| Natalia Khabibullina | |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Fullname: | Natalia Alekseevna Khabibullina |
| Also Known As: | Natalya |
| Birth Date: | 18 December 2004 |
| Birth Place: | Izhevsk, Russia |
| Hometown: | Moscow, Russia |
| Partner: | Ilya Knyazhuk |
| Formerpartner: | Ivan Balchenko |
| Coach: | Sergei Dobroskokov, Sergei Rosliakov |
| Formercoach: | Natalia Antipina, Eteri Tutberidze, Sergei Dudakov |
| Choreographer: | Ekaterina Dmitrieva |
| Skating Club: | Olympic Sports School No. 2, Moscow |
| Former Skating Club: | Sambo-70, SShOR Izhevsk |
| Currenttraininglocations: | Moscow Novogorsk, Russia |
| Beganskating: | 2008 |
| Combined Total: | 188.84 |
| Combined Date: | 2021 JGP Austria |
| Sp Score: | 64.23 |
| Sp Date: | 2021 JGP Austria |
| Fs Score: | 124.61 |
Natalia Alekseevna Khabibullina (Russian: Наталья Алексеевна Хабибуллина, born 18 December 2004) is a Russian pair skater. With her current partner, Ilya Knyazhuk, she is the 2021 JGP Austria champion, the 2021 JGP Russia silver medalist, and the 2022 Russian junior national champion.
Khabibullina was born on 18 December 2004, in Izhevsk, Russia, to parents Aleksei and Marina. She has a younger brother, Mikhail.[1]
Khabibullina began learning to skate in 2008 as a four-year-old in her hometown of Izhevsk. She shares the same first coach as 2018 Olympic champion Alina Zagitova, Natalia Antipina. Khabibullina trained under Antipina as a single skater until the end of the 2015–16 season, after which she relocated to Moscow to train under Eteri Tutberidze and her coaching team at Sambo-70. She skated under Tutberidze for two seasons before transitioning to pair skating with her first partner, Ivan Balchenko, for the 2018–19 season.
Khabibullina/Balchenko competed together for just one season, coached by Sergei Dobroskokov in Moscow. They received one international junior assignment, the 2018 Ice Star, where they finished second behind Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov. The team split at the end of the 2018–19 season, leading Khabibullina to team up with her current partner, Ilya Knyazhuk.
Khabibullina/Knyazhuk made their international junior debut in September at the 2021 JGP Russia. They placed second in both the short program and the free skate to take the silver medal overall behind compatriots Ekaterina Chikmareva / Matvei Ianchenkov. At their second assignment, the 2021 JGP Austria in October, the team set new personal bests in both segments of competition, as well as overall, to take the title ahead of Russian teammates Anastasia Mukhortova / Dmitry Evgenyev and Georgian pair Karina Safina / Luka Berulava. Their placements across their two events qualified them to the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final as the second-seeded team of four, but the event was later canceled due to concerns related to the discovery of the Omicron variant.
Khabibullina/Knyazhuk next made their debut at the senior-level Russian Championships in December. The team placed ninth in the short program and eighth in the free skate to finish seventh overall due to shifting ordinals. They were the highest-ranked of the teams competing internationally as juniors.
At the 2022 Russian Junior Championships the following month, Khabibullina/Knyazhuk narrowly won the title over Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev with a strong free skate performance after placing second to the rival team in the short program.[2]
| Season | Short program | Free skating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023–2024 | Game of Thrones | ||
| 2022–2023 | The Mask
| Pachuco! | |
| 2021–2022 |
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JGP: Junior Grand Prix
| International: Junior | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 | 23–24 | ||
| align=left | C | |||||
| align=left | bgcolor=gold | 1st | ||||
| align=left | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | ||||
| National | ||||||
| align=left | 7th | 6th | 4th | |||
| align=left | 8th | bgcolor=gold | 1st | |||
| align=left | 6th J | bgcolor=gold | 1st J | 4th | 4th | |
| Golden Skate | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | ||
| Heart of Siberia | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | ||||
| Moscow Stars | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | ||||
| TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled J = Junior level |
| 2023–24 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14-19 February 2024 | 2024 Russian Grand Prix Final | align=center | 4 77.10 | align=center | 6 135.62 | align=center | 4 212.72 | |
| 20–24 December 2023 | 2024 Russian Championships | align=center | 6 73.82 | align=center | 4 141.87 | align=center | 4 215.69 | |
| 24–27 November 2023 | 2023 Cup of Russia Series, 6th Stage | align=center | 3 76.40 | align=center | 2 143.92 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 220.32 | |
| 20–23 October 2023 | 2023 Cup of Russia Series, 2nd Stage | align=center | 3 72.69 | align=center | 2 148.98 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 221.67 | |
| 2022–23 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
| 3-5 March 2023 | 2023 Russian Grand Prix Final | align=center | 6 76.52 | align=center | 4 140.96 | align=center | 4 217.48 | |
| 20–26 December 2022 | 2023 Russian Championships | align=center | 6 74.89 | align=center | 6 134.64 | align=center | 6 209.53 | |
| 11–14 November 2022 | 2022 Cup of Russia Series, 4th Stage | align=center | 2 74.75 | align=center | 2 139.44 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 214.19 | |
| 21–24 October 2022 | 2022 Cup of Russia Series, 1st Stage | align=center | 2 77.87 | align=center | 1 146.60 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 224.47 | |
| 2021–22 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
| 21–26 December 2021 | 2022 Russian Championships | align=center | 8 71.35 | align=center | 9 124.51 | align=center | 7 195.86 |
| 2021–22 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18–22 January 2022 | 2022 Russian Junior Championships | align=center | 2 71.60 | align=center | 1 130.22 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 201.82 | |
| 6-9 October 2021 | 2021 JGP Austria | align=center | 1 64.23 | align=center | 1 124.61 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 188.84 | |
| 15-18 September 2021 | 2021 JGP Russia | align=center | 2 63.00 | align=center | 2 120.87 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 183.87 |