ISU Junior Grand Prix in the Czech Republic

ISU Junior Grand Prix in the Czech Republic
StatusActive
GenreISU Junior Grand Prix
FrequencyOccasional
Location(s)Ostrava
Country Czech Republic
Inaugurated1999
Previous event2024 Czech Skate
Organized byCzech Figure Skating Association

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in the Czech Republic – also known as the Czech Skate – is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Czech Figure Skating Association (Czech: Český krasobruslařský svaz). 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 1 July, and if they have not yet turned 19 (for single skaters), 21 (for ice dancers and female pair skaters), or 23 (for male pair skaters). Competitors are chosen by their respective skating federations rather than by the ISU. 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 Czech Republic hosted its first Junior Grand Prix competition in 1999 in Ostrava. Fedor Andreev and Marianne Dubuc, both of Canada, won the men's and women's events, respectively. Julia Shapiro and Alexei Sokolov of Russia won the pairs event, and Kristina Kobaladze and Oleg Voyko of Ukraine won the ice dance event.[3]

The Czech Republic hosted the 2005 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final – the culminating event of the Junior Grand Prix series – in Ostrava. Takahiko Kozuka of Japan won the men's event, Yuna Kim of South Korea won the women's event, Valeria Simakova and Anton Tokarev of Russia won the pairs event, and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada won the ice dance event.[4]

The ISU officially cancelled all scheduled Junior Grand Prix events for the 2020–21 season, which included the 2020 Czech Skate, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, citing increased travel and entry requirements between countries and potentially excessive sanitary and health care costs for those hosting competitions.[5]

Medalists

The 2024 Czech Skate champions: Seo Min-kyu of Japan (men's singles) and Kaoruko Wada of Japan (women's singles)
Not pictured: Zhang Xuanqi and Feng Wenqiang of China (pair skating); and Célina Fradji and Jean-Hans Fourneaux of Canada (ice dance)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists
Year Location Gold Silver Bronze Ref.
1999 Ostrava Fedor Andreev Lukáš Rakowski Valery Medvedev [3]
2000 Parker Pennington Sergei Dobrin Nicholas Young [6]
2001 Andrei Griazev Kevin van der Perren Damien Djordjevic [7]
2003 Tomáš Verner Sergei Dobrin Alexander Uspenski [8]
2005 Final Takahiko Kozuka Austin Kanallakan Geoffrey Varner [4]
2006 Liberec Tommy Steenberg Tatsuki Machida Pavel Kaška [9]
2008 Ostrava Alexander Johnson Ivan Bariev Akio Sasaki [10]
2010 Yan Han Artur Dmitriev Jr Alexander Majorov [11]
2013 Keiji Tanaka Alexander Petrov Morisi Kvitelashvili [12]
2014 Roman Sadovsky Alexander Samarin Sei Kawahara [13]
2016 Dmitri Aliev Alexei Krasnozhon Roman Savosin [14]
2018 Andrei Mozalev Camden Pulkinen Joseph Phan [15]
2020 Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [5]
2022 Nozomu Yoshioka Nikolaj Memola Andreas Nordebäck [16]
2024 Seo Min-kyu Patrick Blackwell Adam Hagara [17]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists
Year Location Gold Silver Bronze Ref.
1999 Ostrava Marianne Dubuc Elizabeth Kwon Utako Wakamatsu [3]
2000 Sarah Meier Tamara Dorofejev Yebin Mok [6]
2001 Miki Ando Tatiana Basova Akiko Suzuki [7]
2003 Lucie Krausová Olga Naidenova Akiko Kitamura [8]
2005 Final Yuna Kim Aki Sawada Xu Binshu [4]
2006 Liberec Megan Oster Svetlana Issakova Jelena Glebova [9]
2008 Ostrava Yukiko Fujisawa Angela Maxwell Stefania Berton [10]
2010 Vanessa Lam Risa Shoji Polina Shelepen [11]
2013 Alexandra Proklova Maria Sotskova Amber Glenn [12]
2014 Evgenia Medvedeva Wakaba Higuchi Karen Chen [13]
2016 Anastasiia Gubanova Rika Kihira Alisa Lozko [14]
2018 Alena Kostornaia Kim Ye-lim Viktoria Vasilieva [15]
2020 Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [5]
2022 Mao Shimada Kwon Min-sol Ikura Kushida [16]
2024 Kaoruko Wada Stefania Gladki Kim Yu-jae [17]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists
Year Location Gold Silver Bronze Ref.
1999 Ostrava
  • Megan Sierk
  • Dustin Sierk
 [3]
2000
  • Sima Ganaba
  • Amir Ganaba
  • Alena Maltseva
  • Oleg Popov
 [6]
2001
  • Anastasia Kuzmina
  • Stanislav Evdokimov
 [7]
2003 [8]
2005 Final
[4]
2006 Liberec [9]
2008 Ostrava [10]
2010 [11]
2013
[12]
2014
  • Kamilla Gainetdinova
  • Sergei Alexeev
 [13]
2016 [14]
2018
  • Sarah Feng
  • TJ Nyman
 [15]
2020 Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [5]
2022
  • Cayla Smith
  • Andy Deng
  • Chloe Panetta
  • Kieran Thrasher
 [16]
2024
  • Zhang Xuanqi
  • Feng Wenqiang
  • Romane Telemaque
  • Lucas Coulon
  • Julia Quattrocchi
  • Simon Desmarais
 [17]

Ice dance

At the 2022 Czech Skate, Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek won the first ever Junior Grand Prix title in ice dance for the Czech Republic, outscoring silver medalists Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez of Great Britain by almost seventeen points. Bekker and Hernandez won the first ever Junior Grand Prix medal in ice dance for Great Britain, while bronze medalists Nao Kida and Masaya Morita won the first ever Junior Grand Prix medal in ice dance for Japan.[18]

Ice dance event medalists
Year Location Gold Silver Bronze Ref.
1999 Ostrava
[3]
2000
[6]
2001
  • Amandine Borsi
  • Fabrice Blondel
 [7]
2003
[8]
2005 Final [4]
2006 Liberec
  • Camilla Spelta
  • Marco Garavaglia
 [9]
2008 Ostrava
  • Marina Antipova
  • Artem Kudashev
 [10]
2010
[11]
2013 [12]
2014 [13]
2016
  • Nicole Kuzmichová
  • Alexandr Sinicyn
 [14]
2018 [15]
2020 Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [5]
2022
[16]
2024
  • Célina Fradji
  • Jean-Hans Fourneaux
  • Layla Veillon
  • Alexander Brandys
 [17]

References

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