Evgenia Medvedeva

Evgenia Armanovna Medvedeva, born on November nineteenth, nineteen ninety-nine, is a retired competitive figure skater from Russia. Renowned for her exceptional talent, she captured the silver medal at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics in both the women's singles and team events. Medvedeva's illustrious career includes being a two-time world champion, having triumphed in twenty-sixteen and twenty-seventeen, as well as a two-time European champion during the same years.

Her remarkable achievements extend to being a two-time Grand Prix Final champion in twenty-fifteen and twenty-sixteen, and a two-time Russian national champion in twenty-sixteen and twenty-seventeen. Additionally, she earned a silver medal at the twenty-eighteen European Figure Skating Championships and a bronze at the twenty-nineteen World Championships. Medvedeva's early career was marked by victories at the twenty-fifteen World Junior Championships, the twenty-fourteen Junior Grand Prix Final, and the twenty-fifteen Russian Junior Championships.

Medvedeva made history as the first women's singles skater to win senior World titles the year after winning Junior Worlds, and she is the only Russian woman to successfully defend her world title. At the twenty-seventeen World Championships, she became the first female skater in sixteen years to win back-to-back world titles since Michelle Kwan's victories in two thousand and one.

Among her many accolades, Medvedeva is one of only four women to achieve a Grand Slam, winning all major competitions in a single season, and she is the first skater across all disciplines to complete two consecutive Grand Slams in twenty-fifteen to twenty-sixteen and twenty-sixteen to twenty-seventeen. Under the ISU Judging System, she has set the world record score thirteen times and is the first female skater to surpass the eighty-point mark in the short program, the one hundred sixty-point mark in free skating, and the two hundred thirty-point and two hundred forty-point total marks.