Ivan Oleksiyovych Shmuratko (, born December 21, 2001) is a Ukrainian

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. He is the 2024 CS Warsaw Cup bronze medalist, 2018

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bronze medalist, 2018 Bosphorus Cup silver medalist, and four-time Ukrainian national champion (2019–22). On the junior level, he is the 2019 JGP Italy bronze medalist and silver medalist in the team event at the 2016 Youth Olympics. He has competed in the final segment at five ISU Championships and represented Ukraine at the

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Personal life

Shmuratko was born on December 21, 2001, in

Kyiv, Ukraine Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

. He has a younger brother named Ilya. He is fluent in

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, Ukrainian, and

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Career

Early years

Shmuratko started learning to skate in 2006 at the age of four and a half years old after his parents signed him up for the sport on the advice of his doctors to improve the catarrhal diseases that he suffered from as a child. In the 2014–15 season, he won bronze at the Ukrainian Junior Championships.

2015–16 season

Coached by Vira Volpova in

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, Shmuratko won two junior international medals: gold at the

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and silver at the

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. Competing at the senior level, he finished 4th at the Ukrainian Championships. He was named to Ukraine's team to the

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. There, he placed 14th in men's singles and won a silver medal as part of the team event as a member of Team Future, which also included

Diāna Ņikitina Diāna Ņikitina (born 9 December 2000) is a Latvian former figure skater. She is the 2017 Golden Bear of Zagreb champion, the 2018 Cup of Tyrol silver medalist, and the 2018 Latvian national champion. She competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics i ...

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and

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of the

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, and

Julia Wagret Julia Wagret (born 20 January 1999) is a French ice dancer. With her former skating partner, Pierre Souquet-Basiège, she became the 2020 Winter Star silver medalist. With her former skating partner, Mathieu Couyras, she became the 2017 French ...

and Mathieu Couyras of

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2018–19 season

Shmuratko opened his season on the

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series, placing 10th in Lithuania and 7th in Armenia. In November, making his senior international debut, he won bronze at the

in Latvia. The following month, he received medals at two senior events – silver at the Bosphorus Cup in Turkey and gold at the Ukrainian Championships. In January, he competed at his first ISU Championship, the 2019 European Championships in

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. He qualified to the final segment and placed twenty-second overall. He also advanced to the free skate at the 2019 World Junior Championships, which took place in March in

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. Ranked thirteenth in the short and seventeenth in the free, he finished sixteenth overall.

2019–20 season

Shmuratko started his season on the

series, placing seventh in Poland, and winning the bronze in Italy with a personal best score. In October, he competed at the Halloween Cup, winning the silver medal. In December, he won his second straight senior national title. He was named to the

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but withdrew. He placed fifteenth at the

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. Shmuratko was assigned to compete at the

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, but these were cancelled as a result of the

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2020–21 season

With pandemic-related travel restrictions limiting where skaters could compete, Shmuratko began the season at a European-only 2020 Nebelhorn Trophy, where he placed twelfth. After winning his third consecutive Ukrainian national title, Shmuratko competed at the 2021 World Championships in

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, placing twenty-first. His result qualified a men's berth for Ukraine at the

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2021–22 season

On the Challenger series, Shmuratko was fifth at the 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge and seventeenth at the 2021 Warsaw Cup. After winning the Ukrainian national title again, he was named to the Ukrainian Olympic team and placed twelfth at the

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. Shmuratko tested positive for

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upon arrival in

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and so was unable to participate in the Olympic team event. Ivan Shmuratko finishing his free skate at the 2022 World Championships

He stated that he was asymptomatic and hoped to be cleared to compete in the later men's event. Shmuratko subsequently was allowed to resume competition, placing twenty-second in the short program to qualify to the free skate. He finished twenty-fourth overall. Returning to

following the Olympics, Shmuratko soon found himself in the midst of Russia's invasion, with his home city being one of the largest points of conflict. Despite the war and the resultant limitations on his training, Shmurtako still traveled to attend the 2022 World Championships in

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, a journey that took three days. He received a standing ovation from the crowd and qualified for the free program, ultimately finishing twenty-third overall. On his decision to attend, he said, "it's important for Ukraine to have athletes who represent it on the international scene."

2022–23 season

Ivan Shmuratko at the 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy

Following the World Championships, Shmuratko spent April training at Club Olympique de Courbevoie in

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, on the invitation of Ukrainian emigrant pair skater Denys Strekalin. He subsequently relocated his training base to Oberstdorf, Germany, adding coaches Michael Huth, Robert Dierking, and

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to his team. Beginning the season, he placed seventh and sixth at 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy and 2022 Finlandia Trophy. Before making his senior

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debut at the

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, Shmuratko once again relocated back to Courbevoie, France, with

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and Nathalie Depouilly becoming his coaches. He subsequently finished in eighth place at the Grand Prix de France after placing eighth in both the short program and free skate. He was forced to sit out the rest of the season due to a foot injury.

2023–24 season

Shmuratko opted to return to train in Ukraine, explaining that "it‘s my home." He designed both of his programs to reflect the realities of the ongoing war, and said "it's one of my missions coming out of Ukraine to tell the stories through my art and my voice. It's my way to fight for my country." Shmuratko's short program presented a story of a child killed by a missile and the child's father being forced to live with it, and his free skate presented a continuation of that story. In his competitive debut for the season, he finished eighth at the 2023 Nepela Memorial. He was invited to appear on the

at the

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, coming eighth. At the 2024 European Championships in

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, Shmuratko placed nineteenth in the short program, but twelfth in the free skate, moving up to fourteenth-place overall. During his free skate, Shmuratko notably wore a white shirt with a red splotch spattered across his chest to signify blood stains. Following the event, he said, "This is the astral between life and death. No more, and no less. It is incomparably more than words can convey. The element with blood? Because that's how it is, literally. People die from missiles like this, with blood." Competing at the 2024 World Championships in

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, Canada, Shmuratko would finish thirty-third. He would go on to compete at the 2024 Ukrainian Championships one month later and win the silver medal behind

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2024–25 season

Shmuratko began the season by competing on the

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, finishing fifth at the

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, seventh at the

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, and taking bronze at the

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. He closed the season with a sixteenth-place finish at the 2025 European Championships in

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, Estonia.

Programs

Competitive highlights

Detailed results

Senior level

Junior level

References

External links

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