2021–22 ISU Challenger Series

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The 2021–22 ISU Challenger Series was held from September to December 2021. It was the eighth season that the ISU Challenger Series, a group of senior-level international figure skating competitions, was held.

This season, the series included the following events.^[1]

The 2021 Asian Open Trophy, which was held on October 13–17 in Beijing, China, was intended to be a Challenger Series event. However, as only the men's and women's singles events featured international participants and the total number of ISU member nations represented at the event totaled nine, it did not meet the necessary criteria to qualify for Challenger Series status.

Date	Event	Location	Notes	Results
September 10–12	2021 Lombardia Trophy	Bergamo, Italy	No pairs	Details
September 16–18	2021 Autumn Classic International	Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada	Men's singles competition did not qualify as a Challenger Series event	Details
September 22–25	2021 Nebelhorn Trophy	Oberstdorf, Germany	Olympic qualifying event[2][3]	Details
September 30 – October 2	2021 Nepela Memorial	Cancelled
October 7–10	2021 Finlandia Trophy	Espoo, Finland		Details
October 28–31	2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	No pairs	Details
November 11–14	2021 Cup of Austria	Graz, Austria	No pairs	Details
November 18–21	2021 Warsaw Cup	Warsaw, Poland		Details
December 8–11	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb	Sisak, Croatia		Details

Skaters were eligible to compete on the Challenger Series if they had reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2021.

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Lombardia Trophy	Daniel Grassl	Adam Siao Him Fa	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Details
Autumn Classic International	Competition did not qualify as a Challenger Series event
Nebelhorn Trophy	Vincent Zhou	Adam Siao Him Fa	Mark Kondratiuk	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Jason Brown	Mikhail Kolyada	Dmitri Aliev	Details
Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Petr Gumennik	Mark Kondratiuk	Andrei Mozalev	Details
Cup of Austria	Nika Egadze	Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda	Ilia Malinin	Details
Warsaw Cup	Sōta Yamamoto	Daniel Grassl	Petr Gumennik	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Keegan Messing	Andrei Mozalev	Jimmy Ma	Details

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Lombardia Trophy	Alysa Liu	Ekaterina Kurakova	Audrey Shin	Details
Autumn Classic International	Marilena Kitromilis	You Young	Ji Seo-yeon	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Alysa Liu	Ekaterina Kurakova	Viktoriia Safonova	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Kamila Valieva	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Alena Kostornaia	Details
Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Viktoriia Safonova	Ekaterina Ryabova	Anastasiia Shabotova	Details
Cup of Austria	Wakaba Higuchi	Park Yeon-jeong	Niina Petrõkina	Details
Warsaw Cup	Maiia Khromykh	Niina Petrõkina	Ekaterina Kurakova	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Anastasiia Gubanova	Amber Glenn	Niina Petrõkina	Details

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Autumn Classic International	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Vanessa James / Eric Radford	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	Laura Barquero / Marco Zandron	Karina Safina / Luka Berulava	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Details
Warsaw Cup	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Anastasiia Metelkina / Daniil Parkman	Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev	Details

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Lombardia Trophy	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Details
Autumn Classic International	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Details
Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin	Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Egor Bazin	Details
Cup of Austria	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz	Details
Warsaw Cup	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy	Details

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	7	5	9	21
2	United States	6	3	7	16
3	Japan	3	2	0	5
4	Italy	3	1	0	4
5	Canada	2	3	0	5
6	Georgia	2	1	3	6
7	France	1	2	0	3
8	Germany	1	1	0	2
9	Belarus	1	0	1	2
10	Cyprus	1	0	0	1
	Finland	1	0	0	1
12	Spain	0	2	2	4
13	Poland	0	2	1	3
	South Korea	0	2	1	3
15	Estonia	0	1	2	3
16	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
17	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
19	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		28	28	28	84

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

As of December 15, 2021^[update].^[4]

No.	Skater	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Petr Gumennik	Russia	Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	263.14	Warsaw Cup	242.91	506.05
2	Keegan Messing	Canada	Finlandia Trophy	242.58	Golden Spin of Zagreb	255.07	497.65
3	Mark Kondratiuk	Russia	Nebelhorn Trophy	241.06	Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	250.08	491.14
4	Daniel Grassl	Italy	Lombardia Trophy	247.80	Warsaw Cup	242.96	490.76
5	Andrei Mozalev	Russia	Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	234.05	Golden Spin of Zagreb	252.15	486.20

As of December 15, 2021^[update].^[5]

No.	Skater	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Alysa Liu	United States	Lombardia Trophy	219.24	Nebelhorn Trophy	207.40	426.64
2	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	Finlandia Trophy	203.91	Golden Spin of Zagreb	184.29	388.20
3	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	Nebelhorn Trophy	193.58	Warsaw Cup	187.80	381.38
4	Viktoriia Safonova	Belarus		190.29	Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	190.06	380.35
5	Karen Chen	United States	Autumn Classic International	173.00	Finlandia Trophy	202.49	375.49

As of December 15, 2021^[update].^[6]

No.	Team	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	Finlandia Trophy	213.72	Warsaw Cup	228.49	442.21
2	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	United States		191.89		196.85	388.74
3	Vanessa James / Eric Radford	Canada		190.58	Golden Spin of Zagreb	187.57	378.15
4	Anastasiia Metelkina / Daniil Parkman	Georgia	Warsaw Cup	184.24		189.60	373.84
5	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	Germany	Nebelhorn Trophy	185.25	Finlandia Trophy	188.37	373.62

As of December 15, 2021^[update].^[7]

No.	Team	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	Lombardia Trophy	205.36	Cup of Austria	208.88	414.24
2	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Russia	Cup of Austria	184.62	Warsaw Cup	199.90	384.52
3	Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz	Spain	Autumn Classic International	191.31	Cup of Austria	189.88	381.19
4	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	Lombardia Trophy	185.26		194.67	379.93
5	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons	United States	Autumn Classic International	188.43	Warsaw Cup	187.84	376.27

Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Vincent Zhou	United States	284.23	2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Petr Gumennik	Russia	263.14	2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
3	Jason Brown	United States	262.52	2021 Finlandia Trophy
4	Mikhail Kolyada	Russia	256.98
5	Keegan Messing	Canada	255.07	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
6	Andrei Mozalev	Russia	252.15
7	Jimmy Ma	United States	250.97
8	Mark Kondratiuk	Russia	250.08	2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
9	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Latvia	250.07	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
10	Dmitri Aliev	Russia	249.25	2021 Finlandia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the men's short program

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Vincent Zhou	United States	97.35	2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Jason Brown		92.39	2021 Finlandia Trophy
	Keegan Messing	Canada	92.39
4	Petr Gumennik	Russia	91.84	2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
5	Sōta Yamamoto	Japan	91.75	2021 Warsaw Cup
6	Koshiro Shimada		90.55
7	Adam Siao Him Fa	France	89.23	2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
8	Brendan Kerry	Australia	85.89
9	Mark Kondratiuk	Russia	84.79	2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
10	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Latvia	84.46	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb

Top 10 best scores in the men's free skating

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Vincent Zhou	United States	186.88	2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	176.18	2021 Finlandia Trophy
3	Mikhail Kolyada	Russia	174.23
4	Daniel Grassl	Italy	173.54	2021 Lombardia Trophy
5	Evgeni Semenenko	Russia	172.60	2021 Finlandia Trophy
6	Andrei Mozalev		171.44	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
7	Petr Gumennik		171.30	2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
8	Dmitri Aliev		170.97	2021 Finlandia Trophy
9	Jason Brown	United States	170.13
	Jimmy Ma		170.13	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb

Top 10 best scores in the women's combined total

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kamila Valieva	Russia	249.24	2021 Finlandia Trophy
2	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva		233.30
3	Alysa Liu	United States	219.24	2021 Lombardia Trophy
4	Alena Kostornaia	Russia	218.83	2021 Finlandia Trophy
5	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	212.07
6	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	203.91
7	Karen Chen	United States	202.49
8	Eva-Lotta Kiibus	Estonia	202.04	2021 Finlandia Trophy
9	Maiia Khromykh	Russia	194.02	2021 Warsaw Cup
10	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	193.58	2021 Nebelhorn Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the women's short program

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	81.53	2021 Finlandia Trophy
2	Wakaba Higuchi	Japan	79.73	2021 Cup of Austria
3	Alena Kostornaia	Russia	78.61	2021 Finlandia Trophy
4	Kamila Valieva		74.93
5	Alysa Liu	United States	74.31	2021 Lombardia Trophy
6	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	69.50	2021 Finlandia Trophy
7	Maiia Khromykh	Russia	69.24	2021 Warsaw Cup
8	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	68.82	2021 Finlandia Trophy
9	Jenni Saarinen	Finland	68.71	2021 Warsaw Cup
10	Karen Chen	United States	67.50	2021 Finlandia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the women's free skating

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kamila Valieva	Russia	174.31	2021 Finlandia Trophy
2	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva		151.77
3	Alysa Liu	United States	144.93	2021 Lombardia Trophy
4	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	143.25	2021 Finlandia Trophy
5	Alena Kostornaia	Russia	140.22
6	Eva-Lotta Kiibus	Estonia	137.51
7	Karen Chen	United States	134.99
8	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	134.41
9	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	132.54	2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
10	Viktoriia Safonova	Belarus	128.27

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	228.49	2021 Warsaw Cup
2	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov		227.13	2021 Finlandia Trophy
3	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	204.06	2021 Autumn Classic International
4	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	United States	196.85	2021 Warsaw Cup
5	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov		195.32	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
6	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc		193.00	2021 Finlandia Trophy
7	Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko	Russia	192.94	2021 Warsaw Cup
8	Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov		190.93
9	Vanessa James / Eric Radford	Canada	190.58	2021 Finlandia Trophy
10	Laura Barquero / Marco Zandron	Spain	189.99

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' short program

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	79.76	2021 Warsaw Cup
2	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov		73.76	2021 Finlandia Trophy
3	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	72.32	2021 Autumn Classic
4	Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov	Russia	69.42	2021 Warsaw Cup
5	Vanessa James / Eric Radford	Canada	68.29	2021 Autumn Classic
6	Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko	Russia	67.53	2021 Warsaw Cup
7	Karina Safina / Luka Berulava	Georgia	66.95	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8	Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier	United States	66.44
9	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov		66.41
10	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	Germany	66.26	2021 Nebelhorn Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' free skating

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov	Russia	153.37	2021 Finlandia Trophy
2	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov		148.73	2021 Warsaw Cup
3	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	United States	135.16
4	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	131.74	2021 Autumn Classic International
5	Vanessa James / Eric Radford	Canada	130.83	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
6	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	United States	128.91
7	Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev	Russia	128.11
8	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	United States	128.02	2021 Finlandia Trophy
9	Yasmina Kadyrova / Ivan Balchenko	Russia	125.41	2021 Warsaw Cup
10	Laura Barquero / Marco Zandron	Spain	124.66	2021 Finlandia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the combined total (ice dance)

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	217.54	2021 Finlandia Trophy
2	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	208.97	2021 Autumn Classic International
3	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	208.88	2021 Cup of Austria
4	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	208.31	2021 Finlandia Trophy
5	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Russia	199.90	2021 Warsaw Cup
6	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin		195.06	2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
7	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	194.67	2021 Cup of Austria
8	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	191.32	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
9	Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz	Spain	191.31	2021 Autumn Classic International
10	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	190.39	2021 Finlandia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the rhythm dance

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	85.58	2021 Finlandia Trophy
2	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	83.72
3	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	83.35	2021 Autumn Classic International
4	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	82.78	2021 Cup of Austria
5	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Russia	81.30	2021 Warsaw Cup
6	Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz	Spain	78.53	2021 Cup of Austria
7	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin	Russia	78.39	2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
8	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	77.38	2021 Cup of Austria
9	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Egor Bazin	Russia	77.08	2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
10	Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi	Japan	75.87	2021 Warsaw Cup

Top 10 best scores in the free dance

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	131.96	2021 Finlandia Trophy
2	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	126.10	2021 Cup of Austria
3	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	125.62	2021 Autumn Classic International
4	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	124.59	2021 Finlandia Trophy
5	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Russia	118.60	2021 Warsaw Cup
6	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	117.29	2021 Cup of Austria
7	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	116.72	2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin	Russia	116.67	2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
9	Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz	Spain	116.11	2021 Autumn Classic International
10	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	115.61	2021 Finlandia Trophy

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