Trankov biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. With her, he became the European champion four times, twice became a silver medalist of world championships, then occupied the highest step of the pedestal. In the photo: Maxim Trankov, at the end of his sports career, became known as a participant in popular ice performances, an entrepreneur, a coach and a commentator. In the year, together with Dmitry Guberniev, he led the show on the ice “The Way to Victory”, and in the year he commented on the Figure Skating World Cup from Japan.

Childhood and youth Maxim was born in the fall of the year in the sports family of Leonid and Valentina Trankov. At the time of his birth, his parents were already raising the eldest son of Alexei. The father, engaged in horse riding, was the first of the Urals by a master of equestrian sport. Mom, an athletics coach, after the birth of the second child, went to work in kindergarten.

Maxim Trankov in childhood Maxim turned four years old, when his parents first led him to the ice. According to family legend, a brother contributed to this, who saw an announcement of the recruitment of children in a figure skating section. His younger brother was an active and energetic baby, and Alyosha was entrusted with the responsibility to look after Maxim. The boy wanted to read, and his brother did not allow him to plunge into books with his indefatigable energy, and he figured out where to direct Maxim's enthusiasm.

Maxim Trankov in his school years so Trankov, Jr., hit the rink of the Orlenok Sports Palace and stayed there for a long time, although he tried to quit training several times. Moreover, the coach that the boy came to, abandoned him almost immediately, because on Maxim’s face with his huge eyes and expressive facial expressions all emotions were reflected instantly: I remember that we began classes in the hall for choreography, and there were huge mirrors from floor to ceiling, and, apparently, I somehow grimaced in front of them, built faces and did not listen to me to stop dabble.

I was a child, there is nothing more natural than mischievous, but for a coach it was a reason from working with me. To my parents, she said that I am uncontrollable and I need a male coach. Probably, now I should tell her for this for this, because it was the hit of Valery Veniaminovich Domrachev that played a big role in my life. The first steps in the sport of “Jample Vitaminovich”, as Maxim called him, found an approach to him, and the boy had fun to engage in the choreographic hall.

But when after a few months the time came to go on the ice, everything turned out to be not so rosy. Maxim was wildly afraid to fall, hit his head or break something. He even arranged a hysteria to his mother, refusing to go out onto the rink. In the end, he managed to overcome fear. Now the skater recalls this moment with a smile, but there was a period when he did not come to the ice for a year.

And only the coach persuaded Trankov not to throw figure skating. Maxim Trankov at the dawn of a sports career later Maxim went to train with Valentin and Valery Wind for pair skating. The first successes came when he was set in a couple with Alesia Korchagin. He received the first adult category at 11 years old. Two years later, Trankov stood in pair with Ksenia Vasilyeva, taking the seventh place with her among juniors.

At the age of 15, the skater had a new partner - Irina Bogomolova. At the beginning of the zero tranches, at the invitation of the coach, Lyudmila Smirnova moved to St. Petersburg to make a couple with her daughter Irina Ulanova. Maxim will write about his feeling from changes much later in his book “Two sides of the same medal”: when I came to St. Petersburg, the feeling was as if I had won a flight into space in the lottery.

And this is a year, a shabby city. The streets of broken lamps, in short. But for me he seemed to be a gold palace. Although I had to live in a hostel, not even in a hostel, but in the rostrum of the stadium - along with Sasha Smirnov. Chairs, chairs from the garbage dumped, they got food with difficulty. But I really appreciate that period of my life, he taught me a lot.

In the year, the skater began to ride with a new partner - Maria Mukhortova. In the year, the couple became champions among juniors. The transition of the duet to an adult category was very difficult. The guys constantly conflicts among themselves and changed the coaches, even stopped driving together for some time. Maxim Trankov and Maria Mukhortova Trankov-Mukhortov reunited on ice led by coach Oleg Vasiliev and won the gold of the Russian championship in the year.

The failure was waiting for them at the Grand Prix: on the eve of the performance, Maxim fell with food poisoning and was not in the best form. As a result, the duet was only in sixth place. The Olympiad in Vancouver brought only seventh place to the athletes, and at the post-Olympic championship the couple took 4th place-due to the mistake of the tranches. Soon they and Maria the couple broke up completely.

Trankov and Volosozhar success came to the skater with a new partner and coach. The talented Ukrainian skater Tatyana Volosozhar, who remained without a couple after her partner and civil husband Stanislav Morozov, ended his career, moved to Moscow.He also found out that Trankov was also left alone, and invited them to try to ride together with Tatyana. The program for skaters was made by choreographer Nikolai Morozov.

In the year, after Tatyana's Russian citizenship and the quarantine mandatory according to the Rules in connection with the transition to the national team of another country, Volosozhar and Trankov became champions of the Russian Cup, held in his native Perm. In an arbitrary program, they danced to the music of Romeo and Juliet from the ballet Sergey Prokofiev. Then they won the All -Russian championship.

The Russian Cup Romeo and Juliet in the year they had to-because of the same “quarantine”-miss the European Championship, but they got to their first joint championship of the world of that year. But there were no shocks. The World Cup was supposed to take place in Japan. The athletes went to the fees in Fukuoku in advance in order to calmly undergo acclimatization and be able to practice other people's ice.

They flew to Tokyo Airport on March 11 and got on a train, just a few hours ahead of the destructive earthquake and the tsunami followed. There were no relations with athletes for about 48 hours. Trankov later wrote in their joint book with Volosozhar: we are going, stopping the tire-Yokogam. Everyone is sleeping, I look out the window. And suddenly the train begins to swing.

We look out the window, and there is hell. People hold on to the pillars, because they shake so that it is impossible to go, run out of buildings, everything walks with a shaking. When the phones finally earned, I drew to my parents to say that everything is in order. Mom has almost tantrums, she sobs, swears. Only after our conversation I realized - when they could not get through to us, they simply buried, quickly concocting the news that washed away the tsunami.

The Russian sports brigade was hastily evacuated to his homeland. The World Cup after long discussions was held in Moscow. Maxim with Tatyana won silver medals. The next season, the skaters had to skip to recover after injuries. They underwent a course of treatment in New York, and then, in the year, won the gold medals of the European Championship. At that moment, Trankov learned about his father's death.

Trankov and Volosozhar at the Sochi Olympics in Sochi, the most important achievement in Trankov’s sports career - the gold medals of the Olympiads of the year in Sochi, on which he and the Volosozhar were no equal. The number of the couple to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber from the Rock Opera "Jesus Christ-Superstar" has become a true decoration of the competition. The skaters immediately broke away from the rivals by eighteen points and became indisputable Olympic champions.

Their names even called the city center of figure skating. Career after leaving sports after the Games Trankov, together with a partner, took a break in his career for more than a year. In, having won several more medals in various competitions, the couple announced the departure from big sports. Maxim immediately accepted the proposal to become a mentor in the new project “Ice Age.

Maxim Trankov in the children's “Ice Age” in the same year, along with the Volosozhara, wrote and released the autobiography “Two sides of the same medal”, in which the skaters honestly talked about the stages of their sports track. In addition, Trankov, along with a friend, opened the sports bar “Kolpak Pab” in the center of Moscow, where fans of figure skating held their leisure time.

The institution closed after the Pandemia of Coronavirus in the year, despite the estimate of 4.6 of five in the Yandex rating. Bar of Maxim Trankov closed due to pandemia the personal life of Maxim Trankov almost from the very beginning of the sports career Trankov adhered to the opinion that work and personal life are incompatible. He did not start the so -called "service" novels.

He adhered to this principle until Tatyana Volosozhar appeared in his life. They have been familiar from the year when, with other partners, they performed at the same tournaments. Their couple began to ride quite difficult, but the date of the first training - May 15 - both consider the beginning of the creation of their “figured” family. Tanya admitted the first in feelings, which very surprised Maxim, because he perceived her as a friend, and at first even frightened her emotions.

But then, more and more often, Trankov began to notice that he himself began to treat a partner not only as a friend, but also an interesting woman. The wedding of Maxim Trankov and Tatyana Volosozhar about their relations about their relations did not spread, until once after a successful performance they kissed each other on the lips right on the ice. Everyone noticed this involuntary gesture.

In the year, shortly after the conquest of Olympic gold, the couple officially registered relations. The skater admitted that he was afraid to burst into tears at the wedding ceremony from the emotions that overwhelmed him when the father led his daughter to him, symbolically shifting the care and responsibility for her to Maxim. A sea of ​​revelations.

The bride’s girlfriends were actress Anastasia Zadorozhnaya and the skater Adelina Sotnikova, and from the side of the groom the witnesses Fedor Klimov and Stefan Lambel were witnesses. A year after the event, Tatyana reported on social networks that she expects a child.

Maxim Trankov and his wife and daughter in the year were born a daughter Volosozhar and Trankov, who was called Angelica.