2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy

The 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy was held on September 19–22, 2018, at the Ondrej Nepela Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was part of the 2018–19 ISU Challenger Series.^[1] Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy
Type:	ISU Challenger Series
Date:	September 19 – 22
Season:	2018–19
Location:	Bratislava, Slovakia
Host:	Slovak Figure Skating Association
Venue:	Ondrej Nepela Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Mikhail Kolyada
Ladies' singles: Rika Kihira
Pairs: Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc
Ice dance: Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
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Entries

The International Skating Union published the list of entries on August 27, 2018.

Country	Men[2]	Ladies[3]	Pairs[4]	Ice dance[5]
Austria	Manuel Drechsler Albert Mück
Belarus	Anton Karpuk	Alisa Turchina		Anna Kublikova / Yuri Hulitski
Bulgaria	Nicky Obreykov
Czech Republic	Jiří Bělohradský	Elizaveta Ukolova
Finland				Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
France				Adelina Galayavieva / Louis Thauron
Georgia	Morisi Kvitelashvili
Germany				Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck
Hungary	Alexander Borovoj Andras Csernoch
Israel	Daniel Samohin
Italy			Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti
Japan	Keiji Tanaka	Rika Kihira Rin Nitaya
Kazakhstan		Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Poland	Krzysztof Gala	Elzbieta Gabryszak
Russia	Mikhail Kolyada Alexander Samarin Sergei Voronov	Stanislava Konstantinova Polina Tsurskaya	Lina Kudryavtseva / Ilia Spiridonov	Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
Slovakia	Marco Klepoch Michael Neuman	Silvia Hugec Nina Letenayova Maria Sofia Pucherova
South Korea		Choi Yu-jin Kim Hyun-soo
Turkey	Burak Demirboğa
Great Britain	Graham Newberry	Danielle Harrison Kristen Spours		Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Robynne Tweedale / Joseph Buckland
United States	Sean Rabbitt	Katie McBeath Megan Wessenberg	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

Changes to preliminary assignments

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Notes	Refs
August 29	Ladies	Choi Da-bin	Kim Hyun-soo		[6]
August 31		Hana Cvijanovic	—		[7]
August 31	Ice dance	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro			[8]
September 12	Ladies	Lutricia Bock			[9]
		Daria Jakab
		Ceciliane Mei Ling Hartmann
		Sıla Saygı
		Nicole Rajičová	Maria Sofia Pucherova
September 13	Men	Luc Maierhofer	Nicky Obreykov		[10]
		Alexei Bychenko	—
		Daniel Grassl
		Jari Kessler
		Alexey Erokhov	Alexander Samarin
	Ice dance	Shira Ichilov / Vadim Davidovich	—		[11]
		Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev
September 18	Pairs	Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji		No longer enough pairs entries to be considered a Challenger Series event	[12]
	Ice dance	Elise Montanier / Laurent Abecassis			[13]
September 19	Men	Lap Kan Yuen			[14]
	Ladies	Alina Zagitova		Visa issues	[15]

Results

Men's singles

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Mikhail Kolyada	Russia	274.37	1	96.82	1	177.55
	Sergei Voronov	Russia	239.73	2	81.77	2	157.96
	Keiji Tanaka	Japan	221.92	3	77.53	4	144.39
4	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Georgia	221.63	4	76.49	3	145.14
5	Alexander Samarin	Russia	215.69	5	76.30	5	139.39
6	Daniel Samohin	Israel	197.80	7	70.93	6	126.87
7	Sean Rabbitt	United States	195.83	6	70.98	7	124.85
8	Jiří Bělohradský	Czech Republic	177.36	8	64.86	10	112.50
9	Burak Demirboğa	Turkey	170.62	11	55.54	8	115.08
10	Graham Newberry	Great Britain	169.19	10	58.32	11	110.87
11	Nicky Obreykov	Bulgaria	163.60	14	49.24	9	114.36
12	Krzysztof Gala	Poland	151.59	13	53.81	12	97.78
13	Marco Klepoch	Slovakia	150.33	12	53.98	13	96.35
14	Michael Neuman	Slovakia	146.03	9	60.04	14	85.99
15	Alexander Borovoj	Hungary	124.81	15	44.34	15	80.47
16	Anton Karpuk	Belarus	116.19	18	37.28	16	78.91
17	Andras Csernoch	Hungary	114.42	19	36.70	17	77.72
18	Manuel Drechsler	Austria	104.04	17	38.33	18	65.71
19	Albert Mück	Austria	86.05	16	38.62	19	47.43

Ladies' singles

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Rika Kihira	Japan	218.16	1	70.79	1	147.37
	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Kazakhstan	192.30	2	69.99	2	122.31
	Stanislava Konstantinova	Russia	180.02	3	65.03	3	114.99
4	Polina Tsurskaya	Russia	154.61	4	54.36	5	100.25
5	Katie McBeath	United States	154.56	7	52.85	4	101.71
6	Choi Yu-jin	South Korea	150.14	6	54.20	6	95.94
7	Megan Wessenberg	United States	143.47	8	52.01	7	91.46
8	Silvia Hugec	Slovakia	135.00	5	54.24	10	80.76
9	Rin Nitaya	Japan	133.86	10	45.57	8	88.29
10	Elzbieta Gabryszak	Poland	132.46	9	46.91	9	85.55
11	Elizaveta Ukolova	Czech Republic	121.77	12	42.78	11	78.99
12	Danielle Harrison	Great Britain	120.02	11	43.26	12	76.76
13	Maria Sofia Pucherova	Slovakia	106.51	13	37.77	14	68.74
14	Kim Hyun-soo	South Korea	105.83	14	35.60	13	70.23
15	Alisa Turchina	Belarus	89.04	15	31.31	15	57.73

Pairs

Note: For this category, the 2018 Ondrej Nepela Trophy was not considered a Challenger Series event, since the minimum required number of entries for a Challenger Series event was not reached.^[16]

Rank	Team	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc	United States	181.56	1	65.68	1	115.88
	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	United States	174.78	3	59.60	2	115.18
	Lina Kudryavtseva / Ilia Spiridonov	Russia	157.12	2	62.69	4	94.43
4	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Italy	155.02	4	53.09	3	101.93

Ice dance

Rank	Team	Nation	Total points	RD		FD
	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia	196.42	1	75.96	1	120.46
	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	United States	178.64	2	70.37	2	108.27
	Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov	Russia	170.47	3	67.65	3	102.82
4	Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti	Italy	159.21	5	61.05	5	98.16
5	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	158.85	8	59.34	4	99.51
6	Robynne Tweedale / Joseph Buckland	Great Britain	153.59	7	59.61	6	93.98
7	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Finland	150.66	6	60.61	7	90.05
8	Adelina Galayavieva / Louis Thauron	France	149.69	4	62.37	8	87.32
9	Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck	Germany	141.03	9	55.86	9	85.17
10	Anna Kublikova / Yuri Hulitski	Belarus	129.49	10	48.61	10	80.88