ISU Junior Grand Prix in Hungary

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in Hungary is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by th Hungarian Skating Federation (Hungarian: Magyar Országos Korcsolyázó Szövetség). 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 Hungary
Status	Inactive
Genre	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Frequency	Occasional
Country	Hungary
Inaugurated	1997
Previous event	2023
Organized by	Hungarian Skating Federation

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]

Julia Soldatova of Russia, the women's champion at the inaugural Hungarian Cup

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]

Hungary hosted its first Junior Grand Prix competition – then called the Hungarian Cup – in 1997 in Székesfehérvár. Vitaliy Danylchenko of Ukraine won the men's event, Julia Soldatova of Russia won the women's event, Alena Maltseva and Oleg Popov of Russia won the pairs event, and Jessica Joseph and Charles Butler of the United States won the ice dance event.^[3]

The International Skating Union officially cancelled all scheduled Junior Grand Prix events for the 2020–21 season, which included the 2020 competition in Budapest, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, citing increased travel and entry requirements between countries and potentially excessive sanitary and health care costs for those hosting competitions.^[4]

Medalists

The 2023 Junior Grand Prix in Hungary champions: Kim Hyun-gyeom of South Korea (men's singles); and Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava of Georgia (pair skating)
Not pictured: Shin Ji-a of South Korea (women's singles); and Iryna Pidgaina and Artem Koval of Ukraine (ice dance)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Székesfehérvár	Vitaliy Danylchenko	Hristo Turlakov	Vincent Restencourt	[3]
1998	Budapest	Ilia Klimkin	Yōsuke Takeuchi	Ryan Bradley	[5]
2004		Alexander Uspenski	Yasuharu Nanri	Sergei Voronov	[6]
2006		Stephen Carriere	Takahito Mura	Eliot Halverson	[7]
2009		Richard Dornbush	Grant Hochstein	Zhan Bush	[8]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[4]
2023		Kim Hyun-gyeom	Naoki Rossi	Haru Kakiuchi	[9]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Székesfehérvár	Julia Soldatova	Júlia Sebestyén	Annette Dytrt	[3]
1998	Budapest	Júlia Sebestyén	Sarah Hughes	Chisato Shiina	[5]
2004		Yuna Kim	Aki Sawada	Katy Taylor	[6]
2006		Juliana Cannarozzo	Rumi Suizu	Choi Ji-eun	[7]
2009		Polina Shelepen	Angela Maxwell	Haruka Imai	[8]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[4]
2023		Shin Ji-a	Kim Yu-seong	Ayumi Shibayama	[9]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Székesfehérvár	Alena Maltseva Oleg Popov	Megan Sierk Dustin Sierk	Victoria Maksyuta Vladislav Zhovnirski	[3]
1998	Budapest	Elena Bogospasaeva Oleg Ponomarenko	Svetlana Nikolaeva Alexei Sokolov	Stefanie Weiss Matthias Bleyer	[5]
2004		Sydney Schmidt Christopher Pottenger	Lindsey Seitz Andy Seitz	Alina Dikhtiar Filip Zalevski	[6]
2006		Keauna McLaughlin Rockne Brubaker	Kaela Pflumm Christopher Pottenger	Emilie Demers Boutin Pierre-Philippe Joncas	[7]
2009		No pairs competition			[8]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[4]
2023		Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Violetta Sierova Ivan Khobta	Martina Ariano Kent Charly Laliberté Laurent	[9]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Székesfehérvár	Jessica Joseph Charles Butler	Zita Gebora András Visontai	Oksana Potdykova Denis Petukhov	[3]
1998	Budapest	Julia Golovina Denis Egorov		Emilie Nussear Brandon Forsyth	[5]
2004		Anna Cappellini Matteo Zanni	Allie Hann-McCurdy Michael Coreno	Trina Pratt Todd Gilles	[6]
2006		Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	Joanna Lenko Mitchell Islam	Julia Zlobina Alexei Sitnikov	[7]
2009		Elena Ilinykh Nikita Katsalapov	Karen Routhier Eric Saucke-Lacelle	Lorenza Alessandrini Simone Vaturi	[8]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[4]
2023		Iryna Pidgaina Artem Koval	Yahli Pedersen Jeffrey Chen	Dania Mouaden Théo Bigot	[9]