Yaroslav Paniot

Yaroslav Vadymovych Paniot (, born 26 December 1997) is a retired Ukrainian-American figure skater. He is the 2021 U.S. national pewter medalist.

Representing Ukraine, he is the 2017 CS Tallinn Trophy bronze medalist, the 2017 Philadelphia International silver medalist, and a two-time Ukrainian national champion (2014, 2017). He has reached the free skate at four ISU Championships and qualified a spot for Ukraine at the 2018 Winter Olympics, where he finished 30th. He last competed for Ukraine in November 2018.

Career

Early career Paniot began skating in 2003. At the 2020 Pacific Coast Sectionals, he was first after the short and third in the free, coming in second overall, only .88 behind the winner, Joonsoo Kim. This qualified him for Nationals. In his US Nationals debut, Paniot finished ninth in the short and tenth in the free, to place tenth overall at the 2020 U.S. Championships.

2020–2021 season Paniot competed in the virtual Championship Series, placing second in his group and second overall behind Eric Sjoberg. This qualified him for his second consecutive national championship. Competing at the 2021 U.S. Championships, he placed fourth in the short program with a clean skate. 173.64|2018 NHK Trophy 74.97| 39.82|2018 CS U.S. International Classic 35.15|2018 CS U.S. International Classic 105.05|2018 NHK Trophy 42.33|2018 NHK Trophy 64.72|2018 NHK Trophy

Single skating (for the United States)