International Challenge Cup

The International Challenge Cup (formerly known as the Ennia Challenge Cup and the Aegon Cup)^[1] is an annual figure skating competition generally held in the Netherlands during the last week in February. Although the competition had been held for years in The Hague, a three-year contract was signed in 2022 with the city of Tilburg to host the competition at the IJssportcentrum Tilburg.

International Challenge Cup
Status	Active
Genre	National championships
Frequency	Annual
Country	Netherlands
Organized by	Dutch Ice Skating Association

For other uses of "Challenge Cup", see Challenge Cup (disambiguation).

Medals may be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, and novice levels.

History

In the 1970s and 1980s, the competition was titled the Ennia Challenge Cup and held in November.^[2][3] The event was later renamed as the Aegon Challenge Cup after its title sponsor, Aegon N.V.^[1]

Since 2017, the Dutch Figure Skating Championships have been combined with the Challenge Cup.

Senior results

Men's singles

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1977–78	David Santee	Fumio Igarashi	Daniel Béland	[1]
1978–79	Scott Cramer	Jean-Christophe Simond	Dennis Coi
1979–80	Robin Cousins	Gordon Forbes	Robert Wagenhoffer
1980–81	Jean-Christophe Simond	Mark Cockerell	Daniel Béland
1981–82	Rudi Cerne	James Santee	Dennis Coi
1982–83	Brian Boitano	Norbert Schramm	Jozef Sabovčík
1983–84	Brian Orser	Takashi Mura	Rudi Cerne
1984–85	Petr Barna	Viktor Petrenko	Christopher Bowman
2008	Kristoffer Berntsson	Samuel Contesti	Clemens Brummer	[4]
2009	Samuel Contesti	Kevin van der Perren	Jamal Othman	[5]
2012	Brian Joubert	Jeremy Abbott	Samuel Contesti	[6]
2013	Brian Joubert	Alexander Johnson	Chafik Besseghier	[7]
2014	Takahito Mura	Douglas Razzano	Chafik Besseghier	[8]
2015	Ivan Righini	Javier Raya	Ryuju Hino	[9]
2017	Jorik Hendrickx	Jordan Moeller	Morisi Kvitelashvili	[10]
2018	Adrien Tesson	Daniel Grassl	Valtter Virtanen	[11]
2019	Sōta Yamamoto	Yuma Kagiyama	Lukas Britschgi	[12]
2020	Shoma Uno	Keiji Tanaka	Adrien Tesson	[13]
2021	Mikhail Kolyada	Romain Ponsart	Adam Siao Him Fa	[14]
2022	Ilia Malinin	Mihhail Selevko	Sōta Yamamoto	[15]
2023	Shun Sato	Sōta Yamamoto	Matteo Rizzo	[16]
2024	Mikhail Shaidorov	Tatsuya Tsuboi	Kazuki Tomono	[17]
2025	Sena Miyake	Donovan Carrillo	Mark Gorodnitsky	[18]

Women's singles

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1977–78	Emi Watanabe	Susan Broman	Kristiina Wegelius	[1]
1978–79	Denise Biellmann	Renata Baierová	Natalia Strelkova
1979–80	Renata Baierová	Elaine Zayak	Heather Kemkaran
1980–81	Jackie Farrell	Katarina Witt	Megumi Yanagihara
1981–82	Katarina Witt	Elaine Zayak	Diane Ogibowski
1982–83	Vikki de Vries	Claudia Leistner	Anna Antonova
1983–84	Katarina Witt	Midori Ito	Sachie Yuki
1984–85	Constanze Gensel	Yukari Yoshimori	Yvonne Gómez
2007	Karen Venhuizen	Kathrin Freudelsperger	Viviane Käser	[19]
2008	Akiko Suzuki	Tuğba Karademir	Becky Bereswill	[4]
2009	Viktoria Helgesson	Joshi Helgesson	Constanze Paulinus	[5]
2012	Carolina Kostner	Valentina Marchei	Alissa Czisny	[6]
2013	Carolina Kostner	Maé-Bérénice Méité	Kerstin Frank	[7]
2014	Isabelle Olsson	Haruka Imai	Anna Ovcharova	[8]
2015	Kanako Murakami	Joshi Helgesson	Niki Wories	[9]
2017	Loena Hendrickx	Caroline Zhang	Larkyn Austman	[10]
2018	Wakaba Higuchi	Rika Hongo	Marin Honda	[11]
2019	Rika Kihira	Starr Andrews	Wakaba Higuchi	[12]
2020	Rika Kihira	Yuhana Yokoi	Madeline Schizas	[13]
2021	Loena Hendrickx	Emmy Ma	Emilea Zingas	[14]
2022	Rino Matsuike	Lindsay Thorngren	Júlia Láng	[15]
2023	Kaori Sakamoto	Mai Mihara	Mana Kawabe	[16]
2024	Kaori Sakamoto	Yuna Aoki	Lorine Schild	[17]
2025	Rinka Watanabe	Rion Sumiyoshi	Mako Yamashita	[18]

Pairs

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1977–78	Irina Vorobieva Igor Lisovsky	Sheryl Franks Michael Botticelli	Ingrid Spieglová Alan Spiegl	[1]
1979–80	Irina Vorobieva Igor Lisovsky	Veronica Pershina Marat Akbarov	Christina Riegel Andreas Nischwitz
1980–81	Christina Riegel Andreas Nischwitz	Kitty Carruthers Peter Carruthers	Susan Garland Robert Daw
1981–82	Barbara Underhill Paul Martini	Larisa Selezneva Oleg Makarov	Vicki Heasley Peter Oppegard
1982–83	Larisa Selezneva Oleg Makarov	Birgit Lorenz Knut Schubert	Susan Garland Ian Jenkins
1983–84	Birgit Lorenz Knut Schubert	Cynthia Coull Mark Rowsom	Katherina Matousek Lloyd Eisler
1984–85	Larisa Selezneva Oleg Makarov	Melinda Kunhegyi Lyndon Johnston	Natalie Seybold Wayne Seybold
2013	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	Tarah Kayne Daniel O'Shea	Mari Vartmann Aaron Van Cleave	[7]
2014	Daria Popova Bruno Massot	Annabelle Prölß Ruben Blommaert	Giulia Foresti Luca Demattè	[8]
2015	Gretchen Donlan Nathan Bartholomay	Caitlin Yankowskas Hamish Gaman	Minerva-Fabienne Hase Nolan Seegert	[9]
2017	Daria Beklemishcheva Márk Magyar	Emilia Simonen	No other competitors	[10]
2018	Laura Barquero Aritz Maestu	Ioulia Chtchetinina Mikhail Akulov	Rebecca Ghilardi Filippo Ambrosini	[11]
2019	Minerva Hase Nolan Seegert	Miriam Ziegler Severin Kiefer	Annika Hocke Ruben Blommaert	[12]
2020	Miriam Ziegler Severin Kiefer	Audrey Lu Misha Mitrofanov	Rebecca Ghilardi Filippo Ambrosini	[13]
2021	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Annika Hocke Robert Kunkel	Ioulia Chtchetinina Márk Magyar	[14]
2022	Karina Akopova Nikita Rakhmanin	Daria Danilova Michel Tsiba	Nika Osipova Dmitry Epstein	[15]
2023	Sara Conti Niccolò Macii	Mária Pavlova Alexei Sviatchenko	Nika Osipova Dmitry Epstein	[16]
2024	Sara Conti Niccolò Macii	Lucrezia Beccari Matteo Guarise	Camille Kovalev Pavel Kovalev	[17]
2025	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Daria Danilova Michel Tsiba	Ioulia Chtchetinina Michał Woźniak	[18]

Ice dance

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1977–78	Elena Garanina Igor Zavozin		Stacey Smith John Summers	[1]
1978–79	Liliana Řeháková Stanislav Drastich	Natalia Karamysheva Rostislav Sinitsyn	Susanne Handschmann Peter Handschmann
1979–80	Liliana Řeháková Stanislav Drastich	Elena Garanina Igor Zavozin	Susanne Handschmann Peter Handschmann
1980–81	Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin	Natalia Karamysheva Rostislav Sinitsyn	Wendy Sessions Stephen Williams
1981–82	Carol Fox Richard Dalley	Jana Beránková Jan Barták	Tracy Wilson Robert McCall
1982–83	Karen Barber Nicky Slater	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	Natalia Karamysheva Rostislav Sinitsyn
1983–84	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	Elena Batanova Alexei Soloviev	Tracy Wilson Robert McCall
1984–85	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	Maia Usova Alexander Zhulin	Kathrin Beck Christoff Beck
2020	Chelsea Verhaegh Sherim van Geffen	No other competitors		[13]
2021	Evgeniia Lopareva Geoffrey Brissaud	Anna Yanovskaya Ádám Lukács	Chelsea Verhaegh Sherim van Geffen	[14]
2022	Natacha Lagouge Arnaud Caffa	Yuka Orihara Juho Pirinen	Mariia Ignateva Danijil Szemko	[15]
2023	Evgenia Lopareva Geoffrey Brissaud	Loïcia Demougeot Théo le Mercier	Yuka Orihara Juho Pirinen	[16]
2024	Loïcia Demougeot Théo le Mercier	Olivia Smart Tim Dieck	Alicia Fabbri Paul Ayer	[17]
2025	Loïcia Demougeot Théo le Mercier	Yuka Orihara Juho Pirinen	Natacha Lagouge Arnaud Caffa	[18]

Junior results

Men's singles

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2008	Andrew Gonzales Jr.	Daniel O'Shea	Yukihiro Yoshida	[4]
2009	Daisuke Murakami	Joshua Farris	Jorik Hendrickx	[5]
2012	Peter James Hallam	Osman Akgun	Charlie Parry-Evans	[6]
2014	Sei Kawahara	Kazuki Tomono	Panagiotis Polizoakis	[8]
2015	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Juho Pirinen	Héctor Alonso	[9]
2017	Nurullah Sahaka	Aleix Gabara Xanco	Thomas Junski	[10]
2018	Taichiro Yamakuma	Yuto Kishina	Kai Jagoda	[11]
2019	Shun Sato	Daniel Sapozhnikov	Tim England	[12]
2020	Nozomu Yoshioka	Denis Gurdzhi	Edward Appleby	[13]
2022	Shunsuke Nakamura	Naoki Rossi	Taira Shinohara	[15]
2023	Haruya Sasaki	Haru Kakiuchi	Georgii Pavlov	[16]
2024	Hugo Bostedt	Robert Wildt	Nikolay di Tria	[17]
2025	Gianni Motilla	Tobia Oellerer	Lorenzo Elano	[18]

Women's results

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2007	Rachael Flatt	Alexe Gilles	Chrissy Hughes	[19]
2008	Brittney Rizo	Shoko Ishikawa	Amanda Dobbs	[4]
2009	Kanako Murakami	Ellie Kawamura	Isabelle Olsson	[5]
2012	Leah Keiser	Gabrielle Daleman	Giada Russo	[6]
2014	Kaori Sakamoto	Elena Taylor	Emmi Peltonen	[8]
2015	Rebecca Peng	Kyarha van Tiel	Loena Hendrickx	[9]
2017	Emmy Ma	Olivia Gran	Smilla Szalkai	[10]
2018	Nana Araki	Yuhana Yokoi	Stefanie Pesendorfer	[11]
2019	Yuhana Yokoi	Maria Aimeé Renne	Selma Välitalo	[12]
2020	Mone Chiba	Ginevra Lavinia Negrello	Shiika Yoshioka	[13]
2022	Mone Chiba	Ayumi Shibayama	Anna Pezzetta	[15]
2023	Ayumi Shibayama	Ikura Kushida	Yurina Okuno	[16]
2024	Alexandra Odman	Julia Grabowski	Danielle Verbinnen	[17]
2025	Sherry Zhang	Angela Shao	Lucca Dijkhuizen	[18]

Pairs

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Jessica Pfund A.J. Reiss	Anastasia Dolidze Vadim Ivanov	Vanessa Bauer Nolan Seegert	[6]
2014	Jessica Lee Robert Hennings	Aya Takai Brian Johnson	Marin Ono	[8]
2015	Ami Koga Francis Boudreau-Audet	Renata Ohanesian Mark Bardei	Gabriella Marvaldi	[9]
2019	Daria Danilova Michel Tsiba	No other competitors		[12]
2023	Olivia Flores Luke Wang	Giorgia Ghedini Luc Maierhofer	Katalin Janne Salatzki Lukas Röseler	[16]
2024	Zarah Wood Alex Lapsky	No other competitors		[17]
2025	Romane Telemaque Lucas Coulon	Sofia Jarmoc Luke Witkowski	Elizabeth Hansen William Church	[18]

Ice dance

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2008	Kaylin Patitucci Karl Edelman	Justyna Plutowska Dawid Pietrzyński	Sonja Pauli Tobias Eisenbauer	[4]
2023	Ambre Perrier-Gianesi Samuel Blanc-Klaperman	Sofiia Beznosikova Max Leleu	Eliška Žáková Filip Mencl	[16]
2024	Beatrice Ventura Stefano Fransca	Vittoria Petracchi Daniel Basile	Enna Kesti Oskari Liedenpohja	[17]
2025	Dania Mouaden Théo Bigot	Gina Zehnder Beda Leon Sieber	Anita Straub Andreas Straub	[18]