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Ioulia Chtchetinina

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Ioulia Chtchetinina
Ioulia Chtchetinina and Michał Woźniak at the 2024 World Championships
Native nameЮлия Щетинина
Other namesJulija Scsetyinyina
Julija Ščetinina
Born (1995-12-24) 24 December 1995 (age 28)
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
HometownTurgi, Switzerland
Height1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Figure skating career
Country Poland (since 2023)
 Hungary (2019–22)
 Switzerland (2010–19)
DisciplinePair skating
PartnerMichał Woźniak (since 2023)
Márk Magyar (2019–22)
Mikhail Akulov (2017–19)
Noah Scherer (2015–17)
CoachNolan Seegert
Dimitri Savin
Skating clubUKŁ SPIN Katowice
Began skating2001
Representing  Poland
Polish Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Turnov Pairs
Representing  Hungary
Hungarian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2020 Ostrava Pairs
Gold medal – first place 2021 Budapest Pairs
Gold medal – first place 2022 Spišská Nová Ves Pairs
Representing  Switzerland
Swiss Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Lucerne Pairs
Gold medal – first place 2018 Neuchâtel Pairs
Silver medal – second place 2016 Prilly Pairs

Ioulia Chtchetinina (Russian: Юлия Щетинина, Hungarian: Scsetyinyina Julija, Polish: Julia Szczecinina; born 24 December 1995) is a Russian-Swiss pair skater who currently competes for Poland with Michał Woźniak.

With her former partner Márk Magyar, she is a three-time Hungarian national champion (2020–22) and a Swiss national champion with Noah Scherer (2017) and with Mikhail Akulov (2018).[1][2][3]

Personal life

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Chtchetinina was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia on December 24, 1995. At the age of three, she and her parents moved to Switzerland.[4][5] She became a Hungarian citizen in October 2020.[6]

Career

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Early career

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Chtchetinina in 2017

Chtchetinina began figure skating in 2001. She originally competed as a singles skater for Switzerland until 2015, when she decided to switch to pair skating. Her first pair partner was Noah Scherer. The pair was coached by Jean-Francois Ballester and would primarily train in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and Oberstdorf, Germany.[7] Together, they won the 2017 Swiss Championships, competed at two World Championships (eighteenth in 2016 and twenty-eighth in 2017), and finished seventeenth at the 2017 European Championships.[2] In mid-May 2017, the Swiss skating federation announced that the pair had parted ways.[8]

Ioulia Chtchetinina and Mikhail Akulov at the 2018 European Championships

The following season, Chtchetinina teamed up with Ukrainian-Russian pair skater, Mikhail Akulov, to continue representing Switzerland with.[3] They were coached by Juri Larionov in Moscow, Russia and Jean-Francois Ballester in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.[3] Together, the pair won the 2018 Swiss Championships, placed thirteenth at the 2018 European Championships, and twenty-third at the 2018 World Championships. They would part ways following the 2018–19 figure skating season.[9]

Partnership with Maygar

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2019–20 season

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Ioulia Chtchetinina and Márk Magyar at the 2020 European Championships

In August 2019, Chtchetinina announced that she had teamed up with Hungarian pair skater, Márk Maygar and that they would be coached by Dmitri Savin and Fedor Klimov in Moscow, Russia. The pair decided to represent Hungary.[10]

Chtchetinina/Maygar started the season by finishing eighth at the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy, fourth at the 2019 IceLab International Cup, and fifth at the 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.[9]

After winning gold at the 2020 Four National Championships, Chtchetinina/Maygar were selected to represent Hungary at the 2020 European Championships, where they finished tenth. They would close the season with fourth-place finish at the 2020 Challenge Cup.[9]

2020–21 season

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Chtchetinina/Maygar started the season by finishing seventh at the 2020 Rostelecom Cup and winning bronze at the 2021 Challenge Cup.[9]

Going on to compete at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, the pair finished fourteenth.[9]

2021–22 season

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Chtchetinina/Maygar started the season by winning bronze at the 2021 Budapest Trophy and eighth at the 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge. They would go on to compete on the 2021–22 Grand Prix Circuit, finishing sixth at the 2021 Internationaux de France and the 2021 Rostelecom Cup.[9]

They won gold at the 2022 Four National Championships for a second time before going on to place sixth at the 2022 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.[9]

Although they were set to compete at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, they unfortunately had to withdraw shortly after arriving due to Maygar testing positive for COVID-19.[11] Their pair parted ways shortly after the event.[12]

Partnership with Woźniak

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2023–24 season

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Ioulia Chtchetinina and Michał Woźniak at the 2024 European Championships

Upon learning about the end of Chtchetinina's partnership with Maygar, Polish pair skater, Michał Woźniak, messaged her on Instagram, asking if she would be interested in having a try-out with him.[13] Despite differences in their levels of experience in the discipline, Chtchetinina agreed to a tryout. The official announcement of their partnership for Poland took place in August 2023.[14] It was also made public that the pair would train in Berlin, Germany, where they would be coached by Nolan Seegert and Dmitri Savin.[15]

Chtchetinina and Woźniak made their international debut at the 2023 Budapest Trophy, where they finished fourth. They next competed at the 2023 Diamond Spin where they placed second between Italian teams Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini and Anna Valesi and Manuel Piazza. The team claimed their second international medal not long after with a bronze at the 2023 Warsaw Cup behind Georgians Anastasia Metelkina and Luka Berulava and Brits Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby. Chtchetinina and Woźniak competed once more before the Polish National Championships, finishing fourth at their first Challenger event, the 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb.[16]

At the 2024 Four Nationals Championship, Chtchetinina and Woźniak placed second in the combined senior pairs event, but won the Polish national title by default as the sole Polish entrant. Their win yielded assignments to both the 2024 European Championships and the 2024 World Championships. The team competed just once more before the championship season began, winning the silver medal at the 2024 Bavarian Open between Daria Danilova and Michel Tsiba from the Netherlands, and Barbora Kucianová and Martin Bidař of the Czech Republic.[17]

Chtchetinina and Woźniak finished just inside the top 10 at the European Championships and placed 19th at the World Championships.[18][19]

2024–25 season

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Chtchetinina/Woźniak opened their second season together at the 2024 Nebelhorn Trophy, where they finished in seventh place.[20] They then went on to take silver at the 2024 Diamond Spin for a second consecutive time.[21]

Following the withdrawal of Italian pair team, Lucrezia Beccari/Matteo Guarise, Chtchetinina/Woźniak were assigned to compete on the 2024–25 Grand Prix circuit at 2024 Skate Canada International as substitutes.[22][23][24] They would come in sixth at the event.[25]

Programs

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Pair skating with Michał Woźniak

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Season Short program Free skate Ref.
2023–24

By Marian Hill
Choreo. by Robynne Tweedale

By Woodkid
Choreo. by Maciej Bernadowski

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2024–25

By Florence + The Machine
Choreo. by Mark Pillay & Paul Boll

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With Magyar

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Season Short program Free skating
2021–2022
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2020–2021
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  • Need you tonight
    by Welshly Arms
  • Legendary
    by Welshly Arms
    choreo. by Olga Orlova
2019–2020
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With Akulov

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Season Short program Free skating
2018–2019
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  • Arrival of the Birds
    by The Cinematic Orchestra
  • Transformation
    by The Cinematic Orchestra
    choreo. by Maxim Marinin, Nikolai Morozov
2017–2018
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With Scherer

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Season Short program Free skating
2016–2017
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  • L'Usine
    by The Architect
2015–2016
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Competitive highlights

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Pair skating with Michał Woźniak (for Poland)

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Competition placements at senior level [21]
Season 2023–24 2024–25
World Championships 19th
European Championships 10th
Polish Championships 1st
GP Cup of China TBD
GP Skate Canada 6th
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 4th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 7th
Bavarian Open 2nd
Budapest Trophy 4th
Diamond Spin 2nd 2nd
Warsaw Cup 3rd

Pair skating with Márk Magyar (for Hungary)

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Competition placements at senior level [31]
Season 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22
World Championships C 14th
European Championships 10th 6th
Hungarian Championships 1st 1st 1st
GP France 6th
GP Rostelecom Cup 7th 6th
CS Finlandia Trophy 8th
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 5th
Budapest Trophy 3rd
Challenge Cup 4th 3rd
Denis Ten Memorial 8th
IceLab Cup 4th

Pair skating with Mikhail Akulov (for Switzerland)

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Competition placements at senior level [32]
Season 2017–18 2018–19
World Championships 23rd
European Championships 13th
Swiss Championships 1st
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 4th
CS Ice Star 6th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 9th
Challenge Cup 2nd
Volvo Open Cup 3rd

Pair skating with Noah Scherer (for Switzerland)

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Competition placements at senior level [33]
Season 2015–16 2016–17
World Championships 18th 28th
European Championships 17th
Swiss Championships 2nd 1st
CS Finlandia Trophy 9th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 7th
CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy 9th
CS Warsaw Cup 6th
Bavarian Open 5th 1st
Cup of Nice 5th
Hellmut Seibt Memorial 3rd
NRW Trophy 3rd

Single skating (for Switzerland)

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Competition placements at senior level [34]
Season 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15
Swiss Championships 7th 8th 9th
CS Lombardia Trophy 11th
CS Warsaw Cup 13th
Gardena Spring Trophy 15th
Competition placements at junior level [34]
Season 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2014–15
Bavarian Open WD
Cup of Nice 18th
Gardena Spring Trophy 4th
NRW Trophy 13th
Triglav Trophy 3rd
Volvo Open Cup 6th

Detailed results

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Pair skating with Michał Woźniak

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ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [35]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 174.22 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
Short program TSS 60.87 2024 Skate Canada International
TES 33.65 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
PCS 27.63 2024 Skate Canada International
Free skating TSS 113.58 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
TES 58.31 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
PCS 55.62 2024 Skate Canada International

References

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  5. ^ ""It's better to try and end the career if it doesn't work out than regret not even taking the challenge" Ioulia Chtchetinina and Michal Wozniak". FS Gossips. FS Gossips. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
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