John Nicks Pairs Challenge

The John Nicks Pairs Challenge is an annual international pair skating competition held in September in New York City, New York. It is hosted by U.S. Figure Skating. Medals are awarded at the senior and junior levels. It was named in honor of British figure skating coach and former pair skater John Nicks.^[1]

John Nicks Pairs Challenge
Type:	ISU Challenger Series
Location:	United States

The International Skating Union announced that the 2024 John Nicks Pairs Challenge event would be part of the Challenger Series.^[2]

Senior medalists

CS: Challenger Series event

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2021	Alexa Knierim Brandon Frazier	Jessica Calalang Brian Johnson	Audrey Lu Misha Mitrofanov	[3]
2022	Rebecca Ghilardi Filippo Ambrosini	Emily Chan Spencer Howe	Valentina Plazas Maximiliano Fernandez	[4]
2023	Camille Kovalev Pavel Kovalev	Anna Valesi Manuel Piazza		[5]
2024 CS	Ellie Kam Daniel O'Shea	Alisa Efimova Misha Mitrofanov	Ekaterina Geynish Dmitrii Chigirev	[6]

Junior medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2021	Chloe Panetta Kieran Thrasher	Cate Fleming Chase Finster	Laiken Lockley Jedidiah Isbell	[3]
2022	Ellie Korytek Timmy Chapman	Catherine Rivers Nathan Rensing	Lilanna Murray Jordan Gillette	[4]
2023	Saya Carpenter Jon Maravilla	Sofia Enkina Nikita Kovalenko	Ashley Fletcher Aaron Felberbaum	[5]
2024	Reagan Moss Jakub Galbavy	Addyson McDanold Aaron Felberbaum	Neamh Davison Daniel Borisov	[6]

Cumulative medal count (senior medalists)

Total number of John Nicks Pairs Challenge medals by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	2	3	3	8
2	Italy	1	1	0	2
3	France	1	0	0	1
4	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		4	4	4	12