Looking Towards 2026 Grand Prix Entries

[haribobo]

There is still 4CC, Olympics, Jr. Worlds, and Worlds to go, but I was starting to figure out who we might see at the GP series, although a lot will depend on retirements we don't know about fully yet...figured I can update this thread as the major comps occur...for now I just have SB scores and its easiest in my mind to group them in groups of 6...

I listed ? for possible retirements, and am assuming Bradie is retiring and Starr is switching to pairs...

WOMEN
GROUP 1 - Ami Nakai, Alysa Liu, Mao Shimada, Mone Chiba, Niina Petrokina, Rion Sumiyoshi
GROUP 2- Amber Glenn?, Isabeau Levito, Rinka Watanabe, Jia Shin, Anastasiia Gubanova?, Loena Hendrickx?
GROUP 3- Lara Naki Gutmann, Sofia Samodelkina, Sarah Everhardt, Yujae Kim, Young You, Yuseong Kim
GROUP 4- Haein Lee, Saki Miyake, Olivia Lisko, Rino Matsuike, Anna Pezzetta, Sophie Joline Von Felten
GROUP 5- Seoyoung Kim, Lorine Schild, Madeline Schizas?, Chaeyeon Kim, Iida Karhunen, Haruna Murakami

Scores to watch at upcoming comps- Yuna Aoki, Gabrielle Daleman, Sara-Maude Dupuis, Fee Ann Landry, Ahsun Yun, Ruiyang Zhang

MEN
GROUP 1- Ilia Malinin, Yuma Kagiyama, Shun Sato, Daniel Grassl, Mikhail Shaidorov, Adam Siao Him Fa
GROUP 2- Nika Egadze, Nikolaj Memola, Kevin Aymoz, Aleksandr Selevko, Matteo Rizzo?, Minkyu Seo
GROUP 3- Stephen Gogolev, Kao Miura, Junhwan Cha?, Kazuki Tomono, Rio Nakata, Lukas Britschgi
GROUP 4- Tomoki Hiwatashi?, Roman Sadovsky?, Vladimir Samoilov, Andrew Torgashev, Boyang Jin?, Sota Yamamoto?
GROUP 5- Georgii Reshtenko, Yudong Chen, Francois Pitot, Mihhail Selevko, Vladimir Litvintsev, Andreas Nordeback, Tamir Kuperman, Adam Hagara

Scores to watch- Hyungyeom Kim, Maxim Naumov, Lucius Kazanecki, Jacob Sanchez, Liam Kapeikis, Aleksa Rakic, Wesley Chiu, Jaekeun Lee

 

[haribobo]

PAIRS (half of these could retire/split)

1- Miura, Metelkina, Conti, Hase, Stellato
2- Pavlova, Efimova, Sui, Nagaoka, Kam
3- Zhang, Shin, Chan, Ghilardi, Pereira
4- Akopova, Hocke, McBeath, Bouvart, Plazas
5- Laurin, Beccari, Kemp, Guo, Faula
6- Vaipan-Law, Kovalev, ZhangFeng, Izzo, Holichenko
7- Wozniak, Valesi, Liu, Caldara, Desrochers

DANCE (same as pairs)

1- FBCiz, Chock, Guignard, Fear, Gilles
2- Lopareva, Davis, Zingas, Reed, Lauriault
3- Lajoie, Smart, Turkkila, Carreira, JVR
4- Demougeot, Taschler, Lim, Green, Bratti
5- Pate, Shibutani, Mrazek, Harris, Wolfkostin
6- Brown, Val, Dupayge, Bekker, Reitan
7- Orihara, Neset, Lagouge, Fabbri, Ichilov

 

[haribobo]

After 4CC (men to update tomorrow)

WOMEN updates in SB ranking (my group 5 ends at SB 42)

Yuna Aoki - now 5 (from somewhere around 45th!)
Gabrielle Daleman- now 49 (first season counting SB score I believe)
Fee Ann Landry- now 63 (new to SB list)

PAIRS (my group 7 ends at 35th place)

Laurin/Ethier moved up a few places to 18
Ryom/Han now at SB 40

DANCE (my groups end at 35th)

Green/Parsons moved up a bit to 13
Brown/Brown moved up almost 10 spots to 19
Fabbri/Ayer moved up about 10 spots to 26
Yoshida/Morita moved up to 40
Hensen/Lickers up to 47 (from around 60)

 

[Karen-W]

There is still 4CC, Olympics, Jr. Worlds, and Worlds to go, but I was starting to figure out who we might see at the GP series, although a lot will depend on retirements we don't know about fully yet...figured I can update this thread as the major comps occur...for now I just have SB scores and its easiest in my mind to group them in groups of 6...

I listed ? for possible retirements, and am assuming Bradie is retiring and Starr is switching to pairs...

WOMEN
GROUP 1 - Ami Nakai, Alysa Liu, Mao Shimada, Mone Chiba, Niina Petrokina, Rion Sumiyoshi
GROUP 2- Amber Glenn?, Isabeau Levito, Rinka Watanabe, Jia Shin, Anastasiia Gubanova?, Loena Hendrickx?
GROUP 3- Lara Naki Gutmann, Sofia Samodelkina, Sarah Everhardt, Yujae Kim, Young You, Yuseong Kim
GROUP 4- Haein Lee, Saki Miyake, Olivia Lisko, Rino Matsuike, Anna Pezzetta, Sophie Joline Von Felten
GROUP 5- Seoyoung Kim, Lorine Schild, Madeline Schizas?, Chaeyeon Kim, Iida Karhunen, Haruna Murakami

Scores to watch at upcoming comps- Yuna Aoki, Gabrielle Daleman, Sara-Maude Dupuis, Fee Ann Landry, Ahsun Yun, Ruiyang Zhang

MEN
GROUP 1- Ilia Malinin, Yuma Kagiyama, Shun Sato, Daniel Grassl, Mikhail Shaidorov, Adam Siao Him Fa
GROUP 2- Nika Egadze, Nikolaj Memola, Kevin Aymoz, Aleksandr Selevko, Matteo Rizzo?, Minkyu Seo
GROUP 3- Stephen Gogolev, Kao Miura, Junhwan Cha?, Kazuki Tomono, Rio Nakata, Lukas Britschgi
GROUP 4- Tomoki Hiwatashi?, Roman Sadovsky?, Vladimir Samoilov, Andrew Torgashev, Boyang Jin?, Sota Yamamoto?
GROUP 5- Georgii Reshtenko, Yudong Chen, Francois Pitot, Mihhail Selevko, Vladimir Litvintsev, Andreas Nordeback, Tamir Kuperman, Adam Hagara

Scores to watch- Hyungyeom Kim, Maxim Naumov, Lucius Kazanecki, Jacob Sanchez, Liam Kapeikis, Aleksa Rakic, Wesley Chiu, Jaekeun Lee

Gubs is most likely done; Hendrickx made comments either just before or during Euros which make it clear this is her last season. There's a greater likelihood of Aoki continuing on for another season than either Gubanova or Hendrickx, IMO.

I'd also be surprised if You continues, same with Schizas.

I'm pretty sure Rizzo will be done; not sure about Cha, Yamamoto or Hiwatashi's intentions; Jin will keep skating until he falls apart if the CFSA has anything to do with it.

 

[haribobo]

I re-did the men list due to so many new SB at 4CC, and Tomoki's retirement.

MEN
GROUP 1- Ilia Malinin, Yuma Kagiyama, Shun Sato, Daniel Grassl, Mikhail Shaidorov, Adam Siao Him Fa

GROUP 2- Kao Miura, Junhwan Cha, Nika Egadze, Sota Yamamoto, Kazuki Tomono, Nikolaj Memola,

GROUP 3- Kevin Aymoz, Boyang Jin, Aleksandr Selevko, Matteo Rizzo?, Minkyu Seo, Stephen Gogolev

GROUP 4- Rio Nakata, Lukas Britschgi, Roman Sadovsky?, Vladimir Samoilov, Jacob Sanchez, Andrew Torgashev

GROUP 5- Georgii Reshtenko, Yudong Chen, Francois Pitot, Mihhail Selevko, Vladimir Litvintsev, Andreas Nordeback, Tamir Kuperman, Adam Hagara

Scores to watch- Maxim Naumov, Lucius Kazanecki

Biggest leaps at 4CC were Wesley Chiu up to 55, Zhiming Peng up to 61, Jacob Sanchez up to 27, Junhwan Cha up to 8, Sota Yamamoto up to 10, Kao Miura up to 7, Kazuki Tomono up to 11, and Boyang Jin up to 15.

 

[PRlady]

Isn’t Kazuki retiring? And I’ll be shocked if Rizzo keeps going, isn’t this his third Olympics?

If Minsol skates like she could as a senior, I expect Schizas to retire. Kaori was wise to get out of the way of Shimada, and Young You should go gracefully as well.

Amber was a late bloomer and might hang in there, likewise Aoki. I hope so, anyway.

 

[haribobo]

Current Alternate List (roughly, as its hard to pin down exactly the numbers)

MEN
Kyrylo Marsak
Luc Economides
Hyungyeom Kim
Arlet Levandi
Deniss Vasiljevs
Liam Kapeikis
Maxim Naumov
Jaekeun Lee
Lucius Kazanecki
Samy Hammi
Donovan Carrillo
Patrick Blackwell
Grayson Long
Aleksa Rakic
Wesley Chiu


WOMEN
Mariia Seniuk
Sara-Maude Dupuis
Nina Pinzarrone
Seojin Youn
Mako Yamashita
Alina Bonillo
Gabrielle Daleman
Sarina Joos
Kaoruko Wada
Hana Yoshida
Ahsun Yun
Ruiyang Zhang
Marina Piredda
Kaiya Ruiter
Kimmy Repond

PAIRS
Gunnarsdottir
Flores
Danilova
Williams
Ryom
Schaller
Wessenberg
Roscher
Quattrocchi
Moss

DANCE
Manni
Soucisse
Ignateva
Matthaei
Yoshida
Wang
Paolino
Pinchuk
Fradji
Kudryavtseva

 

[haribobo]

Yes, there will be a lot of people I will have to take off the lists as the retirements roll in...

 

[Spikefan]

Isn’t Kazuki retiring? And I’ll be shocked if Rizzo keeps going, isn’t this his third Olympics?

If Minsol skates like she could as a senior, I expect Schizas to retire. Kaori was wise to get out of the way of Shimada, and Young You should go gracefully as well.

Amber was a late bloomer and might hang in there, likewise Aoki. I hope so, anyway.

It is unclear what Kazuki’s plans are. Here is what was said after Nationals:

Because I can feel my growth, when I am asked about the future, I hesitate to answer.

"There are many things I can improve by taking on the sport as a sport... To be honest, I still feel like I'm getting better."