1. Yulia Lipnitskaya was part of the Russian team that won the 2014 Winter Olympics team trophy.
55 Facts About Yulia Lipnitskaya
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Yulia Lipnitskaya retired from the sport in 2017 due to injuries and anorexia nervosa.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya is the youngest Russian athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya is the second-youngest female figure skater to win a gold medal at the Olympics; Lipnitskaya was 15 years, 249 days old when Russia won the team trophy.
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Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya was born on 5 June 1998, in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
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Daniela Leonidovna Lipnitskaya, a single mother, raised Yulia and gave her daughter her surname.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya began figure skating at age four when her mother took her to train under coach Elena Levkovets.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya trained in rhythmic gymnastics to improve her flexibility.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya skated in Yekaterinburg at DYUSSH Lokomotiv until 2009, when she and her mother began to discuss her future, concluding that they should relocate for her skating career.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya was fourth on the senior level the following season at the 2011 Russian Championships.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya competed at the 2011 Russian Junior Championships but withdrew from the competition after the short program.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya debuted on the Junior Grand Prix series at the Baltic Cup in Gdansk, Poland, winning both programs to take the gold medal.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya then won her second assignment in Milan, Italy, to qualify for the Junior Grand Prix Final.
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At the Junior Grand Prix Final in Quebec, Yulia Lipnitskaya placed first in both segments to win the gold medal.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya won silver on the senior level at the 2012 Russian Championships, having placed third in the short program and first in the free skate.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya later took gold at the 2012 Russian Junior Championships.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya became age-eligible for some senior events but not the World or European Championships.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya made her senior debut at the 2012 Finlandia Trophy where she won the gold medal.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya placed first in the short program and third in the free skate and won the bronze medal.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya returned to competition at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships and finished in fifth place.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya then competed at the 2013 World Junior Championships where she won the silver medal with teammates Elena Radionova and Anna Pogorilaya taking the gold and bronze medals respectively.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya chose Mark Minkov's You Don't Give Up On Love for her short program.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya began her season by winning the gold medal at the 2013 Finlandia Trophy.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya placed second in the short program and first in the free skate, winning gold with 198.23 points.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya won the silver medal behind Adelina Sotnikova at the 2014 Russian Championships, after placing second in the short and first in the free.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya was selected for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya placed first in both segments to help team Russia win the gold medal.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya became the youngest Olympic gold medalist in figure skating under modern rules, being six days younger than American Tara Lipinski when she won the 1998 Winter Olympics at 15 in Nagano, Japan.
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The only skater younger than Yulia Lipnitskaya to have won gold is Maxi Herber who won Olympic pair skating gold at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
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On 10 February 2014, Yulia Lipnitskaya appeared on the cover of Time magazine in the European and Asian editions.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya placed third in the short program and second in the free skate earning 132.96 points, and won the silver medal.
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At the Cup of China, Yulia Lipnitskaya was first after the short program.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya missed the medal ceremony because she left the rink to go to her hotel due to the stress of having a poor free skate, and she was unaware of the time of the ceremony.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya had received a call from the event organizers, informing her of the ceremony and hurried back to the rink, but it had been too late to attend.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya won the silver medal at the Trophee Bompard behind compatriot Elena Radionova after placing second in both segments.
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At the 2015 Russian Championships, Yulia Lipnitskaya placed sixth in the short program and eleventh in the free skate, which resulted in ninth place overall.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya was not selected to compete at the 2015 European Championships, preventing her from defending her title, nor at the 2015 World Championships.
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On 13 January 2015, after a meeting with FFKKR officials, Yulia Lipnitskaya stated that this season was over for her and that she would recover and train for the next season.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya said that she intended to stay with her then-coaches.
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In May 2015, Yulia Lipnitskaya started working with a new choreographer, Marina Zueva, in Chicago to prepare her programs for the season.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya began her season with a second-place finish at the 2015 Finlandia Trophy.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya placed fifth at the 2015 Skate America during the short program but dropped to seventh after struggles in the free skate, resulting in an overall sixth place finish.
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On 18 November 2015, Yulia Lipnitskaya announced that she left her longtime coaches, Eteri Tutberidze and Sergei Dudakov, to move to train under 1994 Olympic champion, Alexei Urmanov, in Sochi.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya competed at the 2016 Cup of Tyrol in Innsbruck, Austria, despite her doctors recommending rest due to a hip injury.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya won the gold medal, her first win at a competition in two years.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya began the season at the Ondrej Nepela Memorial held in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya won the short program but then placed fifth in the free skate.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya won the silver medal overall behind teammate Maria Sotskova.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya withdrew from the Skate America after a recurring injury.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya still opted to compete at her second Grand Prix assignment, the 2016 Rostelecom Cup.
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In December 2020, Yulia Lipnitskaya joined the coaching staff of Evgeni Plushenko's skating academy.
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In June 2020, Yulia Lipnitskaya confirmed that she was expecting her first child with her partner at the time Vladislav Tarasenko.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya's daughter, Katalina, was born on 27 June 2020.
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In June 2024 Yulia Lipnitskaya married Dmitri Mikhailov, a Russian figure skating coach and choreographer.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya formerly held the junior world records in the free skate and combined total.