Sofia Muravieva

Sofia Andreevna Muravieva (; born 4 August 2006) 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.

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. At the 2020 Russian Grand Prix II, Moscow, Muravieva won the silver medal behind Elizaveta Berestovskaya. Going on to compete at the 2020 Russian Grand Prix IV, Kazan, she placed third in the short program but ended up withdrawing from the free skate segment.

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

2021–2022 season: International debut 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. She then competed at the 2021 JGP Austria where she won the gold medal with a total score of 211.81. 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. Therefore, Muravieva's gold medal at the Junior Grand Prix in Austria qualified her a spot for the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final. The event was scheduled to be held in Osaka in December; however, the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.

Going on to compete domestically, Muravieva won the silver medal behind Sofia Samodelkina at the 2021 Russian Grand Prix III, Sirius. She then went on to win the gold medal at the 2021 Russian Grand Prix V, Perm.

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. This change in score moved Muravieva down to third place behind Anna Shcherbakova.

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

2022–2023 season: Bronze national medal All Russian figure skaters were banned from competing international competition by the International Skating Union. 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 IV, Moscow and the 2022 Russian Grand Prix VI, Perm, she took silver at both events.

2024–2025 season Muravieva started the season by competing at the 2025 Russian Grand Prix III, Krasnoyarsk and the 2024 Russian Grand Prix V, St. Petersburg, placing fourth at both events. She then went on to compete at the 2025 Russian Championships, where she finished fourth overall. The following week, it was announced that Muravieva had moved to Saint Petersburg, where Alexei Mishin became her new coach.

In early May, it was announced that Muravieva ended her partnership with Alexei Mishin at the coach's initiative. Following this, Muravieva requested to be excluded from the Russian national team, citing future hopes of representing a different sports federation in the near future.

Programs Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2025–2026 Carmen Regardons passer les gens Waltz Tango Finale A Model of the Universe Fuel to Fire Marvel Poker Face

Ne me quitte pas 2024–2025 Horizon of Memories Pilgrims on a Long Journey Wicked Game Gefion The Swan 2022–2023 Proud Love Theme Ne me quitte pas 2021–2022