The 2021 Channel One Trophy was a domestic figure skating competition held from February 5–7, 2021 in
Moscow
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,
Russia
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. Members of the 2021 Russian national team who placed in the top six at either the
2021 Russian Championships or the
2020 European Championships, or who'd previously won the
World Championships
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in any of the four disciplines were invited to compete.
[ Skaters competed against each other in two teams consisting of three men's single skaters, three ladies' single skaters, two ]pair
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* Pair (parliamentary convention), matching of members unable to attend, so as not to change the voting margin
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teams, and three ice dance
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teams, randomly selected by team captains Evgenia Medvedeva
Evgenia Armanovna Medvedeva (alt. spelling: Yevgenia Medvedeva; rus, Евгения Армановна Медведева, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪjə mʲɪˈdvʲedʲɪvə; born 19 November 1999), is a competitive Russian Figure skating, figure ska ...
and Alina Zagitova
Alina Ilnazovna Zagitova ( rus, Алина Ильназовна Загитова, , ɐˈlʲinə zɐˈɡʲitəvə; born 18 May 2002) is a Russian figure skater of Volga- Tatar origin. She is the 2018 Olympic champion, the 2019 World champion, ...
.
The competition was broadcast by Channel One Russia
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and was made available to international viewers via YouTube
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.
Scoring
Skaters competed in both the short program/rhythm dance
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and the free skating
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/free dance
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segments for their team. Their individual scores for each program were added together to create a team total score.
Entries
Channel One Russia announced the preliminary list of invitees on January 19, 2021.[
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Changes to preliminary entries
Teams
Results
Team
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dance
References
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2021 in figure skating
2021 in Russian sport