2021 Rostelecom Cup

The 2021 Rostelecom Cup was the sixth event in the 2021–22 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi on 26–28 November. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2021–22 Grand Prix Final.

2021 Rostelecom Cup
Type:	Grand Prix
Date:	26 – 28 November
Season:	2021–22
Location:	Sochi
Host:	Figure Skating Federation of Russia
Venue:	Iceberg Skating Palace
Champions
Men's singles: Morisi Kvitelashvili
Women's singles: Kamila Valieva
Pairs: Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov
Ice dance: Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
Navigation
Previous: 2020 Rostelecom Cup
Next: 2022 Rostelecom Cup
Previous GP: 2021 Internationaux de France
Next GP: 2021–22 Grand Prix Final

The event was originally scheduled to be held at its traditional location of Megasport Sport Palace in Moscow, but was relocated in June after the International Ice Hockey Federation adjusted the rink size at the Megasport.^[1]

Entries

The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on 29 June 2021.^[2]

Country	Men[3]	Women[4]	Pairs[5]	Ice dance[6]
Australia	Brendan Kerry
Austria		Olga Mikutina	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
Azerbaijan		Ekaterina Ryabova
Belarus		Viktoriia Safonova
Belgium		Loena Hendrickx
Canada	Roman Sadovsky	Madeline Schizas	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
Czech Republic	Michal Březina
Estonia		Eva-Lotta Kiibus
Georgia	Nika Egadze Morisi Kvitelashvili
Hungary			Ioulia Chtchetinina / Márk Magyar
Italy	Matteo Rizzo		Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
Japan	Keiji Tanaka Kazuki Tomono	Rino Matsuike
Lithuania				Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
Poland		Ekaterina Kurakova
Russia	Mikhail Kolyada Mark Kondratiuk Evgeni Semenenko	Maiia Khromykh Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Kamila Valieva	Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Egor Bazin Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin
Spain				Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin
United States	Camden Pulkinen	Mariah Bell	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker

Changes to preliminary assignments

Discipline	Withdrew		Added		Notes	Ref.
	Date	Skater(s)	Date	Skater(s)
Men	—		September 16	Mark Kondratiuk	Host picks	[7]
Women				Maiia Khromykh		[8]
Pairs				Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko		[9]
Ice dance				Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Egor Bazin		[10]
Women	September 16	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	September 29	Viktoriia Safonova	Retirement[11]	[8]
Ice dance	November 2	Adelina Galyavieva / Louis Thauron	November 3	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Galyavieva & Thauron split.[12]	[10]
Men	November 15	Maxim Naumov	November 17	Brendan Kerry	Injury[13]	[7]
Ice dance	November 16	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya	—		Doctor's recommendations[14]	[10]
Men	November 17	Yuzuru Hanyu	November 18	Nika Egadze	Injury	[7]
Pairs		Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel		Ioulia Chtchetinina / Márk Magyar	Injury recovery (Kunkel)[15]	[9]
Ice dance	November 22	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev	—			[10]

Records

For the all-time highest scores, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

For the season's highest scores, see 2021–22 figure skating season § Season's best scores.

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:

Discipline	Component	Skater(s)	Score	Date	Ref
Women	Short program	Kamila Valieva	87.42	26 November 2021	[16]
	Free skating		185.29	27 November 2021	[17]
	Total score		272.71		[18]

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Georgia	266.33	2	95.37	3	170.96
2	Mikhail Kolyada	Russia	264.64	4	84.48	1	180.16
3	Kazuki Tomono	Japan	264.19	1	95.81	5	168.38
4	Roman Sadovsky	Canada	253.80	3	84.59	4	169.21
5	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	250.47	9	77.45	2	173.02
6	Evgeni Semenenko	Russia	246.66	7	81.00	6	165.66
7	Camden Pulkinen	United States	237.97	5	83.47	9	154.50
8	Mark Kondratiuk	Russia	231.88	11	74.16	8	157.72
9	Keiji Tanaka	Japan	229.75	10	76.69	10	153.06
10	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	219.59	6	82.31	11	137.28
11	Nika Egadze	Georgia	210.17	12	50.35	7	159.82
12	Brendan Kerry	Australia	204.19	8	80.48	12	123.71

Women

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Kamila Valieva	Russia	272.71	1	87.42	1	185.29
2	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	229.23	2	80.10	3	149.13
3	Maiia Khromykh	Russia	219.69	5	64.72	2	154.97
4	Mariah Bell	United States	210.35	3	69.37	4	140.98
5	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	203.69	6	64.44	5	139.25
6	Madeline Schizas	Canada	192.14	4	67.49	7	124.32
7	Viktoriia Safonova	Belarus	185.64	9	58.19	6	127.45
8	Rino Matsuike	Japan	184.36	7	62.98	8	121.38
9	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	175.64	11	56.43	9	119.21
10	Ekaterina Ryabova	Azerbaijan	175.24	8	58.87	10	116.37
11	Eva-Lotta Kiibus	Estonia	163.11	12	49.26	11	113.85
12	Olga Mikutina	Austria	161.09	10	57.09	12	104.00

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov	Russia	226.98	2	73.64	1	153.34
2	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Russia	212.59	1	73.91	2	138.68
3	Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko	Russia	193.58	3	69.39	3	124.19
4	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	United States	186.16	4	64.97	4	121.19
5	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Canada	177.72	7	58.95	5	118.77
6	Ioulia Chtchetinina / Márk Magyar	Hungary	175.80	5	63.99	7	111.81
7	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Italy	172.85	6	59.92	6	112.93
8	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	Austria	163.80	8	58.53	8	105.27

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia	211.72	1	86.81	1	124.91
2	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	203.71	2	79.56	2	124.15
3	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	191.40	3	76.39	3	115.01
4	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Spain	189.94	4	75.94	4	114.00
5	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	187.62	5	73.72	5	113.90
6	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin	Russia	180.93	6	71.95	6	108.98
7	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	177.88	7	71.43	8	106.45
8	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Egor Bazin	Russia	177.51	8	71.05	7	106.46

References

1. Samokhvalov, Anatoly (June 29, 2021). "Коган объяснил перенос этапа Гран-при по фигурному катанию в Сочи" [Kogan explained the postponement of the Grand Prix figure skating stage to Sochi]. RIA Novosti (in Russian).
2. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2021/22 assignments announced". International Skating Union. June 29, 2021.
3. "ISU GP Rostelecom Cup 2021: Men". International Skating Union. June 29, 2021.
4. "ISU GP Rostelecom Cup 2021: Women". International Skating Union. June 29, 2021.
5. "ISU GP Rostelecom Cup 2021: Pairs". International Skating Union. June 29, 2021.
6. "ISU GP Rostelecom Cup 2021: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. June 29, 2021.
7. "ISU GP Rostelecom Cup 2021: Men". International Skating Union. September 16, 2021.
8. "ISU GP Rostelecom Cup 2021: Women". International Skating Union. September 16, 2021.
9. "ISU GP Rostelecom Cup 2021: Pairs". International Skating Union. September 16, 2021.
10. "ISU GP Rostelecom Cup 2021: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. September 16, 2021.
11. Tursynbaeva, Elizabet [@elizabetkz] (September 20, 2021). "Dear fans, I have decided to end my career as a professional athlete" – via Instagram.
12. Fédération Française des Sports de Glace [@ffsportsdeglace] (November 3, 2021). "Nos danseurs sur glace Adelina Galyavieva et Louis Thauron mettent fin à leur collaboration après quatre saisons passées ensemble, une blessure chronique de Louis les empêchant de mener à bien leur projet sportif" [Our ice dancers Adelina Galyavieva and Louis Thauron put an end to their collaboration after four seasons spent together, a chronic injury of Louis preventing them from carrying out their sporting project.] – via Instagram.
13. "Maxim Naumov Withdraws from 2021 Rostelecom Cup" (Press release). U.S. Figure Skating. November 15, 2021.
14. Georgian Figure Skating Federation [@fskatinggeo] (November 16, 2021). "Maria Kazakova/Georgy Reviya withdraw from Rostelecom Cup and Warsaw Cup, following doctor's recommendations" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
15. Hocke, Annika [@anni_kamaria] (November 17, 2021). "It hurts a lot to have to withdraw from Rostelecom Cup but we can't ignore the fact that we wouldn't be able to show a good program" – via Instagram.
16. "Progression of Highest Score: Women – Short Program Score". International Skating Union. November 26, 2021.
17. "Progression of Highest Score: Women – Free Skating Score". International Skating Union. November 27, 2021.
18. "Progression of Highest Score: Women – Total Score". International Skating Union. November 27, 2021.

External links

• Rostelecom Cup at the International Skating Union