Anastasia Gracheva
 Gracheva at the 2024 World Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Анастасия Грачева |
| Full name | Anastasia Gracheva |
| Born | 14 November 2001 |
| Home town | Moscow, Russia |
| Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) |
| Figure skating career | |
| Country |  Moldova (since 2022) Russia (until 2020) |
| Coach | Julia Lebedeva |
| Skating club | Krystal Sports Complex |
| Began skating | 2005 |
Anastasia Gracheva (Russian: Анастасия Грачева; born 14 November 2001) is a Russian-Moldovan figure skater who currently competes for Moldova. She is the 2025 Skate Helena champion and the 2025 Budapest Trophy silver medalist.
She is the first female skater to represent Moldova at an ISU Championship event (2023 European Championships).[1][2]
Personal life
Gracheva was born on 14 November 2001 in Moscow, Russia.[1]
Career
Early career
Skating for Russia
Gracheva debuted domestically for Russia in the 2015–16 season placing fourth at the Russian Cup 5th Stage. The following season, she won the silver medal at the Russian Cup 5th Stage.[3]
She debuted for Russia internationally at 2017 Ice Star in Minsk, Belarus finishing in fourth place with a score of 162.59.[4] The following month, she won the bronze medal on the junior level at the 2017 Tallinn Trophy behind Anastasiia Arkhipova of Ukraine and Anastasiia Gubanova, also of Russia.[3] She later placed seventeenth at the 2018 Russian Championships.[5]
The following two seasons, Gracheva did not appear on the international circuit. She continued to compete domestically for Russia. She finished 7th at the 2019 Russian Cup Final[3] and 16th at the 2020 Russian Championships.[6]
2022–2023 season
Skating for Moldova
In 2022, Gracheva began to represent Moldova. She made her debut for Moldova at the 2022 Budapest Trophy finishing in sixth place.[7] The following month she went onto win the 2022 Bosphorus Cup.[3][2]
Gracheva made her championship debut in January at the 2023 European Championships in Espoo, Finland making her the first female singles figure skater to represent Moldova at an ISU championship event.[2] She placed twenty-eighth in the short program segment and did not advance to the free skate.[8]
In March, she competed at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Japan where she finished thirtieth in the short program segment, unable to advance to the free skate.[9][10]
2023–2024 season
Gracheva won the silver medal at the 2024 Skate Helena, as well as at the 2024 Ephesus Cup.[3] She appeared at the 2024 World Championships where she placed thirty-third in the short program, unable to advance to the free skate.
2024–2025 season
Gracheva won the silver medal at the 2024 Bosphorus Cup and gold at the 2025 Skate Helena.[3] In April, she closed out the season by winning silver at the 2025 Black Sea Ice Cup.[3]
Although having the technical minimums required, Gracheva did not make an appearance at the 2025 European Championships.[3]
2025–2026 season
Since Gracheva did not appear at the prior 2025 World Championships, Moldovan women did not have the opportunity to garner an Olympic quota for the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics.[11] In September, Gracheva opened her season by competing at the 2025 Skate to Milano event – a second opportunity to earn Olympic spots. In the ladies event, skaters must finish in the top five to earn a spot for their country.[12] Gracheva placed sixteenth in the event leaving Moldova without an Olympic quota.[13]
Just two weeks later, Gracheva won the silver medal at the 2025 Budapest Trophy.[14]
At the 2026 European Championships, Gracheva finished thirty-third after the short program and did not advance to the free skate.[15] The following week, she finished in fourth place and achieved her technical minimums for the upcoming World Championships at the 2026 Merano Trophy.[3]
At the 2026 World Championships, Gracheva achieved a new season's best in the short program finishing in twenty-fifth place, unable to advance to the free skate by one point.[16][17]
Programs
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–2026 |
by Leunid Levashkevich |
by Evgeni Doga |
|
| 2024–2025 |
by Hugh Laurie |
by Catalina Cara |
|
| 2023–2024 |
by Alexei Aigui |
by Aytekin Atas, Soner Akazien and Fahir Atakoglu
by Jamilya Serkebaeva |
|
| 2022–2023 |
Competitive highlights
Skating for Moldova
- GP – Event of the ISU Grand Prix Series
- JGP – Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series
- CS – Event of the ISU Challenger Series
- TBD – Assigned
- WD – Withdrew from competition
| Segment | Type | Score | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | TSS | 157.46 | 2022 Budapest Trophy |
| Short program | TSS | 53.46 | 2022 Budapest Trophy |
| TES | 30.65 | 2023 World Championships | |
| PCS | 24.85 | 2022 Budapest Trophy | |
| Free skating | TSS | 104.00 | 2022 Budapest Trophy |
| TES | 56.80 | 2025 Golden Spin | |
| PCS | 50.07 | 2022 Budapest Trophy |
| Season | 2022–23 | 2023–24 | 2024–25 | 2025–26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Championships | 30th | 33rd | 25th | |
| European Championships | 28th | 33rd | ||
| Bosphorus Cup | 1st | 2nd | ||
| Black Sea Cup | 2nd | |||
| Budapest Trophy | 6th | 13th | 2nd | |
| Denkova Staviski Cup | 6th | |||
| Dragon Trophy | 6th | 5th | ||
| Ephesus Cup | 2nd | |||
| Golden Spin | 13th | |||
| Golden Spin | 13th | |||
| Merano Trophy | 4th | |||
| Skate to Milano | 16th | |||
| Skate Helena | 2nd | 1st | ||
| Denis Ten Challenge | 5th | 11th |
Skating for Russia
| Segment | Type | Score | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | TSS | 162.59 | 2017 Ice Star |
| Short program | TSS | 56.09 | 2017 Ice Star |
| TES | 30.87 | 2017 Ice Star | |
| PCS | 25.16 | 2017 Ice Star | |
| Free skating | TSS | 106.56 | 2017 Ice Star |
| TES | 54.40 | 2017 Ice Star | |
| PCS | 52.16 | 2017 Ice Star |
| Season | 2015–16 | 2016–17 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russian Championships | 17th | 16th | |||
| Russian Cup Final | 7th | ||||
| Russian Cup Stage 5 | 4th | 2nd | 4th | ||
| Russian Cup Stage 2 | 5th | 5th | |||
| Russian Cup Stage 1 | 5th | 6th | 4th | 6th | |
| Ice Star | 4th |
| Season | 2017–18 |
|---|---|
| Tallinn Trophy | 3rd |
References
- 1 2 3 "Anastasia GRACHEVA - International Skating Union". isu-skating.com. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- 1 2 3 "Anastasia Gracheva, the first representative of the Republic of Moldova to perform at the European Figure Skating Championships". moldova1.md. 2023-01-20. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Skating Scores: Latest Figure Skating Results, Scores, Rankings & Statistics". skatingscores.com. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "ISU CS Minsk Arena Ice Star". isu-skating.com. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "Rostelecom Russian Nationals 2018". fsrussia.ru. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "Class | RinkResults". www.rinkresults.com. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "ISU CS Budapest Trophy 2022". isu-skating.com. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "ISU European Figure Skating Championships 2023 - Women". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2023". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- 1 2 Skating ISU (2023-03-22). Women Short Program | Saitama 2023 | #WorldFigure. Retrieved 2026-04-10 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Road to Milano Cortina: 83 Olympia quota places earned at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2025". isu-skating.com. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "Olympic Winter Games Figure Skating Qualifying Event". isu-skating.com. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "ISU Skate to Milano Figure Skating Qualifier 2025 – Beijing - Women". results.isu.org. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "Budapest Trophy 2025 - Women". hunskate.hu. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "ISU European Championships 2026 - Women". results.isu.org. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "ISU Figure Skating World Championships 2026 - Women". results.isu.org. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "ISU Figure Skating World Championships 2026 - Women - Short Program". results.isu.org. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ cloudy (2025-04-16). Anastasia Gracheva – 2025 Black Sea Ice Cup FS. Retrieved 2026-04-10 – via YouTube.
- ↑ cloudy (2022-12-02). Anastasia Gracheva – 2022 Bosphorus Istanbul Cup SP. Retrieved 2026-04-10 – via YouTube.