Alexander Samarin

Alexander Vladimirovich Samarin (; born 15 June 1998) is a retired Russian figure skater. He is the 2019 European silver medalist, the 2019 Internationaux de France silver medalist, the 2017 Skate Canada International bronze medalist, the 2018 Internationaux de France bronze medalist, and a four-time 2017 Russian national medalist (silver in 2017 and 2018, bronze in 2019, bronze in 2020). He has won three medals on the ISU Challenger Series, including gold at the 2015 CS Warsaw Cup.

As a junior, Samarin won bronze at the 2017 World Junior Championships and silver at the 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final, in addition to three gold medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.

Samarin currently holds the world record for the highest scored element in single figure skating (21.12 points for a ''4Lz+3T'' combination at the 2019 Rostelecom Cup) since the introduction of the -5/+5 GOE system in 2018. Provided by Wikipedia