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The Channel One Trophy is a team competition to take place in Moscow this week.
Skaters on each team (from the entries below) will be selected by random draw and will perform their short programs and free skate. The team with the highest total score at the end of the competition wins. The team captains are Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva.

A jumping competition will also take place, where four ladies’ skaters compete against four men’s skaters.

The competition will be live streamed with commentary by Ted Barton:
* Day 1 - 3 p.m. local time - Jump Battle & Team Draw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_gWb2jUwk
* Day 2 - 5 p.m. local time - Short Programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqepT8ig1Wo
* Day 3 - 5 p.m. local time - Free skates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEs6xBKsrXs

Entries

• Ice Dance: Zagorski/Guerreiro, Morozov/Bagin, Skoptsova/Aleshin, Stepanova/Bukin, Shevchenko/Eremenko, Khudaberdieva/Buzin
• Men: Dmitri Aliev*, Makar Ignatov*, Mikhail Kolyada*, Mark Kondratyuk, Andrei Mozalev*, Alexander Samarin
• Ladies: Kamila Valieva*, Alena Kostornaia, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva*, Alexandra Trusova*, Daria Usacheva, Anna Shcherbakova*
• Pairs: Boikova/Kozlovski, Mishina/Gallyamov, Pavluchenko/Khodykin, Tarasova/Morozov

*Asterisked skaters will also compete in the jump competition.

From IFS Magazine:

Alena Kostornaia has withdrawn from the Channel One Figure Skating competition scheduled for later this week. She is still recovering from the coronavirus.

According to another source, Maiia Khromykh will replace Alena Kostornaia in the Channel One Cup team tournament.

The results of the jump competition - knowing the jumping "beans" among Russian ladies, not really a surprise




More detail about what happened:
https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/stori ... l-one-cup/

Team Alina ("Red Machine"):

• Anna Shcherbakova
• Kamila Valieva
• Daria Usacheva
• Dmitri Aliev
• Makar Ignatov
• Andrei Mozalev
• Tarasova/Morozov
• Pavliuchenko/Khodykin
• Zagorski/Guerreiro
• Morozov/Bagin
• Khudaiberdieva/Bazin

Team Evgenia ("Time of Firsts"):

• Alexandra Trusova
• Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
• Maiia Khromykh
• Mikhail Kolyada
• Alexander Samarin
• Mark Kondratiuk
• Boikova/Kozlovskii
• Mishina/Galliamov
• Stepanova/Bukin
• Skoptcova/Aleshin
• Shevchenko/Eremenko

Today the rhythm dance and short programs were performed - first up was the RD, then men SP; then pairs SP; and finally ladies SP. As you might expect, the final discipline was important to the team results with the lead flipping after they all skated.

The results going into tomorrow's free skates:

It was very close but, in the end, with the ladies skating last, Team Alina pulled ahead for the win:




The prize money:

• 1 million rubles to Team Alina for the jump event win
• 1M rubles for Team Evgenia as winners of the fan vote (they actually also won 6 of the 8 events)
• 3M rubles for Team Evgenia for participating
• 5M rubles and the trophy for Team Alina for the win

FYI - 1 million rubles = US$13,400.00


The skaters seemed to enjoy the event.

Team Red Machine with the trophy celebrating with their leader Alina.



Team Time of Firsts