Budapest Trophy

The Budapest Trophy is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Hungarian National Skating Federation (Hungarian: Magyar Országos Korcsolyázó Szövetség) at the Vasas Jégcentrum in Budapest, Hungary. The competition debuted in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The Budapest Trophy has been an Challenger Series event four times during its history as of 2025. Medals may be 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.

Budapest Trophy
Status	Active
Genre	International competition
Frequency	Annual
Venue	Vasas Jégcentrum
Location	Budapest
Country	Hungary
Inaugurated	2020
Next event	2525
Organized by	Hungarian National Skating Federation

History

The ISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It is a series of international figure skating competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU) 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.^[1] Challenger Series events must be scheduled between 1 August and 15 December. When an event is held as part of the Challenger Series, it must host at least three of the four disciplines (men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance) and representatives from at least twelve different ISU member nations. The minimum number of entrants required for each discipline is: eight skaters each in men's singles and women's singles, five teams in pair skating, and six teams in ice dance.^[2] While ISU member nations are limited to sending a maximum of three skaters or teams per discipline to each event, the Hungarian National Skating Federation can enter an unlimited number of entrants in their own event. Additionally, each skater or team is limited to participating in at most three Challenger Series events each season.^[3]

The inaugural edition of the Budapest Trophy was intended to be the sixth event of the 2020–21 Challenger Series, however all but two of the events were ultimately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic: the 2020 Nebelhorn Trophy and the 2020 Budapest Trophy. On 13 July, the ISU announced that the remaining Challenger Series events would be treated as separate individual competitions rather than part of a series; as a result, no Challenger Series ranking would be determined and no prize money distributed at the end of the series, although skaters could still earn Challenger Series points to apply toward their world rankings.^[4] However, the ISU later revised their decision on 3 August, announcing that world ranking points would not be awarded due to the limited nature of the competitions.^[5] On 1 October, the Hungarian National Skating Federation released a statement detailing the Hungarian government's COVID-19 regulations for competitors seeking to gain entry to Hungary.^[6] The 2020 Budapest Trophy was held from 15 to 17 October at the Vasas Jégcentrum. Only 300 spectators were allowed into the arena each day, with temperatures taken prior to admittance and strict requirements for the wearing of masks.^[7] Daniel Grassl of Italy won the men's event, Loena Hendrickx of Belgium won the women's event, and Oleksandra Nazarova and Maksym Nikitin of Ukraine won the ice dance event.^[8]

The Budapest Trophy has been held every year since, although the 2021 and 2025 editions were not part of the Challenger Series.^[9][10]

Senior medalists

The 2025 Budapest Trophy champions: Ekaterina Kurakova of Poland (women's singles); and Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha of Canada (ice dance)
Not pictured: Landry Le May of France (men's singles)

CS: Challenger Series event

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2020 CS	Daniel Grassl	Burak Demirboğa	Aleksandr Selevko	[8]
2021	Matteo Rizzo	Dmitri Aliev	Alexander Samarin	[9]
2022 CS		Lukas Britschgi	Nikolaj Memola	[11]
2023 CS	Nikolaj Memola		Tomoki Hiwatashi	[12]
2024 CS	Matteo Rizzo		Nikita Starostin	[13]
2025	Landry Le May	Georgii Pavlov	Arthur Wolfgang Mai	[10]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2020 CS	Loena Hendrickx	Eva-Lotta Kiibus	Alexandra Feigin	[8]
2021	Maya Khromykh	Anna Shcherbakova	Sofia Samodurova	[9]
2022 CS	Ava Marie Ziegler	Kimmy Repond	Niina Petrõkina	[11]
2023 CS	Bradie Tennell	Léa Serna	Clare Seo	[12]
2024 CS	Alysa Liu	Kimmy Repond	Lorine Schild	[13]
2025	Ekaterina Kurakova	Anastasia Gracheva	Mia Risa Gomez	[10]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2020	No pairs competition			[8]
2021	Karina Akopova Nikita Rakhmanin	Anastasiia Metelkina Daniil Parkman	Ioulia Chtchetinina Márk Magyar	[9]
2022	No pairs competition			[11]
2023	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nikita Volodin	Maria Pavlova Alexei Sviatchenko	Daria Danilova Michel Tsiba	[12]
2024–25	No pairs competitions

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2020 CS	Oleksandra Nazarova Maksym Nikitin	Katharina Müller Tim Dieck	Sasha Fear George Waddell	[8]
2021	Tina Garabedian Simon Proulx-Sénécal	Allison Reed Saulius Ambrulevičius	Elizaveta Shanaeva Devid Naryzhnyy	[9]
2022 CS	Marjorie Lajoie Zachary Lagha	Evgeniia Lopareva Geoffrey Brissaud	Katarina Wolfkostin Jeffrey Chen	[11]
2023 CS	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin	Marie-Jade Lauriault Romain Le Gac	Loïcia Demougeot Théo le Mercier	[12]
2024 CS	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko	Emily Bratti Ian Somerville	Juulia Turkkila Matthias Versluis	[13]
2025	Marjorie Lajoie Zachary Lagha	Mariia Ignateva Danijil Szemko	Giulia Isabella Paolino Andrea Tuba	[10]

Junior results

Men's singles

Junior men's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2020	Arlet Levandi	Marko Piliar	Alp Eren Özkan	[8]
2021	Lukas Vaclavik	Mózes József Berei	Corentin Spinar	[9]
2022	Erik Pellnor	Mark Kulish	Julio Potapenko	[11]
2023	Hugo Willi Herrmann	Gianni Motilla	Kirills Korkacs	[12]
2024	Lukas Vaclavik		Oscar Oliver	[13]
2025	Tadeas Vaclavik	Lukas Vaclavik	Maksym Petrychenko	[10]

Women's singles

Junior women's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2020	Anastasiia Shabotova	Marija Brejeva	Amalia Zelenjak	[8]
2021	Vivien Papp	Karolina Kogan	Pihla Bergman	[9]
2022	Lee Hyorin	Léna Ekker	Katinka Anna Zsembery	[11]
2023	Logan Higase-Chen	Hannah Frank	Polina Dzsumanyijazova	[12]
2024	Alica Lengyelova	Polina Dzsumanyijazova	Anastasia Brandenburg	[13]
2025			Olivia Lengyelová	[10]

Pairs

Junior pairs event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2020	No junior pairs competition			[8]
2021	Ekaterina Geynish Ilya Mironov	Anastasia Kostyuk Dmitrii Chigirev	Alyssa Montan Filippo Clerici	[9]
2022–23	No junior pairs competitions
2024	Louise Ehrhard Matthis Pellegris	Debora Anna Cohen Lukas Vochozka	Chiara Michaela Pazienza Maxim Knorr	[13]
2025	No junior pairs competition			[10]

Ice dance

Junior ice dance event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2020	Mariia Holubtsova Kyryl Bielobrov	Mariia Pinchuk Mykyta Pogorielov	Katica Kedves Fedor Sharonov	[8]
2021	Polina Kocherygina Evgeniy Artyuschenko	Varvara Kurnosenko Fedor Varlamov	Olga Fedorova Nikita Ivanov	[9]
2022	Sofiia Dovhal Wiktor Kulesza	Emie Lefebvre Louis Varescon	Ambre Perrier Gianesini Samuel Blanc Klaperman	[11]
2023	Iryna Pidgaina Artem Koval	Sofiia Dovhal Wiktor Kulesza	Andrea Psurna Jáchym Novák	[12]
2024		Gina Zehnder Beda Leon Sieber	Eva Bernard Amedeo Bonetto	[13]
2025		Lea Hienne Louis Varescon	Eniko Kobor Zoard Kobor	[10]

Cumulative medal count (senior medalists)

Men's singles

Total number of Budapest Trophy medals in men's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	5	0	1	6
2	France	1	0	0	1
3	Switzerland	0	4	0	4
4	Russia	0	1	1	2
5	Turkey	0	1	0	1
6	Germany	0	0	2	2
7	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

Women's singles

Total number of Budapest Trophy medals in women's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	3	0	1	4
2	Russia	1	1	1	3
3	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
5	Switzerland	0	2	0	2
6	Estonia	0	1	1	2
	France	0	1	1	2
8	Moldova	0	1	0	1
9	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		6	6	6	18

Pairs

Total number of Budapest Trophy medals in pairs by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	1	0	0	1
	Russia	1	0	0	1
3	Hungary	0	1	1	2
4	Georgia	0	1	0	1
5	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Ice dance

Total number of Budapest Trophy medals in ice dance by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	1	1	3
2	Canada	1	1	0	2
3	Armenia	1	0	0	1
	Georgia	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
6	France	0	1	1	2
7	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
9	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		5	5	5	15

Total medals

Total number of Budapest Trophy medals by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	5	0	1	6
2	United States	4	1	3	8
3	Russia	2	2	3	7
4	France	1	2	2	5
5	Germany	1	1	2	4
6	Canada	1	1	0	2
	Georgia	1	1	0	2
8	Armenia	1	0	0	1
	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
12	Switzerland	0	6	0	6
13	Estonia	0	1	2	3
14	Hungary	0	1	1	2
15	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Moldova	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
18	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		19	19	19	57