Karina Smirnoff made her first appearance on Dancing With The Stars in Season 3, when she and partner Mario Lopez finished second Season to Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke. They partnered off the dance floor, too, dating for two years until 2008.

Born in the Ukraine, Karina is a very successful competitive dancer, a five-time U.S. national champion and winner of national open titles in several regions.

Karina is engaged to fellow DWTS pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy, with whom she has also danced competitively. Karina danced with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Season 8 of Dancing With The Stars, and was partnered with singer Aaron Carter for Season 9.

KARINA SMIRNOFF RESULTS ON DANCING WITH THE STARS

	Partner	Finish	Best score	Worst score	Average score
Season 1	-	-	-	-	-
Season 2	-	-	-	-	-
Season 3	Mario Lopez	2nd	30	21	27.6
Season 4	Billy Ray Cyrus	5th	21	13	19.0
Season 5	Floyd Mayweather	9th	23	18	20.8
Season 6	Mario	5th	28	21	25.4
Season 7	Rocco DiSpirito	9th	21	14	17.8
Season 8	Steve Wozniak	10th	17	10	13.0
Season 9	Aaron Carter

KARINA SMIRNOFF PHOTOS | MORE PHOTOS FEATURING KARINA SMIRNOFF

Karina Smirnoff and Aaron Carter (Season 9)	Karina Smirnoff and Steve Wozniak (Season 8)
Karina Smirnoff and Mario (Season 6)	Karina Smirnoff and Mario Lopez (Season 3)