Luka Berulava

Biography

Luka Berulava (Georgian: ლუკა ბერულავა; born 27 November 2002) is a Georgian pair skater. With current partner Anastasia Metelkina, he is an Olympic silver medalist (2026), World silver medalist (2026), European champion (2026), two-time European Championship medalist (2024, 2025), 2024–25 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix medalist, and a four-time Challenger Series medalist. On the junior level, the pair are two-time World Junior champions (2024, 2025), the 2023–24 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and a two-time ISU Junior Grand Prix gold medalists. He and Metelkina are the first Georgian athletes to ever win a medal at a Winter Olympic Games. Berulava first emerged on the international scene to represent Georgia at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, where he and his partner Alina Butaeva won two medals − bronze in pairs and gold in the team event. He then formed a new partnership with Karina Safina. Safina/Berulava were the first Georgian pair medalists on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit, and the first Georgians to win a World Junior title in any discipline when they won gold in 2022. At the senior level they won a bronze medal at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, achieved notable fourth-place finishes at both the 2022 World Championships and the 2022 European Championships, and represented Georgia at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luka Berulava, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.