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Anastasiia Smirnova (Ukrainian: Анастасія Смірнова; born April 20, 2004) is a Ukrainian-born pair skater who represents the United States. With her skating partner, Danylo Siianytsia, she is the 2021 U.S. junior national champion, the 2020 U.S. junior national silver medalist, and finished in the top ten at two World Junior Championships.

Anastasiia Smirnova
Personal information
Native name	Анастасія Смірнова (Ukrainian)
Alternative names	Anastasiya
Country represented	United States
Former country(ies) represented	Ukraine
Born	(2004-04-20) April 20, 2004 (age 18) Dnipro, Ukraine
Home town	Shakopee, Minnesota
Residence	Shakopee, Minnesota
Height	1.50 m (4 ft 11 in)
Partner	Danylo Siianytsia
Former partner	Artem Darenskyi
Coach	Trudy Oltmanns
Former coach	Lilia Batutina
Choreographer	Randi Strong Trudy Oltmanns
Former choreographer	Michael Lueck Rohene Ward Julia Gorbacheva
Skating club	Yarmouth Ice Club
Former skating club	MDUSH Dnipro
Training locations	Shakopee, Minnesota
Former training locations	Sioux Center, Iowa Dnipro, Ukraine
Began skating	2010
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	156.40 2021 JGP Austria
Short program	60.38 2022 Junior Worlds
Free skate	104.85 2021 JGP Austria

Personal life

Smirnova was born on April 20, 2004 in Dnipro, Ukraine in a Russian-speaking family. As of 2021, she is in her last year of an online Ukrainian high school. Smirnova came to the United States in mid-2018 on a P-1 visa and hopes to gain U.S. citizenship.[1]

Smirnova has a pet kitten named Bunny.[2] She previously coached Learn to Skate lessons at the Shakopee Ice Arena where she trains.[3]

Career

Early career

Smirnova began skating in 2010 in Dnipro. Her first pairs partner was Artem Darenskyi. Coached by Lilia Batutina, Smirnova/Darenskyi were the 2015 Ukrainian junior national silver medalists and the 2016 Ukrainian junior national champion.[4] They competed at two Junior Grand Prix events, placing ninth at 2017 JGP Latvia and 11th at 2017 JGP Belarus, before splitting in fall 2017.[5]

Smirnova teamed up with Danylo Siianytsia in mid-2018 after he found her profile on IcePartnerSearch and asked his coach, Trudy Oltmanns, to arrange a tryout.[1] She moved from Ukraine to train with Siianytsia under Oltmanns in Shakopee, Minnesota. In their first season together, they won the novice bronze medal at the 2019 U.S. Championships.[6]

2019–20 season

Smirnova/Siianytsia made their junior international debut at 2019 JGP Russia, where they finished seventh overall. They then competed at the 2019–20 U.S. Pairs Final and won the bronze medal, qualifying them to the 2020 U.S. Championships. At the 2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb in December, Smirnova/Siianytsia earned their first international medal, silver behind Georgia's Butaeva/Berulava.[6]

At the 2020 U.S. Championships, Smirnova/Siianytsia were third in the short program, but won the free skate to earn the silver medal behind Finster/Nagy. As a result, they were named to the 2020 World Junior Championships team.[3] Smirnova/Siianytsia finished tenth at the World Junior Championships.[6]

2020–21 season

After the COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota caused their training rink to close, Smirnova/Siianytsia temporarily relocated with their coach to her old rink in Sioux Center, Iowa.[7] The Junior Grand Prix, where they would have competed, was also affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and cancelled.

In January, Smirnova/Siianytsia won the junior title at the 2021 U.S. Championships by over 20 points ahead of silver medalists Martins/Bedard, despite Smirnova suffering a high ankle sprain on her right leg in practice the day before competition began.[8] Siianytsia reflected that they were "pretty excited" about the win and "hopefully it won't be our last one."[8]

2021–22 season

Smirnova/Siianytsia returned to international competition on the Junior Grand Prix. They were fourth overall in Poland despite placing third in each segment, and finished sixth in Austria. They also competed on the senior level for the first time, placing ninth at the Skating Club of Boston's Cranberry Cup.[6] Both skaters contracted COVID-19 in December and withdrew from the 2022 U.S. Junior Championships.[9]

Despite their absence from the national championships, Smirnova/Siianytsia were named to the American team for the 2022 World Junior Championships, which had been originally scheduled to be held in Sofia, but due to the pandemic were moved to Tallinn in mid-April.[10] Due to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the International Skating Union banned all Russian athletes from competing at the event.[11] This had a significant impact on the pairs field, long dominated by Russia.[12] Smirnova/Siianytsia placed third in the short program, winning a bronze small medal, their only error being Smirnova underrotating and stepping out of her double Axel.[13] However, the free program proved to be difficult, with Siianytsia falling on both jumps, Smirnova falling on their second throw jump, and then their second lift aborted. They dropped to fourth place overall.[14]

Programs

With Siianytsia

Season	Short program	Free skating
2022–2023 [15]	The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel performed by Disturbed choreo. by Adam Blake	Je suis malade performed by Lara Fabian choreo. by Trudy Oltmanns
2021–2022 [16]	Big Spender (from Sweet Charity) performed by Janice Hagan choreo. by Trudy Oltmanns	Je suis malade performed by Lara Fabian choreo. by Trudy Oltmanns
2020–2021 [2]	Dixie Biscuits by Tape Five choreo. by Randi Strong	The Prayer by Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion choreo. by Trudy Oltmanns
2019–2020 [17]	Kiss of Fire by Ángel Villoldo performed by Hugh Laurie choreo. by Rohene Ward	Gravity by Sara Bareilles choreo. by Trudy Oltmanns, Michael Lueck

With Darenskyi

Season	Short program	Free skating
2017–2018 [18]	Don Quixote by Léon Minkus choreo. by Julia Gorbacheva	The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky choreo. by Yulia Horbacheva

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Siianytsia for the United States

International[6]
Event	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
GP Finland					TBD
GP Skate America					WD
CS Finlandia					7th
CS Nebelhorn					WD
Cranberry Cup				9th
International: Junior[6]
Junior Worlds		10th		4th
JGP Austria				6th
JGP Poland				4th
JGP Russia		7th
Golden Spin		2nd
National[6]
U.S. Champ.	3rd N	2nd J	1st J	WD
U.S. Pairs Final		3rd J
Eastern Sect.	2nd N
Championship Series			1st J
ISP Points Chall.			1st J
USCS Massachusetts				1st
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior

With Darenskyi for Ukraine

International: Junior[4]
Event	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18
JGP Belarus			9th
JGP Latvia			11th
National[4]
Ukrainian Junior	2nd	1st

Detailed results

ISU Personal Best highlighted in bold.

With Siianytsia

Senior results

2022–23 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
October 4–9, 2022	2022 CS Finlandia Trophy	7 54.50	7 98.38	7 152.88

Junior results

2021–22 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
April 13–17, 2022	2022 World Junior Championships	3 60.38	5 88.15	4 148.53
October 6–9, 2021	2021 JGP Austria	7 51.55	6 104.85	6 156.40
Sept. 29 – Oct. 2, 2021	2021 JGP Poland	3 55.07	3 98.56	4 153.63
2020–21 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
January 11–21, 2021	2021 U.S. Championships	1 59.07	1 110.78	1 169.85
2019–20 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 2–8, 2020	2020 World Junior Championships	11 51.19	10 93.86	10 145.05
January 20–26, 2020	2020 U.S. Championships	3 54.56	1 108.48	2 163.04
December 4–7, 2019	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb	1 52.17	3 80.53	2 132.70
November 12–16, 2019	2019–20 U.S. Pairs Final	3 47.81	3 87.79	3 135.60
September 11–14, 2019	2019 JGP Russia	7 45.69	7 81.20	7 126.89

Novice results

2018–19 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
January 18–27, 2019	2019 U.S. Championships	3 44.92	2 84.53	3 129.45
November 13–17, 2018	2019 Eastern Sectionals	3 38.99	2 66.34	2 105.33

References

External links

• Anastasiia SMIRNOVA / Danylo SIIANYTSIA at the International Skating Union
• Anastasiia Smirnova and Danil Siianytsia at U.S. Figure Skating
• Anastasiia SMIRNOVA / Artem DARENSKYI at the International Skating Union
• Anastasiia Smirnova on Instagram

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