The Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships are an annual
figure skating competition
A figure skating competition is a judged sports competition in figure skating.
Types of figure skating competitions
International
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organized by the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation () to crown the
national champions
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of Ukraine. Following Ukraine's independence after the
collapse of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...
, the first Ukrainian Championships were held in 1993 in
Odesa
Odesa, also spelled Odessa, is the third most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern ...
, and they have been held without interruption since.
Medals are awarded in
men's singles, women's singles,
pair skating
Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating ...
, and
ice dance
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...
at the senior, junior, and novice levels, although not every discipline is held every year due to a lack of participants.
Vitaliy Danylchenko
Vitaliy Danylchenko (, born 4 December 1978 in Dnipropetrovsk) is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater. He is the 1999 Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalist and a five-time Ukrainian national champion. He placed as high as 6th at the Europea ...
and
Anton Kovalevski
Anton Volodymyrovych Kovalevski (; born 9 March 1985 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater. He won medals at the Crystal Skate of Romania, Golden Spin of Zagreb
The Golden Spin of Zagreb () is an annual figure skating com ...
are currently tied for winning the most Ukrainian Championship titles in men's singles (with five each), while
Olena Liashenko holds the record in women's singles (with seven).
Tatiana Volosozhar and
Stanislav Morozov
Stanislav Oleksandrovych Morozov (; , born 1 February 1979) is a former pair skater who competed for Ukraine and now works as a coach in Russia. With partner Tatiana Volosozhar, he was a four-time (2005, 2007, 2008, 2010) Ukrainian national c ...
hold the record in pair skating (with four), although Morozov won an additional three championship titles with other partners.
Irina Romanova and
Igor Yaroshenko, and
Oleksandra Nazarova and
Maksym Nikitin, are tied for winning the most titles in ice dance (with six each).
In 2014, the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation hosted an international event – the 2014 Ukrainian Open – which also served as Ukraine's national championships for that year.
After the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
, the usual training processes in Ukraine were disrupted. Additionally, Russian shelling of ice arenas made it impossible to safely conduct training and competitions, and Ukrainian skaters found themselves scattered across Europe while Ukraine was under siege.
Ice rinks in
Kharkiv
Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine. ,
Sievierodonetsk
Sievierodonetsk or Severodonetsk, officially since 2024 Siverskodonetsk, is a city in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is located to the northeast of the left bank of the Donets river and approximately to the northwest from the administrati ...
,
Druzhkivka
Druzhkivka (, ; ) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was previously a city of regional significance before the status was abolished. Population: As of April 2024, the city's population was over 31,000.
Druzhkivka is located near the co ...
, and
Mariupol
Mariupol is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius, Kalmius River. Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was the tenth-largest city in the coun ...
have been damaged or destroyed by Russian missiles. Planning and logistics for the Ukrainian Championships became more and more difficult, to the point where the 2023 Championships in
Bohuslav
Bohuslav (, ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city on the Ros (river), Ros River in Obukhiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Bohuslav urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 17,135 (2001).
It is ...
were announced at the last minute and were poorly attended, described as "a very depressing event, the level of which
aslower than the level of an average European children’s competition."
Senior medalists
Men's singles
Women's singles
Pairs
Ice dance
Junior medalists
Men's singles
Women's singles
Pairs
Dmytro Sharpar, who won the bronze medal with his partner Anastasiya Pobizhenko in junior pair skating in 2016, was killed in 2023 near the city of
Bakhmut
Bakhmut is a city in eastern Ukraine. It is officially the administrative center of Bakhmut urban hromada and Bakhmut Raion in Donetsk Oblast. The city is located on the Bakhmutka River, about north of Donetsk, the administrative center ...
during the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
.
Ice dance
2014 Ukrainian Open
On 18–20 December 2013, the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation hosted a senior-level international event in Kyiv – the 2014 Ukrainian Open – which also served as Ukraine's national championships for that year.
Records
References
See also
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Figure skating responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
External links
Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation
Skate Ukraine
Ukrainian National Championshipsat Skating Scores
{{Top sport leagues in Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
Figure skating in Ukraine
Figure skating
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympi ...