Anastasia Tarakanova
She tried both sports and won her first swimming competition as the youngest competitor, receiving her trophy from three-time Olympic gold medalist Yevgeny Sadovyi.She won gold at the Russian Nationals Younger Age, placing ahead of Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova with a score of 246.18 points.[3] Tarakanova's international debut came in early September 2017 at a 2017–18 ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) competition in Salzburg, Austria; ranked first in both segments, she won the gold medal ahead of Lim Eun-soo.She was ranked third in the short program but first in the free skate and won the gold medal by a margin of less than 2 points over the silver medalist, her teammate Anna Tarusina.At the 2019 Russian Championships, she struggled in the short program after learning about the death of her grandmother and was in seventeenth place, second-to last, going into the free skate.Tarakanova's coach Svetlana Panova and training mate Ksenia Sinitsyna, who had intended to travel and compete alongside her in the United States, were unable to attend due to visa issues.She placed third in the free skate with a clean performance, and won the bronze medal behind Alysa Liu and teammate Viktoria Vasilieva.In July 2020, Tarakanova was seen training in Russian roller sports national team coach Irina Klimova's camp on social media.She opened her competitive season in November at the fourth stage of the domestic Russian Cup series, where she placed 8th in the short program.At her second Russian Cup assignment at the beginning of December, Tarakanova placed third in the short program in a condensed field of entrants after Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Alena Kostornaia were forced to withdraw from the event due to positive COVID-19 test results.[7] In March 2022 she said in an interview that everything was decided by a leg injury she received back in 2019 involving a fracture that the doctors did not properly diagnose, and which she skated on for three months.