Sofia Samodelkina

Samodelkina placed fourth at the 2020 Russian Junior Championships and 2021 Russian Junior Championships. She was second at the 2021 Russian Cup Final and first at the 2020 Russian Cup Final on the junior level.

Samodelkina made her junior international debut at the 2021 JGP Russia held in Krasnoyarsk in mid-September. She fell on an underrotated triple Axel jump in the short program, missing her combination as a result, ending up sixth in that segment. In the free skate she placed second behind Sofia Akateva, landing a quadruple Salchow with positive GOE and becoming the ninth woman in history to land a quad. She also landed a quad Salchow-double toeloop combination and quad Lutz, although called a quarter short, in the program, taking the bronze medal overall.[3] At the 2021 JGP Slovenia she made mistake on the opening triple Axel and placed fourth. She won the free skate after landing a quad Salchow and rose to second place overall.[4]

Later in autumn, at the 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, Samodelkina became the fifteenth woman to land a triple Axel jump in international competition and won the event.[5]

Samodelkina made her debut at the senior national championships at the 2022 Russian Championships, where she placed fifth. She underrotated two of her three quad attempts, but expressed enthusiasm at the overall results and qualifying for the national team for the following season.[6]

At the 2022 Russian Junior Championships, Samodelkina performed her short program cleanly, including triple Axel-triple toeloop combination and placed second behind Sofia Akatieva. She stumbled on the quad Lutz and quad Salchow in the free skate but completed the other elements cleanly and won the silver medal behind Akatieva.