Autumn Classic International

The Autumn Classic International is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by Skate Canada. The competition debuted in 2014 in Barrie, Ontario, as one of the inaugural competitions of the ISU Challenger Series. The Autumn Classic International has been a Challenger Series event six times during its history. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; and when the event is part of the Challenger Series, skaters earn ISU World Standing points based on their results. The Autumn Classic International was last held in 2023 in Montreal.

Autumn Classic International
Status	Inactive
Genre	ISU Challenger Series
Frequency	Annual
Country	Canada
Inaugurated	2014
Previous event	2023 Autumn Classic International
Organized by	Skate Canada

Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan holds the record for the most wins at the Autumn Classic International in men's singles (with four). Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada, and Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès of France, are tied for winning the most titles in pair skating (with two each). Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, and Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, also of Canada, are tied for winning the most titles in ice dance (with two each). No one skater holds the record in women's singles as there has been a unique champion each time the event has been held.

History

The ISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It is a series of international figure skating competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union 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.^[1] The inaugural edition of the Autumn Classic International coincided with the launch of the Challenger Series and was held in Barrie, Ontario. Ross Miner of the United States won the men's event, Gabrielle Daleman of Canada won the women's event, Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada won the pairs event, and Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France won the ice dance event.^[2] The Autumn Classic International was a Challenger Series event in 2014, from 2016 to 2019, in 2021, and in 2023. No competition was held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3] The last installment of the Autumn Classic International was held in 2023 in Montreal.^[4]

Senior medalists

The 2023 Autumn Classic International champions: Ilia Malinin of the United States (men's singles); Kaori Sakamoto of Japan (women's singles); Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada (pair skating); and Eva Pate and Logan Bye of the United States (ice dance)

CS: Challenger Series event

Men's singles

The men's event at the 2021 Autumn Classic International was not part of the Challenger Series competition.

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2014 CS	Barrie	Ross Miner	Nam Nguyen	Jeremy Ten	[2]
2015		Yuzuru Hanyu		Sean Rabbitt	[5]
2016 CS	Montreal		Misha Ge	Max Aaron	[6]
2017 CS		Javier Fernández	Yuzuru Hanyu	Keegan Messing	[7]
2018 CS	Oakville	Yuzuru Hanyu	Cha Jun-hwan	Roman Sadovsky	[8]
2019 CS			Kévin Aymoz	Keegan Messing	[9]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[10]
2021	Montreal	Conrad Orzel	Bennet Toman	Beres Clements	[11]
2022	No competition held
2023 CS	Montreal	Ilia Malinin	Kévin Aymoz	Stephen Gogolev	[4]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2014 CS	Barrie	Gabrielle Daleman	Angela Wang	Julianne Séguin	[2]
2015		Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Haruka Imai	Angela Wang	[5]
2016 CS	Montreal	Mirai Nagasu	Alaine Chartrand	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	[6]
2017 CS		Kaetlyn Osmond	Mai Mihara		[7]
2018 CS	Oakville	Bradie Tennell	Evgenia Medvedeva	Maé-Bérénice Méité	[8]
2019 CS		Rika Kihira		Lim Eun-soo	[9]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[10]
2021 CS	Montreal	Marilena Kitromilis	You Young	Ji Seo-yeon	[11]
2022	No competition held
2023 CS	Montreal	Kaori Sakamoto	Kaiya Ruiter	Justine Miclette	[4]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2014 CS	Barrie	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	Haven Denney Brandon Frazier	Jessica Calalang Zack Sidhu	[2]
2015			Marissa Castelli Mervin Tran	Jessica Pfund Joshua Santillan	[5]
2016 CS	Montreal	Julianne Séguin Charlie Bilodeau	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	Marissa Castelli Mervin Tran	[6]
2017 CS		Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	Julianne Séguin Charlie Bilodeau	[7]
2018 CS	Oakville		Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	Haven Denney Brandon Frazier	[8]
2019		No pairs competition held			[9]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[10]
2021 CS	Montreal	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Vanessa James Eric Radford	Ashley Cain-Gribble Timothy LeDuc	[11]
2022	No competition held
2023 CS	Montreal	Deanna Stellato-Dudek Maxime Deschamps	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Emmanuelle Proft Nicolas Nadeau	[4]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2014 CS	Barrie	Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen	[2]
2015		Nicole Orford Asher Hill	Andréanne Poulin Marc-André Servant	Karina Manta Joseph Johnson	[5]
2016 CS	Montreal	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen	[6]
2017 CS			Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	[7]
2018 CS	Oakville	Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Olivia Smart Adrián Díaz	Carolane Soucisse Shane Firus	[8]
2019 CS		Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	Marie-Jade Lauriault Romain Le Gac	[9]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[10]
2021 CS	Montreal	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Olivia Smart Adrián Díaz	Caroline Green Michael Parsons	[11]
2022	No competition held
2023 CS	Montreal	Eva Pate Logan Bye	Evgeniia Lopareva Geoffrey Brissaud	Hannah Lim Ye Quan	[4]

Junior medalists

Men's singles

Junior men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2015	Barrie	Cha Jun-hwan	Joseph Phan	Hugh Brabyn-Jones	[5]
2016	Montreal	Edrian Paul Celestino	Mark Gorodnitsky	Iliya Kovler	[6]
2017		Eric Liu	Beresford Clements		[12]

Women's singles

Junior women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2015	Barrie	Amanda Stan	Alicia Pineault	McKenna Colthorp	[5]
2016	Montreal	Aurora Cotop	Olivia Gran	An So-hyun	[6]
2017		Julie Froetscher	Jeon Su-been	Hannah Dawson	[12]

Records

From left to right: Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan has won four Autumn Classic International titles in men's singles; Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada, and Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès of France, have each won two Autumn Classic International titles in pair skating; and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, and Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, both of Canada, have each won two Autumn Classic International titles in ice dance.

Records

Discipline	Most titles
	Skater(s)	No.	Years	Ref.
Men's singles	Yuzuru Hanyu	4	2015–16; 2018–19	[13]
Women's singles	—
Pairs	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	2	2014–15	[14]
	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	2	2017–18	[15]
Ice dance	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	2	2016–17	[16]
	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	2	2019; 2021	[17]

Cumulative medal count (senior medalists)

Men's singles

Total number of Autumn Classic International medals in men's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	1	0	5
2	United States	2	0	2	4
3	Canada	1	3	6	10
4	Spain	1	0	0	1
5	France	0	2	0	2
6	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Women's singles

Total number of Autumn Classic International medals in women's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	2	2	2	6
2	Japan	2	2	0	4
3	United States	2	1	1	4
4	Kazakhstan	1	0	2	3
5	Cyprus	1	0	0	1
6	Russia	0	2	0	2
7	South Korea	0	1	2	3
8	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	8	24

Pairs

Total number of Autumn Classic International medals in pairs by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	4	3	2	9
2	France	2	1	0	3
3	Japan	1	1	0	2
4	United States	0	2	5	7
Totals (4 entries)		7	7	7	21

Ice dance

Total number of Autumn Classic International medals in ice dance by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	6	3	2	11
2	United States	1	1	2	4
3	France	1	1	1	3
4	Spain	0	2	0	2
5	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
6	Denmark	0	0	2	2
7	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Total medals

Total number of Autumn Classic International medals by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	13	11	12	36
2	Japan	7	4	0	11
3	United States	5	4	10	19
4	France	3	4	2	9
5	Spain	1	2	0	3
6	Kazakhstan	1	0	2	3
7	Cyprus	1	0	0	1
8	South Korea	0	2	3	5
9	Russia	0	2	0	2
10	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
12	Denmark	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)		31	31	31	93