Alina Urushadze (, ; born 7 January 2004) is a retired Latvian-born Georgian-Russian figure skater who represented Georgia. She is the 2019 Bosphorus Cup silver medalist and the 2019 Volvo Open Cup bronze medalist. She placed 11th at the 2019 World Junior Championships and 5th at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

Personal life Urushadze was born in Riga, Latvia on 7 January 2004. She has an older brother and younger sister. Her paternal grandfather is Georgian, which aided in her process to obtain Georgian citizenship.

She has expressed interest in becoming a figure skating coach after retiring from competitive figure skating.

Career Urushadze began skating in 2008. She initially skated for Latvia until 2018 when Mariam Giorgobiani, the president of the Georgian Figure Skating Federation, approached Urushadze due to her Georgian surname and asked if she would be interested in representing Georgia. Urushadze agreed to this and began representing Georgia in October 2018 at the age of thirteen.

2018–2019 season In October 2018, Urushadze made her ISU Junior Grand Prix series debut in Yerevan, Armenia at the 2018 JGP Armenia. Despite placing fifth in both the short program and the free skate, she finished sixth overall and did not receive another Junior Grand Prix assignment for the season. Throughout the rest of the season, Urushadze went on to compete in the junior category at a number of smaller events, before wrapping up with her two largest events of the season: the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival and the 2019 World Junior Championships. At EYOF, Urushadze placed fourth in the short program, but fell to seventh after the free skate and sixth overall.

At Junior Worlds the following month, Urushadze ranked fifteenth after the short program, which put her in the third-to-last warm-up group for the free skate, where she placed eleventh, rising to eleventh overall.

2019–2020 season Given two assignments on the Junior Grand Prix, Urushadze placed eighth in France and sixth in Croatia. After competing at a number of small senior competitions, winning medals at two of them, she competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, where she placed fifth. Making her senior ISU Championship debut, she placed fifteenth at the 2020 European Championships. She concluded the season with a fifteenth-place finish at the 2020 World Junior Championships.

Urushadze had been assigned to make her World Championship debut in Montreal, but they were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

2020–2021 season With the pandemic continuing to limit international events, the ISU opted to assign the Grand Prix based primarily on geographic location. Urushadze made her Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Rostelecom Cup, finishing tenth among the ten competitors. She placed twentieth at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm. Urushadze's result qualified a berth for Georgia at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

2021–2022 season Urushadze began the season by competing on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing seventh at the 2021 JGP France I. She went on to finish fifth at the 2021 Budapest Trophy. At the 2021 Volvo Open Cup, Urushadze won the gold medal before finishing seventeenth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup.

The Olympic spot for Georgia was ultimately awarded to Anastasia Gubanova.

2023–2024 season In June 2023, the Georgian Figure Skating Federation announced that Urushadze would return to competition after a season of not competing. It was also announced that Urushadze had left Moscow, returned to her hometown of Riga, and training under former coach, Andrejs Brovenko.

She finished tenth at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy and the 2023 CS Budapest Trophy. Urushadze then competed at the 2024 European Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, finishing twenty-second.

She announced her retirement from competitive figure skating in November 2024.

In April 2025, Urushadze came out of retirement to compete for Team Georgia at the 2025 World Team Trophy. She placed twelfth in the women's singles event and Team Georgia finished in sixth place overall.

Programs Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2024–2025 I Wanna Dance SOS Mamma Mia 2023–2024 Love on the Brain The Sparkling Diamond 2022–23 Did not compete this season 2021–2022 Creep Anna Karenina 2020–2021 Asturias Non, je ne regrette rien The Ninth Hour Milord 2019–2020 Boléro Mas que nada Hip Hip Chin Chin 2018–2019 Toruk – The First Flight "Knock on Wood" Selection "You Don't Own Me"

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

International Event 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 23–24 24–25 Worlds C 20th Europeans 15th 22nd Georgian Championships 2nd Rostelecom 10th Budapest Trophy 10th Lombardia Trophy WD 10th Warsaw Cup WD 17th Budapest Trophy 5th Golden Bear 7th Istanbul Cup 2nd Volvo Open Cup 3rd 1st World Team Trophy 6th T 12th P International: Junior Youth Olympics 5th Junior Worlds 11th 18th Armenia 6th Croatia 6th France 8th 7th EYOF 6th Ice Star 4th Istanbul Cup 2nd Prague Ice Cup 2nd Skate Helena 1st

Detailed results Senior level 2023–24 season Date Event SP FS Total 10-14 January 2024 2024 European Figure Skating Championships 23 50.54 21 90.12 22 140.66 13-15 October 2023 2023 CS Budapest Trophy 15 50.88 10 102.49 10 153.37 8–10 September 2023 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy 7 54.11 9 98.49 10 152.69

Junior level 2021–22 season Date Event Level SP FS Total 17–20 November 2021 2021 CS Warsaw Cup Senior 14 54.11 19 93.28 17 147.39 3–7 November 2021 2021 Volvo Open Cup Senior 3 55.36 1 122.93 1 178.29 14–17 October 2021 2021 Budapest Trophy Senior 5 60.32 5 118.82 5 179.14 18–21 August 2021 2021 JGP France I Junior 7 52.29 7 90.59 7 142.88 2020–21 season 22–28 March 2021 2021 World Championships Senior 18 59.89 20 109.12 20 169.01 20–22 November 2020 2020 Rostelecom Cup Senior 10 55.86 10 94.82 10 150.68 2019–20 season Date Event Level SP FS Total 2–8 March 2020 2020 World Junior Championships Junior 18 52.68 18 95.43 18 148.11 24–25 January 2020 2020 European Championships Senior 12 59.56 18 95.25 15 154.81 10–15 January 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Junior 5 63.10 6 116.40 5 179.50 25–30 November 2019 2019 Bosphorus Cup Senior 1 56.68 2 100.23 2 156.91 5–10 November 2019 2019 Volvo Open Cup Senior 4 57.07 3 106.76 3 163.83 24–27 October 2019 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb Senior 7 53.95 11 93.26 7 147.21 25–28 September 2019 2019 JGP Croatia Junior 5 55.98 9 97.60 6 153.58 21–24 August 2019 2019 JGP France Junior 8 55.89 8 102.13 8 158.02 2018–2019 season Date Event Level SP FS Total 4–10 March 2019 2019 World Junior Championships Junior 15 52.53 11 105.43 11 157.96 13–14 February 2019 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival Junior 4 55.99 7 95.30 6 151.29 16–19 January 2019 2019 Skate Helena Junior 1 51.83 2 94.88 1 146.71 28–29 November 2018 2018 Bosphorus Cup Junior 2 50.36 2 94.30 2 144.66 9–11 November 2018 2018 Prague Ice Cup Junior 3 46.79 1 93.08 2 139.87 18–21 October 2018 2018 Ice Star Junior 4 49.18 3 89.94 4 139.12 10–13 October 2018 2018 JGP Armenia Junior 5 58.31 5 107.06 6 165.37

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