Mishina and Gallyamov against a forty-year-old Canadian? Choosing the best sports couple of the season
Anastasia Matrosova March 29, 2024, 11:30 Moscow time
Nastya and Sasha had no equal in all competitions, but Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps surprised fans at the World Cup at home.
Pairs skating is experiencing a new flourishing! Huge competition and unpredictable results in foreign tournaments developed in Russia. The “Championship” continues the ratings series at the end of the season, with the next step being the selection of the best sports couple.
Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov skated at the Russian competitions, but our other couples also had something to surprise. The sensation of the world season was the Canadian figure skaters Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, who won two titles at once, including the title of world champions, and their partner, by the way, will turn 41 years old in a few months. .
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Rating: best sports couple of the 2023/2024 season
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Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov
Season results: Champions of Russia – 2024, winners of the All-Russian Spartakiad of the Strongest, winners of the stages of the Russian Grand Prix in Omsk and Kazan, winners of the Channel One Cup as part of Anna Shcherbakova’s team.
A minimum of interruptions and gold, gold, gold – this is how it turned out last season for Anastasia and Alexander. The couple was never disappointed and also appeared regularly in the media.
Photo: Dmitry Golubovich, “Championship”
Alexandra Boykova and Dmitry Kozlovsky
Season results: silver medalists of the Russian Championship, silver medalists of the Spartakiad of the strongest of all Russia, winners of the team tournament of the Russian Championship in jumping.
The season was transformative for Alexandra and Dmitry, the first in a new headquarters and a new city. Not all tournaments were able to show themselves in all their splendor, in two main competitions Boykova and Kozlovsky took silver. But, for example, we successfully completed the team competition at the Chechen Jumping Championships and also did not stop working on the quadruple jump.
Photo: “Championship”
Ekaterina Chikmareva and Matvey Yanchenkov
Season results: bronze medalists of the Russian Championship, winners of the Russian Championship on vault as part of Dmitry Kozlovsky’s team, silver medalists of the Russian Grand Prix stage.
Four equal pairs are now competing for the third place in the team, and it was Ekaterina and Matvey who managed to be in the top three at the main start of the season. Another success came for the Czech Republic show jumping team.
Photo: Alexander Safonov, “Championship”
Natalya Khabibullina and Ilya Knyazhuk
Season results: two-time silver medalist at the stages of the Russian Grand Prix.
This season, Natalya and Ilya presented two brilliant programs from Ilya Averbukh, but in the two main competitions they were close to being on the podium. But two silver medals in the Grand Prix stages and a debut in the Channel One Cup can be counted as an advantage.
Photo: Dmitry Golubovich, “Championship”
Elizaveta Osokina and Artyom Gritsaenko
Season results: winners of the personal tournament at the Russian Jumping Championships, winners of the Channel One Cup as part of Anna Shcherbakova’s team, silver and bronze medalists of the stages of the Russian Grand Prix.
The couple’s season turned out to be turbulent: there were great failures and brilliant successes. Elizaveta and Artyom showed themselves brilliantly in the new format tournaments: they won the first pair tournament in the history of the Czech Republic on vault and a free program at the Channel One Cup, which contributed to the victory of Anna Shcherbakova’s team.
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Yulia Artemyeva and Alexey Bryukhanov
Season results: bronze medalists of the strongest Spartakiad, two-time bronze medalists of the stages of the Russian Grand Prix.
Artemyeva and Bryukhanov demonstrated their best results in Magnitogorsk, winning bronze in the second main competition of the season. As the season progressed, the pair did not abandon the ultra-si elements and moved the sport forward: twice during the competitive year, Yulia and Alexey performed a quadruple turn with a positive GOE.
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Anastasia Metelkina and Luka Berulava
Season results: youth Grand Prix final winners, youth world champions, European Championship silver medalists.
Complete dominance in youth competitions and brilliant flashes in major senior competitions, and this is only the first season together for Nastya and Luka. Georgian skaters could easily become European champions, but so far they have decided on silver.
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Minerva Fabien Haze and Nikita Volodin
Season results: winners of the Grand Prix final, bronze medalists of the World Championship, two-time winners of the Grand Prix stages.
The German skaters spent their first season together and have already achieved great success. Their fourth outing was their performance in the Grand Prix Final, where they won gold! Only the European Championship was unsuccessful for the couple, and Minerva and Nikita performed all other competitions at a very high level.
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Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara
Season results: silver medalists at the World Championships, silver medalists at the Four Continents Championships
Riku and Ryuichi missed almost the entire season; Due to health problems, his partner missed the entire first half and in the second there were only two starts. They failed to win either the ChCC or the World Championship, but the Japanese again demonstrated a high level of skating and showed that it was too early to count them out.
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Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps
Season results: world champions, winners of the championship of the four continents, bronze medalists of the Grand Prix final.
Winning a local world championship at age 40 is a unique Deanna Stellato-Dudek story! But this is not the only reason why her season with Maxime Deschamps was successful: they now have CHCH gold and bronze in the Grand Prix final.
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Sara Conti and Niccolò Machi
Season results: twice silver medalists in the Grand Prix stages, silver medalists in the Grand Prix finals.
It was a difficult season for the European champions (2023 from Italy), but Sara and Niccolo won at least one important medal: silver in the Grand Prix final, the previous season the couple was limited to bronze.
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Lucrezia Beccari and Matteo Guarise
Season results: European champions, silver and bronze medalists of the Grand Prix stages.
These Italian skaters won a sensational victory at the European Championships, so it was impossible not to include them in our rating. Matteo Guarise sought this medal for many years together with Nicole Della Monica and won it at the age of 35, already with a new partner: Lucrezia Beccari.
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