What is Medvedev's figure skater doing now. Evgeny Medvedev. Biography. Evgenia Medvedeva now
In 2016, Evgenia took the ninth place in the ranking of the International Skating Union, a year later - already the first.
Daughter of a skater. First steps to success
Evgenia Armanovna Medvedeva was born on November 19, 1999 in the capital Russian Federation. Her father is Armenian Arman Babasyan, an individual entrepreneur. The figure skater took her surname from her maternal grandmother. 
Her mother, Zhanna Devyatova, who in the past was seriously fond of figure skating, decided to introduce the girl to the sport. Yes, and the baby enthusiastically watched the performances of her namesake Evgeni Plushenko on TV. Three-year-old Zhenya was brought by the hand to the section to the first coach, Lyubov Yakovleva. In those years, the girl performed under the name Babasyan and only then took her grandmother's maiden name - Medvedev. Later, Yakovleva went on maternity leave, and the talented figure skater came under the wing of Elena Selivanova.
Speech by Evgenia Medvedeva, 8 years old
The budding girl began to study, forgetting about the usual children's games and entertainment. Instead of games and girlfriends, she had a coach, skates and ice, as well as endless workouts. But Evgenia did not even think to complain. In addition to skates, which had already become the meaning of life, she had a hobby - drawing, for which there was critically not enough time.
When the girl turned 8, a wonderful coach and teacher appeared in her life, working in parallel with a year older Yulia Lipnitskaya. In the hands of an experienced coach, Evgenia began to turn into a real queen of the rink. Surprisingly, Zhenya and Yulia never became friends. Evgenia does not like being compared to Lipnitskaya, but she respects her rival.
Interview with Evgenia Medvedeva and her coach Eteri Tutberidze
Somewhere at the age of ten, according to Evgenia, her childhood ended - then she realized the seriousness of what she was doing. After two years of hard work, the 12-year-old figure skater officially joined the Russian national team.
A couple more years, and she became a junior, making her brilliant debut at the Junior Grand Prix in Latvia. The performance brought her victory with a score of 169.52 points. The girl went around her compatriot Maria Sotskova and American Karen Shen.
Despite the workload, the girl managed to be an excellent student at school. She especially liked history and biology. At the beginning of 2017, the girl said that she wanted to graduate from grades 10 and 11 as an external student.
Sports achivments
Already at a young age, Evgenia Medvedeva had an impressive track record of victories. After the first performance at the competitions in Latvia, the first place was also waiting for her in Poland (179.96 points), but the serious struggle in the competitions in Japan ended in bronze (163.68), and the Russians Maria Sotskova and Serafima Sakhanovich bypassed her. 
In 2014, speaking at the Russian Figure Skating Championship, she took 7th place among adult figure skaters, and 4th among young athletes. In the spring of the same year, she reached the final of the Russian Cup, where she took second place after Anna Pogorilaya.
Evgenia Medvedeva at the 2014 Russian Championship
In the 14/15 season, she was applauded as the gold medalist in the stadiums of Barcelona and Tallinn, where the Junior Grand Prix was held. At the 2015 Russian Championship, she was among the winners for the first time, albeit with a bronze place, and at the national junior championship she became the winner.
At the end of 2015, the figure skater moved to the adult group and immediately won the Ondrej Nepela Memorial competition in Bratislava. Without having time to rest, she flew to the competition in Milwaukee, where she won first place in the Grand Prix of the adult league. And this is just the beginning - then she was waiting for a resounding success in Barcelona and again the first step of the championship of her native country.
February 2016 brought new successes - again gold at the European Championship, which was held in the Slovak Republic. A month later, 16-year-old Evgenia Medvedeva won the Grand Prix final and received the long-awaited title of World Champion at the World Championships in Boston (March 23 - April 8, 2016).
In Boston, the young figure skater set a world record in women's singles, receiving a record total of 223.86 points for the program (73.76 for the short program and 150.10 for the free program).
It seems that this athlete is destined to beat the world and her own records for the number of points in singles. In 2016, she improved her own performance three times and unofficially broke world records. During the year she won prizes in competitions in Canada, France (Paris and Marseille) and Russia.
At the beginning of 2017, Evgenia became a two-time European champion (in the Czech Republic), breaking personal and world records a couple more times, as well as a world champion based on the results of the championship in Finland.
Evgenia Medvedeva at the 2017 European Championship
On April 20, 2017, the figure skater set a new world record at the team World Championships in Tokyo, skated a short program, estimated by the judges at 80.85 points. Thanks to her victory, the Russian team took the lead.
The fans of the athlete had no doubt that at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang (South Korea) she would repeat the success of Adelina Sotnikova and bring Russia "gold" in the women's singles tournament. Due to the anti-doping scandal, in addition to Evgenia, only 2 figure skaters got into the category of “woman” of the Russian Olympic team: Alina Zagitova and Maria Sotskova.
Evgenia Medvedeva's personal life
The girl is dating a musician of Bulgarian-Kazakh origin Christian Kostov. He became the youngest participant in Eurovision 2017 and took second place. The young people met while filming a documentary about a music competition and were soon caught by the paparazzi walking in Gorky Park. Fans jokingly called their relationship "a romance of silver medalists." 
Zhenya is adored in Japan, and she is also a fan of everything Japanese: literature, fashion and anime. So, for one of the demonstration performances, Evgenia chose a song from the cartoon Sailor Moon, and once again surprised her “colleague” Moa Asada by reading her a poem in Japanese. On her Instagram, you can often see drawings from fans from the Land of the Rising Sun.
Evgenia Medvedeva - Sailor Moon
Evgenia Medvedeva spends a lot of time in in social networks– Instagram and Twitter. She loves the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and the British Sherlock Holmes series with Michael Jackson, Metallica, Bon Jovi and the Scorpions. In the wake of her passion for rock music, she acquired a guitar, although she has very little time left to study it.
Evgenia Medvedeva now
At the 2018 Olympics, the first Games of her life, Evgenia Medvedeva set a new world record in the short program (81.06 points). Together with the victory of Alina Zagitova in the free program, the Russian team received silver. The girl broke her own record, speaking with a free program - the judges gave her 81.61 points. However, her performance was beaten by Alina Zagitova, who spoke after - 82.92. As a result, Zagitova received "gold", and Medvedev - "silver". 
In May of the same year, the media reported on Evgenia's intention to change sports citizenship from Russian to Armenian. This information was refuted by the Figure Skating Federation. However, the fact that Medvedeva left the team of Eteri Tutberidze turned out to be true - this was announced by the director of the Sambo-70 center, within the walls of which the figure skater trained. As a possible reason for the departure of the ward, Tutberidze named Evgenia's rivalry with Alina Zagitova.
Later, Evgenia admitted in an interview that leaving Eteri was the most difficult decision in her life. She moved to Canada where she began training under Brian Orser, 1987 world champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist. At the same time, she remains a Russian athlete.
World champions in women's single skating, demonstrating another pair of world records, and even making claims to the quality of skating.
On Friday, Medvedeva set a new world record in the free program with 154.40 points and updated the record in the sum of both programs - 233.41. Silver and bronze went to Canada's Caitlin Osmond (218.13) and Gabrielle Daleman (213.52), respectively.
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The Russian woman improved her technical score in the free program by almost two points compared to the January European Championships, and the score for the components was improved by more than a point. Interestingly, Medvedeva's coach Eteri Tutberidze and the figure skater herself admitted that the rental ... did not work out.
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“The skating really didn’t work out, there were a lot of dubious moments on the verge of collapse. But I did it. And this is the main thing,” said the world champion. “Well, when will this end?”
After the end of the women's singles tournament, many were interested in the question of what the champion thinks about the upcoming Olympic Games in February 2018. "I try not to think about the next year's Olympics. We don't know what will happen tomorrow, I try to work and not relax," Medvedeva said.
Collapse of Pogorilaya
If medal hopes were pinned on Maria Sotskova, the debutant of the adult season, but they did not demand an indispensable conquest from her, then Anna Pogorilaya wanted at least a repetition of the Boston history of last year - bronze. However, the rental of the athlete, who seemed to have found stability in her skating, ended in failure. Moreover, in the course of the program, Pogorilaya practically quit skating out of annoyance, and only at the expense of her will finished it to the end, after which she fell to her knees, clasping her head and resting her forehead on the ice. 15th place in the free program and 13th overall with 183.37 points was the result of an unperformed triple lutz, a fall from a triple flip and a number of subsequent errors.
"Anything happens. The ice is slippery, someone manages to cope with it, someone does not. We need to work further. I told her: life does not end! She agreed with me," the president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation supported Pogorilaya ( FFKKR) Alexander Gorshkov.
Sotskova started free skate as easy as ever. The pressure of the first season affected Maria at all starts of the year, she fought for every jump, so that the performance was without underrotation, and the departure was correct. It didn't always work out. On Friday, she began to soar as if over ice. Cascade "triple lutz - triple sheepskin coat" and a separate triple flip did not receive the maximum pluses, but looked uninhibited. Trouble began in the second half of the program when the triple flip-oiler-triple salchow combination started with a double flip. “In all training sessions, I performed it perfectly,” the figure skater shared her annoyance. The fall from the triple lutz finally blurred the impression of Sotskova's performance. The result is 11th place in the free program and 8th in total (192.20).
“I think that in the short program you need to insert all (jump) elements into the second half. And in the free program, you also need to think ... In theory, the set is not weak, but it’s not enough anyway,” Sotskova concluded for the future.
Carolina, stop!
Silver medalist of the Boston World Championships American Ashley Wagner, having skated a clean short, but not overcoming the mark of 70 points, in the free program plucked the second sheepskin coat, planned in the cascade, skated the rest of the number without errors, but barely squeezed out a smile. 193.54 points and only 7th place.
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A student ... No, the "most diligent student" of Alexei Mishin, as the honored coach of Russia himself likes to say, Italian Carolina Kostner, who is ranked higher than Wagner, failed the short program, in the free program she performed not the most difficult cascade of two triple sheepskin coats with a blot on the road , made a "butterfly" on the first loop in the next cascade. The result is 196.83 points. In the so-called kiss & cry, Karolina smiled at the teacher, and Mishin tapped his forehead with his index finger, making it clear to the skater that the shortcomings in jumping came from her head.
Then Kostner had a long talk with reporters, which caused Mishin's displeasure. "Carolina, stop!", - the Russian coach could not restrain himself. Costner only smiled in response, but continued to talk to the interlocutor. "Stop! Stop! Stop!", - Mishin gradually dispersed and even switched to Italian, seasoned with Russian and English. "Chiusa, as it's called, mouth," the specialist said inconsistently. "Chiusa!", - he did not let up, confusing the correct ending of the Italian verb "to close". "You can talk for me" (you can talk for me), - Costner threw at the coach. Mishin did not hear her.
“It was a great world championship - cooler than last year,” two-time world champion Medvedev summed up the competition. “Last year, I didn’t really understand where I was. This year I already understood what it was. I know how to behave, what emotions can be obtained. And I strive for this. "
Evgenia Armanovna Medvedeva. She was born on November 19, 1999 in Moscow. Russian figure skater Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation (2016). Silver medalist of the Olympics (2018).
Father - Arman Babasyan, Armenian.
Mother is Russian, but she constantly remains in the background, does not give interviews and is not known to the public for some reason. Evgenia bears her grandmother's maiden name.
In the past, Evgenia's mother was engaged in figure skating. However, according to Zhenya herself, she was sent to figure skating not because her mother skated, although this also played a role, but to improve her figure.
“True, the shoulder blades are still sticking out, but it seems to me that figure skating has ennobled me outwardly,” said the athlete.
She started skating at the age of three and a half. At first she studied with Lyubov Yakovleva at CSKA, and when she retired, in 2006 she began to train in the group of Elena Selivanova. In 2007, Evgenia's parents decided to transfer her to a group.
As the athlete said, at the age of 9 she already clearly understood that "figure skating is my job, my career and my life." At the same time, she was aware that it requires effort and self-discipline: "You just need to learn to overcome yourself and difficulties."
“Until ten years, although from morning to evening I was busy figure skating, I wanted to play, run, get distracted. And after ten there was a turning point. I already clearly knew what I was working for, why I was doing it, what I needed to do to get results," she said.
And since then, Evgenia has been completely focused on sports. She noted that "sport gave me character, the ability to set goals and achieve them by all available means."
Since 2011 - a member of the Russian national team.
In the 2013-2014 season, she reached the age at which ISU allows athletes to participate in international junior competitions and made her debut at the Junior Grand Prix stage in Latvia, which she won. This was followed by a stage in Poland, which Evgenia also won.
In the finals of the Grand Prix among juniors, held in Japan, the athlete won bronze, losing only to her compatriots - Maria Sotskova and Serafima Sakhanovich.
At the 2014 Russian Championships, Evgenia Medvedeva took seventh place among adults and fourth place among juniors. In early March 2014, she became second in the finals of the adult Cup of Russia in figure skating, only behind Anna Pogorilaya.
She went to the World Junior Championships instead of the injured Sotskova and won the bronze medal, losing to other Russians - Elena Radionova and Serafima Sakhanovich.
In the 2014-2015 season, she won two stages of the Junior Grand Prix, which ensured her participation in the Grand Prix Final. And in mid-August, she won in Courchevel with a personal record in a free program. In the final of the Junior Grand Prix in Barcelona, she was the first, winning both programs.
At the 2015 Russian Championships, she won a medal for the first time - a bronze one. And at the Russian Championship among juniors, she finished in first place, which allowed her to qualify for her second world junior championship in Tallinn, where she managed to take a gold medal in a difficult struggle.
Since October 2015, Evgenia began performing among adult figure skaters - she started at the Ondrej Nepela Memorial and won this start. Three weeks later, she performed in Milwaukee (USA) at the Skate America Grand Prix series. In a difficult struggle, the skater managed to win first place.
At the next stage in Russia, her performance was also successful: she finished second. As a result of performances at the Grand Prix stages, Evgenia reached the Grand Prix final in Barcelona, where on December 11 she won the competition in the short program, ahead of Russian Radionova and Japanese Mao Asada. In the free program, Evgenia scored the third total points in the history of the new refereeing system (that is, since 2003), which allowed her to win the Grand Prix final for the first time in her career. Thus, she improved all her achievements.
In 2016, at the Russian Championship, she won the gold medal for the first time in a difficult fight. She took first place at the 2016 European Championship. At the World Championships in Boston, in a free program, she set a new world record - 150.10. Medvedeva became the third Russian single skater after Irina Slutskaya and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, who won all the main starts of the season: the Grand Prix final, the European Championship, the World Championship. Medvedeva also became the first single skater in the world who managed to win the adult world championship the following year after winning the junior.
To achieve such high results, Medvedeva had to abandon her studies at school and deal with teachers individually.
On April 22-24, the Team Challenge Cup-2016 championship was held. Speaking in the USA for the European team, she improved her previous achievement in the short program (77.56), and in the free program she even set an unofficial world record - 151.55 and received 229.11 points in total points for the free and short program in this tournament, which is also an unofficial world record (after figure skater Kim Young Ah's score of 228.56 points).
The Russian figure skater began the new pre-Olympic season at the end of October, where she performed at the Grand Prix stage in Mississauga, at the Canada Federation Cup and won first place, while improving her previous achievement in the short program.
In mid-November 2016, the Russian figure skater competed at the Grand Prix stage in Paris, where she finished in first place at the Trophée de France tournament, while sports achievements in the short program were improved. This allowed her to confidently reach the Grand Prix finals in Marseille, where Evgenia set a world record in the short program in terms of points scored.
Thus, she became the owner of records in both programs. According to the results of the free program, Evgenia Medvedeva became the two-time winner of the Grand Prix finals.
Evgenia Medvedeva (Sailor Moon). Dreams on ice - 2016
In December 2016, in Chelyabinsk, she became a two-time Russian champion. The athlete again showed a high result, scoring better than the world records set by herself, but at the international level, the results of national competitions are not taken into account. Medvedev also performed a cascade of three triple jumps, which, according to the athlete, allowed her to step forward.
At the 2017 European Championship, Evgenia again won a gold medal, becoming a two-time European champion. At the same time, she again broke the world record (she set it herself) in the free program, and also set a new world record for the sum of points in two programs (previously owned by Korean Kim Young Ah).
She confidently won the world championship in Helsinki, becoming a two-time world champion. In the short program she scored 79.01 points, only 0.2 points short of her own set world record, and in the free program she scored an unprecedented 154.40 points, immediately updating the world record in the free program and in total points by more than three points .
At the 2017 World Team Championship in Tokyo, Evgenia again broke all records in points, first in the short program (80.85 points), and then in the free program (160.46) and in total points - 241.31.
In 2018, at the European Championships held in Moscow, she took second place, losing.
At the 2018 Olympics became a silver medalist in the team competition.
In the short program of the Olympics in Pyeongchang, she. In the free program, both athletes showed the same result - 156.65 points. Thus, .
Until April 2018, she played for the Sambo-70 Sports and Education Center of the Moscow Sports Committee and trained at the Khrustalny Ice Palace.
In April 2018, Medvedev decided to leave Eteri Tutberidze and train under the guidance of a Canadian. There were also rumors that she would play for another country (Armenia was called as an option).
Her former coach, that the reason for Medvedeva's decision was the loss of Zagitova at the Olympics: “Coming out of the Olympic ice, she threw a childish phrase: “Couldn’t you hold Alina for another year in juniors?” I said: “Zhenya, do you have to be equal chances. "It should be just faith in the coach, daily faith in the result, and not some conditions."
According to the athlete, she dreams of becoming a makeup artist. She believes that she has the ability to do this: before the starts, she always puts on her make-up herself and she does it very well.
Evgenia Medvedeva in the program "Evening Urgant"
The growth of Evgenia Medvedeva: 157 centimeters.
Personal life of Evgenia Medvedeva:
Single. Not seen in high-profile novels. At the moment, Evgenia devotes all her time to sports.
Achievements of Evgenia Medvedeva:
Olympic Games:
Silver - Pyeongchang 2018 - team competition
Silver - Pyeongchang 2018 - single skating
World Championships:
Gold - Boston 2016 - Singles
Gold - Helsinki 2017 - single skating
European Championships:
Gold - Bratislava 2016 - single skating
Gold - Ostrava 2017 - single skating
Silver - Moscow 2018 - single skating
Grand Prix Finals:
Gold - Barcelona 2015 - Singles
Gold - Marseille 2016 - Singles
World Team Championship:
Silver - Tokyo 2017 - team competition
Name: Medvedeva Evgenia Armanovna. Date of birth: November 19, 1999. Place of birth: Moscow, Russia.
First steps in sports
Figure skater Zhenya Medvedeva was born in November 1999 in the capital of Russia. Father, Arman Babasyan, is an Armenian by nationality. The young athlete bears the name of her maternal grandmother. According to information in the media, the girl was raised by her mother and grandmother, her father left the family.
Evgenia's mother, Zhanna Devyatova, is a former figure skater, and it was on her initiative that Zhenya began figure skating from the age of three. However, this happened not because of the desire for her daughter to follow in her footsteps, but for medical reasons - Zhenya was born weak, underweight. “When I was little, the doctors advised my mother to send me to the sports section: either swimming or figure skating. Mom was a figure skater, she knew this world well and brought me to the skating rink, ”Medvedev said in one of her interviews.
Lyubov Yakovleva, a candidate master of sports in figure skating, was Evgenia Medvedeva's first coach. Parents sent their daughter to CSKA when she was not yet three years old. After the departure of Yakovleva, Medvedeva got into the group with Elena Selivanova. In CSKA, where her parents brought her, coaches often changed, so my mother decided to change schools.
In 2007, after one season, the girl was transferred to the educational center "Sambo-70" in the group of Eteri Tutberizde.
Eteri Georgievna is a Muscovite of Georgian origin, in 2014 she was awarded the title of Honored Coach of Russia. Among her wards is a whole generation of "star" figure skaters: Yulia Lipnitskaya, Alina Zagitova, Sergei Voronov and Evgenia Medvedeva.
Polina Shelepen and Yulia Lipnitskaya worked together in Evgenia, who will then flash brightly in 2014 at the Sochi Games. It was Tutberidze who made it clear to Medvedeva that her relationship with sports would be serious and for a long time.
Evgenia said in one of her interviews that they are close to Eteri Georgievna. The coach takes care of his ward, monitors everything that can affect the health and shape of Evgenia, but at the same time makes high demands as an athlete.
Zhenya said that when she joined the team of a new coach, it turned out that she really didn’t know how to do anything and had to learn everything again. At the age of eight, Zhenya completed her first triple jump. Under the guidance of Eteri Georgievna, the young athlete honed her skills, and every year she did it better and better. While her peers were having fun, Zhenya spent time in training. Hard work and diligence led the girl to good results. By the age of 12, Medvedev was included in the Russian national team.
Professional sports
In 2013, she reached the age when the International Skating Union allows athletes to participate in international youth competitions. Medvedeva's debut took place in Latvia, where she won. Then competitions took place in Poland, where Evgeny was again waiting for success. In the finals of the Grand Prix, held in Japan, in her age category, the figure skater took third place, behind her compatriots.
The transition to the senior level began for the athlete in 2014, when she made her first appearance at the 2014 World Championships. According to the results of the competition, the girl was seventh among adults and fourth among juniors.
In 2014, at the Russian Figure Skating Cup, which was held in Veliky Novgorod, Evgenia Medvedeva won silver in women's singles among adults.
Evgenia went to the World Junior Championships instead of her rival Maria Sotskova, who at that time was injured. Then she managed to win a bronze medal, being behind her compatriots Elena Rodionova and Serafima Sakhanovich.
Success did not leave Medvedev. So, before the start of performances in the adult category, she managed to win several medals.
In the fall of 2015, Medvedeva began performing among adult figure skaters. With each new performance, she bypassed her rivals and beat world records. She began with a victory in the Grand Prix final in Barcelona. There she managed to get around the Japanese Mao Osada and the Russian Elena Radionova.
At the 2016 European Championship, which was held in Bratislava, she took first place, again leaving behind the Russians Radionova and Anna Pogorilaya.
At the World Championships in Boston, Medvedeva set a new record with 150.1 points in the free program. After winning the World Cup, the Russian became the third figure skater in the world to win all three major tournaments in one season.
At the age of 17, Medvedeva established her status as the world leader in women's figure skating. During the season, the girl again set records for the points scored for her programs and won gold medals at the World and European Championships.
At the 2018 Olympic Games in Korea, Evgenia, as part of the team of Russian Olympic athletes, won a silver medal in the team competition.
Personal life
Evgenia Medvedeva's height is 157 cm. The figure skater's small height is an advantage, since her technique will not break, as often happens when moving to adult skating.
It may seem to many that the miniature physique of the girl is due to constant diets. However, according to her mother, until the age of 12, Zhenya ate everything and in any quantity, and even more than her grandmother and she combined. Although now, before the competition, the diet has become more modest.
After each season, mother and daughter try to travel abroad. Last year they visited Japan and China. Evgenia herself has repeatedly admitted that she is a fan of Japanese culture and their cartoons. At a demonstration tour in Japan, the girl appeared before the audience in a Sailor Moon costume and instantly gained popularity among the Japanese audience.
At school, Evgenia Medvedeva was a rare guest. The girl studied at an educational institution of a sports orientation, so the teachers always went forward and, if necessary, held individual meetings. Mathematics and history were the easiest for the girl. Passing the exam for Medvedeva fell in 2018 - the time of the OI in Pyeongchang. In this regard, the student was forced to take exams externally in 2017, to which the school agreed. Then Evgenia plans to enter a sports university.
In her free time, she enjoys drawing and watching TV series. In food, he prefers Asian cuisine.
Medvedev actively maintains his Instagram account, sharing photos and sporting achievements with fans. At the moment, 350 thousand people are watching the life of the skater.
The girl is studying Japanese and English, in the future she would like to master five languages.
To the question “do you have enough time to communicate with the opposite sex”, the skater replies that she spends all her time on sports.
Evgenia Medvedeva is a Russian figure skater who, from the moment she first entered the ice at international competitions, has been considered a trendsetter. And it's not just about the amazing outfits that emphasize the athlete's connection with what she portrays on the ice.
Medvedeva, as the media wrote, changed the perception of women's single skating in the "ossified mind of the judges", who did not see the personality of the athletes behind the elements of the athletes rolling over the years. Moreover, they resisted when the skater tried to be different from everyone else. According to the coach, Evgenia is the best that modern figure skating can give.
Childhood and youth
Evgenia was born in Moscow in November 1999. Father Arman Babasyan is an entrepreneur from Armenia, the girl's mother is a former figure skater. The surname Medvedev went to Evgenia from her maternal grandmother. Mom determined the future of her daughter when she brought a 3-year-old girl to the figure skating section.
Since then, Evgenia Medvedeva has been in sports. Judging by the biography of the figure skater, she did not have a familiar childhood with dolls and games with the yard guys, but Zhenya never wanted to leave difficult classes at the rink.
The first coach of Evgenia Medvedeva was Lyubov Yakovleva. When she went on maternity leave, the young skater came to Elena Selivanova. In 2007, the parents decided to transfer their daughter to a group. According to Zhenya, at the age of 8 she was still a “raw” figure skater who had a lot to learn. And Eteri Georgievna made a lot of efforts to turn the diamond into a diamond.
At the age of 9, Evgenia Medvedeva already knew that all her later life was figure skating, sports. The girl never dreamed of becoming someone other than a figure skater.
Figure skating
Perseverance, multiplied by Zhenya's determination and hard work, soon bore the first fruits. At the age of 12, Evgenia Medvedeva was enrolled in the Russian national team. After 2 years, in the 2013/2014 season, the girl received the right to participate in international junior competitions.
Medvedeva's sports debut took place in Latvia, where the athlete performed at the Grand Prix stage among juniors. Evgenia won 1st place. At the tournament in Poland, the girl won again. But what is the fiercest competition, Zhenya understood in Japan. Here the skater managed to snatch the 3rd step of the podium. 2 first places went to compatriots.
New victories of the talented figure skater were not long in coming. Evgenia Medvedeva took part in the championship of the Russian Federation in 2014. The young athlete managed to take 7th place among adult skaters and 4th in the junior group.
March of the same year turned out to be more successful, he brought Zhenya silver in the Russian Figure Skating Cup in the adult category. This victory and an accident (the figure skater was injured) allowed the girl to try again at the international level. Medvedeva participates in the junior championship and receives bronze.
Evgenia Medvedeva in BarcelonaIn the 2014/2015 season, Evgeny Medvedev will again be successful. The figure skater won 2 stages of the Grand Prix Cup in Barcelona among juniors. In the same eventful 2015, Zhenya won 3rd place. But at the junior championship, the girl received gold. Medvedev was sent to the second World Junior Championship in her sports career in Tallinn. And again gold. This is the natural result of titanic labor and an extremely difficult struggle, which Evgenia withstood with dignity.
The fall of 2015 was marked for the athlete by the transition to adult figure skating. Zhenya showed an excellent result at the Open International Tournament in Slovakia - Ondrej Nepela Memorial. A few weeks later, the figure skater performs brilliantly in Milwaukee, USA, having adequately passed the test of strength in the first adult competition in the Grand Prix series. Here Evgenia won 1st place.
Evgenia Medvedeva at the Open International Tournament in SlovakiaThe results of performances at the previous stages of the Grand Prix allow Zhenya to reach the final. In Spanish Barcelona, the figure skater won, ahead of two strong rivals - Japanese Mao Asada and Elena Rodionova. A gold medal is a worthy reward for an impeccable performance. Another gold was waiting for Evgeny Medvedev at the Russian Championship.
On February 2, 2016, the figure skater could not hold back happy tears from the emotions that overwhelmed her. At the European Championships in Bratislava, Zhenya won 1st place and climbed to the podium. It is noteworthy that the other 2 leadership places are also occupied by Russian skaters. Once again, the girls had to prove that Russian athletes are the strongest at the 2016 World Championships.
At the world championship, Evgenia Medvedeva becomes the champion. At a performance in Boston with a free program, the girl scored a record 150.10 points and left her rivals far behind her. Evgenia broke the previous world record set by Korean Kim Yu Na at the 2010 Olympics - 150.06 points. Silver in the championship went to an American citizen , bronze went to Russia as a reward . That season, the skater won all the major starts, including the Grand Prix final and the European Championship.
In April 2016, Evgenia Medvedeva received the title of Master of Sports, which was solemnly announced by the Minister of Sports of Russia. The statesman thanked all the skaters who participated in the World Championships for their worthy results and recalled the preparations for the upcoming 2018 Olympic Games. Coach Medvedeva Eteri Tutberidze was awarded a certificate of honor from the sports department of the Russian Federation.
The beginning of 2017 brought Evgenia Medvedeva new prizes - the gold medal of the European Championship in the Czech Republic, as well as 1st place on the podium of the World Championship held in Finland. In April, Evgenia Medvedeva set a new world record in Tokyo, receiving 80.85 points in the short program.
Evgenia Medvedeva at the European Championships in the Czech RepublicThe figure skater continued her rapid ascent to the Olympus of world fame. Medvedeva became the second in the world after the Canadian athlete Alain Chartrand, who performs jump elements in the second half of the performance. The last trick that the skater mastered was a jump with her hands raised up.
With another victory, the skater pleased the fans and the coaching staff in early September 2017. Evgenia performed at the Ondrej Nepela Memorial in Bratislava (Slovakia), where she scored 80.00 points in the short program, several hundredths behind her own world record.
But at the test skate in Sochi, the girl made mistakes in the free program. Experts argued that a slight decline in physical fitness is necessary before the decisive breakthrough at the 2018 Olympics.
Olympics and change of coach
In January 2018, Evgenia Medvedeva, who survived an injury on the eve of the competition, competed for the championship at the European Championships in Moscow. Having made a mistake in the short program, Zhenya lost, and Zagitova became the European champion for the first time.
At the 2018 Olympics in Korea, Russia won silver medals largely due to the performance of Evgenia.
On February 21, 2018, the entire Olympic Pyeongchang froze - competitions in the individual championships of female figure skaters started. After the short program, Evgenia Medvedeva broke her own world record with 81.61 points. However, after Alina Zagitova, thanks to the most difficult program, she broke Zhenya's record, gaining 82.92 points.
On February 23, 2018, competitions in the free program took place. Alina Zagitova, thanks to tactics, turned out to be stronger: right during the rental, the girl, due to a tiny blot, abandoned the most difficult element, pushing it a few seconds later. As a result, Alina brilliantly coped with the dance and scored 239.57 points. Evgenia Medvedeva with a score of 238.26, losing a little more than a point, was the second. It is worth noting that Zhenya's numbers were among the most beautiful in the competition.
Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova In the spring of 2018, Medvedeva became a co-host of the First Channel show "Ice Age. Children".
In early April, Evgenia Medvedeva. The figure skater said that her decision was due to the desire to "use new opportunities and other methods of the training process and continue to represent Russia at the highest level." The athlete chose a Canadian as a new mentor, following the example of Kim Yu Na, who won the Vancouver Olympics and won the silver medal in Sochi.
By the Games in Beijing, Medvedeva will turn 22 years old, and Orser has led more than one age figure skater to major victories.
According to Eteri, Zhenya did not tell her about his decision in person. Tutberidze learned about Medvedeva's transition to another coach only from the news in May 2018. Evgenia refuses to answer the question about her relationship with Alina Zagitova.
Brian Orser told reporters that Medvedev announced the decision to move to him back in April in Seoul. After meeting with the skater and her mother, the parties came to an agreement.
Evgenia Medvedeva at the Challenger series tournament in 2018Evgenia's first performance after moving overseas was the Autumn Classic International Challenger series tournament. In the competition, the Russian woman lost only to the American champion and the bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Korea in the team competition, Brady Tennell.
Personal life
The girl has a hobby for which there is not much time left - Evgenia Medvedeva loves to draw. She claims that, if not for figure skating, she might have chosen the profession of a makeup artist.
Evgenia has her own page in "Instagram", where the girl uploads photos and videos of performances and trips around the world. Publications are rarely updated, and by nature the pictures are mostly businesslike, the expected images of an athlete in a swimsuit cannot be found there. The official group of the champion operates on VKontakte, where news from other accounts is duplicated.
Zhenya was pleased with the trip to Japan, which she told fans on the Web. The girl is a fan of anime culture and even calls herself an otaku. In the Land of the Rising Sun, the figure skater performed several times in the image of Sailor Moon, which, according to fans, fits the miniature Zhenya (her height is 159 cm, her weight is 41 kg).
The subsequent change in the coach of the media was associated with changes in the personal life of the athlete, in particular, with the desire to be closer to the Olympic record holder, the star of men's single skating. The rumors were dispelled by the Japanese skater himself, in a rather harsh form, answering questions from journalists that he was shocked by such articles.
Zhenya hurried to remove the photos she shared with Yuzuru from Instagram. By the way, back in 2017, Medvedev admitted that Hanyu is only a close friend, and she hopes to compete with the champion in some kind of ice show. And at competitions, athletes are always nearby, because in other situations there is no opportunity to communicate.