Vasiliev: 9th Place at Finland Grand Prix Selection Event

In the optional program, Vasiliev, who took ninth place in the short program, scored 134.63 points and also ranked ninth.

The best result in the selection program was achieved by Yuma Kagiyama from Japan, whose performance was evaluated with 182.29 points. The French athlete Adam Xiao took the second place with 164.48 points, while the Canadian representative Steven Gogolevs took the third place with 164.26 points.

In the overall ranking, the victory was won by Kagiyama with 270.45 points, followed by Xiao, who achieved the best result in the short program, in second place with 256.98 points, while Gogolevs won bronze with 253.61 points.

The Latvian figure skater with 210.08 points ranked tenth in the competition of 12 athletes.

This season Vasilijevs already competed in one stage of the “Grand Prix”, at the end of October in China with 204.51 points, he took the tenth place in the competition of 12 athletes.

The final of the ISU “Grand Prix” in the Japanese city of Nagoya will take place in early December, and the best six figure skaters will qualify for it. Each athlete participates in two stages.

Latvia’s best figure skater is still planning to compete in the Milan – Cortina d’Ampezzo Olympic Games, the world and European championships, as well as the “Golden Spin” competition in Croatia this season. In this year’s world championship, he provided Latvia with two quotas for the 2026 Olympic Games.

Since October, Vasiliev has not continued his training at the figure skating school in Champery run by 2006 Olympic vice-champion Stefan Lambiel from Switzerland, where the 26-year-old figure skater spent the previous nine years.