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Marilena Kitromilis
Marilena Kitromilis
	Kitromilis at 2022 Skate America
Born	October 15, 2004 (age 20); Georgetown, D.C.
Hometown	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Cyprus (since 2020); United States (until 2020)
Coach	Sergei Komolov
Skating club	Leader FSC

Marilena Kitromilis (born October 15, 2004) is a Cypriot-American figure skater who represents Cyprus in women's singles skating. She is the 2021 CS Autumn Classic International champion. She is the first Cypriot figure skater to win an ISU-sanctioned international competition. Kitromilis also made history by being the first Cypriot figure skater to compete at a senior Grand Prix event.

Personal life

Kitromilis was born on October 15, 2004, to her Cypriot mother, Maria Kitromilis, and American father, William Adams. She has a twin brother, Mikhail. Though born and raised in the United States, Kitromilis is of Cypriot descent. She traveled to Cyprus multiple times throughout her childhood to spend summers with the families of her grandfather's siblings and many cousins. Her maternal grandfather was born and raised in Karavas, Cyprus. She enjoys reading books of various genres in her free time.

Career

Early years

Kitromilis started skating on ponds with her mother and twin brother at the age of two and half. She began learn-to-skate classes at four years old with coach Becky Curry and quickly progressed to private lessons.^[1] She competed domestically in the United States at the juvenile through novice levels before transitioning to represent Cyprus, internationally, in advance of the 2020–21 season.^[2]

2020–21 season

Kitromilis made her international senior debut representing Cyprus in October at the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy, where she finished twelfth. She competed at one other international event that season, the 2020 Santa Claus Cup, where she placed sixth. Throughout the 2020–21 season, Kitromilis was in the process of transitioning to a new coaching team from former coaches Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson. She changed coaches to Olga Ganicheva, Aleksey Letov, and Sergei Minaev.^[3]

2021–22 season

Kitromilis opened the Olympic season competing at the Cranberry Cup in mid-August in Norwood, Massachusetts. She placed eighth in the short program and tenth in the free skate to finish eighth overall. At her second assignment of the season, Kitromilis earned her first international title by winning the 2021 CS Autumn Classic International, in what was considered an upset victory. She scored personal bests in both segments of the competition, as well as overall.^[4] She won the gold medal ahead of South Korean competitors You Young and Ji Seo-yeon.^[5] Kitromilis' scores met the required technical minimums to allow her to compete at the 2022 European and World Championships. She is the first-ever Cypriot figure skater to win an ISU-sanctioned international competition.

She competed at two more Challenger events in the fall, the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup and the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, where she finished twelfth and fifth, respectively. In January 2022, Kitromilis made her European Championships debut in Tallinn, Estonia. She finished thirty-second in the short program and did not advance to the free skate. She was thirtieth in the short program at her 2022 World Championship debut.^[2]

2022–23 season

Kitromilis began this season with an injury to her left knee.^[6] After finishing ninth at the 2022 U.S. Classic, Kitromilis made her Grand Prix debut at 2022 Skate America. Despite the pain in her knee, she competed and finished eleventh. Kitromilis then competed at the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup and the 2022 CS Golden Spin before going to Latvia for the 2022 Latvia Trophy, where she placed third overall.

At the 2023 European Championships, she finished in eighteenth place after the SP after a misstep in her footwork. She placed thirteenth overall after the free skate, where she was in tenth place with a season's best score. A week later, Kitromilis competed at the 2023 Bavarian Open, where she placed third overall. She also changed coaches to Sergei Komolov and relocated to Dubai for training.^[7] Going into the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Kitromilis faced difficulties training with her ongoing knee injury going into Worlds and came in thirty-first overall, which was not enough to reach the free skate. At the end of the season, she ranked 46th in the ISU season's world ranking for women.^[8]

2023–24 season

Kitromilis did not compete this season. She entered the 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb, but she withdrew in November. In February 2024, she underwent surgery for her knee injury.^[9]

2024–25 season

Making her return to competition, Kitromilis finished sixteenth at the 2024 Denkova-Staviski Cup and seventeenth at the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy.^[10]

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2024–2025 ^[11]	Masquerade Waltz by Aram Khachaturian choreo. by Sergei Komolov	En Aranjuez con tu Amor by Sarah Brightman and London Symphony Orchestra Red Violin by Joaquín Rodrigo, Ikuko Kawai, and Alfredo García Segura Lux Radio Show 004 by Asvvax choreo. by Sergei Komolov
2023–2024 ^[12]		What a Wonderful World by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss performed by 2WEI Cernunnos by Christian Reindl and Lucie Paradis Mad World by Tears for Fears performed by 2WEI choreo. by Sergei Komolov
2022–2023^[13]	Mamma la rondinella Taranta by Ludovico Einaudi choreo. by Benoît Richaud	Mother Lion Theme (from Lion) by Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka Run With Your Heart by Dream Cave choreo. by Benoît Richaud	Faded by Alan Walker
2021–2022^[3]	Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven performed by Depeche Mode choreo. by Olga Ganicheva	The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi arr. by Abel Korzeniowski choreo. by Olga Ganicheva

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series

For Cyprus

International
Event	20–21	21–22	22–23	23–24	24–25
Worlds		30th	31st
Europeans		31st	13th
GP Skate America			11th
CS Autumn Classic		1st
CS Budapest Trophy	12th
CS Golden Spin		5th	11th	WD
CS U.S. Classic			9th
CS Tallinn Trophy					17th
CS Warsaw Cup		12th	19th
Bavarian Open			3rd
Cranberry Cup		8th
Denkova-Staviski Cup					16th
Latvia Trophy			3rd
Santa Claus Cup	6th

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System ^[10]
Segment	Type	Score	Event
Total	TSS	180.72	2021 CS Autumn Classic International
Short program	TSS	61.33	2021 CS Autumn Classic International
	TES	35.57	2021 CS Autumn Classic International
	PCS	26.02	2022 World Championships
Free skating	TSS	119.39	2021 CS Autumn Classic International
	TES	61.95	2021 CS Autumn Classic International
	PCS	57.44	2021 CS Autumn Classic International

For Cyprus

ISU Personal best in bold.

Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
2024-25 season
November 11-17, 2024	2024 CS Tallinn Trophy	8 49.72	19 71.28	17 121.00
November 5-10, 2024	2024 Denkova-Staviski Cup	7 53.51	17 82.48	16 135.99
2022–23 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 22–26, 2023	2023 World Championships	31 48.92	-	31 48.92
Jan. 31 – Feb. 5, 2023	2023 Bavarian Open	5 50.31	3 100.94	3 151.25
January 25–29, 2023	2023 European Championships	18 53.71	10 105.20	13 158.91
December 17–18, 2022	2022 Latvia Trophy	1 64.92	5 100.89	3 165.81
December 7–10, 2022	2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb	5 54.58	14 95.43	11 150.01
November 16–20, 2022	2022 CS Warsaw Cup	24 39.32	16 88.98	19 128.30
October 21–23, 2022	2022 Skate America	12 46.01	11 89.47	11 135.48
September 13–16, 2022	2022 CS U.S. Classic	7 52.55	11 77.09	9 129.64
2021–22 season
March 21–27, 2022	2022 World Championships	30 53.32	–	30 53.32
January 10–16, 2022	2022 European Championships	32 44.03	-	32 44.03
December 9–11, 2021	2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb	5 58.71	5 108.24	5 166.65
November 17–20, 2021	2021 CS Warsaw Cup	12 54.77	12 102.35	12 157.12
September 16–18, 2021	2021 CS Autumn Classic	1 61.33	2 119.39	1 180.72
August 11–15, 2021	2021 Cranberry Cup International	8 57.93	10 101.46	8 159.39
2020–21 season
November 26–29, 2021	2020 Santa Claus Cup	9 38.11	5 94.82	6 132.93
October 14–17, 2021	2020 CS Budapest Trophy	14 33.10	11 83.20	12 116.30