Sofia Gennadyevna Evdokimova (, born 27 November 1996) is a retired Russian

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

. With her former partner,

Egor Bazin Egor Yuryevich Bazin (, born 13 September 1995) is a retired Russian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva, he is the 2023 Russian champion, 2022 Russian national bronze medalist. With his former partner, Sofia Evdok ...

, she is the

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silver medalist, the 2018

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champion, and the 2019 Russian national bronze medalist.

Personal life

Evdokimova was born on November 27, 1996 in

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, Russia. In March 2024, she announced her engagement to Russian-Hungarian pair skater, Alexei Sviatchenko. They married in April 2025.

Career

Early career

Evdokimova teamed up with Egor Bazin in 2007. The duo debuted on the

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(JGP) series in the 2011–12 season, finishing seventh in

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. In the 2013–14 season, they won their first JGP medal – bronze in

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2014–2015 season

Evdokimova/Bazin started their season by competing in the 2014 JGP series. They placed fourth in both events, first at the JGP Czech Republic and then at the JGP Germany. In 2014–15 season, Evdokimova/Bazin stepped onto the

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podium for the first time, beating

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/ Pavel Drozd by 0.19 points for the bronze medal at the Russian Junior Championships. Based on this result, they were chosen to compete as Russia's third ice dancing team at the 2015 World Junior Championships in

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, Estonia. Finishing tenth, Evdokimova/Bazin were the second best Russian duet after

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(gold), with

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/ Yuri Vlasenko placing eleventh.

2015–2016 season

In the 2015–16 season, Evdokimova/Bazin won their second JGP medal – bronze in

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. Two weeks later they placed fifth in JGP Austria. In October 2015 they won their first international gold medal at the 2015 Ice Star. In January 2016 they finished fourth at the 2016 Russian Junior Championships.

2016–2017 season

In November 2016 Evdokimova/Bazin made their

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debut at the

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where they placed ninth. A month later they skated their first Challenger event at the

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where they also placed ninth. In december they placed sixth at the 2017 Russian Championships. In February 2017 they competed at the

where they won the silver medal behind

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2017–2018 season

In November 2017 Evdokimova/Bazin skated at the

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where they placed fourth. In Tallinn they were really close claiming their first Challenger series medal because they were less than 0.5 points behind the bronze medalists, Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit. A month later Evdokimova/Bazin placed fifth at the 2018 Russian Championships.

2018–2019 season

Evdokimova/Bazin started their season at the

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where they finished seventh with a personal best score of 159.67 points. Two weeks later they won their first international senior gold medal at the 2018 Ice Star. In mid November they competed at the

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where they finished fourth after placing sixth in the

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and fourth in the free dance. At this competition they also scored their personal best score 164.66 points. In late November they placed fourth at the

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with a personal best score of 168.31 points. At the 2019 Russian Championships, Evdokimova/Bazin placed fourth in the rhythm dance, around 3 points behind the third-place finishers

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/ Jonathan Guerreiro and only half a point ahead of Anastasia Shpilevaya /

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in fifth. In the free dance, a disastrous skate by Zahorski/Guerreiro allowed them to take the bronze medal. Bazin subsequently said that this had been their goal from the beginning of the season. They competed at their first

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, placing ninth.

2019–2020 season

Evdokimova/Bazin placed seventh at the 2019 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial to begin the season. Competing on the

, they were ninth at the

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and then sixth at the

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. At the 2020 Russian Championships, they placed seventh. In March 2020, it was announced the two had ended their partnership and on October 15, 2020, Evdokimova announced her retirement from competitive skating.

Post-competitive career

Following her retirement from competitive figure skating, Evdomikova began working as a figure skating choreographer. Among her clients have included: * Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba * Isabella Gamez / Aleksandr Korovin *

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/ Alexei Sviatchenko

Programs

(with Bazin)

Competitive highlights

''GP:

; CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

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'' With Bazin

Detailed results

''Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.'' With Bazin

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Evdokimova, Sofia 1996 births Russian female ice dancers Winter World University Games medalists in figure skating Living people Sportspeople from Tolyatti FISU World University Games silver medalists for Russia Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade 21st-century Russian sportswomen