ISU Junior Grand Prix in the United States

ISU Junior Grand Prix in the United States
Status	Inactive
Genre	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Frequency	Occasional
Country	United States
Inaugurated	2001
Previous event	2019
Organized by	U.S. Figure Skating

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in the United States is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by U.S. Figure Skating. 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]

Skaters are eligible to compete on the junior-level circuit if they are at least 13 years old before July 1 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]

The United States hosted the 1998 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final – the culminating event of the Junior Grand Prix series – in Detroit, Michigan. Vincent Restencourt of France won the men's event, Viktoria Volchkova of Russia won the women's event, Julia Obertas and Dmytro Palamarchuk of Ukraine won the pairs event, and Jamie Silverstein and Justin Pekarek of the United States won the ice dance event. ^[3]

U.S. Figure Skating was scheduled to host the second event of the 2001 Junior Grand Prix Series from September 20 to 23 in Scottsdale, Arizona, but cancelled the competition due to the September 11 terrorist attacks. ^[4] Scottdale hosted the third event of the Junior Grand Prix Series the next year. Andrei Griazev of Russia won the men's event, Akiko Suzuki of Japan won the women's event, Ding Yang and Ren Zhongfei of China won the pairs event, and Nóra Hoffmann and Maxim Zavozin of Hungary won the ice dance event. ^[5]

The 2002 Junior Grand Prix in Scottsdale champions: Andrei Griazev of Russia (men's singles); Akiko Suzuki of Japan (women's singles); Ding Yang and Ren Zhongfei of China (pair skating); and Nóra Hoffmann and Maxim Zavozin of Hungary (ice dance)

The event has been held every few years in different cities: Long Beach, California (2004); ^[6] Lake Placid, New York (2007, 2009, 2012, 2019); ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]} and Colorado Springs, Colorado (2015). ^[11] Its most recent appearance was in Lake Placid in 2019. ^[10]

Medalists

The 2019 Junior Grand Prix in Lake Placid champions: Shun Sato of Japan (men's singles); Alysa Liu of the United States (women's singles); Apollinariia Panfilova and Dmitry Rylov of Russia (pair skating); and Avonley Nguyen and Vadym Kolesnik of the United States (ice dance)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1998 Final	Detroit, Michigan	Vincent Restencourt	Ilia Klimkin	Alexei Vasilevski	[3]
2001	Scottsdale, Arizona	Competition cancelled due to the September 11 attacks			[4]
2002		Andrei Griazev	Parker Pennington	Ken Rose	[5]
2004	Long Beach, California	Dennis Phan	Christopher Mabee	Princeton Kwong	[6]
2007	Lake Placid, New York	Armin Mahbanoozadeh	Austin Kanallakan	Artem Grigoriev	[7]
2009		Ross Miner	Kento Nakamura	Mark Shakhmatov	[8]
2012		Joshua Farris	Keiji Tanaka	Roman Sadovsky	[9]
2015	Colorado Springs, Colorado	Nathan Chen	Daniel Samohin	Sōta Yamamoto	[11]
2019	Lake Placid, New York	Shun Sato	Stephen Gogolev	Gleb Lutfullin	[10]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1998 Final	Detroit, Michigan	Viktoria Volchkova	Sarah Hughes	Daria Timoshenko	[3]
2001	Scottsdale, Arizona	Competition cancelled due to the September 11 attacks			[4]
2002		Akiko Suzuki	Beatrisa Liang	Felicia Beck	[5]
2004	Long Beach, California	Mao Asada	Kimmie Meissner	Danielle Kahle	[6]
2007	Lake Placid, New York	Mirai Nagasu	Alexe Gilles	Angela Maxwell	[7]
2009		Kristine Musademba	Ksenia Makarova	Isabelle Olsson	[8]
2012		Satoko Miyahara	Courtney Hicks	Angela Wang	[9]
2015	Colorado Springs, Colorado	Yuna Shiraiwa	Marin Honda	Vivian Le	[11]
2019	Lake Placid, New York	Alysa Liu	Yeonjeong Park	Anastasia Tarakanova	[10]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1998 Final	Detroit, Michigan	Julia Obertas Dmytro Palamarchuk	Laura Handy Paul Binnebose	Victoria Maksyuta Vladislav Zhovnirski	[3]
2001	Scottsdale, Arizona	Competition cancelled due to the September 11 attacks			[4]
2002		Ding Yang Ren Zhongfei	Jennifer Don Jonathon Hunt	Brittany Vise Nicholas Kole	[5]
2004	Long Beach, California	Jessica Dubé Bryce Davison	Aaryn Smith Will Chitwood	Michelle Cronin Brian Shales	[6]
2007	Lake Placid, New York	Olivia Jones Donald Jackson	Carolyn MacCuish Andrew Evans	Anastasia Khodkova Pavel Sliusarenko	[7]
2009		Kaleigh Hole Adam Johnson	Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov	Narumi Takahashi Mervin Tran	[8]
2012		Margaret Purdy Michael Marinaro	Vasilisa Davankova Andrei Deputat	Madeline Aaron Max Settlage	[9]
2015	Colorado Springs, Colorado	Anastasia Gubanova Alexei Sintsov	Joy Weinberg Maximiliano Fernandez	Elena Ivanova Tagir Khakimov	[11]
2019	Lake Placid, New York	Apollinariia Panfilova Dmitry Rylov	Kseniia Akhanteva Valerii Kolesov	Alina Pepeleva Roman Pleshkov	[10]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1998 Final	Detroit, Michigan	Jamie Silverstein Justin Pekarek	Federica Faiella Luciano Milo	Natalia Romaniuta Daniil Barantsev	[3]
2001	Scottsdale, Arizona	Competition cancelled due to the September 11 attacks			[4]
2002		Nóra Hoffmann Attila Elek	Olga Orlova Maxim Bolotin	Loren Galler-Rabinowitz David Mitchell	[5]
2004	Long Beach, California	Morgan Matthews Maxim Zavozin	Siobhan Karam Joshua McGrath	Anastasia Gorshkova Ilia Tkachenko	[6]
2007	Lake Placid, New York	Emily Samuelson Evan Bates	Joanna Lenko Mitchell Islam	Pilar Bosley John Corona	[7]
2009		Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani	Kharis Ralph Asher Hill	Lauri Bonacorsi Travis Mager	[8]
2012		Alexandra Aldridge Daniel Eaton	Evgenia Kosigina Nikolai Moroshkin	Andréanne Poulin Marc-André Servant	[9]
2015	Colorado Springs, Colorado	Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter	Mackenzie Bent Dmitre Razgulajevs	Sofia Polishchuk Alexander Vakhnov	[11]
2019	Lake Placid, New York	Avonley Nguyen Vadym Kolesnik	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin	Natálie Taschlerová Filip Taschler	[10]

References

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3. "1999 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final". The Figure Skating Corner. Archived from the original on October 9, 2008. Retrieved October 9, 2008.
4. "ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2nd event in Phoenix (USA) Cancelled". International Skating Union . September 19, 2001. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved September 30, 2007.
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External links

• ISU Junior Grand Prix at the International Skating Union
• U.S. Figure Skating
• JGP United States at Skating Scores