2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix

The 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the 15th season of the series of junior international competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2011–12 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating contested by senior-level skaters. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.[1]

2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix
Type:ISU Junior Grand Prix
Date:August 31 – December 11, 2011
Season:2011–12
Location:Latvia Riga
Australia Brisbane
Poland Gdańsk
Romania Braşov
Austria Innsbruck
Italy Milan
Estonia Tallinn
Canada Quebec City
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Skaters earned points towards qualifying for the final at each of the seven Junior Grand Prix events. The top six skaters/teams in the series from each discipline met at the 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final, which was held concurrently with the senior final.

Competitions

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The locations of the JGP events change yearly. In the 2011–12 season, the series was composed of the following events in autumn 2011:

Date Event Location Other notes
September 1–3 2011 JGP Volvo Cup Riga, Latvia
September 8–10 2011 JGP Brisbane Brisbane, Australia No pair competition
September 15–17 2011 JGP Baltic Cup Gdańsk, Poland
September 22–24 2011 JGP Brasov Cup Braşov, Romania No pair competition
Sept. 29 – Oct. 1 2011 JGP Cup of Austria Innsbruck, Austria
October 6–8 2011 JGP Trofeo W. Lombardi Milan, Italy No pair competition
October 13–15 2011 JGP Tallinn Cup Tallinn, Estonia
December 8–11 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final Quebec City, Canada

The JGP Final was held in conjunction with the senior-level version.

Qualifying

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Skaters who reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2011, but had not turned 19 (singles and females of the other two disciplines) or 21 (male pair skaters and ice dancers) were eligible to compete on the junior circuit. Unlike the senior Grand Prix, skaters for the JGP were not seeded by the ISU. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member federation was determined by their skaters' placements at the previous season's Junior World Championships in each respective discipline.

For the 2011–2012 season, in singles, the three best placed member nations at the 2011 Junior Worlds were allowed to enter two skaters in all seven events. Member nations which placed 4th through 6th were allowed to enter one skater in all seven events, those which placed 7th through 12th were allowed one skater in six of the seven events, and those with a skater who qualified for the free skate were allowed one skater in five of the events. Member nations which did not qualify for the free skate but placed 25th through 30th in the short program were allowed to enter one skater in four of the events, those which placed 31st and lower in the short program were allowed one skater in three of the events, and those countries which did not participate in the 2011 Junior Worlds were allowed one skater in two events. There were provisions for additional entries per member country if another country did not use all of its allotted entries.

In pairs, member nations which placed in the top five at the 2011 World Junior Championships were allowed to enter three entries in all four events which included pairs. Member nations which qualified for the free skate were allowed two entries in all four events, and all others were allowed one entry in all four events. There was no limit on host nation pair entries.

In ice dance, the multiple spots allowance was the same as for singles, through one entry in five events.

The host country was allowed to enter up to three skaters/teams in singles and dance, with no limit for pair teams from the host nation.

The general spots allowance for the 2011–2012 Junior Grand Prix events was as follows:

Entries Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance
3 per event   Canada
  China
  Japan
  Russia
  United States
2 per event   Canada
  Japan
  Sweden
  Japan
  Russia
  United States
  Austria
  Czech Republic
  Hungary
  Italy
  Poland
  Switzerland
  Ukraine
  France
  Russia
  United States
1 per event   China
  Russia
  United States
  Belgium
  China
  France
  Canada
  Spain
  Slovakia
1 in six events   Belgium
  Czech Republic
  Estonia
  France
  Kazakhstan
  Ukraine
  Austria
  Estonia
  Finland
  Italy
  Switzerland
  Slovakia
  Estonia
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Kazakhstan
  Switzerland
  Ukraine
1 in five events   Belarus
  Finland
  Germany
  Poland
  Australia
  Germany
  South Korea
  Slovenia
  Sweden
  Italy
1 in four events   Italy
  South Korea
  Spain
  Switzerland
  Chinese Taipei
  Canada
  Denmark
  Latvia
  Poland
  Turkey
  Austria
  Uzbekistan
  China
  Switzerland
  Estonia
  Belarus
  Romania
1 in three events   Armenia
  Australia
  Brazil
  Bulgaria
  United Kingdom
  Georgia
  Hong Kong
  Latvia
  Lithuania
  Malaysia
  Netherlands
  Romania
  Thailand
  Turkey
  Armenia
  Belarus
  Brazil
  Bulgaria
  United Kingdom
  Hong Kong
  Hungary
  Israel
  Kazakhstan
  Lithuania
  Malaysia
  Mexico
  Mongolia
  Netherlands
  Norway
  New Zealand
  Philippines
  South Africa
  Singapore
  Serbia
  Spain
  Thailand
  Chinese Taipei
  Ukraine
  Australia
  Finland
  Israel
  Japan
  Latvia
  Lithuania
  New Zealand
  Turkey

All other member nations had one entry per discipline in two of the seven events in singles and ice dance and one entry in all four events in pairs.

Junior Grand Prix Final qualification and qualifiers

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Qualification rules

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At each event, skaters/teams earned points toward qualification for the Junior Grand Prix Final. Following the 7th event, the top six highest scoring skaters/teams advanced to the Final. The points earned per placement was as follows:

Placement Points (Singles/Dance) Points (Pairs)
1st 15 15
2nd 13 13
3rd 11 11
4th 9 9
5th 7 7
6th 5 5
7th 4 4
8th 3 3
9th 2
10th 1

There were seven tie-breakers in cases of a tie in overall points:

  1. Highest placement at an event. If a skater placed 1st and 3rd, the tiebreaker was the 1st place, and that beat a skater who placed 2nd in both events.
  2. Highest combined total scores in both events. If a skater earned 200 points at one event and 250 at a second, that skater would win in the second tie-break over a skater who earned 200 points at one event and 150 at another.
  3. Participated in two events.
  4. Highest combined scores in the free skating/free dance portion of both events.
  5. Highest individual score in the free skating/free dance portion from one event.
  6. Highest combined scores in the short program/short dance of both events.
  7. Highest number of total participants at the events.

If there was still a tie, the tie was considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all advanced to the Junior Grand Prix Final.

Qualifiers

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The following skaters qualified for the 2011–2012 Junior Grand Prix Final.

Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance
1   Yan Han   Yulia Lipnitskaya   Sui Wenjing / Han Cong   Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin
2   Joshua Farris   Polina Shelepen   Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer   Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
3   Jason Brown   Vanessa Lam   Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry   Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov
4   Maxim Kovtun   Risa Shoji   Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang   Maria Nosulia / Evgen Kholoniuk
5   Ryuju Hino   Zijun Li   Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov   Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski
6   Keiji Tanaka   Polina Korobeynikova   Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu (withdrew)   Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton
Alternates
1st   Artur Dmitriev, Jr.   Samantha Cesario   Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev (called up)   Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager
2nd   Zhang He   Polina Agafonova   Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro   Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin
3rd   Lee June-hyoung   Satoko Miyahara   Klára Kadlecová / Petr Bidař   Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin

Medalists

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In Milan, Italy, Lee June-hyoung became the first Korean male skater to medal at an ISU competition.[2]

Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details
JGP Latvia   Ryuju Hino   Zhang He   Timothy Dolensky Details
JGP Australia   Jason Brown   Keiji Tanaka   Liam Firus Details
JGP Poland   Joshua Farris   Artur Dmitriev, Jr.   Ryuichi Kihara Details
JGP Romania   Maxim Kovtun   Ryuju Hino   Nam Nguyen Details
JGP Austria   Han Yan   Gordei Gorshkov   Keiji Tanaka Details
JGP Italy   Han Yan   Jason Brown   Lee June-hyoung Details
JGP Estonia   Joshua Farris   Maxim Kovtun   Shoma Uno Details
JGP Final   Jason Brown   Yan Han   Joshua Farris Details

Ladies

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details
JGP Latvia   Polina Shelepen   Li Zijun   Polina Agafonova Details
JGP Australia   Courtney Hicks   Risa Shoji   Vanessa Lam Details
JGP Poland   Yulia Lipnitskaya   Satoko Miyahara   Samantha Cesario Details
JGP Romania   Polina Shelepen   Polina Korobeynikova   Kim Hae-jin Details
JGP Austria   Vanessa Lam   Li Zijun   Polina Agafonova Details
JGP Italy   Yulia Lipnitskaya   Anna Shershak   Hannah Miller Details
JGP Estonia   Gracie Gold   Risa Shoji   Samantha Cesario Details
JGP Final   Yulia Lipnitskaya   Polina Shelepen   Polina Korobeynikova Details

Pairs

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details
JGP Latvia   Sui Wenjing / Han Cong   Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang   Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro Details
JGP Australia No pairs competition held
JGP Poland   Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer   Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry   Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev Details
JGP Romania No pairs competition held
JGP Austria   Sui Wenjing / Han Cong   Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang   Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov Details
JGP Italy No pairs competition held
JGP Estonia   Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry   Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer   Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu Details
JGP Final   Sui Wenjing / Han Cong   Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry   Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer Details

Ice dance

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details
JGP Latvia   Maria Nosulia / Evgeni Kholoniuk   Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin   Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton Details
JGP Australia   Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams   Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager   Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin Details
JGP Poland   Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin   Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski   Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov Details
JGP Romania   Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin   Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski   Mackenzie Bent / Garrett MacKeen Details
JGP Austria   Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin   Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton   Maria Nosulia / Evgeni Kholoniuk Details
JGP Italy   Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin   Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin   Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager Details
JGP Estonia   Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov   Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand   Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin Details
JGP Final   Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin   Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov   Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Details

Medals table

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The following is the table of total medals earned by each country on the 2011–2012 Junior Grand Prix. It can be sorted by country name, number of gold medals, number of silver medals, number of bronze medals, and total medals overall. The table is numbered by number of total medals.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)129930
2  United States (USA)841022
3  China (CHN)56011
4  Canada (CAN)2248
5  Japan (JPN)1539
6  Ukraine (UKR)1214
7  Estonia (EST)0101
8  South Korea (KOR)0022
Totals (8 entries)29292987

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 Han Yan   China 219.37 2011 JGP Italy
2 Jason Brown   United States 208.41 2011–12 JGP Final
3 Joshua Farris 207.67 2011 JGP Estonia
4 Artur Dmitriev, Jr.   Russia 197.09 2011 JGP Poland
5 Maxim Kovtun 193.76 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final
6 Keiji Tanaka   Japan 192.36 2011 JGP Australia
7 Ryuju Hino 182.71 2011 JGP Latvia
8 Zhang He   China 182.38
9 Gordei Gorshkov   Russia 180.25 2011 JGP Austria
10 Liam Firus   Canada 180.00 2011 JGP Australia

Women's singles

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Top 10 best scores in the women's combined total
No. Skater Nation Score Event
1 Yulia Lipnitskaya   Russia 183.05 2011 JGP Italy
2 Gracie Gold   United States 172.69 2011 JGP Estonia
3 Polina Shelepen   Russia 162.34 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final
4 Satoko Miyahara   Japan 162.20 2011 JGP Poland
5 Risa Shoji 157.83 2011 JGP Estonia
6 Vanessa Lam   United States 156.58 2011 JGP Austria
7 Li Zijun   China 156.40
8 Samantha Cesario   United States 153.84 2011 JGP Poland
9 Courtney Hicks 151.91 2011 JGP Australia
10 Polina Korobeynikova   Russia 151.18 2011–12 JGP Final

Pairs

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Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Sui Wenjing / Han Cong   China 167.14 2011 JGP Austria
2 Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang 154.37
3 Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry   Canada 152.65 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final
4 Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer   United States 146.35
5 Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov   Russia 146.17
6 Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu   United States 139.32 2011 JGP Estonia
7 Li Meiyi / Jiang Bo   China 138.92 2011 JGP Austria
8 Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin   Russia 134.88
9 Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro   Canada 134.46 2011 JGP Latvia
10 Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev   Russia 133.79 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final

Ice dance

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Top 10 season's best scores in the combined total (ice dance)
No. Team Nation Score Event
1 Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin   Russia 151.10 2011 JGP Austria
2 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 149.98 2011 JGP Italy
3 Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov 142.72 2011 JGP Estonia
4 Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton   United States 136.85 2011 JGP Austria
5 Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin   Russia 130.58 2011 JGP Italy
6 Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager   United States 129.63
7 Maria Nosulia / Evgen Kholoniuk   Ukraine 128.34 2011 JGP Austria
8 Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams   Canada 127.21 2011 JGP Australia
9 Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand   Estonia 126.51 2011 JGP Estonia
10 Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern   Germany 124.35 2011 JGP Italy


References

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  1. ^ "Series files; Single & Pair Skating/Ice Dance Calendar of Events". Archived from the original on 2006-09-30. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  2. ^ "Korean Claims First Medal at ISU-Sanctioned Men's Figure Skating Event". The Chosun Ilbo. October 10, 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2011.
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