Ivan Shmuratko

Shmuratko started learning to skate in 2006.[1] In the 2014–15 season, he won bronze at the Ukrainian Junior Championships.

Coached by Vira Volpova in Kiev,[2] Shmuratko won two junior international medals, gold at Ice Star and silver at the Santa Claus Cup. Competing on the senior level, he finished 4th at the Ukrainian national championships. He was named in Ukraine's team to the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer.[3] In Norway he placed fourteenth in men's single skating and won a silver medal in the team event as a member of Team Future, which also included Diāna Ņikitina of Latvia, Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař of the Czech Republic, and Julia Wagret / Mathieu Couyras of France.[4][5]

Shmuratko opened his season on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 10th in Lithuania and 7th in Armenia. In November, making his senior international debut, he won bronze at the Volvo Open Cup in Latvia. The following month, he received medals at two senior events – silver at the Bosphorus Cup in Turkey and gold at the Ukrainian Championships. In January, he competed at his first ISU Championship, the 2019 European Championships in Minsk, Belarus. He qualified to the final segment and placed twenty-second overall. He also advanced to the free skate at the 2019 World Junior Championships, which took place in March in Zagreb. Ranked thirteenth in the short and seventeenth in the free, he finished sixteenth overall in Croatia.

Shmuratko started his season off on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing seventh in Poland, and winning the bronze in Italy with a personal best score. In October, he competed at the Halloween Cup, winning the silver medal. In December, he won his second straight senior national title. He was named to the 2020 European Figure Skating Championships, but withdrew. He placed fifteenth at the 2020 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Shmuratko was assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[6]

With pandemic-related travel restrictions limiting where skaters could compete, Shmuratko began the season at a European-only 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, where he placed twelfth.[7] After winning his third consecutive Ukrainian national title, Shmuratko competed at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, placing twenty-first.[8] His result qualified a men's berth for Ukraine at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[9]