Antonio Laudelino Souza-Kordeiru (russian: Антонио Лауделино Соуза-Кордейру, born 21 March 1993) is a retired Russian

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. Skating with

Lana Petranović Lana Petranović (born 4 January 2000) is a Croatian pair skater. With her skating partner, Antonio Souza-Kordeiru, she has competed in the final segment at four European Championships. Skating career Early years Petranović began learning ...

for

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, he has competed in the final segment at four

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Personal life

Souza-Kordeiru was born on 21 March 1993 in

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, Russia. His mother is Russian and his father is from

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Skating career

Early years

Souza-Kordeiru began learning to skate in 2000. He skated in partnership with Evgenia Kazantseva before teaming up with

Arina Cherniavskaia Arina Maximovna Cherniavskaia (russian: Арина Максимовна Чернявская, born 29 December 1998) is a Russian pair skater. With Antonio Souza-Kordeyru, she won the silver medal at the 2013 ISU Junior Grand Prix in the Czech Re ...

. Representing Russia, Cherniavskaia/Souza-Kordeiru made their international debut in November 2012, taking the junior bronze medal at the

Warsaw Cup The Warsaw Cup is an annual international figure skating competition which is generally held in November in Warsaw, Poland. Its senior categories became part of the ISU Challenger Series in the 2014–15 season. Medals may be awarded in the discipl ...

2013–2014 season

In August 2013, Cherniavskaia/Souza-Kordeiru appeared at their first

ISU 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 ...

(JGP) event. Coached by Arina Ushakova and Andrei Hekalo in Moscow, they placed 5th at the 2013 JGP in

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, Latvia, and then won silver at their next JGP assignment, which took place in October in

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, Czech Republic.

2014–2015 season

Cherniavskaia/Souza-Kordeiru moved up to the senior level, coached by Ushakova. Making their

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debut, the pair placed eighth at the

2014 Cup of China The 2014 Cup of China was the third event of six in the 2014–15 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai on November 7–9. Med ...

in November. Later that month, they competed at the

2014 CS Ice Challenge The 2014 Ice Challenge was a senior international figure skating competition held in November 2014 at the Liebenauer Eishalle in Graz, Austria. It was part of the 2014–15 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's ...

and 2014 CS Warsaw Cup, finishing fourth at both events, but withdrew from their second Grand Prix assignment, the

2014 NHK Trophy The 2014 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2014–15 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Namihaya Dome in Osaka on November 28–30. Medals were awarded in t ...

. They placed eighth at the 2015 Russian Championships.

2015–2016 season

In October, Cherniavskaia/Souza-Kordeiru finished fourth at the

2015 CS Mordovian Ornament The 2015 Mordovian Ornament is a senior international figure skating competition in the 2015–16 season. A part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series, the 1st edition of the annual event were held on 15–18 October 2015 at the Palace of Sports ...

. It was their final international together. The pair did not compete at the 2016 Russian Championships. In 2016, Croatia's

arrived in Moscow in search of a skating partner. She and Souza-Kordeiru teamed up in spring 2016 to compete for Croatia.

2016–2017 season

Making their international debut as a team, Petranović/Souza-Kordeiru placed fourth at the

2016 CS Warsaw Cup The 2016 CS Warsaw Cup was a senior international figure skating competition, held in November 2016 in Warsaw, Poland. It was part of the 2016–17 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, p ...

in November. They finished fifth at the

2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb The 2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb was the 49th edition of the annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Zagreb, Croatia. It was held at the Dom sportova in December 2016 as part of the 2016–17 ISU Challenger Series. M ...

in December; 15th at the 2017 European Championships in January in

, Czech Republic; and 21st at the 2017 World Championships in March in

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, Finland. They were coached by

Yuri Larionov Yuri Yuryevich Larionov (russian: link=no, Юрий Юрьевич Ларионов, born 19 August 1986) is a Russian pair skater. With former partner Vera Bazarova, he is the 2012–13 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a three-time European m ...

in Moscow.

2017–2018 season

Petranović underwent an operation after injuring the

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in her knee and returned to the ice after three months. Due to her injury, the pair was unable to compete in September at the

2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy The 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy was a senior international figure skating competition held in September 2017 in Oberstdorf, Germany. It was part of the 2017–18 ISU Challenger Series. It also served as the final qualification event for the 2018 Wi ...

, which served as the final qualification opportunity for the 2018 Winter Olympics. They returned to competition in January, placing 12th at the

2018 European Championships The 2018 European Championships were the first edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (with Edinburgh hosting the diving events and Gleneagles ...

in Moscow. In March, they placed 21st at the 2018 World Championships in

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, Italy. They were coached by Larionov and Dmitri Savin in Moscow.

2018–2019 season

Coached by Savin in Moscow, Petranović/Souza-Kordeiru placed seventh at their first event of the season, the

2018 CS Lombardia Trophy The 2018 CS Lombardia Trophy was held in September 2018 in Bergamo, Italy. It was part of the 2018–19 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Entries The ...

. They competed at two other Challenger events of the season, the

2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy The 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy was held in September 2018 at the Eissportzentrum Oberstdorf. It is part of the 2018–19 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance ...

and

2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb The 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb was held in December 2018 as part of the 2018–19 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Entries The International Skat ...

, placing eighth and seventh. They finished the season placing eighth at the 2019 European Championships and sixteenth at the 2019 World Championships.

2019–2020 season

Petranović/Souza-Kordeiru placed twelfth at the

2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb The 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb was held in December 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia. It was part of the 2019–20 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance Ice d ...

and fifteenth at the 2020 European Championships. The 2020 World Championships were cancelled as a result of the

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2020–2021 season

Petranović/Souza-Kordeiru placed twenty-first at the

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2021–2022 season

Petranović/Souza-Kordeiru began the season at the

2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy The 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy was held on September 22–25, 2021 in Oberstdorf, Germany. It was part of the 2021–22 ISU Challenger Series. It was also the final qualifying event for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Medals were awarded in the discipli ...

, seeking to qualify a berth at the

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. They placed twelfth, outside of qualification. They went on to finish sixth at the

Budapest Trophy The Budapest Trophy is a senior- and junior-level figure skating competition held in Budapest, Hungary. The inaugural event was part of the 2020–21 ISU Challenger Series. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice d ...

and eleventh at the

2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb The 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb was held on December 7–11, 2021 in Sisak, Croatia. It was part of the 2021–22 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. The non- ...

, and then sixteenth at the

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. In February, he announced his retirement from competitive figure skating.

Programs

With Petranović

With Cherniavskaia

Competitive highlights

''GP:

; 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 Petranović for Croatia

With Cherniavskaia for Russia

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Souza-Kordeiru, Antonio 1993 births Croatian figure skaters Russian male pair skaters Living people Figure skaters from Moscow Russian people of Portuguese descent Croatian people of Russian descent Croatian people of Portuguese descent