The 2016–17 ISU Challenger Series was held from September to December 2016. It was the third season that the ISU Challenger Series, a group of senior-level international figure skating competitions, was held.
Competitions This season, the series included the following events. The Ukrainian Open was originally scheduled for November 9–13, 2016, but it was cancelled on September 20.
Date Event Location Results September 7–11 2016 Lombardia Trophy Bergamo, Italy Details September 14–18 2016 U.S. International Classic Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Details September 22–24 2016 Nebelhorn Trophy Oberstdorf, Germany Details September 28 – October 1 2016 Autumn Classic International Montreal, Quebec, Canada Details September 28 – October 2 2016 Ondrej Nepela Memorial Bratislava, Slovakia Details October 6–9 2016 Finlandia Trophy Espoo, Finland Details November 9–13 2016 Ukrainian Open Cancelled November 17–20 2016 Warsaw Cup Warsaw, Poland Details November 22–27 2016 Tallinn Trophy Tallinn, Estonia Details December 7–10 2016 Golden Spin of Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia Details
Medal summary Men's singles Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results Lombardia Trophy Shoma Uno Jason Brown Max Aaron Details U.S. International Classic Jason Brown Takahito Mura Adam Rippon Details Nebelhorn Trophy Alexander Petrov Jorik Hendrickx Grant Hochstein Details Autumn Classic International Yuzuru Hanyu Misha Ge Max Aaron Details Ondrej Nepela Memorial Sergei Voronov Kevin Reynolds Roman Savosin Details Finlandia Trophy Nathan Chen Patrick Chan Maxim Kovtun Details Warsaw Cup Alexander Majorov Dmitri Aliev Stéphane Walker Details Tallinn Trophy Roman Savosin Anton Shulepov Andrew Torgashev Details Golden Spin of Zagreb Oleksii Bychenko Daniel Samohin Keegan Messing Details
Ladies' singles Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results Lombardia Trophy Wakaba Higuchi Kim Na-hyun Mirai Nagasu Details U.S. International Classic Satoko Miyahara Mariah Bell Karen Chen Details Nebelhorn Trophy Mai Mihara Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Gabrielle Daleman Details Autumn Classic International Mirai Nagasu Alaine Chartrand Elizabet Tursynbayeva Details Ondrej Nepela Memorial Maria Sotskova Yulia Lipnitskaya Mariah Bell Details Finlandia Trophy Kaetlyn Osmond Mao Asada Anna Pogorilaya Details Warsaw Cup Nicole Schott Kailani Craine Alexandra Avstriyskaya Details Tallinn Trophy Stanislava Konstantinova Serafima Sakhanovich Bradie Tennell Details Golden Spin of Zagreb Carolina Kostner Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Alena Leonova Details
Pairs Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results Lombardia Trophy Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini Details U.S. International Classic Brittany Jones / Joshua Reagan Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu Alexandria Shaughnessy / James Morgan Details Nebelhorn Trophy Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert Details Autumn Classic International Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran Details Ondrej Nepela Memorial Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov Natalja Zabijako / Alexander Enbert Details Finlandia Trophy Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert Details Warsaw Cup Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert Details Tallinn Trophy Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin Goda Butkutė / Nikita Ermolaev Details Golden Spin of Zagreb Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc Details
Ice dance Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results Lombardia Trophy Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen Details U.S. International Classic Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam Details Nebelhorn Trophy Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Madison Chock / Evan Bates Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Details Autumn Classic International Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen Details Ondrej Nepela Memorial Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Madison Chock / Evan Bates Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro Details Finlandia Trophy Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro Details Warsaw Cup Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro Lucie Mysliveckova / Lukas Csolley Details Tallinn Trophy Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit Details Golden Spin of Zagreb Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar Details
Medal standings
Challenger Series rankings The ISU Challenger Series rankings were formed by combining the two highest final scores of each skater or team.
Men's singles Skater Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score 1 Jason Brown Lombardia Trophy 256.49 U.S. International Classic 254.04 510.53 2 Alexander Petrov Nebelhorn Trophy 232.21 Golden Spin of Zagreb 222.92 455.13 3 Max Aaron Lombardia Trophy 218.73 Autumn Classic International 226.13 444.86 4 Brendan Kerry U.S. International Classic 222.40 Golden Spin of Zagreb 221.94 444.34 5 Jorik Hendrickx Nebelhorn Trophy 223.04 Finlandia Trophy 218.32 441.36
Ladies' singles Skater Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score 1 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Nebelhorn Trophy 185.93 Golden Spin of Zagreb 192.03 377.96 2 Mirai Nagasu Lombardia Trophy 176.86 Autumn Classic International 189.11 365.97 3 Mariah Bell U.S. International Classic 184.22 Tallinn Trophy 167.69 351.91 4 Alena Leonova Ondrej Nepela Memorial 151.12 Golden Spin of Zagreb 191.39 342.51 5 Amber Glenn Nebelhorn Trophy 157.68 183.60 341.28
Pairs Team Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score 1 Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek Lombardia Trophy 179.56 Warsaw Cup 189.26 368.82 2 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise 185.18 Golden Spin of Zagreb 180.60 365.78 3 Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Finlandia Trophy 169.10 180.44 349.54 4 Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Ondrej Nepela Memorial 172.82 161.63 334.45 5 Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc Finlandia Trophy 158.63 172.18 330.81
Ice dance Team Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score 1 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Ondrej Nepela Memorial 178.84 Warsaw Cup 183.60 362.44 2 Madison Chock / Evan Bates Nebelhorn Trophy 179.18 Ondrej Nepela Memorial 170.92 350.10 3 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri Lombardia Trophy 162.12 Golden Spin of Zagreb 180.30 342.42 4 Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro Ondrej Nepela Memorial 165.64 Warsaw Cup 173.02 338.66 5 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Autumn Classic International 160.50 Golden Spin of Zagreb 177.36 337.86
Top scores
Men's singles +Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total Skater Nation Score Event 1 Yuzuru Hanyu 260.57 2016 Autumn Classic International 2 Shoma Uno 258.93 2016 Lombardia Trophy 3 Jason Brown 256.49 4 Nathan Chen 256.44 2016 Finlandia Trophy 5 Takahito Mura 252.20 2016 U.S. International Classic 6 Patrick Chan 248.73 2016 Finlandia Trophy 7 Adam Rippon 248.24 2016 U.S. International Classic 8 Sergei Voronov 237.42 2016 Ondrej Nepela Memorial 9 Alexander Petrov 232.21 2016 Nebelhorn Trophy 10 Misha Ge 230.55 2016 Autumn Classic International
Ladies' singles +Top 10 best scores in the ladies' combined total Skater Nation Score Event 1 Satoko Miyahara 206.75 2016 U.S. International Classic 2 Carolina Kostner 196.23 2016 Golden Spin of Zagreb 3 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva 192.03 4 Alena Leonova 191.39 5 Maria Sotskova 189.96 2016 Ondrej Nepela Memorial 6 Mirai Nagasu 189.11 2016 Autumn Classic International 7 Mai Mihara 189.03 2016 Nebelhorn Trophy 8 Kaetlyn Osmond 187.27 2016 Finlandia Trophy 9 Stanislava Konstantinova 186.97 2016 Tallinn Trophy 10 Mao Asada 186.16 2016 Finlandia Trophy
Pairs +Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total Team Nation Score Event 1 Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau 208.30 2016 Autumn Classic International 2 Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot 203.04 2016 Nebelhorn Trophy 3 Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès 198.90 2016 Autumn Classic International 4 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov 197.80 2016 Ondrej Nepela Memorial 5 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford 197.78 2016 Finlandia Trophy 6 Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek 189.26 2016 Warsaw Cup 7 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov 185.42 2016 Ondrej Nepela Memorial 8 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise 185.18 2016 Lombardia Trophy 9 Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch 184.40 2016 Nebelhorn Trophy 10 Natalja Zabijako / Alexander Enbert 181.38 2016 Ondrej Nepela Memorial
Ice dance +Top 10 best scores in the combined total (ice dance) Team Nation Score Event 1 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir 189.20 2016 Autumn Classic International 2 Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin 185.19 2016 Tallinn Trophy 3 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev 183.60 2016 Warsaw Cup 4 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte 180.50 2016 Nebelhorn Trophy 5 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri 180.30 2016 Golden Spin of Zagreb 6 Madison Chock / Evan Bates 179.18 2016 Nebelhorn Trophy 7 Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko 177.80 2016 Tallinn Trophy 8 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker 177.36 2016 Golden Spin of Zagreb 9 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier 176.84 2016 Nebelhorn Trophy 10 Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro 173.02 2016 Warsaw Cup
References
External links ISU Challenger Series at the International Skating Union