Karina Smirnoff

Karina Smirnoff (Ukrainian: Карiна Смiрнова; Russian: Кapинa Cмиpнoвa; born Karina Smirnova; January 2, 1978) is a Ukrainian professional ballroom dancer. She is best known to the general public as a professional dancer on Dancing with the Stars, winning the thirteenth season with army veteran and soap opera star J. R. Martinez. She's also won 2 runner-up titles, a semi-final title, and several quarter final titles.

She is a five-time U.S. National Champion, World Trophy Champion, and Asian Open Champion. Smirnoff has won the title at the UK Open, is a three-time champion at the US Open, two-time champion at the Asian Open, five-time champion at the Dutch Open, and five-time US National Professional Champion. She has taken second at the British Open Blackpool Dance Festival and she is the first woman to also ever make the "British Professional Final" with three different partners.

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 * She appeared on the second episode of Celebrity Family Feud along with Allison Holker, Sasha Farber, Anna Trebunskaya, and Witney Carson. They lost to contestants of the Bachelor and the Bachelorette. The episode aired on June 28, 2015.

Dancing with the Stars
Smirnoff was a performer on the third season of the ABC series Dancing with the Stars with celebrity partner Mario López. They finished in second place, losing to the team ofEmmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke. Smirnoff returned to the show on March 19, 2007 for Season 4, this time partnered with Billy Ray Cyrus, country singer and Hannah Montanastar.[14]  The pair was the seventh to be eliminated from the competition on May 8, 2007. Her partner for Season 5 of the show was current five-division world champion boxer,[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Mayweather,_Jr. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.] On October 16, 2007, Karina and Floyd were the fourth couple eliminated from competition and came in 9th place. She returned for Season 6, partnered with singer Mario and finished in 5th place. In Season 7, she was partnered with chef Rocco DiSpirito and they were the fourth pair to be eliminated with a finish of 9th place for the second time.

For the eighth season, Smirnoff's partner was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc. Apple Inc.] co-founder Steve Wozniak. They were eliminated in the fourth round on March 31, 2009, along with Holly Madison and her partner Dmitry Chaplin. For the ninth season, she was partnered with singer Aaron Carter. They were eliminated on November 10, 2009, placing fifth. In the eleventh season, she was partnered with The Situation from MTV's reality TV show Jersey Shore. They were eliminated in the fourth week. In the twelfth season of Dancing with the Stars, she was partnered with movie star Ralph Macchio. They were eliminated in the semi-finals.

Smirnoff appeared on the thirteenth season of Dancing with the Stars, where she was partnered with All My Children actor J. R. Martinez. Smirnoff and Martinez ended up winning the competition against Rob Kardashian and his partner Cheryl Burke & Ricki Lake and her partner Derek Hough. This was the first time Smirnoff had advanced to the finals since her inaugural season in season 3 with Mario López. For the fourteenth season of Dancing With The Stars, Karina was partnered with singer Gavin DeGraw. They were eliminated in week 5. For the fifteenth season, she was partnered with season four winner, Apolo Anton Ohno and ended up placing 5th. For the sixteenth season, she is partnered with NFLstar Jacoby Jones. Smirnoff became injured when she was performing a flip with partner Jones during rehearsals for their week 9 Lindy hop. The couple was able to reach finals but came in third place losing to Zendaya and Kellie Pickler who took second and first place respectively. For season 17 she was partnered with former High School Musical actorCorbin Bleu and landed in second place behind Amber Riley and Derek Hough. For season 18, she was partnered with former NHL player Sean Avery. They were the second couple eliminated in a double elimination on Week 2. This marks Smirnoff's earliest exit of the competition as of today. ===Performances[ edit] === ====With Mario Lopez (Season 3) 27.6[ edit] ==== ====With Billy Ray Cyrus (Season 4) 19.0[ edit] ==== ====With [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Mayweather,_Jr. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.] (Season 5) 20.8<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====With Mario (Season 6) 25.4<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====With Rocco DiSpirito (Season 7) 17.8<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====With Steve Wozniak (Season 8) 13.0<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====With Aaron Carter (Season 9) 24.0<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Season 11 – Celebrity partner: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino; Season average: 16.2; placed 9th <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Season 12 – Celebrity partner: Ralph Macchio; Season average: 23.4; placed 4th <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Season 13 – Celebrity partner: J.R. Martinez; Season average: 26.4; placed 1st <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Season 14 – Celebrity partner: Gavin DeGraw; Season average: 21.4; placed 9th <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Season 15 – Celebrity partner: Apolo Anton Ohno; Season average: 25.5; placed 5th <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Season 16 – Celebrity partner: Jacoby Jones; Season average: 25.6; placed 3rd ====With Corbin Bleu (Season 17) 27.4<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Season 17 – Celebrity partner: Corbin Bleu; Season average: 27.4; placed 2nd <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Season 18 – Celebrity partner: Sean Avery; Season average: 18.5; placed 11th
 * Would have been eliminated but wasn't due to Misty May-Treanor's injury and forcing her to withdraw from the competition.
 * Score was awarded by stand in judge Baz Luhrmann.
 * As part of acoustic music/double-scoring week, the judges had to give scores for both technical and performance.
 * Additional scores for Week 7 were awarded by guest judge Donnie Burns.
 * The additional score for Week 4 was awarded by guest judge Paula Abdul.
 * The dancer Ohno and Smirnoff chose for the Trio Challenge was Sasha Farber.
 * For the 'Len's Side-by-Side Challenge', Jones and Smirnoff chose Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Anna Trebunskaya to dance alongside them.
 * The dancer Jones and Smirnoff chose for the Trio Challenge was Cheryl Burke.
 * Week 4 score was given by Julianne Hough.
 * Week 8 score was given by Cher.
 * The dancer Bleu and Smirnoff chose for the Trio Challenge was Witney Carson.
 * Additional score for Week 10 was awarded by guest judge Maksim Chmerkovskiy.