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ISU Communication 2502 (10 August 2022) - List of Referees, Judges, Technical Controllers, Technical Specialists, Data & Replay Operators season 2022/23 for Single & Pair Skating, Ice Dance and Synchronized Skating (29 pages): https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/29323-isu-communication-2502/file
Major props to @Andrea82 for analyzing the ice dance officials (bringing over what she posted in the Dance Hall thread - I found the last line especially interesting re. Svetlana Guerreiro):
Major props to @Andrea82 for analyzing the ice dance officials (bringing over what she posted in the Dance Hall thread - I found the last line especially interesting re. Svetlana Guerreiro):
Now that Cyprus have Ice Dancers....they acquired an ISU judge Valérie Grelet-Lambert switched from France to Cyprus.
Retired judges: Janet Gardner (Australia), Andrea Baldi (Italy), Erica Sonderegger (Switzerland), Kathleen Harmon (USA) and Linda Leaver (USA).
Technical controllers
(ISU qualification needed for JGPs, GPs, ISU Championships. Challengers need to have 2 out of 3 in the technical panel with ISU qualification)
Julia Rey (USA) is the first one using the new rule allowing ISU Technical Specialists to take the examination to become also ISU Technical Controllers (because there is a lack of TCs).
New promotions to ISU status: Christian Bauman (Germany) and Marcin Kozubek (Poland). Marcin won a Junior World Bronze medal back in 1997 (with Agata Błażowska).
Alla Shekhovtseva is listed as only "international". She obviously used to have ISU status also as Technical Controller. Anyway Russian officials are suspend at the moment..
New International: Kathaleen Cutone (USA).
Technical specialists
(ISU qualification needed for JGPs, GPs, ISU Championships. Challengers need to have 2 out of 3 in the technical panel with ISU qualification)
Promoted to ISU level: Benjamin Blum and Stefano Caruso. Both from Germany Fed. Both raised pretty quickly. They become International respectively in 2017 and 2018.
New International:
Bianka Szijgyarto (Hungary). Skated in late 90s. She did a couple of Euros and Worlds. Now based in USA.
Kristy Balkwill (Canada). She was skating in late 90s/early 00s. Mainly at National level.
Marisa Gravino (Canada). First partner of Patrice Lauzon.
Marien de la Asuncion (France). Skated for Japen until 2017.
Amaury Druesne (France)
Anna Cappellini (Italy). Well, I guess no description needed.
Alper Ucar (Turkey). Olympian in 2014 and 2018.
Stephanie Jenkins (USA)
Thomas Rauer (Germany) retired. He hasn't called since 2015 and he was already demoted from ISU to International because of lack of service.
Dorreen Hoppe (Great Britain) is demoted from ISU to International status.
Svetlana Lyapina switched from Russia to Australia. She is Jonathan Guerreiro's mother.
Do officials also have to sit out a year when they switch federation?
If they get the approval of the previous Fed, they can immediately switch to another Fed (if they have the requirements to do so: citizenship and permanent residency).
If they don't get the approval of previous Fed or if they haven't moved residency, they have to wait for a year before switching.
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