Evgenia Medvedeva

Evgenia Armanovna Medvedeva (alt. spelling: Yevgenia Medvedeva; Russian: Евгения Армановна Медведева, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪjə mʲɪˈdvʲedʲɪvə]; born 19 November 1999), is a retired competitive Russian figure skater. She is the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic silver medalist (2018 ladies' singles, 2018 team event), a two-time world champion (2016, 2017), a two-time European champion (2016, 2017), a two-time Grand Prix Final champion (2015, 2016), a two-time Russian national champion (2016, 2017), silver medalist at the 2018 European Figure Skating Championships and bronze medalist at the 2019 World Championships. Earlier in her career, she won the 2015 World Junior Championships, the 2014 Junior Grand Prix Final, and the 2015 Russian Junior Championships.

Evgenia Medvedeva
Medvedeva at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Full nameEvgenia Armanovna Medvedeva
Native nameЕвгения Армановна Медведева
Other namesYevgenia Medvedeva
Zhenya (nickname)
BornEvgenia Armanovna Babasyan
(1999-11-19) 19 November 1999
Moscow, Russia
Height1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Figure skating career
Country Russia
DisciplineWomen's singles
Began skating2004
Retired2021
Highest WS1st (2016–17)
Representing  Olympic Athletes from Russia
Olympic Games
2018 Pyeongchang Singles
2018 Pyeongchang Team
Event
World Championships 2 0 1
European Championships 2 1 0
Grand Prix Final 2 0 0
World Team Trophy 0 1 0
Russian Championships 2 0 1
World Junior Championships 1 0 1
Junior Grand Prix Final 1 0 1
Medal list
representing  Russia
World Championships
2016 Boston Singles
2017 Helsinki Singles
2019 Saitama Singles
European Championships
2016 Bratislava Singles
2017 Ostrava Singles
2018 Moscow Singles
Grand Prix Final
2015–16 Barcelona Singles
2016–17 Marseille Singles
World Team Trophy
2017 Tokyo Team
Russian Championships
2016 Yekaterinburg Singles
2017 Chelyabinsk Singles
2015 Sochi Singles
World Junior Championships
2015 Tallinn Singles
2014 Sofia Singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
2014–15 Barcelona Singles
2013–14 Fukuoka Singles

Medvedeva is the first ladies' singles skater to win senior Worlds the year after winning Junior Worlds, and the first ladies' singles skater to win two consecutive senior Worlds the year after winning Junior Worlds. At the 2017 World Championships, she became the first female skater to win back-to-back world titles in 16 years since Michelle Kwan did so in 2000 and 2001, and is currently the only Russian woman ever to successfully defend her world title. She became one of only four ladies to achieve a Grand Slam (winning all the main competitions of the same season), and the first skater (all disciplines included) to complete two Grand Slams in a row (2015–2016; 2016–2017).

Under the ISU Judging System, she has set the world record score 13 times and is the first female skater to surpass the 80-point short program mark, the 160-point free skating mark, and the 230-point and the 240-point total mark.

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