ISU Junior Grand Prix 2022-2023 - event #5 - Solidarity Cup, Gdansk, POL - 28 Sept.-1 Oct.

[Elizabeth]

This event, the Solidarity Cup, replaces an event originally scheduled to take place in Grenoble, FRA. Poland agreed to take it on when France withdrew; it is the first of two consecutive events in Gdansk.


The entries (& alternates) have now been posted in all four disciplines: https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00113507.htm

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The time and practice schedule: https://results.isu.org/schedules/jgp5p ... hedule.pdf

[Elizabeth]

With the cancellation of event #4 in Armenia, there are new entry lists for the remainder of the JGP events. For the Solidarity Cup the entries & alternates are now up: https://t.co/H9vfeiD3ll









The time & practice schedule link: http://results.isu.org/schedules/jgp5po ... hedule.pdf

[Elizabeth]

The links are now up on the ISU JGP YouTube channel for the broadcasts: https://www.youtube.com/c/isujuniorgrandprix
The times for each event should show in your local time.

Gdansk is 6 hours ahead of EDT.

The first day of competition will include the Junior Women SP, the Junior Pairs SP, and the Junior Men SP. The start orders should be drawn on Wednesday.

[Elizabeth]

Skate Canada's press release about the CDN team: https://skatecanada.ca/2022/09/canada-s ... rand-prix/

Canada Sends Ten Skaters to Poland for the Fifth Junior Grand Prix
September 27, 2022/by Skate Canada

OTTAWA, ON (September 26, 2022) – Canada’s next generation of skaters are scheduled to compete in Gdansk, Poland from September 28 to October 1, 2022, which marks the fifth stop on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit. The fourth stop of the series, initially set to take place from September 21-24, was cancelled by the ISU due to safety concerns. A total of ten athletes will be competing at the event, including one woman, three men and three ice dance teams.

First-year junior and 2022 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships silver medallist Kara Yun will be leading the line for Canada in women. Despite being a newcomer to the junior stage, Yun has previously competed internationally, finishing fourth at last year’s Egna Spring Trophy.

The men’s team will be led by Alec Guinzbourg, who has competed at several ISU Junior Grand Prix events since joining the Canadian NextGen team and finished just shy of the podium in 2019. Rio Morita will be making his Grand Prix debut in Poland after placing fourth at the 2022 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships last season, while 2022 Egna Spring Trophy bronze medallist David Bondar will be rounding out the team.

The experienced ice dance duo of Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont will be competing for the first time this season after a breakthrough 2021-2022 season that saw them win silver at the 2022 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships and bronze at the 2022 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships. They will be joined by veterans Hailey Yu and Brendan Giang, as well as 2022 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships novice silver medallists Dana Sabatini-Speciale and Nicholas Buelow.

The competition starts on Thursday, September 29 with the women’s, pair and men’s short programs. On Friday, pair and women will complete their free program, while ice dance teams will perform their rhythm dance. The event concludes on Saturday with the men’s free program and free dance.

[Elizabeth]

The Entries/Start Orders/Results link: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... p5pol2022/

The start orders have now been posted for all 3 events on Thursday and the first one on Friday - Jr Women, Jr Pairs, Jr Men and Jr Rhythm Dance

[Elizabeth]

Well, Ted & Mark have celebrated getting through 49 Jr Women's SP this morning. I only watched 4 of the 9 groups

If you want to watch individual programs, they are being posted here pretty quickly after they are done: https://www.youtube.com/c/isujuniorgrandprix/videos
They are in reverse order of skating (at least for now) - i.e. the the most recently skated is shown first.

The Jr Pairs starts in about 20 minutes - I hope Ted & Mark made the most of their 1/2 hour break! [They've already been working for 7 hours and lots more before the end of the day ]

[Elizabeth]

For those who don't mind spoilers...

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More spoilers








Up next is the Jr Men SP.

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And the final event of the looooooong day was the Jr Men SP

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After another 3 a.m. EDT start, the Rhythm Dance is now history.

The three CDN teams

[Elizabeth]

Another event complete - the Pairs Free Skate was the 2nd event of another looooong day in Gdansk. There was no CDN team competing here but one medal winning team trains here. Next week will be the last JGP event with pairs competing.

FS results:


Overall results:

[Elizabeth]

Up next - 7 & 1/2 hours of Jr Women FS....

And the marathon is over!

The FS results:


Check out the protocol for the top finisher in the FS:


The overall results:

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The Jr Men FS results


The overall results


NOTE the move from 16th after the SP to 1st in the FS and 2nd overall by the skater from CHN!!

[Elizabeth]

A very satisfying podium result in the Ice Dance competition

Free dance results:


Overall results:








All of our dancers did well

[Elizabeth]

Skate Canada's press release on the Solidarity Cup results: https://skatecanada.ca/2022/10/canadian ... rand-prix/

Ted Barton's interview with our gold medalists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUKnbK ... N1&index=2