The 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the 15th season of the series of junior international competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2011–12 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating contested by senior-level skaters. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
Skaters earned points towards qualifying for the final at each of the seven Junior Grand Prix events. The top six skaters/teams in the series from each discipline met at the 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final, which was held concurrently with the senior final.
Competitions The locations of the JGP events change yearly. In the 2011–12 season, the series was composed of the following events in autumn 2011:
Date Event Location Other notes September 1–3 2011 JGP Volvo Cup Riga, Latvia September 8–10 2011 JGP Brisbane Brisbane, Australia No pair competition September 15–17 2011 JGP Baltic Cup Gdańsk, Poland September 22–24 2011 JGP Brasov Cup Braşov, Romania No pair competition Sept. 29 – Oct. 1 2011 JGP Cup of Austria Innsbruck, Austria October 6–8 2011 JGP Trofeo W. Lombardi Milan, Italy No pair competition October 13–15 2011 JGP Tallinn Cup Tallinn, Estonia December 8–11 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final Quebec City, Canada
The JGP Final was held in conjunction with the senior-level version.
Qualifying Skaters who reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2011, 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 were not seeded by the ISU. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member federation was determined by their skaters' placements at the previous season's Junior World Championships in each respective discipline.
For the 2011–2012 season, in singles, the three best placed member nations at the 2011 Junior Worlds were allowed to enter two skaters in all seven events. Member nations which placed 4th through 6th were allowed to enter one skater in all seven events, those which placed 7th through 12th were allowed one skater in six of the seven events, and those with a skater who qualified for the free skate were allowed one skater in five of the events. Member nations which did not qualify for the free skate but placed 25th through 30th in the short program were allowed to enter one skater in four of the events, those which placed 31st and lower in the short program were allowed one skater in three of the events, and those countries which did not participate in the 2011 Junior Worlds were allowed one skater in two events. There were provisions for additional entries per member country if another country did not use all of its allotted entries.
In pairs, member nations which placed in the top five at the 2011 World Junior Championships were allowed to enter three entries in all four events which included pairs. Member nations which qualified for the free skate were allowed two entries in all four events, and all others were allowed one entry in all four events. There was no limit on host nation pair entries.
In ice dance, the multiple spots allowance was the same as for singles, through one entry in five events.
The host country was allowed to enter up to three skaters/teams in singles and dance, with no limit for pair teams from the host nation.
The general spots allowance for the 2011–2012 Junior Grand Prix events was as follows:
Entries Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance 3 per event 2 per event 1 per event 1 in six events 1 in five events 1 in four events 1 in three events
All other member nations had one entry per discipline in two of the seven events in singles and ice dance and one entry in all four events in pairs.
Junior Grand Prix Final qualification and qualifiers
Qualification rules At each event, skaters/teams earned points toward qualification for the Junior Grand Prix Final. Following the 7th event, the top six highest scoring skaters/teams advanced to the Final. The points earned per placement was 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 were 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 was the 1st place, and that beat 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 was still a tie, the tie was considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all advanced to the Junior Grand Prix Final.
Qualifiers The following skaters qualified for the 2011–2012 Junior Grand Prix Final.
Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance 1 Yan Han Yulia Lipnitskaya Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin 2 Joshua Farris Polina Shelepen Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 3 Jason Brown Vanessa Lam Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry Anna Yanovskaia / Sergey Mozgov 4 Maxim Kovtun Risa Shoji Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang Maria Nosulia / Evgen Kholoniuk 5 Ryuju Hino Zijun Li Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski 6 Keiji Tanaka Polina Korobeynikova Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu (withdrew) Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton Alternates 1st Artur Dmitriev, Jr. Samantha Cesario Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev (called up) Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager 2nd Zhang He Polina Agafonova Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin 3rd Lee June-hyoung Satoko Miyahara Klára Kadlecová / Petr Bidař Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin
Medalists Men In Milan, Italy, Lee June-hyoung became the first Korean male skater to medal at an ISU competition.
Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details JGP Latvia Ryuju Hino Zhang He Timothy Dolensky Details JGP Australia Jason Brown Keiji Tanaka Liam Firus Details JGP Poland Joshua Farris Artur Dmitriev, Jr. Ryuichi Kihara Details JGP Romania Maxim Kovtun Ryuju Hino Nam Nguyen Details JGP Austria Han Yan Gordei Gorshkov Keiji Tanaka Details JGP Italy Han Yan Jason Brown Lee June-hyoung Details JGP Estonia Joshua Farris Maxim Kovtun Shoma Uno Details JGP Final Jason Brown Yan Han Joshua Farris Details
Ladies Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details JGP Latvia Polina Shelepen Li Zijun Polina Agafonova Details JGP Australia Courtney Hicks Risa Shoji Vanessa Lam Details JGP Poland Yulia Lipnitskaya Satoko Miyahara Samantha Cesario Details JGP Romania Polina Shelepen Polina Korobeynikova Kim Hae-jin Details JGP Austria Vanessa Lam Li Zijun Polina Agafonova Details JGP Italy Yulia Lipnitskaya Anna Shershak Hannah Miller Details JGP Estonia Gracie Gold Risa Shoji Samantha Cesario Details JGP Final Yulia Lipnitskaya Polina Shelepen Polina Korobeynikova Details
Pairs Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details JGP Latvia Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro Details JGP Australia No pairs competition held JGP Poland Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev Details JGP Romania No pairs competition held JGP Austria Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov Details JGP Italy No pairs competition held JGP Estonia Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu Details JGP Final Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer Details
Ice dance Competition Gold Silver Bronze Details JGP Latvia Maria Nosulia / Evgeni Kholoniuk Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton Details JGP Australia Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin Details JGP Poland Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski Anna Yanovskaia / Sergey Mozgov Details JGP Romania Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski Mackenzie Bent / Garrett MacKeen Details JGP Austria Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton Maria Nosulia / Evgeni Kholoniuk Details JGP Italy Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager Details JGP Estonia Anna Yanovskaia / Sergey Mozgov Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin Details JGP Final Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin Anna Yanovskaia / Sergey Mozgov Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Details
Medals table The following is the table of total medals earned by each country on the 2011–2012 Junior Grand Prix. It can be sorted by country name, number of gold medals, number of silver medals, number of bronze medals, and total medals overall. The table is numbered by number of total medals.
Top scores
Men's singles +Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total Skater Nation Score Event 1 Han Yan 219.37 2011 JGP Italy 2 Jason Brown 208.41 2011–12 JGP Final 3 Joshua Farris 207.67 2011 JGP Estonia 4 Artur Dmitriev, Jr. 197.09 2011 JGP Poland 5 Maxim Kovtun 193.76 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final 6 Keiji Tanaka 192.36 2011 JGP Australia 7 Ryuju Hino 182.71 2011 JGP Latvia 8 Zhang He 182.38 9 Gordei Gorshkov 180.25 2011 JGP Austria 10 Liam Firus 180.00 2011 JGP Australia
Women's singles +Top 10 best scores in the women's combined total Skater Nation Score Event 1 Yulia Lipnitskaya 183.05 2011 JGP Italy 2 Gracie Gold 172.69 2011 JGP Estonia 3 Polina Shelepen 162.34 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final 4 Satoko Miyahara 162.20 2011 JGP Poland 5 Risa Shoji 157.83 2011 JGP Estonia 6 Vanessa Lam 156.58 2011 JGP Austria 7 Li Zijun 156.40 8 Samantha Cesario 153.84 2011 JGP Poland 9 Courtney Hicks 151.91 2011 JGP Australia 10 Polina Korobeynikova 151.18 2011–12 JGP Final
Pairs +Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total Team Nation Score Event 1 Sui Wenjing / Han Cong 167.14 2011 JGP Austria 2 Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang 154.37 3 Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry 152.65 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final 4 Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer 146.35 5 Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov 146.17 6 Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu 139.32 2011 JGP Estonia 7 Li Meiyi / Jiang Bo 138.92 2011 JGP Austria 8 Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin 134.88 9 Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro 134.46 2011 JGP Latvia 10 Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev 133.79 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final
Ice dance +Top 10 season's best scores in the combined total (ice dance) Team Nation Score Event 1 Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin 151.10 2011 JGP Austria 2 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 149.98 2011 JGP Italy 3 Anna Yanovskaia / Sergey Mozgov 142.72 2011 JGP Estonia 4 Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton 136.85 2011 JGP Austria 5 Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin 130.58 2011 JGP Italy 6 Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager 129.63 7 Maria Nosulia / Evgen Kholoniuk 128.34 2011 JGP Austria 8 Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams 127.21 2011 JGP Australia 9 Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand 126.51 2011 JGP Estonia 10 Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern 124.35 2011 JGP Italy
References
External links Overall standings: Men, Ladies, Pairs, Ice dance Top scores: Men, Ladies, Pairs, Ice dance JGP Volvo Cup (Riga, Latvia): , ISU videos, ISU photos JGP Brisbane (Australia): , ISU videos, ISU photos JGP Baltic Cup (Gdansk, Poland): , ISU videos, ISU photos, Pixie World JGP Brasov Cup (Brasov, Romania): , ISU videos