ISU Junior Grand Prix in Italy

Junior Grand Prix in Italy
Status	Active
Genre	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Frequency	Occasional
Country	Italy
Inaugurated	2001
Previous event	2022 JGP Egna-Neumarkt
Next event	2025 JGP Varese
Organized by	Italian Ice Sports Federation

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in Italy is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Italian Ice Sports Federation (Italian : Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio). It is held periodically as an event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (JGP), a series of international competitions exclusively for junior-level skaters. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earn points based on their results at the qualifying competitions each season, and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are invited to then compete at the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final.

History

The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (JGP) was established by the International Skating Union (ISU) in 1997 and consists of a series of seven international figure skating competitions exclusively for junior-level skaters. The locations of the Junior Grand Prix events change every year. While all seven competitions feature the men's, women's, and ice dance events, only four competitions each season feature the pairs event. Skaters earn points based on their results each season, and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are then invited to compete at the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final. ^[1]

Italian skater Rita Trapanese, for whom the Rita Trapanese Trophy was named

Skaters are eligible to compete on the junior-level circuit if they are at least 13 years old before 1 July of the respective season, and if they have not yet turned 19 (for single skaters, and females in ice dance and pair skating) or 21 (for males in ice dance and pair skating). ^[1] Competitors are chosen by their respective skating federations. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member nation in each discipline is determined by their results at the prior World Junior Figure Skating Championships. ^[2]

Italy hosted its first Junior Grand Prix competition in Milan in 2001: the Rita Trapanese Trophy (Italian : Trofeo Rita Trapanese), ^[3] named in honor of Rita Trapanese, the eight-time Italian national champion who represented Italy twice at the Winter Olympics. ^{[4] [5]} Stanislav Timchenko and Ludmila Nelidina, both of Russia, won the men's and women's events, respectively. Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao of China won the pairs event, and Elena Khaliavina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia won the ice dance event. ^[3] The event has been held every few years in different cities: Milan (2001, 2002, 2011); ^{[3] [6] [7]} Merano (2008); ^[8] and Egna (2017, 2019, 2022). ^{[9] [10] [11]}

Italy hosted the 2022 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final – the culminating event of the Junior Grand Prix series – at the Torino Palavela in Turin. ^[12] Nikolaj Memola of Italy won the men's event, Mao Shimada of Japan won the women's event, Anastasia Golubeva and Hektor Giotopoulos Moore of Australia won the pairs event, and Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont of Canada won the ice dance event. ^[13]

The 2025 competition is scheduled to be held between 3–6 September in Varese, and will be the third event in the 2025–26 Junior Grand Prix Series. ^[14]

Medalists

The 2022 Junior Grand Prix in Italy champions: Hana Yoshida of Japan (women's singles), and Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek of the Czech Republic (ice dance)
Not pictured: Lucas Broussard of the United States (men's singles)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2001	Milan	Stanislav Timchenko	Alexander Shubin	Ma Xiaodong	[3]
2002		Sergei Dobrin	Parker Pennington	Jamal Othman	[6]
2008	Merano	Michal Březina	Curran Oi	Alexander Nikolaev	[8]
2011	Milan	Han Yan	Jason Brown	Lee June-hyoung	[7]
2017	Egna-Bolzano	Matteo Rizzo	Vladimir Samoilov	Tomoki Hiwatashi	[9]
2019	Egna-Neumarkt	Daniel Grassl	Petr Gumennik	Ivan Shmuratko	[10]
2022		Lucas Broussard	Shunsuke Nakamura	Takeru Amine Kataise	[11]
2022 Final	Turin	Nikolaj Memola	Lucas Broussard	Nozomu Yoshioka	[13]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2001	Milan	Ludmila Nelidina	Kimena Brog-Meier	Joannie Rochette	[3]
2002		Yukina Ota	Signe Ronka	Viktória Pavuk	[6]
2008	Merano	Melissa Bulanhagui	Rumi Suizu	Sarah Hecken	[8]
2011	Milan	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Anna Shershak	Hannah Miller	[7]
2017	Egna-Bolzano	Sofia Samodurova	Alena Kostornaia	Rika Kihira	[9]
2019	Egna-Neumarkt	Ksenia Sinitsyna	Anna Frolova	Alessia Tornaghi	[10]
2022		Hana Yoshida	Kim Chae-yeon	Inga Gurgenidze	[11]
2022 Final	Turin	Mao Shimada	Shin Ji-a	Kim Chae-yeon	[13]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2001	Milan	Zhang Dan Zhang Hao	Julia Karbovskaya Sergei Slavnov	Ding Yang Ren Zhongfei	[3]
2002		Julia Karbovskaya Sergei Slavnov	Jennifer Don Jonathon Hunt	Veronika Havlíčková Karel Štefl	[6]
2008	Merano	No pairs competitions			[8]
2011	Milan				[7]
2017	Egna-Bolzano				[9]
2019	Egna-Neumarkt				[10]
2022					[11]
2022 Final	Turin	Anastasia Golubeva Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Sophia Baram Daniel Tioumentsev	Cayla Smith Andy Deng	[13]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2001	Milan	Elena Khaliavina Maxim Shabalin	Nóra Hoffmann Attila Elek	Alessia Aureli Andrea Vaturi	[3]
2002		Alessia Aureli Andrea Vaturi	Elena Romanovskaya Alexander Grachev	Melissa Piperno Liam Dougherty	[6]
2008	Merano	Madison Chock Greg Zuerlein	Ekaterina Riazanova Jonathan Guerreiro	Lorenza Alessandrini Simone Vaturi	[8]
2011	Milan	Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Valeria Zenkova Valerie Sinitsin	Lauri Bonacorsi Travis Mager	[7]
2017	Egna-Bolzano	Arina Ushakova Maxim Nekrasov	Sofia Polishchuk Alexander Vakhnov	Alicia Fabbri Claudio Pietrantonio	[9]
2019	Egna-Neumarkt	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva Andrey Filatov	Natalie D'Alessandro Bruce Waddell	Angelina Lazareva Maxim Prokofiev	[10]
2022		Kateřina Mrázková Daniel Mrázek	Hannah Lim Ye Quan	Leah Neset Artem Markelov	[11]
2022 Final	Turin	Nadiia Bashynska Peter Beaumont		Kateřina Mrázková Daniel Mrázek	[13]

References

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12. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2022 allotted to Torino (ITA)". International Skating Union . 14 January 2022. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
13. "2022 Jr Grand Prix Final". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
14. "2025 JGP Varese". Golden Skate. Archived from the original on 30 May 2025. Retrieved 30 May 2025.

External links

• ISU Junior Grand Prix at the International Skating Union
• Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio (Italian Ice Sports Federation) (in Italian)
• JGP Italy at Skating Scores