2025-26 Federation Cup Final

[AlexBreeze]

2026 Federation Cup Final


Date: 04-06 March 2026
Venue: Traktor Ice Arena, Chelyabinsk, Russia
Categories: Junior
Disciplines: Single and Pair Skating, Ice Dance


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• Announcement
• Schedule
• Preliminary participant list
• Entries, Results, and Protocols
• Live Streams
  • YouTube youtube.com/@ice_skating
  • 1tv 1tv.ru/skate
  • VLC media player link https://1tv-live-gcore.servicecdn.ru/dash-live3/streams/sport-1/sport-1.mpd

Schedule:
Wednesday, 04 March
19.00-20.10 - Ice Dance - Rhythm Dance
20.25-21.25 - Pairs - Short Program

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Thursday, 05 March
14.00-15.20 - Ice Dance - Free Dance
15.35-15.45 - Ice Dance - Awards Ceremony
15.45-16.55 - Pairs - Free Skate
17.10-17.25 - Pairs - Awards Ceremony
17.25-18.45 - Women - Short Program
19.00-20.25 - Men - Short Program

Friday 06 March
13.00-14.35 - Women - Free Skate
14.50-15.00 - Women - Awards Ceremony
15.00-16.35 - Men - Free Skate
16.45-17.00 - Men - Awards Ceremony

 

[AlexBreeze]

Official Entries
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Ice Dance	Pairs	Women	Men
Milana Zhabina & Veniamin Bashurov	Polina Shesheleva & Egor Karnaukhov	Sofia Dzepka	Lev Lazarev
Maria Fefelova & Artem Valov	Zoya Kovyazina & Artemiy Mokhov	Maiia Sarafanova	Arseniy Fedotov
Taisia Sheptalina & Dmitri Pekin	Kira Domozhirova & Ilya Vegera	Sofia Smagina	German Lenkov
Zoya Pestova & Sergei Lagutov	Taisia Guseva & Daniil Ovchinnikov	Viktoria Streltsova	Aldar Sambuev
Varvara Slutskaya & Gleb Goncharov	Polina Sazhina & Aleksei Belkin	Lidiia Pleskacheva	Roman Khamzin
Daria Drozhzhina & Ivan Telnov	Olga Sabada & Pavel Astakhov	Agata Petrova	Gleb Kovtun
Kamilla Sharafutdinova & Rodion Murasalimov	Sofia Diana Cousins & Aleksandr Bregei	Sofia Sarnovskaia	Aleksandr Semkov
Anna Bilibina & Dmitri Kashaev	Arina Parsegova & Matvei Bogdanov	Diana Milto	Mikhail Aleksakhin
Polina Pilipenko & Vladislav Mikhailov		Agata Morozova	Mark Lukin
Polina Tikhonova & Matvei Lysov		Elizaveta Labutina	Artem Fedotov
		Arina Orekhovskaia	Ilias Khaliullin
		Alena Prineva	Ilya Malkov

 

[flanker]

I'm sad Margo won't be there

 

[Mathematician]

What happened to Bazyluk???

 

[flanker]

What happened to Bazyluk???

I don't know, possibly some injury, but it shouldn't be serious because she is seen in current training videos normally.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Elena Kostyleva WD due to injury she had at Junior Nationals. Her team decided to focus on her recovery.

 

[Remilia]

Given that she's already won nats, it's good that she WD...This competition is not important enough to risk further injury.
Well, Dzepka will most likely win, then I also expect Lidia on the podium. And the last spot will depend on if Streltsova implodes as she's prone to doing

 

[Mathematician]

Given that she's already won nats, it's good that she WD...This competition is not important enough to risk further injury.
Well, Dzepka will most likely win, then I also expect Lidia on the podium. And the last spot will depend on if Streltsova implodes as she's prone to doing

Why are you confident in that order? Dzepka hasn't been very consistent at all. This season her average is higher than the other two but her peak is lower. I don't think there are any clear favourites without Kostyleva. There definitely isn't a meaningful gap between Lydia and Vika. That's even assuming Vika isn't perfect. The gap was 0.20 and Lydia matched her career best, while Vika was imperfect. Lydia in general is just as inconsistent as Vika. I would probably even have Vika as a likely winner over Lydia at this tournament. As an aside I think Prineva has podium chances.

 

[Remilia]

Why are you confident in that order? Dzepka hasn't been very consistent at all. This season her average is higher than the other two but her peak is lower. I don't think there are any clear favourites without Kostyleva. There definitely isn't a meaningful gap between Lydia and Vika. That's even assuming Vika isn't perfect. The gap was 0.20 and Lydia matched her career best, while Vika was imperfect. Lydia in general is just as inconsistent as Vika. I would probably even have Vika as a likely winner over Lydia at this tournament. As an aside I think Prineva has podium chances.

I mean, it could be in any order. Streltsova has pretty much been imperfect all season, and I don't expect any different here given how you can basically always bet on her to make at least one mistake. If Dzepka skates both her programs cleanly, I'd expect her to win. I mean, her fs score was only 5 points behind Streltsova despite her only doing 2 quads and falling on one. And ofc, a clean Dzepka will beat her in the short. As for Prineva...well, yea. Smagina and Sarnovskaya are more likely to medal than her

 

[Mathematician]

I mean, it could be in any order. Streltsova has pretty much been imperfect all season, and I don't expect any different here given how you can basically always bet on her to make at least one mistake. If Dzepka skates both her programs cleanly, I'd expect her to win. I mean, her fs score was only 5 points behind Streltsova despite her only doing 2 quads and falling on one. And ofc, a clean Dzepka will beat her in the short. As for Prineva...well, yea. Smagina and Sarnovskaya are more likely to medal than her

Sarnovskaya true, I forgot about her. Smagina not sure. She doesnt really pass 200 and just probabilistically I expect Prineva to land her quad at least once. The fact she keeps trying suggests she lands it in practice. But actually I was thinking she should skate without the quad, as based on nations she is capable of skating clean aside from the quad, and if she did so she'd beat Smagina's best scores. I doubt she'll do that though.

About Dzepka, yea if she skates clean... which she never has. Not with 2 quads. So the criticism of Streltsova would apply likewise to Dzepka—that she always makes one mistake. Yes Dzepka will beat anyone in the SP without Elena, but not by that much really.

 

[flanker]

Finally I got to watching the stream.

 

[flanker]

Guseva/Ovchinnikov opened well the pair competition.

 

[flanker]

Kovyazina/Mokhov well done too.

 

[flanker]

Domozhirova/Vegera only third. Still great for juniors.

 

[flanker]

Shesheleva/Karnaukhov are Terminators now. Not many senior skaters would deliver such masterful skate.

 

[flanker]

Sabada/Astakhov just continue in the high level established by the first group.

 

[flanker]

Kasins/Bregei slightly lower score than the previous pairs but again that's just relative to the overal level today.

 

[flanker]

Parsegova/Bogdanov unfortunately made the only big mistake so far, big step-out (close to fall) from throw jump.

Pity, they were absolutely great at Moscow championship older age, today it will be only for 56 points. I hope they deliver in the free.

 

[flanker]

Sazhina/Belkin another very good skate.

 

[Remilia]

About Dzepka, yea if she skates clean... which she never has. Not with 2 quads. So the criticism of Streltsova would apply likewise to Dzepka—that she always makes one mistake. Yes Dzepka will beat anyone in the SP without Elena, but not by that much really.

? She was clean at Moscow cup final