Finlandia Trophy

For the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating competition, see Grand Prix of Finland.

The Finlandia Trophy was an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by Skating Finland (Finnish: Suomen Taitoluisteluliitto). The competition debuted in 1995 in Helsinki, and when the ISU launched the ISU Challenger Series in 2014, the Finlandia Trophy was one of the inaugural competitions. The Finlandia Trophy was a Challenger Series event consistently through 2023, except in 2020, when it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; and when the event was part of the Challenger Series, skaters earned ISU World Standing points based on their results. Beginning in 2022, Finland also hosted an annual ISU Grand Prix competition – the Grand Prix of Finland – and in 2024, Skating Finland elected to host only the Grand Prix event going forward, bestowing the Finlandia Trophy name on it. The Finlandia Trophy existed as a Challenger Series event for the last time in 2023.

Finlandia Trophy
Status	Inactive
Genre	ISU Challenger Series
Country	Finland
Years active	1995–2023
Organized by	Skating Finland

Yuzuru Hanyu and Takahito Mura, both of Japan, are tied for winning the most Finlandia Trophy titles in men's singles (with two each), while Susanna Pöykiö of Finland and Elena Sokolova of Russia are tied for winning the most titles in women's singles (with three each). Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov of Russia hold the record in pair skating (with two), while Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski of Bulgaria hold the record in ice dance (with five).

History

The inaugural edition of the Finlandia Trophy was held in 1995 in Helsinki. Igor Pashkevich and Elena Ivanova, both of Russia, won the men's and women's events, respectively. Sylwia Nowak and Sebastian Kolasiński of Poland won the ice dance event. No competition was held in pair skating until 2002.^[1] The Finlandia Trophy was held in Helsinki from 1995 through 2004. The 2005 Finlandia Trophy was scheduled to be held in Vantaa and would have featured the men's and women's events, but the competition was cancelled because too few skaters signed up.^[2] The competition returned in 2006 and was held in Vantaa through 2011. In 2012, the Finlandia Trophy relocated to Espoo.^[3] The Finlandia Trophy also occasionally hosted figure skating events of the Special Olympics.^[4]

The ISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It was a series of international figure skating competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU) and organized by ISU member nations. The objective was to ensure consistent organization and structure within a series of international competitions linked together, providing opportunities for senior-level skaters to compete at the international level and also earn ISU World Standing points.^[5] The Finlandia Trophy was a Challenge Series event from 2014 through 2023, although the competition was cancelled in 2020 due to travel restrictions imposed by the Finnish government in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[6]

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian and Belarusian athletes were banned from participating in international figure skating competitions.^[7][8] The ISU also ordered that no international competitions would be held in Russia or Belarus. Therefore, the Rostelecom Cup, which had been scheduled for that November, was cancelled.^[9] Finland was chosen to host the replacement event: the Grand Prix of Espoo.^[10] Finland hosted both the Grand Prix of Espoo and the Finlandia Trophy in 2022 and 2023, but beginning in 2024, Skating Finland chose to focus its resources on the Grand Prix event, to which it bestowed the Finlandia Trophy name.^[11] Therefore, the last installment of the Finlandia Trophy as a Challenger Series event took place in 2023.^[12]

Medalists

The 2023 Finlandia Trophy champions: Kao Miura of Japan (men's singles); Kim Ye-lim of South Korea (women's singles); Ellie Kam and Daniel O'Shea of the United States (pair skating); and Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis of Finland (ice dance)

CS: Challenger Series event

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1995	Helsinki	Igor Pashkevich	Ilia Kulik	Ruslan Novoseltsev	[1]
1996		Shepherd Clark	Szabolcs Vidrai	Anthony Liu	[13]
1997		Alexei Yagudin	Oleg Tataurov	Evgeni Plushenko	[14]
1998		Dmytro Dmytrenko	Anthony Liu	Damon Allen	[15]
1999		Roman Serov	Alexei Vasilevski	Jeff Langdon	[16]
2000		Evgeni Plushenko	Li Yunfei	Stanick Jeannette	[17]
2001		Ilia Klimkin	Roman Serov	Gheorghe Chiper	[18]
2002		Andrejs Vlaščenko	Gheorghe Chiper	Ilia Klimkin	[19]
2003		Gheorghe Chiper	Johnny Weir	Kristoffer Berntsson	[20]
2004		Frédéric Dambier	Roman Serov	Marc-André Craig	[21]
2005	Vantaa	Competition cancelled			[2]
2006		Jeremy Abbott	Alexander Uspenski	Sergei Dobrin	[22]
2007		Tomáš Verner	Parker Pennington	Kevin van der Perren	[23]
2008		Takahito Mura	Shaun Rogers	Sergei Voronov	[24]
2009		Daisuke Takahashi	Sergei Voronov	Stephen Carriere	[25]
2010		Artur Gachinski	Kristoffer Berntsson	Samuel Contesti	[26]
2011		Takahito Mura	Douglas Razzano	Maciej Cieplucha	[27]
2012	Espoo	Yuzuru Hanyu	Richard Dornbush	Javier Fernández	[3]
2013			Sergei Voronov	Artur Gachinski	[28]
2014 CS		Sergei Voronov	Adam Rippon	Alexander Petrov	[29]
2015 CS		Konstantin Menshov		Sergei Voronov	[30]
2016 CS		Nathan Chen	Patrick Chan	Maxim Kovtun	[31]
2017 CS		Jin Boyang	Vincent Zhou	Adam Rippon	[32]
2018 CS		Mikhail Kolyada	Cha Jun-hwan	Morisi Kvitelashvili	[33]
2019 CS		Shoma Uno	Sota Yamamoto	Roman Sadovsky	[34]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[35]
2021 CS		Jason Brown	Mikhail Kolyada	Dmitri Aliev	[36]
2022 CS		Cha Jun-hwan	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Andreas Nordebäck	[37]
2023 CS		Kao Miura	Shun Sato	Aleksandr Selevko	[12]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1995	Helsinki	Elena Ivanova	Zuzanna Szwed	Elena Sokolova	[1]
1996		Maria Butyrskaya	Julia Vorobieva		[13]
1997		Irina Slutskaya	Julia Lautowa	Krisztina Czakó	[14]
1998		Elena Sokolova	Viktoria Volchkova	Yulia Lavrenchuk	[15]
1999			Elena Liashenko	Laëtitia Hubert	[16]
2000					[17]
2001		Sasha Cohen	Alisa Drei	Viktoria Volchkova	[18]
2002		Susanna Pöykiö	Tatiana Basova	Alisa Drei	[19]
2003			Alisa Drei	Miriam Manzano	[20]
2004				Elina Kettunen	[21]
2005	Vantaa	Competition cancelled			[2]
2006		Kiira Korpi	Susanna Pöykiö	Júlia Sebestyén	[22]
2007		Jenni Vähämaa		Carolina Kostner	[23]
2008		Akiko Suzuki	Laura Lepistö	Sarah Meier	[24]
2009		Alena Leonova		Kiira Korpi	[25]
2010		Akiko Suzuki	Kiira Korpi	Alena Leonova	[26]
2011		Sofia Biryukova	Jelena Glebova	Alisa Mikonsaari	[27]
2012	Espoo	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Kiira Korpi	Mirai Nagasu	[3]
2013			Akiko Suzuki	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[28]
2014 CS		Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Samantha Cesario	Rika Hongo	[29]
2015 CS		Rika Hongo	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Joshi Helgesson	[30]
2016 CS		Kaetlyn Osmond	Mao Asada	Anna Pogorilaya	[31]
2017 CS		Maria Sotskova	Carolina Kostner	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[32]
2018 CS		Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Viveca Lindfors	[33]
2019 CS		Alena Kostornaia	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Yuhana Yokoi	[34]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[35]
2021 CS		Kamila Valieva	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Alena Kostornaia	[36]
2022 CS		Kim Ye-lim	Kim Chae-yeon	Anastasiia Gubanova	[37]
2023 CS			Rinka Watanabe		[12]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1995–2001	Helsinki	No pairs competitions prior to 2002
2002		Tatiana Chuvaeva Dmytro Palamarchuk	Viktoria Borzenkova Andrei Chuvilaev	Marcy Hinzmann Steve Hartsell	[19]
2003		Utako Wakamatsu Jean-Sébastien Fecteau	Pascale Bergeron Robert Davison		[20]
2004		No pairs competition held			[21]
2005	Vantaa	Competition cancelled			[2]
2006		No pairs competition held			[22]
2007		Maria Mukhortova Maxim Trankov	Andrea Best Trevor Young	Mari Vartmann Florian Just	[23]
2008–15	No pairs competitions held
2016 CS	Espoo	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	Kristina Astakhova Alexei Rogonov	Mari Vartmann Ruben Blommaert	[31]
2017 CS		Peng Cheng Yang Jin	Nicole Della Monica Matteo Guarise	Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov	[32]
2018 CS		Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	[33]
2019 CS		Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov	Alisa Efimova Alexander Korovin	Liubov Ilyushechkina Charlie Bilodeau	[34]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[35]
2021 CS		Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Ashley Cain-Gribble Timothy LeDuc	[36]
2022 CS		Annika Hocke Robert Kunkel	Alisa Efimova Ruben Blommaert	Brooke McIntosh Benjamin Mimar	[37]
2023 CS		Ellie Kam Daniel O'Shea	Rebecca Ghilardi Filippo Ambrosini	Maria Pavlova Alexei Sviatchenko	[12]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1995	Helsinki	Sylwia Nowak Sebastian Kolasiński	Elizaveta Stekolnikova Dmitri Kazarlyga	Allison MacLean Konrad Schaub	[1]
1996		Anna Semenovich Vladimir Fedorov	Ekaterina Svirina Vladimir Leliukh	Iwona Filipowicz Michał Szumski	[13]
1997			Ekaterina Davydova Roman Kostomarov		[14]
1998		Albena Denkova Maxim Staviski	Oksana Potdykova Denis Petukhov	Angelika Führing Bruno Ellinger	[15]
1999			Federica Faiella Luciano Milo	Oksana Potdykova Denis Petukhov	[16]
2000			Natalia Romaniuta Daniil Barantsev	Marika Humphreys Vitaliy Baranov	[17]
2001			Marika Humphreys Vitaliy Baranov	Chantal Lefebvre Justin Lanning	[18]
2002		No ice dance competition held			[19]
2003		Albena Denkova Maxim Staviski	Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin	Pamela O'Connor Jonathon O'Dougherty	[20]
2004		No ice dance competition held			[21]
2005	Vantaa	Competition cancelled			[2]
2006		No ice dance competitions held			[22]
2007					[23]
2008		Sinead Kerr John Kerr	Anastasia Platonova Alexander Grachev	Kristina Gorshkova Vitali Butikov	[24]
2009				Alla Beknazarova Vladimir Zuev	[25]
2010		Nathalie Péchalat Fabian Bourzat	Nóra Hoffmann Maxim Zavozin	Kristina Gorshkova Vitali Butikov	[26]
2011		Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani	Madison Chock Evan Bates	[27]
2012	Espoo	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	[3]
2013		Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Madison Chock Evan Bates	Justyna Plutowska Peter Gerber	[28]
2014 CS		Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Nelli Zhiganshina Alexander Gazsi	Anastasia Cannuscio Colin McManus	[29]
2015 CS		Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Isabella Tobias Ilia Tkachenko	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen	[30]
2016 CS		Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	Tiffany Zahorski Jonathan Guerreiro	[31]
2017 CS		Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron	Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen	[32]
2018 CS		Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Olivia Smart Adrián Díaz	Marie-Jade Lauriault Romain Le Gac	[33]
2019 CS		Madison Chock Evan Bates	Wang Shiyue Liu Xinyu	Betina Popova Sergey Mozgov	[34]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[35]
2021 CS		Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron	Madison Chock Evan Bates	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	[36]
2022 CS		Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Juulia Turkkila Matthias Versluis	[37]
2023 CS		Juulia Turkkila Matthias Versluis	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen	[12]

Records

From left to right: Yuzuru Hanyu and Takahito Mura of Japan have each won two Finlandia Trophy titles in men's singles; Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski of Bulgaria have won five Finlandia Trophy titles in ice dance.

From left to right: Susanna Pöykiö of Finland and Elena Sokolova of Russia have each won three Finlandia Trophy titles in women's singles; Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov of Russia have won two Finlandia Trophy titles in pair skating.

Records

Discipline	Most titles
	Skater(s)	No.	Years	Ref.
Men's singles	Yuzuru Hanyu	2	2012–13	[38]
	Takahito Mura	2	2008; 2011	[39]
Women's singles	Susanna Pöykiö	3	2002–04	[40]
	Elena Sokolova	3	1998–2000	[41]
Pairs	Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov	2	2019; 2021	[42]
Ice dance	Albena Denkova Maxim Staviski	5	1998–2001; 2003	[43]

Cumulative medal count

Men's singles

Total number of Finlandia Trophy medals in men's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	9	8	10	27
2	Japan	7	2	0	9
3	United States	4	8	3	15
4	Romania	1	1	1	3
5	China	1	1	0	2
	South Korea	1	1	0	2
7	France	1	0	1	2
8	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	Germany	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
11	Canada	0	1	3	4
12	Sweden	0	1	2	3
13	Australia	0	1	1	2
	Georgia	0	1	1	2
15	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Israel	0	1	0	1
17	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		27	27	27	81

Women's singles

Total number of Finlandia Trophy medals in women's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	15	5	8	28
2	Finland	5	9	5	19
3	Japan	3	3	2	8
4	South Korea	2	1	0	3
5	United States	1	1	1	3
6	Canada	1	0	0	1
7	Ukraine	0	2	1	3
8	Italy	0	1	1	2
9	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	Estonia	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
14	France	0	0	2	2
	Georgia	0	0	2	2
	Hungary	0	0	2	2
17	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		27	27	27	81

Pairs

Total number of Finlandia Trophy medals in pairs by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	4	4	2	10
2	Canada	2	2	2	6
3	United States	1	1	3	5
4	Germany	1	1	2	4
5	China	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
7	Italy	0	2	0	2
8	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		10	10	10	30

Ice dance

Total number of Finlandia Trophy medals in ice dance by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	6	8	5	19
2	Bulgaria	5	0	0	5
3	Canada	4	0	2	6
4	France	3	0	1	4
5	Great Britain	2	1	3	6
6	United States	1	6	3	10
7	Poland	1	0	3	4
8	Finland	1	0	1	2
9	Italy	0	2	0	2
10	China	0	1	0	1
	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Israel	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
16	Austria	0	0	2	2
	Denmark	0	0	2	2
18	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		23	23	23	69

Total medal count

Total number of Finlandia Trophy medals by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	34	25	25	84
2	Japan	10	5	2	17
3	United States	7	16	10	33
4	Canada	7	3	7	17
5	Finland	6	9	6	21
6	Bulgaria	5	0	0	5
7	France	4	0	4	8
8	South Korea	3	2	0	5
9	Germany	2	2	2	6
	Ukraine	2	2	2	6
11	China	2	2	0	4
12	Great Britain	2	1	3	6
13	Poland	1	1	4	6
14	Romania	1	1	1	3
15	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
16	Italy	0	5	2	7
17	Hungary	0	2	3	5
18	Israel	0	2	0	2
	Kazakhstan	0	2	0	2
20	Georgia	0	1	3	4
	Sweden	0	1	3	4
22	Australia	0	1	2	3
	Austria	0	1	2	3
24	Estonia	0	1	1	2
	Spain	0	1	1	2
26	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
27	Denmark	0	0	2	2
28	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		87	87	87	261