Figure skater Arseny Fedotov became the winner of the qualifiers for the Russian jumping championship held in Moscow from January 19 to 21.
At the end of the first day of the competition, the athlete achieved a total of 32.58 points, more than one point ahead of his closest rival Peter Gumennik.
As a result of Friday’s jumps, Lev Lazarev took third place with 30.87 points. A total of 12 athletes qualified to participate in the final part of the competition. Along with Fedotov, Gumennik and Lazarev, Gleb Lutfullin, Mikhail Ternovsky, Evgeniy Semenenko, Mark Kondratyuk, Ivan Popov, Makar Ignatov, Vladislav Dikidzhi, Nikolai Kolesnikov and Grigory Fedorov will compete for championship medals.
The strongest qualifier in the women’s competition was Adelia Petrosyan, the student of Russia’s Honored Coach Eteri Tutberidze.
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It was previously reported that Kamila Valieva. will miss Russian jumping championship.