28 Facts About Anastasiia Shabotova

Anastasiia Sergeevna Shabotova is a Russian-Ukrainian figure skater.

Anastasiia Shabotova competed in the final segment at the 2020 World Junior Championships.

Anastasiia Shabotova originally competed domestically for Russia before requesting to switch nationalities to Ukraine in May 2019 after she made comments during an Instagram livestream that alleged widespread doping among top Russian figure skaters.

Anastasiia Shabotova was born in Moscow, Russia on 17 January 2006.

Anastasiia Shabotova's comments led to her being cyberbullied by the Russian figure skating community.

However, several fellow athletes and fans came to Anastasiia Shabotova's defense, including two-time World Champion Irina Slutskaya.

Panova disciplined the skater over her comments but expressed that she did not wish to see Anastasiia Shabotova seriously punished for comments obviously meant in jest.

Anastasiia Shabotova then asked that Shabotova's career not be ruined over her careless comments.

Russian Anti-Doping Agency head Yuri Ganus promised to hold an explanatory conversation with Anastasiia Shabotova and announced that RUSADA was investigating whether there was any truth to her comments.

In March 2022, Anastasiia Shabotova liked Evgeni Plushenko's comments on Instagram describing the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as an "unavoidable special operation".

Anastasiia Shabotova's behavior was harshly criticized on social media by her then-Ukrainian national teammates Anastasiia Arkhipova and Taisiya Spesivtseva; Shabotova removed her "like" after it was noticed by Arkhipova and Spesivtseva.

Anastasiia Shabotova's behavior supporting Russia drew attention to her actions during the 2022 Winter Olympics a month prior, where she expressed support for Kamila Valieva amidst Valieva's doping scandal and expressed happiness at personally knowing the new Olympic champion, Anna Shcherbakova, despite the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine asking its athletes to refrain from interacting with the ROC delegation.

Anastasiia Shabotova claimed to the media that her "native language" was Ukrainian and that she was born in Kyiv, despite her official International Skating Union profile showing that she was born in Moscow.

Anastasiia Shabotova began skating in 2009 under Irina Strahova in Moscow at the Moskvich School.

Anastasiia Shabotova had limited domestic success in Russia, with her highest result being 14th at the 2019 Russian Junior Championships.

Anastasiia Shabotova spent the summer training with Rafael Arutyunyan in the United States while keeping Panova as her head coach.

In October 2019, Anastasiia Shabotova made her international debut at Ice Star, winning the junior gold medal over Niina Petrokina of Estonia and former Russian teammate Kamila Sultanmagomedova.

At the 2020 Ukrainian Championships in December, Anastasiia Shabotova won the senior gold medal by over 46 points ahead of Taisiya Spesivtseva and Anastasia Gozhva.

In February, Anastasiia Shabotova again won gold at the 2020 Ukrainian Junior Championships, this time ahead of Dariya Kotenko and Mariia Andriichuk.

Anastasiia Shabotova finished her season at the 2020 World Junior Championships, finishing 20th overall after placing seventeenth in the short program and twentieth in the free skate.

Anastasiia Shabotova instead opened her season by winning gold at the 2020 Budapest Trophy in October.

Anastasiia Shabotova did not compete at the 2021 Ukrainian Junior Championships but defended her senior national title at the 2021 Ukrainian Championships in February.

Anastasiia Shabotova said that after returning to practice, she struggled with the lasting effects of the virus.

Anastasiia Shabotova made her international senior debut at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, tasked with qualifying a berth for a Ukrainian woman at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Anastasiia Shabotova placed fifth in the short program and fourth in the free skate, for fifth place overall and the fifth of six available Olympic spots.

Anastasiia Shabotova was assigned to the 2022 European Championships, but withdrew due to unspecified health problems.

Anastasiia Shabotova placed seventh in the women's short program segment of the Olympic team event, the highest placement for a Ukrainian team member.

Anastasiia Shabotova was assigned to compete at the 2022 World Figure Skating Championships but later withdrew.