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Evgenia Medvedeva

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Evgenia Armanovna Medvedeva is a retired Russian figure skater, born in 1999 in Moscow, who won the silver medal in both the individual and team events at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. She was World Figure Skating Champion in 2016 and 2017, European Champion in the same two years, and Grand Prix Final champion twice, having also won the 2015 World Junior Championship, and she set world records thirteen times before the 2018-19 season, including being the first woman to break 80 points in the short program and 160 points in the free skate. She retired from competition in 2021 because of a chronic back injury.

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Birth Year
1999 1
Birth Date
1999-11-19 1
Nationality
Russian 1
Career Highlight
2018 Olympic silver medalist and two-time world champion (2016, 2017) 1
Classification
Competition Category
Individual 1
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1. Evgenia Medvedeva, Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1, birth date
    born 19 November 1999), is a retired competitive Russian figure skater.
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1, birth year
    born 19 November 1999), is a retired competitive Russian figure skater.
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1, nationality
    born 19 November 1999), is a retired competitive Russian figure skater.
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 2
    She is the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic silver medalist (2018 women's singles, 2018 team event), a two-time world champion (2016, 2017)
  • Wikipedia, article summary lead
    spelling: Yevgenia Medvedeva; Russian: Евгения Армановна Медведева, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪjə mʲɪˈdvʲedʲɪvə]; born 19 November 1999), is a retired competitive Russian figure skater.
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