Eteri Tutberidze (born 24 February 1974 as Eteri Georgievna Tutberidze) is a Russian figure skating coach who mostly works with female single skaters.
She is the head coach at Moscow’s Sambo 70 skating club.
She has coached several Russian skaters to success in international competitions, including 2022 Olympic and 2021 World champion Anna Shcherbakova, 2022 Olympic silver medalist and two-time Junior World champion Alexandra Trusova, 2022 Olympic Team champion and 2020 Junior World champion Kamila Valieva, 2020 European Champion Alena Kostornaia, 2018 Olympic and 2019 World champion Alina Zagitova, two-time World champion and two-time 2018 Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva, and 2014 Olympic Team champion Yulia Lipnitskaya.
The Sambo-70 club is infamous for encouraging dehydration, malnutrition, and maintaining the same practice regimen despite injuries, and critics have also noted Eteri’s trainees frequently retiring with major ailments before the age of 18. Several of her male students, including Daniil Samsonov and Adian Pitkeev, were also seriously injured as a result of her instruction.
