Dikiji won the Denis Ten Memorial with a Russian record

Russian figure skater Vladislav Dikidzhi became the winner of the Denis Ten Memorial tournament in men's single skating. Sport Express reports this.

Dikiji scored 312.79 points based on the sum of the two programs. In the short program he received 107.31 points, setting a Russian record. In the free program, the athlete performed four quadruple jumps and scored 205.48 points, which also became a record result among Russian figure skaters.

Gleb Lutfullin won silver with a score of 277.23 points. The bronze medalist was Petr Gumennik, who scored 261.76 points. Russian skaters occupied the entire podium of the tournament.

The competition took place in Almaty in the challenger category. The fourth place was taken by the US representative Daniel Martynov (221.55 points), the fifth place was taken by the Belarusian Vasily Borohovsky (218.36 points).

Dikiji previously won the challenger in Tokyo on September 5 with a score of 265.65 points. Gumennik took sixth place at that tournament (236.25 points).