Andrei Mozalev Explained

Andrei Mozalev
Native Name:Андрей Михайлович Мозалёв
Native Name Lang:ru
Fullname:Andrei Mikhailovich Mozalev
Country: Russia
Birth Date:24 March 2003
Birth Place:Saint Petersburg, Russia
Residence:Saint Petersburg, Russia
Coach:Kirill Davydenko
Formercoach:Anna Scheniovskaia
Choreographer:Igor Koscheev, Denis Lunin
Skating Club:Olympic School Saint Petersburg
Currenttraininglocations:Saint Petersburg
Beganskating:2008
Worldranking:
Pbrankings:
Combined Total:265.69
Combined Date:2022 Europeans
Sp Score:99.76
Sp Date:2022 Europeans
Fs Score:179.77
Fs Date:2021 Internationaux de France
Show-Medals:yes

Andrei Mikhailovich Mozalev (Russian: Андрей Михайлович Мозалёв, born 24 March 2003) is a Russian figure skater. He is the 2019 CS Warsaw Cup champion, the 2022 Russian national bronze medalist, 2020 World Junior champion and the winner of three ISU Junior Grand Prix events (2019 JGP Latvia, 2019 JGP Croatia, 2018 JGP Czech Republic).

Personal life

Mozalev was born on 24 March 2003 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Career

Early years

Mozalev began learning to skate in 2008. He is coached by Kirill Davydenko.

2016–2017 season

In November 2016, Mozalev made his international junior-level debut at the 2016 Volvo Open Cup, where he won the gold medal. Three weeks later, he won another gold medal at the 2016 NRW Trophy.

2017–2018 season

In November 2017, Mozalev won his third international gold medal at the 2017 Tallinn Trophy.

At the 2018 Russian Junior Championships, Mozalev finished seventeenth. He ranked fourth in the short program but was last (eighteenth) in the free skate.

2018–2019 season

In late September 2018, Mozalev made his Junior Grand Prix debut in Ostrava, Czech Republic, where he won the gold medal. He ranked second in the short program but won the free skate and outscored the silver medalist, Camden Pulkinen, by a margin of about five points. At his second JGP event of the season, he placed sixth in Yerevan, Armenia.

2019–2020 season

In early September 2019, Mozalev won his second JGP gold medal at the 2019 JGP event in Riga, Latvia. He ranked first in both the short program and the free skate and scored his personal best score of 223.72 points. He outscored the silver medalist, South Korean Lee Si-hyeong, by about five points. Mozalev won his second event in Croatia and was the only man to win both of his events in the season. Competing on the senior level, he won gold at the 2019 CS Warsaw Cup.

Qualifying in first position to the 2019–20 JGP Final, he placed first in the short program. Second in the free skate, he won the silver medal behind Shun Sato. He attributed a fall on his triple Axel to difficulty maintaining focus in the second half of his program.

At the 2020 Russian Championships, Mozalev placed second in the short program, only half a point behind leader Makar Ignatov. A ninth-place free skate with two quad errors and a fall on a double Axel dropped him to fifth place overall. Mozalev's coach subsequently said he had taken ill. Competing at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Mozalev won the silver medal in the men's event and a bronze medal in the team event.

Following a bronze medal finish at the Russian Junior Championships, Mozalev was assigned to one of Russia's three men's berths at the 2020 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. He placed narrowly second in the short program, behind Youth Olympic champion Yuma Kagiyama. Mozalev then won the free skate, his only error being a hand down on one triple Axel attempt, and won the title.

2020–2021 season

Mozalev debuted at the senior Russian test skates, including the quad flip jump, which he landed in the short program. Competing on the domestic Cup of Russia series, he won the silver medals at both the third stage in Sochi and the fourth stage in Kazan, encountering difficulties in the short program at both events but rallying in the free skates.

With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to affect international travel, the ISU opted to run the Grand Prix based primarily on geographic location. Mozalev made his senior Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Rostelecom Cup, landing his quad flip in the short program but botching his jump combination, ending in sixth place in that segment. He was second in the free skate, despite doubling another planned quad flip, and rose to fourth place, less than two points behind bronze medalist Petr Gumennik.

Competing at the 2021 Russian Championships, Mozalev took a "painful" fall on a downgraded quad flip to open his short program, placing fourth in that segment nonetheless. He landed the quad flip in the free skate, but a series of subsequent jump errors put him in fifth in that segment, remaining in fourth place overall.

Following the national championships, Mozalev competed in the 2021 Channel One Trophy, a televised event organized in lieu of the cancelled European Championships. He was selected for the Red Machine team captained by Alina Zagitova. He was fifth in the short program and fourth in the free skate, while the Red Machine won the trophy. After this, Mozalev prepared for the Russian Cup Final, which was widely assumed to be the deciding event for the second Russian men's berth at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm. Mozalev was second in the short program despite doing only a triple flip instead of a quad. He fell three times in the free skate, dropping to fourth place overall.

2021–2022 season

Mozalev opened his season at the 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, winning the bronze medal. Assigned to only one Grand Prix, he was seventh at the 2021 Internationaux de France. After an error-riddled short program left him in ninth place, he finished second in the free skate, but this only raised him two ordinals in the final standings. 

At the 2022 Russian Championships, Mozalev placed eighth in the short program after falling on an underrotated quad Salchow. Second in the free skate, despite a fall on a triple Axel, he won the bronze medal. Despite this, he was not named to the Russian team for the European Championships, the third berth being given to nationals fourth-place finisher Evgeni Semenenko. However, he was subsequently added to the European team following the withdrawal of Mikhail Kolyada, and won the short program with a new personal best, taking a gold small medal. After several jump errors in the free skate, he placed sixth in that segment and dropped to fourth place overall. He was the second of the three Russians at the event, behind Mark Kondratiuk (the gold medalist) and ahead of Semenenko in fifth. On January 20, he was officially named to the Russian Olympic team along with Kondratiuk and Kolyada.

Competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Mozalev performed poorly in the short program of the Olympic men's event, making multiple jump errors and finishing twenty-third in the segment to narrowly qualify to the free skate. He fared somewhat better in the free skate, placing eighteenth in that segment and rising to overall nineteenth position.

Programs

SeasonShort programFree skatingExhibition
2023-2024
  • Out of Space

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  • Romance
  • My Body Is A Cage
  • The Room
2022–2023
  • Kerber
2021–2022
  • Heart Cry

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  • Sadeness (Part II)
2020–2021
  • Sadeness (Part II)
  • The Man With the Harmonica
2019–2020
2018–2019

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International
Event16–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–2222–2323–24
align=left 19th
align=left 4th
align=left 7th
align=left 4th
align=left bgcolor=cc9966 3rd
align=left WD
align=left bgcolor=silver 2nd
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st
International: Junior
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st
align=left bgcolor=silver 2nd
align=left bgcolor=silver 2nd
align=left 6th
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st J
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st J
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st J
National
align=left 5th 4th bgcolor=cc9966 3rd 6th 11th
align=left 17th 11th bgcolor=cc9966 3rd
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st J 4th 6th 6th
Idel bgcolor=silver 2nd
Moscow Stars 4th
Quray bgcolor=cc9966 3rd
Volga Pirouette 4th
Team events
align=left bgcolor=cc9966 3rd T
2nd P
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
Levels: J = Junior
T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

Detailed results

Current ISU world best highlighted in bold and italic.

Senior

2021–22 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
March 25–27, 20222022 Channel One Trophy
domestic competition
align=center 5
89.12
align=center 3
190.80
align=center bgcolor=gold 1T/3P
279.92
February 8–10, 20222022 Winter Olympicsalign=center 23
77.05
align=center 18
156.28
align=center 19
233.33
January 10–16, 20222022 European Championshipsalign=center bgcolor=gold 1
99.76
align=center 6
165.93
align=center 4
265.69
December 21–26, 20212022 Russian Championshipsalign=center 8
90.98
align=center 2
187.30
align=center bgcolor=cc9966 3
278.28
December 9–11, 20212021 CS Golden Spin of Zagrebalign=center 6
80.71
align=center 1
171.44
align=center bgcolor=silver 2
252.15
November 19–21, 20212021 Internationaux de Francealign=center 9
68.77
align=center 2
179.77
align=center 7
248.54
October 28–31, 20212021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challengealign=center 5
72.76
align=center 3
161.29
align=center bgcolor=cc9966 3
234.05
2020–21 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
Feb. 26 – Mar. 2, 20212021 Russian Cup Final
domestic competition
align=center 2
93.83
align=center 5
158.76
align=center 4
252.59
February 5–7, 20212021 Channel One Trophyalign=center 5
79.13
align=center 4
173.82
align=center bgcolor=gold 1T/5P
252.95
December 23–27, 20202021 Russian Championshipsalign=center 4
89.47
align=center 5
163.45
align=center 4
252.92
November 20–22, 20202020 Rostelecom Cupalign=center 6
86.01
align=center 2
180.68
align=center 4
266.69

Junior

2019–20 season
DateEventLevelSPFSTotal
March 2–8, 20202020 World Junior ChampionshipsJunioralign=center bgcolor=silver 2
84.31
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
160.78
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
245.09
February 4–8, 20202020 Russian Junior ChampionshipsJunioralign=center 13
70.41
align=center 1
179.66
align=center bgcolor="#cc9966" 3
250.07
January 10–15, 20202020 Winter Youth Olympics – TeamJunioralign=center align=center 2
154.97
align=center bgcolor="#cc9966" 3T/2P
January 10–15, 20202020 Winter Youth OlympicsJunioralign=center 1
79.72
align=center 2
158.22
align=center bgcolor=silver 2
237.94
December 24–29, 20192020 Russian ChampionshipsSenioralign=center 2
88.34
align=center 9
152.21
align=center 5
240.55
December 5–8, 20192019–20 JGP FinalJunioralign=center 1
82.45
align=center 2
159.03
align=center bgcolor=silver 2
241.48
November 14–17, 20192019 CS Warsaw CupSenioralign=center 1
83.81
align=center 1
139.44
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
223.25
September 25–28, 20192019 JGP CroatiaJunioralign=center 3
78.85
align=center 1
157.59
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
236.44
September 4–7, 20192019 JGP LatviaJunioralign=center 1
78.42
align=center 1
145.30
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
223.72
2018–19 season
DateEventLevelSPFSTotal
February 18–22, 20192019 Russian Cup Final
domestic competition
Junioralign=center 1
86.08
align=center 1
171.52
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
257.60
February 1–4, 20192019 Russian Junior ChampionshipsJunioralign=center 5
79.85
align=center 12
131.56
align=center 11
211.41
December 14–19, 20182018 Russian–Chinese Youth Winter GamesJunioralign=center 1
80.12
align=center 2
128.13
align=center bgcolor=silver 2
208.25
October 10–13, 2018 2018 JGP ArmeniaJunioralign=center 7
62.72
align=center 4
131.28
align=center 6
194.28
September 26–29, 20182018 JGP Czech RepublicJunioralign=center 2
78.83
align=center 1
138.29
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
217.12
2017–18 season
DateEventLevelSPFSTotal
January 23–26, 20182018 Russian Junior ChampionshipsJunioralign=center 4
75.25
align=center 18
117.06
align=center 17
192.31
November 21–26, 20172017 Tallinn TrophyJunioralign=center 3
64.96
align=center 1
137.98
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
202.94
2016–17 season
DateEventLevelSPFSTotal
Nov. 30 – Dec. 4, 20162016 NRW TrophyJunioralign=center 2
64.27
align=center 1
129.29
align=center bgcolor=gold1
193.56
November 9–13, 20162016 Volvo Open CupJunioralign=center 2
62.21
align=center 1
121.37
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
183.58

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ISU World Standings for Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance : Men .
  2. Web site: Seasons Best Scores 2021/2022. www.isuresults.com. January 14, 2022.
  3. Web site: Seasons Best Scores 2019/2020. www.isuresults.com. March 6, 2020.
  4. Web site: Seasons Best Scores 2018/2019. www.isuresults.com. April 12, 2019.