Anna Sviatoslavovna Yanovskaya (russian: Анна Святославовна Яновская; born 23 November 1996) is a Russian
ice dancer
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...
. Competing for
Hungary
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with
Ádám Lukács
Ádám Lukács (born 25 June 1996) is a Hungarian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Anna Yanovskaya, he is a three-time Hungarian national champion (2018–19, 2021) and has competed in the final segment at three ISU Championships. With his ...
, she is a three-time
Hungarian national champion (2018–19, 2021) and has competed in the final segment at three
ISU Championships.
With her former skating partner,
Sergey Mozgov
Sergey Alexandrovich Mozgov (russian: Серге́й Александрович Мозгов; born 10 March 1995) is a Russian retired competitive ice dancer. With former partner Betina Popova, he is the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup champion. With former ...
, she is the
2015 World Junior champion, two-time (2013, 2014)
JGP Final champion, the
2012 Youth Olympics champion, the
2014 World Junior silver medalist, and the
2015 Russian junior national champion.
Early career
Yanovskaya began skating at age four, having become interested after watching it on television.
[ Early in her career, she competed with Filipp Dolzhansky. She teamed up with Egor Kosheev in 2008 and skated with him until the end of the 2010–11 season. Their partnership ended when she grew too tall for him.][
]
Partnership with Mozgov
Yanovskaya teamed up with Sergey Mozgov
Sergey Alexandrovich Mozgov (russian: Серге́й Александрович Мозгов; born 10 March 1995) is a Russian retired competitive ice dancer. With former partner Betina Popova, he is the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup champion. With former ...
in 2011. They were coached mainly by Svetlana Alexeeva at the Medvedkovo rink in Moscow.[
]
2011–12 season: First season together
Yanovskaya/Mozgov won the bronze medal at their first Junior Grand Prix
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event, in Gdańsk
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, Poland, and then gold in Tallinn
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, Estonia. Their placements qualified them for the Junior Grand Prix Final
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, where they placed second in the short dance, third in the free, and took the silver medal ahead of Alexandra Stepanova
Alexandra Nikolayevna Stepanova (russian: Александра Николаевна Степанова; born 19 August 1995) is a Russian ice dancer. With her skating partner, Ivan Bukin, she is a four-time European medalist (silver in 2019, br ...
/ Ivan Bukin
Ivan Andreyevich Bukin (russian: Иван Андреевич Букин; born 16 September 1993) is a Russian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Alexandra Stepanova, he is a four-time European medalist (silver in 2019, bronze in 2015, 2018 a ...
. After winning the gold medal at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
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, they placed fourth at the 2012 Russian Junior Championships. At the 2012 World Junior Championships, they were third in the short dance. During the free dance the referee stopped their music because Mozgov's left bootstrap had come loose.[ Yanovskaya/Mozgov finished fourth overall behind American ice dancers ]Alexandra Aldridge
Alexandra Aldridge (born May 7, 1994) is an American ice dancer. With former partner Daniel Eaton, she is the 2014 Four Continents bronze medalist, a two-time (2012, 2013) World Junior bronze medalist, the 2012 JGP Final bronze medalist, and ...
/ Daniel Eaton who moved up the rankings and took the bronze medal.
2012–13 season
In 2012–13, Yanovskaya/Mozgov won a pair of silver medals at JGP events in Austria and Slovenia and qualified for the JGP Final in Sochi
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, Russia, where they finished fourth. They won the bronze medal at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships.
2013–14 season: First JGP Final title
In 2013–14, Yanovskaya/Mozgov began their season by taking gold at the 2013 JGP Slovakia in Košice
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. They won another gold at the 2013 JGP Estonia, qualifying them for their third JGP Final in Fukuoka
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, Japan
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. Setting personal bests, Yanovskaya/Mozgov placed first in both segments at the final and won the gold medal ahead of Kaitlin Hawayek
Kaitlin Hawayek (born November 4, 1996) is an American ice dancer. With her skating partner, Jean-Luc Baker, she is the 2018 Four Continents champion, the 2018 NHK Trophy champion, and a four-time U.S. national bronze medalist (2019–22).
...
/ Jean-Luc Baker. After placing second to Stepanova/ Bukin at the 2014 Russian Junior Championships, they took the silver medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia
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, finishing second to Hawayek/Baker.[
]
2014–15 season: World Junior title
Yanovskaya/Mozgov decided to remain in the junior ranks in the 2014–15 season.[ In addition to Moscow, they also trained in ]Liepāja
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in the summer.[ Mozgov recovered from a knee injury early in the season. In the 2014–15 JGP series, the duo won gold medals in Estonia and Croatia, earning qualification to their fourth JGP Final. At the ]event
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, held in December in Barcelona
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, they outscored Alla Loboda
Alla Andreyevna Loboda (russian: Алла Андреевна Лобода; born 10 December 1998) is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. With her former skating partner Pavel Drozd, she is a two-time World Junior medalist (silver in 2017, br ...
/ Pavel Drozd
Pavel Igorevich Drozd (russian: Павел Игоревич Дрозд; born 14 December 1995) is a Russian ice dancer who currently competes with Elizaveta Shanaeva. With his former skating partner, Alla Loboda, he is a two-time World Junior med ...
for the gold and stood atop the podium for the second consecutive year. In March, they competed at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Tallinn
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, Estonia. Ranked first in both segments, they were awarded the gold medal ahead of Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter.
2015–16 season: Senior debut and split
Although still age-eligible for junior events in the 2015–16 season, the duo decided to move up to the senior ranks.[ Yanovskaya injured her back and chin due to a fall on a lift during the summer but recovered "fully and quickly".][ Debuting on the ]Grand Prix
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, Yanovskaya/Mozgov placed sixth at the 2015 Skate America
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and 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard. In December, they finished sixth at the 2016 Russian Championships in Yekaterinburg
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.
Mozgov ended the partnership on 4 April 2016.[ In May 2016, Yanovskaya said that she was searching for a new partner.][
]
Later partnerships
On 16 June 2016, Irina Zhuk reported that Yanovskaya had formed a partnership with Ivan Gurianov, with the duo to be coached by Zhuk.[ They never competed together.
In December 2016, Yanovskaya teamed up with ]Ádám Lukács
Ádám Lukács (born 25 June 1996) is a Hungarian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Anna Yanovskaya, he is a three-time Hungarian national champion (2018–19, 2021) and has competed in the final segment at three ISU Championships. With his ...
to compete for Hungary.[ Making their competitive debut, the duo placed 12th at the ]Bavarian Open
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in February 2017.
Programs
With Lukacs
With Mozgov
Competitive highlights
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; CS Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...
''
With Lukács for Hungary
With Mozgov for Russia
With Kosheev for Russia
Detailed results
''Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. At team events, medals awarded for team results only.''
With Mozgov
References
External links
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Russian female ice dancers
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
1996 births
Living people
Figure skaters from Moscow
Figure skaters at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
Youth Olympic gold medalists for Russia
20th-century Russian women
21st-century Russian women