ISU Junior Grand Prix in France

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in France – also called the Junior Grand Prix de Courchevel – is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the French Federation of Ice Sports (French: Fédération Française des Sports de Glace). 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.

ISU Junior Grand Prix in France
Status	Active
Genre	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Frequency	Occasional
Country	France
Inaugurated	1997
Previous event	2023
Organized by	French Federation of Ice Sports

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 1 July 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]

Timothy Goebel of the United States, the men's champion at the inaugural Junior Series competition in France (1997)

France hosted the very first Junior Grand Prix competition – then called the Junior Series – in 1997 in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. Timothy Goebel of the United States won the men's event, Elena Pingacheva of Russia won the women's event, Svetlana Nikolaeva and Alexei Sokolov of Russia won the pairs event, and Flavia Ottaviani and Massimo Scali of Italy won the ice dance event.^[3]

The French Federation of Ice Sports has twice hosted the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, the culminating event of the Junior Grand Prix series. The 2016 Grand Prix Final was held at the Palais Omnisports Marseille Grand-Est in Marseille.^[4] Dmitri Aliev and Alina Zagitova, both of Russia, won the men's and women's events, respectively. Anastasia Mishina and Vladislav Mirzoev of Russia won the pairs event, and Rachel Parsons and Michael Parsons of the United States won the ice dance event.^[5] The 2024 Grand Prix Final was originally scheduled to be held in Orléans, but the French federation chose to relocate the event to Grenoble.^[6] Jacob Sanchez of the United States won the men's event, Mao Shimada of Japan won the women's event, Zhang Jiaxuan and Huang Yihang won the pairs event, and Noemi Maria Tali and Noah Lafornara of Italy won the ice dance.^[7]

Canada was originally scheduled to host the second event of the 2021 Junior Grand Prix Series in Edmonton, but cancelled the event due to uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was reallocated to France, where the French Federation of Ice Sports was already scheduled to host the first 2021 Junior Grand Prix competition in Courchevel. Thus, two Junior Grand Prix competitions were held back-to-back at the Patinoire du Forum in Courchevel.^[8]

Medalists

The 2022 Junior Grand Prix de Courchevel champions: Shunsuke Nakamura of Japan (men's singles); Hana Yoshida of Japan (women's singles); and Hannah Lim and Ye Quan of South Korea (ice dance)

Men's singles

In 2021 at France II, Arlet Levandi became the first men's singles skater from Estonia to win a Junior Grand Prix medal.^[9] At the same event, Edward Appleby became the first Junior Grand Prix medalist from Great Britain in nineteen years. The last time that a British skater had won a Junior Grand Prix medal was Jenna McCorkell in 2002.^[9]

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Saint-Gervais	Timothy Goebel	Matthew Savoie	David Jäschke	[3]
1998		Vincent Restencourt	Ryan Bradley	Matthew Savoie	[10]
2000		Anton Smirnov	Nicholas Young	Marc Olivier Bosse	[11]
2002	Courchevel	Alexander Shubin	Evan Lysacek	Jordan Brauninger	[12]
2004		Yannick Ponsero	Andrei Lutai	Jérémie Colot	[13]
2006		Austin Kanallakan	Curran Oi	Jeremy Ten	[14]
2008		Michal Březina	Armin Mahbanoozadeh	Florent Amodio	[15]
2010		Andrei Rogozine	Jason Brown	Max Aaron	[16]
2012		Jin Boyang		Ryuju Hino	[17]
2014		Lee June-hyoung	Sota Yamamoto	Alexander Samarin	[18]
2016	Saint-Gervais	Roman Savosin	Ilia Skirda	Koshiro Shimada	[19]
2016 Final	Marseille	Dmitri Aliev	Alexander Samarin	Cha Jun-hwan	[5]
2019	Courchevel	Yuma Kagiyama	Aleksa Rakic	Andrei Kutovoi	[20]
2021 France I		Ilia Malinin	Lucas Broussard	François Pitot	[21]
2021 France II		Wesley Chiu	Arlet Levandi	Edward Appleby	[22]
2022		Shunsuke Nakamura	Cha Young-hyun	Ryoga Morimoto	[23]
2024 Final	Grenoble	Jacob Sanchez	Seo Min-kyu	Rio Nakata	[7]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Saint-Gervais	Elena Pingacheva	Andrea Diewald	Shelby Lyons	[3]
1998		Irina Nikolaeva	Anna Jurkiewicz	Daria Timoshenko	[10]
2000		Kristina Oblasova	Susanne Stadlmüller	Sarah Meier	[11]
2002	Courchevel	Carolina Kostner	Alissa Czisny	Signe Ronka	[12]
2004		Meagan Duhamel	Kimmie Meissner	Jessica Houston	[13]
2006		Ashley Wagner	Megan Hyatt	Stefania Berton	[14]
2008		Kristine Musademba	Becky Bereswill	Diane Szmiett	[15]
2010		Polina Shelepen	Yasmin Siraj	Rosa Sheveleva	[16]
2012		Elena Radionova	Rika Hongo	Uliana Titushkina	[17]
2014		Evgenia Medvedeva	Rin Nitaya	Amber Glenn	[18]
2016	Saint-Gervais	Alina Zagitova	Kaori Sakamoto	Rin Nitaya	[19]
2016 Final	Marseille		Anastasiia Gubanova	Kaori Sakamoto	[5]
2019	Courchevel	Kamila Valieva	Wi Seo-yeong	Maiia Khromykh	[20]
2021 France I		Lindsay Thorngren	Kaiya Ruiter	Clare Seo	[21]
2021 France II		Isabeau Levito	Kim Chae-yeon	Kaiya Ruiter	[22]
2022		Hana Yoshida	Ayumi Shibayama	Kim Yu-jae	[23]
2024 Final	Grenoble	Mao Shimada	Kaoruko Wada	Ami Nakai	[7]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Saint-Gervais	Svetlana Nikolaeva Alexei Sokolov	Natalie Vlandis Jered Guzman	Stefanie Weiss Matthias Bleyer	[3]
1998		Julia Obertas Dmytro Palamarchuk	Viktoria Shklover Valdis Mintals	Jaisa MacAdam Garrett Lucash	[10]
2000		Kristen Roth Michael McPherson	Svetlana Nikolaeva Pavel Lebedev	Viktoria Shklover Valdis Mintals	[11]
2002	Courchevel	Carla Montgomery Ryan Arnold	Elena Riabchuk Stanislav Zakharov	Anastasia Kuzmina Stanislav Evdokimov	[12]
2004		Mariel Miller Rockne Brubaker	Arina Ushakova Alexander Popov	Brooke Castile Benjamin Okolski	[13]
2006–16	No pairs competitions
2016 Final	Marseille	Anastasia Mishina Vladislav Mirzoev	Anna Dušková Martin Bidař	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	[5]
2019–22	Courchevel	No pairs competitions
2024 Final	Grenoble	Zhang Jiaxuan Huang Yihang	Olivia Flores Luke Wang	Jazmine Desrochers Kieran Thrasher	[7]

Ice dance

In 2021 at France I, Hannah Lim and Ye Quan became the first ice dance team from South Korea to win a Junior Grand Prix medal.^[24] In 2022, Lim and Quan became the first ice dance team from South Korea to win a Junior Grand Prix gold medal.^[25]

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Saint-Gervais	Flavia Ottaviani Massimo Scali	Zita Gebora András Visontai	Julia Golovina Denis Egorov	[3]
1998		Tetyana Kurkudym Yuriy Kocherzhenko	Jamie Silverstein Justin Pekarek	Nelly Gourvest Cédric Pernet	[10]
2000		Alla Beknazarova Yuriy Kocherzhenko	Lucie Kadlčáková Hynek Bílek	Marielle Bernard Damien Biancotto	[11]
2002	Courchevel	Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin	Christina Beier William Beier	Melissa Piperno Liam Dougherty	[12]
2004		Morgan Matthews Maxim Zavozin	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Pernelle Carron Edouard Dezutter	[13]
2006		Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	Madison Hubbell Keiffer Hubbell	Élodie Brouiller Benoît Richaud	[14]
2008		Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani	Kharis Ralph Asher Hill	Lucie Myslivečková Matěj Novák	[15]
2010		Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Anastasia Cannuscio Colin McManus	Evgenia Kosigina Nikolai Moroshkin	[16]
2012		Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron	Valeria Zenkova Valerie Sinitsin	Madeline Edwards Zhao Kai Pang	[17]
2014		Alla Loboda Pavel Drozd	Madeline Edwards Zhao Kai Pang	Anastasia Shpilevaya Grigory Smirnov	[18]
2016	Saint-Gervais	Angélique Abachkina Louis Thauron	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko	Sofia Polishchuk Alexander Vakhnov	[19]
2016 Final	Marseille	Rachel Parsons Michael Parsons	Alla Loboda Pavel Drozd	Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter	[5]
2019	Courchevel	Elizaveta Shanaeva Devid Naryzhnyy	Loïcia Demougeot Théo le Mercier	Ekaterina Katashinskaia Aleksandr Vaskovich	[20]
2021 France I		Katarina Wolfkostin Jeffrey Chen	Miku Makita Tyler Gunara	Hannah Lim Ye Quan	[21]
2021 France II		Oona Brown Gage Brown	Isabella Flores Dimitry Tsarevski	Solène Mazingue Marko Gaidajenko	[22]
2022		Hannah Lim Ye Quan	Célina Fradji Jean-Hans Fourneaux	Vanessa Pham Jonathan Rogers	[23]
2024 Final	Grenoble	Noemi Tali Noah Lafornara	Katarina Wolfkostin Dimitry Tsarevski	Darya Grimm Michail Savitskiy	[7]