Anastasiia Gubanova

Anastasia Vitalyevna Gubanova, also known as Anastasiia Gubanova(Russian: Анастасия Витальевна Губанова; born 2 December 2002), is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb silver medalist.

On the junior level, she is the 2016 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, the 2016 JGP Czech Republic champion, and the 2016 JGP Germany champion.

Gubanova was born on 2 December 2002 in Tolyatti, Samara Oblast, Russia.

Early years

Gubanova started learning to skate in 2006. She began appearing internationally in the advanced novice category in November 2013, taking gold at the Warsaw Cup. In the following years, she won the Rooster Cup, Gardena Spring Trophy and NRW Trophy.

2016–17 season

Gubanova's junior international debut came at the 2016–17 ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) competition in Ostrava, Czech Republic; she won the gold medal by a margin of 0.08 over Japan's Rika Kihira, after placing second in the short program and first in the free skate. At the JGP in Dresden, Germany, she ranked first in both segments and outscored the silver medalist, Yuna Shiraiwa, by 17.91 points. Gubanova qualified for the JGP Final in Marseille, France, where she won the silver medal scoring a new personal best in free skate of 133.77 and with a total of 194.07 points, just behind teammate Alina Zagitova who won the gold medal respectively.

At the 2017 Russian Championships, she placed seventh both on the senior level and at the junior event.

2017–18 season

At the 2018 Russian Championships, Gubanova placed 6th on the senior level and 4th at the junior event. During the season she won two international junior events, 2017 Cup of Nice and 2017 Tallinn Trophy.

2018–19 season

In late November Gubanova made her international senior debut at the 2018 CS Tallinn Trophy where she finished 4th. One week later she competed at 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb where she won her first international senior and Challenger Series medal (silver) with a personal best score of 198.65 points.

2019–20 season

Gubanova placed tenth at the 2020 Russian Championships.

• Set junior-level ladies' record for the free program to 129.14 points at the 2016 JGP in Germany, previously held by Marin Honda (Japan).
• On 9 December 2016, she updated her free program record score to 133.77 points at the 2016-17 JGP Final but the record was broken again in the same event, 5 minutes later by teammate Alina Zagitova (Russia).
• First junior lady to achieve a free program score above the 130 mark.

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Senior level

Personal best highlighted in bold.

Junior level

Previous ISU world best highlighted in bold. Personal best highlighted in bold.