Russian figure skaters Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov won the European Championship in ice dancing. This is reported by the correspondent of “Lenta.ru”.
The skaters earned 217.96 points for their performance. The couple confirmed the European title won in 2020.
Silver for another Russian duo. Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin received a total of 213.2 points for two rentals. The Italians Charlene Gignard and Marco Fabri leave with bronze from the championship with 207.97 points.
Also debutants of the European championship Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin played for the Russian national team. They earned 186.61 points in two rentals and settled in seventh position.
On January 14, Russian Mark Kondratyuk became the European champion in men’s singles. The 18-year-old athlete received a total of 286.56 points for two programs.
On January 13, Russian figure skaters took the entire podium in the pairs competition. Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov in total for two programs received 239.82 points and won the tournament with a new world record. The second were Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov. The top three winners were closed by Alexandra Boykova and Dmitry Kozlovsky.
The European Championship takes place in Tallinn and will last until January 16th.

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