Dikidzhi – about second place in the Czech Republic: “I looked at all kinds of Malinins and thought: “Why not?

Figure skater Vladislav Dikidji named the best moments of the season, and also spoke of his desire to improve his results in 2024.

On Friday, the 19-year-old athlete became the silver medalist of the Russian Championship in Chelyabinsk. He was the leader in the short program, but in the free program he lost to Evgeniy Semenenko in the fight for gold. In November, Dikiji won the Russian Grand Prix stages in Kazan and Moscow.

— What was the best moment this year?

— Victories at the Kazan and Moscow stages. Probably everything. Today? I saw enough of all these Evil Ones and thought, “Why not?” (Laughs). So everything went well for me today and I went for it too (performing quadruple jumps). Well, it doesn’t matter, I’ll show it to everyone later, ”the correspondent of reports Dikidzhi’s words.

Earlier in December, Malinin won the Grand Prix final in single skating. The 19-year-old athlete became the first figure skater in history to cleanly execute a quadruple axel in a short program, and in the free skate he jumped a quadruple loop for the first time in his career. The athlete was born in the United States into the family of Russian figure skaters Tatyana Malinina and Roman Skornyakov.