The 16-year-old from Izhevsk, who also won the European title last season, said she plans to turn her relative lack of success in Milan – where she suffered her only loss of the season, finishing fifth after falling three times in the free skate – to her advantage.

“It wasn’t so successful a season after all, because at the end I missed out at the World Championships," she said.

“That was also an important competition for me and this failure kind of motivated me probably.”

Zagitova debuted her new programmes for the upcoming season during a test event for the Russian Skating Federation earlier this month.

"The test skates were my first public performances since the World Championships and therefore it was very difficult for me,” she said.

"However, I am in a fighting mood and I will approach this season as always, trying to skate clean, to show my emotions to the spectators, to interpret the character on the ice and to show more mature skating.”

Asked how she had changed since winning gold at Pyeongchang 2018, she added: "Growing older I start to be more serious, pay more attention to things like food.

"I notice these situations, in the training process for example.

"When the coach tells me to do these three jumps, I cannot not do them, because I know myself that I have to do that.

"I am approaching everything with more responsibility."