Adelina Dmitrievna Sotnikova

Adelina Sotnikova
Full name	Adelina Dmitrievna Sotnikova
nation	Russia
birthday	1st July 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Moscow , Russia
size	165 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
society	CSKA Moscow
Trainer	Jelena Vodoresova Irina Tagayeva
choreographer	Irina Tagayeva
status	resigned
End of career	2020
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Sochi 2014 Ladies  European figure skating championships silver Zagreb 2013 Ladies silver Budapest 2014 Ladies
Personal best
Total points 224.59 Olympia 2014  Freestyle 149.95 Olympia 2014  Short program 75.57 CS Mordovian Ornament 2015
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix competitions 0 2 3
last change: July 1st, 2016 (ISU database)

Adelina Dmitrijewna Sotnikowa ( Russian Аделина Дмитриевна Сотникова ; born July 1, 1996 in Moscow ) is a Russian figure skater who starts in a single run . She is the Olympic champion of 2014 .

Career

Beginnings

Sotnikowa with Irina Tagajewa and Jelena Wodoresowa

Sotnikova started ice skating at the age of four. At the age of seven she started to train professionally at CSKA Moscow . A year later, Elena Vodoresova became her trainer. Her choreographers are Irina Tagajewa and Tatjana Tarasowa .

In 2009, the only 12-year-old Sotnikova became the Russian senior champion. Internationally, due to her young age, she was not even eligible to participate in junior competitions. She got problems with a growth spurt and was unable to defend her national title the following year. In the 2010/11 season Sotnikowa made her debut in international junior tournaments. She won her two Junior Grand Prix and also the Junior Grand Prix Final. She also became the Russian senior champion for the second time. In March 2011 Sotnikowa was Junior World Champion in Gangneung, South Korea . She won silver at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck .

Seniors

Sotnikowa was allowed to start for the first time in 2013 for world and European championships among seniors. At her first European Championship participation in 2013 in Zagreb , she won the silver medal behind the Italian series winner Carolina Kostner . In her first World Cup participation in 2013 in London , Canada , she was ninth. In 2014 she became Russian champion and runner-up European champion in Budapest behind her teammate Julija Lipnitskaja , whom she had defeated at the championship in her own country. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she became the first Russian woman ever to win gold in a single run. Your victory is controversial among experts. In addition to the South Korean sports department, figure skating experts such as Katarina Witt and Rudi Cerne also criticized the award of first place to Sotnikowa.

As of 2016, she no longer took part in any competitions and only ran shows.In March 2020, she finally announced the end of her career on Russian television.

Results

Competition / year	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
winter Olympics						1.
World championships					9.
European championships					2.	2.
Junior World Championships			1.	3.
Youth Olympic Games				2.
Russian championships	1.	4th	1.	1.	3.	1.		6th
Grand Prix competition / season	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16
Grand Prix Final						5.
Skate America					3.
Cup of Russia				3.	5.			3.
Cup of China				3.		2.
Internationaux de France						2.

Programs

season	Short program	Freestyle	Exhibition running
2013/2014	Habanera (from Carmen ) by Georges Bizet	Introduction et Rondo capriccioso op.28 by Camille Saint-Saëns	Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla
2012/2013	Capriccio Espagnol by Rimski-Korsakow	Tough Lover (from Burlesque ) by Christina Aguilera	Welcome to Burlesque (from Burlesque) by Cher
2011/2012	Boléro by Maurice Ravel	Love dream by Franz Liszt	Hernando's hideaway
2010/2011	Waltz by Johann Strauss	Introduction et Rondo capriccioso op.28 by Camille Saint-Saëns	Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
2009/2010	Waltz by Johann Strauss	Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
2008/2009		Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Figure skating. Results individual women. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on January 7, 2016 . 
2. ↑ handelsblatt.de : Controversial decision, ice skating gold for Russia becomes a scandal
3. ↑ Tatjana Flade: Tuktamysheva's Hot Ice Show celebrated a successful premiere . In: pirouette . Volume 53, No. 4, 2020, p. 13.

Web links

Commons : Adelina Sotnikova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Adelina Sotnikowa in the database of the International Skating Union (English)