Sofja Stepčenko
Latvian figure skater
Sofja Stepčenko (born 21 December 2006) is a Latvian figure skater. She is a two-time Latvian national champion (2022-23) and 2023 Volvo Open Cup champion. She placed eleventh at the 2023 European Championships.
Career
Early years
Stepčenko began figure skating in 2010. She competed in the advanced novice category for two seasons and then moved up to the junior ranks in 2020.
2021–22 season
Stepčenko made her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut in September, finishing seventeenth at 2021 JGP Poland. She followed this up with a twenty-sixth place finish at 2021 JGP Austria. She competed at her assignments with pain in her hip, and she learned in December that she had developed a stress fracture with necrosis.
She subsequently won silver on the junior level at the 2021 Victor Petrenko Cup, at the 2021 Volvo Open Cup, and at the 2022 Kurbada Cup.
2022–23 season
Stepčenko began her season on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing twenty-first at the 2022 JGP France and twelfth at the 2022 JGP Latvia.
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