Golden Spin of Zagreb

The Golden Spin of Zagreb (Croatian: Zlatna pirueta Zagreba) is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Croatian Skating Federation (Croatian: Hrvatski klizački savez) and held in Zagreb, Croatia. The competition debuted in 1967 when Zagreb was part of Yugoslavia, and continued as a Croatian event after Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. When the ISU launched the ISU Challenger Series in 2014, the Golden Spin of Zagreb was one of the inaugural competitions. It has been a Challenger Series event ever since, except for 2020, when it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; and when the event is part of the Challenger Series, skaters earn ISU World Standing points based on their results.

Golden Spin of Zagreb
Status	Active
Genre	ISU Challenger Series
Frequency	Annual
Venue	Klizalište Velesajem
Location	Zagreb
Country	Yugoslavia (1968–90) Croatia (since 1992)
Inaugurated	1967
Previous event	2024 Golden Spin of Zagreb
Next event	2025 Golden Spin of Zagreb
Organised by	Croatian Skating Federation

History

The first installment of the Golden Spin of Zagreb was held in 1967 in Zagreb, in what was at the time Yugoslavia.

The breakup of Yugoslavia began with the secession of Slovenia and Croatia in June 1991. The Yugoslav Wars began immediately thereafter. No competition was held in 1991 owing to the Croatian War of Independence.^[1] Despite some hesitation, the Croatian government was adamant that the Golden Spin of Zagreb be held in 1992, even while Croatia experienced intermittent combat with Yugoslavia over regions of Croatia with significant Serbian populations. While some nations declined to send athletes to Zagreb, the competition was held in 1992, and every year thereafter until the war ended in 1995.

In 2001, this event served as the qualifying competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics.^[2]

The ISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It is a series of international figure skating competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union and organized by ISU member nations. The objective is 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.^[3]

The 2025 Golden Spin of Zagreb is scheduled to take place 3–6 December in Zagreb.^[4]

Senior medalists

The 2024 Golden Spin of Zagreb champions: Mihhail Selevko of Estonia (men's singles); Alysa Liu of the United States (women's singles); Ioulia Chtchetinina and Michał Woźniak of Poland (pair skating); and Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez of Great Britain (ice dance)

CS: Challenger Series event

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971	László Vajda	Mr. Masek	Michael Glaubitz	[5]
1972		Michael Glaubitz	Rudi Cerne	[6]
1973	Sergey Volkov	Zdeněk Pazdírek	Didier Gailhaguet	[7]
1974	László Vajda	Alexander Majorov	Christophe Boyadjian	[8]
1975	Grzegorz Głowania	Ludwik Jankowski	Jacek Tascher	[9]
1976	František Pechar	Igor Lisovsky	Gerhard Haubmann	[10]
1977	Gert-Walter Gräbner	Gerhard Haubmann	Torsten Ohlow	[11]
1978	Jean-Christoph Simond	Helmut Kristofics-Binder	László Vajda	[12]
1979	Rudi Cerne	Reggie Raiford	Helmut Kristofics-Binder	[13]
1980
1981	James Santee	Ralf Lewandowski	Herve Pornet	[14]
1982	Masaru Ogawa	Joachim Ehmann	Miljan Begović
1983	Scott Hamilton	Norbert Schramm	Makato Kano
1984	Scott Williams	Grzegorz Filipowski	Fernand Fedronic	[15]
1985	Heiko Fischer	John Filbig	Nils Köpp	[16]
1986	Viktor Petrenko	Philippe Roncoli	James Cygan	[17]
1987	Scott Kurttila	Cameron Medhurst	Martin Marceau	[18]
1988	Riko Krahnert	András Száraz	Norm Proft	[19]
1989	Sergei Dudakov	Craig Heath	Peter Johansson	[20]
1990	Aren Nielsen	Ralph Burghart	Igor Pashkevich	[21]
1991	Competition cancelled due to the Croatian War of Independence			[1]
1992	Axel Médéric	Tomislav Čižmešija	dnul. Tajfas
1993
1994
1995			Jan Čejvan
1996	Roman Serov	Szabolcs Vidrai	Anthony Liu	[14]
1997		Trifun Živanović	Szabolcs Vidrai	[22]
1998	Yevgeny Martynov	Sergei Rylov	Stefan Lindemann	[23]
1999	Roman Serov		Gabriel Monnier	[24]
2000	Ryan Bradley		Markus Leminen	[25]
2001	Sergei Davydov	Kevin van der Perren	Vakhtang Murvanidze	[26]
2002	Gheorghe Chiper	Alexei Vasilevski	Benjamin Miller	[27]
2003	Ma Xiaodong	Zoltán Tóth	Roman Serov	[28]
2004	Hugh Yik	Martin Liebers	Anton Kovalevski	[29]
2005	Gregor Urbas	Marc-André Craig	Ilia Klimkin	[30]
2006		Denis Leushin	Martin Liebers	[31]
2007		Adrian Schultheiss	Vladimir Uspenski	[32]
2008	Yasuharu Nanri	Samuel Contesti	Alexander Majorov	[33]
2009	Denis Ten	Artem Borodulin	Adrian Schultheiss	[34]
2010	Denis Leushin	Michal Březina	Anton Kovalevski	[35]
2011	Tatsuki Machida	Denis Ten	Ivan Bariev	[36]
2012	Vladislav Sesganov	Mark Shakhmatov	Justus Strid	[37]
2013	Sergei Voronov	Artur Gachinski	Ivan Righini	[38]
2014 CS	Denis Ten	Michal Březina	Konstantin Menshov	[39]
2015 CS		Adam Rippon	Adian Pitkeev	[40]
2016 CS	Alexei Bychenko	Daniel Samohin	Keegan Messing	[41]
2017 CS	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Alexei Bychenko	Artur Dmitriev Jr.	[42]
2018 CS	Jason Brown	Mikhail Kolyada	Alexander Samarin	[43]
2019 CS		Morisi Kvitelashvili	Makar Ignatov	[44]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[45]
2021 CS	Keegan Messing	Andrei Mozalev	Jimmy Ma	[46]
2022 CS	Camden Pulkinen	Matteo Rizzo	Mihhail Selevko	[47]
2023 CS	Jin Boyang	Mikhail Shaidorov	Aleksandr Selevko	[48]
2024 CS	Mihhail Selevko	Aleksandr Selevko	François Pitot	[49]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1967
1968	Britt Elfving	Bärbel Fimmen	Maja Winter
1969
1970
1971	Marion Weber	Zsuzsa Homolya	Ilka Spormann	[5]
1972	Ms. Brigitt	Manuela Bertelé	Frigge Drzymalla	[6]
1973	Anett Pötzsch	Zdenka Fiurášková	Susanne Altur	[7]
1974	Rakonszka	Ms. Fialová	Eva Hansson	[8]
1975	Grażyna Dudek	Ms. Temtová	Ms. Belszkaja	[9]
1976	Carola Weißenberg	Lotta Crispin	Sanda Dubravčić	[10]
1977	Sanda Dubravčić	Belinda Coulthard	Liudmila Mineyeva	[11]
1978	Claudia Kristofics-Binder	Sanda Dubravčić	Katarina Witt	[12]
1979	Sanda Dubravčić	Joyce Newell	Dagmar Lurz
1980		Priscilla Hill	Janina Wirth	[50]
1981		Hildescheimer	Ms. Roskam	[51]
1982		Natalia Ovchinnikova	Katrien Pauwels	[52]
1983		Rosalynn Sumners	Karin Telser	[14]
1984	Agnès Gosselin	Kelly Webster	Claudia Villiger	[15]
1985	Constanze Gensel	Manuela Tschupp	Heike Gobbers	[16]
1986	Caryn Kadavy	Ana Kondrasova	Željka Čižmešija	[17]
1987	Jeri Campbell	Charlene Wong	Katrien Pauwels	[18]
1988	Lisa Sargeant	Kelly Szmurlo	Anja Geissler	[19]
1989	Kelly Szmurlo	Dianne Takeuchi	Lily Lyoonjung Lee	[20]
1990	Julia Vorobieva	Anja Geissler	Tisha Walker	[21]
1991	Competition cancelled due to the Croatian War of Independence			[1]
1992	Melita Juratek	Ivana Jakupčević	Vanessa Gusméroli
1993	Julia Vorobieva[53]
1994
1995		Mojca Kopač
1996	Mojca Kopač	Joanne Carter	Sabina Wojtala	[14]
1997	Tatiana Malinina	Brittney McConn	Júlia Sebestyén	[22]
1998	Julia Soldatova	Júlia Sebestyén	Vanessa Gusméroli	[23]
1999	Viktoria Volchkova	Zuzana Paurova	Tamara Dorofejev	[24]
2000	Julia Soldatova	Kristina Oblasova		[54]
2001	Michelle Currie	Amber Corwin	Julia Lautowa	[26]
2002	Alisa Drei	Yebin Mok	Júlia Sebestyén	[27]
2003	Zuzana Babiaková	Diána Póth	Idora Hegel	[28]
2004	Idora Hegel	Galina Maniachenko	Diána Póth	[29]
2005	Alisa Drei	Meagan Duhamel	Silvia Fontana	[30]
2006	Nella Simaová	Tamar Katz	Alisa Drei	[31]
2007	Akiko Suzuki	Kiira Korpi	Katarina Gerboldt	[32]
2008	Júlia Sebestyén	Joshi Helgesson	Jenna McCorkell	[33]
2009	Shion Kokubun	Ekaterina Kozireva	Katarina Gerboldt	[34]
2010	Sonia Lafuente	Kako Tomotaki	Patricia Gleščič	[35]
2011	Adelina Sotnikova	Haruna Suzuki	Maria Artemieva	[36]
2012	Carolina Kostner	Kristina Zaseeva	Isadora Williams	[37]
2013	Yuna Kim	Miki Ando	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[38]
2014 CS	Kiira Korpi	Maria Artemieva	Nicole Rajičová	[39]
2015 CS	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Karen Chen	[40]
2016 CS	Carolina Kostner	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Alena Leonova	[41]
2017 CS	Stanislava Konstantinova	Alisa Fedichkina	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[42]
2018 CS	Bradie Tennell	Anastasiia Gubanova	Mariah Bell	[43]
2019 CS	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Viktoriia Safonova	Nicole Schott	[44]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[45]
2021 CS	Anastasiia Gubanova	Amber Glenn	Niina Petrõkina	[46]
2022 CS	Lindsay Thorngren	Bradie Tennell	Madeline Schizas	[47]
2023 CS	Sarina Joos	Amber Glenn	Starr Andrews	[48]
2024 CS	Alysa Liu	Nina Pinzarrone	Bradie Tennell	[49]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1967
1968	Evelyne Schneider Wilhelm Bietak	Anneliese Seger Karl-Heinz Zitterbart	Beatrix von Brück Reinhard Mirmsecker
1969
1970
1971	Sylvia Konzak Veit Kempe			[5]
1972
1973	Nadezhda Gorshkova Evgeni Shevalovski	Florence Cahn Jean-Roland Racle	Ursula Nemec Michael Nemec
1974
1975
1976	Ingrid Spieglová Alan Spiegl	Galina Takova Alexey Golovkin	Susanne Scheide Andreas Nischwitz	[10]
1977	Sabine Baeß Tassilo Thierbach	Elena Vasyukova Alexei Pogodin	Gabriele Beck Jochen Stahl	[11]
1978		Julia Bystrova Mikhail Valjenin	Sabine Fuchs Xavier Videau	[12]
1979
1980	No pairs competition			[55]
1981	Cornelia Haufer Kersten Beumann	Anna Nalgina Sergei Korovin	Kathia Dubec Xavier Dovillard	[14]
1982–90	No pairs competitions
1991	Competition cancelled due to the Croatian War of Independence			[1]
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996	Dorota Zagórska Mariusz Siudek	Inga Rodionova Aleksandr Anichenko	No other competitors	[14]
1997	Katie Barnhart Charles Bernard	Naomi Grabow Benjamin Oberman	Natalia Ponomareva Evgeni Sviridov	[22]
1998	Nadia Micallef Bruno Marcotte	Oľga Beständigová Jozef Beständig	Marie-France LaChappelle Sacha Blanchet	[23]
1999	Catherine Huc Vivien Rolland		Victoria Maksyuta Vitali Dubina	[24]
2000	Stephanie Kalesavich Aaron Parchem	Molly Quigley Bert Cording	Marie-Pierre Leray Nicolas Osseland	[56]
2001	Sarah Abitbol Stéphane Bernadis	Mariana Kautz Norman Jeschke	Chantal Poirier Ian Moram	[26]
2002	Larisa Spielberg Craig Joeright	Maria Guerassimenko Vladimir Futáš	Marina Aganina Artem Knyazev	[27]
2003	Amanda Evora Mark Ladwig	Hjordis Lee Lenny Faustino	Tiffany Vise Derek Trent	[28]
2004	No pairs competition			[29]
2005	Meagan Duhamel Ryan Arnold	Arina Ushakova Sergei Karev	Katie Beriau Joseph Gazzola	[30]
2006	No pairs competitions			[31]
2007				[32]
2008	Stacey Kemp David King	Nicole Della Monica Yannick Kocon	Kateryna Kostenko Roman Talan	[33]
2009	Liubov Ilyushechkina Nodari Maisuradze	Anastasia Martiusheva Alexei Rogonov	Nina Ivanova Filip Zalevski	[34]
2010	Anastasia Martiusheva Alexei Rogonov	Tatiana Danilova Andrei Novoselov	Molly Arron Daniyel Cohen	[35]
2011		Katharina Gierok Florian Just	Danielle Montalbano Evgeni Krasnopolski	[36]
2012	Angelina Ekaterina Philipp Tarasov	Stina Martini Severin Kiefer	Elizaveta Makarova Leri Kenchadze	[37]
2013	Andrea Davidovich Evgeni Krasnopolski	Natalia Zabiiako Alexandr Zaboev	Julia Lavrentieva Yuri Rudyk	[38]
2014 CS	Kristina Astakhova Alexei Rogonov	Valentina Marchei Ondřej Hotárek	Tarah Kayne Daniel O'Shea	[39]
2015 CS	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Kristina Astakhova Alexei Rogonov		[40]
2016 CS	Nicole Della Monica Matteo Guarise		Ashley Cain Timothy LeDuc	[41]
2017 CS	Natalia Zabiiako Alexander Enbert		Tarah Kayne Daniel O'Shea	[42]
2018 CS	Alisa Efimova Aleksandr Korovin	Alexa Scimeca Knierim Chris Knierim	Deanna Stellato Nathan Bartholomay	[43]
2019 CS	Ashley Cain-Gribble Timothy LeDuc	Tarah Kayne Daniel O'Shea	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nolan Seegert	[44]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[45]
2021 CS	Audrey Lu Misha Mitrofanov	Anastasiia Metelkina Daniil Parkman	Iuliia Artemeva Mikhail Nazarychev	[46]
2022 CS	Anastasiia Smirnova Danylo Siianytsia	Ellie Kam Daniel O'Shea	Lia Pereira Trennt Michaud	[47]
2023 CS	Milania Väänänen Filippo Clerici	Valentina Plazas Maximiliano Fernandez	Sofiia Holichenko Artem Darenskyi	[48]
2024 CS	Ioulia Chtchetinina Michał Woźniak	Emily Chan Spencer Akira Howe	Audrey Shin Balázs Nagy	[49]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1981	Judit Péterfy Csaba Bálint	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	Brigit Goller Peter Klisch	[51]
1982	Natalia Annenko Genrikh Sretenski	Susan Wynne Joseph Druar	Judit Péterfy Csaba Bálint	[14]
1983	Petra Born Rainer Schönborn	Tatiana Gladkova Igor Shpilband	No other competitors
1984		Isabella Micheli Roberto Pelizzola	Kandi Amelon Alec Binnie	[15]
1985	Antonia Becherer Ferdinand Becherer	Pronkina Igor Shpilband	April Sargent John D'Amelio	[16]
1986	Susan Wynne Joseph Druar	Andrea Juklová Martin Šimeček	Kim Weeks Curtis Moore	[17]
1987	Stefania Calegari Pasquale Camerlengo	Jodie Balogh Jerod Swallow	Nathalie Lessard Darcy Pleckham	[18]
1988	Melanie Cole Michael Farrington	Dorothy Rodek Robert Nardozza	Christelle Gautier Alberick Dalongeville	[19]
1989	Elizaveta Stekolnikova Oleg Ovsyannikov	Pascale Vrot David Quinsac	Lisa Grove Scott Myers	[20]
1990	Elisa Curtis Robert Nardozza	Karewskaja Kurockin	Syoko Higashino Tatsuro Matsumura	[21]
1991	Competition cancelled due to the Croatian War of Independence			[1]
1992
1993	Olga Pershankova Nikolai Morozov [53]		Enikő Berkes Szilard Toth [53]
1994
1995
1996	Iwona Filipowicz Michał Szumski	Marie-France Dubreuil Patrice Lauzon	Anastasia Grebenkina Vazgen Azrojan	[14]
1997	Ksenia Smetanenko Samvel Gezalian	Anastasia Grebenkina Vazgen Azrojan	Zuzana Merzová Tomáš Morbacher	[22]
1998	Oksana Potdykova Denis Petukhov	Nina Ulanova Michail Stifunin	Nadine Lesaout Emmanuel Huet	[23]
1999	Galit Chait Sergei Sakhnovski	Albena Denkova Maxim Staviski	Natalia Gudina Alexei Beletski	[24]
2000	Zita Gebora András Visontai	Kristin Fraser Igor Lukanin	Kateřina Kovalová David Szurman	[57]
2001	Sylwia Nowak Sebastian Kolasiński	Eliane Hugentobler Daniel Hugentobler	Marika Humphreys Vitali Baranov	[26]
2002	Julia Golovina Oleg Voyko	Kendra Goodwin Chris Obzansky	Eve Bentley Cédric Pernet	[27]
2003	Nóra Hoffmann Attila Elek	Pamela O'Connor Jonathon O'Dougherty	Jana Khokhlova Sergei Novitski	[28]
2004	Diana Janošťáková Jiří Procházka	Aleksandra Kauc Michał Zych	Ivana Dlhopolčeková Hynek Bílek	[29]
2005	Alla Beknazarova Vladimir Zuev	Caitlin Mallory Brent Holdburg	Kamila Hájková David Vincour	[30]
2006	Kristin Fraser Igor Lukanin	Alla Beknazarova Vladimir Zuev	Katherine Copely Deividas Stagniūnas	[31]
2007	Alla Beknazarova Vladimir Zuev	Natalia Mikhailova Andrei Maximishin		[32]
2008		Kristina Gorshkova Vitali Butikov	Nadezhda Frolenkova Mykhailo Kasalo	[33]
2009	Alexandra Zaretsky Roman Zaretsky	Ekaterina Riazanova Ilia Tkachenko	Penny Coomes Nicholas Buckland	[34]
2010	Lucie Myslivečková Matěj Novák	Kristina Gorshkova Vitali Butikov	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	[35]
2011	Nelli Zhiganshina Alexander Gazsi	Penny Coomes Nicholas Buckland		[36]
2012	Ekaterina Riazanova Ilia Tkachenko	Julia Zlobina Alexei Sitnikov	Siobhan Heekin-Canedy Dmitri Dun	[37]
2013	Julia Zlobina Alexei Sitnikov	Pernelle Carron Lloyd Jones	Alisa Agafonova Alper Uçar	[38]
2014 CS	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	Sara Hurtado Adrián Díaz	[39]
2015 CS	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Tina Garabedian Simon Proulx-Sénécal	[40]
2016 CS			Alisa Agafonova Alper Uçar	[41]
2017 CS	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	[42]
2018 CS	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Natalia Kaliszek Maksym Spodyriev	Betina Popova Sergey Mozgov	[43]
2019 CS	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	Annabelle Morozov Andrei Bagin	Caroline Green Michael Parsons	[44]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[45]
2021 CS	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Allison Reed Saulius Ambrulevičius	Iuliia Artemeva Devid Naryzhnyy	[46]
2022 CS	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko		Emilea Zingas Vadym Kolesnik	[47]
2023 CS	Allison Reed Saulius Ambrulevičius	Emilea Zingas Vadym Kolesnik	Isabella Flores Ivan Desyatov	[48]
2024 CS	Phebe Bekker James Hernandez	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg Benjamin Steffan	[49]

Junior medalists

Men's singles

Junior men's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2017	Mark Gorodnitsky	Nikolaj Majorov	Chadwick Wang	[42]
2018	Gabriele Frangipani	Chen Yudong	Rakhat Bralin	[43]
2019	Lucas Altieri	Charles Katanovic	Arlet Levandi	[58]
2020–24	No junior-level competitions held since 2019

Women's singles

Junior women's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2017	Anastasiia Guliakova	Alina Solovyeva	Ann-Christin Marold	[42]
2018	Alina Soupian	Nelli Ioffe	Alana Toktarova	[43]
2019	Ksenia Tsibinova	Starr Andrews	Nargiz Süleymanova	[58]
2020–24	No junior-level competitions held since 2019

Pairs

Junior pairs event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2017	Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov	Elizaveta Zhuk Egor Britkov	Edita Hornakova Radek Jukubka	[42]
2018	Daria Danilova Michel Tsiba	Heidrun Pipal Erik Pipal	Chelsea Liu Ian Meyh	[43]
2019	Alina Butaeva Luka Berulava	Anastasiia Smirnova Danylo Siianytsia	Winter Deardorff Michael Johnson	[58]
2020–24	No junior-level competitions held since 2019

Ice dance

Junior ice dance event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2017	Eva Kuts Dimitri Mikhailov	Maria Kazakova Georgy Reviya	Ekaterina Andreeva Ivan Desyatov	[42]
2018	Caroline Green Gordon Green	Ekaterina Andreeva Ivan Desyatov	Franceska Righi Aleksei Dubrovin	[43]
2019	Arina Ushakova Maxim Nekrasov	Katarina Wolfkostin Jeffrey Chen	Carolina Portesi Peroni Michael Chrastecky	[58]
2020–24	No junior-level competitions held since 2019