The 2022–23 ISU Challenger Series was held from September to December 2022. It was the ninth 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.
Date Event Location Notes Results September 12–16 2022 U.S. International Classic Lake Placid, New York, United States Details September 16–19 2022 Lombardia Trophy Bergamo, Italy No pairs Details September 21–24 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy Oberstdorf, Germany Details September 29 – October 1 2022 Nepela Memorial Bratislava, Slovakia No pairs Details October 5–9 2022 Finlandia Trophy Espoo, Finland Details October 13–17 2022 Budapest Trophy Budapest, Hungary No pairs Details October 26–29 2022 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Almaty, Kazakhstan No pairs Details November 9–13 2022 Ice Challenge Graz, Austria No pairs Details November 17–20 2022 Warsaw Cup Warsaw, Poland Details December 7–10 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb Sisak, Croatia Details
Requirements Skaters were eligible to compete on the Challenger Series if they had reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2022.
Medal summary Men's singles Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results U.S. International Classic Ilia Malinin Kevin Aymoz Camden Pulkinen Details Lombardia Trophy Adam Siao Him Fa Koshiro Shimada Nikolaj Memola Details Nebelhorn Trophy Keegan Messing Lee Si-hyeong Roman Sadovsky Details Nepela Memorial Gabriele Frangipani Cha Jun-hwan Deniss Vasiļjevs Details Finlandia Trophy Cha Jun-hwan Morisi Kvitelashvili Andreas Nordebäck Details Budapest Trophy| Matteo Rizzo Lukas Britschgi Nikolaj Memola Details Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Nika Egadze Dias Jirenbayev Vladimir Litvintsev Details Ice Challenge Liam Kapeikis Andreas Nordebäck Nikita Starostin Details Warsaw Cup Kévin Aymoz Daniel Grassl Lukas Britschgi Details Golden Spin of Zagreb Camden Pulkinen Matteo Rizzo Mihhail Selevko Details
Women's singles Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results U.S. International Classic Kim Ye-lim You Young Mana Kawabe Details Lombardia Trophy Rinka Watanabe Kaori Sakamoto Ekaterina Kurakova Details Nebelhorn Trophy Loena Hendrickx Wi Seo-yeong Eva-Lotta Kiibus Details Nepela Memorial Isabeau Levito Lara Naki Gutmann Lee Hae-in Details Finlandia Trophy Kim Ye-lim Kim Chae-yeon Anastasiia Gubanova Details Budapest Trophy Ava Marie Ziegler Kimmy Repond Niina Petrõkina Details Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Kim Min-chae Anna Levkovets Choi Da-bin Details Ice Challenge Anna Pezzetta Kaiya Ruiter Kimmy Repond Details Warsaw Cup Ekaterina Kurakova Sarina Joos Janna Jyrkinen Details Golden Spin of Zagreb Lindsay Thorngren Bradie Tennell Madeline Schizas Details
Pairs Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results U.S. International Classic Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez Details Nebelhorn Trophy Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel Details Finlandia Trophy Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar Details Warsaw Cup Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini Letizia Roscher / Luis Schuster Details Golden Spin of Zagreb Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud Details
Ice dance Competition Gold Silver Bronze Results U.S. International Classic Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Eva Pate / Logan Bye Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov Details Lombardia Trophy Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler Details Nebelhorn Trophy Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus Details Nepela Memorial Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Eva Pate / Logan Bye Marie Dupayage / Thomas Nabais Details Finlandia Trophy Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis Details Budapest Trophy Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen Details Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan Mariia Ignateva / Danijil Szemko Details Ice Challenge Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville Natacha Lagouge / Arnaud Caffa Lily Hensen / Nathan Lickers Details Warsaw Cup Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan Marie Dupayage / Thomas Nabais Details Golden Spin of Zagreb Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik 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 Kévin Aymoz U.S. International Classic 236.17 Warsaw Cup 258.02 494.19 2 Lukas Britschgi Budapest Trophy 239.66 253.66 493.32 3 Matteo Rizzo Budapest Trophy 253.34 Golden Spin of Zagreb 228.86 482.00 4 Cha Jun-hwan Nepela Memorial 226.32 Finlandia Trophy 253.20 479.52 5 Gabriele Frangipani 244.57 Budapest Trophy 230.99 475.56
Women's singles .
Skater Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score 1 Kim Ye-lim U.S. International Classic 190.64 Finlandia Trophy 213.97 404.61 2 Ekaterina Kurakova Lombardia Trophy 188.41 Warsaw Cup 189.98 378.39 3 Lindsay Thorngren Finlandia Trophy 165.09 Golden Spin of Zagreb 196.48 361.57 4 Lee Hae-in Nepela Memorial 164.88 Finlandia Trophy 195.72 360.60 5 Kimmy Repond Budapest Trophy 177.74 Ice Challenge 169.35 347.09
Pairs .
Team Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score 1 Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini U.S. International Classic 189.22 Warsaw Cup 184.21 373.43 2 Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel Nebelhorn Trophy 184.47 Finlandia Trophy 180.62 365.09 3 Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert 186.17 177.11 363.28 4 Letizia Roscher / Luis Schuster Finlandia Trophy 165.58 Warsaw Cup 170.65 336.23 5 Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia 152.88 Golden Spin of Zagreb 179.26 332.14
Ice dance .
Team Nation First event Score Second event Score Total score 1 Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson U.S. International Classic 190.80 Nebelhorn Trophy 206.60 397.40 2 Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Nepela Memorial 193.35 Budapest Trophy 202.40 395.75 3 Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius Nebelhorn Trophy 185.41 Golden Spin of Zagreb 189.47 374.88 4 Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler Lombardia Trophy 183.55 Finlandia Trophy 178.85 362.40 5 Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 177.91 Warsaw Cup 181.50 359.41
Top scores
Men's singles +Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total Skater Nation Score Event 1 Kévin Aymoz 258.02 2022 Warsaw Cup 2 Daniel Grassl 257.76 3 Ilia Malinin 257.28 2022 U.S. International Classic 4 Lukas Britschgi 253.66 2022 Warsaw Cup 5 Matteo Rizzo 253.34 2022 Budapest Trophy 6 Cha Jun-hwan 253.20 2022 Finlandia Trophy 7 Keegan Messing 245.74 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 8 Gabriele Frangipani 244.57 2022 Nepela Memorial 9 Camden Pulkinen 242.09 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb 10 Adam Siao Him Fa 237.19 2022 Lombardia Trophy +Top 10 best scores in the men's short program Skater Nation Score Event 1 Cha Jun-hwan 91.06 2022 Finlandia Trophy 2 Kévin Aymoz 89.60 2022 Warsaw Cup 3 Roman Sadovsky 89.57 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 4 Koshiro Shimada 89.18 2022 Lombardia Trophy 5 Gabriele Frangipani 87.39 2022 Nepela Memorial 6 Maxim Naumov 87.11 2022 Budapest Trophy 7 Lee Si-hyeong 86.78 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 8 Lukas Britschgi 86.51 2022 Warsaw Cup 9 Camden Pulkinen 85.45 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb 10 Adam Siao Him Fa 84.69 2022 Lombardia Trophy +Top 10 best scores in the men's free skating Skater Nation Score Event 1 Ilia Malinin 185.44 2022 U.S. International Classic 2 Daniel Grassl 181.32 2022 Warsaw Cup 3 Keegan Messing 170.89 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 4 Matteo Rizzo 170.21 2022 Budapest Trophy 5 Kévin Aymoz 168.42 2022 Warsaw Cup 6 Lukas Britschgi 167.15 7 Cha Jun-hwan 162.14 2022 Finlandia Trophy 8 Gabriele Frangipani 160.20 2022 Budapest Trophy 9 Camden Pulkinen 156.64 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb 10 François Pitot 153.20 2022 Ice Challenge
Women's singles +Top 10 best scores in the women's combined total Skater Nation Score Event 1 Kim Ye-lim 213.97 2022 Finlandia Trophy 2 Rinka Watanabe 213.14 2022 Lombardia Trophy 3 Loena Hendrickx 208.05 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 4 Kim Chae-yeon 205.51 2022 Finlandia Trophy 5 Kaori Sakamoto 205.33 2022 Lombardia Trophy 6 Isabeau Levito 198.99 2022 Nepela Memorial 7 Anastasiia Gubanova 197.56 2022 Finlandia Trophy 8 Lindsay Thorngren 196.48 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb 9 Lee Hae-in 195.72 2022 Finlandia Trophy 10 Bradie Tennell 193.31 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb +Top 10 best scores in the women's short program Skater Nation Score Event 1 Loena Hendrickx 76.19 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 2 Kaori Sakamoto 72.93 2022 Lombardia Trophy 3 Kim Ye-lim 71.88 2022 Finlandia Trophy 4 Bradie Tennell 68.84 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb 5 Anastasiia Gubanova 68.03 2022 Finlandia Trophy 6 Kim Chae-yeon 67.84 7 Rinka Watanabe 66.83 2022 Lombardia Trophy 8 Lee Hae-in 66.00 2022 Finlandia Trophy 9 Isabeau Levito 65.37 2022 Nepela Memorial 10 Madeline Schizas 64.99 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy +Top 10 best scores in the women's free skating Skater Nation Score Event 1 Rinka Watanabe 146.31 2022 Lombardia Trophy 2 Kim Ye-lim 142.09 2022 Finlandia Trophy 3 Kim Chae-yeon 137.67 4 Lindsay Thorngren 135.99 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb 5 Isabeau Levito 133.62 2022 Nepela Memorial 6 Kaori Sakamoto 132.40 2022 Lombardia Trophy 7 Wi Seo-yeong 131.94 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 8 Loena Hendrickx 131.86 9 Ava Marie Ziegler 130.24 2022 Budapest Trophy 10 Lee Hae-in 129.72 2022 Finlandia Trophy
Pairs +Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total Team Nation Score Event 1 Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps 192.74 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 2 Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini 189.22 2022 U.S. International Classic 3 Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert 186.17 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 4 Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore 185.53 2022 Warsaw Cup 5 Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel 184.47 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 6 Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe 181.81 2022 U.S. International Classic 7 Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia 179.26 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb 8 Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea 178.83 9 Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii 177.87 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 10 Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud 176.88 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb +Top 10 best scores in the pairs' short program Team Nation Score Event 1 Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel 69.13 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 2 Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps 68.08 3 Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert 67.05 4 Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini 65.79 2022 Warsaw Cup 5 Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii 64.85 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 6 Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore 63.62 2022 Warsaw Cup 7 Letizia Roscher / Luis Schuster 63.11 8 Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia 62.44 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb 9 Anastasiia Metelkina / Daniil Parkman 62.15 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy 10 Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea 62.07 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb