Skaters Semyon Soloviev , Fyodor Zonov And Grigori Fedorov will not perform at the Spartakiad of the Strongest in Magnitogorsk.
The Spartakiad figure skating tournament will be held from February 16 to 18 and will be the Grand Prix final. On Wednesday, the St. Petersburg Figure Skating Federation announced that Russian runner-up Pyotr Gumennik would miss the tournament due to illness, although a day earlier had learned that there was a possibility the athlete would participate and that plane tickets had been allocated. for him.
According to the competition regulations, no more than 12 skaters will participate in a single discipline. The preliminary list of participants among men includes 11 people, including Daniil Samsonov, who occupies 13th place in the ranking based on his performance on the Grand Prix stages. Next come Semyon Soloviev (22 points), Fedor Zonov (20) and Grigory Fedorov (18).
— Will Soloviev perform at the Spartakiad instead of Gumennik? No, we will not play,” Soloviev’s coach Arthur Gachinsky told .
– It is unlikely (I will replace Gumennik at Spartakiad). “I have no information about a replacement,” Zonov told .
— Will Fedorov replace Gumennik in the Spartakiad for the strongest? Unfortunately no,” Fedorov’s coach Svetlana Sokolovskaya replied to .
Source : MatchTV
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