ISU Junior Grand Prix in Ukraine

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in Ukraine – also known as the Ukrainian Souvenir – is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation (Ukrainian: Українська федерація фігурного катання на ковзанах). 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 Ukraine
Status	Inactive
Genre	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Frequency	Occasional
Country	Ukraine
Inaugurated	1997
Previous event	2004
Organized by	Ukrainian Figure 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]

Skaters are eligible to compete on the junior-level circuit if they are at least 13 years old before 1 July, and if they have not yet turned 19 (for single skaters), 21 (for ice dancers and female pair skaters), or 23 (for male pair skaters). Competitors are chosen by their respective skating federations rather than by the ISU. 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]

The inaugural Ukrainian Souvenir champions: Timothy Goebel of the United States (men's singles) and Viktoria Volchkova of Russia (women's singles)

Ukraine hosted its first Junior Grand Prix competition in 1997 in Dnipro. Timothy Goebel of the United States won the men's event, Viktoria Volchkova of Russia won the women's event, Julia Obertas and Dmytro Palamarchuk of Ukraine won the pairs event, and Jessica Joseph and Charles Butler of the United States won the ice dance event.^[3]

Ukraine hosted three subsequent Junior Grand Prix events in Kyiv in 1998, 2000, and 2004.^[4][5][6] The 2004 event was the competition's most recent iteration.

Medalists

The 2004 Ukrainian Souvenir champions: Yasuharu Nanri of Japan (men's singles); Mao Asada of Japan (women's singles); and Anastasia Platonova and Andrei Maximishin of Russia (ice dance)
Not pictured: Arina Ushakova and Alexander Popov of Russia (pair skating)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Dnipro	Timothy Goebel	Vincent Restencourt	Yosuke Takeuchi	[3]
1998	Kyiv	Andriy Kyforenko	Alexei Vasilevski	Oleksandr Smokvin	[4]
2000		Parker Pennington	Sergei Dobrin	Jeffrey Buttle	[5]
2004		Yasuharu Nanri	Dennis Phan	Nobunari Oda	[6]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Dnipro	Viktoria Volchkova	Chisato Shiina	Kumiko Taneda	[3]
1998	Kyiv		Galina Maniachenko	Anna Neshcheret	[4]
2000		Svetlana Chernyshova	Svitlana Pylypenko	Susanna Pöykiö	[5]
2004		Mao Asada	Veronika Kropotina	Aki Sawada	[6]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Dnipro	Julia Obertas Dmytro Palamarchuk	Tiffany Stiegler Johnnie Stiegler	Viktoria Shliakhova Grigori Petrovski	[3]
1998	Kyiv		Elena Bogospasaeva Oleg Ponomarenko	Aljona Savchenko Stanislav Morozov	[4]
2000		Christen Dean Joshua Murphy	Debora Blinder Jeremy Allen	Carla Montgomery Jarvis Hetu	[5]
2004		Arina Ushakova Alexander Popov	Katelyn Uhlig Colin Loomis	Julia Vlassov Drew Meekins	[6]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1997	Dnipro	Jessica Joseph Charles Butler	Natalia Romaniuta Daniil Barantsev	Krystyna Kobaladze Oleg Voyko	[3]
1998	Kyiv	Krystyna Kobaladze Oleg Voyko	Julia Golovina Denis Egorov	Olga Kudym Anton Tereshenko	[4]
2000		Alla Beknazarova Yuriy Kocherzhenko	Viktoria Polzykina Alexander Shakalov	Oksana Domnina Maxim Bolotin	[5]
2004		Anastasia Platonova Andrei Maximishin	Petra Pachlová Petr Knoth	Allie Hann-McCurdy Michael Coreno	[6]