Anastasiia Kostyantinivna Arkhypova (; born 29 December 2003) is a Ukrainian figure skater. She is a two-time Ukrainian national senior champion (2018, 2019). She placed 13th at the 2018 World Junior Championships.
Personal life Arkhypova was born on December 29, 2003.
In March 2022, she publicly criticized Russian-born Ukrainian figure skater, Anastasiia Shabotova for liking an Instagram post made by Evgeni Plushenko that spoke in favour of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Following this incident, Shabotova was ultimately expelled from the Ukrainian national team by order of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine. In February 2023, Arkhypova also went on to condemn Russian federal sports channel, Match TV, for using a skating picture of her on live TV during a sit-down interview with Alexandra Trusova without her knowledge or consent.
Career Early years Arkhypova began learning to skate in 2006 at the age of three. As a young child, she was coached by Olena Mihotina. She won silver at two consecutive Ukrainian Junior Championships, placing second to Anastasia Gozhva in the 2015–2016 season and Sofiia Nesterova the following season.
2017–2018 season Arkhypova began competing internationally, coached by Maryna Amirkhanova in Kyiv. It was her first season of age-eligibility for junior-level ISU competitions. Making her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut, she placed 7th in Riga (Latvia) in September 2017 and had the same result in Gdańsk (Poland) the following month. In December, she won the Ukrainian national senior title ahead of defending champion Anna Khnychenkova.
Arkhypova also took gold at the Ukrainian Junior Championships in January 2018 and in the junior ladies' event at the Toruń Cup in February. In March, she qualified to the final segment at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Ranked 10th in the short program and 16th in the free skate, she finished 13th overall.
2018–2019 season Arkhypova began her season at the 2018 JGP in Kaunas, Lithuania. She finished fourth overall in the event, and set new personal bests in both the short and the free program as well as in overall competition score.
Arkhypova was scheduled to compete at JGP Armenia but was forced to withdraw due to a knee injury that she sustained in practice. As a result, she had to undergo surgery, which she set up a GoFundMe to help pay for.
She would also go on to take gold at the 2019 Ukrainian Championships, winning her second senior national title.
2019–2020 season Arkhypova placed twelfth in both of her assignments on the Junior Grand Prix, the 2019 JGP Latvia and 2019 JGP Croatia.
2020–2021 season Competing on both the senior and junior level at the 2021 Ukrainian Championships, Arkhypova finished fourth at both events.
She made her senior World debut at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, placing thirty-fifth.
2021–22 season Arkhypova began the season by winning bronze at the 2022 Autumn Talents Cup.
At the 2022 Ukrainian Championships, she won bronze at both the senior and junior level.
She then went on to finish ninth at the 2022 Jégvirág Cup.
2022–23 season Appearing at the 2022 Tallinn Trophy, Arkhypova finished sixteenth.
Programs
Season Short program Free skating 2022–2023 Cornfield Chase 2021-2022 Entre tu amor Lighthouse 2020–2021 Meant Imagine 2019–2020 2018–2019 Concierto de Aranjuez 2017–2018 Hana's Eyes 2016–2017 I Will Always Love You (instrumental) 2015–2016 Tango Tchack 2014–2015 Nostalgia
Competitive highlights CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22-23 Worlds 35th Golden Spin WD Tallinn Trophy 16th Halloween Cup WD Autumn Talents Cup 3rd Volvo Open Cup WD Latvia Trophy WD International: Junior Junior Worlds 13th 17th Armenia WD Croatia 12th Latvia 7th 12th Lithuania 4th Poland 7th EYOF 3rd Bosphorus Cup 1st Tallinn Trophy 2nd Jegvirag Cup 9th Toruń Cup 1st International: Novice Santa Claus Cup 1st 1st National Ukrainian Champ. 1st 1st WD 4th 3rd Ukrainian Junior Champ. 2nd 2nd 1st 4th 3rd TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
Detailed results ISU Personal best highlighted in bold.
Senior level 2022–23 season Date Event SP FS Total 24–27 November 2022 2022 Tallinn Trophy 16 35.02 16 60.90 16 95.92
Junior level 2021–22 season Date Event Level SP FS Total 11–13 February 2022 2022 Jégvirág Cup Junior 12 36.23 8 67.31 9 103.54 25–27 January 2022 2022 Ukrainian Junior Championships Junior 1 52.62 4 85.66 3 138.28 7–8 December 2021 2022 Ukrainian Championships Senior 3 59.98 3 93.76 3 153.74 27–30 October 2021 2021 Autumn Talents Cup Senior 2 46.42 3 71.29 3 117.71 2020–21 season Date Event Level SP FS Total 22–28 March 2021 2021 World Championships Senior 35 45.07 - 35 45.07 23–24 February 2021 2021 Ukrainian Championships Senior 4 47.63 4 86.98 4 134.61 2–4 February 2021 2021 Ukrainian Junior Championships Junior 3 45.01 6 79.87 4 124.88 2019–20 season Date Event Level SP FS Total 25–28 September 2019 2019 JGP Croatia Junior 11 48.11 11 94.60 12 142.71 4–7 September 2019 2019 JGP Latvia Junior 7 57.30 16 83.24 12 140.54 2018–19 season Date Event Level SP FS Total 4–10 March 2019 2019 World Junior Championships Junior 17 51.62 16 94.77 17 146.39 13–14 February 2019 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival Junior 3 58.58 3 103.15 3 161.73 17–20 December 2018 2019 Ukrainian Championships Senior 1 58.37 1 120.93 1 179.30 27 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2018 2018 Bosphorus Cup Junior 1 61.16 1 111.37 1 172.53 5–8 September 2018 2018 JGP Lithuania Junior 3 62.64 4 107.92 4 170.56 2017–18 season Date Event Level SP FS Total 5–11 March 2018 2018 World Junior Championships Junior 10 59.37 16 92.61 13 151.98 30 Jan. – 4 Feb. 2018 2018 Toruń Cup Junior 2 49.21 1 95.14 1 144.35 24–26 January 2018 2018 Ukrainian Junior Championships Junior 1 66.63 1 124.39 1 191.02 17–20 December 2017 2018 Ukrainian Championships Senior 1 63.65 1 119.07 1 182.72 20–22 November 2017 2017 Tallinn Trophy Junior 3 57.91 2 115.84 2 173.75 4–7 October 2017 2017 JGP Poland Junior 5 57.64 8 94.87 7 152.51 6–9 September 2017 2017 JGP Latvia Junior 9 53.54 7 105.07 7 158.61
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