Karina Akopova
Karina Akopova and Nikita Rakhmanin following their short program at the 2025 Skate America | |||||||
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| Native name | Карина Тиграновна Акопова (Russian) | ||||||
| Full name | Karina Tigranovna Akopova | ||||||
| Born | 16 June 2003 | ||||||
| Home town | Sochi, Russia | ||||||
| Height | 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) | ||||||
| Figure skating career | |||||||
| Country | Armenia (since 2025) Russia (until 2024) | ||||||
| Discipline | Pair skating (since 2016) | ||||||
| Partner | Nikita Rakhmanin (since 2020) Maksim Shagalov (2018–20) Timofei Kuznetsov (2016–17) | ||||||
| Coach | Fedor Klimov Dmitri Savin | ||||||
| Skating club | Armenia | ||||||
| Began skating | 2008 | ||||||
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Karina Tigranovna Akopova (Russian: Карина Тиграновна Акопова, Armenian: Կարինա Տիգրանի Ակոպովա; born 16 June 2003) is a Russian-Armenian pair skater who currently competes for Armenia. With her current skating partner, Nikita Rakhmanin, she is the 2026 Armenian national champion and represented Armenia at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Competing with Rakhmanin for Russia, she is the 2021 Budapest Trophy champion, 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge champion, and 2022 Challenge Cup champion.
With her former partner, Maksim Shagalov, Akopova is the 2019 Volvo Open Cup silver medalist and 2020 Bavarian Open bronze medalist.