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Native name
  
Maksim Spodirєv

Name
  
Maksym Spodyriev

Training locations
  
Torun

Height
  
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)

Residence
  
Torun, Poland

Country represented
  
Poland

Partner
  
Natalia Kaliszek


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Born
  
29 December 1993 (age 30) (
1993-12-29
)
Kharkiv, Ukraine

Former partner
  
Daria Korotitskaia, Veronika Sharapova

Coach
  
Sylwia Nowak-Trebacka, Anastasia Vykhodtseva

Former country(ies) represented
  
Ukraine

Former training locations
  
Kharkiv

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Maksym Spodyriev (Ukrainian: Максим Сподирєв; born 29 December 1993) is a Polish ice dancer. With his skating partner, Natalia Kaliszek, he has won two medals on the ISU Challenger Series and two Polish national titles. They have competed in the final segment at six ISU Championships. Spodyriev skated for Ukraine earlier in his career.

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Personal life

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Maksym Spodyriev was born on 29 December 1993 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He moved to Toruń, Poland in 2014. He was granted Polish citizenship in 2016.

Early career

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Spodyriev began learning to skate in 1998. He switched from singles to ice dancing when he was fourteen years old. Following a partnership with Veronika Sharapova, he teamed up with Russian-born ice dancer Daria Korotitskaia in 2011. The two competed internationally for Ukraine, coached by Halyna Churilova and Mariana Kozlova in Kharkiv. They appeared at four ISU Junior Grand Prix events, placing as high as fourth, before parting ways at the end of the 2013–2014 season.

2014–2015 season

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In 2014, Spodyriev began competing with Polish ice dancer Natalia Kaliszek for Poland, coached by Sylwia Nowak-Trębacka in Toruń. The two made their international debut at the Volvo Open Cup, where they took the junior silver medal. Switching to the senior level, they placed sixth at a Challenger Series (CS) event, the Warsaw Cup, before winning gold at the Santa Claus Cup. They won the Polish national title at the Four Nationals in December 2014 and took bronze the following month at the MNNT Cup.

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Kaliszek/Spodyriev were selected to represent Poland at the European Championships, held in late January 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. Ranked 15th in the short dance, they qualified to the free dance, where they placed 14th and rose to 14th overall. In early March, they made their second and final appearance on the junior level, competing at the World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia; they placed 10th in the short dance, 6th in the free dance, and 7th overall. Later in March, they traveled to Shanghai, China for the World Championships, but were eliminated after placing 24th in the short dance.

2015–2016 season

Kaliszek/Spodyriev competed in three 2015–16 Challenger Series competitions. After placing 7th at the Nebelhorn Trophy, they won bronze at the Mordovian Ornament and silver at the Warsaw Cup. They finished third in the Challenger Series ranking.

Kaliszek/Spodyriev placed 11th at the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, having ranked 11th in both segments. At the 2016 World Championships in Boston, they placed 14th in the short dance, 16th in the free dance, and 16th overall. At the end of May 2016, it was announced that the International Skating Union had chosen the foxtrot portion of their short dance to become a pattern dance.

2016–2017 season

Starting their season on the Challenger Series, Kaliszek/Spodyriev placed 4th at the 2016 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial and 5th at the 2016 CS Finlandia Trophy, in early October. During training in early November, they had a fall, related to poor rink conditions in Toruń, that resulted in her blade cutting two of his fingers. Later in the same month, they debuted on the Grand Prix series, having received invitations to two events. The duo finished 5th at the 2016 Cup of China and 7th at the 2016 NHK Trophy.

In January 2017, Kaliszek/Spodyriev finished 8th at the European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In March, they placed 15th in the short, 13th in the free, and 14th overall at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Due to their result, Poland qualified a spot in the ice dancing event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

References

Maksym Spodyriev Wikipedia