Dmitri Aliev

Dmitri Sergeyevich Aliev (Russian: Дмитрий Сергеевич Алиев, born 1 June 1999) is a Russian figure skater. He is the 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time medalist at the 2016 Youth Olympics (bronze in the men's singles discipline and gold in the team event), and the 2016 Russian national junior champion.

Dmitri Sergeyevich Aliev was born on 1 June 1999 in Ukhta, Komi Republic, Russia. His father, Sergey, is the director of a skating club in Ukhta.

Having begun skating in 2005, Aliev trained in Ukhta until 2013 when he moved to Saint Petersburg, becoming a student of Evgeni Rukavicin.

2014–15 season

Aliev debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in the 2014–15 season. Awarded bronze medals in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Aichi, Japan, he finished as the third alternate for a place at the JGP Final. Making his senior international debut, he placed 10th at the 2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb, an ISU Challenger Series event. Returning to the junior ranks, he won bronze medals at the 2015 Russian Junior Championships and 2015 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.

2015–16 season

In 2015–16, Aliev's first assignment was a Junior Grand Prix event in Riga, Latvia. Placing 6th in the short program and first in the free skate, he won the gold medal by a margin of 5.32 points ahead of Latvia's Deniss Vasiļjevs. He then took gold in Linz, Austria, with a total score 14 points higher than silver medalist Vincent Zhou, and qualified for the JGP Final.

Competing on the senior level, Aliev was awarded bronze at the 2015 International Cup of Nice and silver at the 2015 CS Tallinn Trophy. In December, he won the silver medal at the 2015–16 JGP Final in Barcelona, having finished second to Nathan Chen of the United States. Later that month, he placed 6th at the 2016 Russian Championships in Yekaterinburg, before winning his first junior national title in January in Chelyabinsk.

Aliev won the bronze medal in the men's singles discipline and the gold medal in the team event at the 2016 Youth Olympics in Hamar, Norway. Нe was awarded a small gold medal for his short program result at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. Ranked 7th in the free skate, he finished 6th overall.

2016–17 season

Starting his season on the Junior Grand Prix series, Aliev won gold in Ostrava, Czech Republic, after placing first in both segments. Ranked first in the short and 7th in the free, he finished 4th at his next JGP event, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His results gave him the last spot at the 2016–17 JGP Final in Marseilles. In December, he won the gold medal in France, by a margin of 3.55 points over Alexander Samarin. Later that month, Aliev finished fifth at the Russian Championships in Chelyabinsk.

• Set the junior-level men's record for the combined total to 240.07 points at the 2016–17 JGP Final.

Aliev practiced different quadruple jumps, such as 4T, 4S, 4Lo, and attempted 4Lz, but in competitions since 2014 consistently landed only 4T, both as a solo jump and in combinations, 4T-2T and 4T-3T.

He has also demonstrated difficult sequences, such as 3A-3A and 4T-3T-3T-1Lo-3S-2A, in practice.

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix