30 Facts About Sofia Samodelkina

Sofia Vladimirovna Samodelkina is a Russian-Kazakhstani figure skater who currently competes for Kazakhstan.

Sofia Samodelkina is the 2025 Kazakh national champion, 2025 World University Games bronze medalist, 2024 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge silver medalist, and the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy silver medalist.

Sofia Samodelkina is the second woman after Alexandra Trusova who has landed all quadruple jumps except quad Axel in practice.

Sofia Samodelkina is the first woman to attempt a quad loop in competition, but the jump was not ratified due to under-rotation.

Sofia Samodelkina was born on February 18,2007 in Moscow to a Kazakh mother and a Russian father.

Sofia Samodelkina has an older brother and a younger sister.

Sofia Samodelkina received Kazakhstani citizenship in the summer of 2023.

In 2011, when Sofia Samodelkina was five years old, her parents decided to enroll her into figure skating at the CSKA Moscow.

Sofia Samodelkina placed fourth at the 2020 Russian Junior Championships and 2021 Russian Junior Championships.

Sofia Samodelkina made her junior international debut at the 2021 JGP Russia held in Krasnoyarsk in mid-September.

Sofia Samodelkina fell on an underrotated triple Axel jump in the short program, missing her combination as a result, ending up sixth in that segment.

Sofia Samodelkina landed a quad Salchow-double toe loop combination and quad Lutz in the program, although called a quarter short, taking the bronze medal overall.

Sofia Samodelkina won the free skate after landing a quad Salchow and rose to second place overall.

Later in autumn, at the 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, Sofia Samodelkina became the fifteenth woman to land a triple Axel jump in international competition and won the event.

Sofia Samodelkina made her debut at the senior national championships at the 2022 Russian Championships She underrotated two of her three quad attempts, originally placing fifth the original winner of the Championship Kamila Valieva was later stripped of her medal due to a positive doping test, promoting Sofia Samodelkina by one place meaning she finished fourth overall.

Sofia Samodelkina expressed enthusiasm at the overall results and qualifying for the national team for the following season.

Sofia Samodelkina stumbled on the quad Lutz and quad Salchow in the free skate but completed the other elements cleanly and won the silver medal behind Akatieva.

Sofia Samodelkina instead closed her season at the 2022 Channel One Trophy where she competed at the senior level for the Red Machine team captained by Anna Shcherbakova.

Sofia Samodelkina placed sixth in the short program, fourth in the free skate and fourth overall in the individual standings.

Sofia Samodelkina won the gold medal in the team event, with the Red Machine placing first.

At the second stage of the Russian Grand Prix series, Sofia Samodelkina scored 63.66 points in the short program and ranked in fifth place.

Sofia Samodelkina placed second in the free skate and second overall, winning the silver medal.

At the fifth stage of the Russian Grand Prix, Sofia Samodelkina won both segments of the competition, winning the gold medal 4.07 points ahead of Olympic silver medalist Alexandra Trusova.

Sofia Samodelkina went on to compete at the 2023 Channel One Trophy, where she was randomly drawn to compete on Kamila Valieva's team.

In spite of this, Sofia Samodelkina obtained a Kazakh passport and moved to Astana, Kazakhstan in hopes of pursuing this goal.

Sofia Samodelkina was officially released by the Russian Figure Skating Federation in May 2024.

In July 2024, Sofia Samodelkina competed at the Kazakh Summer Championships, her first competition since March 2023.

Sofia Samodelkina ranked in second place, but won the free skate, winning the gold medal overall.

In mid-December, Sofia Samodelkina won the gold medal at the 2025 Kazakh Championships.

In late February, Sofia Samodelkina finished fourth at the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China.