Nina Mozer
Russian pair skating coach (born 1964)
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Nina Mikhailovna Mozer (Russian: Нина Михайловна Мозер; born 28 August 1964) is a Russian pair skating coach based in Moscow. She is best known for coaching Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov and Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, the 2014 Olympic gold and silver medalists.
Personal life
Nina Mikhailovna Mozer was born 28 August 1964 in Kiev, the daughter of Mikhail Mozer, a tennis player, and Svetlana Mozer (Smirnova), the 1958 and 1959 Soviet ice dancing champion. She is the niece of football player Ivan Mozer.[1] Her son, Nikita, was born in 1991.[1][2]
Career
Coached by her mother and Pyotr Orlov, Mozer competed in pair skating with S. Skorniakov but retired at 15 due to injury.[2] She then began coaching, assisting her mother at Dynamo Kiev.[1]
Mozer coached in Moscow from 1994 to 2001 and then for two years in the United States before returning to Moscow.[2] She works at Vorobiovy Gory, Vdokhnovenie Ice Palace, collaborating with Stanislav Morozov and Vladislav Zhovnirski. She coaches the following skaters:
- Ekaterina Geynish / Dmitrii Chigirev
- Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov
- Polina Kostiukovich / Aleksei Briukhanov
Former pairs coached by Mozer include:
- Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov[2][3] (2014 Olympic champions, 2013 World champions). Mozer is their coach since May 2010.
- Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov[4] (2014 Olympic silver medalists). Mozer began coaching them in April 2013.[5]
- Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov[6]
- Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert[7]
- Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov, from 26 March 2013 to 31 March 2014.[8][9][10]
- Vasilisa Davankova / Alexander Enbert, from 30 April 2014.[11]
- Tatiana Novik / Andrei Novoselov
- Tatiana Novik / Mikhail Kuznetsov[12]
- Ekaterina Sheremetieva / Mikhail Kuznetsov[13]
- Galina Maniachenko / Evgeni Zhigurski[2] (1994 World Junior bronze medalists)
- Victoria Maxiuta / Vladislav Zhovnirski[2] (1996 World Junior champions)
- Natalia Zabiiako / Yuri Larionov, from April 2014.[14]