Karina Smirnoff Biography

Professional Ballroom Dancers
ABC Dancing With The Stars

Follow Karina Smirnoff from Kharkiv, Ukraine, to the professional
ballroom dancers cast of the hit show ABC Dancing With The Stars!

Photo courtesy of Anthony Citrano

Birthday: Jan 2, 1978

Home Town: Kharkiv, Ukraine

As a young teen, Karina emigrated to United States and became a US citizen. She finished high school, and attended University in New York, before pursuing a career in ballroom dancing.

Her professional partnerships thus far include Roman Nabatov, Paul Killick, Louis van Amstel, Slavik Kryklyvyy, and Dmitri Timokhin.

The longest and most successful of these partnerships was with Slavik Kryklyvyy (2001-2005). The pair also choreographed the Tango used in the block buster movie Shall We Dance!

On December 31, 2008, Karina and Maksim Chmerkovskiy announced their engagement to be married. The couple danced together professionally in the Broadway show, Burn The Floor.

Although the romance was short lived, you will often find them both in the cast of ABC Dancing With The Stars.

Professional Accomplishments!

Here are just a few career highlights of this talented lady!

5 time US National Champion
2006 Grand Prix Dynamo Champion, Moscow, Russia
World Trophy Champion
Asian Open Champion

Dancing With The Stars Results!

Partners and final placements for each season of DWTS
in which Karina participated.

Mario Lopez	2006	2nd	Aaron Carter	2009	5th
Billy Ray Cyrus	2007	7th	Mike Sorrentino	2010
Floyd Mayweather Jr	2007	9th
Mario	2008	5th
Rocco DiSpirito	2008	9th
Steve Wosniak	2009	El. 4th Rd