ISU Junior Grand Prix in Japan

The ISU Junior Grand Prix in Japan is an international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Japan Skating Federation (Japanese: 日本スケート連盟). 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 Japan
Status	Active
Genre	ISU Junior Grand Prix
Frequency	Occasional
Country	Japan
Organized by	Japan 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 July 1 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]

Medalists

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1999	Nagano	Soshi Tanaka	Ma Xiaodong	Stéphane Lambiel	[3]
2001		Daisuke Takahashi	Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari	Shawn Sawyer	[4]
2003	Okaya	Evan Lysacek	Kazumi Kishimoto	Nobunari Oda	[5]
2005		Takahiko Kozuka	Guan Jinlin	Sergei Voronov	[6]
2009 Final	Tokyo	Yuzuru Hanyu	Song Nan	Ross Miner	[7]
2010	Karuizawa	Andrei Rogozine	Max Aaron	Abzal Rakimgaliev	[8]
2013 Final	Fukuoka	Jin Boyang	Adian Pitkeev	Nathan Chen	[9]
2014	Nagoya		Shoma Uno	Dmitri Aliev	[10]
2016	Yokohama	Cha Jun-hwan	Vincent Zhou	Alexey Erokhov	[11]
2017 Final	Nagoya	Alexei Krasnozhon	Camden Pulkinen	Mitsuki Sumoto	[12]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic				[13]
2023	Osaka	François Pitot	Lim Ju-heon	Daniel Martynov	[14]
2025 Final	Nagoya

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1999	Nagano	Jennifer Kirk	Yukari Nakano	Marianne Dubuc	[3]
2001		Akiko Suzuki		Fang Dan	[4]
2003	Okaya	Miki Ando	Mai Asada	Aki Sawada	[5]
2005		Aki Sawada	Xu Binshu	Juliana Cannarozzo	[6]
2009 Final	Tokyo	Kanako Murakami	Polina Shelepen	Christina Gao	[7]
2010	Karuizawa	Risa Shoji	Kiri Baga	Kexin Zhang	[8]
2013 Final	Fukuoka	Maria Sotskova	Serafima Sakhanovich	Evgenia Medvedeva	[9]
2014	Nagoya	Serafima Sakhanovich	Yuka Nagai	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	[10]
2016	Yokohama	Kaori Sakamoto	Marin Honda	Mako Yamashita	[11]
2017 Final	Nagoya	Alexandra Trusova	Alena Kostornaia	Anastasia Tarakanova	[12]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic				[13]
2023	Osaka	Mao Shimada	Yo Takagi	Tsai Yu-Feng	[14]
2025 Final	Nagoya

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1999	Nagano	Zhang Dan Zhang Hao	Chantel Poirier Craig Buntin	Larisa Spielberg Craig Joeright	[3]
2001		Carla Montgomery Ryan Arnold	Jessica Dubé Samuel Tetrault	No other competitors	[4]
2003	Okaya	Jessica Dubé Bryce Davison	Michelle Cronin Brian Shales	Brooke Castile Benjamin Okolski	[5]
2005		Kendra Moyle Andy Seitz	Ksenia Krasilnikova Konstantin Bezmaternikh	Bianca Butler Joseph Jacobsen	[6]
2009 Final	Tokyo	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	Narumi Takahashi Mervin Tran	Zhang Yue Wang Lei	[7]
2010	Karuizawa	No pairs competition
2013 Final	Fukuoka	Yu Xiaoyu Jin Yang	Maria Vigalova Egor Zakroev	Lina Fedorova Maxim Miroshkin	[9]
2014	Nagoya	No pairs competitions
2016	Yokohama
2017 Final	Nagoya	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya Harley Windsor	Apollinariia Panfilova Dmitry Rylov	Daria Pavliuchenko Denis Khodykin	[12]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic				[13]
2023	Osaka	No pairs competition
2025 Final	Nagoya

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1999	Nagano	Flavia Ottaviani Massimo Scali	Tanith Belbin Benjamin Agosto	Svetlana Kulikova Arseni Markov	[3]
2001		Miriam Steinel Vladimir Tsvetkov	Nathalie Péchalat Fabian Bourzat	Daria Borisova Alexandr Chepurnov	[4]
2003	Okaya	Natalia Mikhailova Arkadi Sergeev	Elena Romanovskaya Alexander Grachev	Lauren Senft Leif Gislason	[5]
2005		Anastasia Platonova Andrei Maximishin	Rina Thieleke Sascha Rabe	Polina Jakobs Alexander Baidukov	[6]
2009 Final	Tokyo	Ksenia Monko Kirill Khaliavin	Elena Ilinykh Nikita Katsalapov	Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani	[7]
2010	Karuizawa	Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Ekaterina Pushkash Jonathan Guerreiro	Geraldine Bott Neil Brown	[8]
2013 Final	Fukuoka	Anna Yanovskaya Sergey Mozgov	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Lorraine McNamara Quinn Carpenter	[9]
2014	Nagoya	Madeline Edwards Zhao Kai Pang	Alla Loboda Pavel Drozd	Rachel Parsons Michael Parsons	[10]
2016	Yokohama	Rachel Parsons Michael Parsons	Anastasia Shpilevaya Grigory Smirnov	Angélique Abachkina Louis Thauron	[11]
2017 Final	Nagoya	Anastasia Skoptsova Kirill Aleshin	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko	Sofia Polishchuk Alexander Vakhnov	[12]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic				[13]
2023	Osaka	Leah Neset Artem Markelov	Elizabeth Tkachenko Alexei Kiliakov	Célina Fradji Jean-Hans Forneaux	[14]
2025 Final	Nagoya