U.S. International Figure Skating Classic

U.S. International Figure Skating Classic
Status	Inactive
Genre	ISU Challenger Series
Frequency	Annual
Country	United States
Inaugurated	2012
Previous event	2022 U.S. International Classic
Organized by	U.S. Figure Skating

The U.S. International Figure Skating Classic was an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by U.S. Figure Skating. The competition debuted in 2012 in Salt Lake City, and when the ISU launched the ISU Challenger Series in 2014, the U.S. International Classic was one of the inaugural competitions. The U.S. International Classic was a Challenger Series event seven times during its history. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; and when the event was part of the Challenger Series, skaters earned ISU World Standing points based on their results. The competition was last held in 2022.

Max Aaron of the United States holds the record for the most wins in men's singles (with three), while Satoko Miyahara of Japan holds the record in women's singles (with four). Ashley Cain and Timothy LeDuc of the United States, and Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch of Canada, are tied for the most wins in pair skating (with three), while Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of the United States hold the record in ice dance (with five).

History

The inaugural edition of the U.S. International Classic was held in 2012 in Salt Lake City. Skaters from the United States won a majority of the medals, including a sweep of the men's event. Max Aaron and Agnes Zawadzki of the United States won the men's and women's events, respectively. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch of Canada won the pairs event, and Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, also of Canada, won the ice dance event. ^[1]

The ISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It is a series of international figure skating competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union and organized by ISU member nations. The objective was to ensure consistent organization and structure within a series of international competitions linked together, providing opportunities for senior-level skaters to compete at the international level and also earn ISU World Standing points. ^[2] The U.S. International Classic was a Challenger Series event from 2014 through 2019, and again in 2022.

No competition was held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ^[3] although it had already been left off the slate of competitions for the 2020–21 ISU Challenger Series. ^[4] The U.S. International Classic returned in 2021, hosted by the Skating Club of Boston at their new facility in Norwood, Massachusetts. The 2021 edition was not part of the Challenger Series, and in addition, the pairs event was omitted. ^[5]

The 2022 U.S. International Classic gained media attention when Ilia Malinin of the United States landed the first ever quadruple Axel in competition. ^[6] While skaters in the past had attempted the quadruple Axel, Malinin was the first to successfully land one with full four-and-a-half rotations in the air. ^[7] Although the 2022 installment was held as an event in the 2022–23 ISU Challenger Series, it was also the last installment of the U.S. International Classic to be held.

Senior results

The 2022 U.S. International Classic champions: Ilia Malinin of the United States (men's singles); Kim Ye-lim of South Korea (women's singles); Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini of Italy (pair skating); and Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson of Great Britain (ice dance)

CS: Challenger Series event

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Salt Lake City, Utah	Max Aaron	Armin Mahbanoozadeh	Ross Miner	[8]
2013			Stephen Carriere	Joshua Farris	[9]
2014 CS			Ross Miner	Daisuke Murakami	[10]
2015 CS		Daniel Samohin	Keiji Tanaka	Ross Miner	[11]
2016 CS		Jason Brown	Takahito Mura	Adam Rippon	[12]
2017 CS		Nathan Chen	Max Aaron	Liam Firus	[13]
2018 CS		Nam Nguyen	Michal Březina	Jimmy Ma	[14]
2019 CS		Keiji Tanaka	Sota Yamamoto	Vincent Zhou	[15]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Norwood, Massachusetts	Michal Březina	Jimmy Ma	Eric Sjoberg	[16]
2022 CS	Lake Placid, New York	Ilia Malinin	Kévin Aymoz	Camden Pulkinen	[17]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Salt Lake City, Utah	Agnes Zawadzki	Gracie Gold	Amelie Lacoste	[8]
2013		Courtney Hicks		Samantha Cesario	[9]
2014 CS		Polina Edmunds	Courtney Hicks	Riona Kato	[10]
2015 CS		Satoko Miyahara	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Angela Wang	[11]
2016 CS			Mariah Bell	Karen Chen	[12]
2017 CS		Marin Honda	Mirai Nagasu		[13]
2018 CS		Satoko Miyahara	Lim Eun-soo	Kim Ye-lim	[14]
2019 CS			You Young	Amber Glenn	[15]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Norwood, Massachusetts	Alexandra Trusova	Park Yeon-jeong	Gabriella Izzo	[16]
2022 CS	Lake Placid, New York	Kim Ye-lim	You Young	Mana Kawabe	[17]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Salt Lake City, Utah	Kirsten Moore-Towers Dylan Moscovitch	Paige Lawrence Rudi Swiegers	Tiffany Vise Don Baldwin	[8]
2013			Caydee Denney John Coughlin	Tarah Kayne Daniel O'Shea	[9]
2014 CS		Alexa Scimeca Chris Knierim	Jessica Calalang Zack Sidhu	Madeline Aaron Max Settlage	[10]
2015 CS		Tarah Kayne Daniel O'Shea	Marissa Castelli Mervin Tran	Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	[11]
2016 CS		Brittany Jones Joshua Reagan	Jessica Calalang Zack Sidhu	Alexandria Shaughnessy James Morgan	[12]
2017 CS		Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	Alexa Scimeca Knierim Chris Knierim	Chelsea Liu Brian Johnson	[13]
2018 CS		Ashley Cain Timothy LeDuc	Audrey Lu Misha Mitrofanov	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya Harley Windsor	[14]
2019 CS			Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Peng Cheng Jin Yang	[15]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Norwood, Massachusetts	No pairs competition held			[16]
2022 CS	Lake Placid, New York	Rebecca Ghilardi Filippo Ambrosini	Emily Chan Spencer Akira Howe	Valentina Plazas Maximiliano Fernandez	[17]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Salt Lake City, Utah	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Alexandra Paul Mitchell Islam	Lynn Kriengkrairut Logan Giulietti-Schmitt	[8]
2013		Meryl Davis Charlie White	Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Nicole Orford Thomas Williams	[9]
2014 CS		Alexandra Aldridge Daniel Eaton	Nicole Orford Thomas Williams	Anastasia Cannuscio Colin McManus	[10]
2015 CS		Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen	Élisabeth Paradis François-Xavier Ouellette	[11]
2016 CS			Kana Muramoto Chris Reed	Alexandra Paul Mitchell Islam	[12]
2017 CS			Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Kana Muramoto Chris Reed	[13]
2018 CS			Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko	Misato Komatsubara Tim Koleto	[14]
2019 CS		Madison Chock Evan Bates		Carolane Soucisse Shane Firus	[15]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Norwood, Massachusetts	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin	Eva Pate Logan Bye	[16]
2022 CS	Lake Placid, New York	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	Eva Pate Logan Bye	Lorraine McNamara Anton Spiridonov	[17]

Records

From left to right: Max Aaron of the United States has won three U.S. International Classic titles in men's singles; Satoko Miyahara of Japan has won four U.S. International Classic titles in women's singles; Ashley Cain and Timothy LeDuc of the United States, and Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch of Canada, have each won two U.S. International Classic titles in pair skating; and Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of the United States have won five U.S. International Classic titles in ice dance.

Records

Discipline	Most titles
	Skater(s)	No.	Years	Ref.
Men's singles	Max Aaron	3	2012–14	[18]
Women's singles	Satoko Miyahara	4	2015–16; 2018–19	[19]
Pairs	Ashley Cain Timothy LeDuc	2	2018–19	[20]
	Kirsten Moore-Towers Dylan Moscovitch	2	2012–13	[21]
Ice dance	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	5	2015–18; 2021	[22]

Cumulative medal count

Men's singles

Total number of U.S. International Classic medals in men's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	6	5	8	19
2	Japan	1	3	1	5
3	Czech Republic	1	1	0	2
4	Canada	1	0	1	2
5	Israel	1	0	0	1
6	France	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 entries)		10	10	10	30

Women's singles

Total number of U.S. International Classic medals in women's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	5	0	2	7
2	United States	3	5	6	14
3	South Korea	1	4	1	6
4	Russia	1	0	0	1
5	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
6	Canada	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		10	10	10	30

Pairs

Total number of U.S. International Classic medals in pairs by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	7	6	17
2	Canada	4	1	1	6
3	Italy	1	0	0	1
4	Russia	0	1	0	1
5	Australia	0	0	1	1
	China	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		9	9	9	27

Ice dance

Total number of U.S. International Classic medals in ice dance by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	8	4	4	16
2	Canada	1	3	4	8
3	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
4	Japan	0	1	2	3
5	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 entries)		10	10	10	30

Total medal count

Total number of U.S. International Classic medals by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	21	21	24	66
2	Canada	6	4	7	17
3	Japan	6	4	5	15
4	South Korea	1	4	1	6
5	Russia	1	2	0	3
6	Czech Republic	1	1	0	2
7	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
	Israel	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
10	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
13	Australia	0	0	1	1
	China	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		39	39	39	117

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External links

• U.S. Figure Skating