Olga Mikutina
Ukrainian-born figure skater (born 2003)
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Olga Romanivna Mikutina (Ukrainian: Ольга Романівна Мікутіна; born 6 October 2003) is a Ukrainian-Austrian figure skater who competes for Austria. She is a five-time Austrian national champion (2020–21, 2024–26), as well as a two-time Austrian national junior champion (2019–2020). Internationally, she has represented the country at the European and World championships.
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| Native name | Ольга Романівна Мікутіна | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Olga Romanivna Mikutina | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 October 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Feldkirch, Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Austria (since 2016) Ukraine (until 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's singles | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Elena Romanova Rostislav Sinicyn Roman Serov | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | FEV Feldkirch Einslaufverein Montfort | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest WS | 32nd (2021-22) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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She has represented Austria at the 2022 and 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
Personal life
Career
Early career
Mikutina took up skating in 2007 at the age of four. She began her skating career competing for her native Ukraine and, by age twelve, was already a three-time Ukrainian youth national champion.[1] During that time, her parents decided that she needed better training conditions than were available in Ukraine and were advised to seek out coach Elena Romanova in Feldkirch, Austria. She would later remark, "at first, I didn’t realize that we were really moving there. I thought we were just training there for some time." She began competing for Austria at the advanced novice level internationally in 2016. She subsequently became an Austrian citizen in January 2020.[5]
2017–2018 season: Junior debut
At the 2018 Austrian Championships, Mikutina won the junior bronze medal.[6]
2018–2019 season
Mikutina made her ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in August 2019 at the 2018 JGP Austria. She placed thirteenth overall at the event. Later in the season, she improved her JGP record by placing ninth overall at her second assignment, the 2018 JGP Czech Republic. After the Junior Grand Prix, Mikutina competed at several other international competitions, taking gold in the junior divisions of the 2018 installments of the Halloween Cup, Skate Celje, and the Volvo Open Cup.[6]
At the 2019 Austrian Championships in December, Mikutina won her first junior national title and was thus named to the Austrian team for the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. At the event in March, Mikutina ranked twentieth in the short program and qualified for the free skate, where she placed fifteenth, which lifted her to eighteenth overall.
2019–2020 season: Senior international debut
Mikutina started the season at the 2019 JGP Latvia, where she placed seventeenth. Later that month, she placed thirteenth at 2019 JGP Zagreb. At her next event, Mikutina finished fourth at Ice Star 2019, held in Minsk. Afterward, she completed at several international competitions on the senior level, earning the silver medal at Golden Bear, bronze at the Tallinn Trophy, and gold medals at Icelab International Cup, Eiscup Innsbruck and Bosphorus Cup. In December, she won gold on the junior and senior levels at the Austrian championships, becoming the first skater to simultaneously hold Austrian national junior and senior titles.[6]
In January, Mikutina came in fourth place at the EduSport Trophy in Bucharest and was assigned to the 2020 European Championships held in Graz, Austria. She ranked twenty-first in the short program at the event, earning a new personal best of 53.19 points. After the free skate, she finished in twenty-fourth place overall.[7] Mikutina finished her season at the Jégvirág Cup in Hungary, where she won the gold medal at the junior level. She had been assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, which would have been her senior Worlds debut, but those were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[8]
2020–2021 season
Mikutina made her season debut at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, where she placed thirteenth.[9] She was on the preliminary entry list for the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy but withdrew. After winning her second consecutive national title, she competed at the 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup, taking the silver medal behind Eva-Lotta Kiibus.[10][11]
Mikutina made her World debut in Stockholm at the 2021 World Championships in late March. She skated clean in her short program at the event to score a new personal best, topping her previous score by over 14 points and qualified to the free skate in eleventh place.[12] She then placed seventh in the free skate and finished eighth overall.[13] Mikutina's placement in the top ten qualified a place for Austria at the 2022 Winter Olympics, as well as the possibility of a second berth and two placements at the following year's world championships.[14] It was the best result for an Austrian lady since Julia Lautowa's eighth place in 1997.[15]
2021–2022 season: Beijing Olympics
Suffering from right knee inflammation, Mikutina's training was hindered over the summer, and as a result, she withdrew from the 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge and what was to be her first Grand Prix assignment, the 2021 NHK Trophy. She made her Grand Prix debut at the 2021 Rostelecom Cup, where she finished in twelfth place of twelve skaters.[16]
Mikutina failed to defend her national title, taking the silver medal behind Stefanie Pesendorfer, but was still assigned to the Austrian Olympic team and the European Championships, finishing fifteenth at the latter in January.[6] Competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the women's event, Mikutina placed eighteenth in the short program.[17] Fourteenth in the free skate, she rose to fourteenth overall.[18]
Days after the Olympics concluded, Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, as a result of which the International Skating Union banned all Russian and Belarusian skaters from competing at the 2022 World Championships. Mikutina's birthplace of Kharkiv became the site of one of the largest and most destructive battles of the war, which she vocally protested.[19] She placed fourteen at the World Championships.[20]
2022–2023 season
Mikutina continued to train, noting that "when I go on the ice, I can imagine myself in another world," away from worries relating to the war, while her father and grandparents continued to live in eastern Ukraine.[21] She started her season with seventh and ninth placements at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy, respectively. She then went on to win gold at the 2022 Tayside Trophy. At the 2022 Grand Prix de France, Mikutina finished in tenth place after placing tenth in both the short and free programs. She was tenth as well at the 2022 NHK Trophy.[6]
Assigned to Austria's championship berths in the second half of the season, Mikutina came twelfth at the 2023 European Championships and nineteenth at the 2023 World Championships.[6]
2023–2024 season
In October 2023, it was announced that Mikutina had switched training locations from Feldkirch, Austria to Montclair, New Jersey and that Galit Chait, Alexei Bychenko, and Evgeni Krasnopolski had joined her coaching team.[2]
Mikutina made two appearances on the Challenger circuit, coming fifth at the 2023 CS Budapest Trophy and ninth at the 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, and winning gold at the Swiss Open and the Austrian championships.[6] Assigned to the European Championships, she finished in eighth place.[22] She then went on to win the bronze medal at the 2024 Bavarian Open, and came fourteenth at the 2024 World Championships.[6]
2024–2025 season
Mikutina announced her new programs and said that her goal was to qualify for the 2026 Winter Olympics in an interview.[23] She began the season by finishing tenth at the 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. Assigned to compete on the 2024–25 Grand Prix series, she finished ninth at 2024 Skate America and eighth at the 2024 NHK Trophy.[6]
In December, Mikutina won her fourth national title at the 2025 Austrian Championships.[6] She was subsequently assigned to compete at the 2025 European Championships; however, she withdrew before the event due to health problems and was replaced by Flora Marie Schaller.[24]
Two months later, Mikutina went on to compete at the 2025 World Championships, held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. There, she placed seventeenth, which won Austria a quota for women's singles skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics.[25]
2025–2026 season: Milano Cortina Olympics
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Mikutina opened her season in September with a sixth-place finish at the 2025 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. She then went on to win gold at the 2025 Lõunakeskus Trophy and at the 2025 Swiss Open. In November, Mikutina won bronze at the 2025 Ice Challenge and silver at the 2025 Cup of Innsbruck. The following month, she won her fifth national title at the 2025 Austrian Championships[26] Soon after the event, Mikutina was named to the 2026 Winter Olympic team.[27]
In January, she competed at the 2026 European Championships in Sheffield, England, finishing in thirteenth place.[26]
At the 2026 Winter Olympics, Mikutina finished in eighteenth place overall.[28] Her place of education, Monclair State University, hosted a watch party for her classmates and staff to support her.[29] She shared after the Olympics, "I want to continue discovering my potential, developing my abilities, learning new elements and perfecting my skating. I want to truly enjoy the process, feel free on the ice, stay focused in competition and perform with powerful energy."[30]
One month later, she competed at the 2026 World Championships – finishing in seventeenth place overall after placing sixteenth in the short program and seventeenth in the free skate.[31]
Programs
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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| 2025–2026 [32] |
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| 2022–2023 [34] |
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| 2021–2022 [35] |
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| 2020–2021 [36] |
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| 2019–2020 [37] |
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| 2018–2019 [38] |
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Competitive highlights
- GP – Event of the ISU Grand Prix Series
- JGP – Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series
- CS – Event of the ISU Challenger Series
- TBD – Assigned
- WD – Withdrew from competition
- C – Event was cancelled
| Season | 2019–20 | 2020–21 | 2021–22 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 | 2024–25 | 2025–26 |
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| Winter Olympics | 13th | 18th | |||||
| World Championships | C | 8th | 14th | 19th | 14th | 17th | 17th |
| European Championships | 24th | 14th | 12th | 8th | 13th | ||
| Austrian Championships | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | |
| GP France | 10th | ||||||
| GP NHK Trophy | 10th | 8th | |||||
| GP Rostelecom Cup | 12th | ||||||
| GP Skate America | 9th | ||||||
| CS Budapest Trophy | 5th | ||||||
| CS Finlandia Trophy | 9th | ||||||
| CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | 9th | ||||||
| CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 13th | 7th | 10th | 9th | |||
| Bavarian Open | 3rd | ||||||
| Cup of Innsbruck | 2nd | ||||||
| Dragon Trophy | 1st | ||||||
| EduSport Trophy | 4th | ||||||
| Golden Bear of Zagreb | 2nd | ||||||
| Ice Challenge | 3rd | ||||||
| Istanbul Cup | 1st | ||||||
| Lõunakeskus Trophy | 1st | ||||||
| Sofia Trophy | 1st | ||||||
| Swiss Open | 1st | ||||||
| Tallink Hotels Cup | 2nd | ||||||
| Tallinn Trophy | 3rd | ||||||
| Tayside Trophy | 1st |
| Season | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 |
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| World Junior Championships | 18th | ||
| Austrian Championships | 3rd | 1st | 1st |
| JGP Austria | 13th | ||
| JGP Croatia | 13th | ||
| JGP Czech Republic | 9th | ||
| JGP Latvia | 17th | ||
| Bavarian Open | 8th | ||
| Coupe du Printemps | 1st | ||
| Cup of Nice | 10th | ||
| Cup of Tyrol | 6th | ||
| Denkova-Staviski Cup | 2nd | ||
| Egna Spring Trophy | 3rd | ||
| FBMA Trophy | 1st | ||
| Halloween Cup | 1st | ||
| IceLab Cup | 1st | ||
| Ice Star | 4th | ||
| Jégvirág Cup | 1st | ||
| Skate Celje | 1st | ||
| Triglav Trophy | 1st | ||
| Volvo Open Cup | 1st |
Detailed results
| Segment | Type | Score | Event |
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| Total | TSS | 198.77 | 2021 World Championships |
| Short program | TSS | 67.18 | 2021 World Championships |
| TES | 38.58 | 2021 World Championships | |
| PCS | 30.63 | 2022 World Championships | |
| Free skating | TSS | 131.59 | 2021 World Championships |
| TES | 70.34 | 2021 World Championships | |
| PCS | 61.25 | 2021 World Championships |
Senior level
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Oct 24-27, 2019 |  2019 Golden Bear of
Zagreb |
1 | 62.32 | 4 | 110.67 | 2 | 172.99 |
| Nov 11-17, 2019 |  2019 Tallinn Trophy |
4 | 53.40 | 3 | 109.08 | 3 | 162.48 |
| Nov 22-24, 2019 | 2019 Eiscup Innsbruck |
1 | 62.57 | 1 | 122.29 | 1 | 184.86 |
| Nov 25-30, 2019 |  2019 Bosphorus Cup |
2 | 54.83 | 1 | 111.73 | 1 | 166.56 |
| Dec 12-14, 2019 | 2020 Austrian Championships |
2 | 56.67 | 1 | 114.98 | 1 | 171.65 |
| Jan 8-12, 2020 |  2019 EduSport Trophy |
4 | 58.92 | 4 | 101.20 | 4 | 160.12 |
| Jan 20–26, 2020 | 2020 European Championships |
21 | 53.19 | 24 | 76.96 | 24 | 130.15 |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Sep 23–26, 2020 |  2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy |
12 | 44.14 | 15 | 85.26 | 13 | 129.40 |
| Dec 10-12, 2020 | 2021 Austrian Championships |
1 | 55.97 | 1 | 113.13 | 1 | 169.10 |
| Feb 19-21, 2021 | 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup |
2 | 63.19 | 2 | 117.23 | 2 | 180.42 |
| Mar 22–28, 2021 |  2021 World Championships |
11 | 67.18 | 7 | 131.59 | 8 | 198.77 |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Nov 26-28, 2021 |  2021 Rostelecom Cup |
10 | 57.09 | 12 | 104.00 | 12 | 161.09 |
| Dec 9-11, 2021 | 2022 Austrian Championships |
1 | 62.77 | 2 | 111.06 | 2 | 173.83 |
| Jan 10–16, 2022 | 2022 European Championships |
12 | 60.16 | 17 | 103.85 | 15 | 164.01 |
| Feb 8–10, 2022 |  2022 Winter Olympics |
17 | 61.14 | 13 | 121.06 | 13 | 182.20 |
| Mar 21–27, 2022 |  2022 World Championships |
15 | 62.14 | 13 | 120.84 | 14 | 182.98 |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Sep 21–24, 2022 | 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy |
4 | 58.31 | 9 | 97.22 | 7 | 155.53 |
| Oct 5–9, 2022 |  2022 CS Finlandia Trophy |
15 | 52.81 | 7 | 107.62 | 9 | 160.43 |
| Oct 15–16, 2022 |  2022 Tayside Trophy |
2 | 60.07 | 1 | 114.63 | 1 | 174.70 |
| Nov 4–6, 2022 | 2022 Grand Prix de France |
10 | 56.00 | 10 | 103.99 | 10 | 159.99 |
| Nov 18–20, 2022 |  2022 NHK Trophy |
10 | 56.95 | 9 | 116.41 | 10 | 173.36 |
| Jan 25–29, 2023 | 2023 European Championships |
4 | 62.78 | 18 | 96.30 | 12 | 159.08 |
| Mar 22–26, 2023 | 2023 World Championships |
20 | 57.05 | 18 | 115.26 | 19 | 172.31 |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Oct 13–15, 2023 |  2023 CS Budapest Trophy |
6 | 61.48 | 5 | 108.01 | 5 | 169.49 |
| Oct 26-529 2023 |  2023 Swiss Ice Skating Open |
2 | 59.09 | 2 | 91.97 | 1 | 151.05 |
| Dec 6–9, 2023 | 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
3 | 58.08 | 10 | 95.82 | 9 | 153.90 |
| Dec 13-17, 2023 | 2024 Austrian Championships |
2 | 58.62 | 1 | 114.31 | 1 | 172.93 |
| Jan 25–29, 2023 | 2023 European Championships |
5 | 63.71 | 10 | 109.75 | 8 | 173.46 |
| Jan 30 – Feb 4, 2024 | 2024 Bavarian Open |
2 | 57.01 | 2 | 113.52 | 3 | 170.53 |
| Feb 9-11, 2024 |  2024 Dragon Trophy |
1 | 60.14 | 2 | 112.91 | 1 | 173.05 |
| Mar 22–26, 2023 | 2023 World Championships |
16 | 60.77 | 13 | 116.99 | 14 | 177.76 |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Sep 18–21, 2024 | 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy |
9 | 56.47 | 9 | 104.37 | 10 | 160.84 |
| Oct 18–20, 2024 |  2024 Skate America |
9 | 56.81 | 9 | 109.96 | 9 | 166.77 |
| Nov 8–10, 2024 | 2024 NHK Trophy |
8 | 60.94 | 10 | 108.99 | 8 | 169.93 |
| Dec 11-15, 2024 | 2025 Austrian Championships |
1 | 67.88 | 1 | 120.59 | 1 | 188.47 |
| Mar 25–30, 2025 | 2025 World Championships |
17 | 59.63 | 19 | 106.19 | 17 | 165.82 |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Sep 25–27, 2025 | 2025 CS Nebelhorn Trophy |
10 | 53.13 | 9 | 98.78 | 9 | 151.91 |
| Oct 15–19, 2025 | 2025 Lõunakeskus Trophy |
1 | 64.17 | 1 | 106.87 | 1 | 171.04 |
| Nov 5–9, 2025 | 2025 Ice Challenge |
3 | 55.06 | 2 | 114.61 | 3 | 169.67 |
| Nov 13–16, 2025 | 2025 Cup of Innsbruck |
3 | 53.91 | 2 | 111.16 | 2 | 165.07 |
| Dec 10–13, 2025 | 2026 Austrian Championships |
1 | 64.48 | 1 | 123.14 | 1 | 187.62 |
| Jan 13–18, 2026 | 2026 European Championships |
15 | 53.90 | 12 | 112.65 | 13 | 166.55 |
| Feb 17–19, 2026 |  2026 Winter Olympics |
17 | 61.72 | 18 | 123.87 | 18 | 185.59 |
| Mar 24-29, 2026 |  2026 World Championships |
16 | 60.11 | 17 | 109.73 | 17 | 169.84 |
Junior results
| 2019–2020 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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| 15–17 February 2020 | 2020 Jégvirág Cup | 1 55.84 |
1 110.72 |
1 166.56 |
| 12–14 December 2019 | 2020 Austrian Junior Championships | 1 54.06 |
2 97.99 |
1 152.05 |
| 1–3 November 2019 | 2019 Icelab Cup | 1 57.65 |
1 102.68 |
1 160.33 |
| 14–17 October 2019 | 2019 Ice Star | 3 56.57 |
6 94.52 |
4 151.09 |
| 25–28 September 2019 | 2019 JGP Croatia | 13 46.41 |
12 93.70 |
13 140.11 |
| 4–7 September 2019 | 2019 JGP Latvia | 21 42.36 |
13 88.06 |
17 130.42 |
| 2018–2019 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| 28–31 March 2019 | 2019 Egna Spring Trophy | 2 53.52 |
3 93.72 |
3 147.24 |
| 4–10 March 2019 | 2019 World Junior Championships | 20 48.75 |
15 96.59 |
18 145.34 |
| 13–16 December 2018 | 2019 Austrian Junior Championships | 1 53.87 |
1 100.32 |
1 154.19 |
| 22–25 November 2018 | 2018 Skate Celje | 1 55.23 |
2 90.31 |
1 145.54 |
| 6–11 November 2018 | 2018 Volvo Open Cup | 1 54.22 |
1 95.37 |
1 149.59 |
| 19–21 October 2018 | 2018 Halloween Cup | 1 58.94 |
1 108.10 |
1 167.04 |
| 26–29 September 2018 | 2018 JGP Czech Republic | 8 52.37 |
13 90.73 |
9 143.10 |
| 29 August – 1 September 2018 | 2018 JGP Austria | 13 45.01 |
15 74.50 |
13 119.51 |
| 2017–2018 season | ||||
| 4 April 2018 | 2018 Triglav Trophy | 1 57.53 |
1 97.80 |
1 155.53 |
| 13–16 March 2018 | 2018 Coupe du Printemps | 1 57.53 |
1 97.80 |
1 155.33 |
| 26–31 January 2018 | 2018 Bavarian Open | 7 47.94 |
8 88.75 |
8 136.69 |
| 4–7 January 2018 | 2018 FBMA Trophy | 1 45.14 |
1 78.14 |
1 123.28 |
| 13–16 December 2017 | 2018 Austrian Junior Championships | 3 45.79 |
3 85.79 |
3 131.58 |
| 20–25 November 2017 | 2017 Cup of Tyrol | 18 41.28 |
4 88.21 |
6 129.49 |
| 31 October – 4 November 2017 | 2017 Denkova-Staviski Cup | 2 52.09 |
2 91.66 |
2 143.75 |
| 11–15 October 2017 | 2017 Cup of Nice | 7 46.36 |
10 83.57 |
10 129.93 |
