Urushadze was born in Riga, Latvia on 7 January 2004.[2] She has an older brother and younger sister. Her paternal grandfather is Georgian, which aided in her process to obtain Georgian citizenship.[3]
She has expressed interest in becoming a figure skating coach after retiring from competitive figure skating.[3]
Career
Urushadze began skating in 2008.[4][1] 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.[1][3]
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.
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.[7] She placed twentieth at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm.[8] Urushadze's result qualified a berth for Georgia at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[9]
In June 2023, the Georgian Figure Skating Federation announced that Urushadze would return to competition after a season of not competing.[11] It was also announced that Urushadze had left Moscow, returned to her hometown of Riga, and training under former coach, Andrejs Brovenko.[12]
The Sparkling Diamond (from Moulin Rouge!) performed by Karen Olivo, Robyn Hurder, Jacqueline B. Arnold, Holly James, & Jeigh Madjus choreo. by Nikita Mikhailov
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