ISU Junior Grand Prix in Germany

ISU Junior Grand Prix in Germany
ISU Junior Grand Prix in Germany
Type:	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Location:	Germany

Last updated December 11, 2024

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in Germany (also called the Pokal der Blauen Schwerter; Blue Swords ) is an international figure skating competition. Sanctioned by the International Skating Union, it is periodically held in the autumn as part of the Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

Results

Men's singles

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Chemnitz	Matthew Savoie	Alexei Vasilevski	David Jäschke	^[1]
1998		Vincent Restencourt	Stefan Lindemann	Scott Smith	^[2]
2000		Stanislav Timchenko	Evan Lysacek	Maxime Duchemin	^[3]
2002		Sergei Dobrin	Tomáš Verner	Nicholas LaRoche	^[4]^[5]
2004		Jamal Othman	Alexander Uspenski	Princeton Kwong	^[6]
2007		Brandon Mroz	Michal Březina	Takahito Mura	^[7]
2009	Dresden	Song Nan	Artur Gachinski	Gordei Gorshkov	^[8]
2010	Dresden	Richard Dornbush	Gordei Gorshkov	Ryuichi Kihara	^[9]
2012	Chemnitz	Maxim Kovtun	Shoma Uno	Alexander Samarin	^[10]
2014	Dresden	Andrei Lazukin	Zhang He	Yaroslav Paniot	^[11]
2016	Dresden	Cha Jun-hwan	Conrad Orzel	Mitsuki Sumoto	^[12]

Women's singles

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Chemnitz	Amber Corwin	Julia Soldatova	Sara Lindroos	^[1]
1998		Irina Nikolaeva	Anna Jurkiewicz	Sara Wheat	^[2]
2000		Kristina Oblasova	Sara Wheat	Tamara Dorofejev	^[3]
2002		Olga Naidenova	Adriana DeSanctis	Jenna McCorkell	^[4]^[5]
2004		Kiira Korpi	Danielle Kahle	Katy Taylor	^[6]
2007		Sarah Hecken	Rachael Flatt	Rumi Suizu	^[7]
2009	Dresden	Kiri Baga	Angela Maxwell	Polina Agafonova	^[8]
2010	Dresden	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Christina Gao	Ira Vannut	^[9]
2012	Chemnitz	Anna Pogorilaya	Miyabi Oba	Maria Stavitskaia	^[10]
2014	Dresden	Wakaba Higuchi	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Alexandra Proklova	^[11]
2016	Dresden	Anastasiia Gubanova	Yuna Shiraiwa	Lim Eun-soo	^[12]

Pairs

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Chemnitz	Natalie Vlandis Jered Guzman	Julia Obertas Dmytro Palamarchuk	Svetlana Nikolaeva Alexei Sokolov	^[1]
1998		Victoria Maxiuta Vladislav Zhovnirski	Laura Handy Paul Binnebose	Alena Maltseva Oleg Popov	^[2]
2000		Amanda Magarian Jered Guzman	Svetlana Nikolaeva Pavel Lebedev	Julia Shapiro Dmitri Khromin	^[3]
2002		Jessica Dubé Samuel Tetrault	Maria Mukhortova Pavel Lebedev	Tiffany Stiegler Johnnie Stiegler	^[4]^[5]
2004		Maria Mukhortova Maxim Trankov	Brittany Vise Nicholas Kole	Angelika Pylkina Niklas Hogner	^[6]
2007		Jessica Rose Paetsch Jon Nuss	Vera Bazarova Yuri Larionov	Ksenia Krasilnikova Konstantin Bezmaternikh	^[7]
2009	Dresden	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	Zhang Yue Wang Lei	Britney Simpson Nathan Miller	^[8]
2010	Dresden	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	Narumi Takahashi Mervin Tran	Anna Silaeva Artur Minchuk	^[9]
2012	Chemnitz	Lina Fedorova Maxim Miroshkin	Maria Vigalova Egor Zakroev	Brittany Jones Ian Beharry	^[10]
2014	Dresden	Julianne Séguin Charlie Bilodeau	Lina Fedorova Maxim Miroshkin	Chelsea Liu Brian Johnson	^[11]
2016	Dresden	Anastasia Mishina Vladislav Mirzoev	Anna Dušková Martin Bidař	Alina Ustimkina Nikita Volodin	^[12]

Ice dance

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Chemnitz	Oksana Potdykova Denis Petukhov	Federica Faiella Luciano Milo	Jamie Silverstein Justin Pekarek	^[1]
1998		Jamie Silverstein Justin Pekarek	Federica Faiella Luciano Milo	Tetyana Kurkudym Yuriy Kocherzhenko	^[2]
2000		Tanith Belbin Benjamin Agosto	Miriam Steinel Vladimir Tsvetkov	Elena Romanovskaya Alexander Grachev	^[3]
2002		Nóra Hoffmann Attila Elek	Mariana Kozlova Sergei Baranov	Alexandra Zaretsky Roman Zaretsky	^[4]^[5]
2004		Natalia Mikhailova Arkadi Sergeev	Camilla Pistorello Luca Lanotte	Alexandra Zaretsky Roman Zaretsky	^[6]
2007		Kristina Gorshkova Vitali Butikov	Ekaterina Riazanova John Guerreiro	Madison Chock Greg Zuerlein	^[7]
2009	Dresden	Ekaterina Pushkash Jonathan Guerreiro	Lorenza Alessandrini Simone Vaturi	Piper Gilles Zachary Donohue	^[8]
2010	Dresden	Evgenia Kosigina Nikolai Moroshkin	Marina Antipova Artem Kudashev	Charlotte Lichtman Dean Copely	^[9]
2012	Chemnitz	Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Daria Morozova Mikhail Zhirnov	^[10]
2014	Dresden	Betina Popova Yuri Vlasenko	Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter	Brianna Delmaestro Timothy Lum	^[11]
2016	Dresden	Rachel Parsons Michael Parsons	Anastasia Shpilevaya Grigory Smirnov	Arina Ushakova Maxim Nekrasov	^[12]

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References

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1 2 3 4 "1998 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26.
1 2 3 4 "2000 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". Deutsche Eislauf-Union. Archived from the original on 17 December 2000.
1 2 3 4 "2002 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 15 December 2005.
1 2 3 4 "2002 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union.
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1 2 3 4 "2007 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union.
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1 2 3 4 "2014 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union.
1 2 3 4 "2016 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union.

External links

ISU Junior Grand Prix at the International Skating Union
Deutsche Eislauf-Union (in German)

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[1997res-1] 1 2 3 4 "1997 Junior Series, Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". Figure Skating Corner. Archived from the original on 2012-05-04.

[1998res-2] 1 2 3 4 "1998 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26.

[2000res-3] 1 2 3 4 "2000 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". Deutsche Eislauf-Union. Archived from the original on 17 December 2000.

[2002GERres-4] 1 2 3 4 "2002 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 15 December 2005.

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[2007res-7] 1 2 3 4 "2007 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union.

[2009res-8] 1 2 3 4 "2009 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union.

[2010res-9] 1 2 3 4 "2010 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union.

[2012res-10] 1 2 3 4 "2012 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union.

[2014res-11] 1 2 3 4 "2014 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union.

[2016res-12] 1 2 3 4 "2016 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter". International Skating Union.

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