# Sofya Tyutyunina

Sofya Alexandrovna Tyutyunina (Russian: Софья Александровна Тютюнина; born 13 June 2003) is a Russian ice dancer. With her former skating partner, Alexander Shustitskiy, she is the 2020 Youth Olympic silver medalist and a three-time ISU Junior Grand Prix medalist, including silver at 2019 JGP Croatia. They also won a silver medal in the team event at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

## Personal life

Tyutyunina was born on 13 June 2003 in Moscow. She enjoys reading, drawing, and web design.

## Career
### Early career

Tyutyunina began skating in 2007. She originally trained under Natalia Maryanski.
Tyutyunina teamed up with Alexander Shustitskiy to compete in ice dance in May 2013. At the NRW Trophy, they won basic novice gold in 2013 and silver in 2014. Tyutyunina/Shustitskiy are also the 2015 Volvo Open Cup bronze medalists and the 2016 NRW Trophy silver medalists on the advanced novice level.
Tyutyunina/Shustitskiy qualified to their first Russian Junior Championships in 2018, placing 14th. They did not compete internationally in 2018–19, but competed at the 2019 Russian Junior Championships, placing eighth.

### 2019–20 season

Tyutyunina/Shustitskiy received their first Junior Grand Prix assignments, their first international appearances since a fifth-place finish at the 2017 Santa Claus Cup. At their first event in Latvia, they were fourth after the rhythm dance but placed third in the free dance to move up to third overall, narrowly winning the bronze medal by 0.67 points over Canada's Natalie D'Alessandro / Bruce Waddell. Tyutyunina/Shustitskiy were the silver medalists at their second event, JGP Croatia, nearly 15 points behind champions Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya of Georgia, who had also placed ahead of them in Latvia. Their results qualified them as first alternates to the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final.
In January, Tyutyunina/Shustitskiy represented Russia at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland. They were second in both segments of the competition to win the silver medal behind teammates Irina Khavronina / Dario Cirisano and ahead of Americans Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen. Tyutyunina/Shustiskiy said they enjoyed the atmosphere created by the large crowd, composed primarily of local children, and called it a "very special" experience for them. During the team event, they were second individually behind Utana Yoshida / Shingo Nishiyama to help Team Focus (Yuma Kagiyama of Japan, Kate Wang of the United States, and Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell of the United States) win the silver medal.
At the 2020 Russian Junior Championships in February, Tyutyunina/Shustitskiy were sixth in the rhythm dance and fifth in the free dance to finish fifth overall. As a result of their placement, they were named second alternates for the 2020 World Junior Championships.

### 2020–21 season

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junior Grand Prix, where Tyutyunina/Shustitskiy would have competed, was cancelled. They instead competed in several domestic competitions over the first half of the season. Tyutyunina/Shustitskiy could not compete at the 2021 Russian Junior Championships in February after Tyutyunina fractured her leg in December.

### 2021–22 season

With the resumption of the Junior Grand Prix, Tyutyunina/Shustitskiy competed at 2021 JGP Slovakia in Košice, where they placed third in both segments to win the bronze medal.
Tyutyunina/Shustitskiy ended their partnership at the beginning of May 2022. On 17 May, it was announced that Tyutyunina had teamed up with Andrei Bagin, coached by Alexander Zhulin.

## Programs
### With Grachev

| Season | Rhythm dance | Free dance |
| 2023-2024 | I Want to Break Free by Queen Material Girl by Madonna | My Love The Devil You Know 50 Shades of Black by Sharon Kovacs |
| 2022–2023 | River by Ibeyi | Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff |

### With Shustitskiy

| Season | Rhythm dance | Free dance |
| 2021–2022 | Blues: Do I Wanna Know? by Arctic Monkeys Losing Your Mind (from The Get Down) by Raury & Jaden Smith choreo. by Sergei Plishkin, Ekaterina Vinogradova | Babe I'm Gonna Leave You by Anne Bredon performed by Led Zeppelin choreo. by Sergei Plishkin, Ekaterina Vinogradova |
| 2019–2020 | Foxtrot: City of Stars Quickstep: Another Day of Sun (from La La Land) by Justin Hurwitz choreo. by Sergin Plishkin, Ekaterina Vinogradova | Turning Page (from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1) by Sleeping at Last choreo. by Sergin Plishkin, Ekaterina Vinogradova |
| 2018–2019 | Tango Gosselin by Quadro Nuevo choreo. by Sergin Plishkin, Ekaterina Vinogradova | Time of the Season She's Not There by The Zombies choreo. by Sergin Plishkin, Ekaterina Vinogradova |

## Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

### With Grachev

National :
| Event | 23–24 | 24–25 |
| Russian Champ. | 7th | WD |

### With Bagin

National :
| Event | 2022–23 |
| Russian Champ. | 4th |
| Russian Cup Final | 3rd |
| GPR Moscow Stars | 2nd |
| GPR Perm Territory | 1st |

### With Shustitskiy

International: Junior :
| Event | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 |
| Youth Olympics | | | | | 2nd | | |
| JGP Final | | | | | | | C |
| JGP Austria | | | | | | | 1st |
| JGP Croatia | | | | | 2nd | | |
| JGP Latvia | | | | | 3rd | | |
| JGP Slovakia | | | | | | | 3rd |
| Santa Claus Cup | | | 5th | | | | |
| International: Advanced novice |||||||||||
| NRW Trophy | | 2nd | | | | | |
| Volvo Open Cup | 3rd | | | | | | |
| National |||||||||||
| Russian Junior | | | 14th | 8th | 5th | WD | 3rd |
| Team events |||||||||||
| Youth Olympics | | | | | 2nd T 2nd P | | |
| WD = Withdrew T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only. |||||||||||

## Detailed results

ISU Personal Bests highlighted in bold.

### With Shustitskiy
#### Junior results

2021–22 season :
| Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
| 18–22 January 2022 | 2022 Russian Junior Championships | 2 72.81 | 4 105.31 | 3 178.12 |
| 6–9 October 2021 | 2021 JGP Austria | 1 67.00 | 1 95.28 | 1 162.28 |
| 1–4 September 2021 | 2021 JGP Slovakia | 3 63.10 | 3 92.88 | 3 155.98 |
| 2019–20 season |||||
| Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
| 4–8 February 2020 | 2020 Russian Junior Championships | 6 63.91 | 5 102.50 | 5 166.41 |
| 10–15 January 2020 | 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team | – | 2 96.39 | 2T/2P |
| 10–15 January 2020 | 2020 Winter Youth Olympics | 2 62.64 | 2 96.51 | 2 159.15 |
| 25–28 September 2019 | 2019 JGP Croatia | 2 64.34 | 3 90.05 | 2 154.39 |
| 4–7 September 2019 | 2019 JGP Latvia | 4 60.82 | 3 91.97 | 3 152.79 |
| 2018–19 season |||||
| Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
| 31 Jan. – 4 Feb. 2019 | 2019 Russian Junior Championships | 10 59.83 | 8 94.86 | 8 154.69 |
| 2017–18 season |||||
| Date | Event | SD | FD | Total |
| 23–26 January 2018 | 2018 Russian Junior Championships | 8 56.88 | 15 67.42 | 14 124.30 |
| 4–10 December 2017 | 2017 Santa Claus Cup | 5 50.63 | 6 70.83 | 5 121.46 |