Oleksii Shumskyi Explained

Oleksii (Alexei) Shumskyi (Ukrainian: Олексій Шумський; born 3 October 1990) is a competitive ice dancer. Competing for Ukraine with Anastasia Galyeta, he won four medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and placed as high as 8th at the World Junior Championships. With Lolita Yermak, he is the 2014 International Cup of Nice bronze medalist. In 2015, he began competing for Georgia with Tatiana Kozmava.

Career

Early career

Shumskyi debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in 2004 with Ksenia Ponomareva. In 2005, he teamed up with Anastasia Vykhodtseva. They competed in four seasons of the JGP series, winning two bronze medals, before parting ways in autumn 2008.

Partnership with Galyeta

Shumskyi teamed up with Anastasia Galyeta in November 2008. After becoming the Ukrainian junior silver medalists, they were assigned to the 2009 World Junior Championships, where they finished 23rd. They placed eighth the following year at the 2010 World Junior Championships. In their third season, Galyeta/Shumskyi won silver and bronze medals on the JGP series, qualified for the JGP Final, where they finished seventh, and placed 13th at the 2011 World Junior Championships. During their last season together, 2011–12, they won two silver medals on the JGP series and placed 5th at the JGP Final but were later disqualified due to Galyeta's positive doping sample.

In February 2012, it was reported that Galyeta and Shumskyi had parted ways.

Later partnerships

Shumskyi skated with Anastasia Kabanova in the 2012–13 season, placing fourth on the senior level at the Ukrainian Championships.

Shumskyi began competing with Lolita Yermak in the 2013–14 season, taking the bronze medal at the Ukrainian Championships in December 2013. In 2014–15, the two won bronze at the International Cup of Nice and silver at the Ukrainian Championships. Their last competition together was the 2015 Winter Universiade, where they placed 9th.

Switch to Georgia

Shumskyi began competing with Tatiana Kozmava for Georgia in the 2015–16 season.

Programs

With Yermak

Season	Short dance	Free dance	Exhibition
2014–2015	Sangre del Toro España cañí	Primavera Porteña
2013–2014	Fever Umbrella	Primavera Porteña	Pulp Fiction You Never Can Tell Misirlou

With Galyeta

Season	Short dance	Free dance
2011–2012	Sway Mujer Latina	Tchaikovski Remix
2010–2011	Tango Waltz	Blues Quickstep
	Original dance
2009–2010	Hopak	Malaguena
2008–2009	I Will Play Jazz

With Vykhodtseva

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Kozmava for Georgia

International
Event	2015–16	2016–17
align=left			32nd
align=left			27th
align=left		10th
align=left			7th
align=left			4th

With Yermak for Ukraine

International
Event	2013–14	2014–15
align=left			7th
align=left			bgcolor=cc9966	3rd
align=left		8th
align=left		8th
align=left			9th
National
align=left		bgcolor=cc9966	3rd	bgcolor=silver	2nd

With Galyeta for Ukraine

International
Event	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12
align=left		23rd	8th	13th
align=left				7th	5th DQ
align=left				bgcolor=cc9966	3rd
align=left			7th
align=left					bgcolor=silver	2nd
align=left				bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd
align=left			bgcolor=silver	2nd J
National
align=left		bgcolor=silver	2nd J	bgcolor=gold	1st J
J = Junior level; DQ = Disqualified

With Vykhodtseva for Ukraine

International
Event	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09
align=left				4th
align=left				bgcolor=cc9966	3rd
align=left		9th
align=left		9th
align=left					7th
align=left			8th
align=left					bgcolor=cc9966	3rd
align=left				bgcolor=gold	1st J
National
align=left		5th
J = Junior level

With Ponomareva for Ukraine

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International
Event	2004–05
align=left		11th
align=left		11th