Background
Samohin was born on March 12, 1998 in Tel Aviv, Israel. His father, Igor, is a figure skating coach, his mother, Irina, a choreographer, and his brother, Stanislav, a competitor.
Samohin was born on March 12, 1998 in Tel Aviv, Israel. His father, Igor, is a figure skating coach, his mother, Irina, a choreographer, and his brother, Stanislav, a competitor.
He finished fourth at his second JGP assignment, in Ostrava, Czechoslovakian Republic. In March 2014, he finished 12th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having placed 17th in the short program and 10th in the free.
Samohin is one of the few skaters to have landed two quad jumps in a short program, three quads in a free program, and five quads in one competition. Samohin began skating in 2003. 2013-2014 season Samohin made his international debut in September 2013 at an International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Mexico.
2014-2015 season During the 2014-2015 International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix series, Samohin placed 8th in Ljubljana, Slovenia and 16th in Zagreb, Croatia.
In September 2014, he debuted on the senior international level, finishing 11th at the Nebelhorn Trophy, an International Skating Union Challenger Series (CS) event. After placing fourth at another CS event, the Volvo Open Cup, he took silver at a regular senior international, the Tallinn Trophy, behind fellow Israeli Oleksii Bychenko.
Ranked 12th in the short and 5th in the free, he finished 8th overall at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. 2015-2016 season After winning silver at his second JGP event in Logroño, Spain, Samohin qualified for the JGP Final.
His second CS medal, silver, came in October at the 2015 Mordovian Ornament, where he scored 1.24 points less than Maxim Kovtun.
Samohin finished fifth at the JGP Final. His next event was the 2016 European Figure Skating Championships, where he set a new personal best in the short program and finished 7th overall. In March, Samohin competed at Junior Worlds.
