Olga Mikutina
Mikutina at 2019 Junior Worlds
Full nameOlga Romanovna Mikutina
Native nameОльга Романівна Мікутіна
Born (2003-10-06) 6 October 2003
Kharkiv, Ukraine
HometownFeldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Figure skating career
CountryAustria Austria
CoachElena Romanova,Galit Chait, Alexei Bychenko, Evgeni Krasnopolski
Skating clubFEV Feldkirch Einslaufverein Montfort
Began skating2007

Olga Romanovna Mikutina (Ukrainian: Ольга Романівна Мікутіна; born 6 October 2003) is a Ukrainian-Austrian figure skater who competes for Austria. She is a three-time Austrian national champion (2020–21, 2024), as well as a two-time Austrian national junior champion (2019–2020). Internationally, she has represented the country at the European and World championships, and finished fourteenth at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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.[1]

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, "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 2020.[2]

2017–2018 season

At the 2018 Austrian Championships, Mikutina won the junior bronze medal.[3]

2018–2019 season

Mikutina made her ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in August 2019 at the 2018 JGP Austria. She placed thirteenth overall at the event. Later in the season, she improved her JGP record by placing ninth overall at her second assignment, the 2018 JGP Czech Republic. After the Junior Grand Prix, Mikutina competed at several other international competitions, taking gold in the junior divisions of the 2018 installments of the Halloween Cup, Skate Celje, and the Volvo Open Cup.[3]

At the 2019 Austrian Championships in December, Mikutina 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. Afterward, 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 simultaneously hold Austrian national junior and senior titles.[3]

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. She ranked twenty-first in the short program at the event, 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 eighth 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]

2021–2022 season

Suffering from right knee inflammation, Mikutina's training was hindered over the summer, and as a result, she withdrew from the 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge and what was to be her first Grand Prix assignment, the 2021 NHK Trophy. She made her Grand Prix debut at the 2021 Rostelecom Cup, where she finished in twelfth place of twelve skaters.[13]

Mikutina failed to defend her national title, taking the silver medal behind Stefanie Pesendorfer, but was still assigned to the Austrian Olympic team and the European Championships, finishing fifteenth at the latter in January.[3] Competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the women's event, Mikutina placed eighteenth in the short program.[14] Fourteenth in the free skate, she rose to fourteenth overall.[15]

Days after the Olympics concluded, Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, as a result of which the International Skating Union banned all Russian and Belarusian skaters from competing at the 2022 World Championships. Mikutina's birthplace of Kharkiv became the site of one of the largest and most destructive battles of the war, which she vocally protested.[16] She placed fourteen at the World Championships.[17]

2022–2023 season

Mikutina continued to train, noting that "when I go on the ice, I can imagine myself in another world," away from worries relating to the war, while her father and grandparents continued to live in eastern Ukraine.[18] She started her season with seventh and ninth placements at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy, respectively. She then went on to win gold at the 2022 Tayside Trophy. At the 2022 Grand Prix de France, Mikutina finished in tenth place after placing tenth in both the short and free programs. She was tenth as well at the 2022 NHK Trophy.[3]

Assigned to Austria's championship berths in the second half of the season, Mikutina came twelfth at the 2023 European Championships and nineteenth at the 2023 World Championships.[3]

2023–2024 season

In October 2023, it was announced that Mikutina had switched training locations from Feldkirch, Austria to Montclair, New Jersey and that she was now being coached by Galit Chait, Alexei Bychenko, and Evgeni Krasnopolski.[19]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–2024
[19]
2022–2023
[20]
2021–2022
[21]
2020–2021
[22]
2019–2020
[23]
2018–2019
[24]

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[3]
Event 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
Olympics14th
WorldsC8th14th19th
Europeans24th15th12thTBD
GP France10th
GP NHK TrophyWD10th
GP Rostelecom Cup12th
CS Budapest TrophyWD5th
CS Cup of TyrolC
CS Denis Ten MCWD
CS Finlandia9th
CS Golden SpinWD9th
CS Nebelhorn13th7th
CS Warsaw CupC
EduSport Trophy4thWD
Eiscup Innsbruck1st
Golden Bear2nd
Istanbul Cup1st
Sofia Trophy1st
Swiss Open1st
Tallink Hotels Cup2nd
Tallinn Trophy3rd
Tayside Trophy1st
International: Junior[3][25]
Junior Worlds18th
JGP Austria13th
JGP Croatia13th
JGP Czech Rep.9th
JGP Latvia17th
Bavarian Open8th
Cup of Nice10th
Cup of Tyrol6th
Denkova-Staviski Cup2nd
Egna Spring Trophy3rd
FBMA Trophy1st
Halloween Cup1st
Icelab Cup1st
Ice Star4th
Jégvirág Cup1st
Printemps1st
Skate Celje1st
Triglav Trophy1st
Volvo Open Cup1st
International: Advanced novice[3]
Cup of Tyrol1st
Egna Spring Trophy4th
Golden Bear8th
Printemps2nd
Merano Cup1st
National[3]
Austrian Champ.1st1st2nd1st
Austrian Junior Champ.1st N3rd J1st J1st J
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled
Levels: N = Advanced novice; J = Junior

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE system [26]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS198.772021 World Championships
Short program TSS67.182021 World Championships
TES38.582021 World Championships
PCS30.632022 World Championships
Free skating TSS131.592021 World Championships
TES70.342021 World Championships
PCS61.252021 World Championships

Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

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

Senior results

2023–2024 season
Date Event SP FS Total
December 13-17, 2023 2024 Austrian Championships 2
58.62		 1
114.31		 1
172.93
December 6-9, 2023 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 3
58.08		 10
95.82		 9
153.90
October 26-29, 2023 2023 Swiss Ice Skating Open 2
59.08		 2
91.97		 1
151.05
October 26-29, 2023 2023 Swiss Ice Skating Open 2
59.08		 2
91.97		 1
151.05
October 13-15, 2023 2023 CS Budapest Trophy 6
61.48		 5
108.01		 5
169.49
Date Event SP FS Total
2022–2023 season
March 22–26, 2023 2023 World Championships 20
57.05		 18
115.26		 19
172.31
January 25–29, 2023 2023 European Championships 4
62.78		 18
96.30		 12
159.08
November 18–20, 2022 2022 NHK Trophy 10
56.95		 9
116.41		 10
173.36
November 4–6, 2022 2022 Grand Prix de France 10
56.00		 10
103.99		 10
159.99
October 15–16, 2022 2022 Tayside Trophy 2
60.07		 1
114.63		 1
174.70
October 4–9, 2022 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy 15
52.81		 7
107.62		 9
160.43
September 21–24, 2022 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 4
58.31		 9
97.22		 7
155.53
2021–2022 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 21–27, 2022 2022 World Championships 15
62.14		 13
120.84		 14
182.98
February 15–17, 2022 2022 Winter Olympics 18
61.14		 14
121.06		 14
182.20
January 10–16, 2022 2022 European Championships 12
60.16		 17
103.85		 15
164.01
December 9–11, 2022 2022 Austrian Championships 1
62.77		 2
111.06		 2
173.83
November 26–28, 2021 2021 Rostelecom Cup 10
57.09		 12
104.00		 12
161.09
2020–2021 season
Date Event SP FS Total
22–28 March 2021 2021 World Championships 11
67.18		 7
131.59		 8
198.77
19–21 February 2021 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup 2
63.19		 2
117.23		 2
180.42
10–12 December 2020 2021 Austrian Championships 1
55.97		 1
113.13		 1
169.10
23–26 September 2020 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 12
44.14		 15
85.26		 13
129.40
2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
20–26 January 2020 2020 European Championships 21
53.19		 24
76.96		 24
130.15
8–12 January 2020 2019 EduSport Trophy 4
58.92		 4
101.20		 4
160.12
12–14 December 2019 2020 Austrian Championships 2
56.67		 1
114.98		 1
171.65
25–30 November 2019 2019 Bosphorus Cup 2
54.83		 1
111.73		 1
166.56
22–24 November 2019 2019 Eiscup Innsbruck 1
62.57		 1
122.29		 1
184.86
11–17 November 2019 2019 Tallinn Trophy 4
53.40		 3
109.08		 3
162.48
24–27 October 2019 2019 Golden Bear 1
62.32		 4
110.67		 2
172.99

Junior results

2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
15–17 February 2020 2020 Jégvirág Cup 1
55.84		 1
110.72		 1
166.56
12–14 December 2019 2020 Austrian Junior Championships 1
54.06		 2
97.99		 1
152.05
1–3 November 2019 2019 Icelab Cup 1
57.65		 1
102.68		 1
160.33
14–17 October 2019 2019 Ice Star 3
56.57		 6
94.52		 4
151.09
25–28 September 2019 2019 JGP Croatia 13
46.41		 12
93.70		 13
140.11
4–7 September 2019 2019 JGP Latvia 21
42.36		 13
88.06		 17
130.42
2018–2019 season
Date Event SP FS Total
28–31 March 2019 2019 Egna Spring Trophy 2
53.52		 3
93.72		 3
147.24
4–10 March 2019 2019 World Junior Championships 20
48.75		 15
96.59		 18
145.34
13–16 December 2018 2019 Austrian Junior Championships 1
53.87		 1
100.32		 1
154.19
22–25 November 2018 2018 Skate Celje 1
55.23		 2
90.31		 1
145.54
6–11 November 2018 2018 Volvo Open Cup 1
54.22		 1
95.37		 1
149.59
19–21 October 2018 2018 Halloween Cup 1
58.94		 1
108.10		 1
167.04
26–29 September 2018 2018 JGP Czech Republic 8
52.37		 13
90.73		 9
143.10
29 August – 1 September 2018 2018 JGP Austria 13
45.01		 15
74.50		 13
119.51
2017–2018 season
4 April 2018 2018 Triglav Trophy 1
57.53		 1
97.80		 1
155.53
13–16 March 2018 2018 Coupe du Printemps 1
57.53		 1
97.80		 1
155.33
26–31 January 2018 2018 Bavarian Open 7
47.94		 8
88.75		 8
136.69
4–7 January 2018 2018 FBMA Trophy 1
45.14		 1
78.14		 1
123.28
13–16 December 2017 2018 Austrian Junior Championships 3
45.79		 3
85.79		 3
131.58
20–25 November 2017 2017 Cup of Tyrol 18
41.28		 4
88.21		 6
129.49
31 October – 4 November 2017 2017 Denkova-Staviski Cup 2
52.09		 2
91.66		 2
143.75
11–15 October 2017 2017 Cup of Nice 7
46.36		 10
83.57		 10
129.93

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