ISU Junior Grand Prix in the Czech Republic

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in the Czech Republic – also known as the Czech Skate – is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Czech Figure Skating Association (Czech: Český krasobruslařský svaz). 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 the Czech Republic
Status	Active
Genre	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Frequency	Occasional
Location(s)	Ostrava
Country	Czech Republic
Inaugurated	1999
Previous event	2024 Czech Skate
Organized by	Czech Figure Skating Association

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]

Fedor Andreev of Canada, the men's champion at the inaugural Czech Skate

The Czech Republic hosted its first Junior Grand Prix competition – also known as the Czech Skate – in 1999 in Ostrava. Fedor Andreev and Marianne Dubuc, both of Canada, won the men's and women's events, respectively. Julia Shapiro and Alexei Sokolov of Russia won the pairs event, and Kristina Kobaladze and Oleg Voyko of Ukraine won the ice dance event.^[3]

The Czech Republic hosted the 2005 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final – the culminating event of the Junior Grand Prix series – in Ostrava. Takahiko Kozuka of Japan won the men's event, Yuna Kim of South Korea won the women's event, Valeria Simakova and Anton Tokarev of Russia won the pairs event, and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada won the ice dance event.^[4]

The ISU officially cancelled all scheduled Junior Grand Prix events for the 2020–21 season, which included the 2020 Czech Skate, 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.^[5]

Medalists

The 2024 Czech Skate champions: Seo Min-kyu of Japan (men's singles) and Kaoruko Wada of Japan (women's singles).
Not pictured: Zhang Xuanqi and Feng Wenqiang of China (pair skating); and Célina Fradji and Jean-Hans Fourneaux of Canada (ice dance)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1999	Ostrava	Fedor Andreev	Lukáš Rakowski	Valery Medvedev	[3]
2000		Parker Pennington	Sergei Dobrin	Nicholas Young	[6]
2001		Andrei Griazev	Kevin van der Perren	Damien Djordjevic	[7]
2003		Tomáš Verner	Sergei Dobrin	Alexander Uspenski	[8]
2005 Final		Takahiko Kozuka	Austin Kanallakan	Geoffrey Varner	[4]
2006	Liberec	Tommy Steenberg	Tatsuki Machida	Pavel Kaška	[9]
2008	Ostrava	Alexander Johnson	Ivan Bariev	Akio Sasaki	[10]
2010		Yan Han	Artur Dmitriev Jr	Alexander Majorov	[11]
2013		Keiji Tanaka	Alexander Petrov	Morisi Kvitelashvili	[12]
2014		Roman Sadovsky	Alexander Samarin	Sei Kawahara	[13]
2016		Dmitri Aliev	Alexei Krasnozhon	Roman Savosin	[14]
2018		Andrei Mozalev	Camden Pulkinen	Joseph Phan	[15]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[5]
2022		Nozomu Yoshioka	Nikolaj Memola	Andreas Nordebäck	[16]
2024		Seo Min-kyu	Patrick Blackwell	Adam Hagara	[17]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1999	Ostrava	Marianne Dubuc	Elizabeth Kwon	Utako Wakamatsu	[3]
2000		Sarah Meier	Tamara Dorofejev	Yebin Mok	[6]
2001		Miki Ando	Tatiana Basova	Akiko Suzuki	[7]
2003		Lucie Krausová	Olga Naidenova	Akiko Kitamura	[8]
2005 Final		Yuna Kim	Aki Sawada	Xu Binshu	[4]
2006	Liberec	Megan Oster	Svetlana Issakova	Jelena Glebova	[9]
2008	Ostrava	Yukiko Fujisawa	Angela Maxwell	Stefania Berton	[10]
2010		Vanessa Lam	Risa Shoji	Polina Shelepen	[11]
2013		Alexandra Proklova	Maria Sotskova	Amber Glenn	[12]
2014		Evgenia Medvedeva	Wakaba Higuchi	Karen Chen	[13]
2016		Anastasiia Gubanova	Rika Kihira	Alisa Lozko	[14]
2018		Alena Kostornaia	Kim Ye-lim	Viktoria Vasilieva	[15]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[5]
2022		Mao Shimada	Kwon Min-sol	Ikura Kushida	[16]
2024		Kaoruko Wada	Stefania Gladki	Kim Yu-jae	[17]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1999	Ostrava	Julia Shapiro Alexei Sokolov	Larisa Spielberg Craig Joeright	Megan Sierk Dustin Sierk	[3]
2000		Sima Ganaba Amir Ganaba	Diana Rišková Vladimir Futáš	Alena Maltseva Oleg Popov	[6]
2001		Maria Mukhortova Pavel Lebedev	Anastasia Kuzmina Stanislav Evdokimov	Tatiana Volosozhar Petro Kharchenko	[7]
2003		Maria Mukhortova Maxim Trankov	Tatiana Volosozhar Petro Kharchenko	Arina Ushakova Alexander Popov	[8]
2005 Final		Valeria Simakova Anton Tokarev	Julia Vlassov Drew Meekins	Mariel Miller Rockne Brubaker	[4]
2006	Liberec	Ksenia Krasilnikova Konstantin Bezmaternikh	Kendra Moyle Andy Seitz	Bridget Namiotka John Coughlin	[9]
2008	Ostrava	Lubov Iliushechkina Nodari Maisuradze	Sabina Imaikina Andrei Novoselov	Ksenia Ozerova Alexander Enbert	[10]
2010		Yu Xiaoyu Jin Yang	Ashley Cain Joshua Reagan	Natasha Purich Raymond Schultz	[11]
2013		Lina Fedorova Maxim Miroshkin	Arina Cherniavskaia Antonio Souza-Kordeyru	Kamilla Gainetdinova Ivan Bich	[12]
2014		Julianne Séguin Charlie Bilodeau	Lina Fedorova Maxim Miroshkin	Kamilla Gainetdinova Sergei Alexeev	[13]
2016		Anna Dušková Martin Bidař	Amina Atakhanova Ilia Spiridonov	Chelsea Liu Brian Johnson	[14]
2018		Kseniia Akhanteva Valerii Kolesov	Polina Kostiukovich Dmitrii Ialin	Sarah Feng TJ Nyman	[15]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[5]
2022		Sophia Baram Daniel Tioumentsev	Cayla Smith Andy Deng	Chloe Panetta Kieran Thrasher	[16]
2024		Zhang Xuanqi Feng Wenqiang	Romane Telemaque Lucas Coulon	Julia Quattrocchi Simon Desmarais	[17]

Ice dance

At the 2022 Czech Skate, Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek won the first ever Junior Grand Prix title in ice dance for the Czech Republic, outscoring silver medalists Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez of Great Britain by almost seventeen points. Bekker and Hernandez won the first ever Junior Grand Prix medal in ice dance for Great Britain, while bronze medalists Nao Kida and Masaya Morita won the first ever Junior Grand Prix medal in ice dance for Japan.^[18]

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1999	Ostrava	Kristina Kobaladze Oleg Voyko	Julia Golovina Denis Egorov	Lucie Kadlčáková Hynek Bílek	[3]
2000		Elena Khaliavina Maxim Shabalin	Viktoria Polzykina Alexander Shakalov		[6]
2001		Julia Golovina Oleg Voyko	Oksana Domnina Maxim Bolotin	Amandine Borsi Fabrice Blondel	[7]
2003		Anna Zadorozhniuk Sergei Verbillo	Olga Orlova Maxim Bolotin	Petra Pachlová Petr Knoth	[8]
2005 Final		Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Meryl Davis Charlie White	Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte	[4]
2006	Liberec	Julia Zlobina Alexei Sitnikov	Camilla Spelta Marco Garavaglia	Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	[9]
2008	Ostrava	Piper Gilles Zachary Donohue	Marina Antipova Artem Kudashev	Karen Routhier Eric Saucke-Lacelle	[10]
2010		Ekaterina Pushkash Jonathan Guerreiro	Tiffany Zahorski Alexis Miart	Anastasia Galyeta Oleksii Shumskyi	[11]
2013		Betina Popova Yuri Vlasenko	Rachel Parsons Michael Parsons	Madeline Edwards Zhao Kai Pang	[12]
2014		Mackenzie Bent Garrett MacKeen	Betina Popova Yuri Vlasenko	Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter	[13]
2016		Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter	Nicole Kuzmichová Alexandr Sinicyn	Arina Ushakova Maxim Nekrasov	[14]
2018		Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva Nikita Nazarov	Maria Kazakova Georgy Reviya	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin	[15]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[5]
2022		Kateřina Mrázková Daniel Mrázek	Phebe Bekker James Hernandez	Nao Kida Masaya Morita	[16]
2024		Célina Fradji Jean-Hans Fourneaux	Katarina Wolfkostin Dimitry Tsarevski	Layla Veillon Alexander Brandys	[17]