2023–24 ISU Challenger Series

The 2023–24 ISU Challenger Series was held from September to December 2023. It was the tenth season that the ISU Challenger Series, a group of senior-level international figure skating competitions, was held.

2023–24 ISU Challenger Series
Type:ISU Challenger Series
Date:September 8 – December 10, 2023
Season:2023–24
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Competitions

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This season, the series included the following events.

Date Event Location Notes Results
September 8–10   2023 Lombardia Trophy Bergamo, Italy Details
September 14–16   2023 Autumn Classic International Montreal, Quebec, Canada Details
September 20–23   2023 Nebelhorn Trophy Oberstdorf, Germany Details
September 28–30   2023 Nepela Memorial Bratislava, Slovakia No pairs Details
October 4–8   2023 Finlandia Trophy Espoo, Finland Details
October 13–15   2023 Budapest Trophy Budapest, Hungary No pairs Details
November 1–4   2023 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Astana, Kazakhstan No pairs Details
November 7–12   2023 Ice Challenge[1] Cancelled
November 15–19   2023 Warsaw Cup Warsaw, Poland No pairs Details
December 7–10   2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb Sisak, Croatia Details

Requirements

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Skaters were eligible to compete on the Challenger Series if they had reached the age of 16 before July 1, 2023.

Medal summary

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Men's singles

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results
  Lombardia Trophy   Yuma Kagiyama   Nika Egadze   Andrew Torgashev Details
  Autumn Classic International   Ilia Malinin   Kévin Aymoz   Stephen Gogolev Details
  Nebelhorn Trophy   Adam Siao Him Fa   Kazuki Tomono   Koshiro Shimada Details
  Nepela Memorial   Gabriele Frangipani   Nika Egadze   Mark Gorodnitsky Details
  Finlandia Trophy   Kao Miura   Shun Sato   Aleksandr Selevko Details
  Budapest Trophy   Nikolaj Memola   Lukas Britschgi   Tomoki Hiwatashi Details
  Denis Ten Memorial Challenge   Lim Ju-heon   Nika Egadze   Kim Han-gil Details
  Warsaw Cup   Lukas Britschgi   Mark Gorodnitsky   Jason Brown Details
  Golden Spin of Zagreb   Jin Boyang   Mikhail Shaidorov   Aleksandr Selevko Details

Women's singles

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results
  Lombardia Trophy   Anastasiia Gubanova   Hana Yoshida   Kim Chae-yeon Details
  Autumn Classic International   Kaori Sakamoto   Kaiya Ruiter   Justine Miclette Details
  Nebelhorn Trophy   Isabeau Levito   Kimmy Repond   Kim Min-chae Details
  Nepela Memorial   Kim Chae-yeon   Lee Hae-in   Madeline Schizas Details
  Finlandia Trophy   Kim Ye-lim   Rinka Watanabe   Anastasiia Gubanova Details
  Budapest Trophy   Bradie Tennell   Léa Serna   Clare Seo Details
  Denis Ten Memorial Challenge   Mariia Seniuk   Choi Da-bin   Alina Urushadze Details
  Warsaw Cup   Ekaterina Kurakova   Anna Pezzetta   Elyce Lin-Gracey Details
  Golden Spin of Zagreb   Sarina Joos   Amber Glenn   Starr Andrews Details

Pairs

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results
  Lombardia Trophy   Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii   Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin   Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel Details
  Autumn Classic International   Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps   Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara   Emmanuelle Proft / Nicolas Nadeau Details
  Nebelhorn Trophy   Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin   Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise   Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel Details
  Finlandia Trophy   Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea   Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini   Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko Details
  Golden Spin of Zagreb   Milania Väänänen / Filippo Clerici   Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez   Sofiia Holichenko / Artem Darenskyi Details

Ice dance

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results
  Lombardia Trophy   Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri   Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler   Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya Details
  Autumn Classic International   Eva Pate / Logan Bye   Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud   Hannah Lim / Ye Quan Details
  Nebelhorn Trophy   Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson   Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevicius   Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis Details
  Nepela Memorial   Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson   Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin   Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler Details
  Finlandia Trophy   Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis   Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko   Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen Details
  Budapest Trophy   Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin   Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac   Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier Details
  Denis Ten Memorial Challenge   Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin   Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan   Mariia Pinchuk / Mykyta Pogorielov Details
  Warsaw Cup   Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud   Hannah Lim / Ye Quan   Marie Dupayage / Thomas Nabais Details
  Golden Spin of Zagreb   Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius   Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik   Isabella Flores / Ivan Desyatov Details

Medal standings

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States54716
2  Italy5308
3  Japan3519
4  Georgia34310
5  South Korea33410
6  France2327
7  Finland2013
8  Great Britain2002
9  Canada1258
10  Germany1225
11  Switzerland1203
12  Israel1113
13  Lithuania1102
14  China1001
  Poland1001
16  Czech Republic0112
17  Kazakhstan0101
18  Estonia0022
  Ukraine0022
20  Hungary0011
Totals (20 entries)32323296

Challenger Series rankings

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The ISU Challenger Series rankings were formed by combining the two highest final scores of each skater or team.

Men's singles

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As of December 29, 2023.[2]

No. Skater Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score
1 Lukas Britschgi   Switzerland Budapest Trophy 246.12 Warsaw Cup 246.22 492.34
2 Jin Boyang   China Autumn Classic International 230.99 Golden Spin of Zagreb 258.67 489.66
3 Nika Egadze   Georgia Lombardia Trophy 243.35 Nepela Memorial 243.31 486.66
4 Mark Gorodnitsky   Israel Nepela Memorial 236.30 Warsaw Cup 243.29 479.59
5 Nikolaj Memola   Italy Finlandia Trophy 222.98 Budapest Trophy 250.37 473.35

Women's singles

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As of December 29, 2023.[3]

No. Skater Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score
1 Kim Chae-yeon   South Korea Lombardia Trophy 180.78 Nepela Memorial 202.26 383.04
2 Anastasiia Gubanova   Georgia 185.60 Finlandia Trophy 179.61 365.21
3 Ekaterina Kurakova   Poland Nepela Memorial 181.98 Warsaw Cup 181.71 363.69
4 Léa Serna   France Budapest Trophy 178.56 174.59 353.15
5 Livia Kaiser   Switzerland 170.39 173.20 343.59

Pairs

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As of December 29, 2023.[4]

No. Team Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score
1 Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin   Germany Lombardia Trophy 194.52 Nebelhorn Trophy 194.96 389.48
2 Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel 191.76 189.01 380.77
3 Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise   Italy 185.06 191.71 376.77
4 Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini 182.33 Finlandia Trophy 177.03 359.36
5 Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko   Hungary Nebelhorn Trophy 182.60 169.39 351.99

Ice dance

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As of December 29, 2023.[5]

No. Team Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score
1 Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson   Great Britain Nebelhorn Trophy 207.84 Nepela Memorial 200.46 408.30
2 Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius   Lithuania 190.55 Golden Spin of Zagreb 200.11 390.66
3 Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin   Georgia Budapest Trophy 191.84 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 192.67 384.51
4 Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud   France Autumn Classic International 186.94 Warsaw Cup 196.56 383.50
5 Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis   Finland Nebelhorn Trophy 183.63 Finlandia Trophy 193.73 377.36

Top scores

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Men's singles

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Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Ilia Malinin   United States 281.68 2023 Autumn Classic International
2 Adam Siao Him Fa   France 279.57 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
3 Kao Miura   Japan 267.81 2023 Finlandia Trophy
4 Kazuki Tomono 265.78 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
5 Yuma Kagiyama 265.59 2023 Lombardia Trophy
6 Shun Sato 261.23 2023 Finlandia Trophy
7 Jin Boyang   China 258.67 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8 Nikolaj Memola   Italy 250.37 2023 Budapest Trophy
9 Koshiro Shimada   Japan 247.43 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
10 Lukas Britschgi   Switzerland 246.22 2023 Warsaw Cup
Top 10 best scores in the men's short program
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Ilia Malinin   United States 100.87 2023 Autumn Classic International
2 Adam Siao Him Fa   France 95.17 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
3 Kazuki Tomono   Japan 93.55
4 Lukas Britschgi   Switzerland 91.51 2023 Warsaw Cup
5 Yuma Kagiyama   Japan 91.47 2023 Lombardia Trophy
6 Jin Boyang   China 91.25 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
7 Kao Miura   Japan 90.95 2023 Finlandia Trophy
8 Nikolaj Memola   Italy 88.99 2023 Budapest Trophy
9 Shun Sato   Japan 87.47 2023 Finlandia Trophy
10 Andrew Torgashev   United States 86.41 2023 Lombardia Trophy
Top 10 best scores in the men's free skating
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Adam Siao Him Fa   France 184.40 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
2 Ilia Malinin   United States 180.81 2023 Autumn Classic International
3 Kao Miura   Japan 176.86 2023 Finlandia Trophy
4 Yuma Kagiyama 174.12 2023 Lombardia Trophy
5 Shun Sato 173.76 2023 Finlandia Trophy
6 Kazuki Tomono 172.23 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
7 Lukas Britschgi   Switzerland 168.34 2023 Budapest Trophy
8 Koshiro Shimada   Japan 167.86 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
9 Jin Boyang   China 167.42 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
10 Gabriele Frangipani   Italy 164.87 2023 Nepela Memorial

Women's singles

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Top 10 best scores in the women's combined total
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Kaori Sakamoto   Japan 203.20 2023 Autumn Classic International
2 Kim Chae-yeon   South Korea 202.26 2023 Nepela Memorial
3 Isabeau Levito   United States 198.79 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
4 Kimmy Repond   Switzerland 191.94
5 Lee Hae-in   South Korea 191.10 2023 Nepela Memorial
6 Madeline Schizas   Canada 188.88
7 Kim Ye-lim   South Korea 187.91 2023 Finlandia Trophy
8 Bradie Tennell   United States 185.84 2023 Budapest Trophy
9 Anastasiia Gubanova   Georgia 185.60 2023 Lombardia Trophy
10 Hana Yoshida   Japan 185.45
Top 10 best scores in the women's short program
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Kaori Sakamoto   Japan 75.62 2023 Autumn Classic International
2 Kim Ye-lim   South Korea 70.20 2023 Finlandia Trophy
3 Anastasiia Gubanova   Georgia 69.65 2023 Lombardia Trophy
4 Isabeau Levito   United States 69.30 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
5 Kim Chae-yeon   South Korea 67.42 2023 Nepela Memorial
Madeline Schizas   Canada 67.42
7 Lee Hae-in   South Korea 66.08
8 Livia Kaiser   Switzerland 65.21 2023 Warsaw Cup
9 Bradie Tennell   United States 65.09 2023 Budapest Trophy
10 Ava Marie Ziegler 65.07 2023 Finlandia Trophy
Top 10 best scores in the women's free skating
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Kim Chae-yeon   South Korea 134.84 2023 Nepela Memorial
2 Kimmy Repond   Switzerland 130.39 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
3 Isabeau Levito   United States 129.49
4 Kaori Sakamoto   Japan 127.58 2023 Autumn Classic International
5 Lee Hae-in   South Korea 125.02 2023 Nepela Memorial
6 Ekaterina Kurakova   Poland 124.26 2023 Warsaw Cup
7 Hana Yoshida   Japan 122.91 2023 Lombardia Trophy
8 Madeline Schizas   Canada 121.46 2023 Nepela Memorial
9 Kim Min-chae   South Korea 121.27 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
10 Bradie Tennell   United States 120.75 2023 Budapest Trophy

Pairs

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Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps   Canada 203.62 2023 Autumn Classic International
2 Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii   Italy 200.35 2023 Lombardia Trophy
3 Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin   Germany 194.96 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
4 Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel 191.76 2023 Lombardia Trophy
5 Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise   Italy 191.71 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
6 Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud   Canada 188.94
7 Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara   Japan 188.05 2023 Autumn Classic International
8 Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko   Hungary 182.60 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
9 Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini   Italy 182.33 2023 Lombardia Trophy
10 Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea   United States 182.07 2023 Finlandia Trophy
Top 10 best scores in the pairs' short program
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps   Canada 71.80 2023 Autumn Classic International
2 Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii   Italy 70.16 2023 Lombardia Trophy
3 Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise 66.94
4 Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin   Germany 66.22
5 Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel 66.06
6 Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea   United States 63.03 2023 Finlandia Trophy
7 Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud   Canada 62.38 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
8 Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini   Italy 61.75 2023 Finlandia Trophy
9 Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko   Hungary 61.66
10 Milania Väänänen / Filippo Clerici   Finland 60.95 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
Top 10 best scores in the pairs' free skating
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin   Germany 132.11 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
2 Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps   Canada 131.82 2023 Autumn Classic International
3 Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii   Italy 130.19 2023 Lombardia Trophy
4 Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara   Japan 128.92 2023 Autumn Classic International
5 Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini   Italy 127.34 2023 Lombardia Trophy
6 Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud   Canada 126.56 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
7 Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel   Germany 125.70 2023 Lombardia Trophy
8 Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise   Italy 125.35 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
9 Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko   Hungary 121.26
10 Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea   United States 119.04 2023 Finlandia Trophy

Ice dance

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Top 10 best scores in the combined total (ice dance)
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri   Italy 208.02 2023 Lombardia Trophy
2 Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson   Great Britain 207.84 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
3 Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius   Lithuania 200.11 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
4 Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis   Finland 193.73 2023 Finlandia Trophy
5 Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin   Georgia 192.67 2023 Denis Ten Memorial
6 Eva Pate / Logan Bye   United States 191.20 2023 Autumn Classic International
7 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko 191.14 2023 Finlandia Trophy
8 Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler   Czech Republic 189.23 2023 Lombardia Trophy
9 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen   Canada 188.56 2023 Finlandia Trophy
10 Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac 188.32 2023 Budapest Trophy
Top 10 best scores in the rhythm dance
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri   Italy 84.61 2023 Lombardia Trophy
2 Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson   Great Britain 82.42 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
3 Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius   Lithuania 81.19 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
4 Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik   United States 78.23
5 Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin   Georgia 77.62 2023 Nepela Memorial
6 Eva Pate / Logan Bye   United States 77.02 2023 Autumn Classic International
7 Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis   Finland 75.76 2023 Finlandia Trophy
8 Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler   Czech Republic 75.21 2023 Lombardia Trophy
9 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko   United States 74.15 2023 Finlandia Trophy
10 Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck   Spain 72.56
Top 10 best scores in the free dance
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson   Great Britain 125.42 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
2 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri   Italy 123.41 2023 Lombardia Trophy
3 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen   Canada 120.89 2023 Finlandia Trophy
4 Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius   Lithuania 118.92 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
5 Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis   Finland 117.97 2023 Finlandia Trophy
6 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko   United States 116.99
7 Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin   Georgia 116.63 2023 Budapest Trophy
8 Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac   Canada 116.40
9 Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud   France 114.66 2023 Autumn Classic International
10 Eva Pate / Logan Bye   United States 114.18

References

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  1. ^ Anything GOEs [@AnythingGOE] (July 27, 2023). "🇦🇹 IceChallenge has been cancelled" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2023/2024: Men". International Skating Union.
  3. ^ "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2023/2024: Women". International Skating Union.
  4. ^ "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2023/2024: Pairs". International Skating Union.
  5. ^ "ISU Challenger Series Ranking 2023/2024: Ice Dance". International Skating Union.
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