Biography
The figure skater Diana Davis, according to the mother, on the ice is from 2 months. And the mother of the girl is a famous coach of figure skating Eteri Tutberidze, which cultivated world champions, Europe and the Olympic Games. So Diana had no choice but to do this beautiful, but such a difficult sport.Childhood
Diana was born in January 2003 in San Antonio, Texas. In America, her mother Eteri Tutberidze was then worked - performed in the ice show, and then became the coach. About who is the father of the girl, you can find different versions on the network. It was assumed that Mr. Davis - a face and the mythical. And the most common rumor - allegedly Treberidze gave birth to Diana from her husband, Elena Viozer's colleague.
With Sergey Buyanov, Eterie met a rink when she once again came from the state to visit the parents. In a professional circle, the participants of which are closely communicating between themselves and in general in sight, sewed in the bag do not hide. Allegedly I learned about everything, but as a wise woman granted her husband the opportunity to make a choice. Sergey chose his family.
Tutberidze returned to America. Then there was a version of Mr. Davis, for which Ether would be married, but soon divorced, as the spouse did not want to move to Russia. Comments of electronic media subscribers, arguing that the novel had a place to be. Heroes of this story do not give any explanations.
However, later matured Diana opened the curtain of the mystery of the mother's marriage. According to the girl, parents did not part, the father often comes to Russia, makes her gifts, and her husband, Eteri regularly goes to rest on the sea coast.
The daughter of Tutberidze since 2 years suffers with hearing loss, the disease developed as a result of a medical error. Doctors have prescribed antibiotics to the child, the use of which led to a complication. The ailment developed rapidly, Tutberidze even drove Diana for treatment to Germany, but they could not help there. ETee Georgievna says everywhere that for her the main thing is that the daughter does not feel disadvantaged.
The champions coach generally believes that in the case of such people as Diana, it will be necessary to be conducted not as accepted in society - about people with disabilities, but somewhat differently with elevated needs. And, for example, when broadcasting television programs there is no difficulty to let the duplicate sound line on the screen. When pronouncing unfamiliar words, Mom clarifies their sound on paper, although the disease does not affect the perception of Diana Music: her girl feels and hears.
So that Diana is easier to adapt to ordinary life, Mom gave a girl to a specialized school, where children are learning with the same ailments. Apparently, the problems with hearing did not turn away the young figure skater from the Society: in "Instagram" Diana photos testify about a cheerful pastime with friends and relatives, as well as with a former partner of dance on Ice Fedor Varlamov.
From the fragile blonde Davis and Varlamov, who is headed above the girl, turned out a bright couple. No less impressive pictures with the current partner Diana - Gleb Smallkin, which appear on its page.
Figure skating
The sports biography of Davis began at the 6th age when ETee purposefully brought the daughter on the rink. Diana itself dreamed of another sport - synchronous swimming, but in this case the mother and daughter would stop video. The girl was engaged in the center of sports and education "Sambo 70", in the department "Crystal" in the mother group. And, as you know, Tutberidze is preparing only solids. And the coach she is hard and uncompromising, sending no one for anyone, including for her daughter.The girl showed unstable results: she got into the top five leaders, it turned out in the second ten. Nevertheless, Eteri did everything possible so that Diana mastered the technique of figure skating. One day, Mom even forgot his daughter's birthday, so worried about her performance with an arbitrary program.
In many ways, such an attitude was dictated by the disease. It is known that people with hearing loss are violated coordination, and the risk of getting injuries increases. The excessive anxiety of Eteri for a child led to the fact that she began to send Davis to the competition with other coaches.
Despite the fact that Diana mastered all the elements and learned jumps, Eteri adopted a volitional sole solution - the daughter will be dancing. Tutberidze then explained this approach to the career of the girl in that due to the weak hearing, she has other coordination of movements. And where jumping, there and falls, and injuries. The coach mother would not have forgotten this. For the same reason, Diana's dream did not come true about the double riding.
In addition, the larger results in single skating Davis did not reach. In the list of tournaments in which Diana participated, the championship of Moscow, stages and the Russian Cup final, Volkov Memorial. The only reward is the bronze medal of the open championship on the prizes of the President of the Federation of figure skating of the city of Moscow of 2015 in the female single skating.
At first, Tutberidze turned to Alexander Zhulin so that he took to Diana. But the Olympic champion did not consider it possible to train the daughter of colleagues, saying that it is equivalent to how to ask for a friend. As a result, Davis got to the married couple - Coach Denis Samokhin and choreographer Maria Borovikova.
Husband with his wife brought up a couple of Catherine Pushkash-Jonathan Gureiro, now the young generation of Elizaveu Hudayberdiev and Nikita Nazarova are growing. The guys in 2018 won 4 Medals of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, including 2 Golden, in 2019 became bronze medorship of the Junior World Cup.
Denis himself in the 90s rode from Anna Semenovich. The programs running a young, but talented Daniel Gleihengauz, who put the winning dances of the Olympic champion Alina Zagito.
At first, Diana put a couple with a former single-line Denis Pichuzkin, another student Tutberidze, who later went into the dances. Together they rolled less than six months. During this time, Diana managed to get the title of Master of Sports of Russia in figure skating.
In 2016, Davis decided to change sports citizenship and proceed under the jurisdiction of the Georgian figure skating federation. However, for a number of reasons, the transition did not take place.
In 2017, Diana already acted as a pair with Fedor Varlamov. The first of their noticeable sports achievement was the victory at the 3rd stage of the St. Petersburg Cup in 2017. In addition, the guys rose twice to the pedestal at the steps of the Russian Cup in the youthful discharge: on the 3rd stage - in Sochi and on the second - in Moscow.
Denis Samokhin noted the effort, which exhibits Diana on the ice, and said that the ward still had to understand what was dancing, and learn to demonstrate more emotions. In December 2017, Diana and Fedor's performance was held at the first international competitions - Santa Claus Cup in Budapest. In the Junior Ice Dance group, skaters took the 6th place.
In January 2018, Russia's championship in figure skating among juniors took place in Saransk. Competitions in the capital of Mordovia were held on the category of candidates for the master of sports. Diana, together with Fedor Varlamov, took the 13th place out of 15 pairs. On the final of the Russian Cup final, the results of the duet turned out to be higher: Davis and Varlamov finished poles.
Soon the athlete replaced the partner. He was Gleb Smallkin, the son of the famous actor Boris Smallkin. Changed Diana and mentors. Now the guys train Svetlana Alekseeva, Elena Kustarov and Olga Ryabinin. Together, the athletes performed at the Moscow Championship of 2018.
In the fall, the couple made his debut in the International Junior Series of the Grand Prix in the Czech Republic, where he managed to win bronze. On the 1st place, the Russians of Elizabeth Hudayberdieva and Nikita Nazarov were colleagues, on the second - Maria Kazakov and Georgy Revi (Georgia).
Upon returning from Ostrava at the airport, Diana Davis welcomed Mom and Alina Zagitov, who also returned from the Nebelhorn Trophy tournament, where he became the winner and the record holder.
On the last Volvo Open Cup later, the skaters recorded another 3rd place in the discharge of juniors. From the Panina Memorial and Tallinn Trophy Diana with a partner brought silver medals won in the group of candidates for the master of sports. On the 2nd step of the pedestal they rose on Russian-Chinese youth games.
That's just the Russian championship among juniors finished on the 9th line of the standings, but the choreographer's commented tournament and the silver medalist of Olympiad Ilya Averbukh noted that the guys progress and their future. Such results prove that mutual understanding in a pair of colleagues was found quickly. Gleb, according to Diana, is good in everything. With journalists after rental, a young man is communicating, the questions that Davis does not disassemble, repeats the girl in his ear.
In early 2019, a couple of Diana Davis - Gleb Smallkin announced participation in the most expected country tournament - the Russian Cup of Figure Skating. Athletes hoped to improve the result shown last season. In the competitions held in February in Nizhny Novgorod, they were led after a short dance, winning the nearest competitors of Irina Havronic and Dario Cyrizano 1 point. However, after an arbitrary program, the situation has changed, and the rivals were ahead of Diana and Gleb at 0.18 points.
Eteri Tutberidze did not agree with the verdict of judges, especially since the riding is demonstrated by the unmistakable, and the components are exhibited. She placed the post in the "instagram" in which she stated that she was obvious to her who actually became the winner. Alexander Zhulin, commenting on the actions of the colleague, noticed that "there was nothing to say anything better in the place of the great coach." Eteri first of all mom, and the parents of a priori are not objective in relation to their own children.
Personal life
At one time, the Mine student is a close friend of Diana, the world champion Evgenia Medvedev, but after leaving the figure skater to Canada, there was no relationship between girls. How everywhere he is written in the press, the first victories for his wife at the Grand Prix, European Championships and Peace came along with the program "I hear - I do not hear" she dedicated to Diana.
Fans guess that between partners in figure skating Diana and Gleb, the relationship went beyond sports and friendly. The pair does not comment on these rumors, but instagram accounts are filled with joint photos, and under some pictures, Davis puts emoji in the form of hearts.
A close friend of the girl is another ward, Eteri Alina Zagitova, whose photos appeared on Diana pages in social networks. They spent time together in training halls, their rollers of joint execution of the girlfriend dance for the jokes were laid out on Youtube and in Periscope.
Among the colleagues, the figure skater allocates Alex and Maya Chibutani. The fact that Mama is a trainer imposes a fingerprint: after studying Denis Eduardovich, there is additional training in Eteri.
At home, Diana lives a Yorkshire terrier named Tion. In his free time, the girl watching the series or goes shopping.
In November 2018, a beloved grandmother of athlete died. Davis reported this in "Instagram". Condolences expressed Zagitov and Medvedev, as well as Alexander Troyov.
In February 2019, Diana talked with the subscribers of "Instagram". The girl told that she loves America, it has the citizenship of this country and remembers the years spent there, but wants to represent the interests of Russia. The figure skater training on ice for 4 hours a day, and the mother does not have so many narrow-directed professional advice, how much an opinion expresses, whether she likes what the daughter does, and what impression it does.
Diana Davis now
In 2021, Davis and Smallkin were submitted at the Russian Cup on figure skating among juniors an arrow dance. For 2 days, the duet received from judges a total of 186.38 points and became the winner of the tournament.Achievements and awards
- 2017 - First place on the III Stage Cup of St. Petersburg
- 2017 - Third place on the III Stage of the Russian Cup
- 2017 - second place on the V stage of the Russian Cup
- 2018 - third place on the open championship of Moscow
- 2018 - Bronze Medal at Yugp in the Czech Republic
- 2018 - Bronze Medal on Volvo Open Cup
- 2018 - Silver Medal at the II Russian-Chinese Youth Games
- 2019 - Silver Medal of the Russian Cup
- 2021 - the first place of the Russian Cup in figure skating among juniors