Olga Mikutina

Olga Mikutina
Mikutina at 2019 Junior Worlds
Personal information
Native name	Ольга Романівна Мікутіна
Full name	Olga Romanovna Mikutina
Country represented	Austria
Former country(ies) represented	Ukraine
Born	(2003-10-06) 6 October 2003 (age 17) Kharkiv, Ukraine
Home town	Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Coach	Elena Romanova
Former coach	Viktor Kudriavtsev
Choreographer	Rostislav Sinicyn
Skating club	FEV Feldkirch Einslaufverein Montfort
Training locations	Feldkirch Flims, Switzerland
Began skating	2007
World standing	33 (As of 26 March 2021)[1]
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	198.77 2021 Worlds
Short program	67.18 2021 Worlds
Free skate	131.59 2021 Worlds

Olga Romanovna Mikutina (Ukrainian: Ольга Романівна Мікутіна; born 6 October 2003) is a Ukrainian-Austrian figure skater who competes for Austria. She is a two-time Austrian national champion (2020–2021), as well as a two-time Austrian national junior champion (2019–2020). Internationally, she has represented the country at the European and World championships.

Career[]

Early life and career[]

Mikutina was born on 6 October 2003 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her father, Roman, is a hockey player. She took up skating in 2007 at the age of four. She began her skating career competing for her native Ukraine, and by age 12, was already a three-time Ukrainian youth national champion.^[2]

When she was 12, her parents decided that she needed better training conditions than were available in Ukraine, and were advised to seek out coach Elena Romanova in Feldkirch, Austria. She would later remark that "at first I didn’t realize that we were really moving there. I thought we were just training there for some time." She began competing for Austria at the advanced novice level internationally in 2016. She subsequently became an Austrian citizen in January of 2020.^[3]

2017–2018 season[]

At the 2018 Austrian Championships, Mikutina won the junior bronze medal.

2018–2019 season[]

Mikutina made her ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in August 2019 at the 2018 JGP Austria. She placed 13th overall at the event. Later on in the season, she improved her JGP record by placing 9th overall at her second assignment, the 2018 JGP Czech Republic. After the Junior Grand Prix, Mikutina competed at a number of other international competitions, taking gold in the junior divisions of the 2018 installments of the Halloween Cup, Skate Celje, and the Volvo Open Cup.

At the 2019 Austrian Championships in December, Mikutina she won her first junior national title and was thus named to the Austrian team for the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. At the event in March, Mikutina ranked twentieth in the short program and qualified for the free skate where she placed fifteenth, which lifted her to eighteenth overall.

2019–2020 season[]

Mikutina started the season at the 2019 JGP Latvia, where she placed seventeenth. Later that month, she placed thirteenth at 2019 JGP Zagreb. At her next event, Mikutina finished fourth at Ice Star 2019 held in Minsk. Afterwards, she completed at several international competitions on the senior level, earning the silver medal at Golden Bear, bronze at the Tallinn Trophy and gold medals at Icelab International Cup, Eiscup Innsbruck and Bosphorus Cup. In December, she won gold on the junior and senior levels at the Austrian championships, becoming the first skater to hold Austrian national junior and senior titles at the same time.

In January, Mikutina came in fourth place at the EduSport Trophy in Bucharest and was assigned to the 2020 European Championships held in Graz, Austria. At the event, she ranked twenty-first in the short program, earning a new personal best of 53.19 points. After the free skate, she finished in twenty-fourth place overall.^[4] Mikutina finished her season at the Jégvirág Cup in Hungary, where she won the gold medal at the junior level. She had been assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, which would have been her senior Worlds debut, but those were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.^[5]

2020–2021 season[]

Mikutina made her season debut at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, where she placed thirteenth.^[6] She was on the preliminary entry list for the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy but withdrew. After winning her second consecutive national title, she competed at the 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup, taking the silver medal behind Eva-Lotta Kiibus.^[7][8]

Mikutina made her World debut in Stockholm at the 2021 World Championships in late March. She skated clean in her short program at the event to score a new personal best, topping her previous score by over 14 points, and qualified to the free skate in eleventh place.^[9] She then placed seventh in the free skate and finished eight overall.^[10] Mikutina's placement in the top ten qualified a place for Austria at the 2022 Winter Olympics, as well as the possibility of a second berth, and two placements at the following year's world championships.^[11] It was the best result for an Austrian lady since Julia Lautowa's eighth place in 1997.^[12]

Programs[]

Competitive highlights[]

GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Detailed results[]

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

Senior results[]

Junior results[]

References[]

External links[]

• Olga Mikutina at the International Skating Union