Biography
Sophia Selfkina for a long time was not distinguished from a number of novice figure skaters and did not have impressive achievements. But the athlete was able to surprise the techniques and the cleanliness of skating, which helped her to enter the number of junior leaders and become the hope of school CSKA.Childhood
Sophia Selfkina was born on February 18, 2007. She is not the only athlete in the family, the figure skater is the younger sister of Daria, which is engaged in fencing. Girls are friendly, often spend time together and share interest in creativity.
In childhood, Sonya dreamed of becoming a model. She sat down at home improvised shows for mom and dad, demonstrating outfits. In 5 years, parents decided to give daughter for figure skating and took to school CSKA, which became a new page in her biography. The first coach became Liliya Bictagirov, then she moved to Sergey Davydov.
Figure skating
The path to the success of Samodelkin began in the 2017/2018 season. She spoke brightly at the Moscow Championship, where Eteri Tutberidze's pupil is a little bit - Sofja Coteva and occupied the 2nd place. The athlete also lost at the championship of Russia, but almost 18 points already with a large margin. As a result, the figure skater received a silver medal.The next season also became successful for Sony. She managed to shove himself at the Moscow Championship, where he took gold and left behind Camil Valiev, Maye Chrome and Daria Usachev. After that, experts drew attention to the girl, and its programs began to become more complicated.
In 2019-2020, the network appeared in the network that the athlete preferred the "blizzard" George Sviridov as musical accompaniment for an arbitrary program, but the final choice of the coach fell on Masquerade Aram Khachaturian. For a short program, Selfkina decided to use a melody from the musical "Romeo and Juliet".
This season became a starry hour for Sophia, which made an unforgettable impression on the spectators at the Volkova Memorial 2019. Shortly before that, the figure skater added such a valuable element as a triple acel, which successfully used in the program and won the main prize. Together with her on the pedestal stood Sophia Icotyev and Veronica Zhilina.
Sophia Selfkina now
The beginning of 2020 was outstanding for figure skater. She won gold at the Moscow Championship and in the Russian Cup final. But later, the athlete had to face difficulties due to a coronavirus infection pandemic, because during the quarantine period she could not get into training. This was a heavy time for Sony, which missed ice and dreamed of returning to improving jumps.
When quarantine measures weakened, Samodelkin hurried to catch up. Soon the coach published a video on which his ward makes a four Salkhov during the classes, which caused admiration for numerous fans.
Augustus turned out to be especially fruitful for figure skater. She gave an interview for the Youtyub Channel "Figurine", where he told about his routine of the day. It is necessary to get up early, because it lives alone and independently prepares breakfast, lunch and dinner. The athlete is then going to the school CSKA, where he holds most of the day, doing with a coach and choreographer.
After returning home, Sofia remains time only for lessons and drawing - it is fond of graffiti. Relax with family self-relocile can only be on weekends. The figure skater is chosen at the cottage where he is engaged in tutoring, plays with dogs and sisters.
The video scored a lot of feedback from fans who planted Sony's schedule. But in the same month she proved that her efforts are when it spoke brightly on control rentals. Despite the fact that the figure skater decided to leave a short and arbitrary program since last season, she struck the public with clean riding, spectacular cascades and technically filled tripleackels.
I did not remain indifferent after the speeches of Samodelkina and coach Tatyana Tarasova. The celebrity praised the plasticity and musicality of the pupil CSKA. Elena Buyanov said that an athlete made a serious application for leadership in the season.
Now Sofya continues to train, pleaseing the fans who are waiting for her new appearances on the ice. She leads a page in "Instagram", where publishes the photo and tells about the news.
Achievements
- 2018 - Silver winner of Moscow Championship
- 2018 - Silver meditarian of Russia's championship
- 2019 - winner of Sergey Volkov Memorial
- 2019 - Winner of the Moscow Championship
- 2020 - Winner of the Moscow Championship
- 2020 - Moscow Cup owner