#jgpf 2021

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2021 Junior Grand Prix Finalists

The 2021 Junior Grand Prix Finalists have been announced, according to the process in ISU Communication 2431. (source)

MEN

Ilia Malinin (USA)

Ilya Yablokov (RUS)

Gleb Lutfullin (RUS)

Kirill Sarnovskiy (RUS)

Wesley Chiu (CAN)

Egor Rukhin (RUS)

JPN entry TBA

Alt1: Artem Kovalev (RUS)

Alt2: Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ)

Alt3: Arlet Levandi (EST)

WOMEN

Sofia Akateva (RUS)

Veronika Zhilina (RUS)

Sofia Muravieva (RUS)

Adeliia Petrosian (RUS)

Isabeau Levito (USA)

Lindsay Thorngren (USA)

JPN entry TBA

Alt1: Anastasia Zinina (RUS)

Alt2: Sofia Samodelkina (RUS)

Alt3: Chaeyeon Kim (KOR)

PAIRS

Ekaterina Chikmareva/Matvei Ianchenkov (RUS)

Natalia Khabibullina/Ilya Knyazhuk (RUS)

Anastasia Mukhortova/Dmitry Evgenyev (RUS)

Ekaterina Petushkova/Evgenii Malikov (RUS)

Alt1: Karina Safina/Luka Berulava (GEO)

Alt2: Polina Kostiukovich/Aleksei Briukhanov (RUS)

Alt3: Ekaterina Storublevtceva/Artem Gritsaenko (RUS)

ICE DANCE

Irina Khavronina/Dario Cirisano (RUS)

Vasilisa Kaganovskaia/Valeriy Angelopol (RUS)

Katarina Wolfkostin/Jeffrey Chen (USA)

Natalie D’Alessandro/Bruce Waddell (CAN)

Sofya Tyutyunina/Alexander Shustitskiy (RUS)

Oona Brown/Gage Brown (USA)

Alt1: Sofia Leonteva/Daniil Gorelkin (RUS)

Alt2: Isabella Flores/Dimitry Tsarevski (USA)

Alt3: Miku Makita/Tyler Gunara (CAN)

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Communication No. 2431

The ISU has announced that the following things after their meeting on October 1st:

Four Continents Championship will be held in Tallin, Estonia - the first time it will be held in a European country. Since it is only one week after the end of Europeans, it will make logistics easier for the two competitions to be held back-to-back.

The qualification criteria for the JGP Final will held as such:

For Singles, the seven winners of each event will qualify for the Final. should there only be 6 individual winners, they will qualify. Should there be less than six, the 2nd and 3rd place skaters by score will qualify for the final until they reach 6 entries. Japan will be allowed one wild card entry as the hosts.

For Pairs, the four winners will qualify for the final. Should there be less than four, the next place 2nd and 3rd place teams by scores will qualify until there are four entries.

For Ice Dance, it works the same as with singles - the seven winners qualify. If there are only six, six qualify. If there aren’t six, then the 2nd and 3rd place teams will qualify until they reach six entries.

The 3 best 2nd place skaters/teams, 3rd place skaters teams, who are not already qualified, will count as substitutes for the final until the minimum number of entries are reached - (6 for Men and Women (not counting the wild card,) 4 for Pairs, and 6 for Ice Dance.

The 2022 - 2023 Junior Grand Prix season will be as such:

August 24-27, 2022 Courchevel / FRA 

August 31-September 3, 2022 Ostrava / CZE (including Pair Skating) 

September 7-10, 2022 Riga / LAT (including Pair Skating) 

September 21-24, 2022 Yerevan / ARM 

September 28 - October 1, 2022 Zagreb / CRO (including Pair Skating) 

October 5-8, 2022 Gdansk / POL (including Pair Skating) 

October 12-15, 2022 Egna-Neumarkt / IT

The 2023 Grand Prix (and JGP) Final will be held in Orleans, France from December 7 - 10, 2023.

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The ISU Council has announced the decisions from their Oct. 1-2 meeting.

1) The 2022 Four Continents Championships, previously planned for Tianjin, China, will be relocated to Tallinn, Estonia from Jan. 18-23 since no other ISU members bid for it. The Four Continents Championships take place the week after the European Championships, which is also held in Tallinn at the same venue.

2) Due to pandemic-induced difficulties in assigning skaters to Junior Grand Prix events normally, the qualification process for the Junior Grand Prix Final has been adjusted for the 2021-22 season:

Singles: (6 or 7 qualifiers + 1 host spot)

Winners of Junior Grand Prix events: If there are 7 different winners, they will all qualify for the Final. If there are 6 different winners, those 6 skaters will qualify for the Final.

If there are fewer than 6 different winners, the remaining spots will go to the highest ranked skaters who placed 2nd or 3rd based on total score from their events.

Japan, the hosting nation, will be given 1 wild card spot each in men’s and women’s.

Pairs: (4 qualifiers)

Winners of Junior Grand Prix events: If there are 4 different winners, they will all qualify for the Final.

If there are fewer than 4 different winners, the remaining spots will go to the highest ranked teams who placed 2nd or 3rd based on total score from their events.

Ice Dance: (6 or 7 qualifiers)

Winners of Junior Grand Prix events: If there are 7 different winners, they will all qualify for the Final. If there are 6 different winners, those 6 teams will qualify for the Final.

If there are fewer than 6 different winners, the remaining spots will go to the highest ranked teams who placed 2nd or 3rd based on total score from their events.

Substitutes (all disciplines):

3 substitutes composed of the next best ranked skaters who placed 2nd or 3rd based on total score

3) The 2022-23 Junior Grand Prix events have been announced:

August 24-27, 2022 Courchevel / FRA 

August 31-September 3, 2022 Ostrava / CZE (including Pair Skating) 

September 7-10, 2022 Riga / LAT (including Pair Skating) 

September 21-24, 2022 Yerevan / ARM 

September 28 - October 1, 2022 Zagreb / CRO (including Pair Skating) 

October 5-8, 2022 Gdansk / POL (including Pair Skating) 

October 12-15, 2022 Egna-Neumarkt / ITA

4) The 2023-24 Grand Prix Final will be held in Orleans, France from Dec. 7-10, 2023.

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Rion Sumiyoshi and Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda have been announced as Japan’s host pick entries to the JGPF.