Alina Zagitova (born May 18, 2002) is a former Russian Figure Skating.She is the 2018 winter Olympic champion, 2019 world champion, 2018 European champion, 2017–18 Grand Prix Final champion and 2018 Russian national champion. Zagitova also won a silver medal in the team event at the 2018 Winter Olympic, representing the team of athletes Olympian from Russia.

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Zagitova is the only Russian female figure skater to have won gold at the Olympics, the World Figure Skating Championships, the European Figure Skating Championships and the Figure Skating Grand Prix Final. She is the first Muslim athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating, a world title. She is the youngest and second female figure skater, behind Yuna Kim, to win gold at all major ISU championship titles, including the Junior Grand Prix Series and Final, World Junior Championships, Grand Prix Series and Final, European Championships, World Championships, and the Winter Olympic Games. this achievement makes her one of only two female singles skaters to complete a Super Slam, following Yuna Kim. Earlier in her career,

Alina Zagitova’s Competitive Journey Achievements and Challenges in the 2019–20 Season

she won gold at the 2017 World Junior Championships and the 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final. In the 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final, she became the first junior lady to achieve a total score above 200. Zagitova has set the world record once under the old scoring system and four times under the new one.

Zagitova started the 2019–20 season at the Japan Open, finishing in second place with a score of 154.41, behind her teammate and training partner Alexandra Trusova, helping Team Europe secure victory.

Starting the Grand Prix at the Internationaux de France 2019, Zagitova placed second in the short program behind training partner Alena Kostornaia after receiving an advantage call on her triple lutz and under-rotating the triple loop in combination with. In the free skate, she failed a triple lutz jump and under-rotated three others, placing third in that segment behind Kostornaia and Mariah Bell. She took the silver medal overall and considered the performance to have room to grow. At the 2019 NHK Trophy, she finished fourth in the short program with a score of 66.84 after executing an invalid loop on the vault and her combined triple flip after Failing to connect the planned triple loop with her Lutz, she skated much better to earn a score of 151.15, for a third-place overall finish, after Kostornaia and Kihira Final.

Alina Zagitova’s Grand Prix Final Experience and Decision to Pause Competitive Skating

Competing in the Grand Prix final, Zagitova skated cleanly and placed second in the short program, behind only Kostornaia, helped by triple Axel faults from Kihira and Trusova. She was less successful in the free skate, falling on a double Axel and having several other jumps deemed under-rotated or degraded, and finished sixth in that segment and overall. Zagitova announced a suspension of her season after the Grand Prix final, expressing that she no longer felt motivated to compete.

She withdrew from the 2020 Russian Championships and thus did not claim places at the 2020 European Championships. You can read Sasha Cohen on U.S. Women’s Winter Olympic Figure Skating Medal Drought Since 2006. She had no intention of participating in the 2020 World Championships even before its cancellation. However, she maintained her status as the reigning world champion due to the cancellation of the 2020 World Championships, holding the title until the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships. As of October 2020, Zagitova extended her break from competitive skating until 2021 at the earliest.

Alina Zagitova’s Status for the 2021–2022 Season and Signature Elements in Her Skating

On May 14, 2021, the Russian press reported the announcement that Zagitova would not represent Russia on the national team during the 2021–2022 season saying, winter Olympic champion Alina Zagitova and two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva have not been included in the Russian Figure Skating Federation (RFSF) National team for 2021-2022, jeopardizing their hopes of competing at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic.

Zagitova is known for her signature triple lutz-triple loop combination, and has also executed other triple combinations such as triple flip-triple loop. She also performs other combinations, such as triple lutz-triple toe, double axel-triple toe, and triple flip-double toe-double loop in competitions. She regularly uses the Rippon variation, with both arms above her head when she jumps.
Additionally, Zagitova is also the only female senior skater in history to run two fully loaded programs back to back in the 2017–18 season, prior to the implementation of the Zagitova Rule.

Alina Zagitova Takes Lead After Short Program at European Championships

Defending champion Alina Zagitova leads after the short program at the European Championships, despite nearly dropping her hand during a jump. The winter Olympic champion led a Russian one-two finish with Sofia Samodurova just over two points behind her, while Swiss Skating

 Alexia Paganini took the junior bronze. Zagitova, 16, was all smiles as she walked off the ice to collect the ‘little gold’ medal, quickly putting the near miss behind her.

Zagitova seemed to shake off her defeat of Rika Kihira in the ISU Grand Prix final by starting with a triple Lutz, triple combination. A clean double Axel followed, but then came the moment of drama when she misjudged her landing with a triple spin and stuck her hand out for balance, pulling it back in time. She received a score of 75.00 points for her skate, although it appeared to have been flagged for an under-rotation on the loop.

 Speaking to the media, including the winter Olympic Channel, afterwards, she said: I haven’t slept well lately before the race. I am satisfied even though it could have been much better she added, according to RIA Novosti.

Alina Zagitova Returns to the Ice at Russian Annual Test Skating

Is this the start of a competitive figure skating comeback for Winter Olympic Champion Alina Zagitova? The 18-year-old has been out of action since finishing sixth in December’s Grand Prix final in Turin, missing the Russian and European Championships that followed after deciding to take a break from competition.

However, after recently returning to full-time training with mentor Eteri Tutberidze and being named in the long-list for Russia’s international squad for the 2020/21 season, the teenager is now one step closer.

The president of the Russian Winter Olympic Games Figure Skating Federation, Aleksandr Gorshkov, has told Russian media that Zagitova will take part in the federation’s preseason test in Moscow from September 12-13, where she will perform her new routines.

The annual event sees the country’s best skaters come together to show off their new routines in a – at least officially – non-competitive environment.

Alina Zagitova’s Future in Figure Skating Assessing Her Return After Test Skating

Due to the non-competitive nature of the test Skating Zagitova will not officially be returning to figure skating competition by participating in this event. The skater, who recently graduated high school and is now studying journalism at university, plans to assess how she feels after the test before deciding on her competitive return.

Gorshkov, an winter Olympic champion for the Soviet Union in Innsbruck 1976, noted that Zagitova’s involvement in the domestic Russian Cup series remains uncertain. The Russian Cup serves as a qualifying event for the national championships in Chelyabinsk this December. Without competing in this series, Zagitova would be ineligible for the nationals.

Alina Zagitova Navigating Personal Change and Challenges in Figure Skating

Zagitova and her coach Tutberidze have experienced a period of significant change. On Zagitova’s side, she is navigating personal transitions, including graduating from school and starting university. She has also recently addressed the impact of online trolls, revealing how they affected her during her early career.

I initially tried to ignore the negative comments Zagitova said. However, there were moments when a rough start would let those remarks get to me. People were quick to tell me what I should do.

Though it troubled her, her coaches and parents reassured her that it’s normal to face criticism and that not everyone would be a fan.

Zagitova, who won the world title in 2019, remains the reigning champion due to the cancellation of the 2020 World Championships. However, her training environment in Novogorsk has changed, as she no longer trains alongside standout skaters Alexandra Trusova and Alena Kostornaia, both of whom have switched to Evgeni Plushenko’s coaching.

The impact of these changes on Zagitova—should she decide to return—and on her teammate Anna Shcherbakova as the ISU Grand Prix season begins, remains to be seen.

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