Alexandra Trusova

Alexandra "Sasha" Vyacheslavovna Trusova (Александра Вячеславовна Трусова; born 23 June 2004) is a Russian figure skater.

She is the 2022 Olympic silver medalist, the 2021 World bronze medalist, an European silver (2022) and bronze (2020) medalist, the 2019 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2019 Skate Canada champion, the 2019 Rostelecom Cup champion, the 2019 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial champion, the 2021 U.S. Classic champion, and the 2021 Skate America champion.

Domestically, she is the 2022 Russian national champion, the 2019 silver medalist, and the 2020 and 2021 bronze medalist.

Trusova was born on 23 June 2004 in Ryazan.

She has two younger brothers, Egor and Ivan.

Trusova began learning to skate in 2008 when she was four.

She trained in Ryazan under Olga Shevtsova before relocating to Moscow in 2015, where she was coached by Alexander Volkov.

She joined the Khrustalny (Crystal) rink where Eteri Tutberidze and Sergei Dudakov became her coaches in 2016.

Trusova finished 4th at the 2017 Russian Junior Championships, placing 6th in the short program and 4th in the free skate.

Trusova debuted internationally in August 2017 at a 2017–18 ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) competition in Brisbane, Australia.

Ranked first in both the short program and free skate, she won the gold medal ahead of teammate Anastasia Gulyakova.

She landed an underrotated quadruple Salchow in her free program.

Her total score of 197.69 points was the third highest ever achieved by a women's single skater on the junior level at the time, behind only Alina Zagitova and Marin Honda.

She then finished first at JGP Belarus and qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final.

At the 2017–18 Junior Grand Prix Final, Trusova scored 73.25 points, breaking the junior women's world record for the short program.

In the free skate, she scored 132.36 points, approximately half a point less than what her teammate and training partner, Alena Kostornaia, scored.

However, Trusova won the overall competition due to her 1.5 point-lead from the short program.

At the junior level, she is a two-time Junior World Champion (2018 and 2019), the 2018 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, the 2019 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a four-time champion on the Junior Grand Prix series, and a two-time Russian Junior national champion.

Trusova is credited for leading the ladies figure skating technical revolution and being the new face of the womens figure skating by becoming the first female skater to land the quad Lutz, quad flip, and quad toe loop jumps; the second to land the quad Salchow (after Miki Ando); and the first to land two and three ratified quads in a free skate, achieved at the 2018 Junior World Championships and the 2019 Nepela Trophy, respectively.

She is also the first woman to land a quad at the Olympic Winter Games, and the first woman to land four and five quads in a free skate, achieved at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.

Her technical score of 92.35 points in the free skate at the 2018 Junior Worlds was the highest recorded in women's singles skating at the junior and senior level until the GOE (Grade of Execution) system was changed at the end of 2017–18 season.

Additionally, Trusova is recognized as the youngest woman to become a World Junior champion and a Junior Grand Prix Final champion following her wins at the 2018 World Junior Championship and the 2018 Junior Grand Prix Final at the age of 13.

At the 2018 JGP Lithuania, she became the first female skater to land a quadruple jump in combination after performing a quad toe loop and triple toe loop.

At the 2018 JGP Armenia, she became the first female skater to land a quad Lutz jump in international competition.

In January 2018, Trusova won the gold medal at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships after placing first in the short program and third in the free skate.

She again narrowly beat her training partner and silver medalist, Kostornaia, by a margin of 0.6 points.

In March 2018, Trusova competed at the 2018 Junior Worlds, where she won the gold medal after placing first in both the short program and free skate.

Her free skate score of 153.49 points set the new world record for the junior free program, and her total score of 225.52 points was also the new world record for the junior combined total score.

At the competition, Trusova became the first female skater to land the quad toe loop, the second to land the quad Salchow behind Miki Ando, and the first to land two ratified quads in a free skate.

She currently holds four Guinness World Records, the fourth in recognition of her landed quadruple flip at the 2019 ISU Grand Prix Final.

She is also the first female skater to backload a quad in combination, which she accomplished at Skate Canada 2019, landing a quad Toe in combination with a triple Salchow.

Trusova currently has the second highest free skating score of any female skater, with 177.13 points, behind only compatriot Kamila Valieva.

Trusova is the first and only female skater competing with four different quadruple jumps—toe loop, Salchow, flip, and Lutz—and the first to score above 100 points in technical elements, with 100.20 in the free skate at 2019 Skate Canada and an Olympic record 106.16 at the 2022 Olympics.

Trusova is a dog lover and owns six of them: a chihuahua named Tina, who often accompanies her to competitions; a husky named Jack; a miniature royal poodle named Lana, which she received at Rostelecom Cup for winning the 2019 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and landing her first triple Axel in practice; a basenji named Alita, a second miniature poodle named Cruella (nickname Ella), and most recently, a new puppy named Selma.

Both Ella and Selma were gifted to her by fans from China.

A short biography of her career through her teenage years has been published in Russian, ''Alexandra Trusova.

The Girl Who Fights Gravity: And Changes the World of Woman's Figure Skating'', with an English translation released in March 2021.

As of May 2022, Trusova was in a relationship with the 2022 Beijing team event gold medalist Mark Kondratiuk.

By the end of summer 2023, the relationship was reported to have ended.

In late 2023, she began dating fellow Russian skater Makar Ignatov.