Olga Romanovna Mikutina (Ukrainian: Ольга Романівна Мікутіна; born 6 October 2003) is a Ukrainian-Austrian figure skater who competes for Austria. She is a two-time Austrian national champion (2020–2021), as well as a two-time Austrian national junior champion (2019–2020). Internationally, she has represented the country at the European and World championships.
Olga Mikutina | |
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Personal information | |
Native name | Ольга Романівна Мікутіна |
Full name | Olga Romanovna Mikutina |
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Born | (2003-10-06) 6 October 2003 (age 19) Kharkiv, Ukraine |
Home town | Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria |
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Coach | Elena Romanova |
Former coach | Viktor Kudriavtsev |
Choreographer | Rostislav Sinicyn |
Skating club | FEV Feldkirch Einslaufverein Montfort |
Training locations | Feldkirch Flims, Switzerland |
Began skating | 2007 |
World standing | 32 (2021-22) 39 (2020–21) 93 (2019–20) 201 (2018–19) |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 198.77 2021 Worlds |
Short program | 67.18 2021 Worlds |
Free skate | 131.59 2021 Worlds |
Mikutina was born on 6 October 2003 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her father, Roman, is a hockey player. She took up skating in 2007 at the age of four. She began her skating career competing for her native Ukraine, and by age 12, was already a three-time Ukrainian youth national champion.[1]
When she was 12, her parents decided that she needed better training conditions than were available in Ukraine, and were advised to seek out coach Elena Romanova in Feldkirch, Austria. She would later remark that "at first I didn’t realize that we were really moving there. I thought we were just training there for some time." She began competing for Austria at the advanced novice level internationally in 2016. She subsequently became an Austrian citizen in January of 2020.[2]
At the 2018 Austrian Championships, Mikutina won the junior bronze medal.[3]
Mikutina made her ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in August 2019 at the 2018 JGP Austria. She placed thirteenth overall at the event. Later on in the season, she improved her JGP record by placing ninth overall at her second assignment, the 2018 JGP Czech Republic. After the Junior Grand Prix, Mikutina competed at a number of other international competitions, taking gold in the junior divisions of the 2018 installments of the Halloween Cup, Skate Celje, and the Volvo Open Cup.[3]
At the 2019 Austrian Championships in December, Mikutina she won her first junior national title and was thus named to the Austrian team for the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. At the event in March, Mikutina ranked twentieth in the short program and qualified for the free skate where she placed fifteenth, which lifted her to eighteenth overall.
Mikutina started the season at the 2019 JGP Latvia, where she placed seventeenth. Later that month, she placed thirteenth at 2019 JGP Zagreb. At her next event, Mikutina finished fourth at Ice Star 2019 held in Minsk. Afterwards, she completed at several international competitions on the senior level, earning the silver medal at Golden Bear, bronze at the Tallinn Trophy and gold medals at Icelab International Cup, Eiscup Innsbruck and Bosphorus Cup. In December, she won gold on the junior and senior levels at the Austrian championships, becoming the first skater to hold Austrian national junior and senior titles at the same time.[3]
In January, Mikutina came in fourth place at the EduSport Trophy in Bucharest and was assigned to the 2020 European Championships held in Graz, Austria. At the event, she ranked twenty-first in the short program, earning a new personal best of 53.19 points. After the free skate, she finished in twenty-fourth place overall.[4] Mikutina finished her season at the Jégvirág Cup in Hungary, where she won the gold medal at the junior level. She had been assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, which would have been her senior Worlds debut, but those were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[5]
Mikutina made her season debut at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, where she placed thirteenth.[6] She was on the preliminary entry list for the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy but withdrew. After winning her second consecutive national title, she competed at the 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup, taking the silver medal behind Eva-Lotta Kiibus.[7][8]
Mikutina made her World debut in Stockholm at the 2021 World Championships in late March. She skated clean in her short program at the event to score a new personal best, topping her previous score by over 14 points, and qualified to the free skate in eleventh place.[9] She then placed seventh in the free skate and finished eighth overall.[10] Mikutina's placement in the top ten qualified a place for Austria at the 2022 Winter Olympics, as well as the possibility of a second berth, and two placements at the following year's world championships.[11] It was the best result for an Austrian lady since Julia Lautowa's eighth place in 1997.[12]
Suffering from right knee inflammation, Mikutina's training was hindered over the summer, and as a result she withdrew from the 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge and what was to be her first Grand Prix assignment, the 2021 NHK Trophy. She made her Grand Prix debut at the 2021 Rostelecom Cup, where she finished in twelfth place of twelve skaters.[13]
Mikutina failed to defend her national title, taking the silver medal behind Stefanie Pesendorfer, but was still assigned to the Austrian Olympic team and to the European Championships, finishing fifteenth at the latter in January.[3] Competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the women's event, Mikutina placed eighteenth in the short program.[14] Fourteenth in the free skate, she rose to fourteenth overall.[15]
Days after the Olympics concluded, Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, as a result of which the International Skating Union banned all Russian and Belarusian skaters from competing at the 2022 World Championships. Mikutina's birthplace of Kharkiv became the site of one of the largest and most destructive battles of the war, which she vocally protested.[16] She placed fourteen at the World Championships.[17]
Mikutina placed seventh at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy to start the new season.[3]
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2022–2023 |
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2021–2022 [18] |
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2020–2021 [19] |
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2019–2020 [20] |
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2018–2019 [21] |
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GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[3] | ||||||
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Event | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 |
Olympics | 14th | |||||
Worlds | C | 8th | 14th | |||
Europeans | 24th | 15th | ||||
GP France | TBD | |||||
GP NHK Trophy | WD | TBD | ||||
GP Rostelecom Cup | 12th | |||||
CS Budapest | WD | |||||
CS Cup of Tyrol | C | |||||
CS Denis Ten MC | WD | |||||
CS Finlandia | 9th | |||||
CS Nebelhorn | 13th | 7th | ||||
CS Warsaw Cup | C | |||||
EduSport Trophy | 4th | |||||
Eiscup Innsbruck | 1st | |||||
Golden Bear | 2nd | |||||
Istanbul Cup | 1st | |||||
Sofia Trophy | 1st | |||||
Tallink Hotels Cup | 2nd | |||||
Tallinn Trophy | 3rd | |||||
Tayside Trophy | 1st | |||||
International: Junior[3][22] | ||||||
Junior Worlds | 18th | |||||
JGP Austria | 13th | |||||
JGP Croatia | 13th | |||||
JGP Czech Rep. | 9th | |||||
JGP Latvia | 17th | |||||
Bavarian Open | 8th | |||||
Coupe du Printemps | 1st | |||||
Cup of Nice | 10th | |||||
Cup of Tyrol | 6th | |||||
Denkova-Staviski Cup | 2nd | |||||
Egna Spring Trophy | 3rd | |||||
FBMA Trophy | 1st | |||||
Halloween Cup | 1st | |||||
Icelab Cup | 1st | |||||
Ice Star | 4th | |||||
Jégvirág Cup | 1st | |||||
Skate Celje | 1st | |||||
Triglav Trophy | 1st | |||||
Volvo Open Cup | 1st | |||||
National[3] | ||||||
Austrian Champ. | 1st | 1st | 2nd | |||
Austrian Junior Champ. | 3rd | 1st | 1st | |||
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled |
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.
2022–2023 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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October 4–9, 2022 | 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy | 15 52.81 |
7 107.62 |
9 160.43 |
September 21–24, 2022 | 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 4 58.31 |
9 97.22 |
7 155.53 |
2021–2022 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
March 21–27, 2022 | 2022 World Championships | 15 62.14 |
13 120.84 |
14 182.98 |
February 15–17, 2022 | 2022 Winter Olympics | 18 61.14 |
14 121.06 |
14 182.20 |
January 10–16, 2022 | 2022 European Championships | 12 60.16 |
17 103.85 |
15 164.01 |
December 9–11, 2022 | 2022 Austrian Championships | 1 62.77 |
2 111.06 |
2 173.83 |
November 26–28, 2021 | 2021 Rostelecom Cup | 10 57.09 |
12 104.00 |
12 161.09 |
2020–2021 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
22–28 March 2021 | 2021 World Championships | 11 67.18 |
7 131.59 |
8 198.77 |
19–21 February 2021 | 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup | 2 63.19 |
2 117.23 |
2 180.42 |
10–12 December 2020 | 2021 Austrian Championships | 1 55.97 |
1 113.13 |
1 169.10 |
23–26 September 2020 | 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 12 44.14 |
15 85.26 |
13 129.40 |
2019–2020 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
20–26 January 2020 | 2020 European Championships | 21 53.19 |
24 76.96 |
24 130.15 |
8–12 January 2020 | 2019 EduSport Trophy | 4 58.92 |
4 101.20 |
4 160.12 |
12–14 December 2019 | 2020 Austrian Championships | 2 56.67 |
1 114.98 |
1 171.65 |
25–30 November 2019 | 2019 Bosphorus Cup | 2 54.83 |
1 111.73 |
1 166.56 |
22–24 November 2019 | 2019 Eiscup Innsbruck | 1 62.57 |
1 122.29 |
1 184.86 |
11–17 November 2019 | 2019 Tallinn Trophy | 4 53.40 |
3 109.08 |
3 162.48 |
24–27 October 2019 | 2019 Golden Bear | 1 62.32 |
4 110.67 |
2 172.99 |
2019–2020 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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15–17 February 2020 | 2020 Jégvirág Cup | 1 55.84 |
1 110.72 |
1 166.56 |
12–14 December 2019 | 2020 Austrian Junior Championships | 1 54.06 |
2 97.99 |
1 152.05 |
1–3 November 2019 | 2019 Icelab Cup | 1 57.65 |
1 102.68 |
1 160.33 |
14–17 October 2019 | 2019 Ice Star | 3 56.57 |
6 94.52 |
4 151.09 |
25–28 September 2019 | 2019 JGP Croatia | 13 46.41 |
12 93.70 |
13 140.11 |
4–7 September 2019 | 2019 JGP Latvia | 21 42.36 |
13 88.06 |
17 130.42 |
2018–2019 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
28–31 March 2019 | 2019 Egna Spring Trophy | 2 53.52 |
3 93.72 |
3 147.24 |
4–10 March 2019 | 2019 World Junior Championships | 20 48.75 |
15 96.59 |
18 145.34 |
13–16 December 2018 | 2019 Austrian Junior Championships | 1 53.87 |
1 100.32 |
1 154.19 |
22–25 November 2018 | 2018 Skate Celje | 1 55.23 |
2 90.31 |
1 145.54 |
6–11 November 2018 | 2018 Volvo Open Cup | 1 54.22 |
1 95.37 |
1 149.59 |
19–21 October 2018 | 2018 Halloween Cup | 1 58.94 |
1 108.10 |
1 167.04 |
26–29 September 2018 | 2018 JGP Czech Republic | 8 52.37 |
13 90.73 |
9 143.10 |
29 August – 1 September 2018 | 2018 JGP Austria | 13 45.01 |
15 74.50 |
13 119.51 |
2017–2018 season | ||||
4 April 2018 | 2018 Triglav Trophy | 1 57.53 |
1 97.80 |
1 155.53 |
13–16 March 2018 | 2018 Coupe du Printemps | 1 57.53 |
1 97.80 |
1 155.33 |
26–31 January 2018 | 2018 Bavarian Open | 7 47.94 |
8 88.75 |
8 136.69 |
4–7 January 2018 | 2018 FBMA Trophy | 1 45.14 |
1 78.14 |
1 123.28 |
13–16 December 2017 | 2018 Austrian Junior Championships | 3 45.79 |
3 85.79 |
3 131.58 |
20–25 November 2017 | 2017 Cup of Tyrol | 18 41.28 |
4 88.21 |
6 129.49 |
31 October – 4 November 2017 | 2017 Denkova-Staviski Cup | 2 52.09 |
2 91.66 |
2 143.75 |
11–15 October 2017 | 2017 Cup of Nice | 7 46.36 |
10 83.57 |
10 129.93 |
Austrian champions in figure skating – Women's singles | |
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