2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy

The 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy was held on September 22–25, 2021 in Oberstdorf, Germany.[1] It was part of the 2021–22 ISU Challenger Series.[2] It was also the final qualifying event for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
Type:ISU Challenger Series
Date:September 22 – 25
Season:2021–22
Location:Oberstdorf, Germany
Host:Deutsche Eislauf Union
Venue:Eissportzentrum Oberstdorf
Champions
Men's singles:
United States Vincent Zhou
Women's singles:
United States Alysa Liu
Pairs:
Germany Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert
Ice dance:
Finland Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
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In December 2020, the International Skating Union designated Nebelhorn Trophy as the official figure skating qualification competition for the 2022 Winter Olympics.[3][4] The 2009, 2013, and 2017 editions of the event served the same role for the 2010, 2014, and 2018 Winter Olympics, respectively.[5]

Entries edit

The International Skating Union published the list of entries on September 2, 2021. Names with an asterisk (*) denote skaters not competing for Olympic qualification.

Country Men[6] Women[7] Pairs[8] Ice dance[9]
  Armenia Slavik Hayrapetyan Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
  Australia[10] Brendan Kerry Kailani Craine Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore Holly Harris / Jason Chan
  Austria Luc Maierhofer*
Maurizio Zandron
Sophia Schaller
  Azerbaijan Vladimir Litvintsev Ekaterina Kuznetsova / Oleksandr Kolosovskyi
  Belarus Viktoriia Safonova Bogdana Lukashevich / Alexander Stepanov Viktoria Semenjuk / Ilya Yukhimuk
  Bosnia and Herzegovina Ekaterina Mitrofanova / Vladislav Kasinskij
  Brazil[11] Isadora Williams
  Bulgaria Larry Loupolover
  Canada[12] Roman Sadovsky
  Chile Yae-Mia Neira
  China Wang Yuchen / Huang Yihang
  Chinese Taipei[13] Yeh Che Yu Ting Tzu-Han
  Croatia Jari Kessler Lana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru
  Cyprus Emilea Zingas
  Czech Republic Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler
  Denmark Maia Sørensen
  Estonia Gerli Liinamäe*
  Finland Valtter Virtanen Oona Ounasvuori* Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
  France Adam Siao Him Fa Léa Serna Coline Keriven / Noël-Antoine Pierre
  Georgia Karina Safina / Luka Berulava Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya
  Germany Paul Fentz
Kai Jagoda*
Thomas Stoll*
Nathalie Weinzierl* Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert*
Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel*
Viktoriia Lopusova / Asaf Kazimov*
Lara Luft / Maximilian Pfisterer*
Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck*
Anne-Marie Wolf / Max Liebers*
  Great Britain Peter James Hallam Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji Sasha Fear / George Waddell
  Greece Dimitra Korri
  Hong Kong Harrison Jon-Yen Wong Joanna So
  Hungary András Csernoch Júlia Láng Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács
  Iceland Aldís Kara Bergsdóttir
  India Tara Prasad
  Ireland Conor Stakelum
  Israel Taylor Morris Hailey Kops / Evgeni Krasnopolski Shira Ichilov / Laurent Abecassis
  Italy Gabriele Frangipani* Lara Naki Gutmann Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii* Carolina Portesi Peroni / Michael Chrastecky
  Kazakhstan Dias Jirenbayev Bagdana Rakhishova
  Latvia Anete Lāce
  Liechtenstein Romana Kaiser
  Lithuania Aleksandra Golovkina
  Mexico Eugenia Garza
  Monaco Davide Lewton Brain
  Netherlands Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba Chelsea Verhaegh / Sherim van Geffen
  New Zealand Jocelyn Hong Charlotte Lafond-Fournier / Richard Kang-in Kam
  Philippines[14] Edrian Paul Celestino Sofia Frank
  Poland Kornel Witkowski Ekaterina Kurakova Anna Hernik / Michał Woźniak
  Romania Julia Sauter
  Russia Mark Kondratiuk
  Serbia Antonina Dubinina
  Slovakia Adam Hagara Nicole Rajičová Mária Sofia Pucherová / Nikita Lysak
  Slovenia Daša Grm
  South Africa Matthew Samuels
  South Korea[15] Lee Si-hyeong Yura Min / Daniel Eaton
  Spain Tomàs Llorenç Guarino Sabaté Laura Barquero / Marco Zandron
  Sweden Josefin Taljegård* Greta Crafoord / John Crafoord
  Switzerland Nicola Todeschini* Alexia Paganini
  Thailand Thita Lamsam
  Turkey Burak Demirboğa*
Başar Oktar
Sinem Pekder Yuliia Zhata / Berk Akalın
  Ukraine Anastasiia Shabotova Sofiia Holichenko / Artem Darenskyi
  United States[16] Vincent Zhou Alysa Liu

Changes to preliminary assignments edit

Date Discipline Withdrew Added Reason/Other notes Refs
September 5 Women   Angelīna Kučvaļska   Anete Lāce Further consideration [7]
September 7 Men   Başar Oktar replaces   Burak Demirboğa as the skater competing for Olympic qualification. [6]
September 13   Dmitri Aliev   Mark Kondratiuk Further consideration
Women   Nikola Rychtaříková [7]
Ice dance   Carolina Moscheni / Francesco Fioretti   Carolina Portesi Peroni / Michael Chrastecky Further consideration [9]
September 15 Men N/A   Matthew Samuels [6]
September 17 Women   Maïa Mazzara   Léa Serna Further consideration [7]
  Alexandra Mintsidou   Dimitra Korri
Pairs   Cléo Hamon / Denys Strekalin   Coline Keriven / Noël-Antoine Pierre Health reasons (Hamon)[17] [8]
September 20 Women   Anastasiya Galustyan [7]
Pairs   Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise   Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii [8]

Results edit

Men edit

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS Olympic Qualification
1 Vincent Zhou   United States 284.23 1 97.35 1 186.88 Qualified
2 Adam Siao Him Fa   France 243.78 2 89.23 3 154.55 Qualified
3 Mark Kondratiuk   Russia 241.06 5 81.48 2 159.58 Qualified
4 Gabriele Frangipani   Italy 229.39 4 83.11 6 146.28
5 Lee Si-hyeong   South Korea 229.14 7 79.95 4 149.19 Qualified
6 Vladimir Litvintsev   Azerbaijan 228.65 6 80.54 5 148.11 Qualified
7 Brendan Kerry   Australia 218.95 3 85.89 7 133.06 Qualified
8 Roman Sadovsky   Canada 207.62 8 76.10 8 131.52 Qualified
9 Burak Demirboğa   Turkey 203.28 10 73.56 10 129.72
10 Başar Oktar   Turkey 203.22 9 74.77 13 128.45 Reserve 1
11 Slavik Hayrapetyan   Armenia 199.47 12 69.89 12 129.58 Reserve 2
12 Peter James Hallam   Great Britain 196.39 15 66.77 11 129.62 Reserve 3
13 Paul Fentz   Germany 194.70 11 73.32 15 121.38 Reserve 4
14 Maurizio Zandron   Austria 192.73 17 62.85 9 129.88
15 Jari Kessler   Croatia 190.39 13 69.28 16 121.11
16 Nicola Todeschini   Switzerland 185.09 14 66.79 17 118.30
17 Tomàs Llorenç Guarino Sabaté   Spain 187.72 22 59.45 14 128.27
18 Edrian Paul Celestino   Philippines 176.10 16 64.32 18 111.78
19 Davide Lewton Brain   Monaco 170.13 18 62.38 21 107.75
20 Kai Jagoda   Germany 169.23 20 61.48 20 107.75
21 András Csernoch   Hungary 164.41 21 59.52 24 104.89
22 Larry Loupolover   Bulgaria 163.80 19 61.82 27 101.98
23 Adam Hagara   Slovakia 162.41 25 54.20 19 108.21
24 Valtter Virtanen   Finland 161.02 24 55.22 22 105.80
25 Matthew Samuels   South Africa 160.15 23 56.09 25 104.06
26 Harrison Jon-Yen Wong   Hong Kong 158.49 26 53.55 23 104.94
27 Dias Jirenbayev   Kazakhstan 156.29 28 52.81 26 103.48
28 Thomas Stoll   Germany 153.77 29 52.32 28 101.45
29 Conor Stakelum   Ireland 140.67 27 53.01 30 87.66
30 Yeh Che Yu   Chinese Taipei 137.13 30 46.91 29 90.22
WD Luc Maierhofer   Austria withdrew withdrew from competition
WD Kornel Witkowski   Poland withdrew withdrew from competition

Women edit

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS Olympic Qualification
1 Alysa Liu   United States 207.40 1 70.86 1 136.54 Qualified
2 Ekaterina Kurakova   Poland 193.58 6 61.04 2 132.54 Qualified
3 Viktoriia Safonova   Belarus 190.29 3 62.02 3 128.27 Qualified
4 Alexia Paganini   Switzerland 180.48 2 65.65 5 114.83 Qualified
5 Anastasiia Shabotova   Ukraine 177.70 5 61.49 4 116.21 Qualified
6 Josefin Taljegård   Sweden 166.05 9 54.96 6 111.09
7 Kailani Craine   Australia 165.35 4 61.62 10 103.73 Qualified
8 Lara Naki Gutmann   Italy 164.60 7 57.16 7 107.44 Reserve 1
9 Emilea Zingas   Cyprus 158.16 11 52.90 9 105.26 Reserve 2
10 Ting Tzu-Han   Chinese Taipei 157.21 13 51.33 8 105.88 Reserve 3
11 Oona Ounasvuori   Finland 155.67 12 51.94 11 103.73
12 Daša Grm   Slovenia 148.79 15 50.19 13 98.60 Reserve 4
13 Taylor Morris   Israel 148.34 10 53.36 16 94.98
14 Léa Serna   France 146.52 14 50.93 15 95.59
15 Jocelyn Hong   New Zealand 146.41 17 49.13 14 97.28
16 Júlia Láng   Hungary 145.64 24 45.22 12 100.42
17 Anete Lāce   Latvia 145.17 8 54.96 19 90.21
18 Nicole Rajičová   Slovakia 143.00 16 50.00 17 93.00
19 Sophia Schaller   Austria 138.75 18 48.92 20 89.83
20 Julia Sauter   Romania 136.49 20 48.79 21 87.70
21 Joanna So   Hong Kong 135.78 19 48.79 23 86.99
22 Eugenia Garza   Mexico 135.29 21 47.84 22 87.45
23 Gerli Liinamäe   Estonia 133.83 28 43.44 18 90.39
24 Sofia Frank   Philippines 128.78 22 47.65 29 81.13
25 Nathalie Weinzierl   Germany 127.99 25 44.62 26 83.37
26 Antonina Dubinina   Serbia 127.97 26 44.09 25 83.88
27 Maia Sørensen   Denmark 127.32 23 46.69 30 80.63
28 Aleksandra Golovkina   Lithuania 125.33 27 43.95 28 81.38
29 Yae-Mia Neira   Chile 122.34 29 41.86 31 80.48
30 Tara Prasad   India 122.27 34 37.51 24 84.76
31 Sinem Pekder   Turkey 122.12 30 40.01 27 82.11
32 Aldís Kara Bergsdóttir   Iceland 118.09 31 39.92 32 78.17
33 Bagdana Rakhishova   Kazakhstan 104.18 33 38.22 33 65.96
34 Romana Kaiser   Liechtenstein 92.39 37 31.38 34 61.01
35 Dimitra Korri   Greece 91.89 36 32.89 35 59.00
36 Thita Lamsam   Thailand 90.13 35 33.33 36 56.80
WD Isadora Williams   Brazil withdrew 32 38.52 withdrew from competition

Pairs edit

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS Olympic Qualification
1 Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert   Germany 185.25 2 66.26 2 118.99
2 Laura Barquero / Marco Zandron   Spain 181.61 3 62.01 1 119.60 Qualified
3 Karina Safina / Luka Berulava   Georgia 178.16 1 66.46 3 111.70 Qualified
4 Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel   Germany 168.21 5 59.11 5 109.10
5 Hailey Kops / Evgeni Krasnopolski   Israel 167.08 7 55.58 4 111.50 Qualified
6 Wang Yuchen / Huang Yihang   China 162.66 4 60.21 6 102.45 Reserve 1
7 Bogdana Lukashevich / Alexander Stepanov   Belarus 159.08 6 58.25 7 100.83 Reserve 2
8 Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore   Australia 149.35 13 49.55 8 99.80 Reserve 3
9 Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba   Netherlands 145.26 8 55.39 9 89.87 Reserve 4
10 Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii   Italy 143.44 9 53.96 11 89.48
11 Sofiia Holichenko / Artem Darenskyi   Ukraine 142.38 10 52.63 10 89.75
12 Lana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru   Croatia 141.18 11 52.42 12 88.76
13 Coline Keriven / Noël-Antoine Pierre   France 137.50 12 51.23 13 86.27
14 Greta Crafoord / John Crafoord   Sweden 134.40 14 48.87 14 85.53
15 Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji   Great Britain 129.12 15 44.90 15 84.22
16 Anna Hernik / Michał Woźniak   Poland 105.42 16 40.05 16 65.37

Ice dance edit

Rank Name Nation Total points RD FD Olympic Qualification
1 Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis   Finland 181.19 1 70.92 1 110.27 Qualified
2 Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck   Germany 173.74 4 68.47 3 105.27
3 Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya   Georgia 173.20 5 66.95 2 106.25 Qualified
4 Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal   Armenia 173.03 3 68.61 4 104.42 Qualified
5 Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler   Czech Republic 172.98 2 70.51 5 102.47 Qualified
6 Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács   Hungary 160.41 8 64.68 6 95.74 Reserve 1
7 Yura Min / Daniel Eaton   South Korea 158.54 6 66.79 10 91.75 Reserve 2
8 Carolina Portesi Peroni / Michael Chrastecky   Italy 157.74 10 62.69 7 95.05 Reserve 3
9 Holly Harris / Jason Chan   Australia 157.21 9 63.05 8 94.16 Reserve 4
10 Shira Ichilov / Laurent Abecassis   Israel 154.76 7 64.90 11 89.86
11 Sasha Fear / George Waddell   Great Britain 154.24 11 60.51 9 93.73
12 Charlotte Lafond-Fournier / Richard Kang-in Kam   New Zealand 146.18 13 58.61 12 87.57
13 Lara Luft / Maximilian Pfisterer   Germany 144.21 12 59.23 13 84.98
14 Yuliia Zhata / Berk Akalın   Turkey 140.66 14 56.49 14 84.17
15 Viktoriia Lopusova / Asaf Kazimov   Germany 132.00 15 56.37 16 75.63
16 Anne-Marie Wolf / Max Liebers   Germany 129.80 16 53.65 15 76.15
17 Ekaterina Kuznetsova / Oleksandr Kolosovskyi   Azerbaijan 123.97 17 52.14 18 71.83
18 Mária Sofia Pucherová / Nikita Lysak   Slovakia 120.51 20 46.20 17 74.31
19 Chelsea Verhaegh / Sherim van Geffen   Netherlands 118.68 19 47.88 19 70.80
20 Ekaterina Mitrofanova / Vladislav Kasinskij   Bosnia and Herzegovina 113.98 18 48.53 20 65.45
WD Viktoria Semenjuk / Ilya Yukhimuk   Belarus withdrew withdrew from competition

Olympic qualification event edit

Initially, a total of six spots per singles event, three spots in pairs, and four spots in ice dance were available at the Nebelhorn Trophy. One additional quota spot became available in men's singles following the 2021 World Championships.[18] Available spots were allocated in descending order of placement among eligible nations.

Only ISU member nations that had not already earned an entry to the Olympics via the 2021 World Championships were allowed to attempt to earn a qualification berth at Nebelhorn Trophy. However, if a country earned two or three spots at the World Championships, but did not have two or three skaters, respectively, qualify for the free skating/dance, then they were allowed to send a skater/team who did not qualify for the free segment at World Championships to Nebelhorn Trophy to qualify the remaining spot.[4] The following ISU member nations were eligible to qualify a second or third spot in the listed disciplines at Nebelhorn Trophy:[18]

Spot # Men Women Pairs Dance
3   United States
  ROC[a]
  United States   China
2   Canada
  France
  South Korea
  Belgium
  Austria
  Japan   Italy
  Great Britain
All other ISU member nations not previously qualified were eligible to earn one quota spot.

Unlike at the World Championships, where countries could qualify more than one spot depending on the placement of their skater(s), at Nebelhorn Trophy, countries could earn only one spot per discipline, regardless of ranking. The following ISU member nations qualified a berth for their National Olympic Committee at Nebelhorn Trophy:[19]

Men Women Pairs Dance
  United States   United States   Spain   Finland
  France   Poland   Georgia   Georgia
  ROC[a]   Belarus   Israel   Armenia
  South Korea   Switzerland   Czech Republic
  Azerbaijan   Ukraine
  Australia   Australia
  Canada

If a country declines to use one or more of its qualified spots for the Olympics, the vacated spot will be awarded using the results of Nebelhorn Trophy in descending order of placement.[4] The following countries are next in line for Olympic quota spots:[19]

Men Women Pairs Dance
  Turkey   Italy   China   Hungary
  Armenia   Cyprus   Belarus   South Korea
  Great Britain   Chinese Taipei   Australia   Italy
  Germany   Slovenia   Netherlands   Australia

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b Russia is allowed to compete under its own name and flag at non-world championship-level ISU events, including the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, but will compete as "ROC" under the Russian Olympic Committee flag at the 2022 Winter Olympics due to doping sanctions against the country.[20]

References edit

  1. ^ "Nebelhorn Trophy 2021 Announcement". International Skating Union.
  2. ^ "Communication No. 2390: Decisions of the Council". International Skating Union. April 13, 2021.
  3. ^ "Communication No. 2362: Decisions of the Council". International Skating Union. December 10, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "Qualification System for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022". International Skating Union. December 4, 2019.
  5. ^ "2020–21 Season & 2022 Olympic Qualification". International Figure Skating Magazine. December 17, 2020.
  6. ^ a b c "ISU CS Nebelhorn Trophy 2021 – OWG Qualifying: Men". International Skating Union. September 1, 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d e "ISU CS Nebelhorn Trophy 2021 – OWG Qualifying: Women". International Skating Union. September 1, 2021.
  8. ^ a b c "ISU CS Nebelhorn Trophy 2021 – OWG Qualifying: Pairs". International Skating Union. September 1, 2021.
  9. ^ a b "ISU CS Nebelhorn Trophy 2021 – OWG Qualifying: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. September 1, 2021.
  10. ^ "2021–2022 International Assignment". Ice Skating Australia. Retrieved August 25, 2021.
  11. ^ Gentile, Gabriel (August 14, 2021). "Isadora Williams volta a competir em torneio nos Estados Unidos" [Isadora Williams returns to compete in tournament in the United States]. Surto Olímpico (in Portuguese). The Brazilian will participate at the end of September in the Nebelhorn Trophy, a competition that defines the last six places for figure skating in Beijing 2022.
  12. ^ "Events – International". Skate Canada. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  13. ^ "【協會公告】110年花式滑冰國際賽事參賽及國家代表隊選手正式名單" [[Association Announcement] 110th Year – International Figure Skating Competition Participants and Official List of National Team Athletes] (in Chinese). Chinese Taipei Skating Union. August 17, 2021.
  14. ^ Carandang, Justin Kenneth (August 20, 2021). "Pinoy figure skaters Edrian Paul Celestino, Sofia Frank to compete in Nebelhorn Olympic qualifier; Julian Macaraeg for speed skating". GMA News.
  15. ^ "이시형, 2021 ISU 네벨혼 트로피 출전" [Lee Sihyeong to participate in the 2021 ISU Nebelhorn Trophy]. The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). August 23, 2021.
  16. ^ "United States to Send Liu, Zhou to Nebelhorn Trophy". U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone. U.S. Figure Skating. August 30, 2021.
  17. ^ Hamon, Cléo; Strekalin, Denys [@cleo_denys.sk8] (September 21, 2021). "Cléo et Denys ne seront pas à Oberstdorf cette semaine pour le challenger séries. Suite à un burn-out, l'état de santé de Cléo nécessite des soins et un repos loin du patinage artistique" [Cléo and Denys won't be in Oberstdorf this week for the Challenger Series. Following a burn-out, Cléo's health needs care and rest away from figure skating.] – via Instagram.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ a b "Communication No. 2388: Entries/Participation 2022 Olympic Winter Games (OWG) – Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance". International Skating Union. April 1, 2021.
  19. ^ a b "Communication No. 2428: Olympic Winter Games 2022 – Entries/Participation Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance". International Skating Union. September 28, 2021.
  20. ^ "Olympics: Russia to compete under ROC acronym in Tokyo as part of doping sanctions". Reuters. February 19, 2021.

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