2026 Russian Senior Test Skates | Sep 19-20

[AlexBreeze]

Russian Senior Test Skates 2026

Date: 19-20 September 2026
Venue: CSKA Arena, Moscow, Russia
Categories: Senior
Disciplines: Single and Pair Skating, Ice Dance

Current local time in Moscow, Russia (UTC+3)
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/russia/moscow​

• Live Streams/Recordings: 1tv
• VLC media player link: https://1tv-live-gcore.servicecdn.ru/dash-live3/streams/sport-1/sport-1.mpd
  
  How to watch Russian events

  There is no official YouTube stream at the moment. So far there are two most common ways to watch the Russian events:
  1) Channel One website. The website may be blocked in some countries by local providers or banned by local government. You can use VPN of any other country to avoid the block. This website is the only way to watch the recordings. Recordings are always published within a few hours after the event ends.
  2) Channel One's technical channel. Open link https://1tv-live-gcore.servicecdn.ru/dash-live3/streams/sport-1/sport-1.mpd via VLC media player or any other similar app such as KMplayer. This works without a VPN service even if the website is blocked in your country. The broadcast quality is better there than on the website. The method only works for watching live broadcasts, you can't access the recordings using it.

Schedule:

Saturday, 19 September
Short Program
(Detailed Schedule TBA)

Sunday, 20 September
Free Skate
(Detailed Schedule TBA)

Entries
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Men​	Women​	Pairs​	Ice Dance​

Test Skates is an annual event for national team members, designed to showcase new programs to spectators and experts. Following their performances, the athletes receive feedback from the federation. The protocols are not publicly available.

 

[AlexBreeze]

The event definitely won't be rescheduled. They have already started selling tickets (and sold most of them).

I think and hope there will be a YouTube stream. But as it's not confirmed I'm not adding it to the OP so far.

 

[lariko]

YouTube would be very welcome!