- Marina Zueva
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Marina Zueva 
Zueva with students Tessa Virtue & Scott MoirPersonal information Full name Marina Olegovna Zueva Country represented 
CanadaBorn April 9, 1956
MoscowFormer partner Andrei Vitman Former coach Elena Tchaikovskaia Marina Olegovna Zueva (Russian: Марина Олеговна Зуева, also romanized as Zoueva; born April 9, 1956 in Moscow) is a Russian ice dancing coach and choreographer. Together with Igor Shpilband, she coaches and choreographs for the 2010 Olympic champions and silver medalists in ice dancing: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who won the gold medal for Canada; and Meryl Davis and Charlie White, the American silver medalists. Zueva and Shpilband are based in Canton, Michigan.
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Competitive career
Zueva and Vitman in Berlin in October 1975
Zueva competed for the Soviet Union as an ice dancer with partner Andrei Vitman. They won two national bronze medals at the Soviet Championships. They finished fifth at the 1977 European and World Championships. The next season, they were sixth at the 1978 European Championships and seventh at the World Championships.[1]
Event 1975–1976 1976–1977 1977–1978 World Championships 5th 7th European Championships 5th 6th Soviet Championships 3rd 3rd Choreographer and coach
Zueva retired from ice dancing at the end of the 1970s to become a choreographer. Her final assignment toward receiving her choreography degree at the National Theatre Institute in Moscow in 1982 was the creation of a routine for Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov. Throughout the 1980s, she continued to choreograph for this elite pair, creating their programs to Moonlight Sonata, Vocalise, and Romeo and Juliet. In 1993, Gordeeva and Grinkov hired Zueva to work with them again on their 1994 Olympics routines, and their collaboration continued until Grinkov's death in late 1995. Zueva then choreographed most of Gordeeva's solo routines through 2000.[1]
Zueva left Russia in 1991[2] to work as a coach and choreographer in North America. She currently coaches at the Arctic Figure Skating Club in Canton, Michigan with Igor Shpilband.
Among Zueva's current and former students include Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir, Meryl Davis & Charlie White, Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto, Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani, Emily Samuelson & Evan Bates, Madison Chock & Greg Zuerlein, Sasha Cohen, Yukari Nakano, and Jana Khokhlova, whose current partner is Zueva's son, Fedor Andreev.[3]
References
- ^ a b "A Kind of Magic". pairsonice.net. http://www.pairsonice.net/gordeeva/marina.php. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
- ^ "Russian Coach in Odd Double Celebration". The Moscow Times. 2010-02-27. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/olympic_coverage/article/russian-coach-in-odd-double-celebration/400516.html. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
- ^ Catching up With....Marina Zoueva about Khokhlova and Andreev among other things
External links
Categories:- Russian figure skating coaches
- Canadian figure skating coaches
- Soviet ice dancers
- Figure skating choreographers
- Living people
- Russian expatriates in Canada
- Russian expatriates in the United States
- 1956 births
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