Petr Gumennik

Gumennik in 2024
Personal information
Native name	Пётр Олегович Гуменник
Born	(2002-04-11)11 April 2002 (age 23) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Russia
Discipline	Men's singles
Coach	Veronika Daineko
Skating club	FS Sport Club of Tamara Moskvina, St. Petersburg
Began skating	2006
Medal record
Russian Championships 2026 Saint Petersburg Singles 2023 Krasnoyarsk Singles 2024 Chelyabinsk Singles World Junior Championships 2020 Tallinn Singles Junior Grand Prix Final 2018–19 Vancouver Singles

Pyotr Olegovich Gumennik (Russian:Пётр Олегович Гуменник, born 11 April 2002) is a Russianfigure skater. He is the 2026 Russian National Champion,2020 Rostelecom Cup bronze medalist and2019 CS Warsaw Cup silver medalist. He is also the2020 World Junior bronze medalist and2018 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist.

Gumennik was born on 11 April 2002 inSaint Petersburg, Russia to parents, Elena, a pediatric neurologist and Oleg, a priest. In addition, he has two siblings.^[1][2]

In 2022, he enrolled into the Computer Science and Engineering program atITMO University. Gumennik has also expressed interest in working in the field of medicine following the end of his figure skating career.^[2][3]

Gumennik began learning to skate in 2006 at the age of four.^[1][2] His first coach was Tatyana Yurysheva, with whom he trained under inSaint Petersburg. At the age of six, Gumennik and his parents traveled toMoscow to meet withElena Buianova to receive an outside opinion on his skating. While there, Gumennik received an offer to join theCSKA Moscow, however, his parents decided against it so that the family could remain in Saint Petersburg.^[2]

One year later, Gumennik joinedOleg Tataurov and Olga Efimova's group at theYubileyny Sports Palace. In addition,Alexei Mishin also acted as a consultant.^[2]

He made his national championship debut at the2015 Russian Junior Championships, where he placed fifth.^[4]

In August 2015, Gumennik debuted on theISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series.^[5] He placed sixth at the2015 JGP inRiga, Latvia, and fourth inToruń, Poland. He subsequently finished sixth at the2016 Russian Junior Championships.^[4]

Prior to the season,Alexei Mishin began working as Gumennik's head coach.^[6] In September, he competed at two2016 JGP events, placing fourth inSaransk, Russia, and then fifth inTallinn,Estonia. He subsequently placed ninth at the2017 Russian Junior Championships.^[4]

Following the season's end, Gumennik suffered from a broken arm, an injury that was almost career-ending for him. After the incident, Gumennik and his parents made the decision for him to part ways with Mishin. He decided to begin training at the FS Sport Club of Tamara Moskvina under Veronika Daineko, who previously worked as an assistant coach to Mishin.^[2]

Gumennik started the season by winning silver and bronze at the 2017 Russian Cup Stages 1 and 2. He then went on to take bronze at the 2017 Russian Cup Final. Gumennik subsequently finished the season with an eighth-place finish at the2018 Russian Junior Championships.^[4]

Gumennik started his season with a gold medal at the2018 JGP event inVancouver,Canada. He ranked fourth in the short program but won the free skate and outscored the silver medalist,Tomoki Hiwatashi, by a margin of about seven points.^[7] At this event, he scored his personal best score of 220.04 points, and his free skating score of 150.35 points was the junior men's newrecord score. At his second JGP event of the season, he won another gold medal, inLjubljana,Slovenia. He was ranked first in both the short program and the free skate, and again he beat the same silver medalist,Tomoki Hiwatashi, this time by about 4 points. With two JGP gold medals, Gumennik qualified for the2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final, where he won the silver medal after placing third in the short program and second in the free skate.^[8] In January, he took gold at the2019 Skate Helena.^[9]

In February, Gumennik won the silver medal at the2019 Russian Junior Championships after placing first in the short program and fourth in the free skate. Assigned to the2019 World Junior Championships, he was fourth in the short program with a new personal best,^[10] eleventh in the free program, and tenth overall.^[9]

Going into the season, Gumennik said his goals for the season were to qualify for theJGP Final and win a medal at theJunior World Championship. He also said he planned to move to the senior level the following season and would attempt three quads in the free program, twoSalchows and oneLutz.^[11]

Beginning the season on the2019–20 Junior Grand Prix, Gumennik won the gold medal atthe event inChelyabinsk,Russia. At this event, he scored his personal best score of 222.14 points and made his first attempt at thequad Lutz, which ended in a step out.^[12] At hissecond event inEgna,Italy, Gumennik placed second behindDaniel Grassl.^[13] He then competed at the senior level at the2019 CS Warsaw Cup, winning the silver medal.^[4]

Qualifying for the2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final, he placed fourth in the short program after falling on his opening tripleAxel.^[14] He was fifth in the free skate after falling on his quad Lutz attempt and underrotating three other jumps and placed fifth overall.^[15]

At the2020 Russian Championships, Gumennik ranked third in the short program, with only a mirror spin error.^[16] Gumennik overslept and missed the morning practice session for the free skate, where he came tenth with errors on his quad Salchow attempts and dropped to seventh overall.^[17]

After winning a silver medal at the Russian Junior Championships, Gumennik earned one of Russia's three berths at the2020 World Junior Championships inTallinn,Estonia. He placed ninth in the short program after putting a hand down on his triple Axel attempt.^[18] He placed second in the free skate, rising to the bronze medal position overall, only 0.63 points behind silver medalistYuma Kagiyama.^[19]

Gumennik addedTamara Moskvina as a consultant to his coaching team in 2019.^[20][21]

Turning to the senior ranks full-time, Gumennik debuted his programs at the senior Russian test skates.^[22] Competing on the domestic Cup of Russia series, he won the bronze medal at the second stage in Moscow.^[23]

With theCOVID-19 pandemic continuing to affect international travel, the ISU opted to run theGrand Prix based primarily on geographic location, and Gumennik was assigned to the2020 Rostelecom Cup. He placed second in the short program with a clean skate.^[24] He was sixth in the free skate, falling on an underrotated quad Salchow, but won the bronze medal.^[25]

A week before the2021 Russian Championships, Gumennik began to suffer back pain which limited his training. He placed eighth in the short program after falling on his triple Axel and landing badly on his quad Salchow attempt.^[26] He was seventh in the free skate, rising to seventh place overall.^[27]

Gumennik participated in the 2021 Russian Cup Final, taking the silver medal.^[28]

Gumennik won the2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge to open the season, setting new personal bests.^[29] His firstGrand Prix assignment was initially the2021 Cup of China, but following its cancellation, he was reassigned to the2021 Gran Premio d'Italia inTurin.^[30] He placed eighth at the event.^[31] 

At the2022 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Gumennik finished in fifth. He said that he was "satisfied as I did everything I am capable of at this point" and vowed to add more quadruple jumps in the future.^[32]

Due toRussia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, theInternational Skating Union barred all Russian figure skaters from competing at international competitions. Gumennik was therefore only able to compete at Russian domestic events.^[33]

He began the season by winning bronze at the 2022 Russian Grand Prix Stage 2 and gold at the 2022 Russian Grand Prix Stage 4.^[4] In December, Gumennik competed at the2023 Russian Championships. He won the short program and placed second in the free skate, winning the silver medal overall behindEvgeni Semenenko, scoring the exact same combined total score as Semenenko.^[4][34]

Gumennik subsequently finished the season by winning gold at the 2023 Russian Grand Prix Final.^[4]

Prior to the season, Gumennik worked with choreographer, Nikolai Moroshkin, to create his short program to music byRammstein, Gumennik's favourite rock band. However, shortly before the 2023 Russian Test Skate event, where Gumennik was set to debut the program, he was informed that theMinistry of Sport received a letter from a third-party complaining about Gumennik's choice in music due to Rammstein's vocal support for Ukraine following the Russian invasion.^[2][35] This prompted Gumennik to replace Rammstein's composition with a Russian-language cover of the song, sung by Oleg Abramov.^[2]

He started the season by winning bronze at the 2023 Russian Grand Prix Stage 3 and gold at the 2023 Russian Grand Prix Stage 5. He subsequently competed at the2024 Russian Championships, where he won the bronze medal behindEvgeni Semenenko andVladislav Dikidzhi.^[4]

Due to illness, he withdrew from the 2024 Russian Grand Prix Final.^[36][4]

Gumennik began the season by winning silver at the 2024 Russian Grand Prix Stage 3 and sixth at the 2024 Grand Prix Stage 5. In December, he competed at the2025 Russian Championships, where Gumennik finished in fourth place after placing second in the short program and fifth in the free skate.^[4]

He finished the season on a stronger note, however, by winning gold at the 2025 Russian Grand Prix Final, twenty points ahead of silver medalist,Mark Kondratiuk.^[37]

In May 2025, theInternational Skating Union (ISU) announced that Gumennik as well asVladislav Dikidzhi had both been approved as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN), making them both eligible to compete at the 2025 ISU Olympic Qualifying Competition to vie for a spot to compete at the2026 Winter Olympics.^[38] TheFigure Skating Federation of Russia selected Gumennik to compete and Dikidzhi as the reserve.^[39]

Going on to compete at the2025 Skate to Milano in late September, Gumennik won the gold medal, thus earning an Olympic spot for Russian men's singles skating as an AIN.^[4][40]

In November, he competed at the2025 Russian Grand Prix IV, Moscow and2025 Russian Grand Prix V, Omsk, winning bronze and gold, respectively.^[4] Following the events, he travelled toCalifornia to work withRafael Arutyunyan in preparation for the2026 Russian Championships set to take place the following month.^[41] Later in the month, theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) officially declared Gumennik as eligible to compete at the2026 Winter Olympics.^[42]

In early February, days before the start of the Figure skating at the2026 Winter Olympics – Men's singles event, it was announced that Gumennik was facing copyright issues for his short program set to music fromPerfume: The Story of a Murderer. While he initially considered using hisDune short program from the previous season, Gumennik was soon informed that he would also be unable to use that music for similar reasons.^[43] It was subsequently announced that Gumennik would perform a new short program to the song, "Waltz 1805" by Edgar Hakobyan.^[44] "That was a very nerve-wracking situation," he later shared. "Because just two days before I found out that I could not use this music. Right away, several ideas came up, to skate maybe to Dune or to Rammstein, but we were not able to get the rights cleared in such a short amount of time. So we had to choose something that we could use without any problems."^[45]

On 10 February, Gumennik competed in the men's singles short program at the2026 Winter Olympics, finishing in twelfth place due to a shaky landing on his openingquad flip and only performing adouble toe at the end of his jump combination.^[46][47] In an interview following his performance, he said, "Today’s short program was quite good. I did almost every element. I made a mistake on the triple toe, which I think is the easiest jump in my program. I don’t think it deducted too many points from my performance." When asked about his thoughts on his status as an AIN, he answered, "I’m very happy to compete here. I don’t mind that I don’t represent any country. Even the possibility to skate is very meaningful to me."^[45]

Two days later, Gumennik delivered a strong free skate that included five quadruple jump attempts with three of them receiving a grade of execution of over two points. He placed fourth in that competition segment and moved up to sixth place overall at the2026 Winter Olympics.^[48][4][49] Following his performance, he expressed satisfaction, saying, "My jumps were really good and clean. They were easy. I'm glad that I was able to prepare as much as I can and not miss my opportunity to do what I was prepared to do."^[50]

Personal best highlighted inbold.

Results in the2025–26 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
18–21 September 2025	2025 Skate to Milano	1	93.80	1	169.02	1	262.82
14–17 November 2025	2025 Russian Grand Prix IV, Moscow	4	90.22	4	175.54	3	265.76
21–24 November 2025	2025 Russian Grand Prix V, Omsk	1	105.06	1	206.06	1	311.12
18–21 December 2025	2026 Russian Championships	1	103.77	1	201.18	1	304.95
10–13 February 2026	2026 Winter Olympics	12	86.72	4	184.49	6	271.21

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only atISU Championships. Personal best highlighted inbold.

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• 2002 births
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• Figure skaters at the 2026 Winter Olympics
• Olympic figure skaters as Individual Neutral Athletes
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