ISU Challenger Series (CS) #4 Nebelhorn Trophy - September 19-21, 2024 - Oberstdorf, GER

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The entries, by discipline, are now posted: https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00120582.htm

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Skate Canada's post about Canadians going to two upcoming Challenger events including the Nebelhorn Trophy: https://skatecanada.ca/2024/08/canadian ... es-events/

Canadian Skaters Gear Up for September Challenger Series Events
August 29, 2024/by Skate Canada

OTTAWA, ON (August 29, 2024) – Canadian figure skaters across all four disciplines are set to start their 2024-2025 competitive season this September at two ISU Challenger Series events.

The pairs team of Kelly Ann Laurin and Loucas Éthier, bronze medallists at the 2024 Canadian Championships, will begin their season at the John Nicks International Pairs Competition from September 3-4, 2024 in New York, USA.

The Nebelhorn Trophy which will take place in Oberstdorf, Germany from September 19-21, 2024 will see reigning pairs World Champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps debut their new programs alongside Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud who won gold at the Grand Prix de France in 2023.

Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha, who finished a strong fifth at the 2024 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, will be Canada’s lone entries in ice dance. The men’s competition will feature reigning Canadian champion Wesley Chiu, as well as Stephen Gogolev and Roman Sadovsky, while the women’s competition will see two-time Canadian Champion Madeline Schizas take to the ice along with Sara-Maude Dupuis.

The Challenger Series is an International Figure Skating Series designed to give skaters adequate opportunities to compete at the international senior level and to earn precious World Standing Points. For full competition schedules, entries and results for Challenger Series events, please click here.

Team Canada
Name | Age | Hometown | Coach | Training Location

JOHN NICKS INTERNATIONAL PAIRS COMPETITION

Pairs
Kelly Ann Laurin | 18 | St-Jérôme, Que. & Loucas Éthier | 24 | St-Alphonse, Que. | Yvan Desjardins | Rosemère, Que.
Official – Cynthia Benson

NEBELHORN TROPHY

Women
Sara-Maude Dupuis | 19 | Montreal, Que. | Stéphane Yvars | Boucherville, Que.
Madeline Schizas | 21 | Oakville, Ont. | Nancy Lemaire | Milton, Ont. 

Men
Wesley Chiu | 19 | Vancouver, B.C. | Keegan Murphy | Richmond, B.C.
Stephen Gogolev | 19 | Toronto, Ont. | Lee Barkell | Toronto, Ont.
Roman Sadovsky | 25 | Vaughan, Ont. | Tracey Wainman | Richmond Hill, Ont.

Pairs
Lia Pereira | 20 | Milton, Ont. & Trennt Michaud | 28 | Brantford, Ont. | Alison Purkiss | Brantford, Ont.
Deanna Stellato-Dudek | 41 | Chicago, USA & Maxime Deschamps | 32 | Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que. | Josée Picard | Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que.

Ice Dance
Marjorie Lajoie | 23 | Boucherville, Que. & Zachary Lagha | 25 | Saint-Hubert, Que. | Romain Haguenauer | Montreal, Que. 

Team Leader – Mike Slipchuk
Medical Team – Mireille Landy 
Officials – Jodi Abbott & Veronique Gosselin

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Updates - September 3 - withdrawals:

Men - Arthur Wolfgang Mai
Women - Julia Fennell, Julia van Dijk, Linnea Kilsand,
Dance - Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov, and Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama

September 6:
Mariia Seniuk has withdrawn from Nebelhorn Trophy

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More withdrawals, including Canadians, as of September 11:
Men - Stephen Gogolev, Chiu Hei Cheung

Pairs - Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba

Dance - Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha

September 13:
Ken Fitterer, and Ekaterina Geynish / Dmitrii Chigirev (Pairs) have withdrawn from Nebelhorn Trophy

September 17:
Fedor Chitipakhovian and Jade Hovine have withdrawn from Nebelhorn Trophy

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The Entries/Start Orders/Results page: http://www.deu-event.de/results/Nebelho ... /index.htm

Oberstdorft is 6 hours ahead of EDT.

Links to the detailed time schedules for each event are being added to the page linked above.

There is a paid live stream (€21.99): https://sportdeutschland.tv/deutsche-eislauf-union

The time zone conversion - EDT is 2nd from the bottom, as usual

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SP & RD start orders

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A look inside the rink and the Kiss 'n Cry

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The results of the Men SP


Detailed protocols: http://www.deu-event.de/results/Nebelho ... Skater.pdf

The leaders




Wesley Chiu debuted a new program (to the 1812 Overture) and sits in 6th place, putting him in the final warm-up group for the free skate.


Roman used his short program from last season (which was only used twice). He sits in 8th.

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The SP results for the Pairs have the top 3 very close, points wise.

Detailed protocols: http://www.deu-event.de/results/Nebelho ... Skater.pdf

The leaders in action


Press conference & mixed zone post-skate photos




Deanna & Max skated first in the competition. Here's Canadian Press story on them posted yesterday by CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/wint ... -1.7326785

Lia & Trennt

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The third and final event of day 1 was the Women SP - the results


Detailed protocols: http://www.deu-event.de/results/Nebelho ... Skater.pdf

The leaders


The leaders at the press conference


Canada's Sara-Maude Dupuis is sitting in 4th place


Like Deanna & Max, Maddie Schizas was the first to skate. She held on to 6th place and will skate in the final warm-up group for the free skate.

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Day 2 of Nebelhorn Trophy began with the Men Free Skate - the results:


Detailed protocols: http://www.deu-event.de/results/Nebelho ... Skater.pdf

Overall results




The medallists (Hana Yoshida served as translator at the press conference)




The podium


Canada's Roman Sadovsky & Wesley Chiu - one went up in the standings after the FS and the other went down.

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The results of the Rhythm Dance


The leaders


The leaders at the press conference

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The final event of Day 2 was the Pairs free skate - the results


Detailed protocols: http://www.deu-event.de/results/Nebelho ... Skater.pdf

Overall result


Medal podium


By placing 2nd & 3rd in the FS, both Canadian teams moved up in the standings.
Deanna & Max


Lia & Trennt

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The third and final day opened with the Women Free Skate - the results


Detailed protocols: http://www.deu-event.de/results/Nebelho ... Skater.pdf

Overall results



The medallists



The podium


As with the men, the two Canadian women changed places in the overall standings but, unlike the men they both remained within the top 10.

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The final event of the Nebelhorn Trophy closed out Day 3 - the Free Dance. The results


Detailed protocols: http://www.deu-event.de/results/Nebelho ... Skater.pdf

Overall results


The medallists


The podium


Something unique to Nebelhorn - The Fritz-Geiger-Memorial Trophy: an award presented to the country with the highest placements across all disciplines. For 2024:
Team USA
Team Japan
Team Great Britain

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The program for the Gala Exhibition on Saturday evening

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Skate Canada press release on the Nebelhorn Trophy: https://skatecanada.ca/2024/09/silver-f ... son-debut/

Silver for Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps in 2024-2025 Season Debut
September 21, 2024/by Skate Canada

Oberstdorf, GER (September 21, 2024) – Reigning pairs world champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps made their 2024-2025 season debut this weekend at the Challenger Series Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, Germany and showed they are on course for another great season, bringing home silver for Canada.

Stellato-Dudek of Chicago, USA, and Deschamps of Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., debuted two new programs – their short program, which features a remix of Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” garnered them third-place scores (72.42), while their new free program, set to a medley of songs, pushed them up into second (133.82), for a total overall score of 206.42 to start off the season.

“We’re started the season pretty late because we had a lot of shows last spring, so it was a new preparation for us this year,” said Deschamps who together with Stellato-Dudek participated in the Stars on Ice tour in Japan and Canada from late March to May following their World Championships win in Montreal. “This is where we’re at for this time of the year, and we’re really pleased with what we did here.”

Lia Pereira of Milton, Ont., and Trennt Michaud of Brantford, Ont., skated a beautiful free dance to post third-place scores, but finished the competition ranked fifth overall (176.28) after finishing seventh in the rhythm dance. Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin, bronze medallists at the 2024 World Championships, won gold with a total score of 218.44, while Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea of the USA captured bronze (184.38).

In the men’s competition, Roman Sadovsky of Vaughan, Ont., showed a return to form after injury and travel mishaps hampered his efforts last season. Debuting a new free program to the soundtrack from “Interstellar”, Sadovsky nailed all his jumps, and just had a small stumble following one of his spins to post the fourth-best score of the day. He finished the competition ranked fifth overall with a total score of 225.24.

“My short program wasn’t what I was doing in practice so I was disappointed I couldn’t reproduce what I was doing in practice, but I was glad that I was able to turn it around for the long program. It had a few small things here and there that I’d like to improve, but I’m looking forward to the next event,” said Sadovsky.

Wesley Chiu of Vancouver, B.C., the reigning Canadian men’s champion, had a strong skate in his short program to sit sixth overall, but had a hard time with his free program, dropping him to finish 14th overall with a total score of 189.77.

Sota Yamamoto of Japan won gold (262.72), while Gabriele Frangipani of Italy captured silver (246.11), and Deniss Vasiljevs of Latvia took bronze (235.72).

Sara-Maude Dupuis of Montreal, Que., skated a fantastic short program on the first day of the women’s competition that had her sitting in fourth heading into the free program on Saturday. She couldn’t duplicate that effort in her free program however and ended the competition ranked 9th overall with a total score of 166.31.

Madeline Schizas of Oakville, Ont., finished just ahead of Dupuis in seventh with a total score of 172.22.

American skaters took the top two spots on the podium with Elyce Lin-Gracey winning gold (213.33) and Isabeau Levito taking silver (198.13). Yoshida Hana of Japan rounded out the podium, taking bronze (196.47).

The next stop on the Challenger Series Circuit is the Denis Ten Memorial taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan from October 3-6, 2024.