Diana Mukhametzianova

Diana Damirovna Mukhametzianova (Russian: Диана Дамировна Мухаметзянова, born 18 September 2003) is a retired Russian pair skater. With her former partner, Ilya Mironov, she is the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic silver medalist and the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist.

Diana Mukhametzianova
Mukhametzianova at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Full nameDiana Damirovna Mukhametzianova
Native nameДиана Дамировна Мухаметзянова
Other namesMukhametzyanova
Born (2003-09-18) 18 September 2003 (age 20)
Kazan, Russia
HometownPerm, Russia
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Figure skating career
Country Russia
Began skating2007
Retired29 August 2022
Medal record
Representing  Russia
Figure skating: Pairs
Winter Youth Olympics
Silver medal – second place2020 LausannePairs
Junior Grand Prix Final
Silver medal – second place2019–20 TorinoPairs

Personal life

Mukhametzianova was born on 18 September 2003 in Kazan, Russia.

Career

Early years

Mukhametzianova began learning how to skate in 2007. She competed as a single skater in her native Kazan until the 2017–18 season, after which she teamed up with her current partner, Ilya Mironov. For their first two seasons together, Mukhametzianova/Mironov only competed domestically, and finished 6th at the 2019 Russian Junior Figure Skating Championships.

2019–20 season: Winter Youth Olympic and JGP Final silver medalists

Mukhametzianova/Mironov made their junior international debut at the 2019 JGP Russia. They placed third at the event behind fellow Russian competitors Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov and Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev. At their second assignment, the 2019 JGP Croatia, the team placed second, again behind teammates Artemeva/Nazarychev, and with 24 qualifying points advanced a spot to the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final. The pair competed once more before the Final, earning a silver medal in the junior event at the 2019 Volvo Open Cup behind Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov.

At the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final, Mukhametzianova/Mironov delivered two clean programs to win the silver medal behind Panfilova/Rylov. The team won the free skate, but were unable to fully make up the margin set by the gold medalists in the short program. They set personal bests in all segments of competition at the event.

Despite qualifying, Mukhametzianova/Mironov elected to sit out of the 2020 Russian Figure Skating Championships due to fatigue from the Junior Grand Prix Final. They next competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, where they again finished second behind Panfilova/Rylov. At the 2020 Russian Junior Figure Skating Championships, Mukhametzianova/Mironov finished just off the podium in fourth and as such narrowly missed being named to the 2020 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.

2020–21 season: Struggles and end of partnership with Mironov

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mukhametzianova/Mironov, like many Russian skaters, solely competed domestically during the 2020–21 season. They qualified to the 2021 Russian Figure Skating Championships through the domestic Cup of Russia series, and finished 11th at nationals. At the end of the season, coach Nina Mozer decided to split Mukhametzianova and Mironov in favor of pairing them with new partners. In an interview with Match TV in November 2021, Mukhametzianova stated that she'd been struggling with weight fluctuations due to puberty throughout the season. Mukhametzianova eventually lost the support of her coaches after her next partnership with Vladislav Antonyshev failed to produce results and her difficulty losing weight persisted, and she ultimately left the training group. Antonyshev was partnered with former single skater Elizaveta Osokina.

2021–22 season and retirement

Mukhametzianova began training under coach Pavel Sliusarenko in Perm in October 2021 without a partner. It became known that she left Sliusarenko's coaching group in July 2022.[1] On the 29th of August 2022, Mukhametzianova's mother announced her daughter's retirement from the sport on her Instagram page, citing repeated emotional abuse during Mukhametzianova's career as the main reason for her retirement.[2]

Programs

With Mironov

SeasonShort programFree skatingExhibition
2020–2021
  • Theme from Cheburashka
    performed by Vladimir and Anton Jablokov
2019–2020
2018—2019

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Mironov

International: Junior[3]
Event18–1919–2020–21
Youth Olympics2nd
JGP Final2nd
JGP Croatia2nd
JGP Russia3rd
Volvo Open Cup2nd
National[4]
Russian Champ.11th
Russian Jr. Champ.6th4th
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

With Mironov

2020–21 season
DateEventLevelSPFSTotal
23–27 December 20202021 Russian ChampionshipsSenior11
60.96
11
112.24
11
173.20
2019–20 season
4–8 February 20202020 Russian Junior ChampionshipsJunior4
70.94
5
120.67
4
191.61
10–15 January 20202020 Winter Youth OlympicsJunior2
60.45
2
114.97
2
175.42
4–8 December 20192019–20 Junior Grand Prix FinalJunior3
64.90
1
119.47
2
184.37
5–10 November 20192019 Volvo Open CupJunior5
53.04
2
105.34
2
158.38
25–28 September 20192019 JGP CroatiaJunior1
63.70
2
113.88
2
177.58
11–14 September 20192019 JGP RussiaJunior3
63.04
3
108.84
3
171.88
2018–19 season
1–4 February 20192019 Russian Junior ChampionshipsJunior6
60.23
5
116.03
6
176.26

References