2026/2027 ISU Challenger Series events

[alexikeguchi]

Croatia recently denied visas to multiple "neutral" athletes for the European Gymnastics Championships, so I don't see that Golden Spin is much of a solution.

 

[Sylvia]

Nebelhorn Trophy is teasing us with an Entries link (added today) but no entries yet : https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-s...u-cs-nebelhorn-trophy-2026/?tab=entries_16345

No entries link yet for Nepela Memorial Trophy: https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-skating/events/eventdetail/isu-cs-34th-nepela-memorial/

 

[Marta24]

Nebelhorn Trophy is teasing us with an Entries link (added today) but no entries yet : https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-s...u-cs-nebelhorn-trophy-2026/?tab=entries_16345

No entries link yet for Nepela Memorial Trophy: https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-skating/events/eventdetail/isu-cs-34th-nepela-memorial/

So mean. Can't they finally post it. I'm not getting any younger here!

 

[Karen-W]

Nebelhorn Trophy is teasing us with an Entries link (added today) but no entries yet : https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-s...u-cs-nebelhorn-trophy-2026/?tab=entries_16345

I commented to an acquaintance on X that the ISU is just playing in our faces with that empty entries link.

 

[Kiki5375]

Nebelhorn Trophy is teasing us with an Entries link (added today) but no entries yet : https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-s...u-cs-nebelhorn-trophy-2026/?tab=entries_16345

No entries link yet for Nepela Memorial Trophy: https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-skating/events/eventdetail/isu-cs-34th-nepela-memorial/

Hopefully the entrylist will be relased before the starting order

 

[Sylvia]

USFS' International Assignments page does not list Sarah Everhardt for Lombardia as of today (thanks for the heads up, @Stephanie) - rest of the original CS entries are the same:

Entries for Lombardia Trophy are published: https://isu-skating.com/figure-skat...u-cs-lombardia-trophy-2026/?tab=entries_16327

MEN
Nikolai Ugozhaev AIN2
Matvei Vetlugin AIN2
Mihhail Selevko EST
Corentin Spinar FRA
Dillon Judge IRL
Gabriele Frangipani ITA
Kirills Korkacs LAT
Fedirs Kuliss LAT
Hugo Bostedt SWE
Kyrylo Marsak UKR
Daniel Martynov USA
Taira Shinohara USA

WOMEN
Nina Pinzarrone BEL
Barbora Tykalova CZE
Michaela Vrastakova CZE
Maria Eliise Kaljuvere EST
Niina Petrokina EST
Iida Karhunen FIN
Olivia Lisko FIN
Elizabet Gervits ISR
Gioia Fiori ITA
Lara Naki Gutmann ITA
Sarina Joos ITA
Chiara Minighini ITA
Jia Shin KOR
Ahsun Yun KOR
Anastasija Konga LAT
Evelina Stavickyte LTU
Marietta Atkins POL
Gian-Quen Isaacs RSA
Sara Franzi SUI
Anita Ostlund SWE
Sarah Everhardt USA

DANCE
Plaskonnaya/Sytsik AIN1
Mrazkova/Mrazek CZE
Awny Farajallah/Spodyriev EGY
Ivanitskiy/Sperry FIN
Orihara/Pirinen FIN
Fradji/Fourneaux FRA
Lagouge/Caffa FRA
Lopareva/Brissaud FRA
Csiszer/Shapiro HUN
Ichilov/Nosovitskiy ISR
Cimlova/Frasca ITA
Manni/Rothlisberger ITA
Paolino/Tuba ITA
Tali/Lafornara ITA
Verhaegh/Van Geffen NED
Bratti/Somerville USA
Cui/Rogers USA
Mullen/Mullen USA
Sub - Zingas/Kolesnik USA

PAIRS (not CS)
Valesi/Bidar CZE
Tridello/Tomasi ITA
McBeath/Nagy USA
Shin/Howe USA
Sub - Andrews/Parkman USA

Cross-posting here:

Non-CS Lombardia pairs competition is marked as "Cancelled" in ISU's listings.

https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-skating/events/?month=All&season=2026/2027&country=Italy&eventLevel=International

 

[danafan]

Nebelhorn Trophy is teasing us with an Entries link (added today) but no entries yet : https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-s...u-cs-nebelhorn-trophy-2026/?tab=entries_16345

No entries link yet for Nepela Memorial Trophy: https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-skating/events/eventdetail/isu-cs-34th-nepela-memorial/

Nebelhorn entries are there now.

 

[Kiki5375]

That's A LOT less entries compared to last year :-(

 

[Sylvia]

Nebelhorn Trophy entries as of Sept. 4:

MEN
1 Mikayel SALAZARYAN ARM
2 Tobia OELLERER AUT
3 Aleksa RAKIC CAN
4 Gabriel MARTINEZ ECU
5 Arlet LEVANDI EST
6 Aleksandr SELEVKO EST
7 Francois PITOT FRA
8 Luca FUENFER GER
9 Genrikh GARTUNG GER
10 Nikita STAROSTIN GER
11 Dillon JUDGE IRL
12 Ze Zeng FANG MAS
13 Kornel WITKOWSKI POL
14 Liam KAPEIKIS USA
15 Jimmy MA USA

WOMEN
1 Fee Ann LANDRY CAN
2 Nela SNEBERGEROVA CZE
3 Valentina ANDRIANOVA GER
4 Sophia TKACHEVA IRL
5 Marina PIREDDA ITA
6 Nikola FOMCHENKOVA LAT
7 Sofja STEPCENKO LAT (good to see her name again)
8 Mia RISA GOMEZ NOR
9 Noelle STREULI POL
10 Logan HIGASE-CHEN USA

PAIRS
1 Karina AKOPOVA / Nikita RAKHMANIN ARM
2 Ava KEMP / Yohnatan ELIZAROV CAN
3 Lia PEREIRA / Trennt MICHAUD CAN
4 Jiaxuan ZHANG / Yihang HUANG CHN
5 Anna VALESI / Martin BIDAR CZE
6 Louise EHRHARD / Matthis PELLEGRIS FRA
7 Aurelie FAULA / Theo BELLE FRA
8 Annika HOCKE / Robert KUNKEL GER
9 Maria PAVLOVA / Alexei SVIATCHENKO HUN
10 Irma CALDARA / Riccardo MAGLIO ITA
11 Oxana VOUILLAMOZ / Tom BOUVART SUI
12 Valentina PLAZAS / Maximiliano FERNANDEZ USA
13 Audrey SHIN / Spencer Akira HOWE USA
14 Naomi WILLIAMS / Lachlan LEWER USA
Alisa EFIMOVA / Misha MITROFANOV S

ICE DANCE
1 Holly HARRIS / Jason CHAN AUS
2 Marie-Jade LAURIAULT / Romain LE GAC CAN
3 Layla VEILLON / Alexander BRANDYS CAN
4 Katerina MRAZKOVA / Daniel MRAZEK CZE
5 Gabriela PALOMEQUE / Tanner WHITE ECU
6 Louise BORDET / Martin CHARDAIN FRA
7 Lilah FEAR / Lewis GIBSON GBR
8 Karla Maria KARL / Kai HOFERICHTER GER
9 Charise MATTHAEI / Max LIEBERS GER
10 Carolina PORTESI PERONI / Pietro PAPETTI ITA
11 Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO USA
12 Leah NESET / Artem MARKELOV USA
13 Katarina WOLFKOSTIN / Dimitry TSAREVSKI USA

ETA:

That's A LOT less entries compared to last year :-(

I think these numbers are not unusual for a post-Olympic season. 14 pairs is pretty good!

 

[Dobre]

Yes, I'd say the numbers are good actually for a post Olympic season.

 

[Amy L]

Good to see Noelle Streuli back, it's been quite a while!

 

[haribobo]

Top 10 Women SP Scores 26-27 (Senior)
1 Ami Nakai 80
2 Mao Shimada 78
3 Kamilla Neliubova 76
4 Alexandra Ignatova 74
5 Anna Frolova 73
6 Yuseong Kim 67
7 Yujae Kim and Veronika Zhilina 66
9 Logan Higase-Chen 61
10 Seoyoung Kim 60

Top 10 Men SP Scores 26-27 (Senior)
1 Rio Nakata 96
2 Vladislav Dikidzhi 88
3 Aleksandr Selevko 87
4 Shun Sato 85
5 Mark Gorodnitsky 80
6 Daniel Martynov 79
7 Jacob Sanchez 75
8 Evgeni Semenenko 74
9 Liam Kapeikis and Hyungyeom Kim 73

 

[Sylvia]

^^^ Rio Nakata scored 96.48 (ISU PB) in his Kinoshita Group Cup SP. 89.51 was his previous ISU PB at 2026 Junior Worlds.

Men after Cranberry Cup: https://results.isu.org/events/cs2026/csmen.htm
Women after Cranberry Cup: https://results.isu.org/events/cs2026/cswomen.htm

 

[RUKen]

The release mentions Viktoria Safonova, "Olympian and neutral athlete".

Viktoria Safonova is not included on the list of entries, nor is any other neutral athlete.

 

[Karen-W]

Forgot to post these earlier -

Trialeti Announcement - entry deadline - Sept 4th - https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.az...77c89664b2634ed271fdbb849e55166f3479aa513.pdf

Denis Ten Memorial Announcement - entry deadline - Sept 11th - https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.az...e2b52454115d1bc7667d041c718dac6e9d1b6bd01.pdf

Budapest Announcement - entry deadline - Sept 18th - https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.az...35e8d0a0aba92ce54ff0b6c2f8f425d55c90235de.pdf

 

[haribobo]

2026 Worlds Scores- Men- 1 329, 2 306, 3 288, 5 271, 10 249, 15 230

Senior Men Skaters 26-27 with a top 10 score (above 249)
Dikidzhi 265, Sato 255, Semenenko 253, Seo 251

Top 15 Score (above 230)
A Selevko 246, Nakata 243, Gumennik 236, Miura 233

Yet to compete -Gogolev, M Selevko, Aymoz, Fa, Egadze, Grassl, Memola, Tomono, Yamamoto, Shaidorov, Malinin, Brown, Torgashev, Cha, Britschgi

 

[haribobo]

I recalibrated Men to subtract 7 points from the Worlds scores since there is 1 fewer jump this year, same for Women
Included Asian Open Trophy scores

SENIOR MEN
1-3 = 322, 299, 281

Top 5 Above 264
Dikidzhi 265

Top 10 Above 242
Sato 255, Semenenko 253, Seo 251, A Selevko 246, Tomono 246, Nakata 243

Top 15 Above 223
Gumennik 236, Miura 233

Top 20 Above 211
Martynov 221, Gorodnitsky 218

Yet to compete -Gogolev, M Selevko, Aymoz, Fa, Egadze, Grassl, Memola, Tomono, Yamamoto, Shaidorov, Malinin, Brown, Torgashev, Cha, Britschgi

SENIOR WOMEN

MEDAL RANGE
231 221 208 (1-3)
Mao Shimada 231
Alexandra Ignatova 221

Above 198 (Top 5)
Anna Frolova 207
Ami Nakai 207
Yuseong Kim 202
Kamilla Neliubova 201

Above 191 (Top 10)
Veronika Zhilina 193

Above 171 (Top 15)
Yuna Aoki 181
Yujae Kim 180
Logan Higase-Chen 176
Seoyoung Kim 172

Above 155 (Top 20)
Chloe Levine 164
Rinka Watanabe 160
Alexa Gasparotto 158
Seojin Youn 155
----------------------------
Yu Feng Tsai 154
Olivia Phillips 151

Yet to compete- Mone Chiba, Niina Petrokina, Rion Sumiyoshi, Nina Pinzarrone, Amber Glenn, Isabeau Levito, Haein Lee, Anastasiia Gubanova, Jia Shin, Sofia Samodelkina, Lara Naki Gutmann, Sarah Everhardt, Young You, Saki Miyake, Olivia Lisko, Rino Matsuike, Iida Karhunen, Madeline Schizas, Fee Ann Landry, Gabrielle Daleman, Sara Maude Dupuis

 

[haribobo]

Delete

 

[Karen-W]

Personally, I think arbitrarily reducing skaters' scores from last season is ridiculous. It is a thought exercise, at best, and doesn't take into account the other changes to the scoring system - like the increase in base values for spins & step sequences.

You wouldn't do the same thing to pairs SP scores, which have always varied from season to season due to the discrepancy in BV between the different group lifts & death spirals. Same with juniors who have a prescribed solo jump in the SP and, therefore, some seasons the SP scores will be lower across the board.

 

[Ka3sha]

John Nicks IPC entries have been published -

ISU CS John Nicks Pairs International 2026

isu-skating.com

NO NAME NATION
1 Aleksandra BOIKOVA / Dmitrii KOZLOVSKII AIN2
2 Karina AKOPOVA / Nikita RAKHMANIN ARM
3 Jazmine DESROCHERS / Kieran THRASHER CAN
4 Miyu YUNOKI / Tristan TAYLOR CAN
5 Megan WESSENBERG / Denys STREKALIN FRA
6 Starr ANDREWS / Daniil PARKMAN USA
7 Sydney COOKE / Matthew KENNEDY USA
8 Katie MCBEATH / Balazs NAGY USA
9 Sarah NUNEZ / Blake EISENACH USA
10 Audrey SHIN / Spencer Akira HOWE USA
11 Naomi WILLIAMS / Lachlan LEWER USA
Olivia FLORES / Mark SADUSKY S USA

Boikova/Kozlovskii confirmed on their socials that they are flying straight from Tokyo to Boston for John Nicks.
There were some rumours on Russian platforms that they might WD after winning at Kinoshita Cup

 

[haribobo]

Not to get too far into thread drift, but I feel this is an important point to establish (as some of us will compare scores from last year to this year)

Shun Sato first intl comp last year vs. first intl comp this year

2025 Lombardia
CSSp3 2.90
FCSp2 2.45
ChSq1 3.67
StSq3 4.07
CCoSp4V 2.59 (slight neg GOE)
TOTAL 15.68

2026 Kinoshita
ChSp1 4.10
FCSp2 3.25
ChSq1 4.80
StSq3 4.34
CCoSp4V 3.66
TOTAL 20.15 (increase of 4.47 points, rounding down to 4 to account for the neg GOE spin above)

Lowest scoring jump combo/seq from 2025 Lombardia for Shun- 3r-2ax = 9.67

So it seems that on average, scores for the men are still approx 5.5 pts lower than last year.

 

[Sylvia]

Not to get too far into thread drift, but I feel this is an important point to establish (as some of us will compare scores from last year to this year)

Thanks for making a separate thread for your "scores obsession" : https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/scores-obsession-trash.114090/

No entries link yet for Nepela Memorial Trophy: https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-skating/events/eventdetail/isu-cs-34th-nepela-memorial/

Still waiting...

ETA - but there is an official website now! https://www.nepela.sk/

 

[Karen-W]

Boikova/Kozlovskii confirmed on their socials that they are flying straight from Tokyo to Boston for John Nicks.
There were some rumours on Russian platforms that they might WD after winning at Kinoshita Cup

I think that competing at John Nicks is a good idea for them. Yes, they won Kinoshita, but I know Akopova/Rakhmanin and I think Shin/Howe and McBeath/Nagy will be a higher level of competition from the international field than they faced in Japan.

 

[PRlady]

I’ve never been a B/K fan but I’d guess the Germans and Georgians are the only ones who can beat them internationally, and then B/K would have to make mistakes.

 

[Karen-W]

I’ve never been a B/K fan but I’d guess the Germans and Georgians are the only ones who can beat them internationally, and then B/K would have to make mistakes.

I disagree. MetBeru and MiNiki can definitely beat a clean BoiKoz. I'd go so far as to suggest that PavSvia could possibly beat a clean BoiKoz also. PerMich, NagaMori and EfiMit would, however, need mistakes from BoiKoz to beat them, but it's not out of the realm of possiblity.

 

[Sylvia]

Entries for Lombardia Trophy are published: https://isu-skating.com/figure-skat...u-cs-lombardia-trophy-2026/?tab=entries_16327

According to AnythingGOEs today on X: "(AIN2) Nikolai Ugozhaev, (SWE) Hugo Bostedt, (FIN) Iida Karhunen, (RSA) Gian-Quen Isaacs, (USA) Sarah Everhardt, and (AIN1) Viktoryia Plaskonnaya / Uladzislau Sytsik have withdrawn from Lombardia Trophy."

 

[Karen-W]

We FINALLY have Nepela Memorial entries!

ISU CS 34th Nepela Memorial

isu-skating.com

Men -
No Name Nation
1 Grigory FEDOROV AIN2
2 Gleb LUTFULLIN AIN2
3 Evgeni SEMENENKO AIN2
4 Maksym PETRYCHENKO AUT
5 David BONDAR CAN
6 Georgii RESHTENKO CZE
7 Tadeas VACLAVIK CZE
8 Jan VALTERA CZE
9 Samy HAMMI FRA
10 Xan ROLS FRA
11 Adam SIAO HIM FA FRA
12 Jedidiah LINCOLN GBR
13 Arin YORKE GBR
14 Aleksei VLASENKO HUN
15 Daniel GRASSL ITA
16 Mikhail SHAIDOROV KAZ
17 Younghyun CHA KOR
18 Daniel KORABELNIK LTU
19 Vladimir SAMOILOV POL
20 David SEDEJ SLO
21 Jozef CURMA SVK
22 Adam HAGARA SVK
23 Lukas VACLAVIK SVK
24 Hugo BOSTEDT SWE
25 Andreas NORDEBACK SWE
26 Elias SAYED SWE
27 Yu-Hsiang LI TPE
28 Vadym NOVIKOV UKR
29 Goku ENDO USA

Women -
No Name Nation
1 Nargiz SUELEYMANOVA AZE
2 Nina PINZARRONE BEL
3 Gabrielle DALEMAN CAN
4 Reese ROSE CAN
5 Katerina HANUSOVA CZE
6 Adela VALLOVA CZE
7 Barbora VRANKOVA CZE
Michaela MALKOVA S CZE
8 Ines BELOT FRA
9 Eve DUBECQ FRA
10 Polina DZSUMANYIJAZOVA HUN
11 Julia FENNELL ISR
12 Yuseong KIM KOR
13 Haein LEE KOR
14 Seojin YOUN KOR
15 Paula BELEVICA LAT
16 Linda DZERVE LAT
17 Adelija MATJUNINA LAT
18 Maxine BAUTISTA PHI
19 Karolina BIALAS POL
20 Yelyzaveta SUROVA POL
21 Julia SAUTER ROU
22 Julija LOVRENCIC SLO
23 Olivia LENGYELOVA SVK
24 Terezia POCSOVA SVK
25 Sofiia EKZARKHOVA UKR
26 Elyce LIN-GRACEY USA
27 Sophie Joline VON FELTEN USA
Alexa GASPAROTTO S USA
Sonja HILMER S USA

Ice Dance -
No Name Nation
1 Irina KHAVRONINA / Devid NARYZHNYY AIN2
2 Anita STRAUB / Andreas STRAUB AUT
3 Alicia FABBRI / Marko Jevgeni GAIDAJENKO CAN
4 Natalie TASCHLEROVA / Filip TASCHLER CZE
5 Sophia AWNY FARAJALLAH / Maksym SPODYRIEV EGY
6 Olivia SMART / Tim DIECK ESP
7 Sofia VAL / Asaf KAZIMOV ESP
8 Yuka ORIHARA / Juho PIRINEN FIN
9 Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS FIN
10 Loicia DEMOUGEOT / Theo LE MERCIER FRA
11 Shira ICHILOV / Mikhail NOSOVITSKIY ISR
12 Denisa CIMLOVA / Stefano FRASCA ITA
13 Chelsea VERHAEGH / Sherim VAN GEFFEN NED
14 Zofia GRZEGORZEWSKA / Oleg MURATOV POL
15 Gina ZEHNDER / Beda Leon SIEBER SUI
16 Iryna PIDGAINA / Artem KOVAL UKR
17 Oona BROWN / Gage BROWN USA
18 Caroline GREEN / Michael PARSONS USA
19 Eva PATE / Logan BYE USA

 

[Sylvia]

John Nicks IPC entries have been published -

ISU CS John Nicks Pairs International 2026

isu-skating.com

NO NAME NATION
1 Aleksandra BOIKOVA / Dmitrii KOZLOVSKII AIN2
2 Karina AKOPOVA / Nikita RAKHMANIN ARM
3 Jazmine DESROCHERS / Kieran THRASHER CAN
4 Miyu YUNOKI / Tristan TAYLOR CAN
5 Megan WESSENBERG / Denys STREKALIN FRA
6 Starr ANDREWS / Daniil PARKMAN USA
7 Sydney COOKE / Matthew KENNEDY USA
8 Katie MCBEATH / Balazs NAGY USA
9 Sarah NUNEZ / Blake EISENACH USA
10 Audrey SHIN / Spencer Akira HOWE USA
11 Naomi WILLIAMS / Lachlan LEWER USA
Olivia FLORES / Mark SADUSKY S USA

Flores/Sadusky replaced Andrews/Parkman in the John Nicks entries today.

No entries link yet for Nepela Memorial Trophy: https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-skating/events/eventdetail/isu-cs-34th-nepela-memorial/

Finally! Big fields here!

[Deleted - Karen was faster. ]

 

[sandra_persch]

By holding Nepala the same weekend as Nebelhorn they surely got all of the Eastern European Skaters

 

[Sylvia]

Re-posting here from the CS John Nicks competition thread in Kiss & Cry:

A Golden Skate poster reported that she called SCOB about tickets, and they said entry was free, no tickets required.

Hopefully we'll get some fan cams, like at Cranberry Cup!