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{{Infobox figure skater
 * name= Diana Davis
 * image=
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 * native_name= Диана Дэвис
 * native_name_lang= ru
 * fullname= Diana Davis
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 * country= {{RUS}}
 * birth_date= {{birth date and age|df=yes|2003|01|16}}
 * birth_place= Las Vegas, USA
 * residence= Moscow, Russia
 * height= {{height|m=1.60}}
 * coach= I. Shpilband, P. Camerlengo, A. Lenda, D. Samokhin
 * formercoach= Eteri Tutberidze, Svetlana Alekseeva, Elena Kustarova, Olga Riabinina
 * choreographer= Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo
 * skating club= Olimpiets Balashikha
 * former skating club= Sambo 70
 * currenttraininglocations= Novi,Michigan, USA
 * formertraininglocations= Moscow, Russia
 * beganskating= 2009

Diana Davis (Russian: Диана Дэвис: born 16 January 2003) is a Russian Ice Dancer.

Diana is a member of the Russian National Team of Figure Skating. With her partner Gleb Smolkin, she is the 2020 junior Russian Nationals silver medallist, ISU Junior Grand Prix 2019 finalist.

Personal life
Diana was born on January 16, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA but was raised in Moscow, Russia. Diana holds dual Russian and American citizenship. She is the daughter of the Russian renowned coach Eteri Tutberidze. When Diana was 2.5 years old she was diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss of the 3rd degree. which resulted from a medical error: it was a complication after certain antibiotics were given to her. Unfortunately, the process was irreversible. She has undergone medical treatment in Germany, yet, her hearing abilities could not be restored. As a result of the disease, she has an underdeveloped coordination, can hear but partially has to lipread: some of the words have to be repeated to her and some new ones have to be written on paper. At the same time, the disability does not affect Diana’s ability to hear music which allows her to compete on national and international levels.

On December 18th 2019 via Instagram Stories Diana announced that she no longer has any hearing problems; she said she ‘can hear perfectly and maybe better than ordinary people’.

She is close friends with Alina Zagitova, the 2018 Olympic Champion.

In December 2019, in her interview with Tatler magazine Russia, Diana announced that, contrary to all the rumours, she has never been in a relationship and is not dating her on-ice partner Gleb Smolkin.

Diana was the prototype for the 2-times World Champion Evgenia Medvedeva’s 2015/16 free programme which is often called ‘Hearing – Not hearing’.

Her hobbies include photography, TV series, dance and music.

Early years
Diana’s mother took her to an ice rink for the first when she was just 2 months old. Although Diana wanted to do synchronised swimming, she started skating professionally at the age of 6 since it was the only opportunity to spend time with her mother.

She was initially coached by her mother at the Olympic Reserve Sports school no. 37 ‘Khrustalniy’, now known as Sambo-70. Due to her disability single figure skating was dangerous for her and unsuccessful. Her mother suggested she tries herself in ice dance. Eteri Tutberidze feared for her daughter’s safety due to the lack of coordination.

Diana used to attend a school which specialised in advanced foreign languages before fully transferring to Sambo-70.

In 2016 Davis applied for the change of the competitive citizenship to be able to represent Georgia. However, the change never happened.

Partnership with Denis Pechuzhkin
Diana’s ice dance career started in 2016. Her partner was Denis Pechuzhkin, a student of Eteri Tutberidze who also transferred to ice dance. Their partnership was short and lasted less than 6 months but during this period Diana was awarded the title of the Master of Sports of the Russian Federation.

Partnership with Fiodor Varlamov
Davis has been in partnership with Fiodor Varlamov for the season 2017/18. Together they became medallists of the 2017 junior Cup of Russia assignments: they won a silver medal in Moscow and bronze medal in Sochi.

Partnership with Gleb Smolkin
In 2018 it was revealed that Davis was teaming up with Gleb Smolkin and the pair was to be coached by Svetlana Alekseeva, Elena Kustarova and Olga Riabinina at SC ‘Olimpiets’ Balashikha.

The partnership with Smolkin was rather successful: in the season 2018/19 the pair finished 3rd at the ISU JGP 2018 in Ostrava, as well as placing 3rd and 2nd at Volvo Open Cup 2018 in Riga and Tallin Trophy 2018 in Tallin respectively. In 2019/20 they became silver medallists of the ISU JGP assignments in Lake Placid and Chelyabinsk, thereby qualifying for the ISU JGP Finals in Torino. The finals were not as successful for the pair as the assignments and they only placed 6th. However, Davis-Smolkin won the Volvo Open Cup 2019 in Riga.

In 2019 the pair relocated to Novi, Michigan, USA to be coached by I. Shpilband, P. Camerlengo, A. Lenda and D. Samokhin.