| Valerii Kolesov | |
| Native Name: | Валерий Викторович Колесов |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Fullname: | Valerii Viktorovich Kolesov |
| Also Known As: | Valeri Kolesov |
| Birth Date: | 26 January 2001 |
| Birth Place: | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Hometown: | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Partner: | Yasmina Kadyrova |
| Formerpartner: | Kseniia Akhanteva |
| Coach: | Tamara Moskvina Artur Minchuk |
| Formercoach: | Fedor Klimov Ludmila Velikova Nikolai Velikov Vasilii Velikov |
| Choreographer: | Nikolai Moroshkin |
| Formerchoreographer: | Natalia Pecherskaia Denis Lunin |
| Skating Club: | FS Sport Club of Tamara Moskvina |
| Former Skating Club: | Olympic Sport School St. Petersburg Olympic Sport Center of Krasnodar Region |
| Currenttraininglocations: | Saint Petersburg |
| Formertraininglocations: | Sochi |
| Beganskating: | 2005 |
| Retired: | 2024 |
| Combined Total: | 185.05 |
| Combined Date: | 2019 JGP Russia |
| Sp Score: | 70.44 |
| Sp Date: | 2020 Junior Worlds |
| Fs Score: | 118.72 |
| Fs Date: | 2018 JGP Czech Republic |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Valerii Viktorovich Kolesov (ru|Валерий Викторович Колесов, born 26 January 2001) is a retired Russian pair skater. With his former partner, Kseniia Akhanteva, he is the 2020 World Junior silver medalist, the 2020 Russian Junior National silver medalist, and the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist.
Kolesov began learning to skate in 2005. He and his first pair skating partner, Kseniia Akhanteva, began competing together in 2014.
Coached by Vasilii Velikov in Saint Petersburg, Akhanteva/Kolesov made their international debut in late August 2016, placing seventh at the Junior Grand Prix (JGP) competition in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In November, they won the junior silver medal at the Volvo Open Cup, finishing second behind their teammates Nika Osipova / Aleksandr Galiamov.
In September, Akhanteva/Kolesov placed sixth at the 2017 JGP competition in Riga, Latvia. The pair had the same final result at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships, which took place in January in Saransk. In April, they took silver at the Russian Youth Championships – Elder Age, where they finished second to Amina Atakhanova / Nikita Volodin and ahead of Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov.
Coached by Ludmila Velikova, Nikolai Velikov and Vasilii Velikov, Akhanteva/Kolesov started their season in August on the 2018 JGP series. Ranked second in the short and third in the free, they won the bronze medal in Bratislava, Slovakia, contributing to a Russian sweep of the pairs' podium. Akhanteva/Kolesov were more than 11 points behind the champions, their training partners Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov, but lost to the silver medalists, Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov, by a margin of only 0.13 points. In September, they outscored their teammates and training partners, Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin, by about four points for gold at the JGP in Ostrava, Czech Republic, where they were second in the short program and first in the free skate. With these results they qualified to the 2018–2019 Junior Grand Prix Final, where they placed fourth overall. Akhanteva/Kolesov went on to compete at 2019 Russian Nationals, their first-ever senior competition, and finished tenth there. Unfortunately, they had to withdraw from the junior event after Kseniia seriously injured her leg.
Akhanteva/Kolesov started their season with a silver medal at the 2019 Junior Grand Prix competition in Lake Placid, United States. Ranked second in the short and second in the free, they finished 15 points behind the gold medalists Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov, in part due to costly jumping errors in both programs. Two weeks later Akhanteva/Kolesov took the gold at JGP Chelyabinsk, Russia. Ranked first in the short program and first in the free skate, they finished eight points ahead of silver medalists Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev and led a Russian sweep of the pairs' podium at their home JGP. At this event Akhanteva/Kolesov became the first junior pairs team to break 40 TES in the short program. Their results qualified them to the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final in Torino, where they won the bronze medal.
Competing at the 2020 Russian Championships at the senior level, they placed tenth. After winning the silver medal at the junior championships, they were named to Russia's team for the 2020 World Junior Championships. Second in the short program with a clean skate, Kolesov nevertheless said he felt it was not their best performance and stated their goal was to achieve a season's best result in the free. In that segment, Akhanteva fell on both side-by-side jump attempts and put a foot and hand down on one of their two throw jumps, but they nevertheless remained in second place and won the silver medal overall due to errors by third- and fourth-place finishers Artemeva/Nazarychev and Hocke/Kunkel. Kolesov acknowledged, "the performance was bad today. I don't know the reason, but the result is good because the short program was good."
Competing on the domestic Cup of Russia series, Akhanteva/Kolesov won the silver medal at the first stage in Syzran. They made their Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Rostelecom Cup, finishing sixth among the seven teams. They withdrew from the 2021 Russian Championships at the senior level and then won the junior silver medal later in the season.
With the resumption of the Junior Grand Prix, Akhanteva/Kolesov competed at the 2021 JPG Slovakia. They placed second in the short program, but multiple falls in the free skate dropped them to fourth overall.
On April 18, it was announced that Kolesov and Akhanteva had split and that Kolesov was now paired with Yasmina Kadyrova.[1]
On February 12, 2024 it was announced that Kadyrova and Kolesov were splitting after the latter chose to recover from a back injury that needed extensive periods of rest.[2]
Soon after, it was also announced that Kolesov was retiring from competitive skating and choosing to focus on studies.[3]
| Season | Short program | Free skating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-2024 |
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| 2022–2023 |
| Season | Short program | Free skating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–2022 |
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| 2020–2021 |
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| 2019–2020 | |||
| 2018–2019 | |||
| 2017–2018 | |||
| 2016–2017 |
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
| National | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 22–23 | 23-24 | |||
| align=left | 4th | 7th | |||
| 5th | |||||
| Idel | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | |
| Krasnoyarye | 5th | ||||
| Volga Pirouette | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | |||
| Team events | |||||
| align=left | bgcolor=silver | 2nd T 4th P |
| International | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | |||
| align-left | 6th | ||||||||
| International: Junior | |||||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | |||||||
| align=left | 4th | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | ||||||
| align=left | 7th | bgcolor=gold | 1st | ||||||
| align=left | 6th | ||||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=gold | 1st | |||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | 4th | ||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | |||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=silver | 2nd J | |||||||
| National | |||||||||
| align=left | 10th | 10th | WD | ||||||
| align=left | WD | 6th | WD | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 7th | |
| align=left | Russia: Youth, Elder | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | ||||
| WD = Withdrew |
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.
| 2023–2024 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20–24 December 2023 | 2024 Russian Championships | align=center | 8 71.47 | align=center | 8 131.76 | align=center | 7 203.23 | |
| 10–13 November 2023 | 2023 Cup of Russia Series, 4th Stage | align=center | 5 69.03 | align=center | 6 127.35 | align=center | 5 196.38 | |
| 27–30 October 2023 | 2023 Cup of Russia Series, 3rd Stage | align=center | 3 71.81 | align=center | 3 133.89 | align=center bgcolor=cc9966 | 3 205.70 | |
| 2022–23 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
| 3–5 March 2023 | 2023 Russian Grand Prix Final | align=center | 5 77.32 | align=center | 5 135.41 | align=center | 5 212.73 | |
| 21–22 January 2023 | 2023 Channel One Trophy | align=center | 4 78.18 | align=center | 4 134.29 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2T/4P 212.47 | |
| 20–26 December 2022 | 2023 Russian Championships | align=center | 4 76.68 | align=center | 4 136.77 | align=center | 4 213.45 | |
| 18–21 November 2022 | 2022 Cup of Russia Series, 5th Stage | align=center | 3 71.68 | align=center | 2 139.41 | align=center bgcolor=cc9966 | 3 211.49 | |
| 4–7 November 2022 | 2022 Cup of Russia Series, 3rd Stage | align=center | 2 77.93 | align=center | 2 147.02 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 224.95 |
| 2020–21 season | |||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20–22 November 2020 | 2020 Rostelecom Cup | align=center | 6 67.50 | align=center | 6 109.13 | align=center | 6 176.63 |
| 2019–20 season | |||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
| 24–29 December 2019 | 2020 Russian Championships | align=center | 9 67.37 | align=center | 11 112.24 | align=center | 10 179.61 |
| 2018–19 season | |||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
| 19–23 December 2018 | 2019 Russian Championships | align=center | 12 57.90 | align=center | 9 117.14 | align=center | 10 175.04 |
| 2021–22 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18–22 January 2022 | 2022 Russian Junior Championships | align=center | 7 67.80 | align=center | 7 111.51 | align=center | 7 179.31 | |
| 1–4 September 2021 | 2021 JGP Slovakia | align=center | 2 58.20 | align=center | 5 93.15 | align=center | 4 151.35 | |
| 2020–21 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
| 1–5 February 2021 | 2021 Russian Junior Championships | align=center | 2 68.40 | align=center | 2 125.86 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 194.26 | |
| 2019–20 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
| 2–8 March 2020 | 2020 World Junior Championships | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 70.44 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 104.41 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 174.85 | |
| 4–8 February 2020 | 2020 Russian Junior Championships | align=center | 2 72.46 | align=center | 2 129.74 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 202.20 | |
| 4–8 December 2019 | 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final | align=center | 2 66.64 | align=center | 4 113.04 | align=center bgcolor=cc9966 | 3 179.68 | |
| 11–14 September 2019 | 2019 JGP Russia | align=center | 1 67.62 | align=center | 1 117.43 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 185.05 | |
| 28–31 August 2019 | 2019 JGP United States | align=center | 2 58.66 | align=center | 2 112.53 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 171.19 | |
| 2018–19 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
| 6–9 December 2018 | 2018–19 JGP Final | align=center | 4 62.04 | align=center | 4 110.47 | align=center | 4 172.51 | |
| 26–29 September 2018 | 2018 JGP Czech Republic | align=center | 2 66.01 | align=center | 1 118.72 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 184.73 | |
| 22–25 August 2018 | 2018 JGP Slovakia | align=center | 2 60.14 | align=center | 3 113.10 | align=center bgcolor=cc9966 | 3 173.24 | |
| 2017–18 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
| 23–26 January 2018 | 2018 Russian Junior Championships | align=center | 5 60.01 | align=center | 4 112.41 | align=center | 6 172.42 | |
| 6–9 September 2017 | 2017 JGP Latvia | align=center | 6 46.26 | align=center | 6 83.27 | align=center | 6 129.53 | |
| 2016–2017 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
| 9–13 November 2016 | 2016 Volvo Open Cup | align=center | 2 54.51 | align=center | 2 88.06 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 142.57 | |
| 31 August – 3 September 2016 | 2016 JGP Czech Republic | align=center | 7 48.55 | align=center | 7 88.80 | align=center | 7 137.35 |