Russian National Teams 2013/2014

[Sylvia]

I thought it would be convenient to have a separate news thread, like last year, for easier reference (and searching) in the future. Thanks to quiqie for posting the link and typing out the full names of the Senior team in the Russian news thread yesterday. I've added the full names of the Junior and other teams with birth dates (European style of day/month/year) for the singles skaters below.

Russian team oficially announced: http://fsrussia.ru/upl/ckeditor/1135439.pdf

Main team:
Pairs: Julia Antipova / Nodari Maisuradze, Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov, Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov, Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov, Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov;

Singles: Sergei Voronov, Artur Gachinski, Maxim Kovtun, Konstantin Menshov, Evgeni Plushenko;

Nikol Gosviyani, Alena Leonova, Julia Lipnitskaya, Elena Radionova, Adelina Sotnikova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva;

Ice Dancing: Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev, Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov, Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khalyavin, Ekaterina Ryazanova / Ilia Tkachenko, Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin, Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin.

JUNIOR TEAM

Pairs: Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev, Kamilla Gainetdinova / Ivan Bich, Valeria Grechukhina / Andrei Filonov, Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov, Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin, Arina Chernyavskaya / Antonio Souza-Cordeiro;

Singles: Alexei Genya 17/9/99, Mikhail Kolyada 18/2/95, Murad Kurbanov 6/11/96, Artem Lezheev 13/10/96, Alexander Petrov 26/4/99, Adian Pitkeev 16/5/98, Alexander Samarin 15/6/98, Vladislav Tarasenko 13/3/97;

Evgenia Gerasimova 2/1/98, Evgenia Medvedeva 19/11/99, Anna Pogorilaya 10/4/98, Seraphima Sakhanovich 9/2/00, Maria Sotskova 12/4/00, Maria Stavitskaia 1/9/97, Uliana Titushkina 6/3/99;

Ice Dancing: Kristina Baklanova / Andrei Bagin, Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin, Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin, Daria Morozova / Mikhail Zhirnov, Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko, Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov.

SKATERS BORN IN 1993-2002

Pairs: Oksana Nagalatiy / Maxim Bobrov, Anastasia Poluyanova / Stepan Korotkov, Maria Chuzhanova / Denis Mintsev;

Singles: Stanislav Andryunin 9/2/00, Danill Bernadiner 28/3/00, Andrei Zuber 13/1/98, Maurice Kvitelashvili 17/3/95, Alexei Krasnozhon 11/4/00, Andrei Lazukin 19/11/97, Dmitry Mikhailov 15/4/98, Roman Savosin 4/12/99;

Anastasia Kolomiets 6/8/00, Julia Li 12/6/99, Natalia Ogoreltseva 18/1/00, Diana Pervushkina 23/6/98, Alexandra Proklova 5/4/00, Elizaveta Tursynbaeva 14/2/00;

Ice Dancing: Eva Khachaturian / Egor Eremenko, Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov.

RESERVE

Pairs: Kristina Astakhova / Maxim Kurdyukov, Katarina Gerboldt / Alexander Enbert, Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat, Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov, Natalia Mitina / Yuri Shevchuk;

Singles: Vladislav Sezganov;

Polina Agafonova, Polina Korobeynikova, Ksenia Makarova, Anna Shershak;

Ice Dancing: Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin, Valerya Loseva / Denis Lunin, Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro.

Another source link: http://www.fskate.ru/teams/russia/2013/
Via Google Translate:

National teams of Russia figure skating for the season 2013/2014 period.

In the national team of Russia were not included skaters showed high sports results at competitions of the season 2012/13 and fulfilled the criteria for the formation of the official teams of Russia, established by the Ministry of Sports. Among them:

Valentine Chernishova (7th Championship of Russia);
Alsou Kayumova (5th Russian Cup Final);
Feodosiy Efremenkov (4th Cup of Russia);
Zhan Bush (5th Russian Cup Final);
Alla Loboda - Pavel Drozda (5th Russian Cup Final).

Also with the Championship of Russia in the older age groups (1-6 places, according to the criteria of the Ministry of Sports of Russia) included only winners and holders of 1-4 seats in pair skating and ice dancing, respectively.

In addition, the squad does not include winners of the Championship of Russia on young children in the younger age group that practiced in previous years.

Figure skater of the Samara region Pervushkina Diana was the only one included in the squad due only performance at the Games of Russian students, which, by virtue of the rules, can not be a large number of strong competitors.

In team sports couple got Katarina Gerboldt - Alexander Enbert not compete(?) at the event in the 2012/13 season.

[SamuraiK]

So this means Tarasova/Morozov and Stepanova/Bukin are going seniors.

My guess for COR host picks: Gachinski, Gosviani, Antipova&Maisuradze, Monko&Khaliavin.

[hanca]

So this means Tarasova/Morozov and Stepanova/Bukin are going seniors.

My guess for COR host picks: Gachinski, Gosviani, Antipova&Maisuradze, Monko&Khaliavin.

Not necessarily. Sotnikova and Tuktamysheva are on senior Russian team since the season 2009-2010 and at that time they were not age eligible for a senior GP, Europeans or worlds. It seems that their allocation of skaters to senior team, junior team, reserve etc is something to do about how the Federation sees their results rather than whether the skaters are going to compete for seniors or juniors.

[shah]

Biryukova not even in the reserve team . I'm not surprised, her last season was a complete disaster, but still...

[hanca]

Biryukova not even in the reserve team . I'm not surprised, her last season was a complete disaster, but still...

I noticed. But although I agree that her last season was a complete disaster, if Agafonova, Shershak and Makarova made it to reserve, I really can't see why Biryukova did not make it. For example, Agafonova did not even qualify for seniors nationals! Shershak was 7th at JGP and did not compete since then...

I am wondering why Davankova-Deputat did not make it into junior team. They were nor as great as the last season, but they stikll did have better results than Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev, Kamilla Gainetdinova / Ivan Bich, Valeria Grechukhina / Andrei Filonov, Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov, and Arina Chernyavskaya / Antonio Souza-Cordeiro who made it into junior team. Why is Davankova-Deputat in reserve? Did Deputat aged out from juniors?

[pinky166]

Pogorilaya is on the junior team so I guess this means she does JGP for another season? Or is this unrelated? It does seem weird that Agafonova and Shershak made the reserve team but Biryukova did not...perhaps it has something to do with competing in Russian Cup competitions? Also Gosviani is on the main team so hopefully she will get a GP assignment or two this coming season.