Kseniia Sinitsyna
Sinitsyna at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Full nameKseniia Alexeyevna Sinitsyna
Native nameКсения Алексеевна Синицына (Russian)
Other namesKsenia/Kseniya, Ksyusha
Born (2004-08-05) 5 August 2004
Tver
HometownMoscow, Russia
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Figure skating career
Country Russia
CoachSvetlana Panova, Tatiana Moiseeva, Ilona Protasenya
Skating clubSC Snow Leopards
Began skating2008
Medal record
Representing  Russia
Figure skating: Ladies' singles
Winter Youth Olympics
Silver medal – second place 2020 LausanneLadies' singles
Representing Mixed-NOCs
Winter Youth Olympics
Gold medal – first place 2020 LausanneTeam

Kseniia Alexeyevna Sinitsyna (Russian: Ксения Алексеевна Синицына; born 5 August 2004) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2020 Youth Olympic silver medalist, the 2020 Youth Olympic Champion in the team event, the 2019 JGP Italy champion, the JGP Russia silver medalist, and the 2018 JGP Lithuania bronze medalist.

Personal life

Sinitsyna was born on 5 August 2004 in Tver.[1][2]

Career

Early years

Sinitsyna began learning to skate in 2008.[1] She finished 9th at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships.

2018–2019 season: Junior international debut

In the 2018–2019 season, Sinitsyna debuted in the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, taking the bronze medal at the 2018 JGP Lithuania.

At the 2019 Russian Junior Championships in February, she finished fourth behind Alexandra Trusova, Alena Kostornaia, and Anna Shcherbakova.[3]

Sinitsyna then represented Russia in Sakhalin at the first Children of Asia Games, winning the bronze medal behind You Young and Alena Kanysheva.[4]

In March 2019, Sinitsyna represented Russia, alongside countrymates Alexandra Trusova and Anna Shcherbakova, at the World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia after Alena Kostornaia withdrew due to a medical condition. Ranked fourth in the short and sixth in the free skate, Sinitsyna finished fourth overall.

2019–2020 season: Youth Olympics

Sinitsyna at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

For the 2019–20 season, Sinitsyna was assigned to 2019 JGP USA in Lake Placid, New York. However, she withdrew due to visa issues. She was reassigned to 2019 JGP Russia in Chelyabinsk, Russia, where she won the silver medal with a score of 204.25 behind Kamila Valieva. At the 2019 JGP Italy, Sinitsyna placed first in both the short program and the free skate with new personal best scores and won her first Junior Grand Prix gold medal. These results qualified her to the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final, where she placed fourth.

At the 2020 Russian Championships, an error in the short program led to her placing fifteenth, but she climbed to fifth place overall with a fourth-place finish in the free skate.[5]

Sinitsyna won the silver medal at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics behind You Young of South Korea and ahead of Russian teammate Anna Frolova. In the team event, she placed first individually to help her team (Arlet Levandi of Estonia, Alina Butaeva / Luka Berulava of Georgia, and Utana Yoshida / Shingo Nishiyama of Japan) win the gold medal.

Sinitsyna placed seventh at the 2020 Russian Junior Championships after falling on the downgraded combination in the short program. Therefore, Sinitsyna did not qualify for the 2020 World Junior Championships but was named the first alternative.

2020–2021 season

Sinitsyna injured her leg over the summer before the start of the 2020–21 season and subsequently became ill, causing her to miss the domestic fall competitive season and the 2021 Russian Championships.[6] She returned to the competition in early February of 2021, winning the domestic Prizes of Elena Tchaikovskaia competition. She attempted a quad toe loop for the first time at the event but popped it into a single despite landing it successfully during her warm-up. This marked the first time Sinitsyna attempted a quadruple jump in competition.

2021–2022 season: Senior international debut

Sinitsyna debuted her programs for the 2021–22 season at the 2021 Russian test skate event in early September, where she skated her short program cleanly but made several mistakes in her free program, including falling on an attempted quad toe loop. Sinitsyna and her team decided to remove the quad from her free skate in advance of her first Grand Prix assignment, the 2021 Skate America, due to an injury.[7]

At Skate America, Sinitsyna skated a clean short program to place third in the segment behind compatriots Alexandra Trusova and Daria Usacheva. She was fifth in the free skate, dropping to fifth place overall.[8][9] She was again third after the short program at her second event, the 2021 Internationaux de France, dropping to fourth overall after the free skate with three underrotated triple jumps.[10][11]

Competing at the 2022 Russian Championships, Sinitsyna placed ninth.[12]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–2024
2022–2023
2021–2022
[13]
2019–2021
[1]
2017–2019
[14]
2016–2017

    Competitive highlights

    Sinitsyna (left) at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics podium with You Young (center) and Anna Frolova (right).

    GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

    International [15]
    Event 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
    GP France4th
    GP Skate America5th
    CS Denis Ten MCWD
    CS Golden SpinWD
    International: Junior
    Youth Olympics2nd
    Junior Worlds4th
    JGP Final4th
    JGP Italy1st
    JGP Lithuania3rd
    JGP Russia2nd
    Youth Winter Games4th
    Children of Asia ISG3rd
    Volvo Open Cup1st
    National[16]
    Russian Champ.5thWD8th8th4th
    Russian Junior9th4th7th
    GPR Golden Skate3rd
    GPR Perm Territory4th4th
    GPR Volga Pirouette1st
    Team events
    Youth Olympics1st T
    1st P
    TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
    T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

    Detailed results

    Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

    Senior

    2023–24 season
    Date Event SP FS Total
    20-24 December 2023 2024 Russian Championships
    		4
    75.21    		 5
    148.60    		 4
    223.81
    25-26 November 2023 2023 Cup of Russia Series, 6th Stage 6
    65.46    		 3
    139.69    		 4
    205.15
    15–19 November 2023 2023 Cup of Russia Series, 5th Stage 1
    73.77    		 1
    142.31    		 1
    216.08
    2022–23 season
    Date Event SP FS Total
    20-26 December 2022 2023 Russian Championships
    		6
    74.89    		 9
    136.63    		 8
    211.52
    28–30 November 2022 2022 Cup of Russia Series, 6th Stage
    		3
    70.94    		 4
    136.73    		 4
    207.67
    4–6 November 2022 2022 Cup of Russia Series, 3rd Stage
    		3
    70.54    		 2
    137.01    		 3
    207.55
    2021–22 season
    Date Event SP FS Total
    21–26 December 2021 2022 Russian Championships 8
    70.75    		 9
    133.86    		 9
    204.61
    19–21 November 2021 2021 Internationaux de France 3
    69.89    		 6
    128.87    		 4
    198.76
    22–24 October 2021 2021 Skate America 3
    71.51    		 5
    134.25    		 5
    205.76
    2019–20 season
    Date Event SP FS Total
    26–29 December 2019 2020 Russian Championships 14
    59.72    		 4
    143.24    		 5
    202.96

    Junior

    Sinitsyna at the 2019–20 JGP Final
    Sinitsyna at the 2019 World Junior Championships
    2019–20 season
    Date Event SP FS Total
    4–8 February 2020 2020 Russian Junior Championships 11
    64.60    		 6
    135.81    		 7
    200.41
    10–15 January 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team – 1
    127.63    		 1T/1P
    10–15 January 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics 2
    71.77    		 2
    128.26    		 2
    200.03
    5–8 December 2019 2019–20 JGP Final 3
    69.40    		 5
    126.17    		 4
    195.57
    5–10 November 2019 2019 Volvo Open Cup 6
    54.65    		 1
    122.22    		 1
    176.57
    2–5 October 2019 2019 JGP Italy 1
    74.65    		 1
    140.93    		 1
    215.58
    11–14 September 2019 2019 JGP Russia 2
    73.04    		 3
    131.21    		 2
    204.25
    2018–19 season
    Date Event SP FS Total
    4–10 March 2019 2019 World Junior Championships 4
    66.52    		 6
    122.32    		 4
    188.84
    13–15 February 2019 2019 WCAISG 6
    61.26    		 1
    136.87    		 3
    198.13
    1–4 February 2019 2019 Russian Junior Championships 4
    73.31    		 4
    139.47    		 4
    212.78
    14–19 December 2018 2018 Russian–Chinese Youth Winter Games 3
    62.04    		 2
    125.10    		 2
    187.14
    5–8 September 2018 2018 JGP Lithuania 2
    67.12    		 3
    120.79    		 3
    187.91
    2017–18 season
    Date Event SP FS Total
    23–26 January 2018 2018 Russian Junior Championships 10
    67.46    		 10
    124.45    		 9
    191.91

    References

    1. 1 2 3 "Kseniia SINITSYNA: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020.
    2. ↑ "SINITSYNA Kseniia". lausanne2020.sport. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020.
    3. ↑ "Трусова - первая. Воспитанницы Тутберидзе заняли весь пьедестал на первенстве России среди юниоров. Фигурное катание. СПОРТ-ЭКСПРЕСС". 3 February 2019.
    4. ↑ 2019 Children of Asia results in figure skating
    5. ↑ Flade, Tatjana (28 December 2019). "Shcherbakova defends national title in Krasnoyarsk". Golden Skate.
    6. ↑ "Источник: Синицына приболела, ее участие в стартах сезона под вопросом" [Source: Sinitsyna got sick, her participation in competitions of the season is questionable] (in Russian). R-Sport. 26 November 2020.
    7. ↑ "Ксения Синицына: «Пока не тренирую четверной, потому что после прокатов была небольшая травма»" [Ksenia Sinitsyna: “I’m not training a quadruple yet, because after the skates there was a slight injury”]. www.sports.ru (in Russian). 22 October 2021.
    8. ↑ Sullivan Hill, Maura (25 October 2021). "Alexandra Trusova fights through injury to claim gold at 2021 Skate America". Figure Skaters Online.
    9. ↑ Slater, Paula (24 October 2021). "Russia's Trusova seizes gold at 2021 Skate America". Golden Skate.
    10. ↑ McCarvel, Nick (20 November 2021). "Anna Shcherbakova wins again in France to secure spot in Grand Prix Final". International Olympic Committee.
    11. ↑ Slater, Paula (20 November 2021). "Shcherbakova wins fourth Grand Prix gold in France". Golden Skate.
    12. ↑ Flade, Tatjana (25 December 2021). "Incredible Valieva cruises to gold at Russian Nationals". Golden Skate.
    13. ↑ "Kseniia SINITSYNA: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 6 October 2021.
    14. ↑ "Kseniia SINITSYNA: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019.
    15. ↑ "Competition Results: Kseniia SINITSYNA". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020.
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    17. "ISU World Standings for Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance : Ladies". International Skating Union. 3 March 2018.
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