Victoria SINITSINA

ROC

Figure Skating

Date of Birth: 29 Apr 1995

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Place of birth: MOSCOW

Birth Country:

Russian Federation

Residence: MOSCOW

Residence Country:

Russian Federation

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank
Figure Skating	Ice Dance ROC SINITSINA Victoria / KATSALAPOV Nikita	2
	Team Event ROC SINITSINA Victoria / KATSALAPOV Nikita
	Team Event ROC ROC	1

Schedule

Location	Event	Status
Capital Indoor Stadium	Team Event - Ice Dance - Rhythm Dance	Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium	Team Event - Ice Dance - Free Dance	Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium	Ice Dance - Rhythm Dance	Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium	Ice Dance - Free Dance	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location
16	Ice Dance	2014	Sochi, RUS

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Ice Dance	2021	Stockholm, SWE
2	Ice Dance	2019	Saitama, JPN
7	Ice Dance	2014	Saitama, JPN
9	Ice Dance	2016	Boston, MA, USA

European Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Ice Dance	2022	Tallinn, EST
1	Ice Dance	2020	Graz, AUT
4	Ice Dance	2019	Minsk, BLR
4	Ice Dance	2016	Bratislava, SVK
4	Ice Dance	2014	Budapest, HUN
10	Ice Dance	2017	Ostrava, CZE

World Junior Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Ice Dance	2012	Minsk, BLR

Grand Prix Final
Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Ice Dance	2018/19	Vancouver, BC, CAN
6	Ice Dance	2019/20	Torino, ITA

Grand Prix
Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Ice Dance	2021/22	Tokyo, JPN
1	Ice Dance	2021/22	Sochi, RUS
1	Ice Dance	2020/21	Moscow, RUS
1	Ice Dance	2019/20	Moscow, RUS
1	Ice Dance	2019/20	Chongqing, CHN
2	Ice Dance	2018/19	Grenoble, FRA
2	Ice Dance	2018/19	Laval, QC, CAN

World Team Trophy
Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Team	2021	Osaka, JPN
3	Team	2019	Fukuoka, JPN

Nickname:

Vika.

Hobbies:

Design, music, art, reading, movies. (isuresults.com)

Occupation:

Athlete

Education:

Studied at Moscow State Pedagogical University. (Facebook)

Languages spoken:

Russian, English

Club name:

Olympic School Moskvich, Moscow.

Coach:

Alexander Zhulin (RUS)
Petr Durnev (RUS)

Debut:

2014 GP Rostelecom Cup (Ice dance - 4th), with Katsalapov
2012 GP Cup of China (Ice dance - 6th), with Zhiganshin

Injuries:

2020: Struggled with knee problems. (olympics.com/ru, 13 Mar 2021)

Choreographer:

Sergei Petukhov (RUS)

National team:

2008

Start:

1999 in Moscow.

Reason:

Her parents put her into figure skating to improve her health. (goldenskate.com, 18 Dec 2011)

Training:

She and her partner train in Moscow.

General Interest

Figure Skating Team event results are provisional

SINITSINA/KATSALAPOV
Teamed up in 2014 after ending her previous partnership to skate with him.

UPS AND DOWNS
Missed qualifying for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games as Katsalapov suffered an injury during the free dance at the 2018 National Championships and they withdrew. Came back strong the following sesaon to win the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. In 2021, they claimed the first ice dance world title for Russia since 2009 when Oksana Domnina/Maxim Shabalin had won.

RETURNING TO RUSSIA
Trained in the United States of America until the 2016 World Championships and returnd to Russia following Katsalapov's shoulder surgery right after Worlds. First worked with Elena Tchaikovskaia and Oleg Volkov before joining Alexander Zhulin's training group in spring 2017. (rsport.ria.ru, 9 Sep 2016; goldenskate.com, 31 May 2017)

PREVIOUS PARTNERSHIP
Competed with Ruslan Zhiganshin 2008-14.

ACCOMPLISHED COACH
Coach Alexander Zhulin is the 1994 Olympic silver medallist (with Maia Usova).

Milestones

Made her Olympic Winter Games debut at Sochi 2014, placing 16th (with Zhiganshin).

2021 World champion and 2019 silver medallist (with Katsalapov). Finished ninth in 2016 (with Katsalapov) and was seventh in her debut in 2014 (with Zhiganshin).

2012 World junior champion (with Zhiganshin).

Two-time European champion in 2020 and 2022 (with Katsalapov). Was fourth in 2016 and 2019, and 10th in 2017 (with Katsalapov). In her 2014 debut, she was fourth (with Zhiganshin).

2008 Junior Grand Prix Merano (International junior debut - Ice dance - 6th, with Zhiganshin)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold
:: Silver
:: Gold Medal Event

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