Nikita Katsalapov

Nikita Katsalapov
Katsalapov at the Kremlin in 2022
Personal information
Native name
Никита Геннадьевич Кацалапов
Full nameNikita Gennadyevich Katsalapov
Born (1991-07-10) 10 July 1991
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Figure skating career
Country Russia
PartnerVictoria Sinitsina
CoachAlexander Zhulin
Petr Durnev
Skating clubOlympic School Moskvich, Moscow
Began skating1995
Medal record
Figure skating: Ice dance
Representing  ROC
(with Sinitsina)
Olympic Games
2022 Beijing Ice dancing
2022 Beijing Team
Representing FSR
(with Sinitsina)
World Championships
2021 Stockholm Ice dancing
Representing  Russia
(with Sinitsina)
World Championships
2019 Saitama Ice dancing
Grand Prix Final
2018–19 Vancouver Ice dancing
World Team Trophy
2021 Osaka Team
2019 Fukuoka Team
Representing  Russia
(with Ilinykh)
Olympic Games
2014 Sochi Team
2014 Sochi Ice dancing
World Junior Championships
2010 The Hague Ice dancing
Junior Grand Prix Final
2009–10 Tokyo Ice dancing

Nikita Gennadyevich Katsalapov (Russian: Никита Геннадьевич Кацалапов; born 10 July 1991) is a Russian ice dancer. With Victoria Sinitsina, he is 2022 Olympic silver medalist, the 2022 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, 2021 World champion, two-time European Champion (2020,2022), the 2019 World silver medalist, the 2018–19 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and a two-time Russian national champion (2019–2020). They have also won several medals on the Grand Prix and the Challenger Series, including winning the 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy.

With former partner Elena Ilinykh, he is a 2014 Olympic champion in the team event, a 2014 Olympic bronze medalist in ice dancing, a three-time European medalist (silver in 2013 and 2014; bronze in 2012), and the 2010 World Junior champion.