Ekaterina KURAKOVA

Poland
Figure Skating
24 Jun 2002
19
Female
MOSCOW
 
Poland
TORUN
 
Poland

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
FSK Figure Skating Women Single Skating 12

Schedule

Start Time Location Event Status
Capital Indoor Stadium
Women Single Skating - Short Program
Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium
Women Single Skating - Free Skating
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Historical Results

World Championships
RankEventYearLocation
32Women Single Skating2021Stockholm, SWE
European Championships
RankEventYearLocation
5Women Single Skating2022Tallinn, EST
10Women Single Skating2020Graz, AUT
World Junior Championships
RankEventYearLocation
7Women Single Skating2020Tallinn, EST
Grand Prix
RankEventYearLocation
9Women Single Skating2021/22Sochi, RUS
9Women Single Skating2021/22Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Katia

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Short Program: Sentimental Waltz by Petr I. Tchaikovski
Free Skating: Terry Theme from Limelight (Charlie Chaplin)

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Travelling, knitting, drawing. (isuresults.com)

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University student

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In her second year of studies for a coaching diploma at the Halina Konopacka Higher School of Physical Culture and Tourism in Pruszkow.

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Father, Andrei Kurakov. Mother, Natalia Kurakova. Brother, Alexander.

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Russian, Polish, English

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Axel Torun

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Lorenzo Magri (ITA)
Angelina Turenko (RUS)

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Warsaw Cup 2019 (Single skating - 1st)

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Benoit Richaud (FRA)

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2019

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2006 in Moscow.

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As a child, she was very small and active, but prone to illness. The doctor suggested that her parents should go skating to improve her health. (Athlete, 22 Oct 2021)

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To be special and be remembered by the audience. To have a son and call him Evgeni. (Athlete, 22 Oct 2021)

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Trains in Egna (ITA) with Daniel Grassl (ITA) and other high level skaters.

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Earning an Olympic quota place for Poland by coming second at the Olympic qualifying competition Nebelhorn Trophy in 2021.

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Figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva (RUS), two-time Olympic silver medallist (2018), two-time World champion.
Actress Klava Coca (RUS). (Athlete, 22 Oct 2021)

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Her grandmother Liudmila and her coach Lorenzo Magri. (Athlete, 22 Oct 2021)

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"You have to live now and to enjoy the moment now. It will never happen again." (Athlete, 22 Oct 2021)

General Interest

FROM RUSSIA TO POLAND
As the competition in Russia is too tough and she felt she had no chance to make it to major competitions, in 2018 she got in touch with the Polish Federation president at the time Marek Kaliszek, who supported the idea of her representing Poland. "In Russia, I did not have a chance anymore. I did not want to stop skating, but I wanted to show who is that little Katia that is always smiling and I want to make the spectators happy." (Athlete, 22 Oct 2021; onet.pl, 29 Sep 2021)

Won the Four National Championships in Budapest becoming the 2019 Polish national champion. However, due to the recent change of her country of representation, she was unable to compete in any ISU events until after June 2019. Became a Polish citizen in October 2019. (sport24.ru)

COVID-19
Trained in Canada in the 2019/20 season under Brian Orser (CAN) but when the pandemic hit, she returned to Poland and trained the rest of the year without a coach. In early 2021, she relocated to Italy to train under Lorenzo Magri. (Athlete, 22 Oct 2021)

DREAM COME TRUE
Felt a lot of pressure after missing to qualify an Olympic spot at the 2021 World Championships where she finished 32nd. "I was preparing six months to skate my free skating of four minutes (at the qualifying competition). It was my last chance to qualify." (Athlete, 22 Oct 2021).

When she qualified by coming second at the qualifying event in September 2021, she put her medal in the closet at home. She woke up at night and checked if the medal was still there and to assure herself that she had made it. (onet.pl, 29 Sep 2021)

FORMER COACH
Trained in Toronto under two-time Olympic silver medallist Brian Orser (CAN) in the 2019/20 season.

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