Viktoriya Oleksandrivna Maksyuta or Victoria Maxiuta (; born 15 November 1981) is a former

pair skater 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 a ...

. Competing with

Vladislav Zhovnirski Vladislav Vladimirovich Zhovnirski (; born 12 July 1978) is a Russian pair skating coach and former competitor. With Victoria Maxiuta, he is the 1996 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, 1996 World Junior champion, 1997 Ondrej Nepela Memoria ...

for Russia, she became the 1996 World Junior champion,

1997 Ondrej Nepela Memorial The Nepela Memorial () is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted in Bratislava, Slovakia, by the Slovak Figure Skating Association (). The competition debuted in 1993 and is ...

champion,

1998 Skate America The 1998 Skate America was the first event of six in the 1998–99 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan on October 29 – November 1 ...

bronze medalist, and

1999 Winter Universiade The 1999 Winter Universiade, the XIX Winter Universiade, took place in Poprad Tatry, Slovakia between January 22 and January 30. Medal table Sports * * * * * * * * * References 1999 1999 was designated as the Int ...

champion. She later represented Russia and Ukraine with Vitali Dubina.

Career

Partnership with Zhovnirski

Maxiuta began appearing internationally with

in 1993, representing Russia. They were awarded gold at the 1996 World Junior Championships, held from November to December 1995 in

Brisbane Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a ...

, Australia. The pair's first senior international medal, gold, came at the

Ondrej Nepela Memorial The Nepela Memorial () is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia, by the Slovak Figure Skating Association (). The competition debuted in ...

in September 1996. Maxiuta/Zhovnirski went on to take bronze at the 1997 World Junior Championships, held in November 1996 in

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, South Korea; bronze at the

1998 World Junior Championships 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water Ice is water tha ...

in December 1997 in

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, Canada; and silver at the 1997–98 Junior Series Final in March 1998 in

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, Switzerland. Maxiuta/Zhovnirski began the 1998–99 season with gold medals at both of their

Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...

assignments – in

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, Bulgaria, and

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, Germany – before winning bronze at a senior Grand Prix event, the

. In November 1998, the pair stepped onto the World Junior Championship podium for the fourth consecutive year, taking bronze in

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, Croatia. In January 1999, they outscored

Pang Qing Pang Qing (; born December 24, 1979, in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese retired pair skater. With her husband Tong Jian, she is the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, the 2006 and 2010 World Champion, a five-time Four Continents champion (20 ...

Tong Jian Tong Jian (; born August 15, 1979, in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese retired pair skater. With his wife Pang Qing, he is the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, 2006 and 2010 World Champion, a five-time Four Continents champion (2002, 2004, ...

for gold at the

Winter Universiade The FISU World University Games, formerly the Universiade, is an international multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The former name is a portmanteau of the words "Universi ...

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, Slovakia. In March, they took bronze at the Junior Grand Prix Final in

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. The pair was coached by

Nina Mozer Nina Mikhailovna Mozer (; born 28 August 1964) is a Russian pair skating coach based in Moscow. She is best known for coaching Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov and Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, the 2014 Olympic gold and silver medalists. ...

Partnership with Dubina

In the 1999–2000 season, Maxiuta competed with Vitali Dubina for Russia. They were awarded gold at the

1999 Ondrej Nepela Memorial The Nepela Memorial () is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted in Bratislava, Slovakia, by the Slovak Figure Skating Association (). The competition debuted in 1993 and is ...

and bronze at the 1999

Golden Spin of Zagreb The Golden Spin of Zagreb () is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Croatian Skating Federation () and held in Zagreb, Croatia. The competition debuted in 1973, and ...

before placing sixth at the 2000 Russian Championships. Deciding to switch to Ukraine, the pair won two consecutive silver medals at the Ukrainian Championships and competed at two Grand Prix events, placing 8th at the

2001 Sparkassen Cup on Ice The 2001 Sparkassen Cup on Ice was the third event of six in the 2001–02 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Emscher-Lippe-Halle in Gelsenkirchen on November 9–11. ...

and 6th at the 2001 Cup of Russia. They were coached by

Dmitri Shkidchenko Dmitri or Dmytro Valentynovych Shkidchenko ( or Шкидченко; died 26 January 2023) was a Ukrainian figure skating coach and pair skater who competed internationally for the Soviet Union. With his skating partner Irina Mironenko, he was th ...

Kyiv 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, ...

Programs

With Dubina

Competitive highlights

''GP:

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; JGP:

With Dubina for Ukraine and Russia

With Zhovnirski for Russia

References

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