Kamila Valieva

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Valeryevna and the family name is Valieva.
Kamila Valieva
Valieva in 2022
Full nameKamila Valeryevna Valieva
Native nameКамила Валерьевна Валиева (Russian)
Born (2006-04-26) 26 April 2006 (age 18)
Kazan, Russia
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Figure skating career
Country Russia
DisciplineWomen's singles
CoachEteri Tutberidze
Sergei Dudakov
Daniil Gleikhengauz
Georgi Pokhilyuk
Skating clubSambo 70 (Khrustalny), Moscow
Began skating2009
Highest WS7th (2021–22)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Disqualified 2022 Beijing Team[1]
European Championships
Disqualified 2022 Tallinn Singles
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tallinn Singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
Gold medal – first place 2019–20 Turin Singles

Kamila Valeryevna Valieva (Russian: Камила Валерьевна Валиева; born 26 April 2006) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2021 Rostelecom Cup champion, the 2021 Skate Canada champion, the 2020 Junior World champion, the 2019-20 Junior Grand Prix Final champion and the 2021 Russian national silver medalist.

During the 2022 Winter Olympics a sample that Valieva had submitted for a drug test in December tested positive for trimetazidine.[2][3] On 29 January 2024, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled in Valieva's doping case involving the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). The International Skating Union (ISU) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)[4] imposed a four-year ban on Valieva backdated to 25 December 2021, and disqualified her of all competitive results from that date,[5] including the first-place finishes at the 2022 European Figure Skating Championships and the 2022 Olympic team event.

Even with the above suspension and disqualification taken into account, Valieva is the current world record holder for the women's short program, free skating, and total scores. She has set seven world records during her career. She is the first female skater to break the 250-, 260- and 270-point thresholds in the total score (all within one season), and the first to break the 170- and 180-point thresholds in the free skate. She is the second woman to land the quadruple toe loop after training partner and teammate Alexandra Trusova, the fourth woman to land a quadruple jump of any kind, the 16th woman to land a triple Axel, and the third woman to land a triple Axel and quadruple jump in the same program after Alysa Liu and training partner and teammate Sofia Akateva.

  1. ^ "BEIJING 2022 FIGURE SKATING TEAM EVENT RESULTS". International Olympic Committee. 31 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  2. ^ Panja, Tariq (15 February 2022). "Kamila Valieva had three substances that could be used to treat heart conditions in her sample. Only one is banned". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  3. ^ Gina Kolata (15 February 2022). "Cardiologists question the utility of the drugs found in Valieva's blood". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  4. ^ "CAS to hear Russian figure skater Valieva's case in September". Reuters. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Kamila Valieva: Russian figure skater given four-year drugs ban". BBC Sport. 29 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024.