Sofia Muravieva

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Andreevna and the family name is Muravieva.
Sofia Muravieva
Sofia Muravieva at the 2024 Russian Championships
Full nameSofia Andreevna Muravieva
Native nameСофья Андреевна Муравьева (Russian)
Other namesSofya Muravyova
Born (2006-08-04) 4 August 2006
Moscow, Russia
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Figure skating career
Country Russia
DisciplineWomen's singles
CoachAlexei Mishin
Skating clubOlympic School Zvezdni Led, St. Petersburg
Began skating2009
Medal record
Russian Championships
2024 Chelyabinsk Singles

Sofia Andreevna Muravieva (Russian: Софья Андреевна Муравьёва; born 4 August 2006)[1] is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2021 JGP Cup of Austria champion, the 2021 JGP Slovakia silver medalist, the 2024 Russian national silver medalist, and a two-time Russian junior national bronze medalist (2021, 2022).

Personal life

Muravieva was born on August 4, 2006 in Moscow, Russia.[2] Her mother, Olga, sews and designs all of Muravieva's figure skating costumes.[3]

Career

Early years

Muravieva began figure skating in 2009 at the age of three; enrolling at the Tchaikovskaia Konyok Sports Mastery School, where she was coached by Elena Tchaikovskaia and Maria Kleymenova. At the age of seven, she transferred to the CSKA Moscow, where she was coached by Sergei Davydov. Muravieva trained there for six years before deciding to leave at the age of thirteen in December 2019 after being offered a tryout period to join Eteri Tutberidze's group at Sambo 70 (Khrustalny). However, she was ultimately not accepted into the group and because of this, Muravieva made her national debut at the 2020 Russian Junior Championships without a coach. After finishing the event in ninth place, Muravieva and her mother reached out to Evgeni Plushenko to see if she would be able to join his then newly established skating school. Following a successful tryout, Muravieva was ultimately enrolled into Plushenko's school.[4][3]

2020–2021 season

Although Muravieva was age eligible to compete in the 2020–21 ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit, the series was ultimately canceled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.[5] At the second stage of the 2020 Russian Cup, Muravieva won the silver medal behind Elizaveta Berestovskaya.[6] Going on to compete at the fourth stage, she placed third in the short program but ended up withdrawing from the free skate segment.[7]

Muravieva went on to compete at the 2021 Russian Junior Championships, where she won the bronze medal behind Sofia Akateva and Adeliia Petrosian.[8]

2021–2022 season

Muravieva became age-eligible to compete at the senior level in domestic competitions for the 2021–2022 season; however, she was not eligible for senior international competitions due to her birthday being one month after the cutoff, July 1, 2006.[4] She received two assignments in the 2021–22 ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) circuit. She made her international debut at the 2021 JGP Slovakia, where she placed first in the short program, second in the free skate, and second overall behind Veronika Zhilina with a total score of 208.25.[9] She then competed at the 2021 JGP Austria where she won the gold medal with a total score of 211.81.[10] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Skating Union announced an alternate qualifying procedure for the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final which allowed each winner of the Junior Grand Prix events to qualify for the final as opposed to evaluating the results of each skater over two events.[11] Therefore, Muravieva's gold medal at the Junior Grand Prix in Austria qualified her a spot for the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final.[12] The event was scheduled to be held in Osaka in December; however, the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.[13]

Going on to compete domestically, Muravieva won the silver medal behind Sofia Samodelkina at the 2021 Russian Cup Stage 3.[14] She then went on to win the gold medal at the 2021 Russian Cup Stage 5.[15]

Debuting on the senior national level, Muravieva competed at the 2022 Russian Championships. She initially finished second in the short program behind Kamila Valieva with a score of 81.87. However, her score was ultimately given a one point deduction after it was determined that she took thirty-two seconds to take her start position rather than the maximum thirty seconds.[16] This change in score moved Muravieva down to third place behind Anna Shcherbakova.[4] She placed sixth overall with a total score of 230.31.[17]

At the 2022 Russian Junior Championships, Muravieva won the bronze medal for a second consecutive time.[18]

2022–2023 season

Due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, all Russian figure skaters were banned from competing international competition by the International Skating Union.[19] Thus, Muravieva instead competed domestically on the Russian Grand Prix series (a series of all-Russian competitions in the same format as the international Grand Prix series). Competing at the 2022 Russian Grand Prix Stages 4 and 6, she took silver at both events.[20]

Going on to compete at the 2023 Russian Championships, Muravieva finished the event in fourth place. She then closed the season by placing fifth at the 2023 Russian Grand Prix Final.[20]

2023–2024 season

Muravieva began the season by competing at the 2023 Russian Grand Prix Stages 4 and 6, winning gold and bronze, respectively.[20] She then finished the season by finishing second at the 2024 Russian Championships behind Adeliia Petrosian.[21]

2024–2025 season

Muravieva started the season by competing at the 2024 Russian Grand Prix Stages 3 and 5, placing fourth at both events. She then went on to compete at the 2025 Russian Championships, where she finished fourth overall.[20]

In February, Muravieva competed at the 2025 Russian Grand Prix Final. Although she won the short program, Muravieva struggled during the free skate, only placing seventh in that segment. She ultimately finished the event in fourth place.[20]

It was later revealed that Muravieva struggled with health-related issues throughout the season. On April 14, 2025, it was announced that Muravieva was leaving Evgeni Plushenko’s academy “Angels of Plushenko.” An article by RIA Novosti said “Sofia Muravieva was expelled from Evgeni Plushenko’s academy for "systematic violations" of the training process. This was alleged to have included disruption of training, rudeness towards coaches, and breaking the ice. In spite of this announcement, Muravieva took to her social media accounts, expressing gratitude towards everyone that worked with her at the FS Academy of Evgeni Plushenko.[22] The following week, it was announced that Muravieva had moved to Saint Petersburg, where Alexei Mishin became her new coach.[23]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2024–2025
[23]
2023–2024
[24][25]
  • Horizon of Memories
    by Eternal Eclipse and Ranya
    choreo. by Dmitrii Mikhailov, Evgeni Plushenko
2022–2023
[26]
2021–2022
[2]
2020–2021
2019–2020
2018–2019
2017–2018

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International: Junior[1]
Event 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24 24–25
JGP Final C
JGP Austria 1st
JGP Slovakia 2nd
National
Russian Champ. 5th 4th 2nd 4th
Russian Junior Champ. 9th 3rd 3rd
Russian Cup Final[a] 4th J 5th

Detailed results

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

Senior results

2024–25 season
Date Event SP FS Total
19–22 December 2024 2025 Russian Championships
6
73.10 		3
150.80 		4
223.90
2023–24 season
Date Event SP FS Total
20–24 December 2023 2024 Russian Championships
3
78.33 		2
161.07 		2
239.40
2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
3–5 March 2023 2023 Russian Grand Prix Final 4
77.94 		6
155.10 		5
233.04
20–26 December 2022 2023 Russian Championships 3
79.96 		5
156.00 		4
235.96
2021–2022 season
Date Event SP FS Total
21–26 December 2021 2022 Russian Championships 3
80.87 		6
149.44 		5
230.31

Junior results

2021–2022 season
Date Event SP FS Total
18–22 January 2022 2022 Russian Junior Championships 6
68.38 		2
143.24 		3
211.62
6–9 October 2021 2021 JGP Austria 1
73.28 		1
138.53 		1
211.81
1–4 September 2021 2021 JGP Slovakia 1
72.52 		2
135.73 		2
208.25
2020–2021 season
Date Event SP FS Total
1–5 February 2021 2021 Russian Junior Championships 1
72.97 		4
135.16 		3
208.13
2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
18–22 February 2020 2020 Russian Cup Final 5
69.00 		5
124.64 		4
193.64
4–8 February 2020 2020 Russian Junior Championships 7
66.90 		11
124.94 		9
191.84

Notes

  1. ^ The 2023 Russian Cup Final was renamed as the 2023 Russian Grand Prix Final.

References

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