At the end of January, Valieva announced that she had returned to on-ice training after an illness which caused her to miss the Channel One Cup. Kondratyuk withdrew from the free program at the Russian Championships. Earlier, after the stage of the Russian Grand Prix in Samara, the skater was undergoing treatment due to a back injury.
The best dancing couple of Russia will not participate in the final of the Figure Skating Grand Prix
The preliminary list of participants is as follows:
Men: Dmitry Aliev, Matvey Vetlugin, Petr Gumennik, Artur Danielyan, Alexey Erokhov, Makar Ignatov, Artyom Kovalev, Mark Kondratyuk, Andrey Mozalev, Ivan Popov, Alexander Samarin, Evgeny Semenenko;
Women: Sofia Akatieva, Kamila Valieva, Alina Gorbacheva, Ksenia Gushchina, Sofia Zakharova, Sofia Muravieva, Adelia Petrosyan, Sofia Samodelkina, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Victoria Fedyanina, Anna Frolova, Veronika Yametova;
Couples: Yulia Artemyeva/Aleksey Bryukhanov, Alexandra Boykova/Dmitry Kozlovsky, Daria Boyarintseva/Roman Pleshkov, Yasmina Kadyrova/Valery Kolesov, Anastasia Mishina/Alexander Gallyamov, Anastasia Mukhortova/Dmitry Evgeniev, Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov, Natalia Khabibullina/Ilya Knyazhuk;
Ice dancing: Varvara Zhdanova/Timur Babaev-Smirnov, Vasilisa Kaganovskaya/Valery Angelopol, Alisa Kraynyukova/Semyon Netsev, Yana Matveyshina/Timofey Subbotin, Ekaterina Mironova/Evgeny Ustenko, Elizaveta Pasechnik/Maxim Nekrasov, Alexandra Prokopets/Alexander Vaskovich, Sofia Tyutyunina/Andrey Bagin, Polina Usova/Mikhail Antonov, Elizaveta Shanaeva/Pavel Drozd.
The Russian Grand Prix Final will take place on March 4 and 5 in Saint Petersburg.
Source: Sport

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