Anastasiia Golubeva

Fast Facts

Sport: Figure Skating
Event: Pairs
Olympic History: Milano Cortina 2026
Highlights:  Senior ISU Grand Prix bronze medal at Skate Canada 2024 and Junior Pairs gold ISU Grand Prix Final 2022/23 (both with Giotopoulos Moore)
Year Born: 2006

About Anastasiia 

Anastasiia Golubeva will make her Olympic debut at the Milano Cortina Games in the Pairs figure skating competition, alongside her competition partner of five years Hektor Giotopoulos Moore.  

The pair started with a rapid rise in the junior ranks and progressed to Australia’s first medal at a senior international Grand Prix in 2024. They have sacrificed a lot to compete together and have been rewarded with top 10 finishes at the past two World Championships. 

Born in Moscow, Anastasiia began as a singles skater before transferring her skills to pairs late in 2019 with Australian partner Hektor. The partnership took shape through the challenges of the pandemic: with borders closed and visas delayed, they improvised off‑ice training in Russia and even briefly shifted to Belarus before finally relocating to Sydney to build their career together. Based in Sydney with extended training blocks alongside other elite pairs in Montreal, the duo established themselves as Australia’s leading pair team.  

Their rise was swift on the junior international circuit. In 2022, they won silver at the World Junior Championships in Tallinn, following it later that year with victory at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Torino, They were the second Australian pair to win that title after Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor. They then repeated as World Junior silver medallists in Calgary in 2023, cementing their status among the world’s best junior pairs.  

Stepping up to seniors, the pair impressed on their World Championship debut in Saitama in 2023. Eleventh after the short program, they delivered a near‑clean free skate ranked fifth in that segment to finish eighth overall, Australia’s best Worlds result in more than two decades. They also won the Australian senior title later that year.  

The 2023–24 season marked their first full senior campaign. Anastasiia and Hektor placed fourth at both Skate Canada International in Vancouver. They then equalled Australia’s best Four Continents result with fourth in Shanghai after surging from seventh in the short program to fourth in the free skate. They rounded out the season with tenth at the World Championships in Montreal on a total of 182.71 points.  

A historic breakthrough followed in October 2024 when they claimed bronze at Skate Canada International in Halifax, Australia’s first medal of any colour in the International Skating Union’s senior Grand Prix series scoring 186.14 points (64.81 short program; 121.33 free skate). They continued that momentum into 2025 with sixth at the Four Continents in Seoul.  

Their finest senior championship to date came at the 2025 World Championships in Boston. A personal‑best short program of 65.73 points set up a ninth‑place finish on 188.24 (free skate 122.51). Crucially, the result secured Australia a quota place in pairs for the Milano‑Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, a milestone that underlines the pair’s steady upward curve at the sport’s pinnacle. The duo placed 11th at the 2026 Four Continents in Beijing, in their final competition before the Games. 

Away from competition, Anastasiia has spoken about the personal challenges behind the results: moving countries without her family and learning a new language, while settling into life in Australia and training frequently in Montreal. She started skating as a child in 2009, inspired by her father; Pilates and learning new things fill her time off the ice. In 2026, she was named a Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship holder, reflecting both her competitive standing and her ambition to contribute to sport beyond competition, with interests that include sports nutrition and psychology.