Yulia Lipnitskaya

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yulia Lipnitskaya
Occupation	Figure Skater
Date Of Birth	Jun 5, 1998(1998-06-05)
Age	26
Birthplace	Yekaterinburg
Country	Russia
Birth City	Sverdlovsk Oblast
Horoscope	Gemini

Yulia Lipnitskaya Biography

Yulia Lipnitskaya is one of the most popular and richest Figure Skater who was born on June 5, 1998 in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Russian figure skater, who competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. She became one of the youngest Olympic gold medalists.

Both she and She and Tatiana Volosozhar were both part of the Russian figure skating team that took home gold at the 2014 Olympics. were part of the Russian figure-skating team that won gold at the 2014 Olympics.

Lipnitskaya is the youngest Russian athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Within the ladies’ singles category, she is the youngest gold medalist at the European Championships. She is also the youngest women figure skater to win a gold medal at the Olympics under modern rules. Lipnitskaya was 15 years, 249 days old when Russia won the team trophy, six days younger than American Tara Lipinski, who won the gold medal in the individual event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya (alt. spelling: Julia Lipnitskaia; Russian: Ю́лия Вячесла́вовна Липни́цкая , Russian: [ˈjulʲɪjə vʲɪtɕɪˈsɫavəvnə lʲipˈnitskəjə] ; born 5 June 1998) is a Russian former competitive figure skater. She was part of the Russian team to win the 2014 Winter Olympics team trophy. Individually, Lipnitskaya is the 2014 World silver medalist, the 2014 European champion, the 2013–14 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and a two- time Russian national silver medalist (2012 & 2014). Competing as a junior, Lipnitskaya won the 2012 World Junior Championships, 2011–12 JGP Final, and 2012 Russian Junior Championships. She retired from the professional sport on 9 September 2017 due to complications with ligaments of the legs and hip joints, as well as anorexia.

She lived in Yekaterinburg, Russia for the first ten of her ten years. Her mother Daniela Lipnitskaya raised her.

Yulia Lipnitskaya Net Worth

Yulia Lipnitskaya is one of the richest Figure Skater from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yulia Lipnitskaya 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At the age of four, she began ice skating lessons. She competed in the Russian Junior Championships 2010 and 2011.

She was the youngest woman singles champion at the 2014 European Figure Skating Championships, Budapest.

Yulia Lipnitskaya was born on 5 June 1998 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Lipnitskaya was raised by a single mother, Daniela Leonidovna Lipnitskaya, who gave her own surname to Yulia. 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. Lipnitskaya’s grandmother, Evgenia Koklova, engaged in acrobatics, skating, and sailing in her youth.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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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. At the 2012 World Junior Championships, she won gold while achieving the junior-level ladies’ record for the combined total (187.05 points) and the free skate (broken in 2014 by Elena Radionova). After the event, she said: “I liked everything and the performance was ideal. Now I am in a great mood. It was a great ending for a great season”. She had no falls on the ice in all her competitions throughout the entire 2011–12 season.

Facts & Trivia

Yulia Ranked on the list of most popular Figure Skater. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Yulia Lipnitskaya celebrates birthday on June 5 of every year.

In the 2013–14 season, Lipnitskaya became age-eligible for all senior ISU events. She began her season by winning the gold medal at the 2013 Finlandia Trophy. Her first 2013–14 Grand Prix event was the 2013 Skate Canada International. She placed second in the short program and first in the free skate, winning gold with 198.23 points in total. She won another gold medal at the 2013 Rostelecom Cup with a new personal best SP score of 72.24 points. The results qualified her to the Grand Prix Final. 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. She is Russia’s youngest medalist at the Final since Irina Slutskaya.

What happened to Yulia Lipnitskaya at Sochi?

She retired from the professional sport on 9 September 2017 due to complications with ligaments of the legs and hip joints, as well as anorexia. Lipnitskaya is the youngest Russian athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.

What happened to Evgenia Medvedeva?

Meanwhile, Medvedeva sustained a back injury sometime in 2020. She announced she would skip the 2021-2022 season this past August and effectively retired from the sport due to chronic pain earlier this December.

How old is Yulia Lipnitskaya?

24 years (June 5, 1998)

Who is the youngest gold medalist in the Olympics winter?

On 9 February 2014, Russian Yulia Lipnitskaya (15 years, 249 days old, born 5 June 1998) won gold in the team event at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, and was six days younger than Tara Lipinski but not younger than Kim Yun-Mi who is still the youngest-ever gold medalist.

Why do Russian skaters retire early?

Over the past few years, the young Russians have brought the quad jump to women’s figure skating, a huge technical leap forward for the sport but one that is not without significant downsides, including serious injuries that have forced skaters into early retirement.