Coach Egor Zakroev about the tasks of his skaters at the Chelyabinsk Championships: “We went to Chelyabinsk for bronze”

Egor Zakroev, coach of Pavel Slyusarenko’s group, told that the goal of their headquarters at the Russian Figure Skating Championships in Chelyabinsk was a bronze medal.

At the Russian championship Ekaterina Chikmareva And Matvei Yanchenkov became bronze medalists. Yulia Artemyeva And Alexei Briukhanov ranked fifth, and Elizaveta Osokina And Artem Gritsaenko took eighth place.

— We went to the Russian Championship in three pairs. No coaching group this year is represented by so many athletes. I won’t lie, we went to Chelyabinsk for bronze.

— Did you have the ambition to rise higher? Or is this only possible at the moment if the two leading pairs of the national team make mistakes?

– I agree with your comments. Only with critical errors from Mishina/Gallyamov and Boykova/Kozlovsky was it possible to climb higher.

Exactly ten years ago, at the 2014 Russian Championships, Masha Vygalova and I got the first starting number in the short program and became bronze medalists. Katya and Motya experienced the same situation this year. Pavel and I [Слюсаренко] they immediately remembered it during the draw. By the way, Masha and I were trained by Pavel at the time, and now we work with him. It’s a symbolic story,” Zakroev told .