The 2017 Russian Figure Skating Championships () were held from 20 to 26 December 2016 in Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast. 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 to the 2017 World Championships and 2017 European Championships.
Competitions In the 2016–17 season, Russian skaters will compete 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.
Date Event Type Location Details 25–29 September 2016 1st stage of Russian Cup Qualifier Samara, Samara Oblast Details 11–15 October 2016 2nd stage of Russian Cup Qualifier Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El Details 25–29 October 2016 3rd stage of Russian Cup Qualifier Perm, Perm Krai Details 7–11 November 2016 4th stage of Russian Cup Qualifier Kazan, Tatarstan Details 2–6 December 2016 5th stage of Russian Cup Qualifier Moscow Details 20–26 December 2016 2017 Russian Championships Final Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast Details 1–5 February 2017 2017 Russian Junior Championships Final Saint Petersburg Details 12–16 February 2017 2017 Russian Cup Final Final Saransk, Mordovia Details 3–7 March 2017 2017 Russian Youth Championships – Younger Age Final Saransk, Mordovia Details 1–4 April 2017 2017 Russian Youth Championships – Elder Age Final Veliky Novgorod, Novgorod Oblast Details
Medalists of most important competitions Senior Championships Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Mikhail Kolyada Alexander Samarin Maxim Kovtun Ladies Evgenia Medvedeva Alina Zagitova Maria Sotskova Pairs Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert Ice dancing Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov Junior Championships Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Dmitri Aliev Alexander Petrov Igor Efimchuk Ladies Alina Zagitova Stanislava Konstantinova Polina Tsurskaya Pairs Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin Ice dancing Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin Cup Final Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Alexander Samarin Alexander Petrov Sergei Voronov Ladies Polina Tsurskaya Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Valeria Mikhailova Pairs Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin Anastasia Poluianova / Maksim Selkin Ice dancing Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov Vasilisa Davankova / Anton Shibnev Junior men Makar Ignatov Evgeni Semenenko Ilia Skirda Junior ladies Anastasiia Gubanova Viktoria Vasilieva Alexandra Trusova Junior pairs Daria Kvartalova / Alexei Sviatchenko Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Nika Osipova / Aleksandr Galiamov Junior ice dancing Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov Youth Championships – Elder Age Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Egor Rukhin Ilia Skirda Egor Murashov Ladies Anastasia Tarakanova Alexandra Trusova Elizaveta Nugumanova Pairs Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov Lina Kudryavtseva / Alexander Simenenko Ice dancing Polina Ivanenko / Daniil Karpov Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy Youth Championships – Younger Age Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Andrei Kutovoi Egor Rukhin Daniil Samsonov Ladies Anastasia Tarakanova Anna Shcherbakova Alexandra Trusova Pairs No pairs' discipline Ice dancing No Ice dancing discipline
Senior Championships The senior Championships will be held in Chelyabinsk from 20 to 26 December 2016. Competitors will qualify through international success or by competing in the Russian Cup series' senior-level events.
Entries The Russian figure skating federation published the full list of entries on 13 December 2016.
Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance Mikhail Kolyada Evgenia Medvedeva Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Maxim Kovtun Anna Pogorilaya Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Sergei Voronov Elena Radionova Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov Artur Dmitriev Jr. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin Alexander Petrov Maria Sotskova Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro Alexander Samarin Yulia Lipnitskaya (withdrew) Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin Roman Savosin (withdrew) Alena Leonova Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev Vasilisa Davankova / Anton Shibnev Ilia Skirda Serafima Sakhanovich Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin Maria Stavitskaia / Andrei Bagin Dmitri Aliev Alina Zagitova Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii Ludmila Sosnitskaia / Pavel Golovishnikov Anton Shulepov Anastasiia Gubanova Anastasia Poluianova / Maksim Selkin Anastasia Safronova / Ilia Zimin Andrei Lazukin Elizaveta Nugumanova (withdrew) Bogdana Lukashevich / Alexander Stepanov Pavel Vyugov Alisa Fedichkina Maria Chuzhanova / Denis Mintsev (withdrew) Alexey Erokhov Stanislava Konstantinova Vladimir Samoilov Valeria Mikhailova Murad Kurbanov Alisa Lozko Artem Lezheev Natalia Ogoreltseva Ilia Knyazhuk Anastasia Kolomiets Evgeni Vlasov (withdrew) Anastasia Gracheva (withdrew) Substitutes Andrei Zuber (added) Anastasia Yatsenko (added) Elizaveta Zhuk / Egor Britkov (added) Olga Bibikhina / Daniil Zvorykin Sofia Samodurova (added) Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov Ekaterina Guseva (added)
Results Men Mikhail Kolyada won his first national title by a margin of 23 points over the silver medalist, Alexander Samarin. Moving up from 7th after the short program, former champion Maxim Kovtun took the bronze medal.
Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Mikhail Kolyada 283.48 1 95.33 1 188.15 2 Alexander Samarin 259.74 2 87.41 3 172.33 3 Maxim Kovtun 249.37 7 76.65 2 172.72 4 Andrei Lazukin 241.00 4 83.19 6 157.81 5 Dmitri Aliev 240.69 8 76.26 4 164.43 6 Alexander Petrov 236.93 9 75.97 5 160.96 7 Sergei Voronov 233.62 3 85.89 8 147.73 8 Artur Dmitriev Jr. 226.77 5 80.97 10 145.80 9 Anton Shulepov 224.03 6 78.11 9 145.92 10 Alexey Erokhov 216.80 13 64.20 7 152.60 11 Pavel Vyugov 206.82 10 71.51 11 135.31 12 Ilia Skirda 200.39 12 68.63 12 131.76 13 Artem Lezheev 195.25 11 69.18 15 126.07 14 Ilia Knyazhuk 189.47 15 60.12 13 129.35 15 Murad Kurbanov 189.38 14 62.83 14 126.55 16 Andrei Zuber 177.93 16 59.63 16 118.30 17 Vladimir Samoilov 160.42 17 46.97 17 113.45
Ladies Medvedeva successfully defended her national title, outscoring Alina Zagitova by twelve points.
Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Evgenia Medvedeva 233.57 1 80.08 1 153.49 2 Alina Zagitova 221.21 3 74.26 2 146.95 3 Maria Sotskova 219.90 2 74.39 3 145.51 4 Anna Pogorilaya 215.62 4 73.45 4 142.17 5 Elena Radionova 209.24 5 70.19 5 139.05 6 Stanislava Konstantinova 200.19 7 68.34 7 131.85 7 Anastasiia Gubanova 197.26 10 63.34 6 133.92 8 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva 194.52 6 69.17 10 125.35 9 Sofia Samodurova 192.16 8 65.29 8 126.87 10 Alisa Fedichkina 189.57 9 63.96 9 125.61 11 Valeria Mikhailova 180.73 12 59.90 11 120.83 12 Serafima Sakhanovich 175.53 13 59.37 12 116.16 13 Alena Leonova 174.67 11 60.60 13 114.07 14 Alisa Lozko 170.93 14 58.40 14 112.53 15 Anastasia Yatsenko 164.61 16 55.74 15 108.87 16 Ekaterina Guseva 160.66 17 53.04 16 107.62 17 Natalia Ogoreltseva 159.69 15 57.48 17 102.21 18 Anastasia Kolomiets 137.93 18 44.24 18 93.69
Pairs Returning to competition following an injury, Stolbova / Klimov won their third national title by a margin of less than a point over Tarasova / Morozov.
Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov 220.12 2 77.47 1 142.65 2 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov 219.19 1 80.04 2 139.15 3 Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert 201.91 3 72.85 3 129.06 4 Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov 198.79 4 70.73 4 128.06 5 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov 191.42 5 67.52 5 123.90 6 Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii 179.01 8 60.77 6 118.24 7 Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev 178.26 7 62.80 7 115.46 8 Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin 176.60 6 63.69 8 112.91 9 Elizaveta Zhuk / Egor Britkov 161.24 9 57.64 9 103.60 10 Anastasia Poluianova / Maksim Selkin 154.98 12 52.25 10 102.73 11 Bogdana Lukashevich / Alexander Stepanov 146.88 11 52.88 11 94.00 WD Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin 10 55.35
Ice dancing Bobrova / Soloviev obtained their sixth national title. Stepanova / Bukin took the silver medal, with a deficit of 7.72 points, while Sinitsina/Katsalapov edged out Ilinykh / Zhiganshin by 0.17 for the bronze.
Rank Name Total points SD FD 1 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev 197.26 1 81.40 1 115.86 2 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 189.54 2 76.47 2 113.07 3 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov 178.45 3 73.78 4 104.67 4 Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin 178.28 4 73.22 3 105.06 5 Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro 169.46 5 69.01 5 100.45 6 Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin 152.15 6 60.85 6 91.30 7 Vasilisa Davankova / Anton Shibnev 139.44 8 53.03 7 86.41 8 Maria Stavitskaia / Andrei Bagin 139.23 7 56.28 8 82.95 9 Ludmila Sosnitskaia / Pavel Golovishnikov 128.05 9 52.58 9 75.47 10 Anastasia Safronova / Ilia Zimin 112.22 10 45.18 10 67.04
Junior Championships The 2017 Russian Junior Championships () will be held in Saint Petersburg from 1 to 5 February 2017. Competitors will qualify by competing in the Russian Cup series' junior-level events. The results of the Junior Championships are part of the selection criteria for the 2017 World Junior Championships.
Entries The Russian figure skating federation published the full list of entries on 16 January 2017.
Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance Dmitri Aliev Alina Zagitova Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev (withdrew) Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Alexander Samarin (withdrew) Anastasiia Gubanova Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov Roman Savosin Polina Tsurskaya Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin Alexander Petrov Stanislava Konstantinova Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov Ilia Skirda Elizaveta Nugumanova Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko Makar Ignatov Alisa Fedichkina Anastasia Poluianova / Maksim Selkin Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov Alexey Erokhov Anna Shcherbakova (withdrew) Elizaveta Zhuk / Egor Britkov Yana Buga / Georgiy Pokhilyuk Petr Gumennik Daria Panenkova Daria Kvartalova / Alexei Sviatchenko Ksenia Konkina / Grigory Yakushev Artem Kovalev Alexandra Trusova Nika Osipova / Aleksandr Galiamov Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov Igor Efimchuk Sofia Samodurova Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin Evgeniia Lopareva / Alexey Karpushov Egor Rukhin Ekaterina Kurakova Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov Polina Ivanenko / Daniil Karpov Artur Danielian (withdrew) Alisa Lozko (withdrew) Albina Sokur / Roman Pleshkov Eva Kuts / Dmitrii Mikhailov Egor Murashov Anastasiia Guliakova Daria Rumyantseva / Dmitry Ryabchenko Evgeni Semenenko Viktoria Vasilieva Angelina Lazareva / Maxim Prokofiev Mark Kondratiuk Anastasia Tarakanova Ekaterina Andreeva / Ivan Desyatov Andrei Kutovoi Anna Tarusina Andrei Sachkov (withdrew) Maria Talalaikina Artem Frolov Ksenia Pankova Substitutes Matvei Vetlugin (added) Alena Kostornaia (added) Elizaveta Martynova / Roman Zaporozhets (added) Anastasia Ilianova / Dmitry Bovin Kirill Yakovlev (added) Ekaterina Mitrofanova (added) Valeria Makarova / Dmitry Shulgin Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy Mikhail Udalov (added) Elena Pavlova Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin
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