Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2014 Olympic champion in the team event, the 2014 World silver medalist, the 2014 European champion, the 2013 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and a two-time Russian national silver medalist. Competing as a junior, she won the 2012 World Junior Championships, 2011 JGP Final, and 2012 Russian Junior Championships. Lipnitskaya is the youngest Russian athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Within the ladies' singles category, she is the youngest gold medalist at the European Championships. She is also the youngest figure skaters to win gold at the Olympics under modern rules. Lipnitskaya was 15 years, 249 days old when Russia won the team trophy, six days younger than American Tara Lipinski, who won gold in the individual event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The only Olympic figure skating gold medalist younger than both is Maxi Herber, who would have been too young to skate at the Olympics under modern rules. 

June 5th, 1998 in Yekaterinburg (Age 26)