Adelina Sotnikova

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

Career

Sotnikowa began at the age of four years with the ice skating. At age seven she began at CSKA Moscow to train professionally. A year later, Jelena Wodoresowa was her coach. Your choreographers are Tagajewa Irina and Tatiana Tarasova.

2009, the only 12 -year-old Sotnikowa Russian champion was in the seniors. Internationally, it was not even allowed to start at junior competitions due to their young age. You got problems through a growth spurt and could not defend their national title the following year. In the season 2010/11 Sotnikowa made ​​her debut in international youth tournaments. She won both her Junior Grand Prix and the Grand Prix final of the juniors. It was also the second time Russian champion in the seniors. In March 2011 Sotnikowa was Junior World Champion in South Korea Gangneung. In the Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012 in Innsbruck, she won silver.

Seniors

Sotnikowa was allowed to start only in 2013 for the World and European Championships in the seniors. At their first European Championships 2013 in Zagreb, they won the silver medal behind Carolina Kostner of Italy's Serie winner. At their first World Cup appearance in 2013 in London Canadian it was ninth. 2014, it was Russian Champion and European Champion in Budapest behind her teammate Julia Lipnizkaja that they had beaten in the Cup in their own country. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 she became the first Russian woman ever gold in the individual race. Their victory is controversial among experts. In addition to the South Korean sports department also figure skating experts such as Katarina Witt and Rudi Cerne criticized the granting of the first place to Sotnikowa.

Results

Programs

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