Team Unique

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Team Unique is a senior-level synchronized skating team from Helsinki, Finland, and is one of the best synchronized skating teams in senior level. It is 2013 world champion, silver medalist in 2009 and 2025 and bronze medalist in 2023. As of March 2026, the team is ranked first in the International Skating Union world standings. In spring 2026 the team also won the ISU Challenger Series, the title it has previously secured in 2020. That year the team was also selected to represent Finland in the World Championships, but due to the Covid19, the event was called off.

Country represented Finland
Formed1993
Home townHelsinki, Finland
CoachMirjami Penttinen
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Team Unique
Team Unique - free program at the 2025 World Championships in Helsinki (Photo: Santtu Jaakkola)
Team information
Country represented Finland
Formed1993
Home townHelsinki, Finland
CoachMirjami Penttinen
Skating clubHelsingfors Skridskoklubb
LevelSenior
World standing2
ISU team best scores
Combined total237.44
2026 Britannia Cup
Short program83.22
2026 Hevelius Cup
Free skate164,60
2020 Spring Cup
Medal record
Representing  Finland
Synchronized skating
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2013 BostonSynchronized skating
Silver medal – second place2009 ZagrebSynchronized skating
Silver medal – second place2025 HelsinkiSynchronized skating
Bronze medal – third place2023 Lake PlacidSynchronized skating
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Team Unique has won the Finnish champion titles in 2013, 2016, 2023 and 2025, and in 2026 the team won season‑long SynchroTour in Finland.

The team represents the figure skating club Helsingfors Skridskoklubb (HSK). It is also the home club to the junior team Team Mystique.

History

Team Unique was established in 1993 and has competed at the senior level since 1996.

Programs

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Short program Free program
2025–26
  • Nothing Compares TU
  • Piaf
2024–25
  • This Is Unique
  • He Had It Coming
2023–24
  • Let It Be
  • Lacrime d’Amore
2022–23
  • It ain’t over
  • Unbearable Lightness of Being
2021–22
  • Merci
  • A star is born
2020–21
  • NOW.
  • Garden of Eden
2019–20
2018–19
  • Muzic makez me...[4]
2017–18
  • NocTUrne
  • Every Inch of You
2016–17
  • TU Goes Ramalama
  • Inside of us
2015–16
  • Peace of Mind
  • Empty Promises
2014–15
  • Free Your Mind
  • The Hunger Games
2013–14
  • Great Balls of Fire
  • Wild and Free
2012–13
  • TU Flow
  • "Living Proof"
    The Help (soundtrack)
2011–12
  • Hallelujah
  • Revenge
2010–11
  • All That Jazz
  • Phantom of the Opera
2009–10
  • Fortune-Tellers
  • La Strada
2008–09
  • W.O.M.A.N.
  • Story of Turandot
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Competition results (2020–25)

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National
Event 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26 2026–27] 2027–28] 2028–29] 2029–30]
1st Finnish Championships
Qualifier		 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 1st
2nd Finnish Championships
Qualifier		 2nd 2nd 3rd 1st 1st 1st
Finnish Championships (not held) 4th 1st 3rd 1st 2nd
Synchro Tour Finland 2nd 1st
International
Event 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26 2026–27 2027–28 2028–29 2029–30
World Championships (not held) DNQ 3rd 4th 2nd
Britannia Cup 1st
Budapest Cup 4th
Finlandia Trophy 3rd 4th 3rd 3rd
French Cup 2nd 3rd
Hevelius Cup 1st
Lumière Cup 1st
Marie Lundmark Trophy 2nd
Neuchâtel Trophy 3rd
Santa Claus Cup 1st 1st
Spring Cup 2nd
U.S. Synchronized Skating International Classic 2nd
DNQ = did not qualify
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Competition results (2010–20)

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National
Event 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
1st Finnish Championships
Qualifier		 3rd 2nd 3rd 2nd 3rd 3rd 2nd 3rd 3rd 1st
[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
2nd Finnish Championships
Qualifier		 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd
[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
Finnish Championships 3rd 3rd 1st 3rd 3rd 1st 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd
[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]
International
Event 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
World Championships DNQ DNQ 1st DNQ DNQ 4th DNQ 4th DNQ (not held)
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Cup of Berlin 1st 2nd
[25] [26]
Finlandia Trophy 1st 1st 3rd 4th 3rd 4th 3rd 3rd
[27] [28] [29] [30]
French Cup 1st 1st 1st 1st 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 4th
[31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36]
New England Challenge Cup 1st
Leon Lurje Trophy 1st 2nd
[37]
Mozart Cup 4th 4th
[38]
Neuchâtel Trophy 3rd 2nd
[39]
Hevelius Cup 1st
Spring Cup 1st
Winter Universiade 1st
DNQ = did not qualify
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Competition results (1998–2010)

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National
Event 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10
1st Finnish Championships
Qualifier		 2nd 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st 3rd
[40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46]
2nd Finnish Championships
Qualifier		 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st 3rd 2nd 3rd
[47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52]
Finnish Championships 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 3rd 2nd 3rd
[53] [53] [54] [53] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62]
International
Event 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10
World Championships (not held) DNQ DNQ 6th 4th DNQ DNQ DNQ 5th DNQ 2nd DNQ
[63] [64] [65] [66]
Cup of Berlin 3rd
[67]
Finlandia Cup 4th 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd
[68] [69] [70] [71]
French Cup 4th 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 1st 2nd
[72] [73] [73] [73] [73] [73] [73] [73] [73] [74]
Prague Cup 2nd 2nd 2nd
[75] [76]
DNQ = did not qualify
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Media appearances

Team Unique performed on the season one of the Finnish Dancing on Ice on 2 November 2013.[77] They also appeared as background skaters in the December 2013 music video for "Selvästi päihtynyt" by Finnish pop singer Jenni Vartiainen.[78]

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