Mariia Oleksandrivna Holubtsova (; born 20 December 2000) is a Ukrainian ice dancer. With her skating partner, Kyryl Bielobrov, she is the 2021 Pavel Roman Memorial bronze medalist and a two-time Ukrainian national silver medalist. The duo competed in the final segment at the 2016 and 2020 World Junior Championships.
Career
Early years Holubtsova began learning to skate in 2003. She skated with Illia Bohomol before teaming up with Kyryl Bielobrov.
Holubtsova/Bielobrov debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in September 2014, placing tenth in Japan.
2015–16 season Holubtsova/Bielobrov received two Junior Grand Prix assignments. They placed tenth at the 2015 JGP Slovakia in August and seventh at the 2015 JGP Croatia in October.
In February, they represented Ukraine in Norway at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics. Ranked ninth in the short dance and sixth in the free dance, they finished seventh overall in the ice dancing competition. They also competed in the team event, placing fifth as members of Team Focus. In March, they competed at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Hungary. Ranked twentieth in the short dance, they qualified to the final segment and went on to finish eighteenth overall with a rank of seventeenth in the free dance.
2019–20 season Competing in the 2019–20 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Holubtsova/Bielobrov finished fifth in Latvia and seventh in Croatia. Ranked fourteenth in both segments, they placed fourteenth overall at the 2020 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.
2021–22 season Holubtsova/Bielobrov made their senior international debut in October 2021, placing fourth at the Budapest Trophy in Hungary. In November, they took bronze at the Pavel Roman Memorial in the Czech Republic and then finished ninth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup, having ranked seventh in the rhythm dance and ninth in the free. In December, they finished second to Nazarova/Nikitin at the Ukrainian Championships and were selected to compete at the 2022 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.
In late February, Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, as a result of which the International Skating Union banned all Russian and Belarusian skaters from competing. As a result, Holubtsova/Bielobrov had to change training locations from Kyiv to Oberstorf, Germany. In addition, they also began training at the Ice Dance Academy of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec.
2022–23 season Holubtsova/Bielobrov began their season with an eighth-place finish at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. They then went on to make their senior ISU Grand Prix debut at 2022 Skate America, where they placed tenth. They were tenth as well as the 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy, their second Grand Prix.
Competing at the 2023 Winter University Games, Holubtsova/Bielobrov finished fifth.
At the 2023 European Championships in Espoo, Finland, Holubtsova/Bielobrov placed twelfth, before finishing their season at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Japan, where they placed nineteenth.
2023–24 season Prior to the season, Holubtsova/Bielobrov permanently settled in Montreal to train at the Ice Academy of Montreal to be trained under Romain Haguenauer, Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, and Josée Piché.
Programs With Bielobrov
Season Rhythm dance Free dance 2023–24 Holding Out for a Hero Straight from the Heart If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) Merry-Go-Round Fragile Dream Merry-Go-Round A Walk in the Skies 2022–23 Sad Girlz Luv Money Cuando caliente el sol Conga I'll Keep Coming Bones Don't Be So Serious Without You 2021–22 My Tunnels Are Long And Dark These Days Marvellous Party Lento Meditation (mix) Impossible Love Diferente (orchestra version) 2020–21 Cheek to Cheek I Won't Dance Cheek to Cheek 2019–20 Le cygne Danse macabre 2018–19 Zitarossa Sabelo W.E. Charms Abdication Rhythm dance 2017–18 Kaboom Love Freedom Hip Hip Chin Chin Hallelujah 2016–17 Clint Eastwood Gravity Clint Eastwood The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos 2015–16 Masquerade Super Mario Bros. 2014–15 La Bomba Pao Pao Bombon Asesino Baron Munchausen
Competitive highlights GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
With Bielobrov International Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24 Worlds 19th 26th Europeans 17th 12th 14th Skate America 10th Wilson Trophy 10th Autumn Classic WD Nebelhorn 8th Nepela Memorial 9th Warsaw Cup 9th 5th Budapest Trophy 4th Jégvirág Cup WD Pavel Roman 3rd University Games 5th International: Junior Junior Worlds 18th 14th Youth Olympics 7th Armenia 5th Croatia 7th 7th Czechia 5th Germany 5th Italy 9th Japan 10th Latvia 6th 5th Slovakia 10th Slovenia 6th Bosphorus Cup 1st Budapest Trophy 1st GP Bratislava 2nd Halloween Cup 1st Ice Star 6th Jégvirág Cup 1st NRW Trophy 13th Santa Claus Cup 4th 2nd Tallinn Trophy 4th Toruń Cup 3rd 2nd 4th Volvo Open Cup 4th Warsaw Cup 2nd National Ukraine 3rd 4th 3rd 2nd 2nd Ukraine, Junior 2nd 2nd Team events Youth Olympics 5th T 5th P TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew T = Team result; P = Personal result
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