2020 Rostelecom Cup

The 2020 Rostelecom Cup was the fifth event in the 2020–21 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Megasport Sport Palace in Moscow, Russia on November 20–22. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

2020 Rostelecom Cup
Type:Grand Prix
Date:November 20 – 22
Season:2020–21
Location:Moscow
Host:Figure Skating Federation of Russia
Venue:Megasport Sport Palace
Champions
Men's singles:
Mikhail Kolyada
Ladies' singles:
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
Pair skating:
Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii
Ice dance:
Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
Previous:
2019 Rostelecom Cup
Next:
2021 Rostelecom Cup
Previous GP:
2020 Internationaux de France
Next GP:
2020 NHK Trophy

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of modifications were made to the Grand Prix structure. The competitors consisted only of skaters from the home country, skaters already training in the host nation, and skaters assigned to that event for geographic reasons.[1] However, the event became controversial after apparent COVID-19 spread among attendees led to suggestions that it had been a superspreading event.[2]

Entries

The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on October 1, 2020.[3]

Country Men[4] Ladies[5] Pairs[6] Ice dance[7]
 Armenia Anastasia Galustyan
 Azerbaijan Vladimir Litvintsev Ekaterina Ryabova
 Belarus Alexander Lebedev Viktoriia Safonova Viktoria Semenjuk / Ilya Yukhimuk
 Estonia Eva-Lotta Kiibus
 Georgia Morisi Kvitelashvili Alina Urushadze
 Hungary Ioulia Chtchetinina / Márk Magyar Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács
 Lithuania Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
 Russia Dmitri Aliev
Petr Gumennik
Makar Ignatov
Mikhail Kolyada
Artem Kovalev
Andrei Mozalev
Roman Savosin
Evgeni Semenenko
Ilya Yablokov		 Anastasiia Guliakova
Alena Kostornaia
Elizaveta Nugumanova
Sofia Samodurova
Anna Shcherbakova
Alexandra Trusova
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva		 Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov
Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev
Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii
Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko
Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov
Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov		 Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Egor Bazin
Ekaterina Mironova / Evgenii Ustenko
Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin
Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin
Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro
 Ukraine Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin

Changes to preliminary assignments
Date Discipline Withdrew Added Reason/Other notes Refs
October 9 Men N/A Alexander Lebedev [8]
Ladies Anastasia Galustyan [9]
Pairs Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev [10]
Anna Vernikov / Evgeni Krasnopolski Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov
October 16
November 12		 Men Irakli Maysuradze Artem Kovalev [11][12]
October 16
October 28		 Ice dance Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius [13][14]
October 28 Ladies N/A Eva-Lotta Kiibus [15]
November 4
November 7		 Ice dance Ksenia Konkina / Pavel Drozd Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács [16][17]
November 12 Men Artur Danielian Evgeni Semenenko Recovery from ankle surgery[18] [12]
November 12
November 13		 Pairs Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko Acute respiratory viral infection (Khodykin)[19] [20][21]
November 16 Ladies Evgenia Medvedeva Elizaveta Nugumanova Recovery from back injury[22] [23]
Ice dance Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko Ekaterina Mironova / Evgenii Ustenko COVID-19[24] [25]
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Viktoria Semenjuk / Ilya Yukhimuk
November 17 Men Alexander Samarin Ilya Yablokov Recovery from back injury[26] [27]
November 18 Pairs Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov N/A COVID-19 (coach)[28] [29]

Results

Men
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Mikhail Kolyada  Russia 281.89 3 93.34 1 188.55
2 Morisi Kvitelashvili  Georgia 275.80 1 99.56 4 176.24
3 Petr Gumennik  Russia 268.47 2 96.26 6 172.21
4 Andrei Mozalev  Russia 266.69 6 86.01 2 180.68
5 Dmitri Aliev  Russia 265.11 5 89.62 5 175.49
6 Evgeni Semenenko  Russia 260.78 7 83.42 3 177.36
7 Makar Ignatov  Russia 260.78 4 91.82 7 168.96
8 Roman Savosin  Russia 250.07 8 82.35 8 167.72
9 Ilya Yablokov  Russia 242.52 10 79.15 9 163.37
10 Vladimir Litvintsev  Azerbaijan 239.79 9 81.55 10 158.24
11 Artem Kovalev  Russia 212.50 11 77.67 11 134.83
12 Alexander Lebedev  Belarus 182.30 12 62.88 12 119.42

Ladies
Group 2 during their warm-up for the short program

Anna Shcherbakova withdrew prior to the short program due to illness.[30]

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva  Russia 223.39 2 74.70 1 148.69
2 Alena Kostornaia  Russia 220.78 1 78.84 2 141.94
3 Anastasiia Guliakova  Russia 199.03 4 70.07 3 128.96
4 Alexandra Trusova  Russia 198.93 3 70.81 4 128.12
5 Elizaveta Nugumanova  Russia 191.52 5 68.47 6 123.05
6 Eva-Lotta Kiibus  Estonia 186.00 9 57.88 5 128.12
7 Sofia Samodurova  Russia 184.81 6 68.01 8 116.80
8 Viktoriia Safonova  Belarus 184.57 7 64.25 7 120.32
9 Ekaterina Ryabova  Azerbaijan 167.85 8 58.58 9 109.27
10 Alina Urushadze  Georgia 150.68 10 55.86 10 94.82
WD Anastasia Galustyan  Armenia withdrew 11 52.06 withdrew from competition
WD Anna Shcherbakova  Russia withdrew withdrew from competition

Pairs
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii  Russia 232.56 2 78.29 1 154.27
2 Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov  Russia 225.80 1 79.34 2 146.46
3 Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov  Russia 210.07 3 73.84 3 136.23
4 Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko  Russia 204.87 4 70.62 4 134.05
5 Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev  Russia 200.77 5 70.11 5 130.66
6 Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov  Russia 176.63 6 67.50 6 109.13
7 Ioulia Chtchetinina / Márk Magyar  Hungary 163.77 7 58.60 7 105.17

Ice dance
Rank Name Nation Total points RD FD
1 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov  Russia 217.51 1 91.13 1 126.38
2 Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro  Russia 206.91 2 84.46 2 122.45
3 Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin  Russia 199.25 3 79.75 3 119.50
4 Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Egor Bazin  Russia 193.18 5 76.10 4 117.08
5 Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin  Russia 191.00 4 76.21 5 114.79
6 Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin  Ukraine 188.25 6 74.86 6 113.39
7 Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius  Lithuania 182.56 7 72.43 7 110.13
8 Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács  Hungary 163.65 8 61.34 8 102.31
9 Ekaterina Mironova / Evgenii Ustenko  Russia 152.14 9 56.47 9 95.67
10 Viktoria Semenjuk / Ilya Yukhimuk  Belarus 146.38 10 56.22 10 90.16

COVID-19 spread and controversy
Improper mask wearing at the 2020 Rostelecom Cup

Despite some precautionary measures being taken, the Rostelecom Cup's organization came under criticism for, like many other Russian domestic competitions held during the season, allowing a large audience and insufficient enforcement of mandates recording social distancing and proper mask usage. A focal point of criticism was the decision to hold the traditional post-competition banquet where many skaters were documented not wearing masks or socially distancing at all, as well as sharing food from a communal buffet.[2] Estonian skater Eva-Lotta Kiibus subsequently reported contracting COVID-19 at the event and reported suffering effects two months later.[31] Several Russian skaters who competed at the event were also reported to have contracted the virus in the weeks afterward, including Dmitri Aliev, Alena Kostornaia, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Victoria Sinitsina, and Nikita Katsalapov; in addition, several skaters, including Aliev, were also photographed in the following weeks at a birthday party for retired Russian skater Alena Leonova.[32][33] Irina Rodnina, a former triple-Olympic pairs champion turned member of the State Duma, strongly criticized the handling of the Rostelecom Cup and cited it as an example of the government needing to more aggressively fine people for non-compliance.[2]

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