Anastasia Tarakanova

Anastasia Anatolyevna Tarakanova (; born 14 April 2004) is a Russian retired figure skater. She is the 2017 JGP Austria and 2018 JGP Slovenia champion, and the 2017–18 JGP Final bronze medalist. She has won seven medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.

Personal life Tarakanova was born on 14 April 2004 in Volgograd, Russia. In August, Tarakanova answered a question about her retirement on her TikTok account, stating she could not skate anymore for health reasons. 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. As a consequence, the leg did not heal properly and caused her pain thereafter. By the time of the 2021 Russian Cup final, "...in training I felt that my leg hurt even with injections. I couldn't rotate at all." She had to withdraw from that tournament because of the pain, and eventually was forced to accept the evaluation of the doctors that her skating days were over.

Programs Season Short program Free skating 2020–2021 Девочка и Море (Girl and the Sea) No Matter What, I Will Fight Lacrymosa 2019–2020 Man with a Harmonica The House of the Rising Sun Frida

No Matter What, I Will Fight Lacrymosa 2018–2019