| 2021 Russian Figure Skating Championships | |
|---|---|
| Type: | National championship |
| Date: | 23–27 December 2020 (S) 1–5 February 2021 (J) |
| Season: | 2020–21 |
| Location: | Chelyabinsk (S) Krasnoyarsk (J) |
| Host: | Figure Skating Federation of Russia |
| Venue: | Traktor Ice Arena (S) Crystal Ice Arena (J) |
| Champions | |
| Men's singles: Mikhail Kolyada (S) Evgeni Semenenko (J) | |
| Ladies' singles: Anna Shcherbakova (S) Sofia Akateva (J) | |
| Pairs: Evgenia Tarasova /Vladimir Morozov (S) Iuliia Artemeva /Mikhail Nazarychev (J) | |
| Ice dance: Alexandra Stepanova /Ivan Bukin (S) Arina Ushakova /Maxim Nekrasov (J) | |
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The2021 Russian Figure Skating Championships (Russian:Чемпионат России по фигурному катанию на коньках 2021) were held from 23 to 27 December 2020 inChelyabinsk. Medals were awarded in the disciplines ofmen's singles, ladies' singles,pair skating, andice dance. The results were among the criteria used to select the Russian team for the2021 World Championships.
During the2020–21 season, Russian skaters competed in domestic qualifying events for national championships at various age levels. The Russian Cup series will lead to three events – the Russian Championships, the Russian Junior Championships, and the Russian Cup Final.[1][2]
Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, there were limited international competitive opportunities and all skaters were required to qualify through the Russian Cup series. TheFigure Skating Federation of Russia initially did not award exemptions for injury, illness, or skaters who trained abroad.[3] On 16 November, FFKKR presidentAlexander Gorshkov announced a review of the qualification process after several national team members were unable to meet the two event qualification requirement.[4]
| Date | Event | Type | Location | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18–22 September 2020 | Russian Cup – Stage I | Qualifier | Syzran,Samara Oblast | Details |
| 10–13 October 2020 | Russian Cup – Stage II | Moscow | Details | |
| 23–27 October 2020 | Russian Cup – Stage III | Sochi,Krasnodar Krai | Details | |
| 8–12 November 2020 | Russian Cup – Stage IV | Kazan,Tatarstan | Details | |
| 5–8 December 2020 | Russian Cup – Stage V | Moscow | Details | |
| 23–27 December 2020 | Russian Championships | Final | Chelyabinsk,Chelyabinsk Oblast | Details |
| 1–5 February 2021 | Russian Junior Championships | Krasnoyarsk,Krasnoyarsk Krai | Details | |
| 26 February – 2 March 2021 | Russian Cup Final | Moscow | Details | |
| 10–14 March 2021 | Russian Youth Championships – Younger Age | Saransk,Mordovia | Details | |
| 1–5 April 2021 | Russian Youth Championships – Elder Age | Sochi,Krasnodar Krai | Details |
In December 2020, the Russian Federation drew criticism for its decision to host several competitions with an audience present, despite the worseningCOVID-19 pandemic in Russia and the increasing number of its national team members who tested positive forCOVID-19.[5] Several skaters, including reigning European and national championsDmitri Aliev andVictoria Sinitsina /Nikita Katsalapov, as well as reigning European championAlena Kostornaia, withdrew from the Russian Cup series and/or Championships due to contracting the virus.[6][7][8]
The 2021Russian Championships were held inChelyabinsk,Chelyabinsk Oblast from 23 to 27 December 2020.[1]
There were two separate bases for qualification:
Listed inlocal time (UTC+05:00).[10]
| Day | Date | Start | Finish | Discipline | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | 24 December | 14:00 | 16:30 | Men | Short program |
| 16:50 | 18:55 | Ice dance | Rhythm dance | ||
| 19:15 | 19:45 | Opening ceremony | |||
| 20:00 | 21:45 | Pairs | Short program | ||
| Day 2 | 25 December | 13:30 | 15:55 | Ice dance | Free dance |
| 16:15 | 19:00 | Men | Free skating | ||
| 19:20 | 21:45 | Ladies | Short program | ||
| Day 3 | 26 December | 16:30 | 18:40 | Pairs | Free skating |
| 19:00 | 21:45 | Ladies | Free skating | ||
| Day 4 | 27 December | 13:00 | 13:45 | Victory ceremonies | |
| 14:00 | 16:30 | Exhibition gala |
The Figure Skating Federation of Russia published the official list of participants on 9 December 2020.[11]
| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 6 December | Ice dance | Anastasia Shpilevaya /Grigory Smirnov | Vlada Chashnikova /Zakhar Cherezov | Split | [12] |
| 19 October 6 December | Ladies | Alina Zagitova | Stanislava Molchanova | Temporary break from competitions | [13] |
| 9 December | Men | Artur Danielian | Mark Kondratiuk | Recovery from ankle surgery | [14] |
| Ladies | Evgenia Medvedeva | Valeria Kostina | Recovery from back injury and severe lung damage | [15] | |
| Kseniia Sinitsyna | Stanislava Konstantinova | Recovery from leg injury and sickness | [16] | ||
| Ice dance | Ksenia Konkina /Pavel Drozd | Elizaveta Pasechnik /Egor Kolosovskii | [11] | ||
| 17 December | Men | Roman Savosin | Egor Murashov | COVID-19 | [17][18] |
| Alexey Erokhov | Maxim Petrov | Recovery from legs' injuries and rotavirus | [19][17] | ||
| Pairs | Kseniia Akhanteva /Valerii Kolesov | None | Injury (Kolesov) | [17][20] | |
| Ice dance | Victoria Sinitsina /Nikita Katsalapov | Recovery from COVID-19 | [21][7] | ||
| 20 December | Men | Dmitri Aliev | [22][6] | ||
| 22 December | Ladies | Alena Kostornaia | Arina Onishchenko | [8][23] | |
| Valeria Shulskaya | None | COVID-19 | [24][25] |
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mikhail Kolyada | 296.15 | 1 | 102.48 | 1 | 193.67 |
| 2 | Makar Ignatov | 265.37 | 2 | 98.30 | 3 | 167.07 |
| 3 | Mark Kondratiuk | 260.31 | 3 | 90.88 | 2 | 169.43 |
| 4 | Andrei Mozalev | 252.92 | 4 | 89.47 | 5 | 163.45 |
| 5 | Alexander Samarin | 251.38 | 5 | 87.96 | 6 | 163.42 |
| 6 | Anton Shulepov | 249.89 | 9 | 83.19 | 4 | 166.70 |
| 7 | Petr Gumennik | 247.47 | 8 | 84.93 | 7 | 162.54 |
| 8 | Artem Kovalev | 247.17 | 6 | 87.45 | 9 | 159.72 |
| 9 | Egor Rukhin | 240.17 | 12 | 78.99 | 8 | 161.18 |
| 10 | Artem Lezheev | 232.98 | 10 | 82.36 | 11 | 150.62 |
| 11 | Evgeni Semenenko | 228.47 | 11 | 79.86 | 12 | 148.61 |
| 12 | Artem Zotov | 227.66 | 14 | 74.39 | 10 | 153.27 |
| 13 | Egor Murashov | 226.14 | 7 | 86.13 | 13 | 140.01 |
| 14 | Ilya Yablokov | 214.15 | 13 | 77.38 | 14 | 136.77 |
| 15 | Maxim Varakin | 180.01 | 16 | 57.71 | 15 | 122.30 |
| 16 | Vladislav Katichev | 177.06 | 15 | 66.86 | 16 | 110.20 |
| 17 | Maxim Petrov | 158.76 | 17 | 52.86 | 17 | 105.90 |
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Shcherbakova | 264.10 | 1 | 80.31 | 1 | 183.79 |
| 2 | Kamila Valieva | 254.01 | 2 | 79.99 | 2 | 174.02 |
| 3 | Alexandra Trusova | 246.37 | 4 | 75.76 | 3 | 170.61 |
| 4 | Daria Usacheva | 230.56 | 3 | 76.72 | 4 | 153.84 |
| 5 | Maya Khromykh | 211.91 | 7 | 72.93 | 5 | 138.98 |
| 6 | Elizaveta Nugumanova | 204.63 | 6 | 73.26 | 9 | 131.37 |
| 7 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | 204.25 | 5 | 73.56 | 10 | 130.69 |
| 8 | Ksenia Tsibinova | 203.56 | 9 | 68.84 | 6 | 134.72 |
| 9 | Maria Talalaikina | 197.32 | 11 | 63.89 | 7 | 133.43 |
| 10 | Sofia Samodurova | 196.28 | 10 | 67.70 | 11 | 128.58 |
| 11 | Anna Frolova | 187.13 | 16 | 53.70 | 8 | 133.43 |
| 12 | Anastasiia Guliakova | 185.75 | 8 | 70.24 | 14 | 115.51 |
| 13 | Stanislava Molchanova | 184.64 | 12 | 61.98 | 12 | 122.66 |
| 14 | Anastasia Tarakanova | 175.58 | 15 | 55.98 | 13 | 119.60 |
| 15 | Arina Onishchenko | 169.17 | 14 | 56.34 | 15 | 112.83 |
| 16 | Stanislava Konstantinova | 168.33 | 13 | 61.55 | 17 | 106.78 |
| 17 | Valeria Kostina | 161.43 | 17 | 50.67 | 16 | 110.76 |
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evgenia Tarasova /Vladimir Morozov | 228.23 | 1 | 80.65 | 1 | 147.58 |
| 2 | Aleksandra Boikova /Dmitrii Kozlovskii | 224.99 | 2 | 77.48 | 2 | 147.51 |
| 3 | Daria Pavliuchenko /Denis Khodykin | 221.39 | 3 | 77.01 | 3 | 144.38 |
| 4 | Anastasia Mishina /Aleksandr Galliamov | 211.95 | 5 | 73.25 | 4 | 138.70 |
| 5 | Apollinariia Panfilova /Dmitry Rylov | 207.03 | 4 | 74.51 | 5 | 132.52 |
| 6 | Yasmina Kadyrova /Ivan Balchenko | 196.04 | 6 | 68.69 | 7 | 127.35 |
| 7 | Karina Akopova /Nikita Rakhmanin | 194.77 | 8 | 65.44 | 6 | 129.33 |
| 8 | Iuliia Artemeva /Mikhail Nazarychev | 189.76 | 9 | 63.69 | 8 | 126.07 |
| 9 | Alina Pepeleva /Roman Pleshkov | 189.64 | 7 | 65.45 | 10 | 124.19 |
| 10 | Anastasia Balabanova /Alexei Sviatchenko | 188.91 | 10 | 63.56 | 9 | 125.35 |
| 11 | Diana Mukhametzianova /Ilya Mironov | 173.20 | 11 | 60.96 | 11 | 112.24 |
| Rank | Name | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexandra Stepanova /Ivan Bukin | 220.16 | 1 | 87.28 | 1 | 132.88 |
| 2 | Tiffany Zahorski /Jonathan Guerreiro | 210.94 | 2 | 84.02 | 2 | 126.92 |
| 3 | Anastasia Skoptsova /Kirill Aleshin | 196.97 | 3 | 80.19 | 4 | 116.78 |
| 4 | Sofia Shevchenko /Igor Eremenko | 194.29 | 5 | 77.83 | 5 | 116.46 |
| 5 | Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva /Egor Bazin | 192.68 | 4 | 78.01 | 6 | 114.67 |
| 6 | Annabelle Morozov /Andrei Bagin | 182.86 | 7 | 62.17 | 3 | 120.69 |
| 7 | Svetlana Lizunova /Alexander Vakhnov | 165.48 | 6 | 64.50 | 7 | 100.98 |
| 8 | Ekaterina Mironova /Evgenii Ustenko | 160.71 | 8 | 62.08 | 8 | 98.63 |
| 9 | Sofia Kartashova /Ilya Karpov | 153.01 | 9 | 60.31 | 10 | 92.70 |
| 10 | Vlada Pavlenina /Aleksandr Aleksanyan | 152.44 | 10 | 59.19 | 9 | 93.25 |
| 11 | Julia Tultseva /Anatoliy Belovodchenko | 143.03 | 11 | 58.34 | 11 | 84.69 |
| 12 | Elizaveta Kirillova /Mark Chegodaev | 124.50 | 13 | 46.53 | 12 | 77.97 |
| 13 | Elizaveta Pasechnik /Egor Kolosovskii | 123.64 | 12 | 48.82 | 14 | 74.82 |
| 14 | Vlada Chashnikova /Zakhar Cherezov | 115.96 | 14 | 41.09 | 13 | 74.87 |
The2021Russian Junior Championships (Russian: Первенство России среди юниоров 2021) will be held inKrasnoyarsk,Krasnoyarsk Krai from 1 to 5 February 2021.[2] Competitors qualified through the Russian Cup series' junior-level events. The competition would have been part of the selection criteria for the cancelled2021 World Junior Championships.[26]
There were three separate bases for qualification:
Listed inlocal time (UTC+07:00).[28]
| Day | Date | Start | Finish | Discipline | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | 3 February | 14:00 | 16:30 | Men | Short program |
| 16:45 | 17:15 | Opening ceremony | |||
| 17:30 | 20:00 | Ladies | Short program | ||
| 20:15 | 22:25 | Ice dance | Rhythm dance | ||
| Day 2 | 4 February | 14:00 | 16:45 | Men | Free skating |
| 17:00 | 18:45 | Pairs | Short program | ||
| 19:00 | 21:45 | Ladies | Free skating | ||
| 22:00 | 22:30 | Victory ceremonies | |||
| Day 3 | 5 February | 12:30 | 14:50 | Ice dance | Free dance |
| 15:05 | 17:05 | Pairs | Free skating | ||
| 17:30 | 18:00 | Victory ceremonies |
The Figure Skating Federation of Russia published the official list of participants on 26 January 2021.[29]
The competition would have been part of the selection criteria for the2021 World Junior Championships. However, due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, theInternational Skating Union cancelled the majority of all international junior competitions, including the2020–21 ISU Junior Grand Prix and the World Junior Championships.[30][26] As a result, several prominent juniors, such as reigning World and Russian Junior championKamila Valieva and World Junior silver medalistDaria Usacheva, decided to forgo the Russian Junior Championships (as well as other national junior-level competitions) and to focus solely on domestic senior-level competitions instead.[31]
Some skaters who qualified to the 2021Russian Junior Championships based on Russian Cup series' junior-level results were forced to withdraw from the tournament due to health issues (injury or sickness) – namely single skatersMatvei Vetlugin[32] andMariia Zakharova[33] as well as ice dancersSofya Tyutyunina /Alexander Shustitskiy.[34]
| Rank | Name | Total | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evgeni Semenenko | 247.37 | 1 | 87.13 | 1 | 160.24 |
| 2 | Aleksandr Golubev | 236.58 | 6 | 80.18 | 2 | 156.40 |
| 3 | Egor Rukhin | 235.71 | 5 | 81.01 | 3 | 154.70 |
| 4 | Ilya Yablokov | 234.24 | 2 | 85.38 | 6 | 148.86 |
| 5 | Nikolai Ugozhaev | 228.41 | 8 | 76.27 | 5 | 152.14 |
| 6 | Vladislav Dikidzhi | 228.02 | 11 | 74.13 | 4 | 153.89 |
| 7 | Daniil Samsonov | 226.20 | 4 | 83.40 | 9 | 142.80 |
| 8 | Kirill Sarnovskiy | 225.02 | 7 | 78.68 | 7 | 146.34 |
| 9 | Artem Kovalev | 223.27 | 3 | 85.01 | 13 | 138.26 |
| 10 | Andrei Kutovoi | 217.07 | 9 | 75.83 | 10 | 141.24 |
| 11 | Maxim Belyavsky | 215.56 | 10 | 74.76 | 11 | 140.80 |
| 12 | Andrei Anisimov | 213.66 | 17 | 67.41 | 8 | 146.25 |
| 13 | Vsevolod Knyazev | 211.53 | 13 | 72.29 | 12 | 139.24 |
| 14 | Ivan Popov | 201.32 | 14 | 70.66 | 14 | 130.66 |
| 15 | Fedor Zonov | 199.49 | 16 | 68.95 | 15 | 130.54 |
| 16 | Mark Lukin | 196.86 | 12 | 73.71 | 17 | 123.15 |
| 17 | Maxim Avtushenko | 190.35 | 15 | 69.02 | 18 | 121.33 |
| 18 | Semyon Soloviev | 187.98 | 18 | 62.73 | 16 | 125.25 |
| Rank | Name | Total | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sofia Akateva | 220.00 | 2 | 72.80 | 1 | 147.20 |
| 2 | Adeliia Petrosian | 211.87 | 3 | 72.64 | 2 | 139.23 |
| 3 | Sofia Muravieva | 208.13 | 1 | 72.97 | 4 | 135.16 |
| 4 | Sofia Samodelkina | 207.64 | 4 | 71.37 | 3 | 136.27 |
| 5 | Elizaveta Berestovskaia | 199.11 | 5 | 71.28 | 5 | 127.83 |
| 6 | Anna Frolova | 190.54 | 6 | 68.10 | 9 | 122.44 |
| 7 | Elizaveta Osokina | 190.50 | 8 | 66.97 | 8 | 123.53 |
| 8 | Maria Paramonova | 189.93 | 9 | 64.14 | 6 | 125.79 |
| 9 | Polina Sviridenko | 187.23 | 10 | 63.44 | 7 | 123.79 |
| 10 | Ksenia Tsibinova | 185.97 | 7 | 67.23 | 13 | 118.74 |
| 11 | Agneta Latushkina | 182.66 | 11 | 62.92 | 12 | 119.74 |
| 12 | Veronika Zhilina | 180.79 | 14 | 58.91 | 11 | 121.88 |
| 13 | Anastasia Morozova | 176.80 | 18 | 54.89 | 10 | 121.91 |
| 14 | Valeria Ovchinnikova | 176.36 | 12 | 60.02 | 15 | 116.34 |
| 15 | Stanislava Molchanova | 174.38 | 15 | 56.92 | 14 | 117.46 |
| 16 | Natalia Lagutova | 170.93 | 13 | 59.12 | 16 | 111.81 |
| 17 | Maria Dmitrieva | 167.09 | 16 | 56.78 | 17 | 110.31 |
| 18 | Valeria Kostina | 147.56 | 17 | 54.92 | 18 | 92.64 |
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iuliia Artemeva /Mikhail Nazarychev | 204.50 | 1 | 70.87 | 1 | 133.63 |
| 2 | Kseniia Akhanteva /Valerii Kolesov | 194.26 | 2 | 68.40 | 2 | 125.86 |
| 3 | Anastasia Mukhortova /Dmitry Evgenyev | 188.77 | 5 | 66.21 | 3 | 122.56 |
| 4 | Polina Kostiukovich /Aleksei Briukhanov | 187.33 | 4 | 67.38 | 4 | 119.95 |
| 5 | Ekaterina Petushkova /Evgenii Malikov | 179.85 | 3 | 67.77 | 6 | 112.08 |
| 6 | Karina Safina /Sergei Bakhmat | 179.07 | 6 | 65.37 | 5 | 113.70 |
| 7 | Daria Boyarintseva /Maxim Shagalov | 174.55 | 7 | 64.23 | 8 | 110.32 |
| 8 | Natalia Khabibullina /Ilya Knyazhuk | 172.07 | 8 | 61.02 | 7 | 111.05 |
| 9 | Ekaterina Storublevtseva /Artem Gritsaenko | 162.87 | 11 | 56.96 | 10 | 105.91 |
| 10 | Alexandra Kargulina /Ilya Kalashnikov | 161.98 | 12 | 53.04 | 9 | 108.94 |
| 11 | Alina Raskovalova /Artyom Butaev | 158.16 | 9 | 59.37 | 11 | 98.79 |
| 12 | Tatyana Kuzmina /Alexei Khvalko | 145.73 | 10 | 56.97 | 12 | 88.76 |
| Rank | Name | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arina Ushakova /Maxim Nekrasov | 187.55 | 1 | 75.85 | 1 | 111.70 |
| 2 | Elizaveta Shanaeva /Devid Naryzhnyy | 184.19 | 3 | 73.75 | 2 | 110.44 |
| 3 | Irina Khavronina /Dario Cirisano | 181.60 | 2 | 74.08 | 3 | 107.52 |
| 4 | Ekaterina Andreeva /Ivan Desyatov | 167.92 | 4 | 66.05 | 4 | 101.87 |
| 5 | Margarita Svistunova /Dmitrii Studenikin | 163.52 | 5 | 64.74 | 6 | 98.78 |
| 6 | Elizaveta Shichina /Gordey Khubulov | 162.44 | 8 | 63.13 | 5 | 99.31 |
| 7 | Vasilisa Kaganovskaia /Valeriy Angelopol | 159.75 | 9 | 63.12 | 7 | 96.63 |
| 8 | Olga Mamchenkova /Mark Volkov | 158.64 | 6 | 63.66 | 8 | 94.98 |
| 9 | Ekaterina Rybakova /Ivan Makhnonosov | 156.10 | 10 | 61.96 | 9 | 94.14 |
| 10 | Sofiia Kachushkina /Oleg Muratov | 155.30 | 11 | 61.32 | 11 | 93.98 |
| 11 | Angelina Lazareva /Maksim Prokofiev | 151.67 | 7 | 63.52 | 15 | 88.15 |
| 12 | Sofia Leonteva /Daniil Gorelkin | 151.26 | 12 | 60.25 | 13 | 91.01 |
| 13 | Taisiia Linchevskaia /Timur Babaev-Smirnov | 150.57 | 13 | 59.31 | 12 | 91.26 |
| 14 | Sofia Aleksova /Ilya Vladimirov | 149.16 | 14 | 55.07 | 10 | 94.09 |
| 15 | Anna Rumak /Gleb Goncharov | 142.59 | 15 | 52.16 | 15 | 90.43 |
The2021 European Championships, scheduled to be held inZagreb,Croatia from 25 to 31 January 2021, were cancelled on 10 December 2020.[35]
The2021 Winter Universiade, originally scheduled for 21–31 January 2021 inLucerne,Switzerland, was postponed to 11–21 December 2021 and thus will be held during the next season.[36][37]
The2021 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, originally scheduled for 6–13 February 2021 inVuokatti,Finland, was postponed to 11–18 December 2021 and thus will be held during the next season.[38]
Commonly referred to as "Junior Worlds", the2021 World Junior Championships, scheduled to take place inHarbin,China from 1 to 7 March 2021, were cancelled on 24 November 2020.[26]
The2021 World Championships were held inStockholm,Sweden from 22 to 28 March 2021. On 27 December 2020 it was officially declared that all winners of the Russian Senior Championships became the first members of the Russia's team.[39] The other members were named on 1 March 2021.[40][41]
The2021 World Team Trophy was held inOsaka,Japan from 15 to 18 April 2021. The list of participants of the Russia's team was officially published on 29 March 2021.[42][43]