2026-27 Russian Men's Figure Skating

[Mariott]

Just a few minutes ago, the following skaters were granted neutral status on the ISU website:

Matvei Vetlugin
Gleb Lutfullin
Andrei Mozalev
Mark Kondratyuk
Evgeniy Semenenko
Nikolai Ugozhaev

 

[removof]

No gumennik and no dzikizhi and no sarnovsky ?

 

[flanker]

No gumennik and no dzikizhi and no sarnovsky ?

Gumennik somehow has AIN instead of AIN2 status.

I hope it is enough and that the rest will get it too.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Gumennik somehow has AIN instead of AIN2 status.

I hope it is enough and that the rest will get it too.

Because it hasn't been updated after Olympics. Same with Vlad. It will be updated later.

 

[elektra blue]

Just a few minutes ago, the following skaters were granted neutral status on the ISU website:

Matvei Vetlugin
Gleb Lutfullin
Andrei Mozalev
Mark Kondratyuk
Evgeniy Semenenko
Nikolai Ugozhaev

happy especially for Matvei, Andrei and Zhenya

 

[AlexBreeze]

Gumennik, Semenenko, Kondratiuk — potential team (announced by the media) for the Japanese CS event.

The substitute is Dikidzhi.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Vadim Voronov new SP premiere




I've been here.

Jumps looked off during the warm-ups. Some randoms falls on the 3F and 3Lz. Though they looked very easy in the actual skate. Most 3As looked UR and/or had a harsh landing. But he did two excellent ones after the skate.

Vadim has great SS, flexibility, and he knows how to move.

About flexibility. He did two laybacks in the combo spin, one of them was Biellmann. He also tried to do something like Sotnikova camel. Insane.

Though he had some problems with spinning. Camel looked lacking speed and control. And he fell on the sit spin.

Really liked the program for him. I don't know the music. The program looked like something about fencing/duels. Very elegant and it definitely suits Vadim.

 

[elektra blue]

Vadim Voronov new SP premiere




I've been here.

Jumps looked off during the warm-ups. Some randoms falls on the 3F and 3Lz. Though they looked very easy in the actual skate. Most 3As looked UR and/or had a harsh landing. But he did two excellent ones after the skate.

Vadim has great SS, flexibility, and he knows how to move.

About flexibility. He did two laybacks in the combo spin, one of them was Biellmann. He also tried to do something like Sotnikova camel. Insane.

Though he had some problems with spinning. Camel looked lacking speed and control. And he fell on the sit spin.

Really liked the program for him. I don't know the music. The program looked like something about fencing/duels. Very elegant and it definitely suits Vadim.

is he the same boy who followed Yuzu everytime he was skating in Russia?

 

[AlexBreeze]

is he the same boy who followed Yuzu everytime he was skating in Russia?

Not sure about followed but yeah he is a fan.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Vadim Voronov new SP premiere

I've been here.

Jumps looked off during the warm-ups. Some randoms falls on the 3F and 3Lz. Though they looked very easy in the actual skate. Most 3As looked UR and/or had a harsh landing. But he did two excellent ones after the skate.

Vadim has great SS, flexibility, and he knows how to move.

About flexibility. He did two laybacks in the combo spin, one of them was Biellmann. He also tried to do something like Sotnikova camel. Insane.

Though he had some problems with spinning. Camel looked lacking speed and control. And he fell on the sit spin.

Really liked the program for him. I don't know the music. The program looked like something about fencing/duels. Very elegant and it definitely suits Vadim.

Edit: Apparently he has already competed with this program last season. I didn't remember it because he had very few events and they weren't good. Anyway, the program looks much better now.

Two more short programs from the same public training

Konstantin Volkov


Kirill Andreyanov

 

[lariko]

Vadim Voronov new SP premiere




I've been here.

Jumps looked off during the warm-ups. Some randoms falls on the 3F and 3Lz. Though they looked very easy in the actual skate. Most 3As looked UR and/or had a harsh landing. But he did two excellent ones after the skate.

Vadim has great SS, flexibility, and he knows how to move.

About flexibility. He did two laybacks in the combo spin, one of them was Biellmann. He also tried to do something like Sotnikova camel. Insane.

Though he had some problems with spinning. Camel looked lacking speed and control. And he fell on the sit spin.

Really liked the program for him. I don't know the music. The program looked like something about fencing/duels. Very elegant and it definitely suits Vadim.

I hope he will be okay by the beginning of the season. He's one of the most memorable junior men.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Vladislav Dikidzhi, Petr Gumennik as well as novice skaters Sergei Chubatyuk and Timofei Kudriashov have been added to AIN2.

 

[yume]

Vladislav Dikidzhi, Petr Gumennik as well as novice skaters Sergei Chubatyuk and Timofei Kudriashov have been added to AIN2.

What's the difference between AIN and AIN2 ?
Do skaters submit themselves or is it the fed? I wonder why some skaters are not on the list yet.

 

[elektra blue]

What's the difference between AIN and AIN2 ?
Do skaters submit themselves or is it the fed? I wonder why some skaters are not on the list yet.

Ain is for Belarussan skaters

 

[AlexBreeze]

What's the difference between AIN and AIN2 ?

AIN — the thing from Olys
AIN1 — Belarus
AIN2 — Russia

Do skaters submit themselves or is it the fed?

The Communication says that skaters must fill out the form. It's not said who exactly should send it. But usually skaters don't have direct contacts with the ISU and no individual contacts are listed in the Communication.

I wonder why some skaters are not on the list yet.

ISU just randomly drops skaters. Not much logic here.

All the top men from the senior team are already listed, by the way. The rest can obviously join if they really want to (there are already little-known novices and a dance team not from the national team on the list) but the federation won't fund this.

 

[yume]

AIN — the thing from Olys
AIN1 — Belarus
AIN2 — Russia


The Communication says that skaters must fill out the form. It's not said who exactly should send it. But usually skaters don't have direct contacts with the ISU and no individual contacts are listed in the Communication.


ISU just randomly drops skaters. Not much logic here.

All the top men from the senior team are already listed, by the way. The rest can obviously join if they really want to (there are already little-known novices and a dance team not from the national team on the list) but the federation won't fund this.

I thought that Rusfed would submit all the men from last nats. Hence why i wonder why Makar, Daniil, Artur or Roman for example, aren't on the list.

I hope they will submit everyone and fund B events for skaters outside the national team if they do well in internal competitions. I would like to see skaters like Semyon Soloviev in one of those senior B in 2nd part of the season. There's enough spots for everyone.
And everyone should see Freddie Mercury. Is Roman keeping that program ?

 

[AlexBreeze]

I hope they will submit everyone and fund B events for skaters outside the national team if they do well in internal competitions.

I’m not sure if that’s bureaucratically possible. If there was a need for someone to fund something, then such athletes were added to the national team mid-season (Gulyakova / Sub for Worlds 2020, Anisimova / Russian-Chinese Games 2022).

But I think that success in domestic competitions may affect the fact that the federation will at least approve their application for international competition. Like Erokhov got a Challenger in 2021 after success at the Russian Cup.

Is Roman keeping that program ?

No announcements regardings this. But he changed coaches, Russian skaters prefer to change programs in such cases.

 

[lariko]

So, with Vasiliejvs withdrawal from Cup of China, it is very probable that Gumennik will recieve a GP stage. Does anyone have the latest on his season prep and programs this year?

Edit: actually, it will go to Samoilov based on current rules.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Does anyone have the latest on his season prep and programs this year?

I don't follow him much. He spent a lot of time in the US. His programs are by Daniil G and Shae-lynn Bourne. He didn't attend Team Moskvina public traning but he is going to show up at Team Tut public training.

Edit: actually, it will go to Samoilov based on current rules.

There's no alternate list so far but it should go to Gumennik unless ISU decides to not include him for some reason.
But that would be against their Communication

Where quotas apply, the number of neutral athletes is determined by the same objective, results- and
ranking-based qualification mechanics that apply to all Skaters, and not by reference to nationality

 

[lariko]

here's no alternate list so far but it should go to Gumennik unless ISU decides to not include him for some reason.
But that would be against their Communication

There is these two rules that play together: backfill must be done ASAP and the list is only updated from the Challengers. If the substitute list already existed at the time of the initial assignments (while AIN2 was ineligible), it's Samoilov. If the list was created after AIN2 became eligible, it's Gumennik. If the backfill waits till Kinoshita (bending rule 1), and Gumennik wins, it will have to be Gumennik no matter what. Overall, it is a terrible pity Russia couldn't move fast enough to field a team at Cranberry. With the comp there, they should have had no problem putting a sub in every discipline top of the list.

Lol, ISU and its rules...

Also, thanks on the information about choreographers for Gumennik & fingers crossed we'll know more soon! I *really* wish he can get CoC, the Ugozhaev can go to Kinoshita.