2020 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2020 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from January 20–26, 2020 at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior and junior levels. The results were part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2020 Four Continents Championships, 2020 World Junior Championships, and the 2020 World Championships.

2020 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Type:	National Championship
Date:	January 20 – 26
Season:	2019–20
Location:	Greensboro, North Carolina
Host:	U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:	Greensboro Coliseum Complex
Champions
Men's singles: Nathan Chen (Senior) & Maxim Naumov (Junior)
Women's singles: Alysa Liu (Senior) & Lindsay Thorngren (Junior)
Pairs: Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chris Knierim (Senior) & Kate Finster and Balázs Nagy (Junior)
Ice dance: Madison Chock and Evan Bates (Senior) & Avonley Nguyen and Vadym Kolesnik (Junior)
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Greensboro was announced as the host in November 2018.^[1] The city previously hosted the event in 2011 and 2015.

Qualifying

U.S. Figure Skating implemented a new qualifying structure beginning from the 2019–20 season.^[2] Competitors qualified through the National Qualifying Series (NQS), Regional (singles) and Sectional (pairs/ice dance) Challenges, and Sectional (singles) and U.S. (pairs/ice dance) Finals, held from June to November 2019, or earned a bye. The NQS is not mandatory, but the top six singles athletes in each section may earn a bye to the Sectional Singles Final, and the top three teams/couples in pairs and ice dance may earn a bye to the U.S. Final in their respective disciplines.^[3] The top four finishers at the Sectional Finals (singles) and the top twelve finishers at the U.S. Finals (pairs/ice dance) earned a spot at the National Figure Skating Championships.

Juvenile, intermediate, and novice skaters qualified for the National High Performance Development Team and Camp in lieu of participating at U.S. Championships.

Date	Event	Type	Location	Results
June–September 2019	National Qualifying Series (NQS)		Various cities	Details Archived 2019-04-06 at the Wayback Machine
October 2–6, 2019	South Atlantic	Regional Challenge	Aston, Pennsylvania	Details
	Eastern Ice Dance/Pairs	Sectional Challenge		Details
	Eastern Great Lakes	Regional Challenge	Lansing, Michigan	Details
	Midwestern Ice Dance	Sectional Challenge		Details
	Northwest Pacific	Regional Challenge	Mountlake Terrace, Washington	Details
October 16–20, 2019	Southwestern	Regional Challenge	Colorado Springs, Colorado	Details
	Midwestern Pairs	Sectional Challenge		Details
	Southwest Pacific	Regional Challenge	Irvine, California	Details
	Pacific Coast Pairs	Sectional Challenge		Details
October 23–27, 2019	New England	Regional Challenge	Westborough, Massachusetts	Details
	North Atlantic	Regional Challenge		Details
	Upper Great Lakes	Regional Challenge	Saint Paul, Minnesota	Details
	Central Pacific	Regional Challenge	Salt Lake City, Utah	Details
	Pacific Coast Ice Dance	Sectional Challenge		Details
November 12–16, 2019	Eastern	Sectional Final	Hyannis, Massachusetts	Details
	U.S. Ice Dance Final	U.S. Final		Details
	Midwestern	Sectional Final	Allen, Texas	Details
	U.S. Pairs Final	U.S. Final		Details
	Pacific Coast	Sectional Final	Wenatchee, Washington	Details
January 20–26, 2020	U.S. Championships	Championship	Greensboro, North Carolina	Details

Minimum TES requirements

In the senior division, all competitors that qualify through their placement at a Sectional Singles Final, the U.S. Pairs Final, or the U.S. Dance Final, must have met a minimum combined Technical Elements Score (TES) during the season to compete at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.^[2]

Minimum technical scores (TES)[4]
Discipline	Combined
Men	92
Ladies	75
Pairs	68
Ice dance	65
May be attained at any official NQS event, a Regional or Sectional Challenge, a Sectional or U.S. Final, or any international competition

Entries

A list of qualified skaters was published on November 26, 2019.^[5]

Seniors

Several qualified skaters were unable to compete due to failure to achieve the minimum TES: Andrew Austin, Ben Jalovick, Tony Lu, and Jun Hong Chen in men's singles, Megan Wessenberg in ladies' singles, and Brynne McIsaac / Mark Sadusky in pairs.^[6]

Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
Jason Brown	Starr Andrews	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
Nathan Chen	Maxine Marie Bautista	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Ryan Dunk	Mariah Bell	Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe (withdrew)	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons
Tomoki Hiwatashi	Karen Chen	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
William Hubbart	Ting Cui (withdrew)	Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Joonsoo Kim	Alex Evans	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
Alexei Krasnozhon	Amber Glenn	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Bailey Melton / Ryan O'Donnell
Jimmy Ma	Gracie Gold	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	Eva Pate / Logan Bye
Jordan Moeller	Caitlin Ha	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Livvy Shilling / Alexander Petrov
Yaroslav Paniot	Hanna Harrell (withdrew)	Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov
Camden Pulkinen	Courtney Hicks	Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan
Sean Rabbitt	Rena Ikenishi	Olivia Serafini / Mervin Tran
Emmanuel Savary	Gabriella Izzo	Allison Timlen / Justin Highgate-Brutman
Andrew Torgashev	Sarah Jung
Dinh Tran	Alysa Liu
Vincent Zhou	Emilia Murdock (withdrew)
	Alyssa Rich
	Paige Rydberg
	Bradie Tennell
	Sierra Venetta
	Emily Zhang

Juniors

Names with an asterisk (*) denote novice skaters.

Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
Lucas Altieri	Lara Annunziata	Sarah Burden / Jake Pagano	Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik
Goku Endo	Elsa Cheng*	Sydney Cooke / Timmy Chapman	Hilary Asher / Kyle Pearson
Chase Finster	Calista Choi	Winter Deardorff / Mikhail Johnson	Oona Brown / Gage Brown
Nicolas Hsieh	Hazel Collier*	Kate Finster / Balázs Nagy	Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov
Joseph Kang	Mia Eckels	Sydney Flaum / Alex Wellman	Katarina DelCamp / Ian Somerville
Liam Kapeikis	Hannah Herrera*	Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell	Isabella Flores / Adam Bouaziz
Joseph Klein*	Tamnhi Huynh*	Analise Gonzalez / Franz-Peter Jerosch	Layla Karnes / Kenan Slevira
Kai Kovar*	Isabelle Inthisone	Evelyn Grace Hanns / Jim Garbutt (withdrew)	Angela Ling / Caleb Wein
Seth Kurogi	Mia Kalin	Grace Knoop / Blake Eisenach (withdrew)	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik
Ilia Malinin (withdrew)	Michelle Lee*	Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard	Anna Nicklas / Max Ryan (withdrew)
Daniel Martynov*	Isabeau Levito*	Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siianytsia	Cordelia Pride / Benjamin Lawless
Samuel Mindra*	Jessica Lin	Arianna Varvoutis / Derrick Griffin	Samantha Ritter / Jim Wang
Maxim Naumov	Maryn Pierce		Breelie Taylor / Tyler Vollmer
Matthew Nielsen	Noelle Rosa		Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov
Jacob Sanchez*	Ellen Slavicek		Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen
David Shapiro	Lindsay Thorngren
Eric Sjoberg	Mauryn Tyack
Daniel Turchin	Kate Wang
Robert Yampolsky*

Novice

The top two novice finishers at each Sectional in men's and ladies' singles were added to the junior event at U.S. Championships.^[2][7]

Sectional		Men	Ladies
Eastern	1	Robert Yampolsky	Isabeau Levito
	2	Jacob Sanchez	Hazel Collier
Midwestern	1	Joseph Klein	Elsa Cheng
	2	Daniel Martynov	Tamnhi Huynh
Pacific Coast	1	Samuel Mindra	Michelle Lee
	2	Kai Kovar	Hannah Herrera

Changes to preliminary entries

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason/Other notes	Refs
December 22	Senior ladies	Ting Cui	N/A	Injury (right ankle)	[8]
January 4	Junior ice dance	Anna Nicklas / Max Ryan	Breelie Taylor / Tyler Vollmer		[9]
January 13	Senior ladies	Hanna Harrell	N/A	Injury recovery	[10]
	Junior pairs	Grace Knoop / Blake Eisenach	N/A
January 16	Senior ladies	Emilia Murdock	N/A		[11]
	Senior pairs	Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe	N/A
	Junior men	Ilia Malinin	N/A
	Junior pairs	Evelyn Grace Hanns / Jim Garbutt	N/A

Medal summary

Senior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Nathan Chen	Jason Brown	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Vincent Zhou
Ladies	Alysa Liu	Mariah Bell	Bradie Tennell	Karen Chen
Pairs	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc
Ice dance	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko

Junior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pewter
Men	Maxim Naumov	Eric Sjoberg	Liam Kapeikis	Lucas Altieri
Ladies	Lindsay Thorngren	Isabeau Levito	Calista Choi	Isabelle Inthisone
Pairs	Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy	Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siianytsia	Winter Deardorff / Mikhail Johnson	Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell
Ice dance	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik	Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen	Oona Brown / Gage Brown	Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov

Senior results

Senior men

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Nathan Chen	330.17	1	114.13	1	216.04
2	Jason Brown	292.88	2	100.99	2	191.89
3	Tomoki Hiwatashi	278.08	5	94.21	3	183.87
4	Vincent Zhou	275.23	4	94.82	4	180.41
5	Andrew Torgashev	260.64	3	97.87	5	162.77
6	Alexei Krasnozhon	241.32	6	80.71	6	160.61
7	Camden Pulkinen	236.08	7	79.19	7	156.89
8	Dinh Tran	220.88	11	71.86	8	149.02
9	Sean Rabbitt	213.46	8	77.71	9	135.75
10	Yaroslav Paniot	209.79	9	77.10	10	132.69
11	Ryan Dunk	199.45	14	67.15	11	132.30
12	William Hubbart	195.87	13	69.11	12	126.76
13	Jimmy Ma	193.85	12	71.54	13	122.31
14	Jordan Moeller	191.25	10	71.87	14	119.38
15	Joonsoo Kim	177.03	15	60.13	15	116.90

Senior women

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Alysa Liu	235.52	2	75.40	1	160.12
2	Mariah Bell	225.21	3	73.22	2	151.99
3	Bradie Tennell	220.86	1	78.96	3	141.90
4	Karen Chen	193.65	5	70.41	4	123.24
5	Amber Glenn	186.57	4	73.16	9	113.42
6	Starr Andrews	181.78	7	65.86	6	115.92
7	Sierra Venetta	176.37	11	57.98	5	118.39
8	Courtney Hicks	175.28	9	60.25	7	115.03
9	Gabriella Izzo	174.41	6	65.94	11	108.47
10	Rena Ikenishi	171.81	12	57.47	8	114.34
11	Maxine Marie Bautista	171.46	10	59.47	10	111.99
12	Gracie Gold	161.75	13	54.51	12	107.24
13	Emily Zhang	158.36	15	52.48	13	105.88
14	Paige Rydberg	150.12	8	60.82	16	89.30
15	Sarah Jung	149.38	17	51.09	14	98.29
16	Alex Evans	142.70	14	53.53	17	89.17
17	Caitlin Ha	139.37	16	51.48	18	87.89
18	Alyssa Rich	138.54	18	45.25	15	93.29

Senior pairs

Rank	Team	Total points	SP		FS
1	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	216.15	1	77.06	2	139.09
2	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	213.57	3	68.86	1	146.01
3	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	204.07	2	70.35	3	133.72
4	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	197.12	4	67.56	4	128.26
5	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	186.25	6	61.33	5	124.92
6	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	181.49	5	65.06	6	116.43
7	Olivia Serafini / Mervin Tran	171.21	7	61.08	7	110.13
8	Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan	165.93	8	58.48	8	107.45
9	Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker	164.12	9	57.95	9	106.17
10	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	147.07	12	50.86	10	96.21
11	Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov	143.29	11	51.50	11	91.79
12	Allison Timlen / Justin Highgate-Brutman	135.10	10	55.60	12	79.50

Senior ice dance

Rank	Team	Total points	RD		FD
1	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	221.86	1	87.63	1	134.23
2	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	217.19	2	86.31	2	130.88
3	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	201.16	3	82.59	3	118.57
4	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	194.16	4	78.02	4	116.14
5	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons	180.25	5	77.42	5	102.83
6	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	173.67	6	75.79	6	97.88
7	Eva Pate / Logan Bye	155.82	7	60.07	7	95.75
8	Livvy Shilling / Alexander Petrov	133.93	8	56.24	8	77.69
9	Bailey Melton / Ryan O'Donnell	96.02	9	39.47	9	56.55

Junior results

Junior men

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Maxim Naumov	206.92	1	70.75	2	136.17
2	Eric Sjoberg	202.38	6	62.97	1	139.41
3	Liam Kapeikis	189.15	2	68.12	4	121.03
4	Lucas Altieri	187.94	4	65.55	3	122.39
5	Nicholas Hsieh	183.54	5	65.20	5	118.34
6	Joseph Kang	177.80	3	67.84	7	109.96
7	Chase Finster	171.98	8	61.73	6	110.25
8	Matthew Nielsen	165.59	9	61.51	9	104.08
9	David Shapiro	165.39	12	58.69	8	106.70
10	Samuel Mindra	164.51	7	62.48	11	102.03
11	Kai Kovar	162.26	11	58.90	10	103.36
12	Daniel Martynov	158.54	13	56.63	12	101.91
13	Joseph Klein	155.98	15	55.83	13	100.15
14	Robert Yampolsky	147.62	16	50.48	14	97.14
15	Goku Endo	146.94	10	60.08	18	86.86
16	Daniel Turchin	145.09	14	55.93	17	89.16
17	Jacob Sanchez	142.19	17	49.21	15	92.98
18	Seth Kurogi	139.75	18	47.60	16	92.15

Junior women

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Lindsay Thorngren	183.76	2	59.66	1	124.10
2	Isabeau Levito	179.47	3	59.18	2	120.29
3	Calista Choi	177.05	1	61.82	3	115.23
4	Isabelle Inthisone	165.34	4	58.80	4	106.54
5	Kate Wang	160.88	6	54.85	5	106.03
6	Tamnhi Huynh	155.44	12	50.15	6	105.29
7	Elsa Cheng	151.68	5	55.26	7	96.42
8	Maryn Pierce	144.32	8	52.17	9	92.15
9	Ellen Slavicek	143.58	10	50.91	8	92.67
10	Jessica Lin	137.95	15	47.15	10	90.80
11	Lara Annunziata	137.36	9	51.40	13	85.96
12	Noelle Rosa	137.24	11	50.29	12	86.95
13	Mia Kalin	131.80	7	52.19	17	79.61
14	Mauryn Tyack	128.70	14	47.18	16	81.52
15	Hannah Herrera	126.60	16	44.32	15	82.28
16	Hazel Collier	125.90	17	43.47	14	82.43
17	Mia Eckels	123.52	18	34.32	11	89.20
18	Michelle Lee	120.80	13	48.33	18	72.47

Junior pairs

Rank	Team	Total points	SP		FS
1	Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy	169.37	1	63.89	2	105.48
2	Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siianytsia	163.04	3	54.56	1	108.48
3	Winter Deardorff / Mikhail Johnson	149.47	2	56.60	3	92.87
4	Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell	131.58	4	48.56	4	83.02
5	Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard	119.94	9	38.05	5	81.89
6	Sydney Cooke / Timmy Chapman	115.58	5	41.98	6	73.60
7	Sydney Flaum / Alex Wellman	111.84	7	38.38	7	73.46
8	Sarah Burden / Jake Pagano	109.04	6	40.26	8	68.78
9	Analise Gonzalez / Franz-Peter Jerosch	104.20	8	38.26	9	65.94
10	Arianna Varvoutis / Derrick Griffin	97.72	10	33.11	10	64.61

Junior ice dance

Rank	Team	Total points	RD		FD
1	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik	184.38	1	74.49	1	109.89
2	Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen	161.39	4	60.93	2	100.46
3	Oona Brown / Gage Brown	160.54	3	64.91	3	95.63
4	Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov	159.09	2	66.13	4	92.96
5	Katarina DelCamp / Ian Somerville	148.59	5	60.75	5	87.84
6	Angela Ling / Caleb Wein	135.76	6	56.90	7	78.86
7	Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov	134.06	7	54.91	6	79.15
8	Ella Ales / Daniel Tsarik	131.09	8	54.31	8	76.78
9	Layla Karnes / Kenan Slevira	127.78	9	53.33	9	74.45
10	Samantha Ritter / Jim Wang	114.94	10	46.47	10	68.47
11	Cordelia Pride / Benjamin Lawless	104.44	11	44.56	11	59.88
12	Hilary Asher / Kyle Pearson	98.15	13	38.40	12	59.75
13	Isabella Flores / Adam Bouaziz	93.33	12	41.04	13	52.29
14	Breelie Taylor / Tyler Vollmer	83.31	14	34.93	14	48.38

International team selections

World Championships

The 2020 World Figure Skating Championships will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from March 16–22, 2020. U.S. Figure Skating announced the team on January 26.^[12][13]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
	Jason Brown	Mariah Bell	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
	Nathan Chen	Bradie Tennell	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim (withdrew)	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
	Vincent Zhou			Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
1st alt.	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Karen Chen	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson (called up)	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
2nd alt.	Andrew Torgashev	Amber Glenn	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons
3rd alt.	Camden Pulkinen	Starr Andrews	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

Four Continents Championships

The 2020 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships will be held in Seoul, South Korea from February 4–9, 2020. U.S. Figure Skating announced the team on January 26.^[12][13]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
	Jason Brown	Karen Chen	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Amber Glenn	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
	Camden Pulkinen	Bradie Tennell	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
1st alt.	Alexei Krasnozhon	Starr Andrews	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
2nd alt.		Gabriella Izzo	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons
3rd alt.			Olivia Serafini / Mervin Tran	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

World Junior Championships

Commonly referred to as "Junior Worlds", the 2020 World Junior Figure Skating Championships will take place in Tallinn, Estonia from March 2–8, 2020. U.S. Figure Skating announced the men's and ladies' selection camp roster on January 26.^[12][13] The entire team was announced on January 29.^[14]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
	Ilia Malinin	Starr Andrews	Winter Deardorff / Mikhail Johnson	Oona Brown / Gage Brown
	Maxim Naumov	Alysa Liu	Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik
	Andrew Torgashev	Lindsay Thorngren	Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siianytsia	Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen
1st alt.	Dinh Tran	Audrey Shin	Cate Fleming / Jedidah Isbell	Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov
2nd alt.	Eric Sjoberg	Gabriella Izzo		Katarina DelCamp / Ian Somerville
3rd alt.	Lucas Altieri	Isabelle Inthisone		Angela Ling / Caleb Wein
4th alt.	Liam Kapeikis	Calista Choi

Winter Youth Olympics

The 2020 Winter Youth Olympics were held in Lausanne, Switzerland from January 10–15, 2020. The team was announced on December 17, 2019, as the U.S. Championships were held after the Winter Youth Olympics.^[15]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
	Liam Kapeikis	Hanna Harrell (withdrew)	Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell	Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen
	Ilia Malinin (withdrew)	Audrey Shin
Alt.		Kate Wang (called up)