Ioulia Chtchetinina (Russian: Юлия Щетинина, Hungarian: Scsetyinyina Julija, Polish: Julia Szczecinina; born 24 December 1995) is a Russian-Swiss pair skater who currently competes for Poland with Michał Woźniak.
Chtchetinina began figure skating in 2001. She originally competed as a singles skater for Switzerland until 2015, when she decided to switch to pair skating. Her first pair partner was Noah Scherer. The pair was coached by Jean-Francois Ballester and primarily trained in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, and Oberstdorf, Germany.[7] Together, they won the 2017 Swiss Championships, competed at two World Championships (eighteenth in 2016 and twenty-eighth in 2017), and finished seventeenth at the 2017 European Championships.[2] In mid-May 2017, the Swiss skating federation announced that the pair had parted ways.[8]
In August 2019, Chtchetinina announced that she had teamed up with Hungarian pair skater Márk Magyar and that they would be coached by Dmitri Savin and Fedor Klimov in Moscow, Russia. The pair decided to represent Hungary.[10]
Although they were set to compete at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, they unfortunately had to withdraw shortly after arriving due to Magyar testing positive for COVID-19.[11] Their pair parted ways shortly after the event.[12]
Upon learning about the end of Chtchetinina's partnership with Maygar, Polish pair skater Michał Woźniak messaged her on Instagram, asking if she would be interested in having a try-out with him.[13] Despite differences in their levels of experience in the discipline, Chtchetinina agreed to a tryout. The official announcement of their partnership for Poland took place in August 2023.[14] It was also made public that the pair would train in Berlin, Germany, where they were coached by Nolan Seegert and Dmitri Savin.[15]
Chtchetinina and Woźniak made their international debut at the 2023 Budapest Trophy, where they finished fourth. They next competed at the 2023 Diamond Spin where they placed second. The team claimed their second international medal not long after with a bronze at the 2023 Warsaw Cup. Chtchetinina and Woźniak competed once more before the Polish National Championships, finishing fourth at their first Challenger event, the 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb.[16]
Chtchetinina and Woźniak finished tenth at the European Championships and nineteenth at the World Championships.[18][19]
2024–25 season
Chtchetinina and Woźniak opened their second season together at the 2024 Nebelhorn Trophy, where they finished in seventh place.[20] They then went on to take silver at the 2024 Diamond Spin for a second consecutive time.[21]
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