| Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships | |
|---|---|
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| Status | Active |
| Genre | National championships |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Country | |
| Inaugurated | 1993 |
| Organized by | Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation |
TheUkrainian Figure Skating Championships are an annualfigure skating competition organized by the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation (Ukrainian:Українська федерація фігурного катання на ковзанах) to crown thenational champions of Ukraine.[1] Following Ukraine's independence after thecollapse of the Soviet Union, the first Ukrainian Championships were held in 1993 inOdesa, and they have been held without interruption since.
Medals are awarded inmen's singles, women's singles,pair skating, andice dance at the senior, junior, and novice levels, although not every discipline is held every year due to a lack of participants.Vitaliy Danylchenko andAnton Kovalevski are currently tied for winning the most Ukrainian Championship titles in men's singles (with five each), whileOlena Liashenko holds the record in women's singles (with seven).Tatiana Volosozhar andStanislav Morozov hold the record in pair skating (with four), although Morozov won an additional three championship titles with other partners.Irina Romanova andIgor Yaroshenko, andOleksandra Nazarova andMaksym Nikitin, are tied for winning the most titles in ice dance (with six each).
In 2014, the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation hosted an international event – the2014 Ukrainian Open – which also served as Ukraine's national championships for that year.[2]
After the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the usual training processes in Ukraine were disrupted. Additionally, Russian shelling of ice arenas made it impossible to safely conduct training and competitions, and Ukrainian skaters found themselves scattered across Europe while Ukraine was under siege.[3] Ice rinks inKharkiv,Sievierodonetsk,Druzhkivka,Mariupol, andDnipro have been damaged or destroyed by Russian missiles.[4][5][6] Planning and logistics for the Ukrainian Championships became more and more difficult, to the point where the 2023 Championships inBohuslav were announced at the last minute and were poorly attended, described as "a very depressing event, the level of which [was] lower than the level of an average European children’s competition."[3]
| Year | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Odesa | No other competitors | [7] | ||
| 1994 | Kyiv | No other competitors | [8] | ||
| 1995 |
| [9] | |||
| 1996 | No other competitors | [10] | |||
| 1997 | Odesa | [11] | |||
| 1998 | Kyiv | No other competitors | [12] | ||
| 1999 |
| [13] | |||
| 2000 | No other competitors | [14] | |||
| 2001 | [15] | ||||
| 2002 | No other competitors | [16] | |||
| 2003 | [17] | ||||
| 2004 |
| [18] | |||
| 2005 |
| [19] | |||
| 2006 |
|
| [20] | ||
| 2007 | No other competitors | [21] | |||
| 2008 |
| [22] | |||
| 2009 |
| [23] | |||
| 2010 | Dnipro | [24] | |||
| 2011 | Kyiv |
|
| [25] | |
| 2012 |
| No other competitors | [26] | ||
| 2013 |
|
| [27] | ||
| 2014 |
| [2] | |||
| 2015 | No other competitors | [28] | |||
| 2016 |
| No other competitors | [29] | ||
| 2017 | No other competitors | [30] | |||
| 2018 | [31] | ||||
| 2019 |
| [32] | |||
| 2020 |
| [33] | |||
| 2021 | No other competitors | [34] | |||
| 2022 | No other competitors | [35] | |||
| 2023 | Bohuslav | No pairs competitors | [36] | ||
| 2024 | No other competitors | [40] | |||
| 2025 | No pairs competitors | [38] | |||
| Year | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Odesa | No other competitors | [7] | ||
| 1994 | Kyiv | [8] | |||
| 1995 | No other competitors | [9] | |||
| 1996 | [10] | ||||
| 1997 | Odesa | [11] | |||
| 1998 | Kyiv | No other competitors | [12] | ||
| 1999 |
| [13] | |||
| 2000 |
|
| [14] | ||
| 2001 | [15] | ||||
| 2002 | [16] | ||||
| 2003 | [17] | ||||
| 2004 | [18] | ||||
| 2005 | [19] | ||||
| 2006 | [20] | ||||
| 2007 |
| [21] | |||
| 2008 | [22] | ||||
| 2009 | [23] | ||||
| 2010 | Dnipro | [24] | |||
| 2011 | Kyiv |
| [25] | ||
| 2012 | [26] | ||||
| 2013 |
|
| [27] | ||
| 2014 | [2] | ||||
| 2015 | [28] | ||||
| 2016 |
| [29] | |||
| 2017 |
| [30] | |||
| 2018 | [31] | ||||
| 2019 |
|
| [32] | ||
| 2020 | [33] | ||||
| 2021 | [34] | ||||
| 2022 | [35] | ||||
| 2023 | Bohuslav | No ice dance competitors | [36] | ||
| 2024 | [41] | ||||
| 2025 | [38] | ||||
| Year | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Kyiv | Vitali Sazonets | Alexei Bychenko | Mykola Bondar | [42] |
| 2006 | No junior-level championships held | [43] | |||
| 2007 | [44] | ||||
| 2008 | Kyiv | Mykola Bondar | Stanislav Pertsov | Dmytro Kuzmenko | [45] |
| 2009 | Dmitri Ignatenko | Stanislav Pertsov | [46] | ||
| 2010 | Stanislav Pertsov | Yakov Godorozha | [47] | ||
| 2011 | Yakov Godorozha | Dmitri Ignatenko | [48] | ||
| 2012 | Yakov Godorozha | Igor Reznichenko | Ivan Pavlov | [49] | |
| 2013 | Ivan Pavlov | Yaroslav Paniot | [50] | ||
| 2014 | No junior-level championships held | [51] | |||
| 2015 | Kyiv | Ivan Pavlov | Mihail Medunitsa | Ivan Shmuratko | [52] |
| 2016 | Yaroslav Paniot | Yan Tkalich | Mihail Medunitsa | [53] | |
| 2017 | Yan Tkalich | Yaroslav Paniot | Ivan Shmuratko | [54] | |
| 2018 | Ivan Pavlov | Ivan Shmuratko | Yan Tkalich | [55] | |
| 2019 | Ivan Shmuratko | Andrii Kokura | Mykhailo Leiba | [56] | |
| 2020 | Kyrylo Lishenko | [57] | |||
| 2021 | Kyrylo Lishenko | Fedir Kulish | Andrii Kokura | [58] | |
| 2022 | Kyrylo Marsak | Vadym Novikov | Glib Smotrov | [59] | |
| 2023 | Bohuslav | Vadym Novikov | Kyrylo Lishenko | [60] | |
| 2024 | Egor Kurtsev | Vadym Novikov | Mark Kulish | [61] | |
| 2025 | Kyiv | Fedir Babenko | Lev Myshkovets | [62] | |
| Year | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Kyiv | Kateryna Proyda | Natalia Finkel | Olga Kurovska | [42] |
| 2006 | No junior-level championships held | [43] | |||
| 2007 | [44] | ||||
| 2008 | Kyiv | Eleonora Vinnichenko | Anastasiia Listopad | Polina Ohariova | [45] |
| 2009 | Anastasia Kononenko | [46] | |||
| 2010 | Alina Milevskaia | Anastasia Yalova | [47] | ||
| 2011 | Polina Ohariova | Natalia Popova | [48] | ||
| 2012 | Darin Khussein | Anastasia Kononenko | [49] | ||
| 2013 | Anna Khnychenkova | Maria Gavrilova | Maiiada Khussein | [50] | |
| 2014 | No junior-level championships held | [51] | |||
| 2015 | Kyiv | Kim Cheremsky | Anastasia Gozhva | Alina Biletska | [52] |
| 2016 | Anastasia Gozhva | Anastasiia Arkhypova | Kim Cheremsky | [53] | |
| 2017 | Sofia Nesterova | Anastasia Gozhva | [54] | ||
| 2018 | Anastasiia Arkhypova | Marina Zhdanovich | Sofiia Holichenko | [55] | |
| 2019 | Anastasia Gozhva | Yeva Shulha | [56] | ||
| 2020 | Anastasiia Shabotova | Daria Kotenko | Mariia Andriichuk | [57] | |
| 2021 | Kateryna Kononenko | Mariia Andriichuk | Taisiia Spesivtseva | [58] | |
| 2022 | Anastasiia Fomchenkova | Anastasiia Arkhypova | [59] | ||
| 2023 | Bohuslav | Anastasiia Vasychenko | Khrystyna Galiareta | Taisiia Spesivtseva | [60] |
| 2024 | Sofiia Rymshyna | Varvara Parasochka | Khrystyna Galiareta | [61] | |
| 2025 | Kyiv | Oleksandra Delyamure | Sofiia Hryhorenko | [62] | |
Dmytro Sharpar, who won the bronze medal with his partner Anastasiya Pobizhenko in junior pair skating in 2016, was killed in 2023 near the city ofBakhmut during theRussian invasion of Ukraine.[63]
| Year | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Kyiv |
|
| No other competitors | [42] |
| 2006 | No junior-level championships held | [43] | |||
| 2007 | [44] | ||||
| 2008 | Kyiv |
| No other competitors | [45] | |
| 2009 |
| [46] | |||
| 2010 |
| [47] | |||
| 2011 |
| [48] | |||
| 2012 |
| [49] | |||
| 2013 | No other competitors | [50] | |||
| 2014 | No junior-level championships held | [51] | |||
| 2015 | Kyiv |
|
| [52] | |
| 2016 |
| [53] | |||
| 2017 | No other competitors | [54] | |||
| 2018 |
| No other competitors | [55] | ||
| 2019 | [56] | ||||
| 2020 | No other competitors | [57] | |||
| 2021 | [58] | ||||
| 2022 | [59] | ||||
| 2023 | Bohuslav | No junior pairs competitors | [60] | ||
| 2024 |
| No other competitors | [61] | ||
| 2025 | Kyiv |
| [62] | ||
| Year | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Kyiv |
|
| [42] | |
| 2006 | No junior-level championships held | [43] | |||
| 2007 | [44] | ||||
| 2008 | Kyiv | [45] | |||
| 2009 |
|
| [46] | ||
| 2010 |
|
|
| [47] | |
| 2011 |
|
| [48] | ||
| 2012 |
|
| [49] | ||
| 2013 |
|
| [50] | ||
| 2014 | No junior-level championships held | [51] | |||
| 2015 | Kyiv |
|
| [52] | |
| 2016 |
|
| [53] | ||
| 2017 |
| [54] | |||
| 2018 |
| [55] | |||
| 2019 |
| [56] | |||
| 2020 |
|
| [57] | ||
| 2021 |
|
| [58] | ||
| 2022 |
|
| [59] | ||
| 2023 | Bohuslav | No junior ice dance competitors | [60] | ||
| 2024 |
|
|
| [61] | |
| 2025 | Kyiv |
|
|
| [62] |
On 18–20 December 2013, the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation hosted a senior-level international event in Kyiv – the 2014 Ukrainian Open – which also served as Ukraine's national championships.[2]
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | |||
| Women | |||
| Pairs |
| ||
| Ice dance |
| Discipline | Most championship titles | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skater(s) | No. | Years | Ref. | |
| Men's singles | 5 | 1999–2000; 2002; 2004–05 | [65] | |
| 2006–07; 2009–11 | [66] | |||
| Women's singles | 7 | 1996; 1998–99; 2001; 2003; 2005–06 | [67] | |
| Pairs | 4 | 2005; 2007–08; 2010 | [68][11][69] | |
| [a] | 7 | 1997; 2000–01; 2005; 2007–08; 2010 | ||
| Ice dance | 6 | 2015; 2017–18; 2020–22 | [70] | |
| 1993–98 | [71] | |||