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2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy

Russian figure skater Gumennik finishes sixth at Olympics

Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov won the gold

Pyotr Gumennik Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS

Pyotr Gumennik

© Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS

MILAN, February 14. /TASS/. Russian figure skater Pyotr Gumennik finished sixth at the Olympic men’s singles competition in Milan.

Gumennik scored 184.49 points for the free skate, and 271.21 points overall.

Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov won the gold with 291.58 points (92.94 + 198.64), followed by Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama (280.06; 103.07 + 176.99) and Shun Sato (274.90; 88.70 + 186.20).

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