About Anastasiia Shabotova

Anastasiia Sergeevna Shabotova (Russian: Анастасия Сергеевна Шаботова; Ukrainian: Анастасія Сергіївна Шаботова; born 17 January 2006) is a Russian-Ukrainian figure skater. Competing for Ukraine, she is the 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge bronze medalist and a three-time Ukrainian national champion (2020–2022). She competed in the final segment at the 2020 World Junior Championships. Shabotova is the 12th woman to land a triple Axel internationally and the first Ukrainian woman.

Shabotova originally competed domestically for Russia, before requesting to switch nationalities to Ukraine in May 2019 after she made comments during an Instagram livestream that alleged widespread doping among top Russian figure skaters. Although she achieved more international success for Ukraine, including representing the country at the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine expelled Shabotova from the Ukrainian national team in March 2022 after she engaged in pro-Russia behavior on social media following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.