Anita Östlund

Östlund in January 2018
Personal information
Born	(2001-01-30)30 January 2001 (age 24) Odesa,Ukraine
Home town	Gråbo, Sweden
Height	1.66 m (5 ft5+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Sweden
Coach	Andrea Dohany, Aksana Jolkin
Skating club	Landvetter SC
Began skating	2006

Anita Östlund (born 30 January 2001) is a Swedishfigure skater. She is the 2017Nordic bronze medalist, 2017Sofia Trophy silver medalist, and a two-timeSwedish national champion (2017, 2019). She represented Sweden at the2018 Winter Olympics and has competed in the final segment at threeISU Championships.

Anita Östlund was born on 30 January 2001 inOdesa, Ukraine.^[1] She is the daughter of Yulia, anethnic Russian,^[1][2] and Peter Östlund.^[3] She has three younger sisters – Nicole, Melina, and Michelle.^[3]

Östlund started learning to skate in 2006.^[1] For two seasons beginning in 2012–2013, she competed internationally on the advanced novice level. She won gold at the 2013Ice Challenge, silver at the2014 Nordics, and silver at the 2014Bavarian Open.^[4]

Östlund made herISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut in the 2014–2015 season, placing 17th inCourchevel and 14th inOstrava. She won the junior ladies' silver medal at the Swedish Championships and was sent to the2015 World Junior Championships, but did not advance to the free skate after placing 32nd in the short program.

Östlund placed 9th at her2015 JGP assignment inLinz, Austria, and 5th in junior ladies at the2015 Tallinn Trophy. She won the junior silver medal at theSwedish Championships.

Östlund began her season on theJGP series, placing 12th inYokohama, Japan, and 7th inTallinn, Estonia. Making her senior international debut, she placed 7th at theWarsaw Cup, aChallenger Series event in November 2016. In December, she finished third toJoshi Helgesson andMatilda Algotsson at the Swedish Championships.

Östlund's first senior international medal, silver, came in February 2017 at theSofia Trophy inSofia, Bulgaria, where she finished second toIsadora Williams. At the Nordics Open, held in March inReykjavík, Iceland, she outscored both of her national co-medalists for the bronze medal and joined former world championsCarolina Kostner andElizaveta Tuktamysheva on the podium. Later in the same month, she competed at the2017 World Junior Championships inTaipei, Taiwan. She qualified to the free skate by placing 15th in the short and went on to finish 13th overall.

In September, Sweden qualified a spot at the2018 Winter Olympics due toMatilda Algotsson's result at the2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy.

In December, Östlund won the Swedish senior national title by a 19-point margin over Algotsson. In January, she finished as Sweden's top ladies' entry at the2018 European Championships, having placed 6th in the short program, 20th in the free skate, and 17th overall. On 23 January 2018, theSwedish Olympic Committee selected Östlund to compete at the Olympics under the committee's "future" criterion.^[5][6] The following month, she competed at the2018 Winter Olympics inPyeongChang, South Korea.^[7] Ranked 28th in the short program, she did not advance to the final segment.

CS:Challenger Series; JGP:Junior Grand Prix

• Anita Östlund at theInternational Skating Union

• 2001 births
• Living people
• Figure skaters from Odesa
• Swedish people of Russian descent
• Swedish female single skaters
• Figure skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
• Olympic figure skaters for Sweden
• 21st-century Swedish sportswomen

• CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv)
• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata