Kseniia Sinitsyna

Not to be confused with ice dancer Victoria Sinitsina.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexeyevna and the family name is Sinitsyna.

Kseniia Alexeyevna Sinitsyna (Russian: Ксения Алексеевна Синицына; born 5 August 2004) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2024 Russian Bronze medalist and the 2024 Russian Final Cup Bronze Medalist.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.

Kseniia Sinitsyna
Sinitsyna at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Full name	Kseniia Alexeyevna Sinitsyna
Native name	Ксения Алексеевна Синицына (Russian)
Other names	Ksenia/Kseniya, Ksyusha
Born	(2004-08-05) 5 August 2004 (age 20) Tver
Hometown	Moscow, Russia
Height	1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Russia
Coach	Svetlana Panova, Tatiana Moiseeva, Ilona Protasenya
Skating club	SC Snow Leopards
Began skating	2008
Medal record Representing  Russia Figure skating: Ladies' singles Winter Youth Olympics 2020 Lausanne Ladies' singles Representing Mixed-NOCs Winter Youth Olympics 2020 Lausanne Team

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 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
2024-2025	The Mystic's Dream by Loreena McKennitt Spirits by Chronis Taxidis	Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd
2023–2024	Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55, No. 1 by Frédéric Chopin performed by Daniel Barenboim choreo. by Vera Arutyunyan	Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps by Osvaldo Farrés performed by Gaby Moreno Espiritu by Ann Reynolds and Clave Gringa choreo. by Maria Kasumova	If Only There Was No Winter by Yuri Entin and Yevgeny Krylatov performed by Valentina Tolkunova
2022–2023	Lullaby, Op. 16, No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky choreo. by Vera Arutyunyan	Oboe Concerto by Alessandro Marcello performed by Khatia Buniatishvili Fugue in G minor by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Jacob's Piano Concerto In A minor for Four Pianos by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by David Fray choreo. by Maria Kasumova
2021–2022 [13]	Lullaby, Op. 16, No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky choreo. by Vera Arutyunyan	The Queen's Gambit by Carlos Rafael Rivera choreo. by Maria Kasumova, Sergei Komolov, and Svetlana Panova
2019–2021 [1]	Alfonsina y el mar by Ariel Ramírez and Félix Luna performed by Ane Brun choreo. by Nadia Kanaeva	Vajrasattva Mantra by Deva Premal Wrench and Numbers (from Fargo) by Jeff Russo Dakini: Movement IV (from Flesh and Bone) by Adam Crystal choreo. by Anna Novichkina
2017–2019 [14]	Batucadas by Mitoka Samba La vida es un carnaval by Celia Cruz Mujer latina by Thalía choreo. by Nadia Kanaeva	Trio élégiaque No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninov
2016–2017	Batucadas by Mitoka Samba La vida es un carnaval by Celia Cruz Mujer latina by Thalía choreo. by Nadia Kanaeva

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 France					4th
GP Skate America					5th
CS Denis Ten MC					WD
CS Golden Spin					WD
International: Junior
Youth Olympics			2nd
Junior Worlds		4th
JGP Final			4th
JGP Italy			1st
JGP Lithuania		3rd
JGP Russia			2nd
Youth Winter Games		4th
Children of Asia ISG		3rd
Volvo Open Cup			1st
National[16]
Russian Champ.			5th	WD	8th	8th	3rd
Russian Junior	9th	4th	7th
Russian Cup Final	3rd J						3rd
GPR Golden Skate						2nd
GPR Perm Territory						4th	3rd
GPR Volga Pirouette							1st
Team events
Youth Olympics			1st 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

2024–25 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
19–22 December 2024	2025 Russian Figure Skating Championships	9 69.99	10 133.94	10 203.93
16–17 November 2024	2024 Cup of Russia Series, 4th Stage	8 55.79	5 128.74	6 184.53
26–27 October 2024	2024 Cup of Russia Series, 2nd Stage	3 65.27	2 135.65	3 200.92
2023–24 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
14–19 February 2024	2024 Russian Cup Final	3 75.75	3 148.90	3 224.65
20–24 December 2023	2024 Russian Championships	3 75.21	4 148.60	3 223.81
25–26 November 2023	2023 Cup of Russia Series, 6th Stage	5 65.46	2 139.69	3 205.15
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	5 74.89	8 136.63	7 211.52
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	2 70.54	1 137.01	2 207.55
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

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External links

• Kseniia Sinitsyna at the International Skating Union
• Kseniia Sinitsyna on Instagram