Alexandra Feigin

Alexandra Feigin (Bulgarian: Александра Фейгин; born 22 December 2002) is a Bulgarian figure skater. She is a two-time Sofia Trophy champion (2019, 2020), the 2019 Denkova-Staviski Cup champion, the 2018 Crystal Skate of Romania champion, and a seven-time Bulgarian national champion (2016, 2018–19, 2022-25). She represented Bulgaria at the 2022 and 2026 Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Feigin was born on December 22, 2002 in Jerusalem, Israel. She moved with her parents to Sofia, Bulgaria at a young age.

Career

Early years

Feigin started learning to skate in 2009 at the age of five due to her father, a former hockey player, constantly bringing her to the rink with him. In 2010, Feigin began training under coaches, Andrei and Ina Lutai. That same year, she began competing internationally for Bulgaria. From November 2013 through February 2016, she competed in the advanced novice ranks.

Her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut came in August 2016. In March, she competed at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan. She was ranked 25th in the short program and missed the cutoff for the free skate.

Feigin qualified to the final segment at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria; she finished fifteenth overall after placing seventeenth in the short program and fifteenth in the free skate.

2018–2019 season: Senior international debut

Feigin began her season on the JGP series, placing eleventh in Slovakia and eighth in Canada. Making her senior international debut, she won gold at the Crystal Skate of Romania in October and at the Denkova-Staviski Cup in November.

Feigin made her debut at a senior ISU championship at the 2019 European Championships, where she placed eleventh. She placed twenty-second at the 2019 World Junior Championships and then made her senior World Championship debut in Saitama, where she placed seventeenth.

2019–2020 season

Feigin started the season by competing on the 2019–20 ISU Junior Grand Prix, finishing eleventh at 2019 JGP United States. She would go on to win medals in several minor senior international events, including bronze at the 2019 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge and gold at the 2019 Denkova-Staviski Cup. She also placed fourth at the 2019 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, narrowly missing the podium. She was seventeenth at the 2020 European Championships. She had been assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but those were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

2020–2021 season

With the pandemic continuing to limit international travel, Feigin competed at a European-only 2020 CS Budapest Trophy, winning the bronze medal, her first on the Challenger series. After winning the Bulgarian national title again, she placed fourth at the 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup. Feigin placed seventeenth at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm. This result qualified a ladies' berth for Bulgaria at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

2021–2022 season: Beijing Olympics

In her only event of the fall season, Feigin finished in fifth at the 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge before coming twentieth at the 2022 European Championships to start the new year.

Named to the Bulgarian team for the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feigin placed twenty-second in the short program of the women's event, qualifying for the free skate. She dropped one place in the free skate, finishing twenty-third. Feigin was twenty-eighth at the 2022 World Championships to end the season.

2022–2023 season

Feigin began her season at the 2022 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, coming in fourth, before winning gold at the 2022 Denkova-Staviski Cup and winning her fifth Bulgarian national title. She finished twelfth at the 2023 Winter World University Games, sixteenth at the 2023 European Championships, and twenty-fourth at the 2023 World Championships.

2023–2024 season

Feigin started her season by competing at the 2023 Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur and the 2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup, winning bronze and gold, respectively. She then went on to finish sixth at the 2023 Tallinn Trophy.

In December, Feigin won her sixth national title at the 2024 Bulgarian Championships. Selected to compete at the 2024 European Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, Feigin finished eightenth. Two months later, Feigin went on to win the silver medal at the 2024 Sonia Henie Trophy.

At the 2024 World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Feigin placed twenty-sixth in the short program, failing to advance to the free skate segment.

2024–2025 season

Feigin began her season by competing on the 2024–25 ISU Challenger Series, finishing sixth at the 2024 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge and at the 2024 Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. She then went on to win silver at the 2024 Denkova-Staviski Cup and gold at the 2024 Bosphorus Cup.

In late December, she won her seventh national title at the 2025 Bulgarian Championships before also winning gold at the 2025 Sofia Trophy.

Selected to compete at the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Feigin placed fourteenth in the short program, twelfth in the free skate, and fourteenth overall.

In February, Feigin competed at the Road to 26 Trophy, a test event for the 2026 Winter Olympics, where she finished in seventh place. She subsequently went on to place fourth at the 2025 Sonja Henie Trophy.

She closed the season by competing at the 2025 World Championships, held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in March. She finished in twenty-first place, and her placement won a quota for Bulgaria at the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics.

In April, it was announced that she would be performing in an on-ice production of Romeo and Juliet in Plovdiv.

2025–2026 season: Milano Cortina Olympics

Feigin opened her season by winning bronze at the 2025 Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. She followed this up by winning silver at the 2025 Denkova-Staviski Cup and finishing twentieth at the 2025 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. A couple weeks following the latter event, Feigin won her sixth national title at the 2026 Bulgarian Championships.

In January, she placed twenty-fifth in the short program at the 2026 European Championships and did not advance to the free skate segment. A couple weeks later, it was announced that Feigin alongside biathlete, Vladimir Iliev, had been selected to act as Bulgaria's flag bearers during the 2026 Winter Olympic opening ceremony.

At the Olympic Games, Alexandra finished in 28th place in the short program segment, failing to advance to the free skate.

A month later, she competed at the 2026 World Championships in Prague, placing 23rd overall.

Programs

Competitive highlights

• 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
• C – Event was cancelled

Detailed results

Senior level

Junior results

External links

• at the International Skating Union
• at Skating Scores
• at Milano Cortina 2026
• at Olympics.com
• at Olympedia
• on Instagram