2016–17 ISU Junior Grand Prix

2016–17 ISU Junior Grand Prix
2016–17 ISU Junior Grand Prix
Type:	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Date:	August 24 – December 11, 2016
Season:	2016–17
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The 2016–17 ISU Junior Grand Prix l Skating Union]] that were held from August 2016 through December 2016. It was the junior-level complement to the 2016–17 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points based on their placement at each event and the top six in each discipline qualified to compete at the 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final in Marseille, France.

On 25 August 25, 2016, less than an hour before the start of the ladies' short program at the 2016 JGP France, a shuttle bus was involved in an accident, resulting in injuries to two skaters, Anna Tarusina (from Russia) and Anželika Kļujeva (from Latvia), and their coaches.^[1]

Competitions[edit]

The locations of the JGP events change yearly. This season, the series was composed of the following events.^[2]

Date	Event	Location	Notes	Results
August 24–28	2016 JGP France	Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France	No pairs	^[3]
August 31 – September 4	2016 JGP Czech Republic	Ostrava, Czech Republic		^[4]
September 7–11	2016 JGP Japan	Yokohama, Japan	No pairs	^[5]
September 14–18	2016 JGP Russia	Saransk, Russia		^[6]
September 21–25	2016 JGP Slovenia	Ljubljana, Slovenia	No pairs	^[7]
September 28 – October 2	2016 JGP Estonia	Tallinn, Estonia		^[8]
October 5–9	2016 JGP Germany	Dresden, Germany		^[9]
December 8–11	2016–17 JGP Final	Marseille, France		^[10]

Entries[edit]

Skaters who reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2016, but had not turned 19 (singles skaters and female pairs or ice dance skaters) or 21 (male pairs or ice dance skaters) were eligible to compete on the junior circuit. Competitors were chosen by their countries according to their federations' selection procedures. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member federation was determined by their skaters' placements at the 2016 World Junior Championships in each discipline.^[11]

Medalists[edit]

Men's singles[edit]

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
JGP France	Roman Savosin	Ilia Skirda	Koshiro Shimada	^[3]
JGP Czech Republic	Dmitri Aliev	Alexei Krasnozhon	Roman Savosin	^[4]
JGP Japan	Cha Jun-hwan	Vincent Zhou	Alexey Erokhov	^[5]
JGP Russia	Alexander Samarin	Andrew Torgashev	Matyáš Bělohradský	^[6]
JGP Slovenia	Alexei Krasnozhon	Ilia Skirda	Kazuki Tomono	^[7]
JGP Estonia	Alexander Samarin	Roman Sadovsky	Vincent Zhou	^[8]
JGP Germany	Cha Jun-hwan	Conrad Orzel	Mitsuki Sumoto	^[9]
2016–17 JGP Final	Dmitri Aliev	Alexander Samarin	Cha Jun-hwan	^[12]

Ladies' singles[edit]

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
JGP France	Alina Zagitova	Kaori Sakamoto	Rin Nitaya	^[3]
JGP Czech Republic	Anastasiia Gubanova	Rika Kihira	Alisa Lozko	^[4]
JGP Japan	Kaori Sakamoto	Marin Honda	Mako Yamashita	^[5]
JGP Russia	Polina Tsurskaya	Stanislava Konstantinova	Elizaveta Nugumanova	^[6]
JGP Slovenia	Rika Kihira	Marin Honda	Alina Zagitova	^[7]
JGP Estonia	Polina Tsurskaya	Elizaveta Nugumanova	Mako Yamashita	^[8]
JGP Germany	Anastasiia Gubanova	Yuna Shiraiwa	Lim Eun-soo	^[9]
2016–17 JGP Final	Alina Zagitova	Anastasiia Gubanova	Kaori Sakamoto	^[12]

Pairs[edit]

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
JGP Czech Republic	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson	^[4]
JGP Russia	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot	^[6]
JGP Estonia	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot	^[8]
JGP Germany	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin	^[9]
2016–17 JGP Final	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	^[12]

Ice dance[edit]

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
JGP France	Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov	^[3]
JGP Czech Republic	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	Nicole Kuzmich / Alexandr Sinicyn	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov	^[4]
JGP Japan	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov	Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron	^[5]
JGP Russia	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko	^[6]
JGP Slovenia	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin	^[7]
JGP Estonia	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin	Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye	^[8]
JGP Germany	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov	^[9]
2016–17 JGP Final	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	^[12]

Overall standings[edit]

Medal standings[edit]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	16	14	14	44
2	United States (USA)	6	5	4	15
3	Japan (JPN)	2	5	7	14
4	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	2	4
5	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	3	1	5
6	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
7	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
8	Canada (CAN)	0	2	0	2
Totals (8 entries)		29	29	29	87

Standings per nation[edit]

Starting in the 2015–16 season, the ISU added standings per nation. Points were calculated for each discipline separately before being combined for a total score per nation. For each discipline, each nation combined the points from up to four JGP events. A country did not have to use the same events for each discipline (e.g. a country can combine points from JGP events in France, Japan, Russia, and Slovenia for pairs while using Czech Republic, Japan, Estonia, and Germany for ice dance). For each discipline at each event, each nation combined the points from up to two skaters/teams. The points that each skater/team earned is based on placement. Placement to point conversion was the same as for qualification, with first place earning 15 points, second earning 13 points, etc. In the event ties in the total scores, the country with the fewer skaters/teams (only counting skaters/teams from whom points were combined), won the tie breaker. If the tie was not broken, the nations would have the same rank.^[13]

The current standings were:^[14]

No.	Nation	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance	Total
1	Russia	100	106	100	102	408
2	United States	64	22	31	69	186
3	Japan	44	102	3	5	154
4	Canada	40	11	26	46	123
5	France	15	10	0	58	83
6	Czech Republic	17	6	28	22	73
7	South Korea	33	36	3	0	72
8	Ukraine	27	0	5	19	51
9	China	10	0	21	0	31
10	Australia	0	0	18	0	18

Qualification[edit]

At each event, skaters earned points toward qualification for the Junior Grand Prix Final. Following the seventh event, the top six highest-scoring skaters/teams advanced to the Final. The points earned per placement were as follows.^[11]

Placement	Singles	Pairs/Ice dance
1st	15	15
2nd	13	13
3rd	11	11
4th	9	9
5th	7	7
6th	5	5
7th	4	4
8th	3	3
9th	2	—
10th	1	—

There were originally seven tie-breakers in cases of a tie in overall points:

Highest placement at an event. If a skater placed 1st and 3rd, the tiebreaker is the 1st place, and that beats a skater who placed 2nd in both events.
Highest combined total scores in both events. If a skater earned 200 points at one event and 250 at a second, that skater would win in the second tie-break over a skater who earned 200 points at one event and 150 at another.
Participated in two events.
Highest combined scores in the free skating/free dance portion of both events.
Highest individual score in the free skating/free dance portion from one event.
Highest combined scores in the short program/short dance of both events.
Highest number of total participants at the events.

If a tie remained, it was considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all advanced to the Junior Grand Prix Final.

Qualifiers[edit]

No.	Men^[15]	Ladies^[16]	Pairs^[17]	Ice dance^[18]
1	Alexander Samarin	Anastasiia Gubanova	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd
2	Cha Jun-hwan	~~Polina Tsurskaya~~ (withdrew)	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
3	Alexei Krasnozhon	Rika Kihira	Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
4	Roman Savosin	Kaori Sakamoto	Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov	Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron
5	Ilia Skirda	Alina Zagitova	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
6	Dmitri Aliev	Marin Honda	~~Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot~~ (withdrew)	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov

Alternates

No.	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
1	Vincent Zhou	Elizaveta Nugumanova (called up)	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor (called up)	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin
2	Andrew Torgashev	Stanislava Konstantinova	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov
3	Roman Sadovsky	Yuna Shiraiwa	Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland	Nicole Kuzmich / Alexandr Sinicyn