Dmitry Vladimirovich Sopot, (, born 1 May 1998) is a Russian retired

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. With former partner Ekaterina Borisova, he is the 2016 Youth Olympic champion, the 2016 World Junior bronze medalist, and 2015 Junior Grand Prix Final champion. He later competed with Anastasia Poluianova.

Career

Sopot began learning to skate in 2001. He competed as a single skater before teaming up with Alexandra Evsiukova, in 2013. They skated together for one season.

Partnership with Borisova

Sopot teamed up with Ekaterina Borisova in the summer of 2014. The two qualified for the 2015 Russian Junior Championships and finished in 8th place. Borisova/Sopot made their international debut competing in the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series. They took the bronze medal at their first assignment, the JGP in Latvia, before winning gold at the JGP in Poland. These results qualified them for the 2015–16 JGP Final in

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. In Spain, they outscored the Czech Republic's

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by 9.53 points for the gold medal. In January 2016, Borisova/Sopot were awarded the bronze medal at the Russian Junior Championships, having finished third to

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(gold) and Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov (silver). In February, they represented Russia at the

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, Norway. Ranked second in the short program and first in the free skate, they won the gold by a margin of 2.53 points over Dušková/Bidař. On March 17–21, competing at the 2016 World Junior Championships in

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, Hungary, Borisova/Sopot placed fourth in the short and third in the free, taking the bronze medal overall behind Czech pair skaters

and teammates

who took the gold and silver medals respectively.

2017–2018 season: Partnership with Poluianova

Sopot teamed up with Anastasia Poluianova in 2017. They made their international debut at the 2017–18 JGP event in

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where they placed 2nd behind teammates

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/ Denis Khodykin. They placed 3rd at their second JGP assignment, in

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, Poland. Their results qualified them for the 2017–18 JGP Final in

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, where they placed 6th. In November 2017 Poluianova/Sopot made their international senior debut at the

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where they won the bronze medal. At the 2018 Russian Championships, they placed 10th on the senior level and 8th at the junior event.

2018–2019 season

Poluianova/Sopot started their season by competing in the 2018 JGP series. At their first JGP event of the season they won the silver medal in

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. They were ranked 3rd in the short program and 2nd in the free skate and they were part of a Russian sweep of the pairs' podium. Poluianova/Sopot were more than 14 points behind the gold medalists,

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but they beat the bronze medalists,

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/ Roman Pleshkov, by more than 7 points. At their 2nd JGP event of the season they placed 4th in

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. With these results they qualified for the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final where they finished 5th. According to Tamara Moskvina, head coach of the Tamara Moskvina skating school where Anastasia and Dmitri trained, they have split up. He went on a cruise ship to skate in shows there. She apparently is not looking for a partner to continue her competitive career but plans to join the cruise ship once she is old enough.

Programs

With Poluianova

With Borisova

2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final Pair skating medal ceremonie IMG 9292

Competitive highlights

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Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...

With Poluianova

With Borisova

Detailed results

With Poluianova

With Borisova

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sopot, Dmitry 1998 births Russian male pair skaters World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists Living people Sportspeople from Tver Figure skaters at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists for Russia FISU World University Games silver medalists for Russia Winter World University Games medalists in figure skating Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade 21st-century Russian sportsmen