Luka Berulava
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Luka Berulava at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Native name | ლუკა ბერულავა | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 November 2002 Moscow, Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Perm, Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Georgia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Pair skating | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Anastasiia Metelkina (since 2023) Karina Safina (2021–22) Alina Butaeva (2019–20) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Pavel Sliusarenko Egor Zukroev Maxim Trankov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Luka Berulava (Russian: Лука Берулава; Georgian: ლუკა ბერულავა, born 27 November 2002) is a Russian-born pair skater who currently competes for Georgia. With current partner Anastasia Metelkina, he is a two-time European Championship medalist, 2024–25 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and the 2024 NHK Trophy champion. On the junior level, Metelkina/Berulava 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 medalist.
Berulava first emerged on the international scene with partner Alina Butaeva, with whom he won two medals at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics − 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.