2023-24 ISU Grand Prix Assignments & projected alternates

[Karen-W]

I hope Japan does it just so China gets insecure about it and goes "Oh yeah?! Well, WE can send our fresh seniors to Challengers BETTER!" next season and beyond.

Well, there's that, plus, while I know the hosts are allowed to do this, I really don't think they should be assigning skaters who haven't even competed in a Challenger, and thus no ISU minimum total score, to those spots.

 

[Karen-W]

Updating the GP Alternates lists with today's announcements -

Current vacant spots (apart from the GPdF host spots - 2 men, 2 women, 1 pairs, 1 dance) - 1 NHK pairs - no country is maxed out

Potential vacant spots - 1 SCI woman (Kihira injury) - both JPN & USA are maxed out; 1 GPdF & NHK man (Grassl potential doping violation - see the Italian news thread) - FRA & JPN maxed out at GPdF, JPN maxed out at NHK

Men 1-10
Kataise (France)
Gorodnitsky (SCI)
Economides (NHK)
Naumov (SkAm)
Orzel (SCI)
Sadovsky (SCI)
Yampolsky
Kapeikis (SCI)
Gogolev (SkAm)
Broussard (CoC)

Men 11-20
Shmuratko
Chiu (SCI)
Yoshioka (SkAm)
Starostin
Guarino Sabate
Miyake
Newnham
Samoilov
Kyeong
A Selevko

Men 21-30
Torgashev (SkAm)
Levandi (Espoo)
Zandron
Le May
Lewton Brain
Maierhofer
K Witkowski
Ha. Kim
Tran
Bralin

Men 31-33
Y Cha
Kessler
Honda

Women 1-10
Kihira (SCI)
Kurakova (SkAm)
Ziegler (NHK)
Ji
Schild (Espoo)
Gutmann (SCI)
Serna (France)
Matsuike
Meite (SCI)
Harrell

Women 11-20
van Zundert (NHK)
Hilmer
Gold
Mikutina
Seo (SkAm)
Ruiter (SCI)
Daleman
Dupuis (SCI)
Miclette
Paganini

Women 21-24
Sauter
Kiibus
Lang
Isaev

Pairs 1-10
Hase/Volodin (Espoo)
Roscher/Schuster (SCI)
Osipova/Epstein (SkAm)
Beccari/Guarise (SCI)
Caldara/Maglio (SkAm)
Mokhova/Mokhov (CoC)
Zhang/Yang (CoC)
Vouillamoz/Giniaux (France)
Valesi/Piazza (France)
Vaipan-Law/Digby

Pairs 11-13
Gamez/Korovin
Piegad/Strekalin
Simioli/Zarbo

Ice Dance 1-10
Smart/Dieck (SkAm)
McNamara/Spiridonov (France)
Ignateva/Szemko (Espoo)
Brown/Brown (SCI)
Orihara/Pirinen (Espoo)
Dupayage/Nabais (France)
Bashynska/Beaumont (Espoo)
Harris/Chan (SkAm)
Bekker/Hernandez
Fabbri/Ayer (SCI)

Ice Dance 11-20
Lanaghan/Razgulajevs (SCI)
Komatsubara/Koleto (NHK)
Manni/Roethlisberger
Nosovitskaya/Nosovitskiy
Holubtsova/Bielobrov
Lagouge/Caffa
Simova/Aksenov
Gauthier/Thieren
Dozzi/Papetti
Hensen/Lickers

Ice Dance 21-30
Leccardi/Dalla Torre
Terreaux/Perron
Polibina/Golovishnikov
Bronsard/Richmond
Hancock/Fourati
Carhart/Kolosovskyi
Azroian/Gruzdev
Ramanauskaite/Kizala
Pucherova/Lysak
Nauryzova/Datiev

Several of points to note -

1) Japan is maxed out in Men's and Women's at every single event, so unless the skater that WDs is Japanese, then on the Men's Alternates list Shmuratko will be moved up to the first group of 10 for consideration, and on the Women's Alternates list van Zundert or Hilmer will be moved up to the first group of 10 for consideration.

2) USA is maxed out in Ice Dance at every event save for NHK (2 entries) and the SkAm TBD spot, so unless the team that WDs is from the US or the event is NHK, then Lanaghan/Razgulajevs & Komatsubara/Koleto will be moved up to the first group of 10 for consideration.

 

[Sera]

According to this article by the German fed Hase/Volodin got the NHK spot.
https://www.eislauf-union.de/de/med...rten-mit-vorfreude-in-erste-gemeinsame-saison

 

[Karen-W]

According to this article by the German fed Hase/Volodin got the NHK spot.
https://www.eislauf-union.de/de/med...rten-mit-vorfreude-in-erste-gemeinsame-saison

I was on the fence between thinking they'd get it or Zhang/Yang.

Updated Pairs alternates list -

I fully expect the Mokhovs to get the SkAm TBD spot based off the results from John Nicks IPC. GPdF host TBD spot is still in the air, but I'm leaning toward Piegad/Strekalin being tapped for it since they've been assigned a 2nd Challenger (season debut at Lombardia tomorrow and then Finlandia next month).

I also won't be surprised if any teams who meet the minimum total score at these upcoming Challengers are added to the alternates list as was the case last season.

Pairs 1-10
Roscher/Schuster (SCI)
Osipova/Epstein (SkAm)
Beccari/Guarise (SCI)
Caldara/Maglio (SkAm)
Mokhova/Mokhov (CoC)
Zhang/Yang (CoC)
Vouillamoz/Giniaux (France)
Valesi/Piazza (France)
Vaipan-Law/Digby
Gamez/Korovin

Pairs 11-12
Piegad/Strekalin
Simioli/Zarbo

 

[BrightSkates]

EDIT- Didn't see someone already posted this

According to this article by the German skating fed, Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin will fill the vacated NHK pairs spot.

Neues Paarlauf-Paar: Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin starten mit Vorfreude in erste gemeinsame Saison

Die Deutsche Eislauf-Union e.V. ist nationaler Spitzenverband für Eiskunstlaufen, Eistanz und Synchroneiskunstlaufen und einer von nur 7 olympischen Wintersportverbänden.

www.eislauf-union.de

 

[Karen-W]

Hase/Volodin are officially confirmed for NHK - https://results.isu.org/events/gpjpn2023_Pairs.htm

 

[Andrea82]

Mazzara and Schild added as host pick at French GP

https://www.isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2023-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31416-women-3/file

 

[Karen-W]

Mazzara and Schild added as host pick at French GP

https://www.isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2023-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31416-women-3/file

Updated Women's Alternates -

Potential vacant spots - 1 SCI woman (Kihira injury) - both JPN & USA are maxed out

Women 1-10
Kihira (SCI)
Kurakova (SkAm)
Ziegler (NHK)
Ji
Gutmann (SCI)
Serna (France)
Matsuike
Meite (SCI)
Harrell
van Zundert (NHK)

Women 11-20
Hilmer
Gold
Mikutina
Seo (SkAm)
Ruiter (SCI)
Daleman
Dupuis (SCI)
Miclette
Paganini
Sauter

Women 21-23
Kiibus
Lang
Isaev

JPN - maxed out at every event
USA - maxed out at SkAm, SCI & NHK
KOR - maxed out at NHK

 

[airgelaal]

Evelyn Grace Hanns/Danny Neudecker and Oona Brown/Gage Brown got the last spots at Skate America

https://twitter.com/x/status/1702665905191206943

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Evelyn Grace Hanns/Danny Neudecker and Oona Brown/Gage Brown got the last spots at Skate America

https://twitter.com/x/status/1702665905191206943

so Danny did get a head of himself.

I thought maybe they would wait until the end of the free skate in autumn classic before they decided

 

[Sylvia]

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

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

 

[Karen-W]

Dance alternates updated -

Ice Dance 1-10
Smart/Dieck (SkAm)
McNamara/Spiridonov (France)
Ignateva/Szemko (Espoo)
Orihara/Pirinen (Espoo)
Dupayage/Nabais (France)
Bashynska/Beaumont (Espoo)
Harris/Chan (SkAm)
Bekker/Hernandez
Fabbri/Ayer (SCI)
Lanaghan/Razgulajevs (SCI)

Ice Dance 11-20
Komatsubara/Koleto (NHK)
Manni/Roethlisberger
Nosovitskaya/Nosovitskiy
Holubtsova/Bielobrov
Lagouge/Caffa
Simova/Aksenov
Gauthier/Thieren
Dozzi/Papetti
Hensen/Lickers
Leccardi/Dalla Torre

Ice Dance 21-29
Terreaux/Perron
Polibina/Golovishnikov
Bronsard/Richmond
Hancock/Fourati
Carhart/Kolosovskyi
Azroian/Gruzdev
Ramanauskaite/Kizala
Pucherova/Lysak
Nauryzova/Datiev

USA is maxed out in Ice Dance at every event save for NHK (2 entries) and the SkAm TBD spot, so unless the team that WDs is from the US or the event is NHK, then Lanaghan/Razgulajevs & Komatsubara/Koleto will be moved up to the first group of 10 for consideration.

 

[Sylvia]

Evelyn Grace Hanns/Danny Neudecker and Oona Brown/Gage Brown got the last spots at Skate America

USFS' press release today (Sept. 15) recaps all the recent GP assignments for the U.S. skaters:

2023 Grand Prix Selections Finalized for Team USA - U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone

Eleven U.S. athletes have been awarded additional assignments on the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series, which begins in October at Skate America.

usfigureskatingfanzone.com

 

[Karen-W]

Luc Economides has been given one of the FRA TBD assignments at GPdF - the other spot is still TBD -

https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2023-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31415-men-4/file

Men 1-10
Kataise (France)
Gorodnitsky (SCI)
Naumov (SkAm)
Orzel (SCI)
Sadovsky (SCI)
Yampolsky
Kapeikis (SCI)
Gogolev (SkAm)
Broussard (CoC)
Shmuratko

Men 11-20
Chiu (SCI)
Yoshioka (SkAm)
Starostin
Guarino Sabate
Miyake
Newnham
Samoilov
Kyeong
A Selevko
Torgashev (SkAm)

Men 21-30
Levandi (Espoo)
Zandron
Le May
Lewton Brain
Maierhofer
K Witkowski
Ha. Kim
Tran
Bralin
Y Cha

Men 31-32
Kessler
Honda

 

[Evgeniafan]

Luc Economides has been given one of the FRA TBD assignments at GPdF - the other spot is still TBD -

https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2023-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31415-men-4/file

Men 1-10
Kataise (France)
Gorodnitsky (SCI)
Naumov (SkAm)
Orzel (SCI)
Sadovsky (SCI)
Yampolsky
Kapeikis (SCI)
Gogolev (SkAm)
Broussard (CoC)
Shmuratko

Men 11-20
Chiu (SCI)
Yoshioka (SkAm)
Starostin
Guarino Sabate
Miyake
Newnham
Samoilov
Kyeong
A Selevko
Torgashev (SkAm)

Men 21-30
Levandi (Espoo)
Zandron
Le May
Lewton Brain
Maierhofer
K Witkowski
Ha. Kim
Tran
Bralin
Y Cha

Men 31-32
Kessler
Honda

Can they give it to Davide, he goes to all the French National competitions?

 

[Karen-W]

Can they give it to Davide, he goes to all the French National competitions?

I'm not 100% sure. I think, if they don't select a French man then they have to use the alternates list, but whether they're obligated to select someone from the alternates top 10 or they can choose anyone on the SB 75 list (and Lewton Brain is on that list, but pretty far down), is a good question since it's a host spot.

 

[Evgeniafan]

I'm not 100% sure. I think, if they don't select a French man then they have to use the alternates list, but whether they're obligated to select someone from the alternates top 10 or they can choose anyone on the SB 75 list (and Lewton Brain is on that list, but pretty far down), is a good question since it's a host spot.

I really like him and It's his 7th senior season and he has never received a grand prix. Last year he just missed minimums in the short for Worlds

 

[kwanfan1818]

I'm not 100% sure. I think, if they don't select a French man then they have to use the alternates list, but whether they're obligated to select someone from the alternates top 10 or they can choose anyone on the SB 75 list (and Lewton Brain is on that list, but pretty far down), is a good question since it's a host spot.

Technically, any of the three host spots not given to a host skater is a spot that goes back into the pool and is subject to the same rules as non-host spots.

 

[airgelaal]

Rika Kihira

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707318519291908514

 

[Sylvia]

Rika Kihira

New link: https://twitter.com/rika_kihira/status/1707334590459679146

Machine translation:

Thank you everyone for your continued support.

I have decided to miss Skate Canada.
After many meetings with my coach, I decided to prioritize completely recovering from my injury this year in order to pursue my dream of attending the 2026 Milan Olympics.
Next season, I hope to fully recover my health and performance and aim for the top with all my might

The goal is the 2026 Milan Olympics.
I would be happy if you would continue to support and watch over me!

Rika Kihira

 

[Karen-W]

Updated Women's Alternates for SCI - USA & CAN are maxed out, Gutmann & Meite assigned to SCI

Women 1-10
Kurakova (SkAm)
Ji
Serna (France)
Matsuike
van Zundert (NHK)
Mikutina
Paganini
Sauter
Kiibus
Lang

Women 11
Isaev

I could see this spot going to Matsuike or Mikutina, but Kurakova might also have a chance at it.

 

[Hedwig]

Rika

 

[Karen-W]

And Rino Matsuike got the SCI spot vacated by Rika -

https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2023-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31416-women-3/file

Updated Women's Alternates -

Women 1-10
Kurakova (SkAm)
Ziegler (NHK)
Ji
Gutmann (SCI)
Serna (France)
Matsuike (SCI)
Meite (SCI)
Harrell
van Zundert (NHK)
Hilmer

Women 11-20
Gold
Mikutina
Seo (SkAm)
Ruiter (SCI)
Daleman
Dupuis (SCI)
Miclette
Paganini
Sauter
Kiibus

Women 21-22
Lang
Isaev

JPN - maxed out at every event
USA - maxed out at SkAm, SCI & NHK
KOR - maxed out at NHK

Skaters in italicized orange - have not competed either domestically or internationally yet this season & are not entered in any upcoming events

 

[Karen-W]

Also - it seems more and more likely that Grassl will be out of the GP - he's WD from all three of the Challengers to which he was assigned (Lombardia, Nepela, Budapest) - so, with that in mind, a refresher of the alternates:
Updating the GP Alternates lists with today's announcements -

Current vacant spots (apart from the GPdF host spots - 2 men, 2 women, 1 pairs, 1 dance) - 1 NHK pairs - no country is maxed out

Potential vacant spots - 1 GPdF & NHK man (Grassl potential doping violation) - FRA & JPN maxed out at GPdF, JPN maxed out at NHK; ETA - 1 SCI and CoC man (Shaidorov WD due to injury from Nepela Memorial today) - CAN & JPN maxed out at SCI, CHN & JPN maxed out at CoC

Men 1-10
Kataise (France)
Gorodnitsky (SCI)
Naumov (SkAm)
Orzel (SCI)
Sadovsky (SCI)
Yampolsky
Kapeikis (SCI)
Gogolev (SkAm)
Broussard (CoC)
Shmuratko

Men 11-20
Chiu (SCI)
Yoshioka (SkAm)
Starostin
Guarino Sabate
Miyake
Newnham
Samoilov
Kyeong
A Selevko
Torgashev (SkAm)

Men 21-30
Levandi (Espoo)
Zandron
Le May
Lewton Brain
Maierhofer
K Witkowski
Ha. Kim
Tran
Bralin
Y Cha

Men 31-32
Kessler
Honda

Skaters in italicized orange - have not competed either domestically or internationally yet this season & are not entered in any upcoming events

 

[LoisAGOEs]

Jaeseok Kyeong retired in April

 

[Karen-W]

Jaeseok Kyeong retired in April

Thanks! I'll remove him from the alternates list on my next update.

 

[BlueRidge]

Lagouge and Caffa are now on the list for Grand Prix de France!

 

[Karen-W]

Lagouge and Caffa are now on the list for Grand Prix de France!

https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2023-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31418-ice-dance-3/file

Additionally, Landry le May was given the host TBD men's spot - https://isu.org/docman-documents-li...23-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31415-men-4/file

And Piegad/Strekalin were given the host TBD pairs spot - https://isu.org/docman-documents-li...-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31417-pairs-4/file

 

[Hedwig]

Oh I hope Shmuratko gets one of the spots. Very intense and interesting storytelling programs this season

 

[Karen-W]

Current vacant spots - none

Potential vacant spots - 1 GPdF & NHK man (Grassl potential doping violation) - FRA & JPN maxed out at GPdF, JPN maxed out at NHK

Men 1-10
Kataise (France)
Gorodnitsky (SCI)
Naumov (SkAm)
Orzel (SCI)
Sadovsky (SCI)
Yampolsky
Kapeikis (SCI)
Gogolev (SkAm)
Broussard (CoC)
Shmuratko

Men 11-20
Chiu (SCI)
Yoshioka (SkAm)
Starostin
Guarino Sabate
Miyake
Newnham
Samoilov
A Selevko
Torgashev (SkAm)
Levandi (Espoo)

Men 21-30
Zandron
Le May (GPdF)
Lewton Brain
Maierhofer
K Witkowski
Ha. Kim
Tran
Bralin
Y Cha
Kessler

Men 31
Honda

Women 1-10
Kurakova (SkAm)
Ziegler (NHK)
Ji
Gutmann (SCI)
Serna (France)
Matsuike (SCI)
Meite (SCI)
Harrell
van Zundert (NHK)
Hilmer

Women 11-20
Gold
Mikutina
Seo (SkAm)
Ruiter (SCI)
Daleman
Dupuis (SCI)
Miclette
Paganini
Sauter
Kiibus

Women 21-22
Lang
Isaev

Pairs 1-10
Roscher/Schuster (SCI)
Osipova/Epstein (SkAm)
Beccari/Guarise (SCI)
Caldara/Maglio (SkAm)
Mokhova/Mokhov (CoC)
Zhang/Yang (CoC)
Vouillamoz/Giniaux (France)
Valesi/Piazza (France)
Vaipan-Law/Digby
Gamez/Korovin

Pairs 11-12
Piegad/Strekalin (GPdF)
Simioli/Zarbo

Ice Dance 1-10
Smart/Dieck (SkAm)
McNamara/Spiridonov (France)
Ignateva/Szemko (Espoo)
Orihara/Pirinen (Espoo)
Dupayage/Nabais (France)
Bashynska/Beaumont (Espoo)
Harris/Chan (SkAm)
Bekker/Hernandez
Fabbri/Ayer (SCI)
Lanaghan/Razgulajevs (SCI)

Ice Dance 11-20
Komatsubara/Koleto (NHK)
Manni/Roethlisberger
Nosovitskaya/Nosovitskiy
Holubtsova/Bielobrov
Lagouge/Caffa (GPdF)
Simova/Aksenov
Gauthier/Thieren
Dozzi/Papetti
Hensen/Lickers
Leccardi/Dalla Torre

Ice Dance 21-29
Terreaux/Perron
Polibina/Golovishnikov
Bronsard/Richmond
Hancock/Fourati
Carhart/Kolosovskyi
Azroian/Gruzdev
Ramanauskaite/Kizala
Pucherova/Lysak
Nauryzova/Datiev

Skaters in italicized orange - have not competed either domestically or internationally yet this season & are not entered in any upcoming events