Russia's Adelina Sotnikova has won gold in ladies' figure skating.

The athlete, who ranked second after the short program, scored 149.95 points in free skating. All in all, the 17-year old Russian showed a result of 224.59 points.

Silver went to Vancouver Olympic champion Yuna Kim of South Korea (219.11). Italian Carolina Kostner secured bronze (216.73). Russian Yulia Lipnitskaya ranked fifth with 200.57.

Look through this gallery by Itar-Tass to see the best moments of this figure skating night that brought another victory to Russia, the hosting country of the Winter Olympics.