Polina Shelepen
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Russia
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n figure skater. She is the 2009 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist and 2011 Russian junior silver medalist
2011 Russian Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 Russian Figure Skating Championships are the national championships of Russia for the 2010–2011 season. The winners were crowned the 2011 Russian Champions...

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Career

Shelepen began skating at the age of four-and-a-half. In 2011, she told an interviewer that she'd been taken to the rink by her mother, because she "didn't like to go to kindergarten because there everyone had to eat a cream of wheat".

She won silver at the 2009–2010 Junior Grand Prix Final
2009–2010 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
The 2009–2010 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final was the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and the Junior Grand Prix Final competition of the 2009–2010 figure skating season...

. The next season, she won the JGP in Courchevel and was the bronze medalist at JGP Czech Skate, and finished 5th at the 2010–2011 Junior Grand Prix Final
2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
The 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final is the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and the Junior Grand Prix Final competition of the 2010–2011 season...

. In the 2011-12 season, she continued on the Junior Grand Prix, winning events in Latvia and Romania to qualify for the 2011–2012 Junior Grand Prix Final
2011–2012 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
The 2011–2012 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final will be the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and the Junior Grand Prix Final competition of the 2011–2012 season...

.

Shelepen has a full arsenal of triple jumps and has attempted the quadruple Salchow
Salchow jump
The Salchow is a figure skating jump with a takeoff from a back inside edge of one foot. The rotation in the air is made in the direction of the curve of the take-off edge. The landing is made on the back outside edge of the foot opposite the one used for take-off. One or more rotations may be...

 in practice.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2011–2012 Variations on classical music:
Marco Polo 
by Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

Violin Concerto
by Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

2010–2011 Swan Lake
Swan Lake
Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...

 (remix version)
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...

Korobeiniki
Korobeiniki
"Korobeiniki" , also known as the Tetris song is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells of an incident between a peddler and a girl "haggling" over a price, with the details only being said in metaphor...

 
Russian folk music
Ain't No Other Man
Ain't No Other Man
"Ain't No Other Man" is a song written by Christina Aguilera, Charles Roane, DJ Premier, Harold Beatty, and Kara DioGuardi for Aguilera's third studio album Back to Basics...

 
by Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...

2009–2010 Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

 Medley
by Edvin Marton
Edvin Marton
Edvin Marton is a Ukrainian composer and violinist of Hungarian ethnicity. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, and other famous skaters often skated to his music.- Biography :He was born in an area of Ukraine largely inhabited by...

 

Adagio in G minor
Adagio in G minor
The Adagio in G minor for violin, strings and organ continuo, is a neo-Baroque composition popularly attributed to the 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, but composed by the 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto and based on the disputed discovery of a...

 
by Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...

Polovetsian Dances
Polovetsian Dances
The Polovtsian Dances are perhaps the best known selections from Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor . They are often played as a stand-alone concert piece. Borodin was the original composer, but the opera was left unfinished at his death and was subsequently completed by Nikolai...

 
from Prince Igor
Prince Igor
Prince Igor is an opera in four acts with a prologue. It was composed by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the East Slavic epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Polovtsian tribes in 1185...

 
by Alexander Borodin
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music...

Ain't No Other Man
Ain't No Other Man
"Ain't No Other Man" is a song written by Christina Aguilera, Charles Roane, DJ Premier, Harold Beatty, and Kara DioGuardi for Aguilera's third studio album Back to Basics...

 
by Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...

2008–2009 Fireworks
by Edvin Marton
Edvin Marton
Edvin Marton is a Ukrainian composer and violinist of Hungarian ethnicity. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, and other famous skaters often skated to his music.- Biography :He was born in an area of Ukraine largely inhabited by...

Love in Venice
by Edvin Marton
Edvin Marton
Edvin Marton is a Ukrainian composer and violinist of Hungarian ethnicity. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, and other famous skaters often skated to his music.- Biography :He was born in an area of Ukraine largely inhabited by...


Competitive highlights

Event 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12
World Junior Championships
World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion...

 
4th 7th
Russian Championships
Russian Figure Skating Championships
The Russian Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Russia. Skaters compete at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.The first Russian national...

 
6th 7th
Russian Junior Championships 3rd 4th 3rd 2nd
Junior Grand Prix Final
ISU Junior Grand Prix Final
The ISU Junior Grand Prix Final is the culminating competition of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, which is a series of junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union...

 
2nd 5th
Junior Grand Prix, Latvia  1st
Junior Grand Prix, Romania  1st
Junior Grand Prix, Czech Republic
2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fourteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for senior-level...

 
3rd
Junior Grand Prix, France
2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fourteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for senior-level...

 
1st
Junior Grand Prix, Belarus
2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the thirteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2009–2010 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level...

 
1st
Junior Grand Prix, Hungary
2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the thirteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2009–2010 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level...

 
1st

Detailed results

2011–2012 season
Date Event Level SP FS Result
September 21-24, 2011 2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Romania Junior 1
50.63
1
106.98
1
157.61
August 31 – September 3, 2011 2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Latvia Junior 5
47.92
1
105.48
1
153.40
2010–2011 season
Date Event Level SP FS Result
February 28 – March 6, 2011. 2011 ISU World Junior Championships
2011 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition during the 2010–2011 season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event crowned the World Junior Champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and...

Junior 4
56.58
8
93.35
7
149.93
February 2–4, 2011 2011 Russian Junior Championships
2011 Russian Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 Russian Figure Skating Championships are the national championships of Russia for the 2010–2011 season. The winners were crowned the 2011 Russian Champions...

Junior 2
60.31
3
114.02
2
174.33
December 26–29, 2010 2011 Russian Championships
2011 Russian Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 Russian Figure Skating Championships are the national championships of Russia for the 2010–2011 season. The winners were crowned the 2011 Russian Champions...

Senior 9
53.89
7
105.14
7
159.03
December 9–12, 2010 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final
2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fourteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for senior-level...

Junior 3
53.26
6
94.11
5
147.37
October 13–17 , 2010 2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Czech Republic
2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fourteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for senior-level...

Junior 2
50.46
3
102.46
3
152.92
August 25–28 , 2010 2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix, France
2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fourteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for senior-level...

Junior 2
48.11
1
103.31
1
151.42
2009–2010 season
Date Event Level SP FS Result
March 8–14, 2010 2010 ISU World Junior Championships
2010 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2010 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was the World Junior Figure Skating Championships for the 2009–2010 figure skating season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", they were an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of...

Junior 7
51.42
3
100.23
4
151.65
February 3–6, 2010 2010 Russian Junior Championships
2010 Russian Figure Skating Championships
The 2010 Russian Figure Skating Championships was the Russian Figure Skating Championships of the 2009-2010 figure skating season. They were the national championship to determine the national champions of Russia. They were organized by the Figure Skating Federation of Russia...

Junior 10
53.49
3
105.85
3
159.34
December 3 – 6, 2009 2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final
2009–2010 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
The 2009–2010 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final was the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and the Junior Grand Prix Final competition of the 2009–2010 figure skating season...

Junior 1
59.54
2
99.75
2
159.29
September 23–27, 2009 2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Belarus
2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the thirteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2009–2010 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level...

Junior 1
49.65
1
101.43
1
151.08
August 26–30, 2009 2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Hungary
2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the thirteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2009–2010 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level...

Junior 1
54.84
1
102.73
1
157.57
2008–2009 season
Date Event Level SP FS Result
January 28–31, 2009 2009 Russian Junior Championships
2009 Russian Figure Skating Championships
The 2009 Russian Figure Skating Championships were the figure skating national championship to determine the national champions of Russia for the 2008–2009 season. Skaters competed at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing...

Junior 7
47.25
4
95.15
4
142.40
December 24–28, 2008 2009 Russian Championships
2009 Russian Figure Skating Championships
The 2009 Russian Figure Skating Championships were the figure skating national championship to determine the national champions of Russia for the 2008–2009 season. Skaters competed at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing...

Senior 9 4 6
142.34

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