The 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the 19th season of a series of junior international competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. At each event, skaters also earned points toward qualifying for the final. The top six skaters or teams from each discipline met at the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final, held together with the senior final.
Competitions The locations of the JGP events change yearly. In the 2015–16 season, the series was composed of the following events in autumn 2015:
Date Event Location Details Other notes August 19–23 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Slovakia Bratislava, Slovakia Details No pairs August 26–30 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Latvia Riga, Latvia Details September 2–6 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in the United States Colorado Springs, United States Details September 9–13 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Austria Linz, Austria Details September 23–27 2015 JGP Toruń Cup Toruń, Poland Details September 30 – October 4 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Spain Logroño, Spain Details No pairs October 7–11 2015 JGP Croatia Cup Zagreb, Croatia Details No pairs December 10–13 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final Barcelona, Spain Details Held with senior GPF
Qualifying Skaters who had reached the age of 13 before July 1, 2015 but had not turned 19 (singles and females of the other two disciplines) or 21 (male pair skaters and ice dancers) were eligible to compete on the junior circuit. Unlike the senior Grand Prix, skaters for the JGP are not seeded by the ISU. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member federation was determined by their skaters' placements in each discipline at the 2015 World Junior Championships.
Medalists Men Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details JGP Bratislava Roman Sadovsky Vincent Zhou Denis Margalik Details JGP Riga Cup Dmitri Aliev Deniss Vasiļjevs Alexei Krasnozhon Details JGP Colorado Springs Nathan Chen Daniel Samohin Sota Yamamoto Details JGP Cup of Austria Dmitri Aliev Vincent Zhou Ivan Pavlov Details JGP Toruń Cup Sota Yamamoto Deniss Vasiļjevs Roman Sadovsky Details JGP Logroño Nathan Chen Daniel Samohin Zhang He Details JGP Croatia Cup Alexander Samarin Nicolas Nadeau Tomoki Hiwatashi Details JGP Final Nathan Chen Dmitri Aliev Sota Yamamoto Details
Ladies Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details JGP Bratislava Polina Tsurskaya Mai Mihara Vivian Le Details JGP Riga Cup Maria Sotskova Kaori Sakamoto Choi Da-bin Details JGP Colorado Springs Yuna Shiraiwa Marin Honda Vivian Le Details JGP Cup of Austria Maria Sotskova Mai Mihara Choi Da-bin Details JGP Toruń Cup Polina Tsurskaya Ekaterina Mitrofanova Rin Nitaya Details JGP Logroño Yuna Shiraiwa Alisa Fedichkina Yura Matsuda Details JGP Croatia Cup Marin Honda Wakaba Higuchi Diana Pervushkina Details JGP Final Polina Tsurskaya Maria Sotskova Marin Honda Details
Pairs Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details JGP Riga Cup Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei Anastasia Poluianova / Stepan Korotkov Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Details JGP Colorado Springs Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez Elena Ivanova / Tagir Khakimov Details JGP Cup of Austria Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei Details JGP Toruń Cup Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov Details JGP Final Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov Details
Ice dance Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details JGP Bratislava Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko Details JGP Riga Cup Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin Details JGP Colorado Springs Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter Mackenzie Bent / Dmitre Razgulajevs Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov Details JGP Cup of Austria Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge Details JGP Toruń Cup Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin Details JGP Logroño Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit Details JGP Croatia Cup Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko Details JGP Final Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons Details
Overall standings Medal standings
Standings per nation For the first season, the ISU added standings per nation. Points are calculated for each discipline separately before being combined for a total score per nation. For each discipline, each nation combines the points from up to four JGP events (excluding the final). A country does not have to use the same events for each discipline (e.g. a country can combine points from JGP events in Latvia, United States, Austria, and Poland for pairs while using Slovakia, Austria, Spain, and Croatia for ice dance). For each discipline at each event, each nation combines the points from up to two skaters/couples. The points each skater/couple earns is based on placement. Placement to point conversion is the same as for qualification, with first place earning 15 points, second earning 13 points, etc. In the event ties in the total scores, the country with the fewer skaters/couples (only counting skaters/couples from whom points were combined), wins the tie breaker. If the tie is not broken, the nations will have the same rank.
The final standings were: Rank Nation Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance Total points 1 62 98 102 92 354 2 66 48 35 92 241 3 46 90 0 0 136 4 33 0 35 51 119 5 23 4 26 3 56 6 0 38 5 13 56 7 9 0 0 32 41 8 26 7 0 0 33 9 0 0 22 8 30 10 11 10 7 0 28
JGP Final qualification standings
Qualification rules At each event, skaters earn points toward qualification for the Junior Grand Prix Final. Following the 7th event, the top six highest scoring skaters advance to the Final. The points earned per placement are as follows:
Placement Points (Singles/Dance) Points (Pairs) 1st 15 15 2nd 13 13 3rd 11 11 4th 9 9 5th 7 7 6th 5 5 7th 4 4 8th 3 3 9th 2 – 10th 1 –
There are seven tie-breakers in cases of a tie in overall points: Highest placement at an event. If a skater placed 1st and 3rd, the tiebreaker is the 1st place, and that beats a skater who placed 2nd in both events. Highest combined total scores in both events. If a skater earned 200 points at one event and 250 at a second, that skater would win in the second tie-break over a skater who earned 200 points at one event and 150 at another. Participated in two events. Highest combined scores in the free skating/free dance portion of both events. Highest individual score in the free skating/free dance portion from one event. Highest combined scores in the short program/short dance of both events. Highest number of total participants at the events.
If there is still a tie, it is considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all advance to the Junior Grand Prix Final.
Qualifiers Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance 1 Nathan Chen Polina Tsurskaya Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter 2 Dmitri Aliev Maria Sotskova Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons 3 Sota Yamamoto Yuna Shiraiwa Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd 4 Roman Sadovsky Marin Honda Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko 5 Daniel Samohin Mai Mihara Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac 6 Vincent Zhou Alisa Fedichkina Anastasia Poluianova / Stepan Korotkov Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin Alternates 1st Deniss Vasiļjevs Kaori Sakamoto Bryn Hoffman / Bryce Chudak Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron 2nd Alexander Samarin Choi Da-bin Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko 3rd Nicolas Nadeau Vivian Le Elena Ivanova / Tagir Khakimov Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko
Top JGP scores
Men Rank Name Nation Score Event 1 Nathan Chen 236.76 2015 JGP USA 2 Sota Yamamoto 232.42 2015 JGP Poland 3 Daniel Samohin 227.19 2015 JGP Spain 4 Dmitri Aliev 225.94 2015 JGP Austria 5 Alexander Samarin 223.84 2015 JGP Croatia 6 Nicolas Nadeau 223.46 2015 JGP Croatia 7 Vincent Zhou 211.96 2015 JGP Austria 8 Deniss Vasiļjevs 207.83 2015 JGP Poland 9 Roman Sadovsky 203.72 2015 JGP Slovakia 10 Tomoki Hiwatashi 197.62 2015 JGP Croatia
Ladies Rank Name Nation Score Event 1 Polina Tsurskaya 195.28 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final 2 Yuna Shiraiwa 186.80 2015 JGP Spain 3 Alisa Fedichkina 186.38 2015 JGP Spain 4 Maria Sotskova 185.44 2015 JGP Austria 5 Mai Mihara 182.05 2015 JGP Austria 6 Marin Honda 181.22 2015 JGP Croatia 7 Yura Matsuda 178.98 2015 JGP Spain 8 Vivian Le 176.30 2015 JGP Slovakia 9 Wakaba Higuchi 175.06 2015 JGP Croatia 10 Choi Da-bin 172.38 2015 JGP Austria
Pairs Rank Name Nation Score Event 1 Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot 171.86 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final 2 Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov 162.50 2015 JGP Austria 3 Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař 162.33 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final 4 Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov 157.09 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final 5 Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei 152.92 2015 JGP Austria 6 Anastasia Poluianova / Stepan Korotkov 145.27 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final 7 Bryn Hoffman / Bryce Chudak 142.33 2015 JGP Poland 8 Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez 136.62 2015 JGP USA 9 Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson 135.25 2015 JGP Poland 10 Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy 135.11 2015 JGP Austria
Ice dance Rank Name Nation Score Event 1 Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter 162.63 2015 JGP Poland 2 Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons 160.79 2015 JGP Croatia 3 Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd 153.64 2015 JGP Austria 4 Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac 152.72 2015 JGP Spain 5 Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko 150.94 2015 JGP Spain 6 Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin 148.75 2015 JGP Croatia 7 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko 146.15 2015 JGP Poland 8 Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko 143.87 2015 JGP Croatia 9 Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron 142.85 2015 JGP Croatia 10 Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit 142.85 2015 JGP Spain
References
External links ISU Junior Grand Prix at the International Skating Union