Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva

Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva
Full name	Elizaveta Khasanzhonovna Khudaiberdieva
Native name	Елизавета Хасанжоновна Худайбердиева
Born	(2002-10-02) 2 October 2002 Mytishchi, Russia
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Russia
Partner	Andrei Filatov
Coach	Denis Samokhin, Maria Borovikova
Skating club	Olimpiets Balashikha Moscow
Began skating	2006
Medal record Representing Russia Figure skating: Ice dancing World Junior Championships 2019 Zagreb Ice dancing Junior Grand Prix Final 2018–19 Vancouver Ice dancing

Elizaveta Khasanzhonovna Khudaiberdieva (Template:Lang-ru, born 2 October 2002) is a Russian competitive ice dancer who skates with Andrei Filatov. With her former skating partner Nikita Nazarov, she is the 2019 World Junior silver medalist and the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist. She has also won four ISU Junior Grand Prix medals, including gold medals at 2018 JGP Slovakia and 2018 JGP Czech Republic. With her current partner Andrei Filatov, she is the 2019 JGP Riga and JGP Italy champion and qualified for 2019–20 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final.

Personal life

Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva was born on 2 October 2002 in Mytishchi, Russia.

Career

Early career

Khudaiberdieva began learning to skate in 2006. She was a single skater until 2015–2016 season. She then switched to ice dancing and teamed up with Nikita Nazarov. They started to compete together in 2016–2017 season. They are coached by Denis Samokhin and Maria Borovikova.

2016–2017 season

Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov made their international junior debut in January 2017 at the 2017 MNNT Cup where they won the gold medal.

They placed 8th at the 2017 Russian Junior Championships.

2017–2018 season

Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov received their first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignments in the 2017–2018 season. They won medals at both JGP events, first a bronze medal in late August in Brisbane, Australia and then the silver medal in October in Gdańsk, Poland.

They placed fifth at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships after placing second in the short dance and sixth in the free dance.

2018–2019 season

Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov won their first JGP gold medal in August at the 2018 JGP event in Bratislava, Slovakia, after placing first in both the rhythm dance and the free dance. They scored their personal best score of 159.62 points and they beat the silver medalists, their teammates Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy, by about seven points. Their rhythm dance, free dance and combined total scores at this competition were the highest scores achieved in an international junior ice dance competition at the time, subsequently surpassed by others.

At their second JGP event of the season in Ostrava, Czech Republic, they won a second gold medal. Again they were ranked first in both the rhythm dance and the free dance. With two JGP gold medals they qualified for the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final. At the Final, Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov won the bronze medal after placing third in the rhythm dance and fourth in the free dance. They were part of a Russian sweep of the ice dance podium. Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov were about 6 points behind both the gold medalists, Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko and the silver medalists, Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov, who were separated by only a 0.01 point. Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov won the bronze medal over Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha, who placed fourth, by a margin of only 0.03 points.

After winning the bronze medal at the 2019 Russian Junior Championships, Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov concluded the season at the 2019 World Junior Championships. They placed second in the rhythm dance, winning a silver small medal and unexpectedly beating their Russian teammates due to superior results on the tango pattern dance. They came fourth in the free dance, but remained in second place overall, winning the silver medal. Khudaiberdieva said the result was not something they had expected, as "we were the number three Russian team, a confident number three though. For us, it was more about overcoming ourselves than anyone else. We haven’t realized yet that we are second at our first Junior Worlds." Noting that it was their final junior season, Nazarov said "there are many teams in Russia, but if you look at the results at major events, they are not that great. But all these teams also once came up from juniors. We just have to work very hard in order to achieve something."

On May 13, 2019, it was announced that Khudaiberdieva and Nazarov had split.

2019–2020 season

Khudaiberdieva teamed up with Andrey Filatov in late April 2019.

Khudaiberdieva/Filatov made their international junior debut in September 2019 at the 2019 JGP event in Riga, Latvia, where they won the gold medal. They placed first in the rhythm dance and second in the free dance and beat the silver medalists, Georgian team Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya, by about 0.3 point. The pair were withdrawn of their second event at Poland because of medical problem and reassigned to Italy and here they again won another gold medal and qulified for 2019–20 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final.

Programs

(with Filatov)

Season	Rhythm dance	Free dance
2019–2020	Foxtrot: City of Stars performed by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling Waltz: Epilogue (from La La Land) by Justin Hurwitz choreo. by Nikolai Nikonov, Anastasia Kozhevnikova	Sign of the Times by Harry Styles choreo. by Nikolai Nikonov, Anastasia Kozhevnikova

(with Nazarov)

Season	Rhythm dance	Free dance
2018–2019	Tango: Tango Amore by Edvin Marton	Human (Acoustic) by Rag'n'Bone Man Human by Rag'n'Bone Man Nemesis by Benjamin Clementine
	Short dance
2017–2018	Cha Cha: Suavemente Samba:	Ghost the Musical by David A. Stewart, Glen Ballard
2016–2017	You Can Leave Your Hat On Worth It by Fifth Harmony, Kid Ink	Let It Be Fix You

Records and achievements

(with Nazarov)

• Set the junior-level ice dancing record of the new +5 / -5 GOE (Grade of Execution) system for the combined total (159.62 points), rhythm dance (64.39 points) and free dance (95.23 points) at the 2018 JGP Slovakia.

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Filatov

International
Event	19–20
JGP Final	TBD
JGP Italy	1st
JGP Latvia	1st
National
Russian Jr. Champ.
J = Junior level; TBD = Assigned

With Nazarov

International
Event	16–17	17–18	18–19
Junior Worlds			2nd
JGP Final			3rd
JGP Australia		3rd
JGP Czech Republic			1st
JGP Poland		2nd
JGP Slovakia			1st
MNNT Cup	1st J
Tallinn Trophy		2nd J	1st J
Halloween Cup			1st J
National
Russian Jr. Champ.	8th	5th	3rd
J = Junior level; TBD = Assigned

Detailed results

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

With Filatov

2019–2020 season
Date	Event	Level	RD	FD	Total
2–5 October 2019	2019 JGP Italy	Junior	1 65.52	1 99.40	1 164.92
4–7 September 2019	2019 JGP Latvia	Junior	1 65.13	2 100.46	1 165.59

With Nazarov

2018–2019 season
Date	Event	Level	RD	FD	Total
4–10 March 2019	2019 World Junior Championships	Junior	2 68.69	4 102.53	2 171.22
1–4 February 2019	2019 Russian Junior Championships	Junior	3 69.89	3 106.96	3 176.85
6–9 December 2018	2018–19 JGP Final	Junior	3 66.29	4 98.25	3 164.54
26 November – 2 December 2018	2018 Tallinn Trophy	Junior	1 66.04	1 97.79	1 163.83
19–21 October 2018	2018 Halloween Cup	Junior	1 62.79	1 96.82	1 159.61
26–29 September 2018	2018 JGP Czech Republic	Junior	1 65.29	1 95.71	1 161.00
22–25 August 2018	2018 JGP Slovakia	Junior	1 64.39	1 95.23	1 159.62
2017–2018 season
Date	Event	Level	SD	FD	Total
23–26 January 2018	2018 Russian Junior Championships	Junior	2 63.99	6 85.22	5 149.21
15–17 December 2017	2017 Grand Prix of Bratislava	Junior	1 60.87	1 84.47	1 145.34
21–26 November 2017	2017 Tallinn Trophy	Junior	2 61.57	2 84.36	2 145.93
4–7 October 2017	2017 JGP Poland	Junior	2 59.03	3 74.82	2 133.85
23–26 August 2017	2017 JGP Australia	Junior	3 57.25	4 74.55	3 131.80
2016–2017 season
Date	Event	Level	SD	FD	Total
1–5 February 2017	2017 Russian Junior Championships	Junior	9 52.71	7 82.30	8 135.01
10–15 January 2017	2017 MNNT Cup	Junior	2 51.69	1 80.70	1 132.39

External links

• Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Andrey Filatov at the International Skating Union
• Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov at the International Skating Union