Julia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya

Julia Lipnitskaya
Lipnitskaya at the 2014 Olympic Games
Full name	Julia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya
nation	Russia
birthday	5th June 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Yekaterinburg ,  Russia
size	160 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
Trainer	Alexei Urmanov
choreographer	Marina Sujewa
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Sochi 2014 team  World figure skating championships silver Saitama 2014 Ladies  European figure skating championships gold Budapest 2014 Ladies
Personal best
Total points 209.72 EM 2014  Freestyle 141.51 Olympia 2014  Short program 74.54 World Cup 2014
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 1 0  Grand Prix competitions 2 1 1

Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaja ( Russian Юлия Вячеславовна Липницкая ; born June 5, 1998 in Yekaterinburg ) is a former Russian figure skater who started in a single run . With the Russian team, she became the youngest figure skater of all time to become an Olympic champion in 2014 at the age of 15. She is the European champion of 2014.

Career

Beginnings

Julia Lipnitskaja started figure skating at the age of four in her hometown of Yekaterinburg. In 2009 she moved to Moscow to train because of her great ice skating talent. Right from the start she placed in the top ranks of youth championships and achieved her breakthrough in the 2011/2012 season by winning the final of the international junior grand prix.

National and international career

In 2012, when she took part in the Russian Senior Women Championship for the first time , Lipnitskaya won the silver medal and in the same year became both Russian junior champion and junior world champion . She also became known this season for not falling in a single competition. Also in 2012 she made her debut at an international senior women competition, the Finlandia Trophy. She won several Grand Prix competitions , but was too young to take part in the World Figure Skating Championships that year .

After an injury break, she returned in 2013, finished fifth in the Russian Junior Championship and second in the Junior World Championship behind her teammate Jelena Radionova . In the following season she won the Finlandia Trophy and the Grand Prix competition Skate Canada . By winning the Cup of Russia in Moscow, she qualified for the Grand Prix final , which she finished with the silver medal. This makes her the second youngest medalist in her country after the figure legend Irina Sluzkaja . With a subsequent second place at the Russian championship, she qualified for participation in the European Figure Skating Championships in 2014 , where she immediately won the title.

Olympia 2014

At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, she won gold in the new team competition with the Russian team and was also first among the women in the short program and freestyle in this competition. In the women's individual competition, she achieved 5th place.

Personal

Lipnitskaya fell ill with anorexia ; from the spring of 2017 she went into medical care. In August of the same year, she announced her retirement from active sports.

Results

GP: ISU Grand Prix ; CS: ISU Challenger series; JGP: ISU Junior Grand Prix ; Z: withdrawn

Competition / season	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012–13	2013-14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17
International
Olympic Winter Games (Individual)					5.
Olympic Winter Games (team)					1.
World championships					2.
European championships					1.
GP final				Z	2.	5.
GP Cup of Russia					1.			12.
GP Skate America							6th	Z
GP Skate Canada					1.
GP Trophée Eric Bompard				3.		2.	2.
GP Cup of China				2.		2.
CS Finlandia Trophy							2.
CS Nepela Trophy								2.
Finlandia Trophy				1.	1.
International: Juniors
Junior World Championships			1.	2.
JGP finals			1.
JGP Italy			1.
JGP Poland			1.
National
Russian championships		4th	2.	Z	2.	9.	7th	Z
Russian Junior Championships	5.	Z	1.	5.

Web links

Commons : Julia Lipnitskaia  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Julija Lipnitskaja at sport-folio.net
• Julija Lipnitskaja at fskate.ru

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russia Today
2. ^ Figure skating: Gold for Russia in the team competition. In: Sochi-2014.ru . February 9, 2014.
3. ↑ Figure skating. Results individual women. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on January 7, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Olympic gold at 15, retirement at 19