Vladimir Sergeevich Samoilov (Russian: Владимир Сергеевич Самойлов, Polish: Władimir Samojłow; born 13 May 1999) is a Russian-born figure skater who currently represents Poland.
He won the silver medal behind Italian skater Matteo Rizzo and ahead of bronze medalist, American Tomoki Hiwatashi.
Samoilov competed next at 2017 Minsk-Arena Ice Star, where he placed first in the junior men's division by a margin of almost 20 points over silver medalist Irakli Maysuradze.
As a result of his placement at the event, Samoilov was named onto the Russian senior men's national reserve team for the 2018–2019 season.
Samoilov departed Plushenko's training camp in the summer before the start of the 2018–19 season, following assistant coaches Alexei Vasilevsky and Yulia Lavrenchuk to their new program.
He again qualified to the 2020 Russian Figure Skating Championships through the domestic Cup of Russia system but was only able to finish fifteenth overall after a disastrous short program left him initially in seventeenth place.
Due to his transfer to represent Poland, Samoilov was banned from training in Russia by the Russian Figure Skating Federation and was forced to leave coach Viktoria Butsaeva.
He was scheduled to make his domestic debut representing Poland at the Federation's season-opening event in early September but withdrew before the start of the competition because of inadequate preparation time.
He later received his first international assignment for Poland, the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, replacing French skater Adam Siao Him Fa after he withdrew from the event.
Despite his win, Samoilov was only named as first alternate to the Polish men's berth at the 2022 European Championships, with Kornel Witkowski receiving the assignment.
He placed third in the short program after popping his planned quad Salchow to an invalid double but climbed to first in the free skate to take the title ahead of Austria's Luc Maierhofer and Kai Jagoda of Germany.