Ksenia Sinitsyna


Ksenia Alexeyevna Sinitsyna is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2020 Youth Olympic silver medalist, the 2019 JGP Italy champion, the JGP Russia silver medalist, and the 2018 JGP Lithuania bronze medalist.

Personal life

Sinitsyna was born on 5 August 2004 in Tver. She is a high school student.

Career

Early years

Sinitsyna began learning to skate in 2008. She finished 9th at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships.

2018–2019 season

In the 2018–2019 season, she debuted in the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.
In February 2019 at the 2019 Russian Junior Championships, Sinitsyna finished 4th.
A few days later, she was one of the skaters who represented Russia on Sakhalin at the first Children of Asia Games, winning the bronze medal behind You Young and Alena Kanysheva.
In March 2019, she represented Russia at the World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. Ranked 4th in the short and 6th in the free skate, she finished fourth overall.

2019–2020 season

For the 2019-20 season, Sinitsyna was assigned to 2019 JGP USA in Lake Placid, New York. However, she withdrew due to visa issues. She was reassigned to 2019 JGP Russia in Chelyabinsk, Russia, where she won silver medal with a score of 204.25 behind Kamila Valieva. At the 2019 JGP Italy Ksenia placed first in both the short program and the free skate with a new personal best scores and won her first Junior Grand-Prix gold medal. These results qualified her to the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final, where she placed fourth.
At the 2020 Russian Championships, an error in the short program led to her placing fifteenth, but she climbed to fifth place overall with a fourth-place finish in the free skate.
Sinitsyna won the silver medal at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics behind You Young of South Korea and ahead of Russian teammate Anna Frolova.

Programs

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

Junior level