ISU Junior Grand Prix in Great Britain

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in Great Britain – officially known as the John Curry Memorial – is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by British Ice Skating. 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 Great Britain
Status	Inactive
Genre	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Frequency	Occasional
Location(s)	Sheffield, England
Country	Great Britain
Inaugurated	2007
Previous event	2010
Organised by	British Ice Skating

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]

John Curry of Great Britain, competing at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria

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]

Great Britain hosted the 2000 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final – the culminating event of the Junior Grand Prix series – in Ayr, Scotland. Ma Xiaodong of China won the men's event, Ann Patrice McDonough of the United States won the women's event, Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao of China won the pairs event, and Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto of the United States won the ice dance event.^[3]

Great Britain hosted its first Junior Grand Prix competition in 2007 – the John Curry Memorial – in Sheffield, England. Tatsuki Machida and Yuki Nishino, both of Japan, won the men's and women's events, respectively. Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov of Russia won the pairs event, and Maria Monko and Ilia Tkachenko, also of Russia, won the ice dance event.^[4] The competition was named in honor of John Curry, a British skater who was the 1976 Winter Olympic gold medalist, 1976 World Championship gold medalist, 1976 European Championship gold medalist, and a five-time British national champion.^[5][6] He was the first man to win European, World, and Olympic gold medals in the same season.^[7][8] Great Britain hosted the John Curry Memorial twice more, also in Sheffield, in 2008 and 2010.^[9][10]

Medalists

The 2010 John Curry Memorial champions: Joshua Farris of the United States (men's singles); Adelina Sotnikova of Russia (women's singles); Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia (pair skating); and Ksenia Monko and Kirill Khaliavin of Russia (ice dance)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2000 Final	Ayr, Scotland	Ma Xiaodong	Sergei Dobrin	Stanislav Timchenko	[3]
2007	Sheffield, England	Tatsuki Machida	Douglas Razzano	Artem Grigoriev	[4]
2008		Florent Amodio	Keegan Messing	Alexander Johnson	[9]
2010		Joshua Farris	Zhan Bush	Liam Firus	[11]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2000 Final	Ayr, Scotland	Ann Patrice McDonough	Kristina Oblasova	Yukari Nakano	[3]
2007	Sheffield, England	Yuki Nishino	Svetlana Issakova	Sonia Lafuente	[4]
2008		Kanako Murakami	Yukiko Fujisawa	Angela Maxwell	[9]
2010		Adelina Sotnikova	Yasmin Siraj	Yuki Nishino	[11]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2000 Final	Ayr, Scotland	Zhang Dan Zhang Hao	Kristen Roth Michael McPherson	Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Markuntsov	[3]
2007	Sheffield, England	Vera Bazarova Yuri Larionov	Ksenia Krasilnikova Konstantin Bezmaternikh	Zhang Yue Wang Lei	[4]
2008		Anastasia Martiusheva Alexei Rogonov	Sabina Imaikina Andrei Novoselov	Narumi Takahashi Mervin Tran	[9]
2010		Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov	Narumi Takahashi Mervin Tran	Natasha Purich Raymond Schultz	[11]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2000 Final	Ayr, Scotland	Tanith Belbin Benjamin Agosto	Elena Khaliavina Maxim Shabalin	Miriam Steinel Vladimir Tsvetkov	[3]
2007	Sheffield, England	Maria Monko Ilia Tkachenko	Lucie Myslivečková Matěj Novák	Nadezhda Frolenkova Mykhailo Kasalo	[4]
2008		Madison Chock Greg Zuerlein	Alisa Agafonova Dmitri Dun	Karen Routhier Eric Saucke-Lacelle	[9]
2010		Ksenia Monko Kirill Khaliavin	Victoria Sinitsina Ruslan Zhiganshin	Nicole Orford Thomas Williams	[11]