2019–20 ISU Challenger Series

The 2019–20 ISU Challenger Series was held from September to December 2019. It was the sixth season that the ISU Challenger Series, a group of senior-level international figure skating competitions, was held.

2019–20 ISU Challenger Series
Type:	ISU Challenger Series
Date:	September 12 – December 7, 2019
Season:	2019–20
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Competitions

This season, the series included the following events.^[1][2]

On July 22, 2019, the International Skating Union revoked the Chinese Taipei Skating Union's right to host the Asian Open Figure Skating Classic, scheduled to be held in Taipei, Taiwan. The event was replaced with the Hong Kong Skating Union's Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy.^[3] The Sports Administration of the Republic of China ordered the removal of Chinese Taipei Skating Union Secretary-General Eddy Wu for mishandling this situation.^[4] The Sports Administration also suspended funding of the Chinese Taipei Skating Union for one year.^[5]

Date	Event	Location	Notes	Results
September 12–14	2019 Autumn Classic International	Oakville, Ontario, Canada	No pairs	Details
September 13–15	2019 Lombardia Trophy	Bergamo, Italy	No pairs	Details
September 17–22	2019 U.S. International Classic	Salt Lake City, Utah, United States		Details
September 19–21	2019 Nepela Memorial	Bratislava, Slovakia	No pairs	Details
September 25–28	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy	Oberstdorf, Germany		Details
October 11–13	2019 Finlandia Trophy	Espoo, Finland		Details
October 18–20	2019 Ice Star	Minsk, Belarus	No pairs	Details
October 30 – November 3	2019 Asian Open Classic	Cancelled
	2019 Asian Open Trophy	Dongguan, China	No pairs	Details
November 14–17	2019 Warsaw Cup	Warsaw, Poland		Details
December 4–7	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb	Zagreb, Croatia		Details

Medal summary

Men's singles

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Autumn Classic International	Yuzuru Hanyu	Kévin Aymoz	Keegan Messing	Details
Lombardia Trophy	Jin Boyang	Dmitri Aliev	Matteo Rizzo	Details
U.S. International Classic	Keiji Tanaka	Sōta Yamamoto	Vincent Zhou	Details
Nepela Memorial	Dmitri Aliev	Matteo Rizzo	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Makar Ignatov	Koshiro Shimada	Alexei Bychenko	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Shoma Uno	Sōta Yamamoto	Roman Sadovsky	Details
Ice Star	Daniel Grassl	Artem Kovalev	Adam Siao Him Fa	Details
Asian Open Trophy	Daniel Grassl	Andrew Torgashev	Ryan Dunk	Details
Warsaw Cup	Andrei Mozalev	Petr Gumennik	Lee June-hyoung	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Jason Brown	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Makar Ignatov	Details

Ladies' singles

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Autumn Classic International	Rika Kihira	Evgenia Medvedeva	Lim Eun-soo	Details
Lombardia Trophy	Anna Shcherbakova	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	You Young	Details
U.S. International Classic	Satoko Miyahara	You Young	Amber Glenn	Details
Nepela Memorial	Alexandra Trusova	Kaori Sakamoto	Kim Ha-nul	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Mariah Bell	Kim Ye-lim	Nicole Schott	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Alena Kostornaia	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Yuhana Yokoi	Details
Ice Star	Sofia Samodurova	Kim Ha-nul	Ekaterina Ryabova	Details
Asian Open Trophy	Lim Eun-soo	Kim Ha-nul	Gabriella Izzo	Details
Warsaw Cup	Ekaterina Kurakova	Bradie Tennell	Elizaveta Nugumanova	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Viktoriia Safonova	Nicole Schott	Details

Pairs

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
U.S. International Classic	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov	Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin	Liubov Ilyushechkina / Charlie Bilodeau	Details
Warsaw Cup	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov	Justine Brasseur / Mark Bardei	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	Details

Ice dance

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Autumn Classic International	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	Details
Lombardia Trophy	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Details
U.S. International Classic	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus	Details
Nepela Memorial	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov	Details
Ice Star	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev	Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Details
Asian Open Trophy	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Ksenia Konkina / Pavel Drozd	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya	Details
Warsaw Cup	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	Ksenia Konkina / Pavel Drozd	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons	Details

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	10	12	3	25
2	United States	8	6	8	22
3	Japan	5	4	1	10
4	Italy	4	1	1	6
5	Canada	3	1	5	9
6	South Korea	1	4	4	9
7	France	1	1	2	4
8	China	1	1	1	3
9	Poland	1	1	0	2
	Spain	1	1	0	2
11	Georgia	0	1	1	2
12	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
14	Germany	0	0	3	3
15	Ukraine	0	0	2	2
16	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
	North Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		35	35	35	105

Challenger Series rankings

The ISU Challenger Series rankings were formed by combining the two highest final scores of each skater or team.

Men’s singles

No.	Skater	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score[6]
1	Dmitri Aliev	Russia	Lombardia Trophy	249.62	Nepela Memorial	255.32	504.94
2	Daniel Grassl	Italy	Ice Star	243.82	Asian Open Trophy	230.08	473.90
3	Sōta Yamamoto	Japan	U.S. International Classic	240.11	Finlandia Trophy	223.24	463.35
4	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	Lombardia Trophy	227.38	Nepela Memorial	232.70	460.08
5	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Georgia		220.96	Golden Spin of Zagreb	236.65	457.61

Ladies' singles

No.	Skater	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score[7]
1	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	Lombardia Trophy	214.38	Golden Spin of Zagreb	221.15	435.53
2	You Young	South Korea		200.89	U.S. International Classic	199.29	400.18
3	Lim Eun-soo		Autumn Classic International	184.38	Asian Open Trophy	197.63	382.01
4	Kim Ye-lim		Lombardia Trophy	182.60	Nepela Memorial	186.27	368.87
5	Sofia Samodurova	Russia	Ice Star	187.16	Golden Spin of Zagreb	180.61	367.77

Pairs

No.	Team	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score[8]
1	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	United States	U.S. International Classic	205.58	Golden Spin of Zagreb	199.43	405.01
2	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea			174.02		194.29	368.31
3	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	Germany	Nebelhorn Trophy	182.30		185.09	367.39
4	Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin	Russia		171.46	Finlandia Trophy	194.28	365.74
5	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	United States	U.S. International Classic	166.50	Warsaw Cup	191.46	357.96

Ice dance

No.	Team	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score[9]
1	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	Lombardia Trophy	202.10	Golden Spin of Zagreb	202.18	404.28
2	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	U.S. International Classic	202.40	Finlandia Trophy	198.26	400.66
3	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	Lombardia Trophy	189.36	Nebelhorn Trophy	201.00	390.36
4	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Spain	Nepela Memorial	188.97	Ice Star	193.47	382.44
5	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	Nebelhorn Trophy	190.35	Asian Open Trophy	191.55	381.90

Top scores

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

For the season's highest scores, see 2019–20 figure skating season § Season's best scores.

Men's singles

Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	279.05	2019 Autumn Classic International
2	Jin Boyang	China	268.31	2019 Lombardia Trophy
3	Kévin Aymoz	France	262.47	2019 Autumn Classic International
4	Keegan Messing	Canada	256.02
5	Dmitri Aliev	Russia	255.32	2019 Nepela Memorial
6	Shoma Uno	Japan	255.23	2019 Finlandia Trophy
7	Keiji Tanaka		249.96	2019 U.S. International Classic
8	Daniel Grassl	Italy	243.82	2019 Ice Star
9	Jason Brown	United States	242.39	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
10	Sōta Yamamoto	Japan	240.11	2019 U.S. International Classic

Top 10 best scores in the men's short program

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Jin Boyang	China	101.89	2019 Lombardia Trophy
2	Dmitri Aliev	Russia	101.49	2019 Nepela Memorial
3	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	98.38	2019 Autumn Classic International
4	Kévin Aymoz	France	94.76
5	Sōta Yamamoto	Japan	92.81	2019 Finlandia Trophy
6	Shoma Uno		92.28
7	Keegan Messing	Canada	89.57	2019 Autumn Classic International
8	Vincent Zhou	United States	89.03	2019 U.S. International Classic
9	Keiji Tanaka	Japan	88.76
10	Roman Sadovsky	Canada	86.34	2019 Finlandia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the men's free skating

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	180.67	2019 Autumn Classic International
2	Dmitri Aliev	Russia	168.44	2019 Lombardia Trophy
3	Kévin Aymoz	France	167.71	2019 Autumn Classic International
4	Jin Boyang	China	167.22	2019 Lombardia Trophy
5	Keegan Messing	Canada	166.45	2019 Autumn Classic International
6	Jason Brown	United States	162.95	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
	Shoma Uno	Japan		2019 Finlandia Trophy
8	Keiji Tanaka		161.20	2019 U.S. International Classic
9	Daniel Grassl	Italy	158.40	2019 Ice Star
10	Sōta Yamamoto	Japan	157.23	2019 U.S. International Classic

Ladies' singles

Top 10 best scores in the ladies' combined total

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Alexandra Trusova	Russia	238.69	2019 Nepela Memorial
2	Alena Kostornaia		234.84	2019 Finlandia Trophy
3	Rika Kihira	Japan	224.16	2019 Autumn Classic International
4	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	221.15	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
5	Anna Shcherbakova		218.20	2019 Lombardia Trophy
6	Evgenia Medvedeva		217.43	2019 Autumn Classic International
7	Mariah Bell	United States	205.13	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
8	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	204.30	2019 U.S. International Classic
9	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	201.47	2019 Warsaw Cup
10	You Young	South Korea	200.89	2019 Lombardia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the ladies' short program

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Rika Kihira	Japan	78.18	2019 Autumn Classic International
2	Alena Kostornaia	Russia	77.25	2019 Finlandia Trophy
3	Evgenia Medvedeva		75.14	2019 Autumn Classic International
4	Alexandra Trusova		74.91	2019 Nepela Memorial
5	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	74.16	2019 U.S. International Classic
6	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	73.66	2019 Lombardia Trophy
7	You Young	South Korea	70.47
8	Bradie Tennell	United States	70.10	2019 Warsaw Cup
9	Mariah Bell		68.45	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
10	Anna Shcherbakova	Russia	67.73	2019 Lombardia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the ladies' free skating

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Alexandra Trusova	Russia	163.78	2019 Nepela Memorial
2	Alena Kostornaia		157.59	2019 Finlandia Trophy
3	Anna Shcherbakova		150.47	2019 Lombardia Trophy
4	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva		148.29	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
5	Rika Kihira	Japan	145.98	2019 Autumn Classic International
6	Evgenia Medvedeva	Russia	142.29
7	You Young	South Korea	141.25	2019 U.S. International Classic
8	Mariah Bell	United States	136.68	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
9	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	135.39	2019 Warsaw Cup
10	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	134.45	2019 Nepela Memorial

Pairs

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Canada	210.35	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov	Russia	210.18	2019 Finlandia Trophy
3	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	United States	205.58	2019 U.S. International Classic
4	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim		202.41	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
5	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	194.69	2019 U.S. International Classic
6	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	United States	194.29	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
7	Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin	Russia	194.28	2019 Finlandia Trophy
8	Liubov Ilyushechkina / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	193.58
9	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	United States	191.46	2019 Warsaw Cup
10	Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov	Russia	188.79

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' short program

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	United States	76.23	2019 U.S. International Classic
2	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov	Russia	74.99	2019 Finlandia Trophy
3	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov		74.85	2019 U.S. International Classic
4	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Canada	71.76	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
5	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	United States	70.83
6	Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin	Russia	69.12	2019 Finlandia Trophy
7	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	Germany	68.30	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	United States	68.20	2019 Warsaw Cup
9	Liubov Ilyushechkina / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	68.07	2019 Finlandia Trophy
10	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	China	67.90	2019 U.S. International Classic

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' free skating

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Canada	138.59	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov	Russia	135.19	2019 Finlandia Trophy
3	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	United States	131.58	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
4	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc		129.35	2019 U.S. International Classic
5	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea		128.09	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
6	Liubov Ilyushechkina / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	125.51	2019 Finlandia Trophy
7	Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin	Russia	125.16
8	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	United States	123.26	2019 Warsaw Cup
9	Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov	Russia	121.73
10	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	United States	120.47	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy

Ice dance

Top 10 best scores in the combined total (ice dance)

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	202.49	2019 Autumn Classic International
2	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	202.40	2019 U.S. International Classic
3	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	202.18	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
4	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	201.00	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
5	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia	198.14	2019 Nepela Memorial
6	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Spain	193.47	2019 Ice Star
7	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	192.47	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
8	Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin	Russia	191.71	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
9	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	191.55	2019 Asian Open Trophy
10	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	188.25	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the rhythm dance

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	83.31	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
2	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	81.16	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
3	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	80.18	2019 U.S. International Classic
4	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	79.61	2019 Autumn Classic International
5	Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin	Russia	78.75	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
6	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov		78.44	2019 Nepela Memorial
7	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	78.40	2019 Asian Open Trophy
8	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter		78.39	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb
9	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Spain	77.03	2019 Nepela Memorial
10	Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz		75.80	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the free dance

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	122.88	2019 Autumn Classic International
2	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	122.63	2019 Lombardia Trophy
3	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	122.22	2019 U.S. International Classic
4	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	119.84	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
5	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia	119.70	2019 Nepela Memorial
6	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Spain	117.39	2019 Ice Star
7	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	116.70	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy
8	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	France	114.08	2019 Warsaw Cup
9	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	114.03	2019 Autumn Classic International
10	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	113.36	2019 Nebelhorn Trophy

References

1. "Communication No. 2234: Decisions of the Council". International Skating Union. March 27, 2019.
2. "ISU Challenger Series in Figure Skating 2019/20 Announcement". International Skating Union.
3. "Challenger Series Announcement". International Skating Union. July 22, 2019. Archived from the original on July 24, 2019.
4. Lung, Po-an; Hsu, Elizabeth (August 2, 2019). "Sports authorities order removal of skating association official". Focus Taiwan. Central News Agency (Taiwan).
5. DeAeth, Duncan (August 4, 2019). "Chinese-Taipei Skating Union chief fired for giving up Taiwan's right to host event". Taiwan News.
6. "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2019/2020: Men". International Skating Union.
7. "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2019/2020: Ladies". International Skating Union.
8. "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2019/2020: Pairs". International Skating Union.
9. "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2019/2020: Ice Dance". International Skating Union.

External links

• ISU Challenger Series at the International Skating Union