ISU Junior Grand Prix in France

International figure skating competition

ISU Junior Grand Prix in France

Status| Active
Genre| ISU Junior Grand Prix
Frequency| Occasional
Country|  France
Inaugurated| 1997
Previous event| 2023
Organized by| French Federation of Ice Sports

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in France – also called the Junior Grand Prix de Courchevel – is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the French Federation of Ice Sports (French: Fédération Française des Sports de Glace). 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

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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 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]

Timothy Goebel of the United States, the men's champion at the inaugural Junior Series competition in France (1997)

France hosted the very first Junior Grand Prix competition – then called the Junior Series – in 1997 in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. Timothy Goebel of the United States won the men's event, Elena Pingacheva of Russia won the women's event, Svetlana Nikolaeva and Alexei Sokolov of Russia won the pairs event, and Flavia Ottaviani and Massimo Scali of Italy won the ice dance event.[3]

The French Federation of Ice Sports has twice hosted the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, the culminating event of the Junior Grand Prix series. The 2016 Grand Prix Final was held at the Palais Omnisports Marseille Grand-Est in Marseille.[4] Dmitri Aliev and Alina Zagitova, both of Russia, won the men's and women's events, respectively. Anastasia Mishina and Vladislav Mirzoev of Russia won the pairs event, and Rachel Parsons and Michael Parsons of the United States won the ice dance event.[5] The 2024 Grand Prix Final was originally scheduled to be held in Orléans, but the French federation chose to relocate the event to Grenoble.[6] Jacob Sanchez of the United States won the men's event, Mao Shimada of Japan won the women's event, Zhang Jiaxuan and Huang Yihang won the pairs event, and Noemi Maria Tali and Noah Lafornara of Italy won the ice dance.[7]

Canada was originally scheduled to host the second event of the 2021 Junior Grand Prix Series in Edmonton, but cancelled the event due to uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was reallocated to France, where the French Federation of Ice Sports was already scheduled to host the first 2021 Junior Grand Prix competition in Courchevel. Thus, two Junior Grand Prix competitions were held back-to-back at the Patinoire du Forum in Courchevel.[8]

## Medalists

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The 2022 Junior Grand Prix de Courchevel champions: Shunsuke Nakamura of Japan (men's singles); Hana Yoshida of Japan (women's singles); and Hannah Lim and Ye Quan of South Korea (ice dance)

### Men's singles

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In 2021 at France II, Arlet Levandi became the first men's singles skater from Estonia to win a Junior Grand Prix medal.[9] At the same event, Edward Appleby became the first Junior Grand Prix medalist from Great Britain in nineteen years. The last time that a British skater had won a Junior Grand Prix medal was Jenna McCorkell in 2002.[9]

Men's event medalists  Year  | Location  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Ref.

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1997 | Saint-Gervais |  Timothy Goebel |  Matthew Savoie |  David Jäschke  | [3]
1998 |  Vincent Restencourt |  Ryan Bradley |  Matthew Savoie | [10]
2000 |  Anton Smirnov |  Nicholas Young |  Marc Olivier Bosse  | [11]
2002 | Courchevel |  Alexander Shubin |  Evan Lysacek |  Jordan Brauninger | [12]
2004 |  Yannick Ponsero |  Andrei Lutai |  Jérémie Colot | [13]
2006 |  Austin Kanallakan |  Curran Oi |  Jeremy Ten | [14]
2008 |  Michal Březina |  Armin Mahbanoozadeh |  Florent Amodio | [15]
2010 |  Andrei Rogozine |  Jason Brown |  Max Aaron | [16]
2012 |  Jin Boyang |  Ryuju Hino | [17]
2014 |  Lee June-hyoung |  Sota Yamamoto |  Alexander Samarin | [18]
2016 | Saint-Gervais |  Roman Savosin |  Ilia Skirda |  Koshiro Shimada | [19]
2016 Final | Marseille |  Dmitri Aliev |  Alexander Samarin |  Cha Jun-hwan | [5]
2019 | Courchevel |  Yuma Kagiyama |  Aleksa Rakic |  Andrei Kutovoi  | [20]
2021
France I  |  Ilia Malinin |  Lucas Broussard |  François Pitot | [21]
2021
France II |  Wesley Chiu |  Arlet Levandi |  Edward Appleby | [22]
2022 |  Shunsuke Nakamura |  Cha Young-hyun |  Ryoga Morimoto | [23]
2024 Final | Grenoble |  Jacob Sanchez |  Seo Min-kyu |  Rio Nakata | [7]

### Women's singles

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Women's event medalists  Year  | Location  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Ref.

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1997 | Saint-Gervais |  Elena Pingacheva |  Andrea Diewald  |  Shelby Lyons | [3]
1998 |  Irina Nikolaeva  |  Anna Jurkiewicz |  Daria Timoshenko | [10]
2000 |  Kristina Oblasova |  Susanne Stadlmüller |  Sarah Meier | [11]
2002 | Courchevel |  Carolina Kostner |  Alissa Czisny |  Signe Ronka | [12]
2004 |  Meagan Duhamel |  Kimmie Meissner |  Jessica Houston  | [13]
2006 |  Ashley Wagner |  Megan Hyatt  |  Stefania Berton | [14]
2008 |  Kristine Musademba |  Becky Bereswill |  Diane Szmiett  | [15]
2010 |  Polina Shelepen |  Yasmin Siraj |  Rosa Sheveleva  | [16]
2012 |  Elena Radionova |  Rika Hongo |  Uliana Titushkina  | [17]
2014 |  Evgenia Medvedeva |  Rin Nitaya |  Amber Glenn | [18]
2016 | Saint-Gervais |  Alina Zagitova |  Kaori Sakamoto |  Rin Nitaya | [19]
2016 Final | Marseille |  Anastasiia Gubanova |  Kaori Sakamoto | [5]
2019 | Courchevel |  Kamila Valieva |  Wi Seo-yeong |  Maiia Khromykh | [20]
2021
France I  |  Lindsay Thorngren |  Kaiya Ruiter |  Clare Seo | [21]
2021
France II |  Isabeau Levito |  Kim Chae-yeon |  Kaiya Ruiter | [22]
2022 |  Hana Yoshida |  Ayumi Shibayama |  Kim Yu-jae | [23]
2024 Final | Grenoble |  Mao Shimada |  Kaoruko Wada |  Ami Nakai | [7]

### Pairs

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Pairs event medalists  Year  | Location  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Ref.

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1997 | Saint-Gervais |

* Svetlana Nikolaeva
* Alexei Sokolov

* Natalie Vlandis
* Jered Guzman

* Stefanie Weiss
* Matthias Bleyer

| [3]
1998 |

* Julia Obertas
* Dmytro Palamarchuk

* Viktoria Shklover
* Valdis Mintals

* Jaisa MacAdam
* Garrett Lucash

| [10]
2000 |

* Kristen Roth
* Michael McPherson

* Svetlana Nikolaeva
* Pavel Lebedev

* Viktoria Shklover
* Valdis Mintals

| [11]
2002 | Courchevel |

* Carla Montgomery
* Ryan Arnold

* Elena Riabchuk
* Stanislav Zakharov

* Anastasia Kuzmina
* Stanislav Evdokimov

| [12]
2004 |

* Mariel Miller
* Rockne Brubaker

* Arina Ushakova
* Alexander Popov

* Brooke Castile
* Benjamin Okolski

| [13]
2006–16  | No pairs competitions
2016 Final | Marseille |

* Anastasia Mishina
* Vladislav Mirzoev

* Anna Dušková
* Martin Bidař

* Aleksandra Boikova
* Dmitrii Kozlovskii

| [5]
2019–22  | Courchevel | No pairs competitions
2024 Final | Grenoble |

* Zhang Jiaxuan
* Huang Yihang

* Olivia Flores
* Luke Wang

* Jazmine Desrochers
* Kieran Thrasher

| [7]

### Ice dance

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In 2021 at France I, Hannah Lim and Ye Quan became the first ice dance team from South Korea to win a Junior Grand Prix medal.[24] In 2022, Lim and Quan became the first ice dance team from South Korea to win a Junior Grand Prix gold medal.[25]

Ice dance event medalists  Year  | Location  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Ref.

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1997 | Saint-Gervais |

* Flavia Ottaviani
* Massimo Scali

* Zita Gebora
* András Visontai

* Julia Golovina
* Denis Egorov

| [3]
1998 |

* Tetyana Kurkudym
* Yuriy Kocherzhenko

* Jamie Silverstein
* Justin Pekarek

* Nelly Gourvest
* Cédric Pernet

| [10]
2000 |

* Alla Beknazarova
* Yuriy Kocherzhenko

* Lucie Kadlčáková
* Hynek Bílek

* Marielle Bernard
* Damien Biancotto

| [11]
2002 | Courchevel |

* Oksana Domnina
* Maxim Shabalin

* Christina Beier
* William Beier

* Melissa Piperno
* Liam Dougherty

| [12]
2004 |

* Morgan Matthews
* Maxim Zavozin

* Tessa Virtue
* Scott Moir

* Pernelle Carron
* Edouard Dezutter

| [13]
2006 |

* Ekaterina Bobrova
* Dmitri Soloviev

* Madison Hubbell
* Keiffer Hubbell

* Élodie Brouiller
* Benoît Richaud

| [14]
2008 |

* Maia Shibutani
* Alex Shibutani

* Kharis Ralph
* Asher Hill

* Lucie Myslivečková
* Matěj Novák

| [15]
2010 |

* Alexandra Stepanova
* Ivan Bukin

* Anastasia Cannuscio
* Colin McManus

* Evgenia Kosigina
* Nikolai Moroshkin

| [16]
2012 |

* Gabriella Papadakis
* Guillaume Cizeron

* Valeria Zenkova
* Valerie Sinitsin

* Madeline Edwards
* Zhao Kai Pang

| [17]
2014 |

* Alla Loboda
* Pavel Drozd

* Madeline Edwards
* Zhao Kai Pang

* Anastasia Shpilevaya
* Grigory Smirnov

| [18]
2016 | Saint-Gervais |

* Angélique Abachkina
* Louis Thauron

* Christina Carreira
* Anthony Ponomarenko

* Sofia Polishchuk
* Alexander Vakhnov

| [19]
2016 Final | Marseille |

* Rachel Parsons
* Michael Parsons

* Alla Loboda
* Pavel Drozd

* Lorraine McNamara
* Quinn Carpenter

| [5]
2019 | Courchevel |

* Elizaveta Shanaeva
* Devid Naryzhnyy

* Loïcia Demougeot
* Théo le Mercier

* Ekaterina Katashinskaia
* Aleksandr Vaskovich

| [20]
2021
France I  |

* Katarina Wolfkostin
* Jeffrey Chen

* Miku Makita
* Tyler Gunara

* Hannah Lim
* Ye Quan

| [21]
2021
France II |

* Oona Brown
* Gage Brown

* Isabella Flores
* Dimitry Tsarevski

* Solène Mazingue
* Marko Gaidajenko

| [22]
2022 |

* Hannah Lim
* Ye Quan

* Célina Fradji
* Jean-Hans Fourneaux

* Vanessa Pham
* Jonathan Rogers

| [23]
2024 Final | Grenoble |

* Noemi Tali
* Noah Lafornara

* Katarina Wolfkostin
* Dimitry Tsarevski

* Darya Grimm
* Michail Savitskiy

| [7]

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## External links

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* ISU Junior Grand Prix at the International Skating Union
* French Federation of Ice Sports (in French)
* JGP France at Skating Scores

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