Irina Slutskaya (ru: Ирина Слуцкая), born February 9, 1979 in Moscow, Russia is a Russian figure skater. She is a two-time World Champion and seven-time European Champion.

Slutskaya has won a total of 40 Gold Medals, 21 Silver Medals and 18 Bronze Medals.

She started skating at the age of four and has been coached by Zhanna Gromova since she was six.

Slutskaya was the first Russian woman to win the European title in 1996 and 1997. She finished third at the 1996 World Championships and fourth in 1997 although she landed a triple salchow -triple loop combination and landed six triples in total during her free skate.

At the 1998 Olympics, she finished fifth, and the next month she took a silver medal at the 1998 World Championships. The 1998-1999 season was not a good season for her. She didn't win any competitions this season, and missed both the European and the World Championships. She almost decided to stop skating.

She made a successful come back at the 1999 Grand Prix Final. She landed seven clean triples, including two triple-triple combinations and became the first woman to do a triple lutz-triple loop combination. She later won her third European title and won a silver medal at the 2000 World Championships.

At the 2001 World Championships, she became the first woman to land a triple salchow-triple loop-double toe loop combination and won the silver medal.

Slutskaya won Silver at the 2002 Winter Olympics and became the second Russian ever to win a medal in the women's event. The competition had been billed in advance as a head-to-head battle between Slutskaya and American Michelle Kwan. Unexpectedly, Kwan made mistakes in her free skate, but still led American Sarah Hughes in the overall standings. Slutskaya had to win the free skate in order to win gold. After a nervous performance, Slutskaya finished second in the free skate. Hughes won the free skate, and because Kwan finished third behind Slutskaya, Hughes won the gold. Russia, still somewhat aggrieved about the outcome of an earlier dispute over the pairs competition, filed a complaint against the result but it was rejected. The next month she won the World title in Nagano.

In 2005, Slutskaya made a powerful comeback after being the 9th at the World Figure Skating Championships in 2004 and a long stay at a hospital due to an illness (vasculitis). She won both the European and World titles. As the crowd chanted "Ira, Ira" (a diminutive from Irina), she was overcome with emotion. In an interview, she said:

"This is the question they ask: how could you get up after your fall last year? That's not right at all. You can't talk that way. When a person is ill, it's not a fall, it's a misfortune. And no one, unfortunately, is safe from that. I only want to say to those who don't believe in their [own capacity for] recovery: believe, fight...I got up—you can too."

On January 19th 2006, Slutskaya won the European Championships and became the first woman ever to win seven European titles.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, she won the bronze medal, behind silver medalist Sasha Cohen of the United States and gold medalist Shizuka Arakawa of Japan.