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2013–2014 season: Junior international debut
Medvedeva's international debut came in the 2013–2014 season. She was competing on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, when she won gold first in Riga, Latvia, and then in Gdańsk, Poland. She qualified to the JGP Final in Fukuoka, Japan, where she won the bronze medal behind Sotskova and Serafima Sakhanovich. At the 2014 Russian Championships, she finished seventh in her second senior appearance and then fourth on the junior level. -
Junior Grand Prix Final
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2014–2015 season: World Junior champion
Medvedeva's first assignment of the 2014 JGP season was in Courchevel, France. She won the gold medal. At her second event, in Ostrava, she placed second in both segments. Medvedeva's results qualified her for the Junior Grand Prix Final and won the gold.
At the 2015 Russian Championships, she placed third in both segments and obtained the bronze medal, her first senior national medal. She then took gold at the 2015.
At the 2015 World Junior Championships, she placed first. -
Grand Prix Final champion
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World Junior Championships
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Russian Junior Championships.
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Russian national champion
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World Champion
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European champion
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Grand Prix Final champion
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2016–2017 season: Eight world records and second World title
Medvedeva began her Grand Prix season at the 2016 Skate Canada International. Ranked first in both segments, she won the gold medal ahead of Kaetlyn Osmond and Satoko Miyahara. She then placed first in both segments at the 2016 Trophée de France on her way to another GP title. In December 2016, Medvedeva defended her national title at the 2017 Russian Championships, despite the third jump of her 3S-3T-3T combination receiving no points. -
Russian national champion
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World Champion
She became the first female skater to win back-to-back world titles in 16 years since Michelle Kwan did so in 2000 and 2001, and the first Russian woman ever to successfully defend her world title. -
European champion
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University
She commenced her university studies and enrolled at the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism. -
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2017–2018 season: 2018 Winter Olympics and coach change
She continued her winning streak with a gold medal at the 2017 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy in Bratislava, Slovakia. In mid-October, a few days before the 2017 Rostelecom Cup, she was diagnosed with a crack in the metatarsal bone in her right foot. She won her Grand Prix event in Russia as well as the 2017 NHK Trophy. However, her foot injury forced her to pull out of the Grand Prix Final and the Russian National Championship, and she therefore did not defend her title at either event. -
Olympic silver medalist
Two-time Olympic silver medalist (2018 ladies' singles, 2018 team event)
She revealed that she had a stress fracture in her foot and chose to withdraw from the World Championships to give her body a chance to heal. -
European Figure Skating Championships
silver medalist at the 2018 European Figure Skating Championships. She was named the second alternate for the European Championships and first alternate for the Winter Universiade, however she had a chance for the participation at the Winter Universiade after Elizaveta Tuktamysheva withdrew, but Medvedeva also withdrew and Maria Sotskova called up. -
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2018–2019 season: Struggles and World bronze medal
Medvedeva began her first season with her new coaches at Autumn Classic International where she ranked first in the short program and second in the free, finishing in second place overall.In October, Medvedeva began competing on that year's Grand Prix circuit. At the 2018 Skate Canada, she fell on a downgraded triple flip in the short program, missing her combination as a result and placing seventh. She placed first in the free skate to win the bronze medal. -
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Records 2018-2019
Medvedeva had broken world records 13 times before season 2018–19. -
End of her partnership
On 7 May 2018, Medvedeva announced in a statement that she was ending her partnership with longtime coach Eteri Tutberidze and relocating to Toronto to train under coach Brian Orser. She would continue to represent Russia and her current club (Sambo 70) while training in Canada. -
World Championships
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2020–2021 season
It was announced in August that Medvedeva was assigned to compete at the first and second events of the 2020-21 Russian Cup Series.
On 16 September 2020, Medvedeva announced that she would return to train under her former coach, Eteri Tutberidze.
Medvedeva and Orser parted ways on good terms.