Hektor Giotopoulos Moore

Fast Facts

Sport: Figure Skating
Event: Pairs
Olympic History: Milano Cortina 2026
Highlights: Winning the first-ever senior ISU Grand Prix medal for Australia
Year Born: 2002

About Hektor

Hektor Giotopoulos Moore will fulfil his Olympic dream when he competes with Anastasiia Golubeva in the Pairs event at Milano Cortina 2026. Their five years skating together began with a rapid rise through the junior ranks and culminated in 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.

Raised between Melbourne and Sydney, Hektor gravitated to the ice early with his siblings. At nine he was captivated by the power and precision of pairs skating at the Sydney Figure Skating Club. Those formative years included a singles milestone, the Australian Novice title in 2017, but by then his ambitions were already fixed on pairs.

In 2019, after a global search for a compatible partner, Hektor teamed up with Anastasiia who was a singles-skater from Moscow. Their partnership was forged in unusual circumstances: when the COVID‑19 pandemic shut rinks in Russia, they improvised off‑ice training sessions, even in a closed restaurant, and temporarily relocated to Belarus before settling in Sydney once borders reopened. Living and training together in Australia, Hektor learned Russian, a practical reflection of a partnership that quickly developed. 

Their competitive ascent was rapid. After two fifth‑place finishes on the Junior Grand Prix in 2021, they claimed gold at Winter Star in Minsk and, in 2022, won silver at the Junior World Championships in Tallinn, just the third Junior Worlds pairs medal for Australia. They missed a planned senior Worlds debut that year due to visa issues, but returned in 2022–23 to win both Junior Grand Prix events in Gdańsk, capture the Junior Grand Prix Final in Turin, and take a second Junior Worlds silver in Calgary.  

Stepping fully into senior company, Hektor and Anastasiia debuted at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, finishing eighth overall after delivering the fifth‑best free skate of the night, a result that announced their potential on the sport’s biggest stage. Seeking daily exposure to world‑class pairs, they added significant training time in Montréal while maintaining their Australian base.  

Their 2023-24 season brought steady progress: fourth at the Shanghai Trophy, fourth at both Skate Canada International and NHK Trophy in their senior Grand Prix debuts, and the Australian senior title. They were fourth at the Four Continents Championships in Shanghai and then cracked the top ten at the 2024 World Championships in Montréal.  

The breakthrough moment arrived in October 2024 at Skate Canada International in Halifax, where Hektor and Anastasiia won bronze, Australia’s first medal of any colour at a senior International Skating Union Grand Prix event. Illness curtailed the rest of their autumn, but they returned to place sixth at the 2025 Four Continents Championships in Seoul.

They saved their sharpest skating for the 2025 World Championships in Boston. A career‑best short program set up a ninth‑place overall finish, and more importantly, secured a quota place for Australia in the pairs event at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Selection to the Australian Team remains subject to nomination and selection processes, but the quota was a landmark step for the program.  

As the 2025–26 season unfolded, Hektor and Anastasiia prioritised preparation for the Olympic year, balancing on‑ice refinement with the practical steps that support their long‑term aim of representing Australia at Milano Cortina and achieving an impressive result. The path has already yielded firsts for the country; the next chapter is about turning those firsts into a sustained presence among the world’s best.  

Just days after their Olympic selection was announced, the duo finalised their preparations at the 2026 Four Continents Championships in Beijing, where they finished 11th after being eighth after the short program.   

Away from his results, Hektor’s story is one of persistence and adaptability. With deep family ties to Greece and Britain and time spent training abroad, he brings a broad cultural lens to his sport; his Russian fluency reflects the partnership’s resilience through uncertain times. The pair’s move to add a training base in Montréal, to be on the ice daily with other elite pairs, shows a pragmatic approach to improvement while staying proudly anchored to their Sydney roots through the Sydney Figure Skating Club.