2017–18 ISU Junior Grand Prix

The 2017–18 ISU Junior Grand Prix was a series of junior international competitions organized by the International Skating Union that were held from August 2017 through December 2017. It was the junior-level complement to the 2017–18 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points based on their placement at each event and the top six in each discipline qualified to compete at the 2017–18 Junior Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Japan.

2017–18 ISU Junior Grand Prix
Type:	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Date:	August 21 – December 10, 2017
Season:	2017–18
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Competitions

The locations of the JGP events change yearly. This season, the series was composed of the following events.^[1]

Date	Event	Location	Notes	Results
August 23–26	2017 JGP Australia	Brisbane, Australia	No pairs	Details
August 31 – September 2	2017 JGP Austria	Salzburg, Austria	No pairs	Details
September 6–9	2017 JGP Latvia	Riga, Latvia		Details
September 20–24	2017 JGP Belarus	Minsk, Belarus		Details
September 27–30	2017 JGP Croatia	Zagreb, Croatia		Details
October 4–7	2017 JGP Poland	Gdańsk, Poland		Details
October 11–14	2017 JGP Italy	Egna, Italy	No pairs	Details
December 7–10	2017–18 JGP Final	Nagoya, Japan		Details

Entries

Skaters who reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2017, but had not turned 19 (singles skaters and female pairs or ice dance skaters) or 21 (male pairs or ice dance skaters) were eligible to compete on the junior circuit. Competitors were chosen by their countries according to their federations' selection procedures. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member federation was determined by their skaters' placements at the 2017 World Junior Championships in each discipline.

Medalists

Men's singles

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
JGP Australia	Alexei Krasnozhon	Roman Savosin	Egor Rukhin	[2]
JGP Austria	Camden Pulkinen	Luc Economides	Egor Murashov	[3]
JGP Latvia	Mitsuki Sumoto	Makar Ignatov	Tomoki Hiwatashi	[4]
JGP Belarus	Alexey Erokhov	Andrew Torgashev	Igor Efimchuk	[5]
JGP Croatia	Alexei Krasnozhon	Joseph Phan	Makar Ignatov	[6]
JGP Poland	Alexey Erokhov	Camden Pulkinen	Conrad Orzel	[7]
JGP Italy	Matteo Rizzo	Vladimir Samoilov	Tomoki Hiwatashi	[8]
2017–18 JGP Final	Alexei Krasnozhon	Camden Pulkinen	Mitsuki Sumoto	[9]

Ladies' singles

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
JGP Australia	Alexandra Trusova	Anastasia Gulyakova	Riko Takino	[2]
JGP Austria	Anastasia Tarakanova	Lim Eun-soo	Mako Yamashita	[3]
JGP Latvia	Daria Panenkova	Rika Kihira	Emmy Ma	[4]
JGP Belarus	Alexandra Trusova	Nana Araki	Stanislava Konstantinova	[5]
JGP Croatia	Sofia Samodurova	Mako Yamashita	Anastasia Tarakanova	[6]
JGP Poland	Alena Kostornaia	Daria Panenkova	Rino Kasakake	[7]
JGP Italy	Sofia Samodurova	Alena Kostornaia	Rika Kihira	[8]
2017–18 JGP Final	Alexandra Trusova	Alena Kostornaia	Anastasia Tarakanova	[9]

Pairs

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
JGP Latvia	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud	[4]
JGP Belarus	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov	[5]
JGP Croatia	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin	Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	[6]
JGP Poland	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot	[7]
2017–18 JGP Final	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	[9]

Ice dance

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
JGP Australia	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov	[2]
JGP Austria	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Ksenia Konkina / Grigory Yakushev	Natacha Lagouge / Corentin Rahier	[3]
JGP Latvia	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov	Caroline Green / Gordon Green	[4]
JGP Belarus	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov	[5]
JGP Croatia	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko	Ksenia Konkina / Grigory Yakushev	[6]
JGP Poland	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov	Caroline Green / Gordon Green	[7]
JGP Italy	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov	Alicia Fabbri / Claudio Pietrantonio	[8]
2017–18 JGP Final	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov	[9]

Overall standings

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	18	17	15	50
2	United States (USA)	6	4	5	15
3	Australia (AUS)	2	0	0	2
4	Japan (JPN)	1	3	5	9
5	Canada (CAN)	1	2	3	6
6	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
7	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
8	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
Totals (9 entries)		29	29	29	87

Standings per nation

Starting in the 2015–16 season, the ISU added standings per nation. Points were calculated for each discipline separately before being combined for a total score per nation. For each discipline, each nation combined the points from up to four JGP events. A country did not have to use the same events for each discipline (e.g. a country can combine points from JGP events in France, Japan, Russia, and Slovenia for pairs while using Czech Republic, Japan, Estonia, and Germany for ice dance). For each discipline at each event, each nation combined the points from up to two skaters/teams. The points that each skater/team earned is based on placement. Placement to point conversion was the same as for qualification, with first place earning 15 points, second earning 13 points, etc. In the event ties in the total scores, the country with the fewer skaters/teams (only counting skaters/teams from whom points were combined), won the tie breaker. If the tie was not broken, the nations would have the same rank.^[10]

The current standings were:^[11]

No.	Nation	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance	Total
1	Russia	141	184	132	167	624
2	United States	70	43	35	71	219
3	Canada	37	11	32	73	153
4	Japan	50	80	0	0	130
5	China	10	0	39	0	49
	France	26	0	3	20	49
7	South Korea	0	45	0	0	45
8	Italy	30	6	0	9	45
9	Ukraine	12	11	0	21	44
10	Australia	0	0	24	0	24

Qualification

At each event, skaters earned points toward qualification for the Junior Grand Prix Final. Following the seventh event, the top six highest-scoring skaters/teams advanced to the Final. The points earned per placement were as follows.

Placement	Singles	Pairs/Ice dance
1st	15	15
2nd	13	13
3rd	11	11
4th	9	9
5th	7	7
6th	5	5
7th	4	4
8th	3	3
9th	2	—
10th	1

There were originally seven tie-breakers in cases of a tie in overall points:

1. Highest placement at an event. If a skater placed 1st and 3rd, the tiebreaker is the 1st place, and that beats a skater who placed 2nd in both events.
2. Highest combined total scores in both events. If a skater earned 200 points at one event and 250 at a second, that skater would win in the second tie-break over a skater who earned 200 points at one event and 150 at another.
3. Participated in two events.
4. Highest combined scores in the free skating/free dance portion of both events.
5. Highest individual score in the free skating/free dance portion from one event.
6. Highest combined scores in the short program/short dance of both events.
7. Highest number of total participants at the events.

If a tie remained, it was considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all advanced to the Junior Grand Prix Final.

Qualifiers

No.	Men[12]	Ladies[13]	Pairs[14]	Ice dance[15]
1	Alexey Erokhov	Alexandra Trusova	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
2	Alexei Krasnozhon	Sofia Samodurova	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin
3	Camden Pulkinen	Alena Kostornaia	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov
4	Mitsuki Sumoto	Daria Panenkova	Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha
5	Makar Ignatov	Anastasia Tarakanova	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko
6	Andrew Torgashev	Rika Kihira	Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov

Alternates

No.	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
1	Joseph Phan	Mako Yamashita	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin	Ksenia Konkina / Grigory Yakushev
2	Luc Economides	Nana Araki	Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov
3	Roman Savosin	Eunsoo Lim	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	Caroline Green / Gordon Green

Top scores

For the all-time highest scores, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

For the all-time highest junior scores, see list of highest junior scores in figure skating.

Men's singles

Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total^[16]

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Alexei Krasnozhon	United States	236.35	2017–18 JGP Final
2	Alexey Erokhov	Russia	232.79	2017 JGP Belarus
3	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	229.18	2017 JGP Italy
4	Joseph Phan	Canada	221.07	2017 JGP Croatia
5	Makar Ignatov	Russia	219.22
6	Camden Pulkinen	United States	217.10	2017–18 JGP Final
7	Mitsuki Sumoto	Japan	214.45
8	Andrew Torgashev	United States	212.71	2017 JGP Belarus
9	Vladimir Samoilov	Russia	211.74	2017 JGP Italy
10	Tomoki Hiwatashi	United States	206.28

Top 10 best scores in the men's short program^[17]

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Alexei Krasnozhon	United States	81.33	2017–18 JGP Final
2	Alexey Erokhov	Russia	78.83	2017 JGP Poland
3	Vladimir Samoilov		77.65	2017 JGP Italy
4	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	77.24
5	Mitsuki Sumoto	Japan	77.10	2017–18 JGP Final
6	Igor Efimchuk	Russia	76.10	2017 JGP Belarus
7	Joseph Phan	Canada	76.09	2017 JGP Croatia
8	Makar Ignatov	Russia	75.78	2017–18 JGP Final
9	Andrew Torgashev	United States	74.34	2017 JGP Belarus
10	Tomoki Hiwatashi		73.28	2017 JGP Italy

Top 10 best scores in the men's free skating^[18]

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Alexey Erokhov	Russia	155.27	2017 JGP Belarus
2	Alexei Krasnozhon	United States	155.02	2017–18 JGP Final
3	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	151.94	2017 JGP Italy
4	Makar Ignatov	Russia	147.22	2017 JGP Croatia
5	Camden Pulkinen	United States	146.20	2017–18 JGP Final
6	Joseph Phan	Canada	144.98	2017 JGP Croatia
7	Mitsuki Sumoto	Japan	140.26	2017 JGP Latvia
8	Andrew Torgashev	United States	138.37	2017 JGP Belarus
9	Conrad Orzel	Canada	134.98	2017 JGP Poland
10	Vladimir Samoilov	Russia	134.09	2017 JGP Italy

Ladies' singles

Top 10 best scores in the ladies' combined total^[19]

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Alexandra Trusova	Russia	205.61	2017–18 JGP Final
2	Alena Kostornaia		204.58
3	Anastasia Tarakanova		199.64
4	Daria Panenkova		196.55	2017 JGP Poland
5	Rika Kihira	Japan	192.45	2017–18 JGP Final
6	Sofia Samodurova	Russia	192.19	2017 JGP Italy
7	Lim Eun-soo	South Korea	186.34	2017 JGP Austria
8	Nana Araki	Japan	183.00	2017 JGP Belarus
9	Stanislava Konstantinova	Russia	181.98
10	Anastasia Gulyakova		181.43	2017 JGP Australia

Top 10 best scores in the ladies' short program^[20]

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Alexandra Trusova	Russia	73.25	2017–18 JGP Final
2	Alena Kostornaia		71.65
3	Anastasia Tarakanova		67.90
4	Rika Kihira	Japan	66.82
5	Sofia Samodurova	Russia	66.67	2017 JGP Italy
6	Daria Panenkova		66.65	2017 JGP Latvia
7	Mako Yamashita	Japan	65.22	2017 JGP Croatia
8	Lim Eun-soo	South Korea	64.79	2017 JGP Austria
9	Nana Araki	Japan	64.57	2017 JGP Italy
10	Alisa Fedichkina	Russia	63.48	2017 JGP Latvia

Top 10 best scores in the ladies' free skating^[21]

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Alena Kostornaia	Russia	132.93	2017–18 JGP Final
2	Alexandra Trusova		132.36
3	Anastasia Tarakanova		131.74
4	Daria Panenkova		130.91	2017 JGP Poland
5	Rika Kihira	Japan	125.63	2017–18 JGP Final
6	Sofia Samodurova	Russia	125.52	2017 JGP Italy
7	Stanislava Konstantinova		122.13	2017 JGP Belarus
8	Lim Eun-soo	South Korea	121.55	2017 JGP Austria
9	Nana Araki	Japan	120.02	2017 JGP Belarus
10	Anastasia Gulyakova	Russia	117.96	2017 JGP Australia

Pairs

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total^[22]

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Australia	173.85	2017–18 JGP Final
2	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov	Russia	173.01
3	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin		172.94
4	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin		165.48	2017 JGP Croatia
5	Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong	China	165.03	2017–18 JGP Final
6	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Russia	163.21	2017 JGP Croatia
7	Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot		162.14	2017 JGP Belarus
8	Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud	Canada	153.73	2017 JGP Latvia
9	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	United States	151.27
10	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov		150.65	2017 JGP Belarus

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' short program^[23]

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Russia	61.23	2017 JGP Croatia
2	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Australia	61.00	2017 JGP Poland
3	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov	Russia	60.81	2017–18 JGP Final
4	Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong	China	59.99	2017 JGP Croatia
	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Russia	59.99	2017 JGP Poland
6	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin		59.68	2017 JGP Croatia
7	Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot		57.28	2017–18 JGP Final
8	Tang Feiyao / Yang Yongchao	China	54.00	2017 JGP Belarus
9	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	United States	52.94
10	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow		52.65	2017 JGP Latvia

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' free skating^[24]

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Australia	113.59	2017 JGP Latvia
2	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Russia	113.43
3	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov		112.20
4	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin		105.80	2017 JGP Croatia
5	Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot		105.77	2017 JGP Belarus
6	Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong	China	105.56	2017–18 JGP Final
7	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Russia	104.88	2017 JGP Croatia
8	Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud	Canada	103.58	2017 JGP Latvia
9	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	United States	99.12	2017 JGP Belarus
10	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow		98.63	2017 JGP Latvia

Ice dance

Top 10 best scores in the combined total (ice dance)^[25]

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin	Russia	153.61	2017–18 JGP Final
2	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	151.76
3	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Canada	150.30	2017 JGP Croatia
4	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov	Russia	149.04	2017–18 JGP Final
5	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov		149.01	2017 JGP Italy
6	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko		145.05	2017 JGP Croatia
7	Ksenia Konkina / Grigory Yakushev		143.77
8	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov		139.83	2017 JGP Latvia
9	Alicia Fabbri / Claudio Pietrantonio	Canada	136.01	2017 JGP Italy
10	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov	Russia	133.85	2017 JGP Poland

Top 10 best scores in the short dance^[26]

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin	Russia	65.87	2017–18 JGP Final
2	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	64.10
3	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov	Russia	63.17
4	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Canada	62.89	2017 JGP Croatia
5	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov	Russia	61.07	2017 JGP Italy
6	Ksenia Konkina / Grigory Yakushev		60.16	2017 JGP Croatia
7	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov		60.11	2017 JGP Latvia
8	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko		60.10	2017–18 JGP Final
9	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov		59.03	2017 JGP Poland
10	Alicia Fabbri / Claudio Pietrantonio	Canada	57.28	2017 JGP Italy

Top 10 best scores in the free dance^[27]

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov	Russia	87.94	2017 JGP Italy
2	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin		87.74	2017–18 JGP Final
3	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	87.66
4	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Canada	87.41	2017 JGP Croatia
5	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov	Russia	85.87	2017–18 JGP Final
6	Ksenia Konkina / Grigory Yakushev		85.17	2017 JGP Austria
7	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko		85.08	2017 JGP Croatia
8	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov		79.72	2017 JGP Latvia
9	Alicia Fabbri / Claudio Pietrantonio	Canada	78.73	2017 JGP Italy
10	Evgeniia Lopareva / Alexey Karpushov	Russia	76.31	2017 JGP Austria

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External links

• ISU Junior Grand Prix at the International Skating Union