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Ivan Shmuratko

Ivan Oleksiyovych Shmuratko (Ukrainian: Іван Олексійович Шмуратко, born December 21, 2001) is a Ukrainian figure skater. He is the 2024 CS Warsaw Cup bronze medalist, 2018 Volvo Open Cup bronze medalist, 2018 Bosphorus Cup silver medalist, and four-time Ukrainian national champion (2019–22). On the junior level, he is the 2019 JGP Italy bronze medalist and silver medalist in the team event at the 2016 Youth Olympics. He has competed in the final segment at two ISU Championships and represented Ukraine at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Ivan Shmuratko
Shmuratko at the 2022 World Championships, weeks following the Russia invasion of Ukraine
Full nameIvan Oleksiyovych Shmuratko
Native nameІван Олексійович Шмуратко
Born (2001-12-21) December 21, 2001 (age 22)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country Ukraine
DisciplineMen's singles
CoachMykhailo Leiba
Ivan Shmuratko
Skating clubLeader Kyiv
Began skating2006
Medal record
Ukrainian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Kyiv Singles
Gold medal – first place 2020 Kyiv Singles
Gold medal – first place 2021 Kyiv Singles
Gold medal – first place 2022 Kyiv Singles
Silver medal – second place 2024 Bohuslav Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Kyiv Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Kyiv Singles
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Silver medal – second place 2016 Hamar Team

Personal life

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Shmuratko was born on December 21, 2001, in Kyiv, Ukraine.[1] He has a younger brother named Ilya.[2][3]

He is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, and English.[4]

Career

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Early years

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Shmuratko started learning to skate in 2006 at the age of four and a half years old after his parents signed him up for the sport on the advice of his doctors to improve the catarrhal diseases that he suffered from as a child.[1][5] In the 2014–15 season, he won bronze at the Ukrainian Junior Championships.

2015–16 season

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Coached by Vira Volpova in Kyiv,[6] Shmuratko won two junior international medals: gold at the Ice Star and silver at the Santa Claus Cup. Competing at the senior level, he finished 4th at the Ukrainian Championships. He was named to Ukraine's team to the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer.[7] There, he placed 14th in men's singles and won a silver medal as part of the team event as a member of Team Future, which also included Diāna Ņikitina of Latvia, Anna Dušková and Martin Bidař of the Czech Republic, and Julia Wagret and Mathieu Couyras of France.[8][9]

2018–19 season

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Shmuratko opened his season on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 10th in Lithuania and 7th in Armenia. In November, making his senior international debut, he won bronze at the Volvo Open Cup in Latvia. The following month, he received medals at two senior events – silver at the Bosphorus Cup in Turkey and gold at the Ukrainian Championships. In January, he competed at his first ISU Championship, the 2019 European Championships in Minsk, Belarus. He qualified to the final segment and placed twenty-second overall. He also advanced to the free skate at the 2019 World Junior Championships, which took place in March in Zagreb, Croatia. Ranked thirteenth in the short and seventeenth in the free, he finished sixteenth overall.

2019–20 season

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Shmuratko started his season on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing seventh in Poland, and winning the bronze in Italy with a personal best score. In October, he competed at the Halloween Cup, winning the silver medal. In December, he won his second straight senior national title. He was named to the 2020 European Figure Skating Championships but withdrew. He placed fifteenth at the 2020 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Shmuratko was assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, Canada, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[10]

2020–21 season

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With pandemic-related travel restrictions limiting where skaters could compete, Shmuratko began the season at a European-only 2020 Nebelhorn Trophy, where he placed twelfth.[11] After winning his third consecutive Ukrainian national title, Shmuratko competed at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, placing twenty-first.[12] His result qualified a men's berth for Ukraine at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.[13]

2021–22 season

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Shmuratko at the 2022 Winter Olympics

On the Challenger series, Shmuratko was fifth at the 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge and seventeenth at the 2021 Warsaw Cup. After winning the Ukrainian national title again, he was named to the Ukrainian Olympic team and placed twelfth at the 2022 European Championships.[14]

Shmuratko tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Beijing and so was unable to participate in the Olympic team event.

 
Shmuratko finishing his free skate at the 2022 World Championships

He stated that he was asymptomatic and hoped to be cleared to compete in the later men's event.[15] Shmuratko subsequently was allowed to resume competition, placing twenty-second in the short program to qualify to the free skate.[16] He finished twenty-fourth overall.[17]

Returning to Kyiv following the Olympics, Shmuratko soon found himself in the midst of Russia's invasion, with his home city being one of the largest points of conflict. Despite the war and the resultant limitations on his training, Shmurtako still traveled to attend the 2022 World Championships in Montpellier, France, a journey that took three days.[18] He received a standing ovation from the crowd and qualified for the free program, ultimately finishing twenty-third overall.[19] On his decision to attend, he said, "it's important for Ukraine to have athletes who represent it on the international scene."[18]

2022–23 season

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Shmuratko performing a spread eagle at the 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy

Following the World Championships, Shmuratko spent April training at Club Olympique de Courbevoie in Paris, on the invitation of Ukrainian emigrant pair skater Denys Strekalin. He subsequently relocated his training base to Oberstdorf, Germany, adding coaches Michael Huth, Robert Dierking, and Anna Bernauer to his team.[20] Beginning the season, he placed seventh and sixth at 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy and 2022 Finlandia Trophy. Before making his senior Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Grand Prix de France, Shmuratko once again relocated back to Courbevoie, France, with Laurent Depouilly and Nathalie Depouilly becoming his coaches. He subsequently finished in eighth place at the Grand Prix de France after placing eighth in both the short program and free skate.[14]

He was forced to sit out the rest of the season due to a foot injury.[21]

2023–24 season

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Shmuratko performing his signature split at the 2024 European Championships

Shmuratko opted to return to train in Ukraine, explaining that "it‘s my home." He designed both of his programs to reflect the realities of the ongoing war, and said "it's one of my missions coming out of Ukraine to tell the stories through my art and my voice. It's my way to fight for my country."[22][23] Shmuratko's short program presented a story of a child killed by a missile and the child's father being forced to live with it, and his free skate presented a continuation of that story.[24]

In his competitive debut for the season, he finished eighth at the 2023 Nepela Memorial.[14] He was invited to appear on the Grand Prix at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo, coming eighth.[25]

At the 2024 European Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, Shmuratko placed nineteenth in the short program, but twelfth in the free skate, moving up to fourteenth-place overall.[14][26] During his free skate, Shmuratko notably wore a white shirt with a red splotch spattered across his chest to signify blood stains. Following the event, he said, "This is the astral between life and death. No more, and no less. It is incomparably more than words can convey. The element with blood? Because that's how it is, literally. People die from missiles like this, with blood."[24]

Competing at the 2024 World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Shmuratko would finish thirty-third. He would go on to compete at the 2024 Ukrainian Championships one month later and win the silver medal behind Kyrylo Marsak.[26][14]

2024–25 season

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Shmuratko began the season by competing on the 2024–25 ISU Challenger Series, finishing fifth at the 2024 CS Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur and seventh at the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy.[14]

Programs

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Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2024–2025
[27]
2023–2024
[28][29]
  • Скрипка Грає (The Violin Plays)
    by Vasily Zinkevich
    choreo. by Ivan Shmuratko
2022–2023
[30]
  • Біля Тополі (Near the Poplar)
    by Oleg Shumei
    choreo. by Alexey Oleynik
2021–2022
[31]
2020–2021
[32]
2019–2020
[33]
2018–2019
[1]
2017–2018
[34]
2016–2017
[35]
2015–2016
[6]

Competitive highlights

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Competition placements at senior level [26]
Season 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Winter Olympics 24th
World Championships 29th C 21st 23rd 33rd
European Championships 22nd 12th 14th
Ukrainian Championships 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd
GP Finland 8th
GP France 8th
CS Budapest Trophy 6th 4th
CS Denis Ten Memorial 5th
CS Finlandia Trophy 6th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 12th 7th
CS Nepela Memorial 8th
CS Tallinn Trophy 7th
CS Trophée Métropole Nice 5th
CS Warsaw Cup 17th 12th 3rd
Bosphorus Cup 2nd
Halloween Cup 2nd
Volvo Open Cup 3rd
Competition placements at junior level [26]
Season 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
World Junior Championships 28th 16th 15th
Winter Youth Olympics 14th
Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) 2nd
Ukrainian Championships (Senior) 4th 3rd 3rd
Ukrainian Championships (Junior) 3rd 4th 3rd
JGP Armenia 7th
JGP Austria 15th
JGP Italy 3rd
JGP Lithuania 10th
JGP Poland 15th 7th
Ice Star 1st
Santa Claus Cup 2nd 1st

Detailed results

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ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [26]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 221.44 2019 JGP Italy
Short program TSS 82.13 2022 European Championships
TES 44.06 2022 European Championships
PCS 38.07 2022 European Championships
Free skating TSS 146.18 2019 JGP Italy
TES 73.70 2019 JGP Italy
PCS 75.92 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy

Senior level

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Results in the 2015–16 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Jan 19–21, 2016   2016 Ukrainian Championships 4 53.83 4 90.91 4 144.74
Results in the 2016–17 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 20–23, 2016   2017 Ukrainian Championships 3 57.40 3 117.08 3 174.48
Results in the 2017–18 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 17–20, 2017   2018 Ukrainian Championships 3 61.86 3 120.50 3 182.36
Results in the 2018–19 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Nov 6–11, 2018   2018 Volvo Open Cup 1 76.48 7 122.91 3 199.39
Nov 27 – Dec 1, 2018   2018 Bosphorus Cup 2 73.18 3 135.47 2 208.65
Dec 17–20, 2018   2019 Ukrainian Championships 1 59.75 1 126.37 1 186.12
Jan 21–27, 2019   2019 European Championships 19 67.26 24 111.03 22 178.29
Mar 18–24, 2019   2019 World Championships 29 62.99 – – 29 62.99
Results in the 2019–20 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 17–19, 2019   2019 Halloween Cup 3 73.33 2 133.52 2 206.85
Dec 18–21, 2019   2020 Ukrainian Championships 1 76.69 1 145.63 1 222.42
Results in the 2020–21 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 23–26, 2020   2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 9 69.42 13 109.96 12 179.38
Oct 14–17, 2020   2020 CS Budapest Trophy 6 60.14 3 140.60 6 200.74
Feb 22–24, 2021   2021 Ukrainian Championships 1 79.17 1 145.64 1 224.81
Mar 22–28, 2021   2021 World Championships 22 73.98 20 130.19 21 204.17
Results in the 2021–22 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 14–17, 2021   2021 Budapest Trophy 2 73.22 4 150.07 4 223.29
Oct 28–31, 2021   2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 4 76.94 6 131.72 5 208.66
Nov 17–20, 2021   2021 CS Warsaw Cup 20 64.27 17 126.56 17 190.83
Dec 7–8, 2021   2022 Ukrainian Championships 1 82.18 1 147.07 1 229.25
Jan 10–16, 2022   2022 European Championships 8 82.13 15 132.44 12 214.57
Feb 4–20, 2022   2022 Winter Olympics 22 78.11 24 127.65 24 205.76
Mar 21–27, 2022   2022 World Championships 22 73.99 23 122.66 23 196.65
Results in the 2022–23 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 21–24, 2022   2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 6 69.89 8 125.01 7 194.90
Oct 4–9, 2022   2022 CS Finlandia Trophy 5 72.18 5 144.07 6 216.25
Nov 4–6, 2022   2022 Grand Prix de France 8 75.95 8 144.13 8 220.08
Nov 17–20, 2022   2022 CS Warsaw Cup 7 74.41 16 125.24 12 199.65
Results in the 2023–24 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 28–30, 2023   2023 CS Nepela Memorial 10 72.14 6 143.54 8 215.68
Nov 17–19, 2023   2023 Grand Prix of Espoo 10 66.30 7 134.37 8 200.67
Jan 10–14, 2024   2024 European Championships 19 69.95 12 140.70 14 210.65
Mar 18–24, 2024   2024 World Championships 33 66.90 – – 33 66.90
Results in the 2024–25 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 16–20, 2024   2024 CS Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur 7 74.61 5 143.58 5 218.19
Nov 11-17, 2024   2024 CS Tallinn Trophy 3 76.57 10 129.67 7 206.24
Nov 20–24, 2024   2024 CS Warsaw Cup 3 78.28 5 137.46 3 215.74

Junior level

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Results in the 2014–15 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Feb 12–14, 2015   2015 Ukrainian Championships (Junior) 5 44.88 3 91.94 3 136.82
Results in the 2015–16 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 8–10, 2015   2015 Ice Star 1 56.98 1 107.17 1 164.15
Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2015   2015 Santa Claus Cup 6 43.85 2 97.27 2 141.12
Jan 19–21, 2016   2016 Ukrainian Championships (Junior) 5 44.97 4 98.56 4 143.53
Feb 12–21, 2016   2016 Winter Youth Olympics 14 42.39 14 83.39 14 125.78
Feb 12–21, 2016   2016 Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) – – 6 89.66 2 –
Results in the 2016–17 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 20–23, 2016   2017 Ukrainian Championships (Junior) 3 52.93 3 110.77 3 163.70
Results in the 2017–18 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 30 – Sep 2, 2017   2017 JGP Austria 15 53.38 15 99.31 15 152.69
Oct 4–7, 2017   2017 JGP Poland 11 60.30 17 96.31 15 156.61
Dec 4–10, 2017   2017 Santa Claus Cup 1 60.49 2 113.34 1 173.83
Mar 5–11, 2017   2018 World Junior Championships 28 54.51 – – 28 54.51
Results in the 2018–19 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 5–8, 2018   2018 JGP Lithuania 10 54.63 8 103.49 10 158.12
Oct 10–13, 2018   2018 JGP Armenia 1 72.08 8 108.93 7 181.01
Mar 4–10, 2019   2019 World Junior Championships 13 73.31 17 118.01 16 191.32
Results in the 2019–20 season [26]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 18–21, 2019   2019 JGP Poland 7 70.13 7 131.77 7 201.90
Oct 2–5, 2019   2019 JGP Italy 3 75.26 3 146.18 3 221.44
Mar 2–8, 2020   2020 World Junior Championships 16 68.76 9 128.64 15 197.40

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