Olga Jakušina (born 26 May 1997) is a Latvian

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. A ...

. With Andrey Nevskiy, she is the 2015

Volvo Open Cup The Volvo Open Cup is an annual international figure skating competition held in Riga, Latvia. In some years, the event is part of the ISU Challenger Series. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance ...

silver medalist and 2014

Tallinn Trophy The Tallinn Trophy is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted in Tallinn, Estonia, by the Estonian Skating Union (). It debuted in 2002 as a regional competition before e ...

bronze medalist. They have competed at three

World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

Career

Early years

Jakušina began learning to skate in 2001. Around 2007, she teamed up with Ihar Ahai (also transcribed Igor Ogay) from Belarus. The two placed tenth on the novice level at the 2008 NRW Trophy.

Partnership with Grishin

Around 2011, Jakušina teamed up with Russian-born Aleksandr Grishin (). The duo debuted on the

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 figure skating competition, junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded ...

series in early September 2011. They placed 28th in the short dance at the 2013 World Junior Championships in

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, Italy. The Toruń Cup in January 2014 was their final international competition together. The two were coached by

Alexander Zhulin Alexander (Sasha) Viacheslavovich Zhulin (; born 20 July 1963) is a Russian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With Maya Usova, he is a two-time Olympic medalist ( 1994 silver, 1992 bronze), the 1993 World champion, and the 1993 Europ ...

, Oleg Volkov, and Gennadi Akkerman in Russia.

Partnership with Nevskiy

In 2014, Jakušina teamed up with Russia's Andrey Nevskiy (). They decided to train under Svetlana Alexeeva, Elena Kustarova, and Olga Riabinina in Moscow. After winning bronze at the

in December 2014, they placed 26th at the 2015 European Championships in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

, Sweden, and 29th at the 2015 World Championships in

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

, China. Jakušina/Nevskiy received the silver medal at the

in November 2015. They ranked 22nd at the 2016 European Championships in

Bratislava Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. ...

, Slovakia, and 29th at the 2016 World Championships in

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, United States. The duo placed 23rd at the 2017 European Championships in

Ostrava Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava (river), Opa ...

, Czech Republic, and 29th at the 2017 World Championships in

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

, Finland. Following the 2016–2017 season, Jakušina/Nevskiy decided to be coached by

in Moscow.

Programs

With Nevskiy

With Grishin

Competitive highlights

''CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix''

With Nevskiy

With Grishin

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jakusina, Olga 1997 births Latvian female ice dancers Living people Sportspeople from Jelgava