1. Ivan Oleksiyovych Shmuratko is a Ukrainian figure skater.
20 Facts About Ivan Shmuratko
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Ivan Shmuratko 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.
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Ivan Shmuratko has competed in the final segment at five ISU Championships and represented Ukraine at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Ivan 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.
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Ivan Shmuratko was named to Ukraine's team to the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer.
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Ivan Shmuratko opened his season on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 10th in Lithuania and 7th in Armenia.
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Ivan 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.
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Ivan Shmuratko was named to the 2020 European Figure Skating Championships but withdrew.
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Ivan Shmuratko placed fifteenth at the 2020 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.
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Ivan Shmuratko was assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, Canada, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ivan Shmuratko tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Beijing and so was unable to participate in the Olympic team event.
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Ivan Shmuratko stated that he was asymptomatic and hoped to be cleared to compete in the later men's event.
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Ivan Shmuratko subsequently was allowed to resume competition, placing twenty-second in the short program to qualify to the free skate.
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Ivan Shmuratko received a standing ovation from the crowd and qualified for the free program, ultimately finishing twenty-third overall.
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Ivan Shmuratko subsequently relocated his training base to Oberstdorf, Germany, adding coaches Michael Huth, Robert Dierking, and Anna Bernauer to his team.
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Ivan Shmuratko subsequently finished in eighth place at the Grand Prix de France after placing eighth in both the short program and free skate.
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Ivan Shmuratko was forced to sit out the rest of the season due to a foot injury.
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Ivan Shmuratko was invited to appear on the Grand Prix at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo, coming eighth.
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At the 2024 European Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, Ivan Shmuratko placed nineteenth in the short program, but twelfth in the free skate, moving up to fourteenth-place overall.
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Ivan Shmuratko would go on to compete at the 2024 Ukrainian Championships one month later and win the silver medal behind Kyrylo Marsak.