Belarusian skaters Safonov and Knyazev won the Denkova Cup in Bulgaria

Belarusian skaters became the winners of the international figure skating tournament “Albena Denkova Cup” in Sofia. This is reported by BelTA, writes sb.by.

The gold award in women’s single skating with a total of 192.26 points was won by Victoria Safonova, who showed the best result in both short and free programs. Second-placed Jan-Quen Isaacs from South Africa was ahead of Belarus by almost 15 points. Earlier at the start of the 26/27 season, Safonova was tenth at the prestigious Grand Prix tournament in Canada, and also entered the top 5 at the Challenger series starts in Georgia and Kazakhstan.

In singles skating at juniors, our Yaroslav Knyazev won (182.71 points), silver went to her compatriot Varvara Stakhovich (171.77). Belarusians Maria Evtukhina, Ekaterina Tsaba and Kira Trofimova took part in the competitions, 31 girls took part.

Among the juniors, the silver medalist was our Pavel Gavdis, above is located only Czech Jakub Tykal. On November 8, Belarusian skaters will compete for the Denkova Cup medals in men’s singles and ice dancing. Visa for a week and two days on the road: figure skater Safonov for the first time since 2021 performed at the ISU Grand Prix