Ice Star

The Ice Star – originally called the Minsk-Arena Ice Star – was an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Skating Union of Belarus at the Minsk-Arena in Minsk, Belarus. The competition debuted in 2012, and was also a Challenger Series event twice during its history. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; and when the event was part of the Challenger Series, skaters earned World Standing points based on their results. On 1 March 2022, in accordance with a recommendation by the International Olympic Committee, the ISU banned all athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus from hosting or attending any international competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, the 2021 Ice Star was the last iteration of this event to be held.

Ice Star
Status	Inactive
Genre	International competition
Frequency	Annual
Venue	Minsk-Arena
Location	Minsk
Country	Belarus
Inaugurated	2012
Most recent	2021
Organised by	Skating Union of Belarus

History

The Ice Star – originally called the Minsk-Arena Ice Star – debuted in 2012. Yakov Godorozha of Ukraine won the men's event, Polina Shelepen of Russia won the women's event, and Julia Zlobina and Alexei Sitnikov of Azerbaijan won the ice dance event.^[1]

The ISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It is a series of international figure skating competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU) and organized by ISU member nations. The objective is to ensure consistent organization and structure within a series of international competitions linked together, providing opportunities for senior-level skaters to compete at the international level and also earn ISU World Standing points.^[2] Challenger Series events had to be scheduled between 1 August and 15 December. When an event was held as part of the Challenger Series, it had to host at least three of the four disciplines (men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance) and representatives from at least twelve different ISU member nations. The minimum number of entrants required for each discipline was: eight skaters each in men's singles and women's singles, five teams in pair skating, and six teams in ice dance.^[3] While ISU member nations were limited to sending a maximum of three skaters or teams per discipline to each event, Skate Canada could enter an unlimited number of entrants in their own event. Additionally, each skater or team was limited to participating in at most three Challenger Series events each season.^[4] The Ice Star was a Challenger Series event twice: in 2017 and 2019.^[5][6]

On 1 March 2022, the ISU banned all athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus from participating at any international competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[7] As such, the 2021 Ice Star was the last iteration of the competition to be held.^[8]

Senior medalists

From left to right: The inaugural Ice Star champions: Yakov Godorozha of Ukraine (men's singles); Polina Shelepen of Russia (women's singles); and Julia Zlobina and Alexei Sitnikov of Azerbaijan (ice dance)

CS: Challenger Series event

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Yakov Godorozha	Mark Shakhmatov	Vitali Luchanok	[1]
2013	Sergei Voronov	Zhan Bush	Pavel Ignatenko	[9]
2014	No men's competitors			[10]
2015	Kim Jin-seo	Evgeni Vlasov	Larry Loupolover	[11]
2016	Ivan Pavlov	Irakli Maysuradze		[12]
2017 CS	Sergei Voronov	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Daniel Samohin	[5]
2018	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Vladimir Litvintsev	Slavik Hayrapetyan	[13]
2019 CS	Daniel Grassl	Artem Kovalev	Adam Siao Him Fa	[6]
2020	Mikhail Kolyada	Konstantin Milyukov	Evgeni Semenenko	[14]
2021	Andrei Mozalev		Alexander Lebedev	[8]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Polina Shelepen	Kerstin Frank	Krystsina Zakharanka	[1]
2013	Helery Hälvin	Yanina Makeyenka	Svetlana Issakova	[9]
2014	Yanina Makeyenka	Aleksandra Golovkina	Helery Hälvin	[10]
2015	Kim Sena	Aleksandra Golovkina	Johanna Allik	[11]
2016	Anna Khnychenkova	Evgenia Ivankova	Kim Sena	[12]
2017 CS	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Serafima Sakhanovich	An So-hyun	[5]
2018	Ekaterina Ryabova	Léa Serna	Camilla Gjersem	[13]
2019 CS	Sofia Samodurova	Kim Ha-nul	Ekaterina Ryabova	[6]
2020	Viktoriia Safonova	Anastasiia Guliakova	Sofia Samodurova	[14]
2021			Anastasiia Shabotova	[8]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	No pairs competitors			[1]
2013	Kristina Astakhova Maxim Kurdyukov	Maria Paliakova Nikita Bochkov	Arina Voevodina Mikhail Akulov	[9]
2014–16	No pairs competitors
2017 CS	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Annika Hocke Ruben Blommaert	Paige Conners Evgeni Krasnopolski	[5]
2018	Miriam Ziegler Severin Kiefer	Laura Barquero Aritz Maestu	Daria Pavliuchenko Denis Khodykin	[13]
2019	No pairs competitors			[6]
2020	Bogdana Lukashevich Alexander Stepanov	No other competitors		[14]
2021	Ekaterina Yurova Dmitry Bushlanov	Bogdana Lukashevich Alexander Stepanov	No other competitors	[8]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Julia Zlobina Alexei Sitnikov	Nadezhda Frolenkova Vitali Nikiforov	Lesia Valadzenkava Vitali Vakunov	[1]
2013	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	Victoria Sinitsina Ruslan Zhiganshin	Ekaterina Pushkash Jonathan Guerreiro	[9]
2014	Ksenia Monko Kirill Khaliavin	Evgenia Kosigina Nikolai Moroshkin	Viktoria Kavaliova Yurii Bieliaiev	[10]
2015		Viktoria Kavaliova Yurii Bieliaiev	Rebeka Kim Kirill Minov	[11]
2016	Oleksandra Nazarova Maxim Nikitin	Alisa Agafonova Alper Uçar	Sofia Evdokimova Egor Bazin	[12]
2017 CS	Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte	Tiffany Zahorski Jonathan Guerreiro	Victoria Sinitsina Nikita Katsalapov	[5]
2018	Sofia Evdokimova Egor Bazin	Juulia Turkkila Matthias Versluis	Jasmine Tessari Francesco Fioretti	[13]
2019 CS	Sara Hurtado Kirill Khaliavin	Natalia Kaliszek Maksym Spodyriev	Oleksandra Nazarova Maksym Nikitin	[6]
2020	Viktoria Semenjuk Ilya Yukhimuk	Karina Sidarenka Maksim Yalenich	No other competitors	[14]
2021		Ekaterina Mironova Evgeni Ustenko	Aleksandra Samersova Kevin Ojala	[8]

Junior results

Men's singles

Junior men's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Ivan Pavlov	Pavel Ignatenko	Markus Ramisch	[1]
2013	Adian Pitkeev	Stanislav Andryunin	Anton Karpuk	[9]
2014	Andrei Vorotnikov	Anton Karpuk	Irakli Maysuradze	[10]
2015	Ivan Shmuratko	Yakau Zenko	Aleksandr Selevko	[11]
2016	Artem Kovalev	Gabriel Folkesson	Nika Egadze	[12]
2017	Vladimir Samoilov	Irakli Maysuradze	Artem Zotov	[5]
2018	Irakli Maysuradze	Matyáš Bělohradský	Mark Kondratiuk	[13]
2019	Mark Kondratiuk	Rakhat Bralin	Yauhenii Puzanau	[6]
2020	Mikalai Kazlou	Aliaksandr Bahdanovich	Alexander Egorov	[14]
2021	Vasil Barakhouski	Daniil Shevtcov	Ilya Stsiapankou	[8]

Women's singles

Junior women's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Jenni Saarinen	Aleksandra Golovkina	Minami Hanashiro	[1]
2013	Evgenia Medvedeva	Alina Beletskaya	Valeria Kozinets	[9]
2014	Anastasia Zaitsava	Maria Gavrilova	Lizaveta Avsiukevich	[10]
2015	Anita Östlund	Kristina Lisovskaja	Anželika Kļujeva	[11]
2016	Lee Hyun-soo	Ko Eun-bi	Jeon Su-been	[12]
2017	Anna Tarusina	Ksenia Pankova	Victoria Vasilieva	[5]
2018	Viktoriia Safonova	Alizée Crozet	Kamila Sultanmagomedova	[13]
2019	Anastasiia Shabotova	Niina Petrõkina		[6]
2020	Varvara Kisel	Milana Ramashova	Lizaveta Balonikava	[14]
2021		Sofiia Zakharova	Agata Starykava	[8]

Pairs

Junior pairs event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012–17	No junior pairs competitors prior to 2018
2018	Alina Pepeleva Roman Pleshkov	Natalia Khabibullina Ivan Balchenko	Milana Matakaeva Sergei Bezborodko	[13]
2019–21	No junior pairs competitors since 2018

Ice dance

Junior ice dance event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Viktoria Kavaliova Yurii Bieliaiev	Daria Korotitskaia Maksym Spodyriev	Sara Ghislandi Giona Terzo Ortenzi	[1]
2013	Anna Yanovskaya Sergey Mozgov	Viktoria Kavaliova Yurii Bieliaiev	Natalia Kaliszek Yaroslav Kurbakov	[9]
2014	Eva Hachaturian Andrei Bagin	Eugenia Tkachenka Yuri Hulitski	Sofia Polishchuk Alexander Vakhnov	[10]
2015	Sofia Evdokimova Egor Bazin	Maria Oleynik Yuri Hulitski	Anzhelika Yurchenko Volodymyr Byelikov	[11]
2016	Anastasia Shpilevaya Grigory Smirnov	Arina Ushakova Maxim Nekrasov	Polina Velikanova Dmitry Kotlov	[12]
2017	Sofia Shevchenko Igor Eremenko	Shira Ichilov Vadim Davidovich	Angelina Lazareva Maksim Prokofev	[5]
2018	Angelina Lazareva Maksim Prokofev	Ekaterina Andreeva Ivan Desyatov	Emiliya Kalehanova Uladzislau Palhkhouski	[13]
2019	Loïcia Demougeot Théo le Mercier	Sasha Fear George Waddell	Elizaveta Shichina Gordey Khubulov	[6]
2020	Angelina Kudryavtseva Ilia Karankevich	Elizaveta Shichina Gordey Khubulov	Vasilisa Grigoreva Artem Frolov	[14]
2021	Alena Kanysheva Andrei Pylin	Elizaveta Novik Oleksandr Kukharevskyi	No other competitors	[8]