2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix
# 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix

The 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the 19th season of a series of junior international competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. At each event, skaters also earned points toward qualifying for the final. The top six skaters or teams from each discipline met at the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final, held together with the senior final.

## Competitions

The locations of the JGP events change yearly. In the 2015–16 season, the series was composed of the following events in autumn 2015:

| Date | Event | Location | Details | Other notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| August 19–23 | 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Slovakia | Bratislava, Slovakia | Details | No pairs |
| August 26–30 | 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Latvia | Riga, Latvia | Details | |
| September 2–6 | 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in the United States | Colorado Springs, United States | Details | |
| September 9–13 | 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Austria | Linz, Austria | Details | |
| September 23–27 | 2015 JGP Toruń Cup | Toruń, Poland | Details | |
| September 30 – October 4 | 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Spain | Logroño, Spain | Details | No pairs |
| October 7–11 | 2015 JGP Croatia Cup | Zagreb, Croatia | Details | No pairs |
| December 10–13 | 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final | Barcelona, Spain | Details | Held with senior GPF |

## Qualifying

Skaters who had reached the age of 13 before July 1, 2015 but had not turned 19 (singles and females of the other two disciplines) or 21 (male pair skaters and ice dancers) were eligible to compete on the junior circuit. Unlike the senior Grand Prix, skaters for the JGP are not seeded by the ISU. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member federation was determined by their skaters' placements in each discipline at the 2015 World Junior Championships.

## Medalists

### Men

| Competition | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| JGP Bratislava | Roman Sadovsky | Vincent Zhou | Denis Margalik | Details |
| JGP Riga Cup | Dmitri Aliev | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Alexei Krasnozhon | Details |
| JGP Colorado Springs | Nathan Chen | Daniel Samohin | Sota Yamamoto | Details |
| JGP Cup of Austria | Dmitri Aliev | Vincent Zhou | Ivan Pavlov | Details |
| JGP Toruń Cup | Sota Yamamoto | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Roman Sadovsky | Details |
| JGP Logroño | Nathan Chen | Daniel Samohin | Zhang He | Details |
| JGP Croatia Cup | Alexander Samarin | Nicolas Nadeau | Tomoki Hiwatashi | Details |
| JGP Final | Nathan Chen | Dmitri Aliev | Sota Yamamoto | Details |

### Ladies

| Competition | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| JGP Bratislava | Polina Tsurskaya | Mai Mihara | Vivian Le | Details |
| JGP Riga Cup | Maria Sotskova | Kaori Sakamoto | Choi Da-bin | Details |
| JGP Colorado Springs | Yuna Shiraiwa | Marin Honda | Vivian Le | Details |
| JGP Cup of Austria | Maria Sotskova | Mai Mihara | Choi Da-bin | Details |
| JGP Toruń Cup | Polina Tsurskaya | Ekaterina Mitrofanova | Rin Nitaya | Details |
| JGP Logroño | Yuna Shiraiwa | Alisa Fedichkina | Yura Matsuda | Details |
| JGP Croatia Cup | Marin Honda | Wakaba Higuchi | Diana Pervushkina | Details |
| JGP Final | Polina Tsurskaya | Maria Sotskova | Marin Honda | Details |

### Pairs

| Competition | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| JGP Riga Cup | Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei | Anastasia Poluianova / Stepan Korotkov | Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot | Details |
| JGP Colorado Springs | Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov | Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez | Elena Ivanova / Tagir Khakimov | Details |
| JGP Cup of Austria | Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov | Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei | Details |
| JGP Toruń Cup | Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot | Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov | Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov | Details |
| JGP Final | Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot | Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov | Details |

### Ice dance

| Competition | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| JGP Bratislava | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko | Details |
| JGP Riga Cup | Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko | Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin | Details |
| JGP Colorado Springs | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | Mackenzie Bent / Dmitre Razgulajevs | Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov | Details |
| JGP Cup of Austria | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | Julia Biechler / Damian Dodge | Details |
| JGP Toruń Cup | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko | Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin | Details |
| JGP Logroño | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko | Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit | Details |
| JGP Croatia Cup | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko | Details |
| JGP Final | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | Details |

## Overall standings

### Medal standings

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 14 | 10 | 10 | 34 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 8 | 4 | 7 | 19 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| 4 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | France (FRA) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Israel (ISR) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Latvia (LAT) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 entries) | Totals (12 entries) | 29 | 29 | 29 | 87 |

### Standings per nation

For the first season, the ISU added standings per nation. Points are calculated for each discipline separately before being combined for a total score per nation. For each discipline, each nation combines the points from up to four JGP events (excluding the final). A country does not have to use the same events for each discipline (e.g. a country can combine points from JGP events in Latvia, United States, Austria, and Poland for pairs while using Slovakia, Austria, Spain, and Croatia for ice dance). For each discipline at each event, each nation combines the points from up to two skaters/couples. The points each skater/couple earns is based on placement. Placement to point conversion is the same as for qualification, with first place earning 15 points, second earning 13 points, etc. In the event ties in the total scores, the country with the fewer skaters/couples (only counting skaters/couples from whom points were combined), wins the tie breaker. If the tie is not broken, the nations will have the same rank.

The final standings were:

| Rank | Nation | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance | Total points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Russia | 62 | 98 | 102 | 92 | 354 |
| 2 | United States | 66 | 48 | 35 | 92 | 241 |
| 3 | Japan | 46 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 136 |
| 4 | Canada | 33 | 0 | 35 | 51 | 119 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 23 | 4 | 26 | 3 | 56 |
| 6 | South Korea | 0 | 38 | 5 | 13 | 56 |
| 7 | France | 9 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 41 |
| 8 | Latvia | 26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| 9 | Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 22 | 8 | 30 |
| 10 | China | 11 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 28 |

## JGP Final qualification standings

### Qualification rules

At each event, skaters earn points toward qualification for the Junior Grand Prix Final. Following the 7th event, the top six highest scoring skaters advance to the Final. The points earned per placement are as follows:

| Placement | Points (Singles/Dance) | Points (Pairs) |
| - | - | - |
| 1st | 15 | 15 |
| 2nd | 13 | 13 |
| 3rd | 11 | 11 |
| 4th | 9 | 9 |
| 5th | 7 | 7 |
| 6th | 5 | 5 |
| 7th | 4 | 4 |
| 8th | 3 | 3 |
| 9th | 2 | – |
| 10th | 1 | – |

There are seven tie-breakers in cases of a tie in overall points:

* Highest placement at an event. If a skater placed 1st and 3rd, the tiebreaker is the 1st place, and that beats a skater who placed 2nd in both events.
* Highest combined total scores in both events. If a skater earned 200 points at one event and 250 at a second, that skater would win in the second tie-break over a skater who earned 200 points at one event and 150 at another.
* Participated in two events.
* Highest combined scores in the free skating/free dance portion of both events.
* Highest individual score in the free skating/free dance portion from one event.
* Highest combined scores in the short program/short dance of both events.
* Highest number of total participants at the events.

If there is still a tie, it is considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all advance to the Junior Grand Prix Final.

### Qualifiers

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Nathan Chen | Polina Tsurskaya | Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter |
| 2 | Dmitri Aliev | Maria Sotskova | Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons |
| 3 | Sota Yamamoto | Yuna Shiraiwa | Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd |
| 4 | Roman Sadovsky | Marin Honda | Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov | Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko |
| 5 | Daniel Samohin | Mai Mihara | Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac |
| 6 | Vincent Zhou | Alisa Fedichkina | Anastasia Poluianova / Stepan Korotkov | Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin |
| Alternates |||||
| 1st | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Kaori Sakamoto | Bryn Hoffman / Bryce Chudak | Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron |
| 2nd | Alexander Samarin | Choi Da-bin | Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko |
| 3rd | Nicolas Nadeau | Vivian Le | Elena Ivanova / Tagir Khakimov | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko |

## Top JGP scores

### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Score | Event |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Nathan Chen | United States | 236.76 | 2015 JGP USA |
| 2 | Sota Yamamoto | Japan | 232.42 | 2015 JGP Poland |
| 3 | Daniel Samohin | Israel | 227.19 | 2015 JGP Spain |
| 4 | Dmitri Aliev | Russia | 225.94 | 2015 JGP Austria |
| 5 | Alexander Samarin | Russia | 223.84 | 2015 JGP Croatia |
| 6 | Nicolas Nadeau | Canada | 223.46 | 2015 JGP Croatia |
| 7 | Vincent Zhou | United States | 211.96 | 2015 JGP Austria |
| 8 | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Latvia | 207.83 | 2015 JGP Poland |
| 9 | Roman Sadovsky | Canada | 203.72 | 2015 JGP Slovakia |
| 10 | Tomoki Hiwatashi | United States | 197.62 | 2015 JGP Croatia |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Score | Event |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Polina Tsurskaya | Russia | 195.28 | 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final |
| 2 | Yuna Shiraiwa | Japan | 186.80 | 2015 JGP Spain |
| 3 | Alisa Fedichkina | Russia | 186.38 | 2015 JGP Spain |
| 4 | Maria Sotskova | Russia | 185.44 | 2015 JGP Austria |
| 5 | Mai Mihara | Japan | 182.05 | 2015 JGP Austria |
| 6 | Marin Honda | Japan | 181.22 | 2015 JGP Croatia |
| 7 | Yura Matsuda | Japan | 178.98 | 2015 JGP Spain |
| 8 | Vivian Le | United States | 176.30 | 2015 JGP Slovakia |
| 9 | Wakaba Higuchi | Japan | 175.06 | 2015 JGP Croatia |
| 10 | Choi Da-bin | South Korea | 172.38 | 2015 JGP Austria |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Score | Event |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot | Russia | 171.86 | 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final |
| 2 | Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov | Russia | 162.50 | 2015 JGP Austria |
| 3 | Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | Czech Republic | 162.33 | 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final |
| 4 | Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov | Russia | 157.09 | 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final |
| 5 | Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei | Ukraine | 152.92 | 2015 JGP Austria |
| 6 | Anastasia Poluianova / Stepan Korotkov | Russia | 145.27 | 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final |
| 7 | Bryn Hoffman / Bryce Chudak | Canada | 142.33 | 2015 JGP Poland |
| 8 | Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez | United States | 136.62 | 2015 JGP USA |
| 9 | Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson | United States | 135.25 | 2015 JGP Poland |
| 10 | Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy | Canada | 135.11 | 2015 JGP Austria |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Nation | Score | Event |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | United States | 162.63 | 2015 JGP Poland |
| 2 | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | United States | 160.79 | 2015 JGP Croatia |
| 3 | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd | Russia | 153.64 | 2015 JGP Austria |
| 4 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | France | 152.72 | 2015 JGP Spain |
| 5 | Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko | Russia | 150.94 | 2015 JGP Spain |
| 6 | Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin | Russia | 148.75 | 2015 JGP Croatia |
| 7 | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko | United States | 146.15 | 2015 JGP Poland |
| 8 | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko | Russia | 143.87 | 2015 JGP Croatia |
| 9 | Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron | France | 142.85 | 2015 JGP Croatia |
| 10 | Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit | United States | 142.85 | 2015 JGP Spain |
