Figure skater Antonyshev spoke about the difficulties of defending the CCM category in a duet with Khmelkova

Figure skater Vladislav Antonyshev playing in a sports duo with Eva Khmelkova, told that her partner had difficulty defending the Candidate Master of Sports (CMS) category, but the couple will soon resolve this problem.

Previously, Antonyshev played with Anastasia Chernyshova, with whom they became bronze medalists in the junior final of the Russian Grand Prix. The couple ceased to exist due to the large age difference.

— This season we had some difficulties with the new rules. At the beginning, our methodologists and coaches thought that we could no longer defend the two-man category now, Eva was having problems with the CCM, she was running out of it. We were told we couldn’t protect him as a couple. Eva therefore began to work in single skating and wanted to defend the CCM there. The first time it didn’t work because I was missing a little more than a technical point in the short program. A week later she went to Togliatti to try again, unfortunately that didn’t work either and she was not given a rank. However, the methodologists pleased us and said that we could defend the category in pairs at the end of February at the starts. To begin, we will skate through the CMS.

—Have you ever skated well?

– Very good. I have now worked on my jumping and my confidence this month. After a month without skating as a duo, in three days we gathered all the triple elements: jumps, throws and twists. Now we are developing programs, making a free program for masters and masters, preparing for competitions, ”Antonyshev told .