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Maria Levushkina
Bulgarian figure skater From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maria Levushkina (Bulgarian: Мария Левушкина; born 18 July 2004) is a Bulgarian figure skater. She is a two-time Bulgarian junior national champion (2019–20) and competed in the final segment at the 2020 World Junior Championships.
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Personal life
Levushkina was born in Varna, Bulgaria and has a brother who played hockey. The family moved to Moscow when she was four for her parents' work, though they continued to spend summers in Bulgaria.[1]
Career
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Levushkina began skating in Moscow when she was young.[1] She continued to train in Moscow as well as in Sofia.[2]
In 2018, Levushkina competed in her first ISU Junior Grand Prix series. She competed at the stages in Yerevan and Linz and finished in 10th place in both.[3] The next season, on the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix series, her first Grand Prix assignment was in Riga; she was 9th after the short program, but she skated a clean free skate and improved her free skate personal best by 20 points to end in 7th.[2] At her second assignment in Chelyabinsk, she placed 9th.[4] In October, she competed at the Denis Ten Memorial Challenge in won bronze in the junior women's category.[5]
Levushkina hoped to compete at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics after winning one of the four country quotas available through performance on the Junior Grand Prix series.[6] However, although she represented Bulgaria, she did not have Bulgarian citizenship. She applied in August, and the Bulgarian Olympic Committee and the Bulgarian Skating Federation attempted to help her receive a passport before the deadline in December.[1] Ultimately, Ivelina Baycheva was given the spot instead.[7]
Levushkina competed at the 2020 World Junior Championships in March, where she reached the free skate and finished in 23rd place.[8]
The 2020 Junior Grand Prix and many other competitions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but in February 2021, Levushkina competed in the Bulgarian Championships as a senior and won the bronze medal.[9] In December, she competed at the Golden Spin of Zagreb, where she finished 17th.[10]
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Programs
Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
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Detailed results
Senior level
Junior level
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