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Adeliia Tigranovna Petrosian (; born 5 June 2007) is a Russian figure skater. She is a two-time Russian national champion (
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), the 2023 and 2025 Russian Grand Prix Final champion, the 2021 JGP Slovenia champion, the 2021 Russian junior silver medalist, and the 2022 Russian national bronze medalist. Petrosian is known as the first female skater to perform a quadruple loop in a competition and the first skater, male or female, to perform two quadruple loops in a free skate. This was initially reported by the Russian
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. The ISU Figure Skating Media Guide 2024/25 lists Petrosian's name among the "firsts" but add a note these accomplishments occurred in domestic competition.


Personal life

Adeliia Tigranovna Petrosian was born on 5 June 2007 in
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,
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. She is of
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heritage through her father’s side of the family. She also owns a dog named Alma, affectionately called Almochka.


Career


Early years

Petrosian began skating as a four-year-old in 2011. She was first coached by Irina Strakhova before switching to
Eteri Tutberidze Eteri Georgievna Tutberidze (Georgian language, Georgian: ეთერი გიორგის ასული თუთბერიძე; ; born 24 February 1974) is a Georgian-Russian figure skating coach who works mainly with female single s ...
in 2019.


2019–20 season

Petrosian competed in the junior division of the 2019–20 Cup of Russia circuit. In the first stage in September, she finished fourth in the short program, sixth in the free skate, and fifth overall. Then in October, she won the bronze medal in the second stage behind teammate Sofia Akateva and Alina Gorbacheva. These results qualified her for the 2020 Russian Junior Championships in
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where she finished sixth with a total score of 201.07. In February, she competed in the Russian Cup final in
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and won the bronze medal behind
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and Sofia Akateva with a total score of 205.22. Her final competition of the season was the Moscow Championships where she won the silver medal behind Akateva with a total score of 199.89.


2020–21 season

Petrosian would have been eligible to compete in the
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circuit; however, the series was canceled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. She competed for another season in the junior division of the Cup of Russia circuit. In October, she won the gold medal in the third stage of the Russian Cup in
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. On the fifth stage, she finished third in the short program, fifth in the free skate, and fourth overall. These results qualified her to the 2021 Russian Junior Championships which were held in
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in February. Petrosian won the silver medal overall behind her teammate Sofia Akateva with a total score of 211.87. In March, she competed at the Russian Cup final in Moscow where she won the bronze medal behind Akateva and
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with a total score of 204.22.


2021–22 season

Petrosian was assigned two spots on the
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(JGP) series. She made her international junior debut in September at the
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in
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. She placed third in both the short program and the free skate to take the bronze medal overall behind Russian compatriots
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and
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, with a total score of 201.21. In the free skate, Petrosian landed a quadruple
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; however, the jump was marked underrotated. At her second JGP assignment later in the month, the 2021 JGP Slovenia in
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, Petrosian placed first in the short program with a total score of 70.86. In the free skate, she once again attempted the quadruple toe loop, but she touched her hands on the ice on the landing, but she still won the gold medal overall with a total score of 210.57. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the
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announced an alternate qualifying procedure for the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final which allowed each winner of the Junior Grand Prix events to qualify for the final as opposed to evaluating the results of each skater over two events. Therefore, Petrosian's gold medal at the Junior Grand Prix in Slovenia qualified her a spot for the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final. The event was scheduled to be held in
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in December; however, the event was canceled due to the
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. After the Junior Grand Prix series, Petrosian competed domestically as a senior on the Cup of Russia circuit, the qualifying series for the Russian Championships. At the fifth event of the series, which was held in
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, Petrosian attempted two quadruple loops, landing one in combination. She is the first woman to land a quadruple loop in competition; however, because the jump was landed in a domestic competition, it could not be recognized officially by the
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. She won the silver medal in the event behind
Sofia Muravieva Sofia Andreevna Muravieva (; born 4 August 2006) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2021 JGP Cup of Austria champion, the 2021 JGP Slovakia silver medalist, the 2024 Russian national silver medalist, and a two-time Russian junior national ...
. Because Petrosian qualified for the canceled 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final, she qualified to compete on the senior level at the
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. She placed sixth in the short program with a score of 73.29. In the free skate, she once again attempted two quadruple loops, landing both and finishing third with a score of 160.68. She placed fourth overall with a total score of 233.97, finishing only behind training mates
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,
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, and
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, and she was the top-scoring, junior competitor, ahead of rivals
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and
Sofia Muravieva Sofia Andreevna Muravieva (; born 4 August 2006) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2021 JGP Cup of Austria champion, the 2021 JGP Slovakia silver medalist, the 2024 Russian national silver medalist, and a two-time Russian junior national ...
. However, as of 2023 Valieva has been stripped of her National titles due to doping charges, meaning Petrosian retroactively took third place.


2022–23 season

Due to
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, all Russian figure skaters were banned from competing international competition by the
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. Thus, Petrosian instead competed domestically on the Russian Grand Prix series (a series of all-Russian competitions in the same format as the international Grand Prix series). At the 2022 Russian Grand Prix Stage 2 held in Ufa,
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Petrosian won both segments of the competition and won the gold medal. Going on to compete at the 2023 Russian Figure Skating Championships Petrosian ranked in fifth place in the short program after having cleanly landed a triple axel but falling on her triple lutz. In the free skate she fell on her opening quad loop attempt but cleanly landed two quad toeloops, ranking third in the free skate segment but remaining fifth overall. Petrosian's final competition of the season came at the 2023 Russian Grand Prix Final. In the short program she landed all jumps including her triple axel cleanly and scored a new personal best of 85.62 points. In the free skate she cleanly landed a quad flip and a quad toeloop although she stepped out off and out a hand down on her second quad toeloop attempt and fell on a triple axel attempt. Despite these mistakes she still achieved new personal best scores in the free skate (169.39) and combined total score (255.01) and won the gold medal.


2023–24 season

Petrosian began the season by winning gold at the 2023 Russian Grand Prix Stages 1 and 2, held in Ufa and
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, respectively. In December, Petrosian won the gold medal 2024 Russian Championships. Two months later, she competed at the 2024 Russian Cup Grand Prix Final, winning the gold medal.


2024–25 season

Beginning the season at the 2024 Russian Grand Prix Stage 2 in
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, Petrosian won the gold medal. Two weeks later, she won the 2024 Russian Grand Prix Stage 4 in
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. In December, Petrosian came in first at the 2025 Russian Championships. She subsequently went on to win gold at the 2025 Russian Grand Prix Final.


2025–26 season

In May 2025, the
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(ISU) announced that Petrosian as well as Alina Gorbacheva had both been approved as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN), making them both eligible to compete at the 2025 ISU Olympic Qualifying Competition to vie for a spot to compete at the
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. The
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selected Petrosian to compete and Gorbacheva as the reserve.


Programs


Competitive highlights


Detailed results


Senior level


Junior level


References


External links

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