ISU Junior Grand Prix in Belarus

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in Belarus is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Skating Union of Belarus. It is held periodically as an event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (JGP), a series of international competitions exclusively for junior-level skaters. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earn points based on their results at the qualifying competitions each season, and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are invited to then compete at the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final.

Junior Grand Prix in Belarus
Status	Inactive
Genre	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Frequency	Occasional
Country	Belarus
Inaugurated	2008
Most recent	2017
Organized by	Skating Union of Belarus

History

The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (JGP) was established by the International Skating Union (ISU) in 1997 and consists of a series of seven international figure skating competitions exclusively for junior-level skaters. The locations of the Junior Grand Prix events change every year. While all seven competitions feature the men's, women's, and ice dance events, only four competitions each season feature the pairs event. Skaters earn points based on their results each season, and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are then invited to compete at the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final.^[1]

Skaters are eligible to compete on the junior-level circuit if they are at least 13 years old before July 1 of the respective season, and if they have not yet turned 19 (for single skaters, and females in ice dance and pair skating) or 21 (for males in ice dance and pair skating).^[1] Competitors are chosen by their respective skating federations. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member nation in each discipline is determined by their results at the prior World Junior Figure Skating Championships.^[2]

Belarus hosted its first Junior Grand Prix competition – called the Golden Lynx – in 2008 in Gomel. Denis Ten of Kazakhstan won the men's event, Haruka Imai of Japan won the women's event, Liubov Ilyushechkina and Nodari Maisuradze of Russia won the pairs event, and Alisa Agafonova and Dmitri Dun of Ukraine won the ice dance event.^[3]

The 2008 Golden Lynx champions: Denis Ten of Kazakhstan (men's singles); Haruka Imai of Japan (women's singles); Lubov Iliushechkina and Nodari Maisuradze of Russia (pair skating); and Alisa Agafonova and Dmitri Dun of Ukraine (ice dance)

The most recent iteration of this competition was held in 2017.^[4]

Medalists

The 2017 Minsk Arena Cup champions: Alexey Erokhov of Russia (men's singles); Alexandra Trusova of Russia (women's singles); Daria Pavliuchenko and Denis Khodykin of Russia (pair skating); and Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko of the United States (ice dance)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2008	Gomel	Denis Ten	Yang Chao	Cheng Gongming	[3]
2009	Minsk	Artur Gachinski	Song Nan	Stanislav Kovalev	[5]
2013		Nathan Chen	Ryuju Hino	Murad Kurbanov	[6]
2017		Alexey Erokhov	Andrew Torgashev	Igor Efimchuk	[4]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2008	Gomel	Haruka Imai	Oksana Gozeva	Kana Muramoto	[3]
2009	Minsk	Polina Shelepen	Yuki Nishino	Ksenia Makarova	[5]
2013		Polina Edmunds	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Rika Hongo	[6]
2017		Alexandra Trusova	Nana Araki	Stanislava Konstantinova	[4]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2008	Gomel	Lubov Iliushechkina Nodari Maisuradze	Ksenia Ozerova Alexander Enbert	Zhang Yue Wang Lei	[3]
2009	Minsk	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	Zhang Yue Wang Lei	Kaleigh Hole Adam Johnson	[5]
2013		Kamilla Gainetdinova Ivan Bich	Madeline Aaron Max Settlage	Vasilisa Davankova Andrei Deputat	[6]
2017		Daria Pavliuchenko Denis Khodykin	Anastasia Poluianova Dmitry Sopot	Apollinariia Panfilova Dmitry Rylov	[4]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2008	Gomel	Alisa Agafonova Dmitri Dun	Ekaterina Pushkash Dmitri Kiselev	Terra Findlay Benoît Richaud	[3]
2009	Minsk	Ksenia Monko Kirill Khaliavin	Rachel Tibbetts Collin Brubaker	Alisa Agafonova Dmitri Dun	[5]
2013		Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter	Betina Popova Yuri Vlasenko	Daria Morozova Mikhail Zhirnov	[6]
2017		Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko	Anastasia Skoptsova Kirill Aleshin	Arina Ushakova Maxim Nekrasov	[4]