Skater Evgenia Medvedeva is today considered the undisputed leader of women's skating. A miniature, graceful girl with seemingly ease performs the most complex technical elements, striking the imagination of experts and fans. On the account of the figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva there are already two gold each from the world and European championships, and everyone is looking forward to when she will shine at the upcoming Olympic Games.
Medvedeva effect
For a long time, there were no female athletes in female figure skating who overcame the most difficult period of restructuring the body from adolescence to adult almost painlessly. However, the figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva, whose height and weight is ideal for her sport ( 157 cm, according to other sources - 159 cm, and 41 kg, respectively) , seems to be able to pass the decisive stage in her life with minimal losses.
Specialists and trainers of all countries speak with admiration about the technical equipment of the Russian girl, who perfectly knows all the jumping elements, perfectly performs spirals and rotations.
However, Eugene creatively approaches the matter and tries to bring a piece of her personality to each movement. For example, one of the skater's latest know-how was the jump, in which she stretches her arms up, instead of pressing them to the body.
At the age of seventeen, figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva is incredibly hardy. She became the second athlete in women's skating, who ventured to perform ultra-sophisticated jumping elements in the second part of a long free program.
First steps
In the sports biography of the figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva, the parents played a rather prominent role. Her mother herself was engaged in figure skating, and for her there was no question what her daughter would do. The girl's father is an entrepreneur Arman Babasyan. Evgenia took her surname from her maternal grandmother.
Zhenya was born in 1999, at the peak of the achievements of the Russian skaters. At the world championships that year, they took four of the four golds possible, and in women's skating Maria Butyrskaya and Irina Slutskaya shone . It is not surprising that during the general interest in this sport, the girl’s mother took her to the CSKA section when she was barely three years old.
At first, Eugene was engaged in the group of Lyubov Yakovleva, but she soon went on maternity leave, and the girl’s mother transferred her to an authoritative specialist Elena Selivanova. Here Zhenya learns to skate and masters the basics of skill until 2007.
In the shadow of friends
The most important turn in the sports biography of the figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva can be called her transfer to the group of coach Eteri Tutberidze, who at that time did not yet have on her account the winners of the Olympic Games and world forums. Together with Zhenya, Polina Shelepen, a promising athlete who had high hopes, and also the brilliant Julia Lipnitskaya, whose star flared up brightly in 2014 and soon faded away, were engaged in training.
For several years, Evgenia Medvedeva was in the shadow of her older friends, who received the most attention from the coach. The girl, clenching her teeth, stubbornly improved her skills every minute allotted to her at the rink. Perhaps it is precisely the fact that the terrible burden of the leader’s responsibility did not put pressure on the girl, and played a favorable role in the development of Zhenya as a figure skater.
Be that as it may, in the group of Eteri Tutberidze, Eugene began to progress noticeably and under the strict guidance of a harsh but fair mentor, she skated better and better every year.
Junior
The results of exhausting trainings were not long in coming, and at 12 years old the figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva became part of the junior national team of Russia. By 2013, the girl had reached the required age minimum for participation in international youth tournaments, which she did not fail to take advantage of.
Medvedeva made her debut at the Junior Grand Prix in Latvia, where she won first place ahead of Karen Shen and Maria Sotskova, with whom she will fight for high places over the next years. At the next stage of prestigious international competitions in Poland, she repeated her success, gaining 179.96 points, improving her personal achievement immediately by ten points.
However, the first gold medals slightly turned the head of an inexperienced girl, and soon there was a slight decline. At the Japanese Grand Prix, she lost her positions a bit, receiving 163 points in a short and free program and taking third place, and she missed forward not only Sotskova, but also Serafima Sakhanovich.
The beginning of an adult career
A gradual transition to the adult level began for the girl in 2014, when she first performed at the Russian Figure Skating Championship. Eugene performed well for a novice athlete, taking seventh place among the country's strongest skaters, but she was only fourth among her peers.
In March of that year, she won the Cup of the country, which, coupled with Adeline Sotnikova’s injury, allowed her to be on the list of participants at the World Junior Championships. Here, Eugene fought for the victory and managed to get into the number of winners, taking the bronze award.
In the second part of the season, figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva, whose photo was already on the pages of sports publications, completed her performances at the junior level. She won the two stages of the Grand Prix brilliantly, after which she wedged herself into the fight for medals at the adult championship of Russia, where she became the third. Thus, Zhenya earned a ticket to the Junior World Cup, where she finally managed to get around her teammates and became the first.
Beginning of the Medvedev era
The 2015-2016 season marked the beginning of a new era in women's figure skating. Evgenia Medvedeva entered a completely new stage in her development and ceased to notice her rivals, each time breaking world records set by herself. She began by winning the Grand Prix finals in Barcelona, ​​where she went around Mao Osada and Elena Rodionova.
The second major test at an adult level for the girl was the European championship. Figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva in a fierce competition beat her teammates and won her first gold in the European Championship.
World champion
At the world championship in Boston, the girl had to fight not only with excitement and strong rivals, but also with the pressure of the stands, which passionately supported the local figure skaters. Nevertheless, the sixteen-year-old girl calmly and at the same time emotionally skated her programs, setting her first world record.
Having scored 150.1 points in the free part, Eugene surpassed the achievement of Korean Kim Yu Na at the 2010 Olympics. After winning the World Cup, the Russian woman became the third skater in the world, who managed to win all three major tournaments in one season.
Pre-Olympic season
In 2017, Evgenia Medvedeva finally secured her status as the leader of the world women's figure skating. She again repeated the gold double, winning gold medals at the World and European Championships, during the season set records for points for her programs and she herself beat them at the next starts.
Eugene began the Olympic season just as powerfully, winning in September at a tournament in Bratislava, where she almost repeated her record amount of points for a short program. True, at the box office in Sochi, the girl did not look so convincing, making mistakes that were unusual for her. However, many experts argue that a slight decline is logical before the main four-year tournament - the 2018 Olympics, where it is necessary to approach the peak of your athletic form.