ISU Jr GP 2024/25 Event #7 - Wuxi, China - 9-12 Oct. 2024

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The entries in the 3 disciplines have now been posted here: https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00120590.htm
There will be no Pairs competing.

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September 10:
Taiga Nishino has withdrawn from JGP Wuxi

September 12:
Patrick Blackwell replaces Jacob Sanchez at JGP Wuxi
Chen-Yu Chan / Yu-Chun Huang replace Tasha Shin Hui Lai / Kazuteru Mikki Becker-Pos (Dance)

September 21:
Lilia Schubert / Nikita Remeshevskiy (Dance) have been added to JGP Wuxi

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Update - September 25:
Mia Kalin replaces Emilia Nemirovsky at JGP Wuxi

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More updates - October 3
Jean Medard, Manjesh Tiwari, Hiro Kaewtathip, and Elisa Westerhof have withdrawn from JGP Wuxi

Milana Mozeiko replaces Ninon Dapoigny

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Wow - Sophie Joline von Felten has appeared in the #JGPFigure Wuxi CHN entry list as of Oct. 6, 2024, replacing Mia Kalin. She will apparently be doing events #6 & 7 back to back.

There had been discussion about the need for her to get a visa to enter China but, as she is a Swiss citizen, for visits of up to 15 days no visa is required.

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Skate Canada's press release on the team going to the final JGP event: https://skatecanada.ca/2024/10/china-ho ... rand-prix/

China Hosts Canadian Skaters at Seventh ISU Junior Grand Prix
October 7, 2024/by Skate Canada

OTTAWA, ON (October 7, 2024) – The seventh ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event of the season takes place in Wuxi, China from October 9-12, 2024, and seven of Canada’s next generation of skating talent will take to the ice in the men’s, women’s, and ice dance competitions.

Ice dancers Chloe Nguyen and Brendan Giang come into the event fresh off a fourth-place finish at the Bangkok, Thailand JGP in mid-September. They will be joined in the ice dance competition by Victoria and Andrei Carandiuc who will make their first appearance on the JGP circuit this season.

David Bondar and John Kim will compete in the men’s discipline and will be looking to implement lessons learned from the JGP events they competed at earlier this season where they finished seventh (Czechia) and sixth (Turkey) respectively.

Kara Yun will be Canada’s lone entry in the women’s competition as she makes her season debut after finishing seventh at the JGP in Austria last season.



Team Canada 
Name | Age | Hometown | Coach

Men 
David Bondar | 17 | Richmond Hill, ON | Lee Barkell
John Kim | 18 | Mississauga, ON | Jonathan Mills

Women
Kara Yun | 15 | Vancouver, BC | Lee Barkell

Ice Dance 
Victoria Carandiuc | 16 | Saint-Constant, QC & Andrei Carandiuc | 18 | Saint-Constant, QC | Julien Lalonde
Chloe Nguyen | 19 | Burnaby, BC & Brendan Giang | 21 | Burnaby, BC | Aaron Lowe

Team Leaders – André Bourgeois & Laurene Collin Knoblauch
Officials – Nicole LeBlanc-Richard & Sabrina Wong
Medical Team – Shirley Kushner & Ed Pilat

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The detailed time schedule for this event: https://results.isu.org/schedules/jgpch ... hedule.pdf

Wuxi is 12 hours ahead of EDT.

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Update - 8 October
Viktoriya Vagapova has withdrawn from JGP Wuxi #JGPFigure

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Although we don't yet have the Entries/Start Orders/Results link, the ISU YouTube channel already has the links up for the individual events in Wuxi as Upcoming Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/SkatingISU

Up first will be the rhythm dance at 4 a.m. on Thursday EDT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTrL97Cww4

That will be followed by the men SP at 7:10 a.m. that day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQfFaKrMkGU

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The Entries/Start Orders/Results link: https://results.isu.org/results/season2425/jgpchn2024/


Overview of the competition (all times local to Wuxi)


Time conversion chart - EDT is 2nd from the bottom


Initial start orders

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Overview of Day 1


Rhythm dance results


Detailed protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/season2 ... Skater.pdf

The leaders




Our CDN teams sit 2nd and 12th going into the Free Dance

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The second event of Day 1 - the Men SP. The results


Detailed protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/season2 ... Skater.pdf

The leaders




Both of our CDN men are in the top 10 and will skate in the penultimate warm-up group in the free skate

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The 2nd day of competition


The results of the Jr Women SP

Detailed protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/season2 ... Skater.pdf

The leaders




Canada's Kara Yun finished 7th, just missing the final warm-up group for the free skate

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The second and final event of Day 2 - Jr Men FS results


Detailed protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/season2 ... Skater.pdf

Overall results


The medallists





Podium picture
Rio appears to have switched costumes, wearing the one his father (and coach) wore when he too skated to Pirates of the Caribbean
Rio confirmed the costume change in his winner's interview with Ted Barton: youtu.be/O2N1F4ygRes

Congratulations to Canada's David Bondar who finished 3rd in the free skate!! He moved up to 5th overall. That result made him the highest ranking CDN man over the 7 events of the JGP series this season

His team mate, John Kim, was 9th in the FS and moved up from 10th to 9th overall.

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The final day of the final JGP of the season is now complete and all the qualifiers for the JGPF have been determined (as posted in a separate thread).


First up (starting just after midnight EDT) was the Free Dance - the results
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Detailed protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/season2 ... Skater.pdf

Overall results


The medallists


The winners' interview: https://youtu.be/x__6ZEXHkcA

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The final event of the competition was the Jr Women Free Skate - the results

Detailed protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/season2 ... Skater.pdf

The overall results


The medallists




The winner's interview: youtu.be/bvz14UbFmb4

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Skate Canada press release on the final JGP event: https://skatecanada.ca/2024/10/bronze-f ... x-circuit/

Bronze for Nguyen and Giang to Conclude Junior Grand Prix Circuit
October 12, 2024/by Skate Canada

Wuxi, CHN (October 12, 2024) – The seventh and final ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) Circuit event of the season wrapped up on Saturday in Wuxi, China with Canadian ice dancers Chloe Nguyen and Brendan Giang capturing a bronze medal.

Nguyen and Giang, both from Burnaby, B.C., came into the competition fresh off a fourth-place finish at the JGP event in Thailand in September and set a new personal best score of 90.42 with their free dance set to “Sign of the Times” by Harry Styles to bring home the bronze with a total score of 150.97.

“We felt pretty motivated being just off the podium in Bangkok to go home and improve and close the gap between us (and the top skaters),” said Nguyen of their performance. “For the most part we’re pretty happy with how it went. In the free, our last lift was a little bit wonky, but we’re pretty happy.”

Victoria and Andrei Carandiuc of Saint-Constant, Que., made their season’s debut and set all new personal best scores to finish 12th overall with a total score of 121.47. Elliana and Ethan Peal of the USA won gold (160.50), while Ambre Perrier Gianesini and Samuel Blanc Klaperman of France took silver (154.87).

David Bondar of Richmond Hill, Ont., continued his strong start to the season, posting a new personal best score of 132.88 to finish third-overall in the free skate. Combined with his seventh-place standing after the short program, he finished the week ranked fifth in the men’s competition with a new personal best total score of 196.86.

Speaking after the competition, he stated: “I feel like the short was a little bit of a challenge – I wanted to do better, but I feel like I was stronger in the free. Of course there’s always room for improvement, but in general I’m pretty happy with how I did.”

John Kim of Mississauga, Ont., also posted a new personal best score in his free skate of 115.10 and finished the competition ranked ninth overall (175.56). Rio Nakata of Japan dominated the men’s competition, winning gold with a total score of 233.52 – a lead of over 25 points over the second-placed skater, Tonghe Tian of China who took silver with a total score of 207.95. Yanhao Li of New Zealand captured bronze (206.45).

Competing in her first JGP of the season, Kara Yun of Vancouver, B.C., set a new personal best score of 58.70 in her short program and finished the women’s competition in 14th place. Ami Nakai of Japan won gold (204.88), while Yuseong Kim of Korea took silver (192.23), and Yihan Wang of China took bronze (191.11).

The Junior Grand Prix season wraps up with the ISU Grand Prix Final being held in Grenoble, France from December 5-8, 2024 and will feature the Canadian pair teams of Jazmine Desrochers and Kieran Thrasher who finished the JGP Circuit ranked second overall, and Julia Quattrocchi and Simon Desmarais who ranked fifth overall. The top six ranked skaters or teams in each discipline qualified for the Final.

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The three podiums

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The ISU press release on the final event of the JGP: https://isu.org/figure-skating/news/new ... teParam=15