Samodelkina bypassed Trusova


In Samara, at the fifth stage of the Russian Grand Prix in figure skating, two pupils of Svetlana Sokolovskaya met again - Sofia Samodelkina and Alexander Trusova.

For the first time at the tournament in Sochi, the 15-year-old athlete turned out to be stronger, although she flunked the short program, failing to fulfill the declared, maximum possible content.

This time, the young figure skater did not simplify anything and decided to try again to perform the most difficult set of elements.

According to RT columnist Elena Vaitsekhovskaya, this is quite justified, since victory is not so important at the Grand Prix stages. 

“Sonya is absolutely right in declaring the maximum content in the short program and trying to roll it out.

Sokolovskaya is a smart coach: she would hardly allow her athlete to declare jumps that he cannot cope with in training.

And, since he copes, it means that you need to use every opportunity to jump up everything new in the conditions of competitions - you simply won’t work this out in training.

And this is more expensive than any potentially lost prize money.

Sooner or later, the jumps will definitely fall into place, and will no longer be lost.

In this regard, the Russian Grand Prix is ​​the most suitable venue, ”Vaitsekhovskaya wrote in her Telegram channel.

Alas, Sofya again failed to skate the program purely.

She immediately fell off the triple axel, and then decided not to risk it and made a combination of triple lutz and sheepskin coat, although the loop was planned for the second jump.

Samodelkina performed the remaining elements cleanly and received 73.15 points from the judges.

At the same time, the athlete was dissatisfied with her performance.

“The cascade is absolutely not the one that was planned.

Apparently, it was reinsured in the air.

Axel... Well, such an axel.

We will work on it even more.

There is not enough time, I think it should come with a thousandth repetition.

I now have places - not the main thing.

The main thing is clean skates, because you won’t be able to win with dirty skates.

Is it worth it to play it safe in the free program?

No, playing it safe is not my style, ”the girl told reporters.

Against the background of Sophia, Alexandra Trusova, who has not yet gained shape, does not yet look very advantageous.

It would seem that she made only one mistake on jumps: she made a “butterfly” at the very beginning instead of an axel, but at the end of the program she looked somehow very hard, slowly, and in the end she didn’t even get a step track.

The judges rated her rental at 69.50 points.

As a result, Trusova took only third place, letting Anna Frolova, who had not performed for almost a year due to injury, besides Samodelkina, let her go ahead.

The figure skater did not do ultra-si elements.

Nevertheless, she skated cleanly and scored 70.74 points.

However, the athlete herself believes that she was just lucky to get around Sasha.

“I am not on the same level with Trusova,” Frolova said.

Kondratyuk took the lead

Serious competition in Samara unfolded in the men's competition.

Five skaters claimed the victory at once: Mark Kondratyuk, Andrey Mozalev, Gleb Lutfullin, Alexander Samarin and Artur Danielyan.

All of them approached the fifth stage with different moods.

So, the pupil of Evgeny Rukavitsyn has not yet restored all the elements after a back injury, and each start is not easy for him, first of all, emotionally.

This time, as in the previous tournament, Danielyan was very upset because of the fall on the cascade.

“Lutz sheepskin coat - I don’t know, this is not a fleeting mistake, this is still a stable blockage from the rentals.

We need to do something about it, look for the cause.

She can't.

We need to approach this differently, ”admitted the athlete.

At the same time, Danielyan managed a triple Axel and a quadruple salchow, but this was not enough to get into the top three.

He's only sixth.

Gleb Lutfullin made a stupid mistake during the rental.

A pupil of Alexei Mishin perfectly performed all his jumps, including two quadruples.

But he fell at the very end of the program during the rotation, which naturally affected the scores, which, however, were quite high - 92.77 points.

“What can I say about the performance?

Fool, in a word.

Feelings were good.

Ice is great too.

What happened on rotation?

There I have a difficult exit, I need to stop abruptly.

It is necessary for a prong, but, apparently, he didn’t feel something after this centrifugal force and fell off the edge, ”said the skater.

Opponents took advantage of Gleb's oversight.

So, Andrei Mozalev tried to rehabilitate himself for second place in Kazan.

He made only a small mistake when landing a triple axel, and the judges rated his rental at 97.61 points.

“On the rotation sausage, lost levels.

I sat down somehow, there was a change of rib ... For a four performance.

I don’t know how I saved the triple axel.

I didn’t really feel anything, only a little swayed at the exit.

Everything was fine, I trained, worked on the bugs.

After the second place in Kazan, the motivation soared, the motivation is to always win.

But I quickly forgot about that stage, life goes on, you have to get high, ”said Mozalev.

But Andrei failed to stay on the first line, because Mark Kondratyuk performed almost perfectly.

He performed two quads, but in the cascade, instead of a triple toe loop, he preferred a double one.

The skater promised to improve and fulfill everything planned at the Russian Championships.

“Many movements from the program - I add something along the way, remove something.

How I want to ride, so I ride.

Cascade 4-3 I will try to make it in the short at the national championship.

This is not a gift to rivals, consciously such decisions do not need to be made and give odds to someone.

In the free program, I would like to believe that there will be a clean rental.

But if there is a struggle, don’t blame me, I will try, ”Kondratyuk promised on Channel One.

The judges rated Mark's program not as highly as the performance in Sochi.

Nevertheless, the pupil of Svetlana Sokolovskaya exceeded one hundred points (102.84) and became the leader of the competition.

As for Alexander Samarin, the skater again had problems jumping: falls from a quadruple sheepskin coat and a step-out on a triple axel threw the athlete to fourth place.

Almost world record in dancing

The competitions of dancers and sports couples once again went quite smoothly and without sensations, since the strongest duets are scattered over the stages and the competition here is not as high as in single skating.

With a clear advantage of nine points from second place, the short program was won by Alexandra Boikova and Dmitry Kozlovsky.

Their Hit The Road Jack program this time looked even more convincing, as promised earlier by their coach Tamara Moskvina.

“From start to start we will gain some experience this season, we will feel our program better and better.

This is a natural process - the fact that in Sochi we skated in the same way, but now we are more confident.

And we will continue to gain this confidence.

Wrestling in sports is always there by default.

Of course, we are fighting for the first places,” said Kozlovsky.

The pair were supposed to compete with Yasmina Kadyrova and Valery Kolesov, but the athletes made a mistake when performing a parallel jump: their partner fell, so the judges lowered the duet to third place.

The second was Yulia Artemyeva and Alexey Bryukhanov.

Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva and Yegor Bazin received generous marks for rhythm dance - 90.74 points.

This is only 1.99 less than the world record held by the 2022 Olympic champions Gabriela Papadakis and Guillaume Sizeron.

At the same time, the Russians got 53.16 for the equipment, as well as the French in a record box office.

The second place was taken by Elizaveta Shanaeva and Pavel Drozd.

The duo, formed this year, can only dream of the results of Khudaiberdiyeva and Bazin.

However, the arbitrators also saw progress in them, estimating their rhythm dance higher than that shown in Kazan.