Nikita Gennadyevich Kazalapov

Nikita Kazalapov
Full name	Nikita Gennadyevich Kazalapov
nation	Russia
birthday	July 10, 1991
place of birth	Moscow,  Soviet Union
size	180 cm
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Viktoria Sinitsina
Former partner	Jelena Ilinych Angelina Kabischewa
Trainer	Alexander Schulin Pyotr Durnev Dmitri Ionov
choreographer	Sergei Petukhov
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Sochi 2014 team bronze Sochi 2014 Ice dance  World figure skating championships silver Saitama 2019 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Sheffield 2012 Ice dance silver Zagreb 2013 Ice dance gold Graz 2020 Ice dance
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 1 0  Grand Prix competitions 2 6th 4th
last change: February 27, 2020

Nikita Gennadjewitsch Kazalapow ( Russian: Никита Геннадьевич Кацалапов ; born July 10, 1991 in Moscow ) is a Russian figure skater who starts in ice dancing . Together with Jelena Iljinych he won medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics . In 2020 he became European champion in ice dance together with Wiktorija Sinizina .

Athletic career

From the 2009/10 season Jelena Iljinych was his ice dance partner. The couple trained with Alexander Schulin and Oleg Volkov in Moscow.

In 2010, Ilinych and Kazalapow were junior world champions in The Hague .

In 2011 they came third in the Russian championships and contested their first world and European championships . They finished fourth at the European Championships and seventh at the World Championships .

As Russian runners-up , Ilyinych and Kazalapov won their first medal at the European Championships in Sheffield in 2012 with bronze . At the World Championships in Nice they improved by two places to fifth compared to the previous year, making them the best Russian ice dance couple.

In 2013 Kazalapow and Ilyinych won the silver medal at the European Championships in Zagreb behind their teammates Yekaterina Bobrowa and Dmitri Solowjow .

Ilinych and Kazalapow at the Cup of Russia 2010

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Kazalapov was able to win the bronze medal in ice dance with Ilyinych and also achieve the Olympic victory with the team. With 183.48 points (73.04 points in the short program / 110.44 points in the freestyle), they were only worse than Meryl Davis and Charlie White from the USA and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir from Canada in ice dancing . In the team competition they got 103.48 points in the freestyle, which meant that they were only beaten by Davis / White and Virtue / Moir. Ekaterina Bobrowa and Dmitri Solovyev had danced the short dance .

Wiktorija Sinizina has been his ice dance partner since the 2014/15 season . In the 2018/19 season they qualified for the Grand Prix final , where they won a silver medal in ice dancing. At the World Championships in Saitama, they also won the silver medal.

In the 2019/20 season, Sinizina and Kazalapow won the Cup of Russia , the Cup of China and the European Championships in Graz. They were nominated for the world championships , but this was canceled.

Sinizina and Kazalapow at the 2019 World Cup

Results

With Jelena Iljinych as a partner in ice dancing

Championship / year	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
winter Olympics					3.
Olympic Winter Games (team)					1.
World championships		7th	5.	9.	4th
European championships		4th	3.	2.	2.
Junior World Championships	1.
Russian championships		3.	2.	2.	2.
Grand Prix competition / season	09/10	10/11	11/12	12/13	13/14
Grand Prix Final				6th
Cup of Russia		3.		2.
NHK Trophy		4th	3.	2.	4th
Eric Bompard Trophy			4th		2.

With Wiktorija Sinizina as a partner in ice dancing

Championship / year	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
World championships		9.			2.
European figure skating championships		4th	10.		4th	1.
Russian championships	4th	2.	3.		1.	1.
Grand Prix competition / season	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20
Grand Prix Final					2.	6th
Cup of Russia	4th	3.				1.
NHK Trophy	7th		5.	4th
Skate America		2.		3.
Internationaux de France					2.
Skate Canada					2.
Cup of China			4th			1.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eistanz, accessed on February 21, 2014 ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ ARD Olympia, figure skating team competition. Archived from the original on April 4, 2015 ; accessed on February 21, 2014 . 

Web links

Commons : Nikita Kazalapow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jelena Ilinych / Nikita Kazalapow in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Wiktorija Sinizina / Nikita Kazalapow in the database of the International Skating Union (English)