2022–23 ISU Challenger Series

The 2022–23 ISU Challenger Series was held from September to December 2022. It was the ninth season that the ISU Challenger Series, a group of senior-level international figure skating competitions, was held.

2022–23 ISU Challenger Series
Type:	ISU Challenger Series
Date:	September 12 – December 10, 2022
Season:	2022–23
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Competitions

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

Date	Event	Location	Notes	Results
September 12–16	2022 U.S. International Classic	Lake Placid, New York, United States		Details
September 16–19	2022 Lombardia Trophy	Bergamo, Italy	No pairs	Details
September 21–24	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy	Oberstdorf, Germany		Details
September 29 – October 1	2022 Nepela Memorial	Bratislava, Slovakia	No pairs	Details
October 5–9	2022 Finlandia Trophy	Espoo, Finland		Details
October 13–17	2022 Budapest Trophy	Budapest, Hungary	No pairs	Details
October 26–29	2022 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Almaty, Kazakhstan	No pairs	Details
November 9–13	2022 Ice Challenge	Graz, Austria	No pairs	Details
November 17–20	2022 Warsaw Cup	Warsaw, Poland		Details
December 7–10	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb	Sisak, Croatia		Details

Requirements

Skaters were eligible to compete on the Challenger Series if they had reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2022.

Medal summary

Men's singles

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
U.S. International Classic	Ilia Malinin	Kevin Aymoz	Camden Pulkinen	Details
Lombardia Trophy	Adam Siao Him Fa	Koshiro Shimada	Nikolaj Memola	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Keegan Messing	Lee Si-hyeong	Roman Sadovsky	Details
Nepela Memorial	Gabriele Frangipani	Cha Jun-hwan	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Cha Jun-hwan	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Andreas Nordebäck	Details
Budapest Trophy|	Matteo Rizzo	Lukas Britschgi	Nikolaj Memola	Details
Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Nika Egadze	Dias Jirenbayev	Vladimir Litvintsev	Details
Ice Challenge	Liam Kapeikis	Andreas Nordebäck	Nikita Starostin	Details
Warsaw Cup	Kévin Aymoz	Daniel Grassl	Lukas Britschgi	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Camden Pulkinen	Matteo Rizzo	Mihhail Selevko	Details

Women's singles

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
U.S. International Classic	Kim Ye-lim	You Young	Mana Kawabe	Details
Lombardia Trophy	Rinka Watanabe	Kaori Sakamoto	Ekaterina Kurakova	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Loena Hendrickx	Wi Seo-yeong	Eva-Lotta Kiibus	Details
Nepela Memorial	Isabeau Levito	Lara Naki Gutmann	Lee Hae-in	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Kim Ye-lim	Kim Chae-yeon	Anastasiia Gubanova	Details
Budapest Trophy	Ava Marie Ziegler	Kimmy Repond	Niina Petrõkina	Details
Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Kim Min-chae	Anna Levkovets	Choi Da-bin	Details
Ice Challenge	Anna Pezzetta	Kaiya Ruiter	Kimmy Repond	Details
Warsaw Cup	Ekaterina Kurakova	Sarina Joos	Janna Jyrkinen	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Lindsay Thorngren	Bradie Tennell	Madeline Schizas	Details

Pairs

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
U.S. International Classic	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe	Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert	Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar	Details
Warsaw Cup	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Letizia Roscher / Luis Schuster	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea	Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud	Details

Ice dance

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
U.S. International Classic	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Eva Pate / Logan Bye	Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov	Details
Lombardia Trophy	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus	Details
Nepela Memorial	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Eva Pate / Logan Bye	Marie Dupayage / Thomas Nabais	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Details
Budapest Trophy	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen	Details
Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan	Mariia Ignateva / Danijil Szemko	Details
Ice Challenge	Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville	Natacha Lagouge / Arnaud Caffa	Lily Hensen / Nathan Lickers	Details
Warsaw Cup	Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan	Marie Dupayage / Thomas Nabais	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik	Details

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	9	6	5	20
2	Italy	5	4	2	11
3	Canada	5	1	6	12
4	South Korea	4	5	2	11
5	France	3	3	2	8
6	Japan	2	2	1	5
7	Great Britain	2	0	0	2
8	Germany	1	4	3	8
9	Georgia	1	1	1	3
10	Poland	1	0	1	2
11	Australia	1	0	0	1
	Belgium	1	0	0	1
13	Switzerland	0	3	2	5
14	Lithuania	0	3	0	3
15	Kazakhstan	0	2	0	2
16	Sweden	0	1	1	2
17	Estonia	0	0	3	3
18	Finland	0	0	2	2
19	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 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

As of December 12, 2022^[update].^[2]

No.	Skater	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Kévin Aymoz	France	U.S. International Classic	236.17	Warsaw Cup	258.02	494.19
2	Lukas Britschgi	Switzerland	Budapest Trophy	239.66		253.66	493.32
3	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	Budapest Trophy	253.34	Golden Spin of Zagreb	228.86	482.00
4	Cha Jun-hwan	South Korea	Nepela Memorial	226.32	Finlandia Trophy	253.20	479.52
5	Gabriele Frangipani	Italy		244.57	Budapest Trophy	230.99	475.56

Women's singles

As of December 12, 2022^[update].^[3]

No.	Skater	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Kim Ye-lim	South Korea	U.S. International Classic	190.64	Finlandia Trophy	213.97	404.61
2	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	Lombardia Trophy	188.41	Warsaw Cup	189.98	378.39
3	Lindsay Thorngren	United States	Finlandia Trophy	165.09	Golden Spin of Zagreb	196.48	361.57
4	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	Nepela Memorial	164.88	Finlandia Trophy	195.72	360.60
5	Kimmy Repond	Switzerland	Budapest Trophy	177.74	Ice Challenge	169.35	347.09

Pairs

As of December 12, 2022^[update].^[4]

No.	Team	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Italy	U.S. International Classic	189.22	Warsaw Cup	184.21	373.43
2	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	Germany	Nebelhorn Trophy	184.47	Finlandia Trophy	180.62	365.09
3	Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert			186.17		177.11	363.28
4	Letizia Roscher / Luis Schuster		Finlandia Trophy	165.58	Warsaw Cup	170.65	336.23
5	Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia	United States		152.88	Golden Spin of Zagreb	179.26	332.14

Ice dance

As of December 12, 2022^[update].^[5]

No.	Team	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	U.S. International Classic	190.80	Nebelhorn Trophy	206.60	397.40
2	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Canada	Nepela Memorial	193.35	Budapest Trophy	202.40	395.75
3	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	Nebelhorn Trophy	185.41	Golden Spin of Zagreb	189.47	374.88
4	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler	Czech Republic	Lombardia Trophy	183.55	Finlandia Trophy	178.85	362.40
5	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan	Germany	Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	177.91	Warsaw Cup	181.50	359.41

Top scores

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

For the season's highest scores, see 2022–23 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	Kévin Aymoz	France	258.02	2022 Warsaw Cup
2	Daniel Grassl	Italy	257.76
3	Ilia Malinin	United States	257.28	2022 U.S. International Classic
4	Lukas Britschgi	Switzerland	253.66	2022 Warsaw Cup
5	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	253.34	2022 Budapest Trophy
6	Cha Jun-hwan	South Korea	253.20	2022 Finlandia Trophy
7	Keegan Messing	Canada	245.74	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
8	Gabriele Frangipani	Italy	244.57	2022 Nepela Memorial
9	Camden Pulkinen	United States	242.09	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
10	Adam Siao Him Fa	France	237.19	2022 Lombardia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the men's short program

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Cha Jun-hwan	South Korea	91.06	2022 Finlandia Trophy
2	Kévin Aymoz	France	89.60	2022 Warsaw Cup
3	Roman Sadovsky	Canada	89.57	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
4	Koshiro Shimada	Japan	89.18	2022 Lombardia Trophy
5	Gabriele Frangipani	Italy	87.39	2022 Nepela Memorial
6	Maxim Naumov	United States	87.11	2022 Budapest Trophy
7	Lee Si-hyeong	South Korea	86.78	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
8	Lukas Britschgi	Switzerland	86.51	2022 Warsaw Cup
9	Camden Pulkinen	United States	85.45	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
10	Adam Siao Him Fa	France	84.69	2022 Lombardia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the men's free skating

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Ilia Malinin	United States	185.44	2022 U.S. International Classic
2	Daniel Grassl	Italy	181.32	2022 Warsaw Cup
3	Keegan Messing	Canada	170.89	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
4	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	170.21	2022 Budapest Trophy
5	Kévin Aymoz	France	168.42	2022 Warsaw Cup
6	Lukas Britschgi	Switzerland	167.15
7	Cha Jun-hwan	South Korea	162.14	2022 Finlandia Trophy
8	Gabriele Frangipani	Italy	160.20	2022 Budapest Trophy
9	Camden Pulkinen	United States	156.64	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
10	François Pitot	France	153.20	2022 Ice Challenge

Women's singles

Top 10 best scores in the women's combined total

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kim Ye-lim	South Korea	213.97	2022 Finlandia Trophy
2	Rinka Watanabe	Japan	213.14	2022 Lombardia Trophy
3	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	208.05	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
4	Kim Chae-yeon	South Korea	205.51	2022 Finlandia Trophy
5	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	205.33	2022 Lombardia Trophy
6	Isabeau Levito	United States	198.99	2022 Nepela Memorial
7	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	197.56	2022 Finlandia Trophy
8	Lindsay Thorngren	United States	196.48	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
9	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	195.72	2022 Finlandia Trophy
10	Bradie Tennell	United States	193.31	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb

Top 10 best scores in the women's short program

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	76.19	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	72.93	2022 Lombardia Trophy
3	Kim Ye-lim	South Korea	71.88	2022 Finlandia Trophy
4	Bradie Tennell	United States	68.84	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
5	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	68.03	2022 Finlandia Trophy
6	Kim Chae-yeon	South Korea	67.84
7	Rinka Watanabe	Japan	66.83	2022 Lombardia Trophy
8	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	66.00	2022 Finlandia Trophy
9	Isabeau Levito	United States	65.37	2022 Nepela Memorial
10	Madeline Schizas	Canada	64.99	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the women's free skating

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Rinka Watanabe	Japan	146.31	2022 Lombardia Trophy
2	Kim Ye-lim	South Korea	142.09	2022 Finlandia Trophy
3	Kim Chae-yeon		137.67
4	Lindsay Thorngren	United States	135.99	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
5	Isabeau Levito		133.62	2022 Nepela Memorial
6	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	132.40	2022 Lombardia Trophy
7	Wi Seo-yeong	South Korea	131.94	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
8	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	131.86
9	Ava Marie Ziegler	United States	130.24	2022 Budapest Trophy
10	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	129.72	2022 Finlandia Trophy

Pairs

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	Canada	192.74	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Italy	189.22	2022 U.S. International Classic
3	Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert	Germany	186.17	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
4	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Australia	185.53	2022 Warsaw Cup
5	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	Germany	184.47	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
6	Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe	United States	181.81	2022 U.S. International Classic
7	Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia		179.26	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea		178.83
9	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii	Italy	177.87	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
10	Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud	Canada	176.88	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' short program

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	Germany	69.13	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	Canada	68.08
3	Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert	Germany	67.05
4	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Italy	65.79	2022 Warsaw Cup
5	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii		64.85	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
6	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Australia	63.62	2022 Warsaw Cup
7	Letizia Roscher / Luis Schuster	Germany	63.11
8	Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia	United States	62.44	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
9	Anastasiia Metelkina / Daniil Parkman	Georgia	62.15	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
10	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea	United States	62.07	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' free skating

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	Canada	124.66	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Italy	124.44	2022 U.S. International Classic
3	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Australia	121.91	2022 Warsaw Cup
4	Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe	United States	120.10	2022 U.S. International Classic
5	Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert	Germany	119.12	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
6	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel		117.04	2022 Finlandia Trophy
7	Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia	United States	116.82	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea		116.76
9	Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud	Canada	115.75
10	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii	Italy	113.02	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy

Ice dance

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

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	211.85	2022 Lombardia Trophy
2	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	206.60	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
3	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	203.76	2022 Finlandia Trophy
4	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha		202.40	2022 Budapest Trophy
5	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	197.45	2022 Finlandia Trophy
6	Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	France	192.85	2022 Budapest Trophy
7	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	191.31	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	189.47
9	Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi	Japan	188.30	2022 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
10	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Finland	186.30	2022 Finlandia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the rhythm dance

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	87.09	2022 Lombardia Trophy
2	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	85.80	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
3	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Canada	82.09	2022 Budapest Trophy
4	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen		81.83	2022 Finlandia Trophy
5	Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi	Japan	79.56	2022 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
6	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	78.98	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
7	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	78.90	2022 Finlandia Trophy
8	Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	France	76.83	2022 Budapest Trophy
9	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	76.54	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
10	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler	Czech Republic	75.41	2022 Lombardia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the free dance

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	124.76	2022 Lombardia Trophy
2	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	121.93	2022 Finlandia Trophy
3	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	120.80	2022 Nebelhorn Trophy
4	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Canada	120.31	2022 Budapest Trophy
5	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	118.55	2022 Finlandia Trophy
6	Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	France	116.02	2022 Budapest Trophy
7	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	114.77	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	112.26
9	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Finland	111.95	2022 Finlandia Trophy
10	Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik	United States	110.96	2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb