page_title: Evgenia Medvedeva
section_title: 2018–2019 season: Struggles and World bronze medal
hierarchical_section_title: Evgenia Medvedeva / Career / 2018–2019 season: Struggles and World bronze medal
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Евгения Медведева со своим тренером Браяном Орсером на чемпионате России по фигурному катанию на коньках 2019
context_page_description: Evgenia Armanovna Medvedeva, is a Russian figure skater. She is a two-time Olympic silver medalist, a two-time world champion, a two-time European champion, a two-time Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Russian national champion, silver medalist at the 2018 European Figure Skating Championships and bronze medalist at the 2019 World Championships.
  Earlier in her career, she won the 2015 World Junior Championships, the 2014 Junior Grand Prix Final, and the 2015 Russian Junior Championships.
  Medvedeva is the first ladies' singles skater to win senior Worlds the year after winning Junior Worlds, and the first ladies' singles skater to win two consecutive senior Worlds the year after winning Junior Worlds. At the 2017 World Championships, she became the first female skater to win back-to-back world titles in 16 years since Michelle Kwan did so in 2000 and 2001, and the first Russian woman ever to successfully defend her world title. She became one of only four ladies to have achieve a Grand Slam, and the first skater to complete two Grand Slam in a row.
context_section_description: Medvedeva began her first season with her new coaches at Autumn Classic International where she ranked first in the short program and second in the free, finishing in second place overall, behind Bradie Tennell and ahead of Maé-Bérénice Méité.
  In October, Medvedeva began competing on that year's Grand Prix circuit.  At the 2018 Skate Canada, she fell on a downgraded triple flip in the short program, missing her combination as a result and placing seventh.  She placed first in the free skate to win the bronze medal behind Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Mako Yamashita.  She placed fourth at the 2018 Internationaux de France in November after problems in both programs. This marks the first time Medvedeva finished off an international podium in her entire junior and senior career.
  Following the disappointment in France, Medvedeva replaced her original "Orange Colored Sky" short program with a new one choreographed by friend Misha Ge to selections from Giacomo Puccini's Tosca.  Skating next at the 2019 Russian Championships, her first public performance of the new program went poorly, underrotating the first part of a combination, popping the second jump, and falling on her closing double Axel. Despite this, she said she felt better than after the French Grand Prix. In fourteenth place going into the free skate, she performed much better there, despite a fall, placing fourth in the free to finish seventh overall, losing not just to junior competitors (who swept the podium), but also to seniors Stanislava Konstantinova, Alina Zagitova and Sofia Samodurova. Speaking afterward she said "even though I made a mistake, I am pleased with today’s performance." 
  She was named the second alternate for the European Championships and first alternate for the Winter Universiade, however she had a chance for the participation at the Winter Universiade after Elizaveta Tuktamysheva withdrew, but Medvedeva also withdrew and Maria Sotskova called up. In February at the 2019 Russian Cup Final she won gold, placing first in the short program and second in the free, and was therefore sent to the 2019 World Figure Skating Championships.  The selection of Medvedeva was not without controversy, with some believing that Tuktamysheva, who had finished second at the Russia Cup Final but had a stronger season up until her withdrawal from the Nationals (due to being sick with pneumonia), should have been sent.
  At the 2019 World Championships, Medvedeva skated despite sustaining an injury in her thigh.  She placed fourth in the short program after underrotating the second part of her combination jump.  In the free skate she performed cleanly, apart from an underrotated double Axel, placing third in that segment, and winning the bronze medal. She declined an invitation to the World Team Trophy, in order to nurse her thigh.
caption: Medvedeva and Brian Orser at the 2019 Russian Championships.
exif: {"Image Tag 0x000B": "Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384", "Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon EOS 760D", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384", "Image DateTime": "2019:01:17 22:13:56", "Image Artist": "", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image Copyright": "", "Image ExifOffset": "2388", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 3, 0, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "14036", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "96", "Thumbnail YResolution": "96", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "14150", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "12995", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/1000", "EXIF FNumber": "28/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Action", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "6400", "EXIF SensitivityType": "Recommended Exposure Index", "EXIF RecommendedExposureIndex": "6400", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2018:12:22 19:06:30", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2018:12:22 19:06:30", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "10", "EXIF ApertureValue": "5", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "300", "EXIF SubSecTime": "19", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "19", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "19", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2976", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1984", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "13932", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "2976000/893", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "992000/297", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF CameraOwnerName": "", "EXIF BodySerialNumber": "241032002054", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[70, 300, 0, 0]", "EXIF LensModel": "70-300mm", "EXIF LensSerialNumber": "0000000000", "EXIF Padding": "[]", "EXIF OffsetSchema": "4112"}