Luka Berulava

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), 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.

Berulava was born on 27 November 2002 in Moscow, Russia into a Georgian family. Berulava stated that “I was born in Moscow because my family had to leave Georgia during the war, but we always spoke Georgian at home. It’s my first language.”

He is the godfather of fellow Georgian skater, Nika Egadze.

Berulava began learning to skate in 2005. In 2019, he teamed up with Alina Butaeva to compete in pair skating. The pair decided to train in Perm, coached by Pavel Sliusarenko and Alexei Menshikov. Despite training at facilities in Russia, at international competitions Berulava has only ever represented Georgia. Berulava has stated that he dreamed of competing for Georgia since he was a child and immediately accepted when the Georgian Figure Skating Federation made him an offer.

The two made their debut for Georgia in September 2019, placing eighth at an ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Poland and then sixth at JGP Croatia. Their results earned a spot for Georgia in the pairs' event at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. In November, they took bronze in the junior pairs' category at the Volvo Open Cup in Riga, Latvia. In December, they won the junior event at the Golden Spin of Zagreb.

In January 2020, the pair competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland. They finished third in the short program behind two pairs from Russia, then did likewise in the free skating program. Their combined score put them in third place with a bronze medal. This was Georgia's first medal in the Winter Youth Olympic Games, and their tenth medal in the Youth Olympic Games overall. The pair also received a gold medal for their participation in the team event as part of Team Courage, alongside Arlet Levandi from Estonia, Ksenia Sinitsyna from Russia, and ice dancers Yoshida/Nishiyama from Japan. Butaeva/Berulava finished the season at the 2020 World Junior Championships, where they placed seventh.