Mark Kondratiuk
Mark Valeryevich Kondratiuk is a Russian figure skater. He is a 2022 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, 2022 European champion, a two-time Challenger Series medalist and the 2022 Russian national champion.
Personal life
Kondratiuk was born on 3 September 2003 in Podolsk, Russia. After a visit to the Tate Modern Museum , he became interested in art and started painting. His favorite artists are Kazimir Malevich, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Hieronymus Bosch. He is also a student of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.In March 2025 Mark Kondratiuk became a winner of Russian Challenge, a TV show of exhibition figure skating programs, where he skated the satire scene for the music from Don Quixote with Sofia Samodurova. He also won the special prizes for artistry in 2024 and 2025.
In December 2022, the Ukrainian Parliament sanctioned Kondratiuk for his support of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Career
Early years
Kondratiuk began learning to skate in 2006. As a child, he was coached by Lyudmila Sapronova.By 2016, he was being coached by Svetlana Sokolovskaia. He placed sixteenth at the 2017 Russian Junior Championships. Over the following seasons, he appeared at several junior internationals, winning five medals, but received no ISU Junior Grand Prix assignments. Kondratiuk was diagnosed with Osgood–Schlatter disease at age 13; as a result, he missed one season of competition and briefly considered leaving the sport before opting to continue.
2019–20 season
In November, making his senior international debut, Kondratiuk won gold at the Bosphorus Cup in Turkey. In January, he took silver at the Mentor Toruń Cup in Poland.2020–21 season
Competing on the domestic Russian Cup series, Kondratiuk placed eighth in the first stage in Moscow and seventh in the fourth stage in Kazan. These results qualified him only as an alternate for the 2021 Russian Championships initially, but he was added to the roster following the withdrawal of Artur Danielian, the previous year's silver medalist.Ranked third in the short program and second in the free skate, he won the bronze medal at the event, which took place in Chelyabinsk in December. Kondratiuk was a virtual unknown before the championship, making his bronze medal a considerable surprise, with commentators remarking that he "basically came out of nowhere."
Kondratiuk's success at the national championships led to his being invited to compete in the 2021 Channel One Trophy team competition, where he was selected for the "Time of Firsts" team captained by Evgenia Medvedeva. He ranked third in the short program and finished first in the free skate, ahead of national champion Mikhail Kolyada. He subsequently expressed a hope to qualify for the second Russian men's berth at the 2021 World Championships by competing at the Russian Cup Final. Kondratiuk struggled at the event, placing fifth overall.
2021–22 season
Kondratiuk was initially scheduled to make his ISU Junior Grand Prix debut at the first of two JGP events held in Courchevel, France, in August 2021, but he, along with his Russian teammates, was forced to withdraw from the competition as Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine did not meet France's standards for adequate vaccination. After a strong performance at the senior Russian test skates, he was instead assigned to the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy to qualify for a third Olympic berth for Russian men following the results of the 2021 World Championships earlier in the year. Kondratiuk was successful in his endeavour, placing fifth in the short program and second in the free skate to win the bronze medal and take the third of seven available Olympic spots.Kondratiuk competed at a second Challenger event, taking the silver medal at the 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge. He was then assigned to make his [2021-22 ISU 2021-22 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating|Grand Prix of Figure Skating|Grand Prix] debut at the 2021 Rostelecom Cup, where he placed eighth.
At the 2022 Russian Championships, Kondratiuk placed second in the short program with a score of 97.77, 0.26 behind segment leader Evgeni Semenenko. He was only third in the free skate but narrowly won the gold medal, 0.67 points ahead of silver medalist Mikhail Kolyada. He described himself as shocked, deferring to Kolyada as "leader of the Russian men's team" despite the result, adding, "today I might be the leader, but overall I am not."
Making his debut at the European championships in Tallinn, Kondratiuk skated a clean short program and placed second in the segment, 0.70 points behind segment leader Andrei Mozalev. He went on to win the free skate and take the gold medal. Kondratiuk deemed the result a "kind of miracle," as he had only been hoping for a placement in the top three. On January 20, he was officially named to the Russian Olympic team.
Kondratiuk began the Games as the Russian entry in the men's short program of the Olympic team event. Skating cleanly, albeit with a few held landings, he placed third behind Nathan Chen and Shoma Uno, securing eight points for the Russian team. In the free program, Kondratiuk doubled the planned triple Salchow in his triple Lutz-Euler-triple Salchow combination, but otherwise skated cleanly to finish second in the segment behind Yuma Kagiyama and earn nine more points towards Team Russia's combined score. Team Russia, composed of Kondratiuk, Kamila Valieva, pairs skaters Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov, and ice dancers Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov, at first took the gold medal ahead of Team USA and Team Japan, but the retroactive disqualification of Valieva by the Court of Arbitration for Sport demoted them to bronze. Kondratiuk became the youngest Olympic champion in the team event at 18 years and 157 days old, being 45 days younger than Dick Button, who won the men's singles at 18 years and 202 days. He next competed in the men's event. In the short program Kondratiuk turned out on the landings on both his quad attempts, managing only a quad Salchow - double toeloop combination instead of the intended quad-triple. He ranked in fifteenth place in the short program. Kondratiuk performed an error ridden free program, stepping out of his first triple axel attempt, popping the second to a single and falling on his quad triple combination. He ranked fourteenth in the free skate and remained fifteenth overall.
Kondratiuk was originally planning on ending his competitive season at the 2022 World Figure Skating Championships Russian athletes were barred from international competition.
2022–23 season
Due to the Russia's invasion to Ukraine, the Russian athletes ere banned from the participating in international ISU events, and internal season for top skaters consists mainly from internal Grand Prix Stages, national championship and Final Grand Prix events with some commercial tournaments.Since this season Mark started to include quad lutz in his short and free programs. At the beginning of the season Mark tried five quads in free program, but he has changed his FS from "Selma" to "Luna" after unsuccessful presentation at the test skates event. He has won the Grand Prix Stage 2 in Sochi with two quads in SP and three quads in FS and scored 279.00 for this. For his second Grand Prix event in Samara, Mark was leading leading after SP. However, he had his hardest performance in his free program and arrived the third overall in the competition. Later it was announced that Mark had in injury and spent a few days in the hospital afterwards. He still tried to present his programs at Russians Championships 2023 but withdrew from FS. Kondratiuk had his coming back competition at Grand Prix Final 2023 where he became the third and made it to the national reserve team.
2023–24 season
Skating to "Cantos de Fuego" and "Ode to Joy", Mark ended up in 10th place in the Russian Nationals and came in 2nd in the Russian Grand Prix Final with the season best of 297.72 that allowed him to enter the national team. Although the season didn't go smoothly, Kondratiuk consistently included 4 quads in his free program. At the Jumping Championship 2024 he presented the best combination of two jumps quad salchow and triple axel that was scored 20.29.2024–25 season
Mark started the season with triumph at the test skates, where he presented the clean energized short program for "Bangarang" and landed 5 quads in his free program, quad flip including. He repeated the success at the local competition "In memory of Olympic champion S. Grinkov" getting 281.95 points and at his first Grand Prix stage in Magnitogorsk getting 289.74 points. This achievement secured Kondratiuk as the first Russian male skater landed five quads and a combination of the two triple axels in free program. For his second Grand Prix stage in Moscow arrived the third overall being scored 289.11. In 2025 Mark won the short program both at the Russian Nationals and at the Russian Final Grand Prix. He finished 5th in overall at the Nationals due to multiple mistakes because of the illness being scored 274.07, and came in the 2nd place at Russian Grand Prix Final after the fall on his quad flip with his season best 294.06.In the end of the season, Svetlana Sokolovskaya and her team, Mark including, left CSKA and moved to the new academy "Our Hopes" under Moscow Figure Skating Federation governance.