A pair of 14-year-olds defeated the Olympic gold and silver medalists at the Russian Figure Skating Championships, arguably the deepest competition in figure skating.
Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova, who are too young for senior international events, went one-two in Saransk on Saturday after Olympic champion Alina Zagitova had a disastrous, 12th-place free skate that included two falls.
Zagitova ended up fifth, two spots ahead of two-time world champion Yevgenia Medvedeva, who rebounded slightly from a 14th-place short program.
Shcherbakova and Trusova each landed a quadruple Lutz, a jump none of the world’s top senior women are doing.