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Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat

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Marina Anissina (born 30 August 1975) and Gwendal Peizerat (born 21 April 1972) are retired ice dancers who represented France. Anissina, who originally competed with Ilia Averbukh for Russia,came to Lyon, France and formed a partnership with Peizerat in 1993. Since then, they became the 2002 Olympics champions, 1998 Olympic bronze medalists, 2000 World champions, two-time European champions (2000, 2002), 2000 Champion Series final winners and 6-times French National champions.

Profiles

ISU Bio
Tracings.net
Wikipedia: Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat
Instagram: Gwendal Peizerat

Threads

Ice Shows
HOLIDAY ON ICE 2015, Lyon Halle Tony Garnier​

Interviews, news and fluffs
In the interview, he is now in the Rhône Regional Council and presented to the President of the French Federation of Ice Sports​
 
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Thank you so much, Crossover! They were splendid ice dancers.



Anissina's junior career with Ilia Averbukh was interesting, as was Peizerat's with Morel:

Anissina & Averbukh were 1990 and 1992 World Junior Champions, and finished fourth in 1991.

At that time, Gwendal Peizerat was skating with Marina Morel. They won the junior World bronze in 1989 and the silver in 1991. In 1990, they finished fourth. They competed as seniors in 1991-1992 and 1992-1993, finishing second at 1993 French Nationals, and 12th in 1992 Europeans.


Peizerat & Morel

1991 Trophée Lalique FD (7th place)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28QsdX8WuOs

1992 Europeans FD (12th place overall)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSWoLkIhLk


1993 French Nationals OD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vnWU_m-6w
1993 French Nationals FD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOckAhnv0F8
1993 French Nationals EX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T29hMtsRpXQ


Anissina & Averbukh

1990 Junior Worlds news report, including Marina & Ilia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnAKxUuHgug

1991 Junior Worlds EX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loA5eGUACPU

1992 Junior Worlds CD Foxtrot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rbiMGiD3TQ
1992 Junior Worlds FD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGMGYa2XPm8
1992 Junior Worlds EX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNo9CJi_j4g



I did not know that Marina's first partner was Sergei Sakhnovsky, who was later Galit Chait's partner, competing for Israel.
 
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Anissina and Peizerat are one of my all time favorite skaters and I feel necessity for a place to collect their achievement even though they retired 12 years ago.

Enjoy the place and share whatever related to them!
 
Their Romeo & Juliet Free Dance in Nagano really got me into figure skating. Deeply moving & so noble. I fell in love with them and I find their expressiveness as well as chemistry still unmatched.
 
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Thanks for the compilation on our featured skaters' performances with their previous partners. Anissina said that she felt left behind and angry at the hopeless situation after Averbukh abandoned their partnership for the sake of his love interest, Irina Lobacheva. By the twist of fate, Averbukh was beaten by Anissina not only at Salt Lake City, but also at Nagano as the result of his partnership with Lobacheva. He could've won the 2002 Olympics if he had chosen to stay with Anissina.

On the other hand, it is an interesting fact that Peizerat had competed with the two partners named "Marina" although their original nationality are different. Since Marina Moriel retired, he needed a partner to proceed his pursuit in figure skating and another Marina with strong wills and prowess came to him. :)
 
Their Romeo & Juliet Free Dance in Nagano really got me into figure skating. Deeply moving & so noble. I fell in love with them and I find their expressiveness as well as chemistry still unmatched.

The free dance is by far the most mesmerizing R&J program ever done by skaters in my opinion. The choreography, music choice, and costume were all magnificent. I think the package of the program was well executed because the blue colored costume represents not only their identity as a French team but also symbolization of the characters' innocent and pure love. The choice of Prokofiev's piece also reminds of Russian-born Anissina and the dramatic piece suited her personality pretty well. I love the FD much more than their liberty FD at Salt Lake City.
 
Their RJ number was my favourite of all the things they did. Prokofiev's version isn't used as much lately, and they definitely did it to perfection, imho.
 
The free dance is by far the most mesmerizing R&J program ever done by skaters in my opinion. The choreography, music choice, and costume were all magnificent. I think the package of the program was well executed because the blue colored costume represents not only their identity as a French team but also symbolization of the characters' innocent and pure love. The choice of Prokofiev's piece also reminds of Russian-born Anissina and the dramatic piece suited her personality pretty well. I love the FD much more than their liberty FD at Salt Lake City.

I never thought or knew about the symbolism in their R&J costumes. The most remarkable quality in design was for me that it complimented their airiness and lightness of their movement.
Everything about that program was so exquisite and highlighting the changes in that music as well as presenting the story. .
 
Interview with Marina Anissina (released 11 February this year!) and some fluff pieces from Russian TV. :) Unfortunately I don't understand Russian (maybe bar some 20% of it via common Russian - Polish vocabulary), there's no dialogue list either. Maybe someone could help? :(


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1dKsyyWHg&t=545s
 
One of my all-time favorite teams.

When I was watched them as a kid, I was for some reason convinced they were a married couple. Years later I found out that they were never even romantically involved, I felt like some of my childhood got crushed. :laugh:
 
One of my all-time favorite teams.

When I was watched them as a kid, I was for some reason convinced they were a married couple. Years later I found out that they were never even romantically involved, I felt like some of my childhood got crushed. :laugh:



You were not alone in that feeling. :laugh: I read somewhere that they were quarrelsome against each other and even considered split at some point ;)
 
You were not alone in that feeling. :laugh: I read somewhere that they were quarrelsome against each other and even considered split at some point ;)

I loved A/P and wanted them to be linked romantically.They were very different personalities and clashed .On ice they were :hap10:
Please someone translate parts.Have her and her husband divorced?
 
Could someone translate please .Marina looked quite serious in the video and what did Maria say ?Thankyou.
 
i was 6 and at that time skating was a big deal in france , i remmeber we were all watching it together.
i think gwendal was my first crush with is long blond hair :)
back then i saw a french tv reportage where you can see them arguing . i asked my mum how can they skate together if they don't like each other?
marina was fire on ice and off the ice.
everytime i was waiting for the reverse lift.
such good memories.
 
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One of my all-time favorite teams.

When I was watched them as a kid, I was for some reason convinced they were a married couple. Years later I found out that they were never even romantically involved, I felt like some of my childhood got crushed. :laugh:

:laugh:

I get it. Marina and Gwendal had real HEAT with one another which made them exciting. Their chemistry was so good that one time someone joked that Gwendal was in the delivery room with Marina when she gave birth to her first child, and I actually believed it.
 
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