Humennik will compete in the free skate at the Olympics on February 13.

On Friday, February 13, Russian figure skater Pyotr Gumennik will take to the ice in the free skate at the 2026 Olympics. As follows from the start protocol of the competition, the Russian entered the third warm-up group among singles. He will perform at number 13 at 23:13 Moscow time.

According to the results of the short program, which took place on February 10, 23-year-old Humennik took 12th place, scoring 86.72 points. He performed at number one, launching the Olympic competitions in Milan. The figure skater performed a quadruple flip in a cascade with a double sheepskin coat, which affected the result.

In addition, the skater faced a technical problem. During the performance of the short program, his shoelace broke. Despite the incident, Humennik has completed the rental.

Before the start of the competition, he urgently had to change the music due to copyright issues. Initially, the skater planned to perform to the music of the film "The Perfumer". Then it was replaced by the composition Waltz 1805 by Edgar Hakobyan, the soundtrack to the film Onegin.

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Peter could not cleanly roll out his program, and the skiers could not cope with the shortest distance.

Ilya Malinin, competing for the United States, became the winner of the men's short program at the 2026 Olympic Games. A total of 29 skaters took part in the short program.

Peter Gumennik was born on April 11, 2002 in St. Petersburg. The figure skater trains at Tamara Moskvina's club under the guidance of Veronika Daineko, having won many high titles in single skating. The athlete is a champion of Russia and twice a finalist of the Grand Prix of the country. Before that, he won a bronze medal at the World Junior Championships (2020).

Earlier, Humennik spoke about the attitude towards Russian athletes at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

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