Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya is a Russian figure skater, participant in figure skating competitions at the Olympic Games in Sochi (2014), who received the title of team champion. Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation (2014).
Russian figure skating star, Olympic champion Yulia Lipnitskaya was born on June 5, 1998 in Yekaterinburg. The young athlete began her career when she was barely 4 years old. In early childhood, not being able to pronounce words well, the girl called herself “Olympic” instead of “Lipnitskaya,” which later turned out to be a kind of prediction of her own destiny.
The mother raised the child alone, since the father left her before the birth of her daughter. Daniela Leonidovna brought the baby to the local school at the Lokomotiv Sports and Youth Sports School. Yulia’s first coaches, Elena Levkovets and Marina Voitsekhovskaya, not only became the girl’s idols and best teachers, but also gave her the opportunity to continue her journey in one of the most beautiful sports.
Mom Daniela Leonidovna, who chose figure skating for her daughter, did not even suspect what success her little daughter would achieve in the near future. After all, the initial goal was to improve the girl’s health and do something useful and exciting.
Six years later, the Moscow stage of the biography of Yulia Lipnitskaya began. The athlete and her mother moved to Moscow. The reason for the move was the high hopes placed on the skater. She learned everything that Yulia could be taught in Yekaterinburg.
The girl was assigned to the Moscow Sports School No. 37. Julia ended up in a group with a famous one, which trains athletes in single skating. Igor Pashkevich also helped in preparing the young athlete.
Figure skating
Yulia has incredible flexibility and good stretching by nature. It was these qualities that allowed Lipnitskaya to perform the most complex elements that adult and experienced athletes have been honing for years. By the end of 2009, the skater could perform all triple jumps “excellently”.
In the 2009-2010 season, the figure skater took part in the Russian Championship and was among the top five winners. The next season, in which Yulia took part as an adult athlete, also became significant for her: the girl took 4th place.
In 2011-2012, the Russian woman attended the Grand Prix, which took place in Poland, and won it. After that, Julia began to win only prizes. And already in Italy, the figure skater again took gold. Then there was a victory in Canada, where Yulia showed herself worthy and managed to significantly get ahead of her main rival.
Soon the Russian figure skater went to the Russian Championship with the main goal - to win. Julia succeeded. The athlete deservedly received silver at this championship. The next step was winning the World Junior Championships. Lipnitskaya was able to win the gold medal and beat the famous American, who was predicted to win.
Yulia began preparing for the Olympics in Sochi in advance. The first was a victory in the 2012-2013 season in a tournament that took place in Finland. After this, the athlete achieved victory in China and France at adult competitions.
The victory in Paris was double for the skater: Lipnitskaya was able to not only win gold, but also get the maximum level. But Yulia did not compete in the Grand Prix final. The young athlete received an injury due to which she was unable to go on the ice. The girl missed not only the final, but also the Russian Figure Skating Championship in 2013.
Only in the second half of the 2012-2013 season was the figure skater able to take fifth position at the Russian Championships. This was the first time out after the injury. After this tournament, the stellar period of Yulia Lipnitskaya’s biography began, the athlete again began to take prizes.
The World Championship turned out to be a prize for the figure skater. Julia won silver in Milan. Of course, after the injuries the athlete received, she needed some time for rehabilitation. But Lipnitskaya quickly regained her strength and entered the Olympic season again as a winner.
Competitions in Finland, which took place in the 2013-2014 season, brought Yulia victory. Canada, Grand Prix - a new victory. In the Grand Prix final, Lipnitskaya took second place due to a small mistake she made in her program.
The athlete’s landmark victory was the gold at the European Championships in 2014. The figure skater not only received a gold medal, but also beat her main competitors by a fairly large number of points. The girl skated the program perfectly and deserved the victory. It is noteworthy that at this championship Yulia’s opponents were experienced colleagues who had won prizes more than once. At the European Championships in 2014, the girl was the youngest.
Young Lipnitskaya receives strong support from her mother, who accompanies the athlete at all competitions. They are together when Julia wins and when she falls. For a figure skater, a mother is the most important and important person, as Yulia has repeatedly said in her own interviews.
Olympics in Sochi
The fact that Yulia Lipnitskaya would represent her country at the Olympics in Sochi was quite expected. The girl managed to achieve results that some athletes can only dream of. Lipnitskaya was the main hope of the Russian figure skating team.
In the team figure skating competitions, which took place on February 6, 8 and 9 in Sochi, Yulia Lipnitskaya became the Olympic champion. She won and skated both programs perfectly. It was Lipnitskaya who won the most points, which helped the Russian figure skating team. The girl performed very difficult elements in her performance and received all possible bonuses. To date, Yulia Lipnitskaya is the country’s youngest Olympic champion.
In February 2014, it became known that Yulia Lipnitskaya was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation. This event became an excellent incentive for the athlete, when in the same month the girl took part in the short program competition in women's figure skating. Russia was represented by two figure skaters - 15-year-old Yulia Lipnitskaya and 17-year-old. After the short program, Yulia Lipnitskaya took fifth place, as.
On February 20, 2014, the decisive skate took place - the free program. Yulia Lipnitskaya performed to the music of the legendary film “Schindler’s List”. The athlete performed perfect jumps and unique spins, but a few moments before the final the skater fell.
As a result, the 15-year-old athlete showed the fifth result in the sum of both programs. Adelina unconditionally won that Olympics, giving Russia the first gold in the modern history of women's singles skating.
Yulia Lipnitskaya, who managed to achieve incredible success, is a very young girl. Therefore, fans and fans of figure skating were sure that more than one Olympics awaited Lipnitskaya.
After the Olympics
After the Olympics in Sochi, Yulia Lipnitskaya did not rest on her laurels. The skater began the next season at the Grand Prix stage in China, where she skated the short program and became a leader. But, unfortunately, the day after the success, an unfortunate fall occurred: the girl’s free program failed. In total, the athlete managed to gain a foothold in 2nd place.
Accumulated fatigue turned out to be the reason for the disappointing defeats in Barcelona and Russia. At home, the girl ended up in 5th position following the results of her free program and was not included in the team for the European Championships.
Yulia Lipnitskaya started the new season at the Finnish “Finlandia Trophy”, where she was able to take 2nd place. Two weeks later in Milwaukee, America, the Russian woman took 6th place at the Skate America Grand Prix series stage. At the national championship, luck turned against Yulia again: the girl ended up in the middle of the table. Yulia was included in the Russian national team as a reserve.
In November 2015, Yulia Lipnitskaya replaced coach Eteri Tutberidze, and Alexey Urmanov took over to prepare the athlete for further competitions. The training took place in Sochi.
No matter how dark and light stripes alternated in the sports biography of this beautiful figure skater, Yulia undoubtedly had a brilliant future. Not only the girl’s Russian fans were sure of this, but also foreign fans of the figure skater’s athletic talent. For example, The Guardian wrote about Yulia Lipnitskaya’s abilities. The publication called the girl an unusually gifted figure skater and a rising star, who overshadowed even the famous figure skater with her skating.
However, after the Olympics, the figure skater’s star began to gradually fade.
Personal life
With the move to Sochi, where the athlete now trains under the leadership of Alexey Urmanov, changes have also emerged in the personal life of Yulia Lipnitskaya. The girl escaped from her mother’s care and, as can be seen from the photographs on the page in “ Instagram“, now he has time not only to prepare for further games, but also to rest.
17-year-old Yulia spent time with her colleague Vladislav Tarasenko when he came to Sochi. According to media reports, the young athlete also dreams of changing his training location and moving to a southern city.
At the end of 2015, information also appeared on the Internet about the young figure skater’s affair with the athlete Maurice Kvitelashvili. Yulia was introduced to the young man by her friend, a figure skater and 2015 world champion.
While training in Sochi, Yulia Lipnitskaya mastered the technique of makeup artistry, graduating from the Make-up ART Stylish beauty school. This skill is necessary for professional figure skaters to independently prepare for competitions.
At home, the athlete has a cat, Chop, and a spitz, Peach, who was given to the girl by her fans. Lipnitskaya also does not miss the opportunity to ride horses - the athlete has loved loyal animals since childhood.
Yulia Lipnitskaya today
At the beginning of 2016, Lipnitskaya performed at the Russian Championship, where she took third place; in February 2016, Yulia received silver in the final of the Russian Cup, held in the city of Saransk. Luck smiled on the skater in March 2016. Yulia Lipnitskaya won a gold medal in Innsbruck, Austria, at the Tyrol Cup.
But then an annoying dark streak followed again. In the pre-Olympic season in Bratislava at the Nepela Memorial, the Russian’s performance was not entirely successful. Having received the maximum number of points for the short program, the skater performed a free program with marks. As a result, the girl took 2nd place.
In October, it became known that Yulia Lipnitskaya would not take part in the Grand Prix series in Chicago: the girl’s old back injury had worsened. Due to pain, the skater skated her program at the Rostelecom Cup, held in the fall in Moscow, with a long stop, as a result of which she lost points and became twelfth on the list of participants. A collective decision was made to suspend Yulia’s sports career to restore her health.
In the spring of 2017, new photos of the girl appeared on Lipnitskaya’s closed Instagram account, in which it was clearly noticeable that the girl had gained weight. Rumors about Julia's pregnancy began to spread on the Internet. In the comments, the girl categorically rejected the fans' speculations. As it turned out later, the skater gained weight after treatment.
On August 28, 2017, the athlete’s mother reported that Yulia Lipnitskaya. The 19-year-old figure skater made this difficult decision immediately upon arriving from Europe, where the girl was undergoing treatment for anorexia.
The famous figure skater commented on the latest news about Lipnitskaya’s decision, saying that there must be good reasons for this. Coach Alexei Mishin and figure skater Evgeni Plushenko spoke out in support of Yulia’s choice, and do not lose confidence that the athlete will return to the sport with renewed vigor.
Now Yulia Lipnitskaya and her mother are organizing a new apartment in the south-west of Moscow in the Rasskazovo residential complex, which the athlete received as a gift from the founders of the Sezar Group holding.
Achievements
- 2011 – winner of the Junior Grand Prix final
- 2012 – world champion among juniors
- 2012, 2014 – silver medalist at Russian championships
- 2014 - European champion
- 2014 - silver medalist at the World Championships
- 2014 - Olympic champion
- 2013 - silver medalist of the Grand Prix final
Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya (June 5, 1998) is a world-famous Russian figure skater performing in women's singles skating. Over the entire period of her sports career, she was awarded titles and won medals at competitions more than once. In particular, she is the European Champion 2014, Silver medalist of the 2014 World Championship and Silver medalist of the Russian Championship 2012.
Lipnitskaya is considered the youngest and most successful figure skater of our time, since she received her first award at the age of 15. Currently in 16th place in the ranking of the International Skating Union.
Childhood
Yulia Vyacheslavovna was born on June 5 in Yekaterinburg into a low-income family. Her mother worked as a saleswoman and received incredibly little, so all hopes were placed on her husband, the head of the family. But when little Yulia was only one year old, the man went to serve, from where he never returned. For a long time, Yulia’s mother, Daniela Lipnitskaya, looked for her husband and tried to find out at least some information about him, but everything was in vain. As a result, she was forced to take two more jobs in order to somehow raise her daughter.
Little Yulia's talent began to manifest itself in early childhood. She really loved watching events and competitions on TV where figure skaters performed. One day she even went on her own to the skating rink, which was located on the other side of the city, without asking her mother’s permission. She, of course, punished her daughter for such a rash act, but took note of Lipnitskaya’s passion for sports. Shortly after this, she found an apartment not far from a sports stadium where skating was taught. The girl's joy knew no bounds.
Youth
As soon as Yulia had the opportunity to go to the skating rink every day, she immediately began to learn a new sport and hone her skills. Initially, Marina Voitsekhovskaya and Elena Levkovets took up the training of the young and very flexible girl, who became Lipnitskaya’s first coaches. It was they, according to the girl herself, who instilled in her that love and passion for figure skating, which was noted more than once in her future career by both her colleagues at the skating rink and other coaches.
Until the spring of 2009, Yulia Lipnitskaya trained in her hometown, mastering more and more new figure skating techniques. But in March 2009, Voitsekhovskaya and her colleague were transferred to Moscow, and their cooperation with Lipnitskaya ended, since the girl could not move to the capital without her mother. But she, realizing that she does not want to be an obstacle to her daughter’s success, buys tickets with the saved money, looks for housing in Moscow, and within a month the family moves.
Sports career and success
Once in the new team, Yulia Lipnitskaya immediately enlists the support of Igor Pashkevich and Eteri Tutberidze, who become her new coaches. Together with them, the girl brings all triple jumps to almost perfect condition (the only problem remains the loop, during which Yulia often falls, not calculating the rotation speed). However, this does not prevent her from competing at the Russian Junior Championships in the fall of the same year, where the speed skater becomes fifth on the list.
Since 2011, the rapid rise of Lipnitskaya’s sports career began. First, she goes through the qualifying stage and is admitted to international figure skating competitions (according to Yulia, this was the first serious achievement in her career). She makes her debut in Poland, where she wins the competition, followed by competitions in Italy and Quebec (and Lipnitskaya’s victory again!).
In 2012, Yulia participated in the Russian junior championship, where she won a silver medal in single skating and gave her country the opportunity to earn even more points in team play. In the same year, Lipnitskaya beat Polina Shelepen by 9 points and Gracie Gold by 15.2 points in the World Junior Championships. In general, the period 2011-2012 becomes the most fruitful in the girl’s sports career.
During 2013-2015, Yulia Lipnitskaya participated in international figure skating competitions more than once. She received gold in games in Finland, China and Germany, and beat Olympic and world champions by a large margin, in particular Adelina Sotnikova and Carolina Kostner, and by a large margin in terms of points. The so-called “age record” in single figure skating is also associated with this wonderful figure skater. Before Lipnitskaya, the absolute record holder was the American Tara Lipinski, who won the championship and won her first medal at the age of 16. After the games in Japan, Yulia surpassed her competitor, because at the time she received the gold medal the girl was 15 years and 255 days old.
After the Olympic Games, which took place in 2014, Yulia Lipnitskaya became the face of the European and Asian versions of Time magazine. Her name topped the list of global trends on Twitter.
Moreover, Yulia entered the top three “People of the Year” of transnational companies Google Inc. and Yandex, and European publications recognized the figure skater as athlete of the year.
Yulia Lipnitskaya photo now 2018: end of career
On August 28, 2017, the girl’s mother reported to the media that her daughter would no longer continue to build her sports career.
Then the Russian Figure Skating Federation officially confirmed her words on September 9 of the same year.
Three days later, Julia herself answered all the questions in the interview and explained her departure with these words: “I’m no longer drawn to the ice. That's the whole story."
But now the former figure skater has returned to her sports career, but as a coach. The girl posted a post on VKontakte in which she wrote about the opening of the Ilinykh-Lipnitskaya Figure Skating Academy, where she invited everyone. Information was also provided that the main office of the academy is located in the capital of the Russian Federation, but training camps and master classes will be held throughout the country. Already this month the first training camp will take place in the Tver region. Among the coaching staff you will be able to see, of course, Yulia Lipnitskaya herself, as well as Elena Ilyinykh and Maxim Miroshkin. Numerous fans of the athlete wish her good luck and believe in her new victories.
Yulia Lipnitskaya photo now 2018: biography of the athlete
Julia was born on June 5, 1998, in Yekaterinburg. As a child, her family was low-income. Julia's mother's name is Daniela Lipnitskaya, she raised her daughter on her own. Vyacheslav, the father of the future athlete, went into the army even before the girl was born, but he never returned to the family after service.
Daniela recognized her daughter's talent at an early age, so she took on several jobs to secure her daughter's future. Soon they began renting an apartment near the Lokomotiv skating rink, as they say, closer to the dream.
The girl first came to this skating rink when she was four. Julia trained with Elena Levkovets and Marina Voitsekhovskaya. In March 2009, due to the lack of opportunities for further growth in Yekaterinburg, she moved to Moscow and joined Eteri Tutberidze’s group at Sports School No. 37, Igor Pashkevich also helped with the work.
Nature has endowed Lipnitskaya with incredible flexibility. The coaches noticed the young skater’s unique ability to accelerate rotation within a rotation.
Lipnitskaya began the 2013-2014 Olympic season with a victory at the tournament in Finland, ahead of the Japanese Akiko Suzuki, and in October she won the Canadian Grand Prix among single skaters in St. John's. In December, she took second place in the Grand Prix final, losing only to Mao Asada. She also came second at the Russian Championships, having made a slight mistake in the short program and an under-rotation in the free program. At her first European Championship in 2014, she unconditionally won, for the first time among Russian singles skaters in eight years, beating compatriot Adelina Sotnikova and five-time European champion Carolina Kostner by 7.36 points. In the free program, she performed complex cascades of triple lutz - triple toe loop and double axel - triple toe loop; for the final three elements of the maximum levels, the judges gave 17 highest bonuses +3, and one of the judges even gave a maximum score of 10.00 for the components of the program. At this European Championship, Lipnitskaya was awarded the second total score in the history of women's single figure skating (209.72) after the result of Korean Kim Young Ah (228.56) at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. Lipnitskaya was also the youngest participant (15 years old).
Yulia Lipnitskaya photo now 2018: Olympic champion
Everyone remembered Lipnitskaya as a girl in a red coat, who literally from the first movements of her body made the audience and jury members fall in love with her. Yulia became an Olympic champion in team competitions.
She started the new season as one of the favorites.
At the Grand Prix stage in Shanghai she became second and then called her performance the worst in her life. At the next tournament of the series in Bordeaux, the Russian also took silver. At the Russian Championships, the athlete finished only ninth, after which she almost ended her career.
“After an unsuccessful performance at the Russian Championship, I wanted to leave the sport altogether, to end my sports career,” Lipnitskaya said. “Everyone knows how difficult it was for me to return to training after the Olympics. And in this sense, this season turned out to be very difficult. At first, nothing worked, and I really understood that I couldn’t do anything at all. There was some kind of powerlessness, it was unclear what was connected with it. Perhaps with adolescence. Perhaps with accumulated fatigue. In such a situation, everything is perceived very painfully, which, naturally, could not but affect our relationship with the coach. But I didn’t have any thoughts about moving to another coach.”
Today, June 5, marks the 20th anniversary of Yulia Lipnitskaya, the youngest Olympic champion in the history of women's single figure skating.
Yulia Lipnitskaya was made by her mother - both literally and figuratively: Yulia’s mother Daniela dedicated her entire life to her daughter without a trace. Father Vyacheslav did not take part in the upbringing: he once went to repay his military duty to the Fatherland, and never returned to the family. Mom Daniela, having lost her support, herself created a stellar script for Yulia and brought it to life.
To begin with, she directed the girl’s bursting energy into a peaceful direction: in the figure skating section, where her mother took three-year-old Yulia, her hyperactivity was converted into results. Her obvious abilities immediately attracted attention, and Daniela’s mother decided to make her daughter a superstar.
It was in Yekaterinburg, money was tight, however, Daniela found the opportunity to rent an apartment right next to the Lokomotiv skating rink, where Yulia trained. From the very first competition, it became clear that at her age there were no competitors in the city. Therefore, we must move to Moscow.
Legend has it that little Yulia herself made a choice, declaring that she wanted to train only with, who then, at the beginning of 2009, was as far from her current status as Yulia Lipnitskaya was from the Olympic gold in Sochi. It was this goal that united them: a talented coach and a student who literally fell from the sky, who, despite her tender age, was ready to bite the ice for the sake of new victories.
People who saw how frantically, literally little Yulia worked, were amazed. But the result was obvious. Her Moscow life was instantly filled with meaning, and serious results came quickly enough. First - at the Russian junior championships, then - at the Grand Prix and the World Junior Championships. In all international competitions of the 2011/12 season, Yulia Lipnitskaya became the first, and in the pre-Olympic season, on which big bets were made, she began skating for adults.
At the same time, by the age of 13, Yulia’s medical record was full of the most incredible injuries and injuries: from simple bruises and sprains to concussions and pinched nerves. And the moral and psychological state, too, as Yulia admitted after the Sochi triumph, was far from ideal. " I endured, - said Julia. - I endured it every day, every hour. Not every single workout, but figure skating in general».
Before the Olympics in Sochi, Yulia won her first “big” title, becoming the first European champion from Russia in the last 8 years. The main competitor on the national team, Adelina Sotnikova, and five-time European champion Caroline Kostner, who was almost twice as old as Yulia, were more than 7 points behind.
At the Games themselves, Yulia performed the main role in the team competition. Her contribution to the victory of the Russian team turned out to be the most significant: 20 points for the first two places with truly excellent skating. Even Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is not prone to showing unnecessary emotions, gave her a standing ovation for her performance, and later awarded her personal gratitude.
Having become an Olympic champion in the team tournament, Yulia broke the so-called “age record” in women’s single skating. It was previously owned by American figure skater Tara Lipinski, who won the 1998 Olympics at the age of 15 years, 255 days. On the day of victory in Sochi, Yulia was 6 days younger.
The Russian team won Olympic gold on February 9, 2014, and the very next day Yulia gained worldwide fame. She was featured on the covers of the European and Asian versions of Time magazine. The word Lipnitskaya topped the list of global trends on Twitter. She was included in the top three “People of the Year” according to Google and Yandex. For performing a program on the theme of the film “Schindler’s List” in Sochi, the famous director Steven Spielberg sent Yulia a letter of gratitude.
However, the pressure of everyone’s attention very quickly began to not even burden Yulia, but depress her. " Not only did I have no strength left, it was really hard for me,- she admitted later. - I'm not a public person. At the skating rink, too, everything stopped working out. At some point, I completely stopped understanding how to live and what to do. I didn't care anymore».
This “whatever” directly affected the results. After Sochi, Yulia seemed to break down, almost in a physical sense: almost all of her skates ended in either blunders or falls. The year ended with failure at the Russian Championship (9th place) and the first announcement of his imminent retirement.
As it turned out later, at that moment irresolvable contradictions had already arisen between Lipnitskaya and Tutberidze. In the summer of 2015 they ended in a breakup, and in the fall Yulia moved to the group of Alexey Urmanov.
At the peak of Yulina’s popularity, her father, who had sunk into oblivion, appeared in the information space. More precisely, a person claiming the closest degree of relationship. A certain Vyacheslav, an Israeli citizen, stated that in a past life, which he spent in Yekaterinburg, he met a girl, Daniela, and Julia is the fruit of their love. Vyacheslav was immediately invited to Russia and shown on TV.
Yulia herself refused to make contact with “dad”. " There is a man wandering through various programs who dares to call himself my father. E that man is an outright fraud. I want to put a gag in his mouth. It's impossible to listen to this! As for my father, I know perfectly well who he is and where he lives. Therefore, I warn: if such cases are repeated, my “dads” or “relatives” appear on the channels, obsessed with the desire to promote themselves at my expense, then we will meet them in court“,” Lipnitskaya quotes Aif.ru/sport.
Three and a half years have passed since Lipnitskaya became the Olympic champion in Sochi, and on September 9, 2017, the Figure Skating Federation officially announced the end of Yulia Lipnitskaya’s sports career.
This was accompanied by a whole wave of rumors about Yulia’s health, which, unfortunately, had serious grounds. There are also psychological problems associated with the test of fame. And individual physiological characteristics (tendency to gain weight). And anorexia, which was a consequence of her struggle with excess weight, for which Yulia was treated for three months in Germany. Finally, age: at 18-19 years old, for modern women’s figure skating, you are already practically a “grandmother”.
But time is the best healer. Over the past months, Yulia has tried herself as a television commentator, hinted that she wants to get into coaching, information has appeared on social networks that a Figure Skating Academy has been launched, to which Yulia has a direct connection. She finally found a man she loved.
Yulia Lipntsikaya is a famous figure skater who recently announced the end of her sports career. Many people think that this is due to anorexia. Fans want to know where figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya is now, what she does, and also want to see her before and after photos.
Recently there were rumors that figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya has anorexia. On the Internet you can find photos before her illness and after treatment. Where is she now? These and other questions can be answered in this article.
Julia was born in 1998, on June 5 in Yekaterinburg. Her dad left the family when her mother was still pregnant, so Yulia grew up without a father. At the age of 4 she was sent to artistic skating, only to find a passion for the girl in life. However, she liked this sport so much that she decided to take it up professionally and connect her destiny with skating.
After graduating from the children's figure skating school, Yulia enters the school of Eteri Tutberidze, one of the most famous coaches of women's singles skating. Since then, a white streak began in Lipnitskaya’s career.
A long period of junior and then adult competitions, various cups and Grand Prix began. But Julia gained real world fame by performing a number in a red coat, dedicated to the film “Schindler’s List,” at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, which brought her victory. Her performance so touched not only the Russian, but also other fans that she received a standing ovation.
For example, Steven Spielberg, director of the film “Schindler’s List,” sent Julia a letter expressing gratitude for her embodiment as a girl in a red coat. But Yulia failed to get a gold medal - the skater made some mistakes in single and free skating.
Important! Yulia Lipnitskaya became the youngest winner of the adult Olympic Winter Games!
After this, a stellar period began in the career of figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya, who had not yet developed anorexia, dividing her life into before and after. The Times magazine put her photo on the cover of its issue, wanting to know where she is now and what she is doing, calling her one of the best figure skaters in the world. However, this brought not only a reason for pride, but also great inconvenience. She could not train as before due to the close attention of her fans.
Injuries received during previous performances and training made themselves felt. One day, Julia did not take part in competitions due to a back injury. Since then, she seems to have been haunted by failure. At the 2015 Russian Championship, she took only ninth place.
November 2015 began with her decision to change coaches. The reason was her scandal with Eteri Tutberidze. The eldest Lipnitskaya constantly interfered in her daughter’s training, which the renowned coach did not like at all, and then scandals and quarrels between Yulia and Eteri began.
Yulia decides to leave Moscow and move to Sochi, which she does. Alexey Urmanov becomes her coach. However, changing her coach did not help her achieve heights. At the Russian Championship in 2016, Yulia Lipnitskaya moved from 9th place to only 8th place.
Soon she went to Austria; during a performance, fibers in her hip adductor muscle burst.
Interesting! At the championship in Austria, the athlete skated with a serious injury and never showed that she was in pain!
The doctors immediately issued a disappointing verdict - not to get out of bed for a month. For an athlete, skipping training for a month can result in disastrous results. But Yulia Lipnitskaya did not listen to the doctors. That is why she took 8th place at the Russian Championship - due to a hip injury, Yulia was unable to perform tricks well.
This wasn't her only problem. Yulia did not go to the Chelyabinsk Championship due to a bruised hip joint and post-traumatic arthritis.
Disease
In 2016, the figure skater began to grow and gain weight. She began to gain weight sharply. Figure skaters are strictly forbidden to gain weight, so Yulia Lipnitskaya begins to urgently lose weight. Her irregular diet and rigorous training led her to anorexia. Her family says she didn't eat anything for days. The deterioration in health made itself felt.
Interesting! The athlete experienced a hormonal imbalance, and she gained weight even when she didn’t eat anything!
Yulia Lipnitskaya was sent to a European clinic for three months of treatment for anorexia. After such a break, there was no question of continuing a sports career. Missed training, numerous injuries, deterioration in health after taking pills - all this became the reason for Yulia’s announcement of retirement from figure skating.
This is what Yulia Lipnitskaya’s mother addressed to the Russian Figure Skating Federation. The managers said that they would meet with the champion and Alexei Urmanov after the skates in Sochi to discuss this decision.
Future life
In 2017, Yulia and her mother moved to an apartment on New Moscow, allocated to them for the Sochi victory. Before that, they lived in rented apartments.
One day, Yulia posted a photo on the social network Vkontakte, where her fans said that she was pregnant, because Yulia had recovered significantly after treatment for anorexia. To caustic comments, Lipntsikaya replied that she no longer wanted to be thin, she was tired of weighing 37 kilograms.
The head of the Figure Skating Federation, Valentin Piseev, said that the decision to leave was made during her treatment in Europe. Her mother says the same thing. However, Yulia’s coach, Alexey Urmanov, refused to satisfy the request to end her figure skating career and is waiting for the September skates in Sochi.
Many journalists and athletes supported Yulia in her decision to leave sports. They said that anorexia was incompatible with figure skating, so it was only a matter of time before her career ended.
Lipnitskaya herself explained her departure by saying that she no longer had the desire to go on the ice. Figure skating no longer attracted the Olympic champion. A different life awaited her, studying at a university, an interesting profession.
Important! On September 9, 2017, the Figure Skating Federation announced the termination of Yulia Lipnitskaya’s sports career.
In October, Yulia tried herself as a sports commentator. On October 20, the Grand Prix stage took place, which lasted more than eight hours. Lipnitskaya spent all this time broadcasting. Since then, she has been commentating on figure skating on the Telesport TV channel.