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Mikhail Kolyada at the 2017 European Figure Skating Championships, Ostrava
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Personal information | |||||||||||||
Native name | Михаил Сергеевич Коляда | ||||||||||||
Full name | Mikhail Sergeyevich Kolyada | ||||||||||||
Country represented | Russia | ||||||||||||
Born |
Saint Petersburg, Russia |
18 February 1995 ||||||||||||
Home town | Saint Petersburg, Russia | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
Coach | Valentina Chebotareva | ||||||||||||
Choreographer | Olga Kliushnichenko | ||||||||||||
Skating club | Olympic School St. Petersburg | ||||||||||||
Training locations | Saint Petersburg | ||||||||||||
ISU personal best scores | |||||||||||||
Combined total | 267.97 2016 Worlds |
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Short program | 93.28 2017 Worlds |
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Free skate | 178.31 2016 Worlds |
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Medal record
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Kolyada (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Коляда, born 18 February 1995) is a Russian figure skater. He is the 2017 European bronze medalist and 2017 Russian national champion. He has won six senior international medals, including two on the ISU Challenger Series.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Kolyada was born on 18 February 1995 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He has three younger siblings. He is enrolled at the Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health.
Coach Valentina Chebotareva invited Kolyada to join her group when he was five, after observing him at a small rink.
Kolyada began competing on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in 2011. In 2013, he won the Russian Junior Championships and was assigned to the World Junior Championships where he finished 6th.
In the 2013–14 season, Kolyada won silver and bronze medals on the JGP series, becoming the first alternate for the JGP Final. After placing sixth in the short program at the senior Russian Championships, he withdrew from the free skate, unable to fix a problem with his boot laces.
Kolyada fractured his right ankle in August 2014, leading to two surgeries and five months off the ice. He withdrew from the 2014 Rostelecom Cup, which would have been his Grand Prix debut, and the 2015 Russian Championships. In March 2015, he won gold at the Gardena Spring Trophy.