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Maksym Nikitin

Maksym Nikitin
Oleksandra Nazarova and Maxim Nikitin at the 2017 Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships.jpg
Nazarova and Nikitin at the 2017 Ukrainian Championships
Personal information
Native name Максим Костянтинович Нікітін
Full name Maksym Kostiantynovych Nikitin
Alternative names Maxim Nikitin
Country represented Ukraine
Born (1994-10-05) 5 October 1994 (age 22)
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Home town Kharkiv
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Partner Oleksandra Nazarova
Coach Igor Shpilband, Fabian Bourzat
Former coach Alexander Zhulin, Oleg Volkov, Halyna Churilova, Mariana Kozlova
Choreographer Greg Zuerlein, Adrienne Lenda
Former choreographer Sergei Petukhov, Larysa Fiodorova, Halyna Churilova, Mariana Kozlova
Skating club Kolos Kharkiv
Training locations Novi, Michigan, United States
Former training locations Kharkiv, Ukraine
Moscow, Russia
Began skating 1998
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 155.35
2017 Worlds
Short dance 63.86
2017 Worlds
Free dance 91.49
2017 Worlds

Maksym (Maxim) Kostiantynovych Nikitin (Ukrainian: Максим Костянтинович Нікітін; born 5 October 1994) is a Ukrainian ice dancer. With partner Oleksandra Nazarova, he is the 2015 World Junior bronze medalist and 2012 Youth Olympic silver medalist. On the senior level, they are the 2017 Winter Universiade champions, 2014 CS Warsaw Cup silver medalists, 2016 Cup of Nice bronze medalists, and two-time Ukrainian national champions (2015, 2017).

Maksym Nikitin was born on 5 October 1994 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Around 2012, he enrolled at the Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture, where he is a correspondence student.

Nikitin was a recreational single skater in his early years. Around 2004, Halyna Churilova encouraged him and Oleksandra Nazarova, also a single skater from Kharkiv, to form an ice dancing partnership. Churilova coached the team in their hometown.

Nazarova/Nikitin debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in 2010. They placed 11th in Graz, Austria and 7th in Sheffield, England.

In 2011–12, they made no appearances on the JGP series but were sent to the Youth Olympics in January 2012 in Innsbruck, Austria. They won the silver medal behind Russia's Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov.


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