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)

• Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda (JPN)

• 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)

• Rion Sumiyoshi (JPN)

• 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)

ISU Communication 2431: 4CC relocation, JGPF qualification, etc

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.