2021–22 ISU Challenger Series

2021–22 ISU Challenger Series
Type:ISU Challenger Series
Date:September 10 – December 11, 2021
Season:2021–22
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The 2021–22 ISU Challenger Series was held from September to December 2021. It was the eighth season that the ISU Challenger Series, a group of senior-level international figure skating competitions, was held.

Competitions

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This season, the series included the following events.[1]

The 2021 Asian Open Trophy, which was held on October 13–17 in Beijing, China, was intended to be a Challenger Series event. However, as only the men's and women's singles events featured international participants and the total number of ISU member nations represented at the event totaled nine, it did not meet the necessary criteria to qualify for Challenger Series status.

Date Event Location Notes Results
September 10–12 Italy 2021 Lombardia Trophy Bergamo, Italy No pairs Details
September 16–18 Canada 2021 Autumn Classic International Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada Men's singles competition did not qualify as a Challenger Series event Details
September 22–25 Germany 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy Oberstdorf, Germany Olympic qualifying event[2][3] Details
September 30 – October 2 Slovakia 2021 Nepela Memorial Cancelled
October 7–10 Finland 2021 Finlandia Trophy Espoo, Finland Details
October 28–31 Kazakhstan 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan No pairs Details
November 11–14 Austria 2021 Cup of Austria Graz, Austria No pairs Details
November 18–21 Poland 2021 Warsaw Cup Warsaw, Poland Details
December 8–11 Croatia 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb Sisak, Croatia Details

Requirements

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Skaters were eligible to compete on the Challenger Series if they had reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2021.

Medal summary

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Men's singles

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results
Italy Lombardia Trophy Italy Daniel Grassl France Adam Siao Him Fa Georgia (country) Morisi Kvitelashvili Details
Canada Autumn Classic International Competition did not qualify as a Challenger Series event
Germany Nebelhorn Trophy United States Vincent Zhou France Adam Siao Him Fa Russia Mark Kondratiuk Details
Finland Finlandia Trophy United States Jason Brown Russia Mikhail Kolyada Russia Dmitri Aliev Details
Kazakhstan Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Russia Petr Gumennik Russia Mark Kondratiuk Russia Andrei Mozalev Details
Austria Cup of Austria Georgia (country) Nika Egadze Japan Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda United States Ilia Malinin Details
Poland Warsaw Cup Japan Sōta Yamamoto Italy Daniel Grassl Russia Petr Gumennik Details
Croatia Golden Spin of Zagreb Canada Keegan Messing Russia Andrei Mozalev United States Jimmy Ma Details

Women's singles

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results
Italy Lombardia Trophy United States Alysa Liu Poland Ekaterina Kurakova United States Audrey Shin Details
Canada Autumn Classic International Cyprus Marilena Kitromilis South Korea You Young South Korea Ji Seo-yeon Details
Germany Nebelhorn Trophy United States Alysa Liu Poland Ekaterina Kurakova Belarus Viktoriia Safonova Details
Finland Finlandia Trophy Russia Kamila Valieva Russia Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Russia Alena Kostornaia Details
Kazakhstan Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Belarus Viktoriia Safonova Azerbaijan Ekaterina Ryabova Ukraine Anastasiia Shabotova Details
Austria Cup of Austria Japan Wakaba Higuchi South Korea Park Yeon-jeong Estonia Niina Petrõkina Details
Poland Warsaw Cup Russia Maiia Khromykh Estonia Niina Petrõkina Poland Ekaterina Kurakova Details
Croatia Golden Spin of Zagreb Georgia (country) Anastasiia Gubanova United States Amber Glenn Estonia Niina Petrõkina Details

Pairs

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results
Canada Autumn Classic International Japan Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara Canada Vanessa James / Eric Radford United States Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc Details
Germany Nebelhorn Trophy Germany Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert Spain Laura Barquero / Marco Zandron Georgia (country) Karina Safina / Luka Berulava Details
Finland Finlandia Trophy Russia Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov Russia Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov United States Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc Details
Poland Warsaw Cup Russia Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov United States Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson Russia Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko Details
Croatia Golden Spin of Zagreb United States Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov Georgia (country) Anastasiia Metelkina / Daniil Parkman Russia Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev Details

Ice dance

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results
Italy Lombardia Trophy Italy Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri Canada Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen Spain Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin Details
Canada Autumn Classic International Canada Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Spain Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz United States Caroline Green / Michael Parsons Details
Germany Nebelhorn Trophy Finland Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis Germany Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck Georgia (country) Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya Details
Finland Finlandia Trophy France Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron United States Madison Chock / Evan Bates United Kingdom Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Details
Kazakhstan Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Russia Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin Ukraine Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin Russia Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Egor Bazin Details
Austria Cup of Austria Italy Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri Canada Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen Spain Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz Details
Poland Warsaw Cup Russia Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin Japan Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi United States Caroline Green / Michael Parsons Details
Croatia Golden Spin of Zagreb United States Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Lithuania Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius Russia Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy Details

Medal standings

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia75921
2 United States63716
3 Japan3205
4 Italy3104
5 Canada2305
6 Georgia2136
7 France1203
8 Germany1102
9 Belarus1012
10 Cyprus1001
 Finland1001
12 Spain0224
13 Poland0213
 South Korea0213
15 Estonia0123
16 Ukraine0112
17 Azerbaijan0101
 Lithuania0101
19 Great Britain0011
Totals (19 entries)28282884

Challenger Series rankings

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The ISU Challenger Series rankings were formed by combining the two highest final scores of each skater or team.

Men’s singles

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As of December 15, 2021.[4]

No. Skater Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score
1 Petr Gumennik  Russia Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 263.14 Warsaw Cup 242.91 506.05
2 Keegan Messing  Canada Finlandia Trophy 242.58 Golden Spin of Zagreb 255.07 497.65
3 Mark Kondratiuk  Russia Nebelhorn Trophy 241.06 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 250.08 491.14
4 Daniel Grassl  Italy Lombardia Trophy 247.80 Warsaw Cup 242.96 490.76
5 Andrei Mozalev  Russia Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 234.05 Golden Spin of Zagreb 252.15 486.20

Women’s singles

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As of December 15, 2021.[5]

No. Skater Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score
1 Alysa Liu  United States Lombardia Trophy 219.24 Nebelhorn Trophy 207.40 426.64
2 Anastasiia Gubanova  Georgia Finlandia Trophy 203.91 Golden Spin of Zagreb 184.29 388.20
3 Ekaterina Kurakova  Poland Nebelhorn Trophy 193.58 Warsaw Cup 187.80 381.38
4 Viktoriia Safonova  Belarus 190.29 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 190.06 380.35
5 Karen Chen  United States Autumn Classic International 173.00 Finlandia Trophy 202.49 375.49

Pairs

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As of December 15, 2021.[6]

No. Team Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score
1 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov  Russia Finlandia Trophy 213.72 Warsaw Cup 228.49 442.21
2 Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson  United States 191.89 196.85 388.74
3 Vanessa James / Eric Radford  Canada 190.58 Golden Spin of Zagreb 187.57 378.15
4 Anastasiia Metelkina / Daniil Parkman  Georgia Warsaw Cup 184.24 189.60 373.84
5 Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert  Germany Nebelhorn Trophy 185.25 Finlandia Trophy 188.37 373.62

Ice dance

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As of December 15, 2021.[7]

No. Team Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score
1 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri  Italy Lombardia Trophy 205.36 Cup of Austria 208.88 414.24
2 Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin  Russia Cup of Austria 184.62 Warsaw Cup 199.90 384.52
3 Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz  Spain Autumn Classic International 191.31 Cup of Austria 189.88 381.19
4 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen  Canada Lombardia Trophy 185.26 194.67 379.93
5 Caroline Green / Michael Parsons  United States Autumn Classic International 188.43 Warsaw Cup 187.84 376.27

Top scores

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For the all-time highest scores, see list of highest scores in figure skating.
For the season's highest scores, see 2021–22 figure skating season § Season's best scores.

Men's singles

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Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Vincent Zhou  United States 284.23 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
2 Petr Gumennik  Russia 263.14 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
3 Jason Brown  United States 262.52 2021 Finlandia Trophy
4 Mikhail Kolyada  Russia 256.98
5 Keegan Messing  Canada 255.07 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
6 Andrei Mozalev  Russia 252.15
7 Jimmy Ma  United States 250.97
8 Mark Kondratiuk  Russia 250.08 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
9 Deniss Vasiļjevs  Latvia 250.07 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
10 Dmitri Aliev  Russia 249.25 2021 Finlandia Trophy
Top 10 best scores in the men's short program
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Vincent Zhou  United States 97.35 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
2 Jason Brown 92.39 2021 Finlandia Trophy
Keegan Messing  Canada 92.39
4 Petr Gumennik  Russia 91.84 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
5 Sōta Yamamoto  Japan 91.75 2021 Warsaw Cup
6 Koshiro Shimada 90.55
7 Adam Siao Him Fa  France 89.23 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
8 Brendan Kerry  Australia 85.89
9 Mark Kondratiuk  Russia 84.79 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
10 Deniss Vasiļjevs  Latvia 84.46 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
Top 10 best scores in the men's free skating
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Vincent Zhou  United States 186.88 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
2 Matteo Rizzo  Italy 176.18 2021 Finlandia Trophy
3 Mikhail Kolyada  Russia 174.23
4 Daniel Grassl  Italy 173.54 2021 Lombardia Trophy
5 Evgeni Semenenko  Russia 172.60 2021 Finlandia Trophy
6 Andrei Mozalev 171.44 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
7 Petr Gumennik 171.30 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
8 Dmitri Aliev 170.97 2021 Finlandia Trophy
9 Jason Brown  United States 170.13
Jimmy Ma 170.13 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb

Women's singles

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Top 10 best scores in the women's combined total
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Kamila Valieva  Russia 249.24 2021 Finlandia Trophy
2 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva 233.30
3 Alysa Liu  United States 219.24 2021 Lombardia Trophy
4 Alena Kostornaia  Russia 218.83 2021 Finlandia Trophy
5 Loena Hendrickx  Belgium 212.07
6 Anastasiia Gubanova  Georgia 203.91
7 Karen Chen  United States 202.49
8 Eva-Lotta Kiibus  Estonia 202.04 2021 Finlandia Trophy
9 Maiia Khromykh  Russia 194.02 2021 Warsaw Cup
10 Ekaterina Kurakova  Poland 193.58 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
Top 10 best scores in the women's short program
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva  Russia 81.53 2021 Finlandia Trophy
2 Wakaba Higuchi  Japan 79.73 2021 Cup of Austria
3 Alena Kostornaia  Russia 78.61 2021 Finlandia Trophy
4 Kamila Valieva 74.93
5 Alysa Liu  United States 74.31 2021 Lombardia Trophy
6 Anastasiia Gubanova  Georgia 69.50 2021 Finlandia Trophy
7 Maiia Khromykh  Russia 69.24 2021 Warsaw Cup
8 Loena Hendrickx  Belgium 68.82 2021 Finlandia Trophy
9 Jenni Saarinen  Finland 68.71 2021 Warsaw Cup
10 Karen Chen  United States 67.50 2021 Finlandia Trophy
Top 10 best scores in the women's free skating
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Kamila Valieva  Russia 174.31 2021 Finlandia Trophy
2 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva 151.77
3 Alysa Liu  United States 144.93 2021 Lombardia Trophy
4 Loena Hendrickx  Belgium 143.25 2021 Finlandia Trophy
5 Alena Kostornaia  Russia 140.22
6 Eva-Lotta Kiibus  Estonia 137.51
7 Karen Chen  United States 134.99
8 Anastasiia Gubanova  Georgia 134.41
9 Ekaterina Kurakova  Poland 132.54 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
10 Viktoriia Safonova  Belarus 128.27

Pairs

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Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov  Russia 228.49 2021 Warsaw Cup
2 Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov 227.13 2021 Finlandia Trophy
3 Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara  Japan 204.06 2021 Autumn Classic International
4 Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson  United States 196.85 2021 Warsaw Cup
5 Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov 195.32 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
6 Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc 193.00 2021 Finlandia Trophy
7 Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko  Russia 192.94 2021 Warsaw Cup
8 Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov 190.93
9 Vanessa James / Eric Radford  Canada 190.58 2021 Finlandia Trophy
10 Laura Barquero / Marco Zandron  Spain 189.99
Top 10 best scores in the pairs' short program
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov  Russia 79.76 2021 Warsaw Cup
2 Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov 73.76 2021 Finlandia Trophy
3 Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara  Japan 72.32 2021 Autumn Classic
4 Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov  Russia 69.42 2021 Warsaw Cup
5 Vanessa James / Eric Radford  Canada 68.29 2021 Autumn Classic
6 Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko  Russia 67.53 2021 Warsaw Cup
7 Karina Safina / Luka Berulava  Georgia 66.95 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8 Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier  United States 66.44
9 Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov 66.41
10 Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert  Germany 66.26 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
Top 10 best scores in the pairs' free skating
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov  Russia 153.37 2021 Finlandia Trophy
2 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov 148.73 2021 Warsaw Cup
3 Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson  United States 135.16
4 Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara  Japan 131.74 2021 Autumn Classic International
5 Vanessa James / Eric Radford  Canada 130.83 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
6 Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov  United States 128.91
7 Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev  Russia 128.11
8 Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc  United States 128.02 2021 Finlandia Trophy
9 Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko  Russia 125.41 2021 Warsaw Cup
10 Laura Barquero / Marco Zandron  Spain 124.66 2021 Finlandia Trophy

Ice dance

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Top 10 best scores in the combined total (ice dance)
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron  France 217.54 2021 Finlandia Trophy
2 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier  Canada 208.97 2021 Autumn Classic International
3 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri  Italy 208.88 2021 Cup of Austria
4 Madison Chock / Evan Bates  United States 208.31 2021 Finlandia Trophy
5 Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin  Russia 199.90 2021 Warsaw Cup
6 Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin 195.06 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
7 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen  Canada 194.67 2021 Cup of Austria
8 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker  United States 191.32 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
9 Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz  Spain 191.31 2021 Autumn Classic International
10 Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson  Great Britain 190.39 2021 Finlandia Trophy
Top 10 best scores in the rhythm dance
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron  France 85.58 2021 Finlandia Trophy
2 Madison Chock / Evan Bates  United States 83.72
3 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier  Canada 83.35 2021 Autumn Classic International
4 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri  Italy 82.78 2021 Cup of Austria
5 Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin  Russia 81.30 2021 Warsaw Cup
6 Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz  Spain 78.53 2021 Cup of Austria
7 Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin  Russia 78.39 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
8 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen  Canada 77.38 2021 Cup of Austria
9 Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Egor Bazin  Russia 77.08 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
10 Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi  Japan 75.87 2021 Warsaw Cup
Top 10 best scores in the free dance
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron  France 131.96 2021 Finlandia Trophy
2 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri  Italy 126.10 2021 Cup of Austria
3 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier  Canada 125.62 2021 Autumn Classic International
4 Madison Chock / Evan Bates  United States 124.59 2021 Finlandia Trophy
5 Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin  Russia 118.60 2021 Warsaw Cup
6 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen  Canada 117.29 2021 Cup of Austria
7 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker  United States 116.72 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8 Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin  Russia 116.67 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
9 Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz  Spain 116.11 2021 Autumn Classic International
10 Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson  Great Britain 115.61 2021 Finlandia Trophy

References

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  1. ^ "Communication No. 2390: Decisions of the Council". International Skating Union. April 13, 2021.
  2. ^ "Communication No. 2388: Entries/Participation 2022 Olympic Winter Games (OWG) – Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance". International Skating Union. April 1, 2021.
  3. ^ "Communication No. 2367: Decisions of the Council". International Skating Union. January 29, 2021.
  4. ^ "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2021/2022: Men". International Skating Union.
  5. ^ "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2021/2022: Women". International Skating Union.
  6. ^ "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2021/2022: Pairs". International Skating Union.
  7. ^ "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2021/2022: Ice Dance". International Skating Union.
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