Looking Towards 2026 Grand Prix Entries

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

MEN
GROUP 1- Ilia Malinin, Yuma Kagiyama, Shun Sato, Mikhail Shaidorov, Daniel Grassl, Adam Siao Him Fa
GROUP 2- Junhwan Cha, Stephen Gogolev, Kao Miura, Nika Egadze, Sota Yamamoto, Kazuki Tomono
GROUP 3- Rio Nakata, Nikolaj Memola, Kevin Aymoz, Andrew Torgashev, Boyang Jin, Aleksandr Selevko
GROUP 4- Matteo Rizzo, Minkyu Seo, Lukas Britschgi, Roman Sadovsky, Vladimir Samoilov, Jacob Sanchez
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This group has potential to fall into no spots/alternate territory...

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

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

If Amber continues, which I doubt, group 2?

 

[haribobo]

These are just by current SB but she has a good chance of top 6 at worlds and thus a seeded position

 

[haribobo]

FYI for Japan men, Sena Takahashi will be too young for seniors and Tsuboi is retiring.

Of the others in contention for NHK spot...(most don't have an ISU SB)

Daiya Ebihara- 7th @ Nats, 217 int (has SB)
Nozomu Yoshioka - 8th @ Nationals, 214 international score
Takeru Kataise- 9th @ Nats, 216 int
Kosho Oshima- 10th @ Nats, 195 int
Tsudoi Sato- 12th @ Nats, 206 int
Shunsuke Nakamura- 19th @ Nationals, 210 int score

With Yuma, Shun, Tomono, Sota, Rio and Kao getting 2 spots each
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Also for the women (Yuna Aoki and Rinka Watanabe should have 2 spots)...Rino Matsuike - 11 @ Nats, and Rion Sumiyoshi - 18 @ Nats, should get 2, also Saki Miyake- 9 @ Nats should get 2 spots if recovered from injury
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Mana Kawabe- 12 @ Nats, 194 int (no SB)
Maria Egawa- 13 @ Nats, 197 int (no SB)
Mako Yamashita- 15 @ Nats, 195 int (SB 183)
Kaoruko Wada- 19 @ Nats (SB 180)
Haruna Murakami- 21 @ Nats (SB 186)
Hana Yoshida- 28 @ Nats (SB 180)

If all of Mone, Mao, Ami, Yuna, Rinka, Rino, Rion, Saki, get 2 spots each- that only leaves 2 total GP spots to spread amongst all of the above skaters.

 

[Karen-W]

Alrighty then... We can start projecting for Pairs seeing as there are no further pairs competitions this season!

Seeded/Invited - Guaranteed 2 GPs - 20 out of 48 spots
Hase/Volodin
Metelkina/Berulava
Pereira/Michaud
Nagaoka/Moriguchi
Pavlova/Sviatchenko
Efimova/Mitrofanov
Hocke/Kunkel
Akopova/Rakhmanin
Zhang/Huang
Vouillamoz/Bouvart

WS Top 24 (projected) & SB Top 24 - I've tentatively marked through the teams expected to retire/split - guaranteed 1 GP but probably will get 2 - 10 out of 28 remaining spots
Miura/Kihara 1/1
Conti/Macii 4/4
Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps 6/7
Kam/O'Shea 7/12
Ghilardi/Ambrosini 9/16
Chan/Howe 12/11
McBeath/Parkman 13/19
Laurin/Ethier 16/18
Chtchetinina/Wozniak 17/20
Shin/Nagy 20/15
Sui/Han 24/9

JWC Top 3/WS Top 24/SB Top 24 - guaranteed 1 GP but will probably get 2 - 2 out of 18 remaining spots
Kemp/Elizarov 1/23/24

JWC Top 3/WS Top 24/SB Top 75 - guaranteed 1 GP but will probably get 2 - 2 out of 16 remaining spots
Desrochers/Thrasher 2/21/35

SB Top 24 - guaranteed 1 GP but will probably get 2 - 2 out of 14 remaining spots
Plazas/Fernandez 22
Beccari/Guarise 23

WS Top 24 - guaranteed 1 GP, could get 2 - 3 out of 12 remaining spots
Vaipan-Law/Digby 15 (SB 25) - probably will get 2
Danilova/Tsiba 22 (SB 38) - probably will get 1

JWC Top 3/SB Top 75 - included in Selection Pool - 1 out of 9 remaining spots
Herrera/Khobta - probably will get 1

Host Spots - 5 out of 8 remaining spots
SkAm - 2 TBD
SCI - probably none held unless there are some pairs teams that form soon that show promise
CoC - none
GPdF - 3 TBD
NHK - none
Finlandia - none

SB Top 75 - included in Selection Pool (minimum total score = 136.99 - only Top 51 have achieved that score) - marked through the age-ineligible teams from the junior ranks as well as teams likely to remain junior next season - 3 to GP host fed teams out of 5 remaining
Kovalev/Kovalev 26 - will get 1 GP outside of GPdF
Guo/Zhang 27
Faula/Belle 28 - will get 1 GP outside of GPdF
Zhang/Feng 29
Izzo/Maierhofer 30
Valesi/Bidar 31
Holichenko/Darenskyi 32
Liu/Bedard 33 - will get 1 GP outside of GPdF
Caldara/Maglio 34
Gunnarsdottir/Piazza 36
Flores/Wang 37
Williams/Lewer 40
Ryom/Han 41
Chen/Dong 42
Schaller/Mayr 43
Wessenberg/Strekalin 44
Roscher/Schuster 45
Quattrochi/Lacasse 46
Jarmoc/Witkowski 47
Moss/Galbavy 48
Ehrhard/Pellegris 49
Gamez/Korovin 50
Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore 51

Ultimately - both Les Kovs & Faula/Belle will wind up with 2 GPs since they'll get GPdF if no other spots open up for them to fill before mid-September.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Did Poland already say they’re going to retire? I barely got to know them.

 

[Karen-W]

Did Poland already say they’re going to retire? I barely got to know them.

No, they haven't decided. I did have them penciled in, yesterday, as likely to retire based on her reaction when they finished their FS, but their comments in the Mixed zone afterward have made me reevaluate that notion. I'll edit my post based on them probably staying in at least one more season - especially since she has Swiss citizenship and Euros are in Lausanne next year.

 

[Karen-W]

While we have a few singles competitions left in April & May, none of those will impact the World Standings, so we can start really projecting GP assignments for next season.

Seeded/Invited - Guaranteed 2 GPs - 24 out of 72 spots - FYI, per the GP General Announcement, when skaters in the Top 12 at Worlds retire the skaters placed below them automatically move up to become seeded/invited skaters
Sakamoto
Chiba
Pinzarrone
Levito
Gutmann
Glenn (I know she hasn't announced anything, but I sincerely doubt she'll compete again)
Petrokina
Shin
Nakai
Gubanova
Everhardt
Samodelkina
H Lee
Karhunen

WS Top 24 (projected) & SB Top 24 - I've tentatively marked through the teams expected to retire/split - guaranteed 1 GP but probably will get 2 - 6 out of 48 remaining spots
Liu 1/4
Tennell 7/23 (I know she hasn't announced anything, but I sincerely doubt she'll compete again)
Watanabe 16/13
Aoki 21/6

JWC Top 3/WS Top 24/SB Top 24 - guaranteed 1 GP but will get 2 - 2 out of 42 remaining spots
Shimada 1/17/5

SB Top 24 - guaranteed 1 GP but will get 2 - 4 out of 40 remaining spots
Sumiyoshi 8
Petrosian 11
Bath 18
Hendrickx 20 (I know she hasn't announced anything, but I sincerely doubt she'll compete again)
Yj Kim 22
Oka 24

WS Top 24 - guaranteed 1 GP, could get 2 - 6 out of 36 remaining spots
Pezzetta 13 (SB 34)
Schild 18 (SB 40)
C Kim 19 (SB 42)
Yun 20 (SB 59)
Schizas 23 (SB 41)
Repond 24 (SB 66)

Host Spots - 15 out of 30 remaining spots
SkAm - von Felten (SB 38) & 1 TBD (Bonillo SB 52, Lin-Gracey SB 70)
SCI - Dupuis (SB 47), Daleman (SB 53) & 1 TBD (Ruiter SB 65, Landry SB 68, Kwon - waiting on int'l release)
CoC - R Zhang (SB 60) & 2 TBD
GPdF - Serna (SB 75) & 2 TBD
NHK - 2 TBD (Murakami SB 45, Yamashita SB 51, Wada SB 57, Yoshida SB 58)
Finlandia - Lisko (SB 28) & 1 TBD

SB Top 75 - included in Selection Pool - marked through the age-ineligible skaters from the junior ranks as well as retired/ineligible skaters - 12 out of 15 remaining spots
You 25 - will get 1 GP
Ys Kim 26 - will get 1 GP
Miyake 27 - will get 2 GPs
Lisko 28 - will get a 2nd GP aside from Finlandia
Okada 29
Andrews 30
Kanazawa 31
Shifrin 32
Matsuike 33 - will get 2 GPs
Pezzetta 34
A Lengyelova 36
Sauter 37 - will get 1 GP
von Felten 38 - will get a 2nd GP aside from SkAm
S Kim 39 - will get 1 GP
Schild 40 - will get a 2nd GP
Schizas 41 - will get a 2nd GP
C Kim 42
Dibbern 43
Huh 44
Murakami 45
Seniuk 46
Dupuis 47
Mikutina 48
Wang 49
Youn 50
Yamashita 51
Bonillo 52
Daleman 53
Gurgenidze 54
Safonova 55
Joos 56
Wada 57
Yoshida 58
Yun 59
R Zhang 60
Ezhova 61
Piredda 62
Shao 63
Hwang 64
Ruiter 65
Repond 66
Yakoleva 67
Landry 68
Tzimpoukakis 69
Lin-Gracey 70
Goidina 71
Chao 72
Kaljuvere 73
Kurakova 74
Serna 75

Ultimately - I'm on the fence about which 3 of Young You, Yuseong Kim, Anna Pezzetta and Chaeyeon Kim wind up with 2 GPs. I don't see the GP host feds going any further down the SB list below Chaeyeon (SB 42) to award any GP assignments apart from host fed spots. And, of course, any one or all three of Glenn, Tennell & Hendrickx could decide to go one more season and that will take away some of the spots I've tentatively assigned.

 

[haribobo]

Nice list- I would also include Megan Woodley and Reese Rose as potential SC host picks, and Sherry Zhang as a potential SA pick.

 

[Karen-W]

Nice list- I would also include Megan Woodley and Reese Rose as potential SC host picks, and Sherry Zhang as a potential SA pick.

I'm sure they're on the respective radars of the USFS and Skate Canada, but the same can be said if a lot of other zkaters/teams. I was just reminded in the Canadian Pairs thread that Bombardier/Mimar are still together. I basically just wanted to make sure to note which skaters in the SB Top 75 could be in the mix for GP host spots, not that ant host spots would go only to those skaters or no one else.