“Luna Hendrix is ​​good. I would also like to participate in international competitions, feel these emotions” – figure skater Agata Petrova

Russian figure skater Agate Petrova in an interview with , she said that in the future, she hopes to participate in international competitions to try herself at a different level.

Russian skaters have been suspended by the ISU from participating in international tournaments since March 2022.

— Which foreign athletes do you admire?

— Luna Hendrix is ​​good. Isabeau Levito, I didn’t know her before, but now I really liked her during the screenings. Nastya Gubanova’s skating is impressive – light and airy. We didn’t come across it, because the rinks are far from each other.

I would also like to participate in international competitions and try something new on my own. I hope after a while we will be allowed. I want to feel these emotions. In my career there have already been Grand Prix stages and Russian championships, but in world competitions everything is different. Sonya (Samodurova – editor’s note) said that it is a different environment, atmosphere and good impressions. These words touched me, and now I really want to try myself there.

— When the Olympic Games took place in Sochi, you were four years old. Don’t you remember anything from the figure skating tournament?

— I remember that at the age of five I went to Sochi after the Olympics for a gymnastics training camp, training with very good athletes, champions. Once we went to the Carmen ice show, Adelina Sotnikova and other famous figure skaters took part in it, and I was attracted, ”Petrova told .

Petrova trains in St. Petersburg under the guidance of Alexei Mishin’s technical staff. This season, the figure skater took seventh place at the Russian Junior Championships.