Sofia Vladimirovna Samodelkina (Russian: Софья Владимировна Самоделкина; born 18 February 2007) is a Russian figure skater. She is 2021 JGP Slovenia silver medalist, 2021 JGP Russia bronze medalist and 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge champion.

Sofia Samodelkina
Samodelkina in 2021
Personal information
Native name	Софья Владимировна Самоделкина
Full name	Sofia Vladimirovna Samodelkina
Alternative names	Sofya
Country represented	Russia
Born	(2007-02-18) 18 February 2007 (age 15)[1] Moscow, Russia[1]
Home town	Moscow, Russia[1]
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)[1]
Coach	Svetlana Sokolovskaya
Former coach	Sergei Davydov, Alexandra Kravtsova, Lilia Biktagirova
Choreographer	Viktoria Bondarenko[1]
Skating club	CSKA, Moscow[1]
Training locations	Moscow, Novogorsk
Began skating	2011[1]
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	205.67[2] 2021 JGP Slovenia
Short program	65.56[2] 2021 JGP Slovenia
Free skate	141.63[2] 2021 JGP Russia

Samodelkina is the ninth woman to land a quadruple jump, and the fifteenth to land a triple Axel jump in international competition. She is second woman after Alexandra Trusova who has landed quadruple jumps except quad Axel in practice. She is the first women to attempt a quad loop in competition, but the jump was not ratified due to under-rotation. She has landed ratified triple axels, quad salchows, and quad toes in international competition.

Personal life

Samodelkina was born in Moscow on 18 February 2007. She is a junior high school student and her hobbies include drawing.[1]

Career

Early years

Samodelkina placed fourth at the 2020 Russian Junior Championships and 2021 Russian Junior Championships. She was second at the 2021 Russian Cup Final and first at the 2020 Russian Cup Final on the junior level.

2021–22 season: International junior debut

Samodelkina made her junior international debut at the 2021 JGP Russia held in Krasnoyarsk in mid-September. She fell on an underrotated triple Axel jump in the short program, missing her combination as a result, ending up sixth in that segment. In the free skate she placed second behind Sofia Akateva, landing a quadruple Salchow with positive GOE and becoming the ninth woman in history to land a quad. She also landed a quad Salchow-double toeloop combination and quad Lutz, although called a quarter short, in the program, taking the bronze medal overall.[3] At the 2021 JGP Slovenia she made mistake on the opening triple Axel and placed fourth. She won the free skate after landing a quad Salchow and rose to second place overall.[4]

Later in autumn, at the 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, Samodelkina became the fifteenth woman to land a triple Axel jump in international competition and won the event.[5]

Samodelkina made her debut at the senior national championships at the 2022 Russian Championships, where she placed fifth. She underrotated two of her three quad attempts, but expressed enthusiasm at the overall results and qualifying for the national team for the following season.[6]

At the 2022 Russian Junior Championships, Samodelkina performed her short program cleanly, including triple Axel-triple toeloop combination and placed second behind Sofia Akatieva. She stumbled on the quad Lutz and quad Salchow in the free skate but completed the other elements cleanly and won the silver medal behind Akatieva.

Programs

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

Personal ICU bests highlighted in bold. Personal bests highlighted in italic.

Senior results

Junior-level

References

External links

• Sofia Samodelkina at the International Skating Union