Before the Trophée Éric Bompard, she changed her dress for the short program. [30][31] On 10 February 2014, Lipnitskaya appeared on the cover of Time magazine in the European and Asian editions. After negotiating with the judges and her coach, she was allowed to continue where she left off, but was heavily penalized for the interruption. [11] Lipnitskaya's father, Vyacheslav, was drafted into the Russian army while her mother was pregnant, and he chose not to return to the family afterwards. At the event in Fukuoka, Japan, she placed fourth in the short program, second in the free skate, and won the silver medal behind Mao Asada. 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The former skater then opened her figure-skating school together with former teammate Elena Ilinykh who was among the gold-winning team members at the Sochi Games. She landed a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination, a triple flip and a double Axel and earned level fours on all her spins and her steps sequence. 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She was not selected to compete at the 2015 European Championships, preventing her from defending her title, nor at the 2015 World Championships. [7][10] Lipnitskaya was raised by a single mother, Daniela Leonidovna Lipnitskaya, who gave her own surname to Yulia. All rights reserved. On 8 March, Russian Federation named Lipnitskaya as 1st alternate for the 2016 World Figure Skating Championships anyway. Her remarkable program “The girl in the red coat” which she performed to the theme from Schindler's List movie was named one of the greatest routines ever performed at an Olympic tournaments. [47][48] She now coaches at the Academy Ilinykh-Lipnitskaya alongside Elena Ilinykh. She began her season by winning the gold medal at the 2013 Finlandia Trophy. She began her season by placing second at the Ondrej Nepela Memorial, to teammate Maria Sotskova. [12], Lipnitskaya began training at age four, when her mother convinced the experienced skating coach Elena Levkovets to accept her as a student. She placed fifth at 2015 Skate America during the short program but dropped to seventh after struggles in the free skate, resulting in an overall 6th place. She was fourth on the senior level the following season at the 2011 Russian Championships. Lipnitskaya competed between 11–13 March at 2016 Cup of Tyrol in Insbruck, Austria, in which she won the gold medal, her first win at a competition in two years. The youngest Olympic champion in figure skating history, Yulia Lipnitskaya, has revealed she’s become the mother of a baby girl, sharing a family picture of the happy parents and their daughter following the birth one month ago. On 28 August 2017, Lipnitskaya's mother, Daniela, told TASS that her daughter had decided to retire in April, and had informed the Russian Figure Skating Federation of her decision following a return home from continental Europe, where she underwent three months of medical treatment. The girl left the post in 2015. Lipnitskaya withdrew from Skate America after a recurring injury. Youngest ladies' singles skater to win an Olympic gold medal (skating in the team trophy). [34] Lipnitskaya stated, "I fought and fought but couldn't take it to the end, I had enough physical strength left, but at the end I lost control of my jumps. She lit up everything. READ MORE: ‘I should have announced it myself’: Olympic gold medalist & former child prodigy Yulia Lipnitskaya confirms pregnancy. © Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2020. Lipnitskaya missed the medal ceremony after having left the rink to go to her hotel due to the stress of having a poor freeskate and having been unaware of the time of the ceremony. Read RT Privacy policy to find out more. Lipnitskaya became age-eligible for junior international competition in the 2011–12 season. She is one month old,” Lipnitskaya captioned her picture on Instagram, in which she is holding the baby girl together with her husband Vladislav Tarasenko. Former ice dancer Ilia Averbukh choreographed her programs. The youngest Olympic champion in figure skating history, Yulia Lipnitskaya, has revealed she’s become the mother of a baby girl, sharing a family picture of the happy parents and their daughter following the birth one month ago. [16] After the event, she said: "I liked everything and the performance was ideal. [29] She placed first in both segments to help team Russia win the gold medal. 1 figure skaters (since 2001–02 season), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yulia_Lipnitskaya&oldid=987141570, European Figure Skating Championships medalists, Figure skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics, World Figure Skating Championships medalists, World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists, Articles with short description added by PearBOT 5, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2020, Articles containing Russian-language text, Articles with Russian-language sources (ru), Sports-Reference template missing archive parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Julia Lipnitskaia, Yulia Lipnitskaia, Julia Lipnitskaya. She debuted on the Junior Grand Prix series at the JGP Baltic Cup in Gdańsk, Poland, winning both programs to take the gold medal. They moved to Moscow where Lipnitskaya joined Eteri Tutberidze's group in March 2009. In the short program, Lipnitskaya earned 69.25 points, the highest score she's received since the 2014 Cup of China, and she went into third place behind compatriots Elena Radionova and Anna Pogorilaya who placed second and first respectively. [8] Within the ladies' singles category, she is the youngest gold medalist at the European Championships. Season-end No. Lipnistkaya often takes part in figure-skating shows and exhibition programs. [36] The ISU fined her by deducting part of her prize money. Lipnitskaya competed at the 2016 Russian Cup Final, where she placed 1st in the short program, and 2nd in the freeskate, resulting in a silver medal finish behind compatriot Alena Leonova. For the 2016–17 season, Lipnitskaya was assigned to two ISU Grand Prix events, Skate America and Rostelecom Cup. She made her senior debut at the 2012 Finlandia Trophy where she won the gold medal. [45], Russian coach Tatiana Tarasova commented, "Yulia is a star. [29] Tutberidze said that the Russian media interest was excessive—listening devices were found in the locker room in Moscow and reporters followed both the skater and her relatives. 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, and later took gold at the 2012 Russian Junior Championships. [24] She returned to competition at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships and finished in 5th place. Lipnitskaya is the youngest Russian athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. 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