SARANSK, Mar 27, Andrey Simonenko. Team «Red Machine», captain which is the Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova, won the team «Time of the First» of the winner of the 2022 Games Mark Kondratyuk in the Cup of the First Channel in figure skating that ended in Saransk. In the final discipline — a free program for women — Shcherbakova showed the best result (176.12 points) . The second was Kamila Valieva («Time of the First») — 173.88. Third place was taken by Elizaveta Tuktamysheva («Time of the First») — 166.23. «Red Machine» scored 145 points on the basis of two days of the tournament, «Time of the First» — 141. The winners were awarded a check for 10 million rubles. The losers received 7.5 million rubles. The Channel One Cup was held for the second time, the previous tournament was also won by the Red Machine, captained by Olympic champion Alina Zagitova. The Vremya Pervyi team was then led by two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva.
