1. Ekaterina Kurakova is a three-time Warsaw Cup champion, the 2019 Mentor Torun Cup champion, a six-time Four Nationals champion, and a seven-time Polish national champion.
37 Facts About Ekaterina Kurakova
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Ekaterina Kurakova began learning to skate in 2006 at the age of four.
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Ekaterina Kurakova was coached first by Natalia Dubinskaya at the Moskvich Olympic Reserve School and later by Inna Goncharenko at CSKA Moscow.
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Ultimately, in the summer of 2017, Ekaterina Kurakova wrote a letter to Marek Kaliszek, the chairman of the Polish Figure Skating Association, requesting that she represent Poland and her request was eventually accepted.
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Ekaterina Kurakova soon began training in Torun, coached by Sylwia Nowak-Trebacka.
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On 1 July 2019, Ekaterina Kurakova received her clearance certificate, allowing her to officially represent Poland in international figure skating competitions and ISU championships.
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Ekaterina Kurakova then competed at two ISU Junior Grand Prix events, placing fifth in Riga and seventh in Gdansk.
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Ekaterina Kurakova finished the season at the 2020 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, where she placed seventh.
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Ekaterina Kurakova temporarily began training in Egna, Italy under Lorenzo Magri while receiving virtual coaching from Orser.
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Ekaterina Kurakova was assigned to compete at the 2020 Skate Canada International, but withdrew on 7 October.
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Ekaterina Kurakova placed thirty-second in the short program after falling on her triple Lutz in her planned opening triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination.
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Ekaterina Kurakova managed to tack on a double toe loop onto a triple loop later in the program, but her reduced technical content was not enough to advance her to the free skate.
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Ekaterina Kurakova began the season at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, where she won the silver medal.
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Ekaterina Kurakova next competed at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, seeking to qualify a berth for Poland at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Ekaterina Kurakova placed sixth in the short program after a combination error, but a second-place free skate saw her rise to the silver medal position, securing the second of six available Olympic spots.
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At her second Grand Prix, the 2021 Rostelecom Cup, Ekaterina Kurakova finished in ninth place.
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Ekaterina Kurakova claimed her fourth consecutive Polish national title in December at the 2022 Four Nationals Championships and was therefore assigned to Poland's berth in the women's event at the 2022 European Championships.
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At Europeans, Ekaterina Kurakova debuted a new short program to Tchaikovsky's "Valse Sentimentale" and skated cleanly in that segment to set a new personal best.
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Ekaterina Kurakova executed another clean program in the free skate to earn personal bests in that segment, as well as overall and recorded a career-best placement at the event with a fifth-place finish.
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Ekaterina Kurakova cited breaking the 200-point mark as the most exciting result for her.
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Ekaterina Kurakova dramatically improved her position in the free skate, ranking twelfth in that segment and rising to twelfth overall.
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Ekaterina Kurakova began the season with a bronze medal at 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy.
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Ekaterina Kurakova then won the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup, her second event title.
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At the beginning of December, Ekaterina Kurakova was named to the Polish team for the 2023 Winter World University Games in Lake Placid.
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Ekaterina Kurakova then finished first overall at the 2023 Four National Championships, earning her fifth consecutive Polish national gold medal.
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Ekaterina Kurakova rose to fourth place in the free skate.
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Additionally, it was announced that Ekaterina Kurakova would receive support from former coach Brian Orser.
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Ekaterina Kurakova planned to train more in Toronto in advance of her lone Grand Prix appearance.
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Ekaterina Kurakova was invited to attend a second Grand Prix, replacing Bradie Tennell at the 2023 Cup of China, where she was seventh again.
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Ekaterina Kurakova claimed her sixth Polish national title with a first-place finish at the 2024 Four National Championships.
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At the 2024 European Championships in Kaunas, Ekaterina Kurakova struggled with her jumps in the short program and finished twenty-fifth in the segment, missing the cut for the free skate by one ordinal.
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Ekaterina Kurakova acknowledged that "it didn't work today, unfortunately," while thanking the crowd for their support.
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Ekaterina Kurakova rose to eleventh after the free skate, a season's best and the highest placement for a Polish skater since Anna Rechnio's sixth in 1999.
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Ekaterina Kurakova started the season by finishing fourth at the 2024 Shanghai Trophy.
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Ekaterina Kurakova subsequently won the bronze medal at the 2025 Four National Championships and placed fourth at the 2025 Sofia Trophy.
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At the 2025 European Championships in late January, Ekaterina Kurakova finished in eight place overall.
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Ekaterina Kurakova said that the incident caused her fear and stress and that she wanted to protect other skaters from similar behavior.