2023-24 ISU Grand Prix Assignments & projected alternates

[Sylvia]

ISU's press release, published today (June 28, 2023): https://isu.org/isu-news/news/125-g...igure-skating-events-2023-24?templateParam=15

Grand Prix event page with links to the grids by discipline: https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/events/grand-prix-of-figure-skating
(Note: The GP Announcement document will be published later and linked on this page.)

Men's entries: https://isu.org/docman-documents-li...23-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31415-men-4/file

Women's entries: https://isu.org/docman-documents-li...-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31416-women-3/file

Pairs entries: https://isu.org/docman-documents-li...-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31417-pairs-4/file

Ice Dance entries: https://isu.org/docman-documents-li...grand-prix-4/entries-8/31418-ice-dance-3/file

* = GP debut season (not counting 2020 domestic GPs during the pandemic)

Skate America - Allen, Texas / USA October 20-22, 2023 [website: https://www.usfigureskating.org/event/2023-skate-america]
Men: Vladimir LITVINTSEV (AZE), Stephen GOGOLEV (CAN), Kevin AYMOZ (FRA), Nika EGADZE (GEO), Shun SATO (JPN), Tatsuya TSUBOI (JPN), *Nozumu YOSHIOKA (JPN), Deniss VASILJEVS (LAT), *Andreas NORDEBACK (SWE), Ilia MALININ (USA), *Maxim NAUMOV (USA), *Andrew TORGASHEV (USA)
Women: Loena HENDRICKX (BEL), *Xiangyi AN (CHN), Niina PETROKINA (EST), *Mone CHIBA (JPN), Mana KAWABE (JPN), *Hana YOSHIDA (JPN), Seoyeong WI (KOR), Young YOU (KOR), Ekaterina KURAKOVA (POL), Amber GLENN (USA), Isabeau LEVITO (USA), 1 TBD (USA)
Pairs: *Lia PEREIRA / Trennt MICHAUD (CAN), Annika HOCKE / Robert KUNKEL (GER), Irma CALDARA / Riccardo MAGLIO (ITA), Rika MIURA / Ryuichi KIHARA (JPN), Nika OSIPOVA / Dmitry EPSTEIN (NED), Valentina PLAZAS / Maximiliano FERNANDEZ (USA), 2 TBD (USA)
Ice Dance: Holly HARRIS / Jason CHAN (AUS), Marjorie LAJOIE / Zachary LAGHA (CAN), *Katerina MRAZKOVA / Daniel MRAZEK (CZE), Natalie TASCHLEROVA / Filip TASCHLER (CZE), *Olivia SMART / Tim DIECK (ESP new), Evgeniia LOPAREVA / Geoffrey BRISSAUD (FRA), *Hannah LIM / Ye QUAN (KOR), Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES (USA), Caroline GREEN / Michael PARSONS (USA), 1 TBD (USA)

Skate Canada International - Vancouver BC / CAN October 27-28, 2023 [website: https://skatecanada.ca/2023-skate-canada-international/]
Men: Wesley CHIU (CAN), Conrad ORZEL (CAN), Roman SADOVSKY (CAN), Mihhail SELEVEKO (EST), *Mark GORODNITSKY (ISR), Matteo RIZZO (ITA), Kao MIURA (JPN), Kazuki TOMONO (JPN), Sota YAMAMOTO (JPN), *Mikhail SHAIDOROV (KAZ), Junhwan CHA (KOR), Liam KAPEIKIS (USA)
Women: *Sara-Maude DUPUIS (CAN), *Kaiya RUITER (CAN), Madeline SCHIZAS (CAN), Nicole SCHOTT (GER), Lara Naki GUTMANN (ITA), Rika KIHIRA (JPN), Kaori SAKAMOTO (JPN), Rinka WATANABE (JPN), *Chaeyeon KIM (KOR), Starr ANDREWS (USA), Audrey SHIN (USA), Lindsay THORNGREN (USA)
Pairs: *Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE (AUS), Kelly Ann LAURIN / Loucas ETHIER (CAN), Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR (CAN), Deanna STELLATO-DUDEK / Maxime DESCHAMPS (CAN), Letizia ROSCHER / Luis SCHUSTER (GER), *Maria PAVLOVA / Alexei SVIATCHENKO (HUN), *Lucrezia BECCARI / Matteo GUARISE (ITA), Daria DANILOVA / Michel TSIBA (NED)
Ice Dance: Alicia FABBRI / Paul AYER (CAN), Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER (CAN), Molly LANAGHAN / Dmitre RAZGULAJEVS (CAN), Shiyue WANG / Xinyu LIU (CHN), Lilah FEAR / Lewis GIBSON (GBR), Jennifer JANSE VAN RENSBURG / Benjamin STEFFAN (GER), Allison REED / Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS (LTU), Oona BROWN / Gage BROWN (USA), Eva PATE / Logan BYE (USA), *Emilea ZINGAS / Vadym KOLESNIK (USA)

Internationaux de France - Angers / FRA November 3-5, 2023
Men: Boyang JIN (CHN), Adam SIAO HIM FA (FRA), 2 TBD (FRA), Daniel GRASSL (ITA), *Nikolaj MEMOLA (ITA), Yuma KAGIYAMA (JPN), *Takeru Amine KATAISE (JPN), Koshiro SHIMADA (JPN), Lukas BRITSCHGI (SUI), Ilia MALININ (USA), Camden PULKINEN (USA)
Women: Nina PINZARRONE (BEL), Janna JYRKINEN (FIN) Lea SERNA (FRA), 2 TBD (FRA), Anastasiia GUBANOVA (GEO), *Mone CHIBA (JPN), Wakaba HIGUCHI (JPN), Rion SUMIYOSHI (JPN), Haein LEE (KOR), *Kimmy REPOND (SUI), Isabeau LEVITO (USA)
Pairs: *Lia PEREIRA / Trennt MICHAUD (CAN), Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV (FRA), *Oxana VOUILLAMOZ / Flavien GINIAUX (FRA), 1 TBD (FRA), Sara CONTI / Niccolo MACII (ITA), Anna VALESI / Manuel PIAZZA (ITA), *Ellie KAM / Danny O'SHEA (USA), Valentina PLAZAS / Maximiliano FERNANDEZ (USA)
Ice Dance: Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SOERENSEN (CAN), Marie-Jade LAURIAULT / Romain LE GAC (CAN), Marie DUPAYAGE / Thomas NABAIS (FRA), Evgeniia LOPAREVA / Geoffrey BRISSAUD (FRA), 1 TBD (FRA), Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI (ITA), *Hannah LIM / Ye QUAN (KOR), Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO (USA), Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER (USA), Lorraine MCNAMARA / Anton SPIRIDONOV (USA)

Cup of China - Chongqing / CHN November 10-12, 2023
Men: 3 TBD (CHN), Adam SIAO HIM FA (FRA), Gabriele FRANGIPANI (ITA), Kazuki TOMONO (JPN), Shoma UNO (JPN), Sota YAMAMOTO (JPN), *Mikhail SHAIDOROV (KAZ), Sihyeong LEE (KOR), *Lucas BROUSSARD (USA), Jimmy MA (USA)
Women: Loena HENDRICKX (BEL), Madeline SCHIZAS (CAN), 3 TBD (CHN), Niina PETROKINA (EST), Mai MIHARA (JPN), Rinka WATANABE (JPN), *Hana YOSHIDA (JPN), Yelim KIM (KOR), Audrey SHIN (USA), Bradie TENNELL (USA)
Pairs: Deanna STELLATO-DUDEK / Maxime DESCHAMPS (CAN), 3 TBD (CHN), Annika HOCKE / Robert KUNKEL (GER), Rebecca GHILARDI / Filippo AMBROSINI (ITA), Anastasiia SMIRNOVA / Danylo SIIANYTSIA (USA), Emily CHAN / Spencer HOWE (USA)
Ice Dance: Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER (CAN), Marjorie LAJOIE / Zachary LAGHA (CAN), 2 TBD (CHN), Natalie TASCHLEROVA / Filip TASCHLER (CZE), Loicia DEMOUGEOT / Theo LE MERCIER (FRA), Maria KAZAKOVA / Giorgi REVIA (GEO), Emily BRATTI / Ian SOMERVILLE (USA), Caroline GREEN / Michael PARSONS (USA), Eva PATE / Logan BYE (USA)

Grand Prix Espoo - Espoo / FIN November 17-19, 2023 [website: https://www.stll.fi/gp-2023/]
Men: Vladimir LITVINTSEV (AZE), Arlet LEVANDI (EST), *Makar SUNTSEV (FIN), 1 TBD (FIN), Kevin AYMOZ (FRA), *Nikolaj MEMOLA (ITA), Matteo RIZZO (ITA), Kao MIURA (JPN), Shun SATO (JPN), Koshiro SHIMADA (JPN), Junhwan CHA (KOR), *Andreas NORDEBACK (SWE)
Women: 3 TBD (FIN), *Lorine SCHILD (FRA), Mana KAWABE (JPN), Kaori SAKAMOTO (JPN), Rion SUMIYOSHI (JPN), *Chaeyeon KIM (KOR), Young YOU (KOR), *Kimmy REPOND (SUI), Starr ANDREWS (USA), Amber GLENN (USA)
Pairs: Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR (CAN), *Cheng PENG / Lei WANG (CHN new), *Milania VAANANEN / Filippo CLERICI (FIN new), Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV (FRA), *Minerva HASE / Nikita VOLODIN (GER new), *Maria PAVLOVA / Alexei SVIATCHENKO (HUN), Sara CONTI / Niccolo MACII (ITA), *Ellie KAM / Danny O'SHEA (USA)
Ice Dance: *Nadiia BASHYNSKA / Peter BEAUMONT (CAN), Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SOERENSEN (CAN), *Katerina MRAZKOVA / Daniel MRAZEK (CZE), Yuka ORIHARA / Juho PIRINEN (FIN), Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS (FIN), Jennifer JANSE VAN RENSBURG / Benjamin STEFFAN (GER), *Mariia IGNATEVA / Danijil Leonyidovics SZEMKO (HUN), Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO (USA), Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES (USA), *Emilea ZINGAS / Vadym KOLESNIK (USA)

NHK Trophy - Osaka / JPN November 24-26, 2023 [website: https://nhk-trophy2023.jp/]
Men: Mihhail SELEVKO (EST), Luc ECONOMIDES (FRA), Nika EGADZE (GEO), Gabriele FRANGIPANI (ITA), Daniel GRASSL (ITA), Yuma KAGIYAMA (JPN), Shoma UNO (JPN), 1 TBD (JPN), Sihyeong LEE (KOR), Deniss VASILJEVS (LAT), Lukas BRITSCHGI (SUI), Camden PULKINEN (USA)
Women: Nina PINZARRONE (BEL), Anastasiia GUBANOVA (GEO), Nicole SCHOTT (GER), Wakaba HIGUCHI (JPN), Mai MIHARA (JPN), 1 TBD (JPN), Yelim KIM (KOR), Haien LEE (KOR), Seoyeong WI (KOR), Lindsay VAN ZUNDERT (NED), Bradie TENNELL (USA), Lindsay THORNGREN (USA)
Pairs: *Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE (AUS), Kelly Ann LAURIN / Loucas ETHIER (CAN), Rebecca GHILARDI / Filippo AMBROSINI (ITA), Rika MIURA / Ryuchi KIHARA (JPN), 1 TBD (JPN), Daria DANILOVA / Michel TSIBA (NED), Emily CHAN / Spencer HOWE (USA), Anastasiia SMIRNOVA / Danylo SIIANYTSIA (USA)
Ice Dance: Marie-Jade LAURIAULT / Romain LE GAC (CAN), Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS (FIN), Loicia DEMOUGEOT / Theo LE MERCIER (FRA), Lilah FEAR / Lewis GIBSON (GBR), Maria KAZAKOVA / Giorgi REVIA (GEO), Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI (ITA), Misato KOMATSUBARA / Tim KOLETO (JPN), Allison REED / Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS (LTU), Emily BRATTI / Ian SOMERVILLE (USA), Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER (USA)


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ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final - Beijing / CHN December 7-10, 2023

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Seeded (top 6 at 2023 Worlds in GP selection pool): Uno, Cha, Malinin, Aymoz, Tomono, Britschgi; Sakamoto, H. Lee, Hendrickx, Levito, Mihara, C. Kim; Miura/Kihara, Conti/Macii, Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps, Chan/Howe, Pereira/Michaud, Pavlova/Sviatchenko; Chock/Bates, Guignard/Fabbri, Gilles/Poirier, Fear/Gibson, Fournier Beaudry/Soerensen, Green/Parsons

Season Best Total Scores 2022/23

Men

Women

Pairs

Ice Dance

ETA that @Karen-W has compiled projected GP alternate lists by discipline here (post #37): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...ojected-alternates.110802/page-2#post-6445373

 

[tony]

Copying over my first impressions:

The Canadian singles skaters depth is.. not there. Almost no assignments at all.

Surprising that Siao is doing France and China back to back but he probably got stuck with China as the last in his group as a seeded skater once Brown was removed. Aymoz would've had first choice in his group and he opted not to do France, or maybe the Federation suggested they split to try to both make the Final.

All four Italian men with 2 assignments each from the start.

Kurakova with only one assignment and she's 8th in the World Standings. Strange. (and not to forget 4th at Euros)

 

[airgelaal]

surprised to see some of the names. How, for example, did JYRKINEN and VAN ZUNDERT get their assignments?

 

[thvu]

Kurakova with only one assignment and she's 8th in the World Standings. Strange. (and not to forget 4th at Euros)

Wouldn't she be guaranteed two? Other than Kurakova saying I only want one, I wonder what could be the reason she only got SA?

 

[kwanfan1818]

No: Kurakova was outside the top 12 at 2023 Worlds (16th), and Top 24 SB and WS are guaranteed one, not one.for each.

 

[Rukia]

Wouldn't she be guaranteed two? Other than Kurakova saying I only want one, I wonder what could be the reason she only got SA?

too much twee the isu matrix couldn't handle it

 

[airgelaal]

No: Kurakova was outside the top 12 at 2023 Worlds (16th), and Top 24 SB and WS are guaranteed one, not one.for each.

But she is higher than JYRKINEN and VAN ZUNDERT in the SB ranking. She should have received the second assignment for the SB rating, since these girls received their assignments.

 

[SidelineSkater]

Copying over my first impressions:

The Canadian singles skaters depth is.. not there. Almost no assignments at all.

Surprising that Siao is doing France and China back to back but he probably got stuck with China as the last in his group as a seeded skater once Brown was removed. Aymoz would've had first choice in his group and he opted not to do France, or maybe the Federation suggested they split to try to both make the Final.

All four Italian men with 2 assignments each from the start.

Kurakova with only one assignment and she's 8th in the World Standings. Strange. (and not to forget 4th at Euros)

Really surprised about Kurakova. Although she's only 31 on the SB list. Schild (SB 40) got one. Only one for Guttman too.

 

[Vagabond]

surprised to see some of the names. How, for example, did JYRKINEN and VAN ZUNDERT get their assignments?

Jyrkinen skates for a host federation which must have cut a deal with the FFSG so that Lorine Schild could skate in Espoo.

 

[airgelaal]

Jyrkinen skates for a host federation which must have cut a deal with the FFSG so that Lorine Schild could skate in Espoo.

It looks like it. Thus, girls without any guarantees will receive 2 assignments.

 

[YukiNieve]

NHK Trophy will be in Osaka - I guess "Sapporo" is a typo?

 

[her grace]

Battle of Czech dancers at SA.

Very few American men with 2 assignments.

Some intriguing head-to-heads for C/P against H/B and then Z/K for American dance.

Lots of spots for Japanese singles and deservedly so.

 

[love skating]

Here's the USFS article about the assignments:

Thirty-Nine U.S. Athletes Awarded Grand Prix Selections - U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone

The International Skating Union announced today athlete assignments for the 2023 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series with 39 skaters set to represent Team USA

usfigureskatingfanzone.com

I was a little surprised to see Lucas Broussard - thought maybe he'd stay junior one more year. And agree that it's surprising that only Ilia and Camden got two assignments from the US men. Will be interesting to see who does best out of the one assignment folks (Lucas, Max, Andrew, Jimmy and Liam).

 

[kwanfan1818]

But she is higher than JYRKINEN and VAN ZUNDERT in the SB ranking. She should have received the second assignment for the SB rating, since these girls received their assignments.

There's no rule about this. If it happened in the past in practice, there's nothing to force the Feds to assign in any order outside the seeds and.after host selections. The only guaranteed two are for those who placed 1-12 in singles, and 1-10 in Pairs and Dance. (And possibly returning skaters, depending on how the Announcement is worded.)

An Olympic Champion who doesn't compete at Worlds but who's 8th or above in WS is guaranteed one. If it was in the Feds interest to assign her to two, she would have gotten two.

I hope.she gets another if she wants one and with enough time to be rational for her training plan.

 

[YukiNieve]

NHK Trophy will be in Osaka - I guess "Sapporo" is a typo?

And Denis' name got two different spellings

 

[Dobre]

Hey. Taschlerova & Tascher did get that spot at Skate America.

 

[Dobre]

And Lajoie & Lagha, Green & Parsons, & Taschlerova & Taschler all go to the same two events. (Watch them screw up the final for each other).

 

[PRlady]

I was planning on France anyway and then they put H/B there. So GOING TO FRANCE!!

 

[miffy]

And Lajoie & Lagha, Green & Parsons, & Taschlerova & Taschler all go to the same two events. (Watch them screw up the final for each other).

My first impression was that G/P could do very well and keep H/B out of the finals - hopefully I’m wrong about H/B not making it. It’s good to see they are coming back, and not surprising they have slightly tougher draws as they don’t have any kind of seeding from Worlds.

 

[PRlady]

My first impression was that G/P could do very well and keep H/B out of the finals - hopefully I’m wrong about H/B not making it. It’s good to see they are coming back, and not surprising they have slightly tougher draws as they don’t have any kind of seeding from Worlds.

Don’t even think it!!

Anyway, France gets the first Ilia/Kagiyama matchup in 1.5 years. Wheeee!

 

[YukiNieve]

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[Rukia]

Lol I just realized almost all of China's Cup of China assignments are tbd. I am super intrigued to see who they put out there (or if they even fill all their spots I don't even know who they have skating anymore haha). I will not clown and say I wish Sui/Han were coming back to fill one of the pair spots but also maybe if I put that out into the universe...

Also so happy to see Yuma back!! I've missed him so much.

 

[BlueRidge]

And Lajoie & Lagha, Green & Parsons, & Taschlerova & Taschler all go to the same two events. (Watch them screw up the final for each other).

This is problematic for me.

OTOH, while I don't want to fly to Texas I really want to be at Skate America for dance.

 

[Belsornia]

Pairs as a discipline still looks to be in flux with three brand new teams in Espoo (Peng/Wang, Vaananen/Clerici, Hase/Volodin), lots of new teams last season getting their first GPs, teams moving up from juniors and 7 TBDs.

Not too many surprises in dance (thanks to our predictors!) but the middling ranked US teams seem to have done well (two non-host spots for Pate/Bye, Bratti/Somerville and Zingas/Kolesnik) at the expense of some of the teams moving up from juniors (only one for Bashynska/Beaumont and none for Bekker/Hernandez). I'm a bit surprised that Skate Canada went with Lanaghan/Razgulajevs for a host spot rather than a second GP for Bashynska/Beaumont.

 

[BlueRidge]

I'm a bit surprised that Skate Canada went with Lanaghan/Razgulajevs for a host spot rather than a second GP for Bashynska/Beaumont.

Yeah I didn't get this.

 

[Amy L]

I live in Texas, but nowhere near Allen. But my sister-in-law lives in Downtown Dallas. hmmmm...

 

[Karen-W]

Pairs as a discipline still looks to be in flux with three brand new teams in Espoo (Peng/Wang, Vaananen/Clerici, Hase/Volodin), lots of new teams last season getting their first GPs, teams moving up from juniors and 7 TBDs.

Pairs has a decent number of teams available for alternates though, which is an improvement over last season. It seems that Peng/Wang were treated as a "return split couple" even though her last time at Worlds was 2021 (maybe the GP Host Commission decided to also count her finish at 2022 Olympics as meeting the criteria).

I'm a bit surprised that Skate Canada went with Lanaghan/Razgulajevs for a host spot rather than a second GP for Bashynska/Beaumont.

Yeah I didn't get this.

Yeah, that one is a bit of a surprise, though BashBeau are higher on the SB list and in the first block of 10 for the Alternates list, so maybe Skate Canada is hoping they'll pick up a 2nd somewhere.

Overall, very interesting assignments to start out with.

 

[Belsornia]

Yeah, that one is a bit of a surprise, though BashBeau are higher on the SB list and in the first block of 10 for the Alternates list, so maybe Skate Canada is hoping they'll pick up a 2nd somewhere.

Not wishing withdrawals on anyone, but I think this is the initial ice dance alternates list:

1. McNamara/Spiridonov (USA) - GP de France
2. Ignateva / Szemko (HUN) - GP Espoo
3. Wang / Liu (CHN) - Skate Canada
4. Brown / Brown (USA) - Skate Canada
5. Orihara / Pirinen (FIN) - GP Espoo
6. Dupayage / Nabais (FRA) - GP de France
7. Bashynska / Beaumont (CAN) - GP Espoo
8. Harris / Chan (AUS) - Skate America
9. Bekker / Hernandez (GBR) - none
10. Fabbri / Ayer (CAN) - Skate Canada

Host picks Langahan/Razgulajevs and Komatsubara/Koleto are the only lower ranked teams who've got assignments.


ETA And the initial pairs alternates:

1. Roscher / Schuster (DEU) - Skate Canada
2. Osipova / Epstein (NED) - Skate America
3. Beccari / Guarise (ITA) - Skate Canada
4. Caldara / Maglio (ITA) - Skate America
5. Mokhova / Mokhov (USA) - none
6. Zhang / Yang (CHN) - none
7. Vouillamoz / Giniaux (FRA) - GP de France
8. Valesi / Piazza (ITA) - GP de France
9. Vaipan-Law / Digby (GBR) - none
10. Gamez / Korovin (PHI) - none

 

[SkateFanBerlin]

Wondering the rationale for giving Audrey Shin 2 spots.

 

[Colonel Green]

I had missed the news the Peng had a new partner.