Yulia Lipnitskaya

Yulia Lipnitskaya
Lipnitskaya at the 2014 European Championships
Full name	Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya
Native name	Юлия Вячеславовна Липницкая
Other names	Julia Lipnitskaia
Born	(1998-06-05) 5 June 1998 (age 26) Yekaterinburg, Russia
Hometown	Moscow, Russia
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Russia
Discipline	Women's singles
Began skating	2002
Retired	28 August 2017
Highest WS	3rd (2014 & 2015)
Olympic Games 2014 Sochi Team World Championships 2014 Saitama Singles European Championships 2014 Budapest Singles Grand Prix Final 2013–14 Fukuoka Singles Russian Championships 2012 Saransk Singles 2014 Sochi Singles World Junior Championships 2012 Minsk Singles 2013 Milan Singles Junior Grand Prix Final 2011–12 Quebec City Singles

Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya (also spelled Julia Lipnitskaia; Russian: Юлия Вячеславовна Липницкая, IPA: [ˈjulʲɪjə vʲɪtɕɪˈslavəvnə lʲɪpˈnʲitskəjə]; born 5 June 1998) is a Russian retired competitive figure skater. She was part of the Russian team that won 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 and 2014). As a junior, Lipnitskaya won the 2012 World Junior Championships, 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final, and 2012 Russian Junior Championships. She retired from the sport in 2017 due to injuries and anorexia nervosa.

Lipnitskaya is the youngest Russian athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Within the women's singles category, she is the youngest gold medalist at the European Championships. She is also the second-youngest female figure skater to win a gold medal at the Olympics; Lipnitskaya was 15 years, 249 days old when Russia won the team trophy.