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Niina Petrõkina (born 14 August 2004) is an Estonian figure skater. She is the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup silver medalist, the 2021 CS Cup of Austria and 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalist, and the 2022 Estonian national champion. She has competed in the final segment at three ISU Championships, finishing in the top ten at the 2022 Europeans and 2022 Junior Worlds.

Niina Petrõkina
Personal information
Alternative names	Petrokina, Petrykina
Country represented	Estonia
Born	(2004-08-14) 14 August 2004 (age 18) Tallinn, Estonia
Home town	Tallinn
Height	1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Coach	Svetlana Varnavskaja
Choreographer	Adam Solya Mark Pillay
Former choreographer	Taavi Rand Ilya Averbukh
Skating club	Cascade FSC
Training locations	Tallinn, Estonia
Began skating	2008
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	188.86 2021 CS Warsaw Cup
Short program	64.92 2021 CS Warsaw Cup
Free skate	128.77 2022 Europeans

Personal life

Petrõkina was born on 14 August 2004 in Tallinn, Estonia. As of 2021, she is a high school student. She speaks Russian and Estonian.

Career

Early years

Petrõkina began learning how to skate in 2008 at the age of four. She began competing internationally for Estonia during the 2012–13 season at the Chicks level before going on to compete as a basic and advanced novice. She made her international junior debut at the Haabersti Cup in October 2017.[1]

2018–19 season: Junior Grand Prix debut

Petrõkina made her Junior Grand Prix debut in November at the 2018 JGP Czech Republic where she finished eleventh. She did not receive a second JGP assignment that season. She earned the bronze medals in the junior women's events at the 2018 Volvo Open Cup and 2018 Tallinn Trophy before placing fourth at the 2019 Estonian Championships. She later went on the take the titles at four more junior internationals in the new year.[1]

2019–20 season

Petrõkina received two Junior Grand Prix assignments to open her season. Competing in Latvia, she placed sixth, and in Poland, tenth. She defended her junior title at the 2019 Tallinn Trophy and placed second at the 2019 Ice Star in the lead up to the 2020 Estonian Championships, where she won the silver medal behind Eva-Lotta Kiibus.[1]

In March 2020, Petrõkina competed at her first World Junior Championships, held at home in Tallinn. She failed to advance to the free skate, placing thirty-third.[2]

2020–21 season

Petrõkina missed the entirety of the season due to illness.[2]

2021–22 season: Senior international debut

Petrõkina opened her season on the Junior Grand Prix at the second installment of the 2021 JGP France. She placed seventh at the event, and followed that performance up with a fourth-place finish at the 2021 JGP Austria, a career best placement for her on the Junior Grand Prix circuit.[1]

In November, Petrõkina made her senior international debut at her first Challenger series event, the 2021 CS Cup of Austria, where she won the bronze medal behind Japanese skater Wakaba Higuchi, and South Korea's Park Yeon-jeong. She notably also finished nearly forty points ahead of domestic rival and reigning Estonian champion Eva-Lotta Kiibus. She received a second Challenger assignment the following weekend, the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup, where she won the silver medal behind Russian competitor Maiia Khromykh and ahead of Ekaterina Kurakova of Poland. In December, Petrõkina won her first senior national title at the 2022 Estonian Championships over Kiibus. After winning her national title, Petrõkina competed at a third Challenger assignment, the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. She placed fourth in the short program, but advanced into bronze medal position by winning the free skate ahead of gold medalist Anastasiia Gubanova and silver medalist Amber Glenn.[1]

Due to Petrõkina's national results, she qualified as the top-seeded Estonian woman to one of two berths for her country at the 2022 European Championships in Tallinn. She finished eighth, also defeating Kiibus for a third time that season, but despite this she was not named to the Estonian Olympic team due to the national federation's criteria for assigning the spot. Petrõkina expressed excitement at having competed at the European championships alongside top athletes in the sport.[3] Notably, the event was held in the same arena as the 2020 World Junior Championships where she had failed to qualify for the free skate.[2]

Shortly after the conclusion of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Russia invaded Ukraine. As a result, the International Skating Union banned all Russian athletes from competing at ISU championships.[4] As Russian women had dominated international figure skating in recent years, this had a significant impact on the field.[5] Petrõkina then made her World Championship debut, finishing sixteenth.[1] Due to both the invasion and the Omicron variant, the World Junior Championships could not be held as scheduled in Sofia in early March, and were rescheduled for mid-April in Tallinn, the third ISU championship held there in that year.[6] Petrõkina was sixth in the short program with a clean skate.[7] She struggled in the free skate, dropping to ninth overall.[8]

2022–23 season

Petrõkina began the new season at two Challenger events, with an eleventh-place finish at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and a bronze medal at 2022 CS Budapest Trophy, the latter her third Challenger medal.[1] She was then invited to make her Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Skate Canada International, where she finished in sixth place.[9]

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–23 [10]	Give Us a Little Love by Fallulah choreo. by Adam Solya	Dusty Road Prelude (Age Of Heroes) by Balázs Havasi choreo. by Mark Pillay	Kuula by Ott Lepland
2021–22 [11]	Je n'attendais que vous performed by Masha Mnjoyan choreo. by Ilya Averbukh	Love of My Life by Queen choreo. by Taavi Rand	Everyday Is Christmas by Sia
2020–21	Did not compete this season
2019–20 [12]	It's Wonderful by Paolo Conte performed by Swingrowers choreo. by Taavi Rand	Love of My Life by Queen choreo. by Taavi Rand
2018–19 [13]	Chandelier by Sia choreo. by Taavi Rand	Nothing Else Matters by Metallica performed by Marlisa Punzalan choreo. by Taavi Rand

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix Series; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix.

International[1]
Event	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
Worlds					16th
Europeans					8th
GP NHK Trophy						7th
GP Skate Canada						6th
CS Budapest						3rd
CS Cup of Austria					3rd
CS Golden Spin					3rd
CS Nebelhorn						11th
CS Warsaw Cup					2nd
International: Junior[1]
Junior Worlds			33rd		9th
JGP Austria					4th
JGP Czech Republic		11th
JGP France II					7th
JGP Latvia			6th
JGP Poland			10th
Ice Star			2nd J
Tallink Hotels Cup	1st J	1st J	1st J
Tallinn Trophy		3rd J	1st J
Volvo Open Cup		3rd J
National[1]
Estonian Champ.	7th	4th	2nd		1st
Estonian Junior	3rd		1st

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Personal bests highlighted in bold.

Senior results

2022–2023 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
November 18–20, 2022	2022 NHK Trophy	8 58.81	TBD	TBD
October 28–30, 2022	2022 Skate Canada International	7 61.68	8 119.66	6 181.34
October 13–16, 2022	2022 CS Budapest Trophy	8 53.00	2 123.32	3 176.36
September 21–24, 2022	2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy	13 47.34	5 104.66	11 152.00
2021–2022 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 21–27, 2022	2022 World Championships	17 60.24	16 116.36	16 176.60
January 10–16, 2022	2022 European Championships	17 58.30	7 128.77	8 187.07
December 9–11, 2021	2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb	4 61.35	1 121.22	3 182.57
December 4–5, 2021	2022 Estonian Championships	1 70.07	1 141.76	1 211.83
November 17–20, 2021	2021 CS Warsaw Cup	3 64.92	3 123.94	2 188.86
November 11–14, 2021	2021 CS Cup of Austria	3 57.39	2 123.78	3 181.17
2019–2020 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
December 13–15, 2019	2020 Estonian Championships	2 58.66	2 112.92	2 171.58
2018–2019 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
December 14–16, 2018	2019 Estonian Championships	3 47.90	4 94.55	4 142.45
2017–2018 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
December 9–10, 2017	2018 Estonian Championships	6 43.82	7 83.20	7 127.02

Junior results

2021–2022 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
April 13–17, 2022	2022 World Junior Championships	6 65.90	10 107.59	9 173.49
October 7–9, 2021	2021 JGP Austria	6 58.97	4 118.09	4 177.06
August 25–28, 2021	2021 JGP France II	4 59.26	9 86.06	7 145.32
2019–2020 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 2–8, 2020	2020 World Junior Championships	33 46.56	-	33 46.56
February 13–16, 2020	2020 Tallink Hotels Cup	1 60.71	1 113.71	1 174.42
November 11–17, 2019	2019 Tallinn Trophy	1 56.65	1 108.49	1 165.14
October 14–17, 2019	2019 Ice Star	2 56.62	3 110.79	2 167.41
September 18–21, 2019	2019 JGP Poland	9 56.60	10 100.30	10 156.90
September 4–7, 2019	2019 JGP Latvia	11 53.47	6 113.36	6 166.83
2018–2019 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 22–24, 2019	2019 Tallink Hotels Cup	1 50.48	1 94.28	1 144.76
Nov. 25 – Dec. 1, 2018	2018 Tallinn Trophy	7 40.54	3 84.65	3 125.19
November 6–11, 2018	2018 Volvo Open Cup	4 47.69	3 92.28	3 139.97
September 26–29, 2018	2018 JGP Czech Republic	12 48.91	9 92.80	11 141.71
2017–2018 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 15–18, 2018	2018 Tallink Hotels Cup	1 52.54	1 97.19	1 149.73
February 2–4, 2018	2018 Estonian Junior Championships	3 44.86	2 86.86	3 130.92

References

External links

• Niina Petrokina at the International Skating Union

На других языках

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- [en] Niina Petrõkina

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[ru] Петрыкина, Нина

Нина Петрыкина (эст. Niina Petrõkina; род. 14 августа 2004, Таллин, Эстония) — эстонская фигуристка, выступающая в одиночном катании. Вице-чемпионка Эстонии (2020). Чемпионка Эстонии (2022).

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