2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy

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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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.

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

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

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

Results

Men

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

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

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

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

Main article: Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

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

  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

  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.