Anastasia Tarakanova

Tarakanova began competing her double axels early the season and placed third at Volkov Memorial. Later that season, Tarakanova eventually gained all her triples and competed at Moscow Championships Elder Age with a sixth-place finish, earning her a spot at Russian Nationals Elder Age, where she finished 5th after Polina Tsurskaya, Alisa Fedichkina, Alina Solovyova and Stanislava Konstantinova. She went on to win the Moscow Championships Younger Age. Her highlight of the season was her win at Russian Nationals Younger age, where she earned 198.22 points, edging out silver medalist Anna Shcherbakova by 24.54 points and bronze medalist Alexandra Trusova by 24.71 points.

At the 2019 Russian Championships, she struggled in the short program after learning about the death of her grandmother and was in seventeenth place, second-to last, going into the free skate. She placed eighth in the free skate (and had the fourth highest TES score) after skating first out, and finished thirteenth overall. Later, at the 2019 Russian Junior Championships, she placed third in the short program but seventh overall after falling in her free skate. She decided to leave Evgeni Plushenko's school at the end of the season.

In January 2018 she competed at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships where she placed seventh after placing fourth in the short program and seventh in the free skate.

During the 2018-19 season, starting in July 2018, Tarakanova trained at Evgeni Plushenko's rink under coach Ksenia Ivanova.

Tarakanova started her season by competing in the 2018 JGP series. At her first JGP event of the season she won the silver medal in Vancouver, Canada. She was ranked second in both the short program and the free skate and finished about 5 points behind the gold medalist, her teammate Anna Shcherbakova.

At her second JGP event of the season she won the gold medal in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She was ranked third in the short program but first in the free skate and won the gold medal by a margin of less than 2 points over the silver medalist, her teammate Anna Tarusina. With one JGP gold medal and one silver medal Tarakanova qualified for the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final, where she finished fourth.

Tarakanova's international debut came in early September 2017 at a 2017–18 ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) competition in Salzburg, Austria; ranked first in both segments, she won the gold medal ahead of Lim Eun-soo. Her total score at the event, 196.68 points, was the fifth highest ever achieved by a ladies' single skater on the junior level. She placed third at her second JGP assignment, in Zagreb, Croatia. With these results she qualified for the 2017–18 JGP Final in Nagoya, Japan. At the JGP Final she won the bronze medal with a personal best score of 199.64 points after placing 3rd in the short program and 3rd in the free skate. At this competition she placed behind her teammates and training partners Alexandra Trusova (gold) and Alena Kostornaia (silver).

In 2011, Tarakanova moved to Moscow due to her father's work. Her first coach in Moscow was Irina Klimova, who was a student of the famous Stanislav Zhuk. She then switched to coach Maria Butyrskaya, World Figure Skating Champion. Later, she moved from Krylatskoye to Novokosino and Snow Leopards was a nearby rink and she went to train under Svetlana Panova.

Tarakanova began learning to skate in December 2007. She learned her basics with Lyudmila Puchkova and a year before leaving Volgograd, she went to train with Irina Aksenova.

Tarakanova started her season off at the JGP United States where she finished in 3rd place and won the bronze medal. She placed fourth in the short program after falling on her triple lutz and failing to complete a jump combination. After a clean free skate performance, she rose to third place behind Alysa Liu of the United States and Park Yeon-jeong of South Korea, edging out Ji Seo-yeon of South Korea by only 0.06 points. Tarakanova's coach Svetlana Panova and training mate Ksenia Sinitsyna, who had intended to travel and compete alongside her in the United States, were unable to attend due to visa issues.

Anastasia Anatolyevna Tarakanova (Russian: Анастасия Анатольевна Тараканова ; born 14 April 2004) is a Russian 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.

Tarakanova was born on 14 April 2004 in Volgograd, Russia. Her father is a swimmer and her mother is also an athlete. Due to her allergies, she was advised by a doctor to skate or swim. She tried both sports and won her first swimming competition as the youngest competitor, receiving her trophy from three-time Olympic gold medalist Yevgeny Sadovyi. She eventually chose to focus on skating, considering it beautiful and enjoying the support of the audience. She also enjoys painting for leisure.