Officials for 2023/24 season

Andrea82 · Aug 10, 2023

ISU published the annual list of Referees, Judges, Technical Controllers, Technical Specialists, Data & Replay Operators valid for season 2023/24 in Communication number 2588

https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/31595-isu-communication-2588/file

As a reminder, based on the two qualifications (ISU and International), officials are allowed to judge in the different type of competitions.

Judges:

ISU level is needed to judge in ISU Championships (such as Senior Worlds, Europeans, 4 Continents and Junior Worlds), Grand Prix Final and Olympic Qualifying competition.
At Olympics, you need ISU level + having served twice in ISU Championships or Olympic Qualifying competition.
A recently introduced requirement for serving in Pairs panels at ISU Championships and Olympics is that the judge should have already served in Pairs in previous ISU Championships or having served (with a satisfactory evaluation) in in at least one International Competition and one ISU Event in Pairs during the 48 months preceding the draw.
For Senior GPs stages, Junior GPs stages, Challenger Series events and other International competition, international qualification is enough.

Technical controllers and specialists:

ISU level is needed for ISU Championships, GP Final, Senior and Junior GPs.
In Challenger Series events, at least two members of technical panel should have ISU qualification.
International level allows to judge in B international competitions.

Referees:

ISU level is needed ISU Championships, GP Final and Senior GPs.
International level allows to serve as referee in Junior GPs, Challenger Series and other international competitions.

Andrea82 · Aug 10, 2023

I tried to check the changes compared to last season.

Preliminary admission:

a) I may have missed or misallocated something….eyes started to get confused while cross-checking two long files full of names
b) ISU may have done some mistakes too (I already spotted one)

Note

a) Examinations for new technical controllers and specialists were not held this year. Hence, the lack of promotion or new names.

b) Examinations for promotion to ISU judges will take place during Nebelhorn Trophy

Single and Pairs Judges

New International

Katrina Harburn (Australia)
Elizabeth Henningsen (Australia)
Sarah Coombs (Canada)
Genevieve Rosa (Canada)
Jinyi Hu (China)
Marjo Pesonen (Finland)
Isabelle Perolini (France) *
Ulrich Schmieder (Germany)
Alice Caverzaghi (Italy)
Marco Cicala (Italy)
Ando Yoko (Japan)
Regina Shamshilova (Kazakhstan)
Sylvia Bart (Netherlands)
Jorge Ormaeche (Perù)

Retired/delated
Janice Hunter (Canada)
Xixia Liu (China)
Tomislav Cizmesija (Croatia)
Sanja Amsel (Croatia)
Vera Kvarcakova (Czech Republic)
Miluse Safrankova (Czech Republic)
Elisabeth Louesdon (France)
Isabelle Degoutte (France) * I won’t be surprised if the delated Madame Isabelle Degoutte is the added Madame Isabelle Perolini after marriage/divorce.
Karen Archer (Great Britain)
Michelle Collett (Great Britain)
Brigitte Thiele (Germany)
Dagmar Lurz-Prott (Germany)
Corinna Gundlach (Germany)
Daniela Cavelli (Italy)
Masako Kubota (Japan)
Yuri Guskov (Kazakhstan)
Young Kyung Han (South Korea)
Hea Kyung Kim (South Korea)
Mona Adolfsen (Norway)
Malgorzata Sobkow (Poland)
Christiane Miles (Switzerland)
Rada Lamsam (Thailand)
Natalya Khakimova (Uzbekistan)

Demoted from ISU to International

Guangying Qin (China)
Nikolai Salnikov (Estonia) * this is the one who got drunk at JGP Egna 2019 and was suspended for two years.
Tuire Kuronen (Finland)
Andrea Gmelin (Romania)
Kveta Matejova (Slovakia)

Change of ISU member
Viktoria Sachkova; from Belarus to Poland

Single and Pairs Referees

Promoted to ISU level
Tatiana Yordanova (Bulgaria)
Nicole LeBlanc-Richard (Canada)
Agnieszka Swiderska (Poland)
Katarina Grof Mitrovic (Serbia)
Emilie Billow (Sweden)

New International
Tobias Steindl (Austria)
Jeff Lukasik (Canada)
Andrew Bosco (Canada)
Glenn Fortin (Canada)
Pernilla Böhling (Finland)
Angelika Ullm (Germany)
Eva Szilagyi (Hungary)

Ice Dance judges

New International
Hilary Quick (Canada)
Ge Gao (China)
Amélie Zanzola (France)
Meike Hammer (Germany)
Liam Meanwell (Great Britain)
Espen Rotterud (Norway)
Mary-Elizabeth Wightman (USA)
Philipp Rey (USA) * Philipp Rey is now both Technical Specialist and Judge. I must check but he may be the first just like Julia Rey is the first to be both Technical Specialist and Technical Controller.

Retired/delated
Janice Hunter (Canada)
Brigitte Wendt (Germany) * But she has not been dropped from Single & Pair list
Garry Hoppe (Great Britain)
Yuri Guskov (Kazakhstan)
Malgorzata Sobkow (Poland)
Alexei Soutchkov (Russia)

Ice Dance Referees

New ISU
Christian Baumann (Germany)
Janis Engel (USA)

New International
Sabrina Wong (Canada)
Stephen Fernandez (Great Britain)

Andrea82 · Aug 10, 2023

TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS

Single

Retired/delated

Yvonne Bokjanc (Austria)
Edgar Escuer (Spain)
Kristel Ojasaar (Estonia)
Asdis Ros Clark (Iceland)
Ricardo Olavarrieta (Mexico)
Mariusz Siudek (Poland)
Jason Dungjen (USA)

Demoted from ISU to International

Maksim Shipov (Israel)
Tunca Unlu (Turkey)

Pairs

Retired/delated

Jason Dungjen (USA)

Demoted from ISU to International

Mariusz Siudek (Poland)

Ice Dance

Demoted from ISU to International

Doreen Hoppe (Great Britain)
Arne Bayer (Germany)

Change of ISU member

Anna Krytskaya (from Belarus to Poland)

AngieNikodinovLove (ANL) · Aug 11, 2023

Is Jason done being involved?

What causes a demotion such as for Mariusz

Andrea82 · Aug 11, 2023

2 of the new Single and Pair judges were among the 9 who didn't pass the exams last year. And 1 is from those who didn't pass the exam in 2019 (6 didn't pass the exam that year and 2 passed it in 2021 and 1 this year).
IIRC they have 3 attempts. If they fail 3 times, they can't try anymore.

Tobias Steindl is progression fast. Passed the International examination in 2019. Became ISU level in 2022 and International referee in 2023.

AngieNikodinovLove said:
What causes a demotion such as for Mariusz

Demotions can be due to
a) lack of service. For ISU technical specialists, it is 2 international competitions or 1 ISU event/Challenger + 1 national competitions in the 24 months preceding the nomination.
b) lack of attendance of seminar/webinar for re-appointment in the 24 months preceding the nomination
c) negative assessment for serious mistakes during competitions. But you need to get Assessment 3 (so third negative assessment) to get demoted.

Siudek satisfies point a) (Skate America 2021 and Tayside Trophy 2021 and 2022).
It is probably due to not having attended the re-appointment seminar. In those cases, once they attend it, they are restored to their previous position.

AngieNikodinovLove said:
Is Jason done being involved?

Probably. He was already demoted from ISU to International level for lack of service/seminar a couple of years ago.

5Ali3 · Aug 12, 2023

Andrea82 said:
Single and Pairs Judges

New International
Isabelle Perolini (France) *

Retired/delated
Isabelle Degoutte (France) * I won’t be surprised if the delated Madame Isabelle Degoutte is the added Madame Isabelle Perolini after marriage/divorce.

Oui oui, c'est la même personne!

Andrea82 · Aug 13, 2023

Andrea82 said:
Ice Dance judges

New International

Espen Rotterud (Norway)

I can't edit my original post anymore but I actually missed his surname: it is Mr. Espen Rotterud Runas.

And I also forgot to add one new international Ice Dance judge:
Albert Saadi (Monaco). He became an international Single and Pair judge last year and now also for Ice Dance.

Andrea82 · Aug 25, 2023

NEW ISU Communication (No. 2589) bans ISU Member Vice-President, Director General, General Secretary, CEO, Executive Director, Sport Director or equivalent from serving as judges in any ISU Championships, any ISU Senior Grand Prix event, ISU Grand Prix Final Junior and Senior, Winter Youth Olympic Games, or Olympic Winter Games during the entire time of his or her elected/appointed period of service.

ISU Member Presidents were already prohibited (Communication No. 2265). All those positions were already not allowed to serve in technical panels and referees.
They previously forgot to add them to point 2.2 too.

The potentially affected people (if information on ISU Members section on ISU website are up to date...which is probably a big IF...) are

Austria
General Secretary: Ms Katharina Rauch
Georgia
General Secretary: Ms Salome Chigogidze
Iceland
General Secretary: Mrs. Maria Fortescue (but she is only international judge. So she is affected eventually only for GP series)
Mexico
General Secretary: Mrs. Ariadna Morones Negrete
Peru
Director General: Mr. Jorge Ormaeche Herrera (but he is only international judge. So he is affected eventually only for GP series)
Ukraine
General Secretary: Mrs. Anastasiya Makarova

Maybe (if they consider technical director as an "equivalent" of some of those positions)
Andorra
Technical Director: Mr. David Muñoz (Ice Dance judge for Spain)

Andrea82 · Oct 4, 2023

Results of the examinations to be promoted from International to ISU judge held two weeks ago in Oberstdorf

SINGLE AND PAIRS

Promoted to ISU level (those who can judge at ISU Championships and Olympics*)

Patricia Moritz (Australia)
Antony Grevisse (Belgium)
Andrew Bosco (Canada)
Laura Carr (Canada)
Glenn Fortin (Canada)
Margery Hilko (Ireland) * First ISU judge for Ireland
Greonne Bol (Netherlands)
Steven Hsu (USA)

Delaetion from International judges list
Rahel Schmid-Gottschall (Switzerland) * Resigned

ICE DANCE

Promoted to ISU level (those who can judge at ISU Championships and Olympics*)

Aseniya Stratieva (Austria)
Patty Klein (Canada)
Clément Perrigouard (France)
Natacha Pontonnier (France)

Delaetion from International judges list
Sara Seitz (Serbia) * Deceased

* to serve at Olympic Games, they also need to have officiate in 2 ISU Championship/Qualifying Competition for the Olympic Games.

MacMadame · Oct 4, 2023

Andrea82 said:
Delation

I assume this should be Deletion as Delation means to accuse someone.

Andrea82 · Oct 4, 2023

MacMadame said:
I assume this should be Deletion as Delation means to accuse someone.

Yes, sorry. I meant deleted.

Andrea82 · Oct 10, 2023

ISU Championships draw by country

https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/32133-isu-communication-2594/file

Senior Worlds

Men
Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Spain, France, Israel, South Korea, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey

Women
Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, USA

Pairs
Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Ukraine, USA

Ice Dance
Australia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia

Europeans

Men
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Poland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine

Women
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Great Britain, Georgia, Greece, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Pairs
Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Ukraine

Dance
Czech Republic, Finland, France, Great Britain, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Switzerland ,Slovakia, Ukraine

Four Continents

Men
Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, USA

Women
Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Taiwan, USA, Uzbekistan

Pairs
Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, New Zealand, Slovakia, USA

Ice Dance:
Australia, Canada, China, Spain, Great Britain, Japan, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Slovakia, USA

Junior Worlds

Men
China, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Georgia, Japan, South Korea, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Taiwan, Ukraine

Women
Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden

Pairs
Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Sweden, Ukraine, USA

Ice Dance
Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

Andrea82 · Oct 24, 2023

Winter Youth Olympic Games draw

https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/32290-isu-communication-2599/file

Men
Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, Slovakia + Australia, China, USA from the Pair panel

Women
Australia, China, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, Israel, Taiwan + Canada and Spain from Pair panel

Pair
Australia, Canada, China, Spain, USA + Israel and Taiwan from Women panel + Japan and Slovakia from Men panel

Ice Dance
Canada, China, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Ukraine, USA

Andrea82 · Dec 22, 2023

Douglas Williams (USA) is found guilty of national bias for his scoring of Levito, Glenn and Tennell at 2023 Worlds. However, he wasn't found guilty of systematically under-marking their competitors.
So he gets away with just a warning, also because he didn't get previous warnings (unlike some of the judges who were recently suspended who had already had previous warnings for their judging).

https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/32839-case-2023-03-isu-v-d-williams-final-decision/file

His level of self-esteem is quite something: The Alleged Offender, in the Statement of Response prepared on his behalf, describes himself as “one of the finest examples of a skating official that the ISU system has ever and could ever produce”.

skatingguy · Dec 22, 2023

Andrea82 said:
His level of self-esteem is quite something: The Alleged Offender, in the Statement of Response prepared on his behalf, describes himself as “one of the finest examples of a skating official that the ISU system has ever and could ever produce”.

If true it's quite the indictment of the system.

Andrea82 · Dec 23, 2023

skatingguy said:
If true it's quite the indictment of the system.

It was actually conterproductive
However, the present case is distinguishable. Mr Williams is an experienced Judge. In his own submission, he is “one of the finest examples of a skating official that the ISU system has ever and could ever produce”. He has undertaken numerous ISU assignments, been involved in training other Judges, and nationally in positions of governance. This submitted standard of experience, knowledge and skill implies that the potential for mistakes (regarding number and severity) is significantly reduced, compared to the above-mentioned case.

(the above-mentioned case was the Hungarian judge Akos Pethes at 2022 Euros for Pairs, who argued successfully that he wasn't biased but just that he didn't have a clue on how to judge pair elements).

Andrea82 · Dec 29, 2023

Some turn of the year stats

I start with Ice Dance.

82% of the ISU judges served in at least one international competition this season (counting also those serving as technical controllers). It raises to 89.6% not counting Russian judges who can't officiate internationally.

Country	Status	With service	No Service	Total judges
Australia	ISU	3	1	4
Austria	ISU	2	0	2
Azerbaijan	ISU	1	0	1
Bulgaria	ISU	1	0	1
Canada	ISU	10	0	10
China	ISU	1	2	3
Cyprus	ISU	1	0	1
Czech Republic	ISU	3	0	3
Estonia	ISU	1	0	1
Finland	ISU	2	1	3
France	ISU	6	0	6
Georgia	ISU	2	0	2
Germany	ISU	7	0	7
Great Britain	ISU	5	1	6
Hungary	ISU	6	0	6
Israel	ISU	1	0	1
Italy	ISU	5	1	6
Japan	ISU	2	0	2
Kazakhstan	ISU	1	0	1
Lithuania	ISU	1	0	1
Netherlands	ISU	1	0	1
New Zealand	ISU	1	0	1
Poland	ISU	3	0	3
Russia	ISU	0	9	9
Slovakia	ISU	2	0	2
South Korea	ISU	2	0	2
Spain	ISU	1	1	2
Switzerland	ISU	1	2	3
Turkey	ISU	1	0	1
USA	ISU	11	0	11
Ukraine	ISU	2	1	3
		86	19	105

Among judges with international qualification, the activity rate is 66%. It raises to 75.5% not counting officials from Russia and Belarus.

Country	Status	With service	No Service	Total judges
Australia	INT	3	1	4
Austria	INT	2	1	3
Belarus	INT	0	2	2
Canada	INT	4	0	4
China	INT	4	2	6
Czech Republic	INT	3	0	3
Denmark	INT	0	1	1
Estonia	INT	2	0	2
Finland	INT	1	0	1
France	INT	4	1	5
Germany	INT	3	2	5
Great Britain	INT	1	2	3
Israel	INT	1	0	1
Italy	INT	2	0	2
Japan	INT	1	1	2
Monaco	INT	1	0	1
Norway	INT	1	0	1
Russia	INT	0	5	5
Turkey	INT	1	0	1
USA	INT	3	0	3
Ukraine	INT	0	1	1
		37	19	56

Most active judge:
Olena Lisova (Ukraine) showing up in 7 competitions: JGP Istanbul, JGP Gdansk, Budapest Trophy, Mezzaluna Cup, Denis Ten Memorial, Pavel Roman Memorial, Bosphorus Cup
Then Irina Medvedieva (Ukraine) and Vladimir Cuchran (Slovakia) with 6 events.
Most active technical controller: Halina Gordon-Poltorak (Poland): Lombardia Trophy, Nepala Trophy, Finlandia Trophy, Mezzaluna Cup, Denis Ten Memorial.
On top of that, she also has 3 appearances as judge/referee: Autumn Classic (Judge), Cup of China (Judge) and Warsaw Cup (Referee).

Turning the attention to technical specialists, 77.8% of those with ISU qualification served in at least one international competition so far this season (84.8% not counting Russians. And Elek who can't serve since he is sitting on ISU Council).
Onlu 42% of those with international qualification served in one international competitions this season (47% without Russians). However, it is worth to remember that international technical specialists don't need service in international competitions to keep their status, it is enough serving in 2 national competitions in the previous 24 months.

Country	Status	With service	No Service	Total judges
Australia	ISU	2	1	3
Azerbaijan	ISU	1	0	1
Canada	ISU	2	1	3
Finland	ISU	1	0	1
France	ISU	1	0	1
Germany	ISU	2	0	2
Great Britain	ISU	1	1	2
Hungary	ISU	0	1	1
Israel	ISU	1	0	1
Italy	ISU	2	1	3
Japan	ISU	2	0	2
Netherlands	ISU	1	0	1
Poland	ISU	3	1	4
Russia	ISU	0	2	2
Slovakia	ISU	2	0	2
South Korea	ISU	1	0	1
USA	ISU	3	0	3
Ukraine	ISU	3	0	3
		28	8	36
Country	Status	With service	No Service	Total judges
Australia	INT	1	1	2
Belarus	INT	0	1	1
Canada	INT	2	0	2
France	INT	1	2	3
Great Britain	INT	0	1	1
Hungary	INT	0	1	1
Italy	INT	1	2	3
Japan	INT	0	1	1
Russia	INT	0	1	1
Slovakia	INT	1	0	1
Sweden	INT	1	0	1
Turkey	INT	1	0	1
USA	INT	0	1	1
		8	11	19

Marie-Louise Gijtenbeek was the most active TS: JGP Bangkok, Nebelhorn Trophy, Finlandia Trophy, Denis Ten Memorial, Cup of China.
Olga Akimova is at 4 panels: JGP Gdanks, Swiss Ice Open, NRW Trophy and Bosphorus Cup.

12 competitors with Ice Dance are left in the calendar:
4 ISU Championships (only ISU judges and TS allowed to serve)
Winter Youth Games (only ISU judges and TS allowed to serve)
7 International competitions (Ephesus Cup, Bavarian Open, Egna Trophy, Nordics, Challenge Cup, Maria Olszewska Memorial, Oceania International Competition)

kwanfan1818 · Dec 30, 2023

Thank you so much, @Andrea82 , for all of the work you do to keep us informed :cheer2:

Andrea82 · Dec 30, 2023

Among Single and Pairs judge, 191 out of ISU 242 served as judges, referees or technical controllers in at least one international competition this season. That’s 79% of them. Not counting Russians, Belarussians and Benoit Levoie (ISU Vice-presidence), it raises to 84%

Country	Status	With service	No service	% service
Australia	ISU	10	3	77
Austria	ISU	8	1	89
Azerbajian	ISU	1	0	100
Belarus	ISU	0	2	0
Belgium	ISU	2	0	100
Bulgaria	ISU	2	0	100
Canada	ISU	16	3	84
China	ISU	5	4	56
Croatia	ISU	3	0	100
Czech Republic	ISU	5	1	83
Denmark	ISU	2	1	67
Estonia	ISU	2	0	100
Finland	ISU	8	1	89
France	ISU	6	0	100
Georgia	ISU	1	0	100
Germany	ISU	12	5	71
Great Britain	ISU	7	2	78
Greece	ISU	2	0	100
Hong Kong	ISU	2	0	100
Hungary	ISU	5	1	83
Ireland	ISU	1	0	100
Israel	ISU	2	0	100
Italy	ISU	7	3	70
Japan	ISU	7	0	100
Kazakhstan	ISU	1	0	100
Latvia	ISU	1	0	100
Lithuania	ISU	1	0	100
Mexico	ISU	2	0	100
Netherlands	ISU	7	0	100
New Zealand	ISU	2	0	100
Norway	ISU	3	0	100
Poland	ISU	5	0	100
Romania	ISU	2	0	100
Russia	ISU	0	11	0
Serbia	ISU	3	2	60
Slovakia	ISU	3	0	100
Slovenia	ISU	3	3	50
South Africa	ISU	0	1	0
South Korea	ISU	4	1	80
Spain	ISU	3	0	100
Sweden	ISU	6	0	100
Switzerland	ISU	5	2	71
Taipei	ISU	2	1	67
Turkey	ISU	3	0	100
USA	ISU	16	1	94
Ukraine	ISU	2	2	50
Uzbekistan	ISU	1	0	100
		191	51	79

139 out of the 210 judges with international qualification have served at least once this season in an international competition. That’s 66% of them. It became 71% not considering officials from Russia and Belarus.

Country	Status	With service	No service	% service
Andorra	INT	1	0	100
Australia	INT	5	4	56
Austria	INT	4	5	44
Belarus	INT	0	3	0
Belgium	INT	1	0	100
Bulgaria	INT	2	0	100
Canada	INT	10	1	91
China	INT	4	3	57
Croatia	INT	1	0	100
Czech Republic	INT	5	1	83
Denmark	INT	3	0	100
Estonia	INT	2	1	67
Finland	INT	1	3	25
France	INT	8	3	73
Georgia	INT	1	0	100
Germany	INT	8	7	53
Great Britain	INT	1	0	100
Hong Kong	INT	0	1	0
Hungary	INT	3	0	100
Iceland	INT	1	1	50
Ireland	INT	1	0	100
Italy	INT	8	3	73
Japan	INT	8	6	57
Kazakhstan	INT	2	0	100
Latvia	INT	1	0	100
Lithuania	INT	2	1	67
Luxembourg	INT	1	0	100
Malaysia	INT	1	0	100
Mexico	INT	1	0	100
Monaco	INT	1	0	100
Netherlands	INT	4	0	100
North Korea	INT	0	1	0
Norway	INT	2	2	50
Perù	INT	1	0	100
Poland	INT	8	1	89
Romania	INT	2	1	67
Russia	INT	0	10	0
Serbia	INT	1	0	100
Slovakia	INT	3	1	75
Slovenia	INT	2	1	67
South Africa	INT	1	0	100
South Korea	INT	4	3	57
Spain	INT	2	1	67
Sweden	INT	3	0	100
Switzerland	INT	6	0	100
Thailand	INT	1	0	100
Turkey	INT	4	6	40
USA	INT	7	1	88
Ukraine	INT	1	0	100
		139	71	66

Most active judge/referee

Tatiana Yordanova (Bulgaria) 8 (JGP Linz, JGP Istanbul, Jelgava Cup, Tayside Trophy, Denis Ten Memorial, Tallin Trophy, Bosphorus Cup, Edusport Trophy). She was at Denkova-Staviski Cup as Technical controller.

Yurii Kliushnikov (Azerbjian) 7 (JGP Linz, Jelgava Cup, Skate America, Denis Ten Memorial, GP Espoo, Bosphorus Cup, Latvia Trophy)

Eva Szlaguyi (Hungary) 6 (JGP Budapest, Diamond Spin, Tayside Trophy, Skate Canada, Santa Claus Cup, EduSport Trophy). She was also at Nepala Memorial and Tallinn Trophy as TC.

Nadezhda Paretskaya (Kazakhstan) 6 (Asia Open, JGP Bangkok, JGP Osaka, Skate Canada, Cup of China, Bosphorus Cup)

Agita Abele (Latvia) 6 (JGP Linz, JGP Istanbul, Jelgava Cup, Skate America, Volvo Cup, Latvia Trophy)

Irina Komoranicka (Latvia) 6 (JGP Istanbul, JGP Gdansk, Kaunas Ice Autumn Cup, Volvo Cup, NHK Trophy, Latvia Trophy)

Slobdona Delic (Serbia) 6 (Finlandia Trophy, Tirnavia Ice Cup, Volvo Cup, Denkova-Staviski Cup, Santa Claus Cup, Golden Spin)

Irina Medvdeva (Ukraine) 6 (JGP Linz, Nepala Memorial, Budapest Trophy, Denkova-Staviski Cup, Warsaw Cup, Grand Prix Final)

Most active Single technical controllers:

Attilla Soos (Hungary): JGP Bangkok, Budapest Trophy, Tirnavia Ice Cup, Volvo Cup, NHK Trophjy

Oksana Dolhopolova (Ukraine): Nepela Memorial, Tirnavia Ice Cup, Tallinn Trophy, Santa Claus Cup, Latvia Trophy

Eva Szilagyi (Hungary): Nepala Memorial, Diamond Spin, Edusport Trophy and Tallin Trophy

Hermi Ottemann (Netherlands): Nebelhorn Trophy, NRW Trophy, Tayside Trophy, Grand Prix Final

Katarina Grof Mitrovic (Serbia): Budapest Trophy, Skate Celjie, Denkova-Staviski Cup, Bosphorus Cup.

Most active Pairs technical controllers:

Anna Sierocka (Poland): Diamond Spin, Warsaw Cup, Grand Prix Final

Daniel Delfa (Spain): JGP Budapest, Trophée Nice, Grand Prix Espoo

Andrea82 · Dec 31, 2023

Single technical specialists. 76 "ISU" and 22 "International" have been active internationally this season. Excluding specialists from Russia and Belarus and those not able to serve because of roles within ISU (Bianconi), that's respectively 78% and 44% of the totals.

Country	Status	With service	No service	%
Australia	ISU	4	0	100
Belarus	ISU	0	1	0
Belgium	ISU	2	0	100
Bulgaria	ISU	1	0	100
Canada	ISU	4	2	67
Croatia	ISU	2	0	100
Czech Republic	ISU	1	1	50
Denmark	ISU	1	0	100
Estonia	ISU	0	1	0
Finland	ISU	3	0	100
France	ISU	2	1	67
Germany	ISU	4	1	80
Great Britain	ISU	1	3	25
Hong Kong	ISU	1	1	50
Hungary	ISU	4	0	100
Israel	ISU	1	0	100
Italy	ISU	4	1	80
Japan	ISU	5	1	83
Latvia	ISU	2	1	67
Mexico	ISU	2	0	100
Netherlands	ISU	1	1	50
Norway	ISU	3	0	100
Poland	ISU	2	0	100
Romania	ISU	2	0	100
Russia	ISU	0	7	0
Serbia	ISU	1	0	100
Slovakia	ISU	3	0	100
Slovenia	ISU	1	2	33
South Africa	ISU	1	0	100
South Korea	ISU	2	0	100
Spain	ISU	1	1	50
Sweden	ISU	2	1	67
Switzerland	ISU	2	1	67
Turkey	ISU	2	0	100
USA	ISU	5	3	63
Ukbekistan	ISU	2	0	100
Ukraine	ISU	2	1	67
		76	31	71

Country	Status	With service	No service	%
Australia	INT	2	2	50
Austria	INT	2	2	50
Bulgaria	INT	1	0	100
Canada	INT	1	1	50
China	INT	1	0	100
Denmark	INT	0	2	0
Estonia	INT	1	0	100
France	INT	1	1	50
Germany	INT	2	5	29
Great Britain	INT	4	0	100
Hungary	INT	1	0	100
Israel	INT	1	1	50
Italy	INT	1	2	33
Japan	INT	1	1	50
Lithuania	INT	0	1	0
Malaysia	INT	0	1	0
Netherlands	INT	0	1	0
Poland	INT	1	0	100
Russia	INT	0	1	0
Serbia	INT	0	1	0
Slovakia	INT	1	0	100
South Korea	INT	0	3	0
Spain	INT	0	1	0
Switzerland	INT	1	0	100
Taipei	INT	0	1	0
Turkey	INT	0	1	0
Ukraine	INT	0	1	0
		22	29	43

Most active callers
Artem Knyazev: Jelgava Cup, Kaunas Ice Autumn Cup, Tirnavia Ice Cup, Volvo Cup, Warsaw Cup, Tallinn Trophy, Latvia Trophy
Olga Baronova: Jelgava Cup, JGP Yerevan, Kaunas Ice Autumn Cup,Volvo Cup, Tallinn Trophy, Latvia Trophy
Monika Wagner Kustinova: Nebelhorn Trophy, JGP Gdansk, Finlandia Trophy, NRW Trophy, Tallinn Trophy

Andrea82 · Mar 18, 2024

ISU Code of Ethics
When appointing the members of the Technical Panel and the Referees for ISU Senior Championships, whenever possible, there shall be no appointments of Officials from ISU Members whose Skaters can reasonably be expected to place 1 – 5 in the respective discipline. In case this is not possible, all members of the Technical Panel and the Referee for the respective discipline shall, whenever possible, be from ISU Members whose Skater(s) can reasonably be expected to place 1 – 5 in the respective discipline at the ISU Championships concerned.

Montreal Worlds panels

Ice Dance:
Referee: USA
Tech controller: Great Britain
Tech specialists: Canada and Italy

So here is the top 5 are represented...

Women
Referee: Canada
Tech controller: Finland
Tech specialists: Switzerland and Sweden

Ok, here it can make sense

Men
Referee: France
Tech controller: Japan
Tech specialists: USA and Korea

Here is another panel matching 2023 top 5

Pairs
Referee: Great Britain
Tech controller: Netherlands
Tech specialists: Australia (Cain) and Germany (Koenig)

I was saying "how has USA got appointed here?" but then I remembered Cain is still representing Australia.
This is a case of early appointments based on previous seasons not matching the new reality by the time of Worlds. Appointments were done this summer and Hase/Volodin weren't a thing back then.

Andrea82 · Mar 24, 2024

Andrea82 said:
Some turn of the year stats

I start with Ice Dance.

Ice Dance international season is finished. Remaining events don't have Ice Dance.

Out of 161 Ice Dance judges, 130 served in at least one international competition this season (counting also those who served only as technical controllers as service in TC counts as service for judges).
Not counting Russian and Belarus officials, it is a 89.6% service rate.
Those without service include 5 ISU judges (Zhang, Saarelainen, Leonard, Brecht and Makarova) and 10 international judges (Mautner, Degl, Ren, Yao, Pedersen, Duprez, Frieder Dieck, Lucas, Barker and Kagayama).

Most active judges? Olena Lisova (Ukraine), Irina Medvedieva (Ukraine) and Katarzyna Szawarejko (Poland) served in 9 competitions, Yurii Kliushnikov (Azerbaijan) and Vladimir Cochran (Slovakia) served in 8 events.
Among the new international judges promoted last summer, the most active has been Albert Saadi from Monaco who was present in 4 competitions. Two of the new judges got a GP assignment in their first season: Saadi (at GP France) and Espen Runas Rotterud of Norway (at GP Finland). If you don't have skaters, geographical proximity helps...

A couple of those without service haven't been seen since 2019. Because of Covid pandemic, ISU relaxed the fulfillment of the service requirement (one competition in previous 36 months) to be re-appointed. Now that this should be back, I guess some of them will be retired.

country	Judges	ISU Judges with service (incl TC)	International Judges with service (incl TC)	No service

Australia	8	4	3	1
Austria	5	2	2	1
Azerbaijan	1	1		0
Belarus	2		0	2
Bulgaria	1	1		0
Canada	14	10	4	0
China	9	2	4	3
Cyprus	1	1		0
Czech Republic	6	3	3	0
Denmark	1		0	1
Estonia	3	1	2	0
Finland	4	2	1	1
France	11	6	4	1
Georgia	2	2		0
Germany	12	7	3	2
Great Britain	9	5	2	2
Hungary	6	6		0
Israel	2	1	1	0
Italy	8	6	2	0
Japan	4	2	1	1
Kazakhstan	1	1		0
Lithuania	1	1		0
Monaco	1		1
Netherlands	1	1		0
New Zealand	1	1		0
Norway	1		1	0
Poland	3	3		0
Russia	14	0	0	14
Slovakia	2	2		0
South Korea	2	2		0
Spain	2	2		0
Switzerland	3	2		1
Turkey	2	1	1	0
USA	14	11	3	0
Ukraine	4	2	1	1
Total	161	91	39	31

As for technical specialists, 40 out of 55 called in at least one international competition this season. Not counting Russian and Belarusian specialists, it is a 80% service rate.
3 ISU (Margaglio, Senft, Bouranov) and 7 international specialists weren't active internationally this season. However, for re-appointment, international specialists can use national competition to fulfill the service requirement.

Most active? By far, Marie Louise Gijtenbeek (Netherlands) who was in 8 panels. Then we have go down to 4 events for Lyapina, Blum, Grincova, Kika and Akimova.

country	TS	ISU TS with service	International TS with service	No service

Australia	5	2	1	2
Azerbaijan	1	1		0
Belarus	1		0	1
Canada	5	2	2	1
Finland	1	1		0
France	4	1	2	1
Germany	2	2		0
Great Britain	3	2	0	1
Hungary	2	0	0	2
Israel	1	1		0
Italy	6	2	2	2
Japan	3	2	0	1
Netherlands	1	1		0
Poland	4	4		0
Russia	3	0	0	3
Slovakia	3	2	1	0
South Korea	1	1		0
Sweden	1		1	0
Turkey	1		1	0
USA	4	3	0	1
Ukraine	3	3		0
	55	30	10	15

skatingguy · Mar 24, 2024

We've talked about what the ISU might do, or not do about entries for Russia when/if they return to international competition, but we haven't talked about judges/officials. Given the ISU rules regarding activity if the Russians don't return before the end of next season than all their judges/officials will be beyond 36 months of activity, and would be considered retired. I'm assuming there's a process for recertification.

peibeck · Mar 24, 2024

skatingguy said:
I'm assuming there's a process for recertification.

Andrea82 · Mar 24, 2024

skatingguy said:
We've talked about what the ISU might do, or not do about entries for Russia when/if they return to international competition, but we haven't talked about judges/officials. Given the ISU rules regarding activity if the Russians don't return before the end of next season than all their judges/officials will be beyond 36 months of activity, and would be considered retired. I'm assuming there's a process for recertification.

If they apply to them the rules as they are now, their ISU judges would be demoted to International status. And International judges would be delated.

Andrea82 · 2024-04-27T16:18:09+0100

skatingguy said:
We've talked about what the ISU might do, or not do about entries for Russia when/if they return to international competition, but we haven't talked about judges/officials. Given the ISU rules regarding activity if the Russians don't return before the end of next season than all their judges/officials will be beyond 36 months of activity, and would be considered retired. I'm assuming there's a process for recertification.

Taking advantage of the afternoon's rain...if ISU go back in implementing the service requirements for re-appointments, the judges who would fall fools of the requirement of Rule 414-Point B ("have served, during the thirty-six months preceding July 31st of the calendar year of the nomination, as a Referee, Judge, Trial Judge, or Technical Controller in at least one International Competition (as per Rule 411, paragraph 9.b). are the followings (so no international service in 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24):

Ice Dance
ISU
Tianyi Zhang (China)
International
Michael Degl (Austria)
Hongguo Ren (China)
Sara Azoulay Pedersen (Denmark)
Jorn Lucas (Germany)
Maria Poskachey (Russia)

Single and Pairs
ISU
Alla Shekhovtseva (Russia)
International
Tara Mae O'Connor (Australia)
Alison Louise Ryan (Australia)
Guangying Qin (China)
Guona Zhao (China)
Nikolai Salnikov (Estonia)
Tuire Kuronen (Finland)
Melody Tan Tan Yip (Hong Kong)
Hye Yong Yun (North Korea)
Andreea Gmelin (Romania)
Galina Istomina (Russia)
Natalia Primachenko (Russia)
Kveta Matejova (Slovakia)

Qin, Salnikov, Kuronen, Gmelin and Matejova were all demoted from ISU to International level last summer because of lack of seminar attendance. I guess they are phasing out.
Some of them may be close to mandatory retirement (70 years). They were around at the beginning of IJS (Qin was on the Skate America 2003 panels, the first Senior GP with the new judging system). Qin (Men 2014), Salnikov (Pairs 2010 and 2014) and Matejova (Ladies 2018) judged at Olympic Games.

There are still 3 international competitions left this season for Single (Thailandia Open, Mexico Cup and Oceania International). The Australian and Asian judges without service may do the required service there (Thailand and Oceania comps).

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