife and I are rivals" (in Russian). Sport Express. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  3. ^ "Tolmacheva (Granatkina) Tatiana" (in Russian). Museum of Sport. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  4. ^ "100 years have passed since the birth of the famous sports coach Tatiana Tolmacheva" (in Russian). VseSMI.ru. 27 January 2001. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  5. ^ Валентин Николаевич Писеев. Биографическая справка (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2014.