Julia Sauter

Julia Franziska Sauter (married name: Sauter-Czarnik; born 18 June 1997) is a German-Romanian figure skater. Representing Romania, she has won twelve senior international medals as well as nine Romanian national titles. She has reached the final segment at three World and four European Championships, with a top-ten result at three European Championships. Sauter represented Romania at the 2026 Winter Olympics

Sauter was born on June 18, 1997 in Weingarten, Württemberg, Germany.

In 2019, while visiting the United States, she met and began dating American ice hockey player Robbie Czarnik. Afterwards, Czarnik moved to Landshut, Germany to be with Sauter. They married in September 2021.

In addition to figure skating, Sauter also worked as a children's aide in a school, a part-time waitress, and as a figure skating coach at her training rink in Ravensburg to pay for her figure skating due to a lack of funding from the German Figure Skating Federation. In 2023, her Romanian club was able to provide her with funding, allowing her to quit her part-time jobs, although she continues to coach and choreograph at her rink.

Sauter has expressed interest in becoming a full-time figure skating coach and choreographer after she retires from competitive figure skating.

Her figure skating role models are Kiira Korpi, Yuna Kim, Kaetlyn Osmond, Carolina Kostner, as well as her coach and choreographer, Roxana Hartmann.

Sauter became a Romanian citizen on October 9, 2025.

Sauter began figure skating in 2002 at the age of four. Her childhood coaches were Diane Eisele and Silvia Jansson before Marius Negrea began coaching her in 2010 at the age of twelve.