Tatiana Malinina
Tatiana Valeryevna Malinina (born January 28, 1973) is a Russian-Uzbek retired figure skater who competed for Uzbekistan. She is the 1999 Grand Prix Final champion, the 1999 Four Continents champion, a two-time NHK Trophy champion (1998 and 2001), and a ten-time Uzbek national champion (1993–2002).
Born in Novosibirsk, her mother was a gymnast and her father a skater. The family moved to Tashkent when she was a teenager. She later lived in Yekaterinburg (1996) and then Dale City, Virginia (from 1998) for better training. She graduated from the Siberian Academy of Physical Culture in Omsk. In 2000 she married Roman Skorniakov. They have two children: a son, Ilia Malinin (born 2004), a U.S. figure skater and World champion in March 2024 and March 2025, and a daughter, Elli Beatrice (born 2014).
Malinina competed at ten consecutive World Championships starting in 1993 and placed eighth at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. In the 1998–99 season she was fifth at Skate America, won the NHK Trophy, and claimed the Grand Prix Final title. She won the first-ever Four Continents Championships in 1999. The 1999–2000 season was hampered by groin and foot injuries, finishing 18th at Worlds. She was coached by Igor Ksenofontov, who died in 1999, and later by Valeri Malinin part-time in 2000–01. She earned bronze at the 2000 Sparkassen Cup on Ice and the 2000 NHK Trophy. In 2001–02 she won the NHK Trophy again, and after withdrawing from the 2002 Olympics due to the flu, she retired from competition.
After retiring, Malinina and Skorniakov coached at SkateQuest in Reston, Virginia. Their students included Sarah Everhardt, Audrey Shin, Lucius Kazanecki, and Sofia Bezkorovainaya. In March 2025 they won the Best Coaching Award at the ISU Skating Awards.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 18:09 (CET).