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Nikolaj Majorov (born 18 August 2000) is a Swedish figure skater. He is the 2020 Swedish national champion.

Nikolaj Majorov
Majorov at the 2020 European Championships
Personal information
Country represented	Sweden
Born	(2000-08-18) 18 August 2000 (age 22) Luleå, Sweden
Home town	Norrköping, Sweden
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Coach	Alexander Majorov
Former coach	Alexander Majorov Sr.
Choreographer	Alexander Majorov
Former choreographer	Irina Majorova
Skating club	Norrköpings konståkningsklubb (NKK)
Former skating club	Luleå
Training locations	Norrköping
Began skating	2002
World standing	55 [1]
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	218.07 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
Short program	81.48 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy
Free skate	145.54 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy

Personal life

Majorov was born on 18 August 2000 in Luleå, Sweden.[2] His parents – Alexander Majorov Sr., a figure skating coach, and Irina Majorova, a choreographer and dance teacher – moved to Sweden from Russia.[3][4] He is the younger brother of Swedish figure skater Alexander Majorov.[2]

He has stated that his career goal following his competitive skating career is to become a police officer.[5]

Career

Early years

Majorov began learning to skate in 2002.[2] He competed in the advanced novice ranks through February 2015. His junior international debut came in October 2015, at the International Cup of Nice.[6] He placed 31st at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.

On the junior level, he is the 2016 Swedish junior national champion, a two-time Nordics champion (2016, 2017) and represented his country at the 2019 World Junior Championships, advancing to the free skate.

2018–2019 season

Majorov made his senior international debut in October, at the 2018 CS Finlandia Trophy. In December, he won silver in the senior men's category at the Swedish Championships. Along with his brother, he was assigned to the 2019 European Championships, which took place in January in Minsk, Belarus. He placed twenty-seventh in the short program and did not advance further.

In March, Majorov qualified to the final segment at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. He ranked twenty-third in the short program, twentieth in the free skate, and twenty-first overall.

2019–2020 season

Majorov started his season at the 2019 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, where he placed eighth. His season continued at the 2019 CS Warsaw Cup, where he placed eleventh. In December, he won his first Swedish national title. He was named to the 2019 European Figure Skating Championships, where he placed fifteenth. Majorov was assigned to make his World Championship debut in Montreal, but the championships were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[7]

2020–2021 season

Majorov started his season off at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, which, due to the pandemic, was attended only by skaters from and training in Europe.[8] Sixth in the short program, he scored a personal best in the free skate and won the bronze medal.[9] He was assigned to make his Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but this event was cancelled as a result of the pandemic.[10]

He participated at the 2021 World Championships, held in his home country, where he placed twentieth in the short program and twenty-third in the free program to finish twenty-third overall.[11] This result qualified a men's place for Sweden at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[12] In the free skate, he became the first Swede to land a quadruple Salchow jump (named after Swedish Olympic and World champion Ulrich Salchow) in competition.[5]

2021–2022 season

Debuting at the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, Majorov finished fourth in the short program, but fell seventeenth overall after finishing twenty-second in the free skate. In later Challenger appearances he was fourteenth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup, and withdrew from the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.[13]

After winning a silver medal at the NRW Trophy, Majorov was assigned to compete at the 2022 European Championships, but was forced to withdraw after testing positive for COVID-19.[14] Days later it was announced that the Swedish Olympic Committee had decided to allow both Majorov and Josefin Taljegård to take up the Olympic berths they had earned at the previous World Championships, contrary to what was expected based on the criteria. Majorov said that on hearing the news "I could not believe it, it became so unreal. That reality became what I wanted, my dream came true."[15] Competing in the Olympic men's event, he placed twentieth in the short program, qualifying to the free skate.[16] He finished twenty-first overall.[17] He was nineteenth at the 2022 World Championships to end the season.[13]

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–2023 [18]	Rise by The Frames choreo. by Alexander Majorov	The Man in the Iron Mask by Nick Glennie-Smith choreo. by Alexander Majorov
2021–2022 [18]	The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel performed by Disturbed choreo. by Alexander Majorov	The Man in the Iron Mask by Nick Glennie-Smith choreo. by Alexander Majorov
2020–2021 [19]	Writing's on the Wall by Sam Smith	Sayuri's Theme (from Memoirs of a Geisha) by John Williams	The Stroke by Billy Squier
2019–2020 [20]	Run Boy Run by Woodkid	The Addams Family by Andrew Lippa
2018–2019 [2]	Flamenco – Street Passion by Didulia	The Addams Family by Andrew Lippa
2017–2018 [21]	Bom Bom Pow performed by The Black Eyed Peas Pump It performed by The Black Eyed Peas	Pirates of the Caribbean by Hans Zimmer
2016–2017 [22]	Dream a Little Dream of Me performed by Michael Bublé Love You Baby by Frank Sinatra	Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt Czardas by Vittorio Monti

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[13]
Event	11–12	13–14	14–15	15–16	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22-23
Olympics										21st
Worlds								C	23rd	19th
Europeans							27th	15th		WD
GP France									C
GP Finland											TBD
CS Finlandia							17th			17th	7th
CS Golden Spin							14th			WD
CS Ice Challenge											8th
CS Nebelhorn								8th	3rd
CS Nepela Memorial											WD
CS Warsaw								11th		14th
Bavarian Open								2nd
Cup of Nice											WD
NRW Trophy										2nd
Volvo Open Cup							7th
International: Junior[13]
Junior Worlds					31st		21st	13th
JGP Canada							9th
JGP Lithuania							7th
Bavarian Open						4th
Coupe Printemps				2nd		3rd
Cup of Nice				6th	8th
EYOF					10th
Golden Spin						2nd
Kaunas Autumn						1st
Nordic Champ.				1st	1st
Sofia Trophy				2nd
Tallinn Trophy						8th
International: Advanced novice[6]
Hellmut Seibt			3rd
Lombardia		2nd
Nordic Champ.	6th		2nd
NRW Trophy			2nd
National[13][6]
Swedish Champ.	3rd N	3rd N	1st N	1st J		2nd J	2nd	1st
Levels: N = Advanced novice; J = Junior TBD = Assigned C = Event Canceled Majorov did not compete in the 2012–13 season.

References

External links

• Nikolaj Majorov at the International Skating Union

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