Olympic champion in figure skating Alina Zagitova and two-time Games winner Sofia Velikaya in sword fencing will hold an exhibition fencing match as part of the Moscow Sports Day celebrations. official website Events.
Moscow Sports Day celebrations will be held on July 1 at the capital’s Luzhniki Stadium.
In June 2022, Zagitova held a boxing master class as part of the Moscow Sports Day, organized by the Moscow Department of Sports. The figure skater’s partner at the Luzhniki event was two-time Olympic champion Oleg Saitov.
Zagitova became the Olympic champion at the Games in Pyeongchang, Korea in 2018. In addition to the victory at the Olympic Games-2018, the athlete won silver of the Games in team competitions, as well as victories in the Russian, European, world championships and the Grand Prix final.
In December 2019, Zagitova announced a hiatus from her sports career and has not competed since.
Anna Khnychenkova, previously head of the Athletes Commission of the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation, on behalf of the Ukrainian athletes applied To Canadian Eric Radford, chairman of the International Skating Union (ISU) Athletes Commission, with a request to ban Russians from participating in international competitions until the end of the SVO.