- Pairs figure skater with Yelena Berezhnaya
- Since they won the Olympic silver medal in 1998 and none was awarded in 2002, Elena and Anton could be called the reigning Olympic gold and silver medalists!
- His father is from Georgia, a small country just south of Russia in Caucasus mountains. He moved to St. Petersburg as teenager.
- Elena and Anton are each others' second pairs partners. With Maria Petrova, Anton was a top-ranked junior skater and the pair won the 1994 and 1995 World Junior Championships. Maria went on to become the 2000 World Champion with Aleksei Tikhonov.
- He was voted "most sexy male athlete" by readers of the Russian newspaper Arguments and Facts in 1999.
- Coach is the legendary Tamara Moskvina.
- Parents Lyudmila and Tehreeal, brother and sister (both older).
- Currently performing with "Stars on Ice" during their 2003-2004 touring season.
- His pairs partner, Elena, calls him Kislota, which means acid in Russian, while he calls her Kisa--kitten.
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