2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships

The 2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships () was held from 24–27 December 2013 in Sochi. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The results were among the criteria used to select Russia's teams sent to the 2014 Winter Olympics, the 2014 World Championships, and the 2014 European Championships.

Competitions Date Event Type Location 22–27 December 2013 2014 Russian Championships Final Sochi, Krasnodar Krai 22–25 January 2014 2014 Russian Junior Championships Final Saransk, Mordovia 26 February – 2 March 2014 2014 Russian Cup Final Final Veliky Novgorod, Novgorod Oblast 21–25 March 2014 2014 Russian Youth Championships – Younger Age Final Stary Oskol, Belgorod Oblast 2–5 April 2014 2014 Russian Youth Championships – Elder Age Final Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Medalists of most important competitions Senior Championships Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Maxim Kovtun Evgeni Plushenko Sergei Voronov Ladies Adelina Sotnikova Yulia Lipnitskaya Elena Radionova Pairs Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev Ice dancing Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin Junior Championships Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Adian Pitkeev Alexander Petrov Moris Kvitelashvili Ladies Serafima Sakhanovich Maria Sotskova Alexandra Proklova Pairs Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat Ice dancing Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko Cup Final Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Moris Kvitelashvili Gordei Gorshkov Andrei Lazukin Ladies Anna Pogorilaya Evgenia Medvedeva Maria Artemieva Pairs Julia Antipova / Nodari Maisuradze Katarina Gerboldt / Alexander Enbert Kristina Astakhova / Maxim Kurdyukov Ice dancing Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin Svetlana Khomiakova / Nikita Shubo-Yablonski Daria Scheglova / Anton Novikov Junior men Alexander Samarin Alexey Genya Igor Efimchuk Junior ladies Polina Tsurskaya Anastasia Kolomiets Viktoria Bezrukova Junior pairs Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat Anastasia A. Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov Anastasia Kholkina / Vladimir Arkhipov Junior ice dancing Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Eva Khachaturian / Igor Eremenko Ksenia Konkina / Georgy Reviya Youth Championships – Elder Age Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Alexander Samarin Dmitri Aliev Daniil Bernadiner Ladies Polina Drynkina Anastasia Kolomiets Diana Pervushkina Pairs Anastasia A. Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov Maria Chuzhanova / Denis Mintsev Anastasia Poluianova / Stepan Korotkov Ice dancing Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov Anastasia Khromova / Yuriy Karasev Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov Youth Championships – Younger Age Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Petr Gumennik Nikolai Gerasimov Pavel Yuferov Ladies Polina Tsurskaya Viktoria Bezrukova Anastasiia Gubanova Pairs No pairs' discipline Ice dancing No Ice dancing discipline

Senior Championships The senior Championships were held in Sochi for the second year in a row. Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov withdrew before the event due to injury and were replaced by alternates Anastasia A. Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov. Maxim Trankov was a commentator for Russian TV.

31-year-old Evgeni Plushenko, a ten-time national champion, was first in the men's short program by over five points ahead of 18-year-old Maxim Kovtun, with Sergei Voronov coming in third. In the free skate, Kovtun upset Plushenko to win his first national title, outscoring him by 11.09 points in the segment and 5.76 points overall. Voronov took the bronze, his sixth national medal. In fourth place overall was the 2011 national champion, 30-year-old Konstantin Menshov, who had to climb from 10th after the short program, while 15-year-old Adian Pitkeev finished fifth, 0.08 of a point ahead of Artur Gachinski. Mikhail Kolyada withdrew during the long program, unable to fix a problem with his laces.

In the short dance, defending national champions Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev scored 4.60 points more than second-placed Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov. The 2012 World Junior champions, Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin, landed in third place, 0.48 of a point ahead of the defending Russian bronze medalists, Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko. Bobrova / Soloviev also placed first in the free dance and won their fourth national title, defeating Ilinykh / Katsalapov by 7.29 points in the segment and 11.89 overall. The silver medalists both fell as a result of their blades clashing. Sinitsina / Zhiganshin took bronze—their first senior national medal—by outscoring Riazanova / Tkachenko by 1.13 points in the segment and 1.61 overall. The 2011 World Junior champions, Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin, finished in fifth place ahead of Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, who won the same title in 2013.

Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov earned a narrow victory in the pairs' short program, scoring 0.47 more than the 2012 national champions, Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov, while Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov were five points back in third. The top two were nearly tied in the free skate, Bazarova / Larionov placing first by 0.02. Stolbova / Klimov finished first overall by 0.45 and won their first national title. Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev, competing as juniors internationally, moved up from fourth to take the bronze medal. The next four pairs clustered within 2.60 points of each other, led by Julia Antipova / Nodari Maisuradze who finished fourth for the second year in a row. Tarasova / Morozov dropped to eighth overall. Although she was hurt when they both fell during a lift near the end of their program, she was able to resume and complete the final element, a pair spin.

The 2012 national champion Adelina Sotnikova was first in the ladies' short program, 2.21 points ahead of Yulia Lipnitskaya, while Elena Radionova edged Alena Leonova by 0.73 of a point for third position. Lipnitskaia narrowly won the free skate, just 0.25 separating her from Sotnikova. Her overall score was 1.96 less than Sotnikova who won her fourth national title while Lipnitskaia took her second silver medal. Radionova remained in third, winning bronze. 13-year-old Alexandra Proklova finished fourth, edging out Leonova who slipped to fifth with a seventh-place free skate. Defending national champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva finished 10th.

Schedule Tuesday, December 24 14:00 – Men's short 16:45 – Opening ceremony 17:45 – Pairs' short 20:00 – Short dance Wednesday, December 25 14:00 – Ladies' short 16:45 – Men's free 20:00 – Free dance Thursday, December 26 16:00 – Pairs' free 18:40 – Ladies' free Friday, December 27 13:00 – Medal ceremonies 14:00 – Exhibitions

Results Men Rank Name Region Total points SP FS 1 Maxim Kovtun MSK 267.13 2 93.08 1 174.05 2 Evgeni Plushenko SPB 261.37 1 98.41 2 162.96 3 Sergei Voronov MSK 249.44 3 89.10 3 160.34 4 Konstantin Menshov SPB 230.13 10 70.72 4 159.41 5 Adian Pitkeev MSK 224.25 4 76.75 6 147.50 6 Artur Gachinski SPB 224.17 12 69.10 5 155.07 7 Zhan Bush MSK 217.40 5 73.40 8 144.00 8 Alexander Petrov SPB 216.47 7 71.79 7 144.68 9 Artur Dmitriev Jr. MSK 202.03 8 71.32 11 130.71 10 Murad Kurbanov MSK 199.86 14 64.48 9 135.38 11 Sergei Borodulin MSK 197.31 13 64.72 10 132.59 12 Gordei Gorshkov SPB 196.72 9 70.73 14 125.99 13 Alexander Samarin MSK 193.11 16 63.03 12 130.08 14 Andrei Lazukin SPB 186.25 18 58.42 13 127.83 15 Moris Kvitelashvili MSK 184.98 11 70.47 16 114.51 16 Vladislav Sesganov SPB 182.75 17 62.74 15 120.01 17 Konstantin Milyukov KAZ 165.58 15 64.10 17 101.48 WD Mikhail Kolyada SPB 6 73.11

Ladies Rank Name Region Total points SP FS 1 Adelina Sotnikova MOS 212.77 1 72.53 2 140.24 2 Yulia Lipnitskaya MOS / EKAT 210.81 2 70.32 1 140.49 3 Elena Radionova MOS 202.01 3 67.76 3 134.25 4 Alexandra Proklova MOS 195.39 5 64.07 4 131.32 5 Alena Leonova MOS / SPB 187.48 4 67.03 7 120.45 6 Serafima Sakhanovich SPB 183.58 7 62.36 6 121.22 7 Evgenia Medvedeva MOS 181.86 8 62.19 8 119.67 8 Anna Pogorilaya MOS 180.88 10 59.35 5 121.53 9 Nikol Gosviani SPB 176.54 6 63.20 10 113.34 10 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva SPB 175.59 9 59.81 9 115.78 11 Maria Artemieva SPB 155.23 11 57.07 14 98.16 12 Sofia Biryukova MOS 150.15 15 49.89 12 100.26 13 Diana Pervushkina SAM 149.14 16 49.16 13 99.98 14 Alsu Kaiumova MOS 144.83 17 43.40 11 101.43 15 Diana Shamsutdinova IZHEVSK 144.40 14 50.01 15 94.39 16 Polina Agafonova SPB 144.32 12 53.13 17 91.19 17 Alina Maximova MOS / KAZ 143.59 13 50.47 16 93.12 18 Anna Shershak MOS 130.62 18 42.52 18 88.10

Pairs Rank Name Region Total points SP FS 1 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov SPB / MOS 214.47 1 75.55 2 138.92 2 Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov MOS / SARANSK 214.02 2 75.08 1 138.94 3 Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev PERM 182.35 4 64.33 3 118.02 4 Julia Antipova / Nodari Maisuradze MOS 174.97 5 64.28 7 110.69 5 Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat MOS 173.09 6 62.06 6 111.03 6 Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin MOS 172.80 9 59.03 4 113.77 7 Katarina Gerboldt / Alexander Enbert SPB 172.37 7 60.06 5 112.31 8 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov MOS / KAZ 169.06 3 69.72 10 99.34 9 Kristina Astakhova / Maxim Kurdyukov MOS 159.62 8 59.44 8 100.18 10 Anastasia A. Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov PERM 153.28 10 53.19 9 100.09

Ice dancing Rank Name Region Total points SD FD 1 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev MOS 179.90 1 73.27 1 106.63 2 Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov MOS 168.01 2 68.67 2 99.34 3 Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin MOS 165.60 3 67.08 3 98.52 4 Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko MOB 163.99 4 66.60 4 97.39 5 Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin MOS 155.59 5 62.57 6 93.02 6 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin MOS 151.80 6 58.71 5 93.09 7 Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin MOS 133.87 7 53.61 8 80.26 8 Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro MOS 133.62 8 51.44 7 82.18 9 Anzhelika Kanivets / Alexei Chizhov SVE 81.88 9 29.08 9 52.80 10 Svetlana Khomiakova / Nikita Shubo-Yablonski KIR 81.40 10 29.04 10 52.36

Junior Championships The 2014 Russian Junior Championships () were held on 22–25 January 2014 in Saransk.

Results Men Rank Name Region Total points SP FS 1 Adian Pitkeev MOS 229.59 1 79.82 1 149.77 2 Alexander Petrov SPB 227.71 2 79.14 2 148.57 3 Moris Kvitelashvili MOS 206.83 9 60.13 3 146.70 4 Alexander Samarin MOS 204.33 7 64.79 4 139.54 5 Mikhail Kolyada SPB 201.99 3 71.34 6 130.65 6 Murad Kurbanov MOS 200.94 6 65.01 5 135.93 7 Vladimir Samoilov MOS 187.96 12 59.64 7 128.32 8 Andrei Lazukin SPB 184.02 4 70.15 11 113.87 9 Artem Lezheev S/K 179.50 5 66.28 12 113.22 10 Alexey Genya MOB 176.81 10 60.06 8 116.75 11 Stanislav Andryunin MOS 176.36 11 59.82 9 116.54 12 Roman Savosin MOS 173.89 13 58.25 10 115.64 13 Evgeni Ilyn Kazan 163.75 15 55.90 13 107.85 14 Anton Shulepov S/V 162.47 8 61.65 16 100.82 15 Daniil Bernadiner MOS 160.04 14 57.93 15 102.11 16 Igor Efimchuk SPB 157.85 16 50.78 14 107.07

Ladies Rank Name Region Total points SP FS 1 Serafima Sakhanovich SPB 196.78 1 67.82 1 128.96 2 Maria Sotskova MOS 191.69 2 64.26 2 127.43 3 Alexandra Proklova MOS 186.50 5 63.24 3 123.26 4 Evgenia Medvedeva MOS 183.70 4 63.25 4 120.45 5 Polina Tsurskaya M/O 179.60 3 63.58 6 116.02 6 Elizaveta Iushenko MOS 179.44 6 63.24 5 117.91 7 Anastasiia Gubanova SPB 173.71 9 58.75 7 114.96 8 Alsu Kaiumova MOS 168.64 11 55.95 8 112.69 9 Natalia Ogoreltseva S/U 166.89 8 60.92 10 105.97 10 Anastasia Kolomiets SPB 165.88 10 58.37 9 107.51 11 Viktoria Bezrukova MOS 163.24 7 61.09 11 102.15 12 Polina Drynkina MOS 150.34 13 53.45 12 96.89 13 Valeria Mikhailova MOS 147.55 12 53.50 13 94.05 14 Alexandra Fomina MOS 138.39 14 48.08 14 90.31 15 Sofia Istomina MOS 132.95 17 45.45 15 88.85 16 Anastasia Bugakova MOS 124.90 15 46.17 17 78.73 17 Anastasia Zinkina Saransk 124.12 18 38.08 16 86.04 18 Yulia Li MOS 124.12 16 45.45 18 65.27

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