Natalia Pavlova

Natalia Pavlova
Pavlova in 2010 with Lubov Iliushechkina and Nodari Maisuradze
Personal information
Full name	Natalia Yevgenievna Pavlova
Alternative names	Natalia Yevgenievna Dongauzer
Born	9 April 1956 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Residence	Moscow
Former partner	Vasili Blagov
Skating club	Blue Bird FSC

Natalia Yevgenievna Pavlova, née Dongauzer (Russian: Наталья Евгеньевна Павлова (Донгаузер)) is a Russian pair skating coach.

Personal life

Natalia Yevgenievna Dongauzer (later Pavlova) was born on 8 January 1956 in Leningrad.^[1] She is the widow of a basketball player.^[2] Their daughter, Anastasia Pavlova, was born on 30 January 1982 and also works as a skating coach.^[3]

Career

Pavlova competed in pair skating with Vasili Blagov. They were both over 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall.^[2] The pair won the silver medal at the 1973 Prize of Moscow News.

After retiring from competition, Pavlova turned to coaching. She was based in Saint Petersburg until September 2006, when she moved to Moscow to coach at Blue Bird FSC.^[4][5] In 2015, she decided to return to Saint Petersburg.^[2]

Her students include:

• Evgenia Chernyshova / Dmitri Sukhanov (1989 World Junior champions).^[2]
• Marina Eltsova / Andrei Bushkov^[6] (1996 World champions). The pair joined her in 1995.^[2]
• Oksana Kazakova / Dmitri Sukhanov (Kazakova would later become the 1998 Olympic champion)
• Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin^[4][7] (coached from 1996–2001, would later become 2006 Olympic champions)
• Tatiana Kokoreva / Egor Golovkin (2005 World Junior bronze medalists)^[8]
• Arina Ushakova / Sergei Karev^[9] (coached during 2007–08; 2008 Russian national bronze medalists)
• Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze^[10] (2009 World Junior champions), coached pair until the end of their partnership in March 2012.^[11]
• Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov^[12] (2009 World Junior silver medalists)

Awards

• Master of Sports of the USSR
• Honored Coach of Russia

References

1. Наталья Евгеньевна Павлова [Natalia Yevgenievna Pavlova] (in Russian). fskate.ru.
2. Vaytsekhovskaya, Elena (22 February 2015). Наталья Павлова: "Парное катание - это прежде всего умение терпеть" [Natalia Pavlova on pair skating]. Sport Express (in Russian). line feed character in |script-title= at position 38 (help)
3. СПИСОК кандидатов в спортивные сборные команды Российской Федерации по фигурному катанию на коньках на 2011-2012 гг. [2011–2012 list]. Russian Figure Skating Federation (in Russian). Russian Sports Ministry. 2011. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 November 2012.
4. Flade, Tatjana (27 September 2008). "From 'Hopeless Case' to Top Junior Contenders". GoldenSkate.com. Archived from the original on 12 January 2010.
5. Наталья Павлова, первый тренер Тотьмяниной и Маринина, переехала работать из Петербурга в Москву [Natalia Pavlova, the first coach of Totmianina and Marinin, has moved from Saint Petersburg to Moscow] (in Russian). allsportinfo.ru. 4 May 2007. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012.
6. "They weren't rushin': Russian pairs arrive late -- deliberately". CBS SportsLine. 7 February 1998. |archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)
7. Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin at the International Skating Union
8. Tatiana Kokoreva / Egor Golovkin at the International Skating Union
9. Arina Ushakova / Sergei Karev at the International Skating Union
10. Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze at the International Skating Union
11. Simonenko, Andrei (21 March 2012). Пара Илюшечкина/Маисурадзе распалась из-за ухода фигуристки - тренер [Coach: The pair of Iliushechkina/Maisuradze has split because she left]. rsport.ru (in Russian).
12. Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov at the International Skating Union