| 2022 Russian Figure Skating Championships | |
|---|---|
| Type: | National championship |
| Date: | 21–26 December 2021 (S) 18–22 January 2022 (J) |
| Season: | 2021–22 |
| Location: | Saint Petersburg (S) Saransk (J) |
| Host: | Figure Skating Federation of Russia |
| Venue: | Yubileyny Sports Palace (S) Ice Palace of the Republic of Mordovia (J) |
| Champions | |
| Men's singles: Mark Kondratiuk (S) Ilya Yablokov (J) | |
| Women's singles: Alexandra Trusova (S) Sofia Akateva (J) | |
| Pairs: Anastasia Mishina /Aleksandr Galliamov (S) Natalia Khabibullina /Ilya Knyazhuk (J) | |
| Ice dance: Alexandra Stepanova /Ivan Bukin (S) Irina Khavronina /Dario Cirisano (J) | |
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The2022 Russian Figure Skating Championships (Russian:Чемпионат России по фигурному катанию на коньках 2022) were held from 21 to 26 December 2021 inSaint Petersburg.[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines ofmen's singles, women's singles,pairs, andice dance. The results were among the criteria used to select Russia's teams to the2022 European Championships and2022 Winter Olympics.
Kamila Valieva was stripped of her gold medal in Senior Women's singles after testing positive forTrimetazidine, abanned substance, on the second day of the Women's competition.[2] Subsequently,Alexandra Trusova became the gold medalist, withAnna Shcherbakova moving up to silver andAdeliia Petrosian receiving the bronze medal.[3]
In the 2021–22 season, Russian skaters competed in domestic qualifying events and national championships for various age levels. The Russian Cup series will lead to three events – the Russian Championships, the Russian Junior Championships, and the Russian Cup Final.[4]
| Date | Event | Type | Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22–26 September 2021 | 1st stage of Russian Cup | Qualifier | Syzran,Samara Oblast | Details |
| 10–14 October 2021 | 2nd stage of Russian Cup | Qualifier | Yoshkar-Ola,Mari El | Details |
| 24–28 October 2021 | 3rd stage of Russian Cup | Qualifier | Sochi,Krasnodar Krai | Details |
| 8–12 November 2021 | 4th stage of Russian Cup | Qualifier | Kazan,Tatarstan | Details |
| 17–21 November 2021 | 5th stage of Russian Cup | Qualifier | Perm,Perm Oblast | Details |
| 21–26 December 2021 | 2022 Russian Championships | Final | Saint Petersburg | Details |
| 18–22 January 2022 | 2022 Russian Junior Championships | Final | Saransk,Mordovia | Details |
| 23–27 February 2022 | 2022 Russian Cup Final | Final | Saransk,Mordovia | Details |
| 1–5 March 2022 | 2022 Russian Youth Championships – Younger Age | Final | Yoshkar-Ola,Mari El | Details |
| 1–5 April 2022 | 2022 Russian Youth Championships – Elder Age | Final | Veliky Novgorod,Novgorod Oblast | Details |
The 2022Russian Championships were held inSaint Petersburg from 21 to 26 December 2021.[4] Competitors qualified through international success or by competing in the Russian Cup series' senior-level events.
There are three separate basis for qualification.
1. Qualification based on receiving2021–22 Grand Prix assignment.
2. Qualification based on qualifying for the2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final. However, skaters must have been born before July 1, 2007 to be qualified for the Russian senior championships. In addition, junior ice dance teams do not compete at senior national championships due to different program requirements between the junior and senior levels. Consequently, ice dance teams cannot use their junior level programs for senior competition.
3. Qualification based on Russian Cup series' results.
Listed inlocal time (UTC+03:00).[5]
| Day | Date | Start | Finish | Discipline | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | 23 December | 13:15 | 15:45 | Men | Short program |
| 16:05 | 18:00 | Ice dance | Rhythm dance | ||
| 18:20 | 18:50 | Opening ceremony | |||
| 19:05 | 21:00 | Pairs | Short program | ||
| Day 2 | 24 December | 12:45 | 14:55 | Ice dance | Free dance |
| 15:15 | 18:00 | Men | Free skating | ||
| 18:20 | 20:50 | Women | Short program | ||
| Day 3 | 25 December | 15:30 | 17:40 | Pairs | Free skating |
| 18:00 | 20:50 | Women | Free skating | ||
| Day 4 | 26 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 16 December 2021.[6]
| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 December | Men | Daniil Samsonov | Artem Kovalev | Recovery fromOsgood-Schlatter disease | [7] |
| Women | Alena Kostornaia | Anastasiia Guliakova | Recovery from right hand fracture | [8] | |
| 15 December | Daria Usacheva | Polina Sviridenko | Recovery from right hip injury | [9] | |
| 16 December | Pairs | Alina Pepeleva /Roman Pleshkov | Karina Akopova /Nikita Rakhmanin | Complication in the knee after flu (Pleshkov) | [10] |
| Ice dance | Sofia Shevchenko /Igor Eremenko | Arina Ushakova /Maxim Nekrasov | Medical issues | [11] | |
| Ekaterina Khrabrykh /Miron Suslov | None | [6] | |||
| 20 December | Women | Anastasiia Guliakova | Arina Onishchenko | Right ankle injury | [12][13] |
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark Kondratiuk | 284.37 | 2 | 97.77 | 3 | 186.60 |
| 2 | Mikhail Kolyada | 283.70 | 5 | 94.26 | 1 | 189.44 |
| 3 | Andrei Mozalev | 278.28 | 8 | 90.98 | 2 | 187.30 |
| 4 | Evgeni Semenenko | 274.28 | 1 | 98.03 | 5 | 176.25 |
| 5 | Petr Gumennik | 267.45 | 7 | 91.04 | 4 | 176.41 |
| 6 | Alexander Samarin | 264.73 | 6 | 94.23 | 6 | 170.50 |
| 7 | Alexey Erokhov | 261.48 | 4 | 95.24 | 8 | 166.24 |
| 8 | Gleb Lutfullin | 251.53 | 11 | 86.87 | 10 | 164.66 |
| 9 | Dmitri Aliev | 251.40 | 12 | 86.40 | 9 | 165.00 |
| 10 | Makar Ignatov | 250.77 | 3 | 95.84 | 14 | 154.93 |
| 11 | Vladislav Dikidzhi | 250.17 | 15 | 82.24 | 7 | 167.93 |
| 12 | Artem Kovalev | 249.07 | 10 | 87.14 | 11 | 161.93 |
| 13 | Artur Danielian | 248.35 | 9 | 87.74 | 12 | 160.61 |
| 14 | Ilya Yablokov | 243.71 | 13 | 85.40 | 13 | 158.31 |
| 15 | Roman Savosin | 225.40 | 14 | 82.64 | 16 | 142.76 |
| 16 | Kirill Sarnovskiy | 221.92 | 16 | 80.31 | 17 | 141.61 |
| 17 | Andrei Anisimov | 213.08 | 17 | 65.34 | 15 | 147.74 |
| 18 | Egor Rukhin | 184.95 | 18 | 64.85 | 18 | 120.10 |
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexandra Trusova | 248.65 | 4 | 74.21 | 1 | 174.44 |
| 2 | Anna Shcherbakova | 239.56 | 1 | 81.46 | 3 | 158.10 |
| 3 | Adeliia Petrosian | 233.97 | 5 | 73.29 | 2 | 160.68 |
| 4 | Sofia Samodelkina | 233.09 | 3 | 76.74 | 4 | 156.35 |
| 5 | Sofia Muravieva | 230.31 | 2 | 80.87 | 6 | 149.44 |
| 6 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | 224.40 | 6 | 71.28 | 5 | 153.12 |
| 7 | Maya Khromykh | 217.18 | 8 | 69.36 | 7 | 147.82 |
| 8 | Kseniia Sinitsyna | 204.61 | 7 | 70.75 | 8 | 133.86 |
| 9 | Veronika Yametova | 191.37 | 14 | 59.72 | 9 | 131.65 |
| 10 | Sofia Samodurova | 184.26 | 10 | 68.30 | 13 | 115.96 |
| 11 | Anastasia Zinina | 181.45 | 9 | 68.94 | 14 | 112.51 |
| 12 | Valeria Shulskaia | 180.92 | 12 | 61.63 | 10 | 119.29 |
| 13 | Anastasia Morozova | 180.57 | 11 | 62.28 | 11 | 118.29 |
| 14 | Ksenia Gushchina | 171.62 | 17 | 53.61 | 12 | 118.01 |
| 15 | Polina Sviridenko | 166.02 | 15 | 59.05 | 14 | 106.97 |
| 16 | Arina Onishchenko | 163.56 | 16 | 57.51 | 16 | 106.05 |
| 17 | Veronika Peterimova | 155.40 | 13 | 61.18 | 17 | 94.22 |
| DSQ * | Kamila Valieva | DSQ | DSQ | |||
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anastasia Mishina /Aleksandr Galliamov | 243.74 | 1 | 83.74 | 1 | 160.00 |
| 2 | Aleksandra Boikova /Dmitrii Kozlovskii | 239.87 | 2 | 82.84 | 2 | 157.03 |
| 3 | Evgenia Tarasova /Vladimir Morozov | 228.20 | 3 | 78.68 | 3 | 149.52 |
| 4 | Daria Pavliuchenko /Denis Khodykin | 220.18 | 5 | 75.40 | 4 | 144.78 |
| 5 | Iuliia Artemeva /Mikhail Nazarychev | 213.19 | 4 | 76.26 | 6 | 136.93 |
| 6 | Karina Akopova /Nikita Rakhmanin | 210.77 | 7 | 73.06 | 5 | 137.71 |
| 7 | Natalia Khabibullina /Ilya Knyazhuk | 195.86 | 8 | 71.35 | 9 | 124.51 |
| 8 | Ekaterina Chikmareva /Matvei Ianchenkov | 195.83 | 9 | 68.44 | 8 | 127.39 |
| 9 | Yasmina Kadyrova /Ivan Balchenko | 188.90 | 6 | 73.77 | 10 | 115.13 |
| 10 | Anastasia Mukhortova /Dmitry Evgenyev | 187.94 | 12 | 59.88 | 7 | 128.06 |
| 11 | Ekaterina Geynish /Ilya Mironov | 176.33 | 11 | 65.78 | 11 | 110.55 |
| 12 | Ekaterina Petushkova /Evgenii Malikov | 166.15 | 10 | 67.27 | 12 | 98.88 |
| Rank | Name | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexandra Stepanova /Ivan Bukin | 223.37 | 2 | 88.76 | 1 | 134.61 |
| 2 | Diana Davis /Gleb Smolkin | 207.70 | 3 | 83.99 | 2 | 123.71 |
| 3 | Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva /Egor Bazin | 195.75 | 6 | 77.91 | 3 | 117.84 |
| 4 | Annabelle Morozov /Andrei Bagin | 195.65 | 5 | 78.02 | 4 | 117.63 |
| 5 | Elizaveta Shanaeva /Devid Naryzhnyy | 187.19 | 8 | 74.83 | 5 | 112.36 |
| 6 | Anastasia Skoptsova /Kirill Aleshin | 185.72 | 7 | 75.36 | 6 | 110.36 |
| 7 | Arina Ushakova /Maxim Nekrasov | 180.23 | 9 | 70.27 | 7 | 109.96 |
| 8 | Tiffany Zahorski /Jonathan Guerreiro | 179.50 | 4 | 79.36 | 9 | 100.14 |
| 9 | Elizaveta Pasechnik /Dmitry Blinov | 166.48 | 10 | 66.23 | 8 | 100.25 |
| 10 | Ekaterina Mironova /Evgenii Ustenko | 163.29 | 11 | 64.28 | 10 | 99.01 |
| 11 | Vlada Pavlenina /Aleksandr Aleksanyan | 154.24 | 12 | 61.58 | 12 | 92.66 |
| 12 | Angelina Lazareva /Maxim Prokofiev | 152.49 | 13 | 57.84 | 11 | 94.65 |
| 13 | Ksenia Ermakova /Vladislav Panteleyev | 112.17 | 14 | 44.99 | 13 | 67.18 |
| WD | Victoria Sinitsina /Nikita Katsalapov | withdrew | 1 | 93.61 | withdrew from competition | |
The 2022Russian Junior Championships (Russian:Первенство России среди юниоров 2022) were held inSaransk,Mordovia on 18–22 January 2022 (originally it were scheduled on 1–5 February 2022).[4][14] Competitors qualified through international success or by competing in the Russian Cup series' junior-level events. The results of the Junior Championships were supposed to be part of the selection criteria for the2022 World Junior Championships.
There are two separate basis for qualification.
1. Qualification based on competing at the2021–22 Junior Grand Prix series.
2. Qualification based on Russian Cup series' junior-level results.
In addition, figure skaters who were included in the official pre-season national team roster[15] but were unable to participate at the2021–22 Junior Grand Prix series and/or Russian Cup junior-level series due to good reasons, can be included into list of participants by decision of the executive committee of theFigure Skating Federation of Russia.
Listed inlocal time (UTC+03:00).[16]
| Day | Date | Start | Finish | Discipline | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | 20 January | 14:00 | 16:25 | Men | Short program |
| 16:40 | 17:10 | Opening ceremony | |||
| 17:25 | 19:50 | Women | Short program | ||
| 20:05 | 22:15 | Ice dance | Rhythm dance | ||
| Day 2 | 21 January | 13:15 | 15:50 | Men | Free skating |
| 16:05 | 18:40 | Women | Free skating | ||
| 18:50 | 19:20 | Victory ceremonies | |||
| 19:35 | 21:20 | Pairs | Short program | ||
| Day 3 | 22 January | 12:00 | 14:20 | Ice dance | Free dance |
| 14:40 | 16:35 | Pairs | Free skating | ||
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Victory ceremonies |
The Figure Skating Federation of Russia published the official list of participants on 14 January 2022.[17]
| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 January | Men | Daniil Fedosimov | Vladislav Dikidzhi | Decision of the executive committee of theFSR | [17] |
| Pairs | Maya Shegay /Igor Shamshurov | Iuliia Artemeva /Mikhail Nazarychev | Decision of the executive committee of theFSR | [17] | |
| 17 January | Men | Aleksandr Golubev | Daniil Fedosimov | Recovery after two operations due to injury | [18][19] |
| Women | Elizaveta Berestovskaia | Ulyana Shiryaeva | Recovery from back injury | [20][19] | |
| Pairs | Evgenia Tumanova /Georgiy Kunitsa | Maya Shegay /Igor Shamshurov | [19] | ||
| Ice dance | Olga Mamchenkova /Mark Volkov | Anna Kolomenskaya /Artem Frolov | [19] | ||
| 18 January | Men | Gleb Lutfullin | Makar Puzin | Sickness | [21][22] |
| Ice dance | Elizaveta Shichina /Gordey Khubulov | Elizaveta Maleina /Grigory Rodin | [21] |
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ilya Yablokov | 227.99 | 3 | 83.22 | 4 | 144.77 |
| 2 | Nikolai Ugozhaev | 227.82 | 6 | 79.87 | 3 | 147.95 |
| 3 | Artem Kovalev | 225.65 | 2 | 85.02 | 5 | 140.63 |
| 4 | Nikolay Kolesnikov | 224.96 | 10 | 71.79 | 1 | 153.17 |
| 5 | Egor Rukhin | 223.96 | 1 | 86.09 | 7 | 137.87 |
| 6 | Andrei Anisimov | 214.77 | 4 | 82.63 | 12 | 132.14 |
| 7 | Kirill Sarnovskiy | 213.93 | 5 | 81.20 | 11 | 132.73 |
| 8 | Maxim Belyavsky | 212.51 | 18 | 63.25 | 2 | 149.26 |
| 9 | Vladislav Dikidzhi | 210.29 | 11 | 70.67 | 6 | 139.62 |
| 10 | Daniil Fedosimov | 210.04 | 7 | 73.87 | 8 | 136.17 |
| 11 | Kirill Andrusik | 205.43 | 8 | 72.43 | 10 | 133.00 |
| 12 | Makar Puzin | 198.80 | 16 | 65.41 | 9 | 133.39 |
| 13 | Eduard Karartynian | 196.37 | 17 | 64.35 | 13 | 132.02 |
| 14 | Dmitry Shelkovnikov | 188.53 | 15 | 65.71 | 14 | 122.82 |
| 15 | Timofei Platonov | 186.47 | 14 | 66.04 | 15 | 120.43 |
| 16 | Grigory Fedorov | 186.43 | 13 | 67.16 | 16 | 119.27 |
| 17 | Ivan Popov | 185.07 | 12 | 70.01 | 17 | 115.06 |
| 18 | Fedor Zonov | 171.76 | 9 | 71.99 | 18 | 99.77 |
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sofia Akateva | 237.09 | 1 | 78.84 | 1 | 158.25 |
| 2 | Sofia Samodelkina | 213.73 | 2 | 75.51 | 4 | 138.22 |
| 3 | Sofia Muravieva | 211.62 | 6 | 68.38 | 2 | 143.24 |
| 4 | Alisa Dvoeglazova | 206.83 | 8 | 67.58 | 3 | 139.25 |
| 5 | Adeliia Petrosian | 202.25 | 3 | 71.97 | 5 | 130.28 |
| 6 | Elizaveta Kulikova | 193.33 | 10 | 66.39 | 6 | 126.94 |
| 7 | Alina Gorbacheva | 191.97 | 5 | 68.72 | 9 | 123.25 |
| 8 | Sofya Titova | 190.31 | 9 | 66.81 | 8 | 123.50 |
| 9 | Victoria Morozova | 189.10 | 12 | 64.46 | 7 | 124.64 |
| 10 | Nadezhda Ponteleenko | 185.74 | 14 | 63.57 | 10 | 122.17 |
| 11 | Ulyana Shiryaeva | 182.39 | 13 | 63.58 | 11 | 118.81 |
| 12 | Veronika Zhilina | 180.98 | 4 | 69.91 | 16 | 111.07 |
| 13 | Lyubov Rubtsova | 179.27 | 11 | 65.10 | 12 | 114.17 |
| 14 | Mariia Zakharova | 179.20 | 7 | 68.10 | 15 | 111.10 |
| 15 | Inga Gurgenidze | 173.43 | 15 | 61.63 | 14 | 111.80 |
| 16 | Natalia Lagutova | 166.38 | 16 | 58.67 | 17 | 107.71 |
| 17 | Sofia Zakharova | 163.50 | 18 | 51.68 | 13 | 111.82 |
| 18 | Anastasia Zinina | 158.91 | 17 | 57.32 | 18 | 101.59 |
| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natalia Khabibullina /Ilya Knyazhuk | 201.82 | 2 | 71.60 | 1 | 130.22 |
| 2 | Iuliia Artemeva /Mikhail Nazarychev | 200.53 | 1 | 74.30 | 2 | 126.23 |
| 3 | Ekaterina Chikmareva /Matvei Ianchenkov | 189.48 | 3 | 70.04 | 3 | 119.44 |
| 4 | Anastasia Mukhortova /Dmitry Evgenyev | 188.22 | 4 | 69.84 | 5 | 118.38 |
| 5 | Ekaterina Geynish /Ilya Mironov | 187.35 | 5 | 68.30 | 4 | 119.05 |
| 6 | Polina Kostiukovich /Aleksei Briukhanov | 184.04 | 6 | 67.81 | 6 | 116.23 |
| 7 | Kseniia Akhanteva /Valerii Kolesov | 179.31 | 7 | 67.80 | 7 | 111.51 |
| 8 | Ekaterina Petushkova /Evgenii Malikov | 174.36 | 8 | 65.72 | 9 | 108.64 |
| 9 | Anna Kireeva /Ilya Ivanov | 169.74 | 11 | 59.96 | 8 | 109.78 |
| 10 | Varvara Cheremnykh /Daniil Butenko | 167.97 | 10 | 62.04 | 10 | 105.93 |
| 11 | Ekaterina Storublevtseva /Artem Gritsaenko | 161.74 | 9 | 63.88 | 12 | 97.86 |
| 12 | Maya Shegay /Igor Shamshurov | 157.71 | 12 | 55.45 | 11 | 102.26 |
| Rank | Name | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irina Khavronina /Dario Cirisano | 182.77 | 3 | 71.46 | 1 | 111.31 |
| 2 | Vasilisa Kaganovskaia /Valeriy Angelopol | 182.06 | 1 | 72.95 | 2 | 109.11 |
| 3 | Sofya Tyutyunina /Alexander Shustitskiy | 178.12 | 2 | 72.81 | 4 | 105.31 |
| 4 | Sofia Leontieva /Daniil Gorelkin | 172.88 | 4 | 67.10 | 3 | 105.78 |
| 5 | Alisa Ovsiankina /Matvei Samokhin | 162.12 | 5 | 65.26 | 6 | 96.86 |
| 6 | Ekaterina Rybakova /Ivan Makhnonosov | 160.56 | 9 | 62.62 | 5 | 97.94 |
| 7 | Margarita Svistunova /Dmitrii Studenikin | 160.01 | 6 | 64.22 | 8 | 95.79 |
| 8 | Anna Shcherbakova /Egor Goncharov | 158.90 | 8 | 62.71 | 7 | 96.19 |
| 9 | Ekaterina Katashinskaya /Matvei Grachyov | 158.28 | 7 | 63.94 | 9 | 94.34 |
| 10 | Sofiia Kachushkina /Oleg Muratov | 153.41 | 10 | 60.38 | 10 | 93.03 |
| 11 | Sofia Aleksova /Ilya Vladimirov | 152.11 | 12 | 59.75 | 11 | 92.36 |
| 12 | Taisiia Linchevskaya /Timur Babaev-Smirnov | 150.89 | 11 | 60.13 | 12 | 90.76 |
| 13 | Anna Kolomenskaya /Artem Frolov | 145.41 | 14 | 56.83 | 13 | 88.58 |
| 14 | Elizaveta Maleina /Grigory Rodin | 139.14 | 13 | 57.81 | 15 | 81.33 |
| 15 | Polina Kocherygina /Evgeni Artyushchenko | 136.81 | 15 | 52.29 | 14 | 84.52 |
The2021 Winter Universiade, originally scheduled for 21–31 January 2021 inLucerne,Switzerland, was postponed to 11–21 December 2021 but finally it was cancelled definitively on 29 November 2021.[23][24][25]
The2022 European Championships were held inTallinn,Estonia from 10 to 16 January 2022. Russia's team was published on 26 December 2021.[26]
The2022 Winter Olympics were held inBeijing,China from 4 to 20 February 2022. Russia's team was published on 20 January 2022.[27]
The2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, originally scheduled for 6–13 February 2021 inVuokatti,Finland, was postponed to 11–18 December 2021 and then to 20–25 March 2022.[28][29] However, on 2 March 2022, in accordance with a recommendation by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC),European Olympic Committees (EOC) suspended the participation of Russia from 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival due to the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[30]
The2022 World Championships were held inMontpellier,France from 21 to 27 March 2022. However, on 1 March 2022, in accordance with a recommendation by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC), theInternational Skating Union (ISU) banned figure skaters and officials from Russia from attending all international competitions due to the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[31]
Commonly referred to as "Junior Worlds", the2022 World Junior Championships were originally scheduled for 7–13 March 2022 inSofia,Bulgaria before postponing to 13–17 April 2022 inTallinn,Estonia.[32][33] However, on 1 March 2022, in accordance with a recommendation by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC), theInternational Skating Union (ISU) banned figure skaters and officials from Russia from attending all international competitions due to the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[31]
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has decided to annul the result of figure skater Kamila Valieva at the Russian Championships. … The figure skater will be stripped of the gold medal of the Russian Championships, which was won on the day of a positive doping test in December 2021. … After the redistribution of awards, the gold medal will go to Alexandra Trusova, the silver will go to Anna Shcherbakova, and the bronze to Adelia Petrosyan.