Julia Obertas (Russian: Юлия Обертас) (born June 19, 1984 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a Russian pair skater who previously represented her native Ukraine in international competition. She and her partner Sergei Slavnov are the 2005 European silver medalists. They teamed up in 2003. Obertas began skating at age 6 and switched to pairs when she was 11.
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Prior to teamed up with Slavnov, she skated with Dmitri Palamarchuk on the junior level, representing Ukraine. They won the 1998 and 1999 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and the 1997 and 1998 Junior Grand Prix Final. They broke up after their first senior season together after Palamarchuk caught an edge on a lift and they both fell to the ice at the 2000 World Figure Skating Championships.
After that, Obertas teamed up with Alexei Sokolov and began to represent Russia.
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(with Slavnov)
(with Sokolov)
(with Palamarchuk)
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