# Ivan Shmuratko

Ivan Oleksiyovych Shmuratko (Ukrainian: Іван Олексійович Шмуратко, born December 21, 2001) is a Ukrainian figure skater. He is the 2024 CS Warsaw Cup bronze medalist, 2018 Volvo Open Cup bronze medalist, 2018 Bosphorus Cup silver medalist, and four-time Ukrainian national champion (2019–22). On the junior level, he is the 2019 JGP Italy bronze medalist and silver medalist in the team event at the 2016 Youth Olympics. He has competed in the final segment at five ISU Championships and represented Ukraine at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

## Personal life

Shmuratko was born on December 21, 2001, in Kyiv, Ukraine. He has a younger brother named Ilya.
He is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, and English.

## Career
### Early years

Shmuratko started learning to skate in 2006 at the age of four and a half years old after his parents signed him up for the sport on the advice of his doctors to improve the catarrhal diseases that he suffered from as a child. In the 2014–15 season, he won bronze at the Ukrainian Junior Championships.

### 2015–16 season

Coached by Vira Volpova in Kyiv, Shmuratko won two junior international medals: gold at the Ice Star and silver at the Santa Claus Cup. Competing at the senior level, he finished 4th at the Ukrainian Championships. He was named to Ukraine's team to the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer. There, he placed 14th in men's singles and won a silver medal as part of the team event as a member of Team Future, which also included Diāna Ņikitina of Latvia, Anna Dušková and Martin Bidař of the Czech Republic, and Julia Wagret and Mathieu Couyras of France.

### 2018–19 season

Shmuratko opened his season on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 10th in Lithuania and 7th in Armenia. In November, making his senior international debut, he won bronze at the Volvo Open Cup in Latvia. The following month, he received medals at two senior events – silver at the Bosphorus Cup in Turkey and gold at the Ukrainian Championships. In January, he competed at his first ISU Championship, the 2019 European Championships in Minsk, Belarus. He qualified to the final segment and placed twenty-second overall. He also advanced to the free skate at the 2019 World Junior Championships, which took place in March in Zagreb, Croatia. Ranked thirteenth in the short and seventeenth in the free, he finished sixteenth overall.

### 2019–20 season

Shmuratko started his season on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing seventh in Poland, and winning the bronze in Italy with a personal best score. In October, he competed at the Halloween Cup, winning the silver medal. In December, he won his second straight senior national title. He was named to the 2020 European Figure Skating Championships but withdrew. He placed fifteenth at the 2020 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Shmuratko was assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, Canada, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

### 2020–21 season

With pandemic-related travel restrictions limiting where skaters could compete, Shmuratko began the season at a European-only 2020 Nebelhorn Trophy, where he placed twelfth. After winning his third consecutive Ukrainian national title, Shmuratko competed at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, placing twenty-first. His result qualified a men's berth for Ukraine at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.

### 2021–22 season

On the Challenger series, Shmuratko was fifth at the 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge and seventeenth at the 2021 Warsaw Cup. After winning the Ukrainian national title again, he was named to the Ukrainian Olympic team and placed twelfth at the 2022 European Championships.
Shmuratko tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Beijing and so was unable to participate in the Olympic team event.
He stated that he was asymptomatic and hoped to be cleared to compete in the later men's event. Shmuratko subsequently was allowed to resume competition, placing twenty-second in the short program to qualify to the free skate. He finished twenty-fourth overall.
Returning to Kyiv following the Olympics, Shmuratko soon found himself in the midst of Russia's invasion, with his home city being one of the largest points of conflict. Despite the war and the resultant limitations on his training, Shmurtako still traveled to attend the 2022 World Championships in Montpellier, France, a journey that took three days. He received a standing ovation from the crowd and qualified for the free program, ultimately finishing twenty-third overall. On his decision to attend, he said, "it's important for Ukraine to have athletes who represent it on the international scene."

### 2022–23 season

Following the World Championships, Shmuratko spent April training at Club Olympique de Courbevoie in Paris, on the invitation of Ukrainian emigrant pair skater Denys Strekalin. He subsequently relocated his training base to Oberstdorf, Germany, adding coaches Michael Huth, Robert Dierking, and Anna Bernauer to his team. Beginning the season, he placed seventh and sixth at 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy and 2022 Finlandia Trophy. Before making his senior Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Grand Prix de France, Shmuratko once again relocated back to Courbevoie, France, with Laurent Depouilly and Nathalie Depouilly becoming his coaches. He subsequently finished in eighth place at the Grand Prix de France after placing eighth in both the short program and free skate.
He was forced to sit out the rest of the season due to a foot injury.

### 2023–24 season

Shmuratko opted to return to train in Ukraine, explaining that "it‘s my home." He designed both of his programs to reflect the realities of the ongoing war, and said "it's one of my missions coming out of Ukraine to tell the stories through my art and my voice. It's my way to fight for my country." Shmuratko's short program presented a story of a child killed by a missile and the child's father being forced to live with it, and his free skate presented a continuation of that story.
In his competitive debut for the season, he finished eighth at the 2023 Nepela Memorial. He was invited to appear on the Grand Prix at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo, coming eighth.
At the 2024 European Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, Shmuratko placed nineteenth in the short program, but twelfth in the free skate, moving up to fourteenth-place overall. During his free skate, Shmuratko notably wore a white shirt with a red splotch spattered across his chest to signify blood stains. Following the event, he said, "This is the astral between life and death. No more, and no less. It is incomparably more than words can convey. The element with blood? Because that's how it is, literally. People die from missiles like this, with blood."
Competing at the 2024 World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Shmuratko would finish thirty-third. He would go on to compete at the 2024 Ukrainian Championships one month later and win the silver medal behind Kyrylo Marsak.

### 2024–25 season

Shmuratko began the season by competing on the 2024–25 ISU Challenger Series, finishing fifth at the 2024 CS Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur, seventh at the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy, and taking bronze at the 2024 CS Warsaw Cup.

## Programs

| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
| 2024–2025 | Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel choreo. by Mykhailo Leiba, Ivan Shmuratko White Flowers Take Their Bath by Mari Samuelsen, Meredi, Scoring Berlin, & Jonathan Stockhammer choreo. by Mykhailo Leiba, Ivan Shmuratko | Summer 3 Summer 1 by Antonio Vivaldi performed by Max Richter Get Up Offa That Thing by James Brown choreo. by Mykhailo Leiba, Ivan Shmuratko | |
| 2023–2024 | Melody from The High Pass by Daniel Hope, Alexey Botvinov, and Myroslav Skoryk choreo. by Mykhailo Leiba, Ivan Shmuratko | Walk by Ludovico Einaudi This Place Was A Shelter by Ólafur Arnalds choreo. by Mykhailo Leiba, Ivan Shmuratko, Adam Solya Скрипка Грає (The Violin Plays) by Vasily Zinkevich choreo. by Ivan Shmuratko | |
| 2022–2023 | Біля Тополі (Near the Poplar) by Oleg Shumei choreo. by Alexey Oleynik | Find Me by Forest Blakk On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter This Place Was A Shelter by Ólafur Arnalds choreo. by Adam Solya | Пісня про рушник (Dearest Mother of Mine) performed by Dmytro Hnatyuk |
| 2021–2022 | Une vie d'amour by Charles Aznavour choreo. by Dmitri Dmitrenko | Nuvole bianche by Ludovico Einaudi choreo. by Oleksii Oliinyk | |
| 2020–2021 | Une vie d'amour by Charles Aznavour choreo. by Dmitri Dmitrenko | Cornerstone by Benjamin Clementine choreo. by Dmitri Dmitrenko | |
| 2019–2020 | What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong choreo. by Dmitri Dmitrenko | Cornerstone by Benjamin Clementine choreo. by Dmitri Dmitrenko | |
| 2018–2019 | Domani performed by Andrea Boccelli | Luna performed by Alessandro Safina | |
| 2017–2018 | Domani performed by Andrea Boccelli | Wheel of Fortune (from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest) by Hans Zimmer | |
| 2016–2017 | Buona Sera, 1956 by Louis Prima | Wheel of Fortune (from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest) by Hans Zimmer | |
| 2015–2016 | Remembrances (from Schindler's List) by John Williams | Overture (from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson) by Vladimir Dashkevich | |

## 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
* C – Event was cancelled
Competition placements at senior level :
| Season | 2018–19 | 2019–20 | 2020–21 | 2021–22 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 | 2024–25 |
| Winter Olympics | | | | 24th | | | |
| World Championships | 29th | C | 21st | 23rd | | 33rd | |
| European Championships | 22nd | | | 12th | | 14th | 16th |
| Ukrainian Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | | 2nd | |
| GP Finland | | | | | | 8th | |
| GP France | | | | | 8th | | |
| CS Budapest Trophy | | | 6th | 4th | | | |
| CS Denis Ten Memorial | | | | 5th | | | |
| CS Finlandia Trophy | | | | | 6th | | |
| CS Nebelhorn Trophy | | | 12th | | 7th | | |
| CS Nepela Memorial | | | | | | 8th | |
| CS Tallinn Trophy | | | | | | | 7th |
| CS Trophée Métropole Nice | | | | | | | 5th |
| CS Warsaw Cup | | | | 17th | 12th | | 3rd |
| Bosphorus Cup | 2nd | | | | | | |
| Halloween Cup | | 2nd | | | | | |
| Volvo Open Cup | 3rd | | | | | | |
Competition placements at junior level :
| Season | 2014–15 | 2015–16 | 2016–17 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 |
| World Junior Championships | | | | 28th | 16th | 15th |
| Winter Youth Olympics | | 14th | | | | |
| Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) | | 2nd | | | | |
| Ukrainian Championships (Senior) | | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | | |
| Ukrainian Championships (Junior) | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | | | |
| JGP Armenia | | | | | 7th | |
| JGP Austria | | | | 15th | | |
| JGP Italy | | | | | | 3rd |
| JGP Lithuania | | | | | 10th | |
| JGP Poland | | | | 15th | | 7th |
| Ice Star | | 1st | | | | |
| Santa Claus Cup | | 2nd | | 1st | | |

## Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System :
| Segment | Type | Score | Event |
| Total | TSS | 221.44 | 2019 JGP Italy |
| Short program | TSS | 82.13 | 2022 European Championships |
| Short program | TES | 44.06 | 2022 European Championships |
| Short program | PCS | 38.07 | 2022 European Championships |
| Free skating | TSS | 146.18 | 2019 JGP Italy |
| Free skating | TES | 73.70 | 2019 JGP Italy |
| Free skating | PCS | 75.92 | 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy |

### Senior level

Results in the 2015–16 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Jan 19–21, 2016 | 2016 Ukrainian Championships | 4 | 53.83 | 4 | 90.91 | 4 | 144.74 |
Results in the 2016–17 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Dec 20–23, 2016 | 2017 Ukrainian Championships | 3 | 57.40 | 3 | 117.08 | 3 | 174.48 |
Results in the 2017–18 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Dec 17–20, 2017 | 2018 Ukrainian Championships | 3 | 61.86 | 3 | 120.50 | 3 | 182.36 |
Results in the 2018–19 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Nov 6–11, 2018 | 2018 Volvo Open Cup | 1 | 76.48 | 7 | 122.91 | 3 | 199.39 |
| Nov 27 – Dec 1, 2018 | 2018 Bosphorus Cup | 2 | 73.18 | 3 | 135.47 | 2 | 208.65 |
| Dec 17–20, 2018 | 2019 Ukrainian Championships | 1 | 59.75 | 1 | 126.37 | 1 | 186.12 |
| Jan 21–27, 2019 | 2019 European Championships | 19 | 67.26 | 24 | 111.03 | 22 | 178.29 |
| Mar 18–24, 2019 | 2019 World Championships | 29 | 62.99 | — | — | 29 | 62.99 |
Results in the 2019–20 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Oct 17–19, 2019 | 2019 Halloween Cup | 3 | 73.33 | 2 | 133.52 | 2 | 206.85 |
| Dec 18–21, 2019 | 2020 Ukrainian Championships | 1 | 76.69 | 1 | 145.63 | 1 | 222.42 |
Results in the 2020–21 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Sep 23–26, 2020 | 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 9 | 69.42 | 13 | 109.96 | 12 | 179.38 |
| Oct 14–17, 2020 | 2020 CS Budapest Trophy | 6 | 60.14 | 3 | 140.60 | 6 | 200.74 |
| Feb 22–24, 2021 | 2021 Ukrainian Championships | 1 | 79.17 | 1 | 145.64 | 1 | 224.81 |
| Mar 22–28, 2021 | 2021 World Championships | 22 | 73.98 | 20 | 130.19 | 21 | 204.17 |
Results in the 2021–22 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Oct 14–17, 2021 | 2021 Budapest Trophy | 2 | 73.22 | 4 | 150.07 | 4 | 223.29 |
| Oct 28–31, 2021 | 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge | 4 | 76.94 | 6 | 131.72 | 5 | 208.66 |
| Nov 17–20, 2021 | 2021 CS Warsaw Cup | 20 | 64.27 | 17 | 126.56 | 17 | 190.83 |
| Dec 7–8, 2021 | 2022 Ukrainian Championships | 1 | 82.18 | 1 | 147.07 | 1 | 229.25 |
| Jan 10–16, 2022 | 2022 European Championships | 8 | 82.13 | 15 | 132.44 | 12 | 214.57 |
| Feb 4–20, 2022 | 2022 Winter Olympics | 22 | 78.11 | 24 | 127.65 | 24 | 205.76 |
| Mar 21–27, 2022 | 2022 World Championships | 22 | 73.99 | 23 | 122.66 | 23 | 196.65 |
Results in the 2022–23 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Sep 21–24, 2022 | 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 6 | 69.89 | 8 | 125.01 | 7 | 194.90 |
| Oct 4–9, 2022 | 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy | 5 | 72.18 | 5 | 144.07 | 6 | 216.25 |
| Nov 4–6, 2022 | 2022 Grand Prix de France | 8 | 75.95 | 8 | 144.13 | 8 | 220.08 |
| Nov 17–20, 2022 | 2022 CS Warsaw Cup | 7 | 74.41 | 16 | 125.24 | 12 | 199.65 |
Results in the 2023–24 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Sep 28–30, 2023 | 2023 CS Nepela Memorial | 10 | 72.14 | 6 | 143.54 | 8 | 215.68 |
| Nov 17–19, 2023 | 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo | 10 | 66.30 | 7 | 134.37 | 8 | 200.67 |
| Jan 10–14, 2024 | 2024 European Championships | 19 | 69.95 | 12 | 140.70 | 14 | 210.65 |
| Mar 18–24, 2024 | 2024 World Championships | 33 | 66.90 | — | — | 33 | 66.90 |
Results in the 2024–25 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Oct 16–20, 2024 | 2024 CS Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur | 7 | 74.61 | 5 | 143.58 | 5 | 218.19 |
| Nov 11-17, 2024 | 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy | 3 | 76.57 | 10 | 129.67 | 7 | 206.24 |
| Nov 20–24, 2024 | 2024 CS Warsaw Cup | 3 | 78.28 | 5 | 137.46 | 3 | 215.74 |
| Jan 28 – Feb 2, 2025 | 2025 European Championships | 17 | 71.53 | 17 | 130.36 | 16 | 201.89 |

### Junior level

Results in the 2014–15 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Feb 12–14, 2015 | 2015 Ukrainian Championships (Junior) | 5 | 44.88 | 3 | 91.94 | 3 | 136.82 |
Results in the 2015–16 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Oct 8–10, 2015 | 2015 Ice Star | 1 | 56.98 | 1 | 107.17 | 1 | 164.15 |
| Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2015 | 2015 Santa Claus Cup | 6 | 43.85 | 2 | 97.27 | 2 | 141.12 |
| Jan 19–21, 2016 | 2016 Ukrainian Championships (Junior) | 5 | 44.97 | 4 | 98.56 | 4 | 143.53 |
| Feb 12–21, 2016 | 2016 Winter Youth Olympics | 14 | 42.39 | 14 | 83.39 | 14 | 125.78 |
| Feb 12–21, 2016 | 2016 Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) | — | — | 6 | 89.66 | 2 | — |
Results in the 2016–17 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Dec 20–23, 2016 | 2017 Ukrainian Championships (Junior) | 3 | 52.93 | 3 | 110.77 | 3 | 163.70 |
Results in the 2017–18 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Aug 30 – Sep 2, 2017 | 2017 JGP Austria | 15 | 53.38 | 15 | 99.31 | 15 | 152.69 |
| Oct 4–7, 2017 | 2017 JGP Poland | 11 | 60.30 | 17 | 96.31 | 15 | 156.61 |
| Dec 4–10, 2017 | 2017 Santa Claus Cup | 1 | 60.49 | 2 | 113.34 | 1 | 173.83 |
| Mar 5–11, 2017 | 2018 World Junior Championships | 28 | 54.51 | — | — | 28 | 54.51 |
Results in the 2018–19 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Sep 5–8, 2018 | 2018 JGP Lithuania | 10 | 54.63 | 8 | 103.49 | 10 | 158.12 |
| Oct 10–13, 2018 | 2018 JGP Armenia | 1 | 72.08 | 8 | 108.93 | 7 | 181.01 |
| Mar 4–10, 2019 | 2019 World Junior Championships | 13 | 73.31 | 17 | 118.01 | 16 | 191.32 |
Results in the 2019–20 season :
| Date | Event | SP | SP | FS | FS | Total | Total |
| Date | Event | P | Score | P | Score | P | Score |
| Sep 18–21, 2019 | 2019 JGP Poland | 7 | 70.13 | 7 | 131.77 | 7 | 201.90 |
| Oct 2–5, 2019 | 2019 JGP Italy | 3 | 75.26 | 3 | 146.18 | 3 | 221.44 |
| Mar 2–8, 2020 | 2020 World Junior Championships | 16 | 68.76 | 9 | 128.64 | 15 | 197.40 |