FAIR and interactive data graphics from a scientific knowledge graph

2014–15 ISU Challenger Series
Type:	ISU Challenger Series
Date:	September 10 – December 7, 2014
Season:	2014–15
Navigation
Next: 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series

The 2014–15 ISU Challenger Series was held from September to December 2014. It was the inaugural season of the ISU Challenger Series: a group of senior-level international figure skating competitions.

This season, the series included the following events. The 2014 Triglav Trophy was originally scheduled for November 6–9, 2014,^[1] but it was removed from the calendar as a Challenger Series event.

Date	Event	Location	Results
September 10–14	2014 U.S. International Classic	Salt Lake City, Utah, United States	Details
September 18–21	2014 Lombardia Trophy	Sesto San Giovanni, Italy	Details
September 25–27	2014 Nebelhorn Trophy	Oberstdorf, Germany	Details
October 2–5	2014 Ondrej Nepela Trophy	Bratislava, Slovakia	Details
October 9–12	2014 Finlandia Trophy	Espoo, Finland	Details
October 15–18	2014 Skate Canada Autumn Classic	Barrie, Ontario, Canada	Details
November 5–9	2014 Volvo Open Cup	Riga, Latvia	Details
November 6–9	2014 Triglav Trophy	No longer a Challenger Series event
November 11–16	2014 Ice Challenge	Graz, Austria	Details
November 21–24	2014 Warsaw Cup	Warsaw, Poland	Details
December 4–7	2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb	Zagreb, Croatia	Details

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
U.S. International Classic	Max Aaron	Ross Miner	Daisuke Murakami	Details
Lombardia Trophy	Richard Dornbush	Takahito Mura	Adian Pitkeev	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Jason Brown	Michal Březina	Konstantin Menshov	Details
Ondrej Nepela Trophy	Stephen Carriere	Kim Jin-seo	Gordei Gorshkov	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Sergei Voronov	Adam Rippon	Alexander Petrov	Details
Skate Canada Autumn Classic	Ross Miner	Nam Nguyen	Jeremy Ten	Details
Volvo Open Cup	Alexander Petrov	Gordei Gorshkov	Artur Dmitriev Jr.	Details
Ice Challenge	Douglas Razzano	Alexander Samarin	Martin Rappe	Details
Warsaw Cup	Alexander Petrov	Michael Christian Martinez	Matteo Rizzo	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Denis Ten	Michal Březina	Konstantin Menshov	Details

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
U.S. International Classic	Polina Edmunds	Courtney Hicks	Riona Kato	Details
Lombardia Trophy	Satoko Miyahara	Hannah Miller	Angela Wang	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Alena Leonova	Gracie Gold	Details
Ondrej Nepela Trophy	Roberta Rodeghiero	Joshi Helgesson	Ashley Cain	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Samantha Cesario	Rika Hongo	Details
Skate Canada Autumn Classic	Gabrielle Daleman	Angela Wang	Julianne Séguin	Details
Volvo Open Cup	Angelīna Kučvaļska	Lutricia Bock	Jenni Saarinen	Details
Ice Challenge	Hannah Miller	Isabelle Olsson	Ivett Tóth	Details
Warsaw Cup	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Anastasia Galustyan	Aleksandra Golovkina	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Kiira Korpi	Maria Artemieva	Nicole Rajičová	Details

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
U.S. International Classic	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu	Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage	Details
Lombardia Trophy	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Bianca Manacorda / Niccolo Macii	Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Details
Skate Canada Autumn Classic	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu	Details
Volvo Open Cup	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov	Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev	Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov	Details
Ice Challenge	Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave	Details
Warsaw Cup	Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch	Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin	Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov	Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea	Details

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
U.S. International Classic	Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton	Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi	Details
Ondrej Nepela Trophy	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus	Details
Skate Canada Autumn Classic	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Details
Volvo Open Cup	Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley	Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev	Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov	Details
Ice Challenge	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Barbora Silná / Juri Kurakin	Details
Warsaw Cup	Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley	Alexandra Nazarova / Maksym Nikitin	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Sara Hurtado / Adrián Díaz	Details

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	14	9	9	32
2	Russia (RUS)	11	7	7	25
3	Canada (CAN)	4	3	2	9
4	Slovakia (SVK)	2	0	2	4
5	Italy (ITA)	1	4	2	7
6	Japan (JPN)	1	1	3	5
7	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
8	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
11	Germany (GER)	0	2	3	5
12	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	2	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	0	2
14	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	1	2
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
18	Armenia (ARM)	0	1	0	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
21	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		37	37	37	111

The ISU Challenger Series rankings were formed by combining the two highest final scores of each skater or team.^[2]

No.	Skater	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score[3]
1	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	Nebelhorn Trophy	228.48	Golden Spin of Zagreb	239.62	468.10
2	Alexander Petrov	Russia	Volvo Open Cup	218.78	Warsaw Cup	231.53	450.31
3	Konstantin Menshov		Nebelhorn Trophy	211.03	Golden Spin of Zagreb	229.51	440.54
4	Ross Miner	United States	U.S. International Classic	209.78	Skate Canada Autumn Classic	227.26	437.04
5	Sergei Voronov	Russia	Nebelhorn Trophy	210.05	Finlandia Trophy	221.11	431.16

No.	Skater	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score[4]
1	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	Finlandia Trophy	193.31	Warsaw Cup	196.66	389.97
2	Alena Leonova		Nebelhorn Trophy	186.71	Ice Challenge	148.29	335.00
3	Hannah Miller	United States	Lombardia Trophy	170.26		156.39	326.65
4	Angela Wang			160.25	Skate Canada Autumn Classic	163.68	323.93
5	Maria Artemieva	Russia	Finlandia Trophy	140.38	Golden Spin of Zagreb	166.48	306.86

No.	Team	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score[5]
1	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	United States	U.S. International Classic	163.24	Nebelhorn Trophy	166.10	329.34
2	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier		Lombardia Trophy	157.80	Skate Canada Autumn Classic	167.28	325.08
3	Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu		U.S. International Classic	156.18		156.46	312.64
4	Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps	Canada	Lombardia Trophy	157.06		145.00	302.06
5	Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage	United States	U.S. International Classic	138.52	Lombardia Trophy	143.85	282.37

No.	Team	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score[6]
1	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	Ondrej Nepela Trophy	162.98	Ice Challenge	166.34	329.32
2	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy		143.94	Golden Spin of Zagreb	166.46	310.40
3	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi	Germany	Nebelhorn Trophy	147.10	Finlandia Trophy	139.98	287.08
4	Alexandra Nazarova / Maksym Nikitin	Ukraine	Warsaw Cup	136.90	Golden Spin of Zagreb	148.48	285.38
5	Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley	Slovakia	Volvo Open Cup	140.84	Warsaw Cup	143.36	284.20

Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Denis Ten	Kazakhstan	249.94	2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb
2	Max Aaron	United States	240.22	2014 U.S. International Classic
3	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	239.62	2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb
4	Richard Dornbush	United States	237.28	2014 Lombardia Trophy
5	Jason Brown		237.17	2014 Nebelhorn Trophy
6	Takahito Mura	Japan	235.79	2014 Lombardia Trophy
7	Alexander Petrov	Russia	231.53	2014 Warsaw Cup
8	Konstantin Menshov		229.51	2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb
9	Ross Miner	United States	227.26	2014 Skate Canada Autumn Classic
10	Nam Nguyen	Canada	225.63

Top 10 best scores in the ladies' combined total

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	196.66	2014 Warsaw Cup
2	Alena Leonova		186.71	2014 Nebelhorn Trophy
3	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	183.90	2014 Lombardia Trophy
4	Gracie Gold	United States	182.31	2014 Nebelhorn Trophy
5	Polina Edmunds		176.35	2014 U.S. International Classic
6	Courtney Hicks		174.14
7	Hannah Miller		170.26	2014 Lombardia Trophy
8	Kiira Korpi	Finland	167.81	2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb
9	Maria Artemieva	Russia	166.48
10	Gabrielle Daleman	Canada	165.59	2014 Skate Canada Autumn Classic

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	203.16	2014 Skate Canada Autumn Classic
2	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Russia	195.89	2014 Nebelhorn Trophy
3	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov		184.24	2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb
4	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov		178.98	2014 Nebelhorn Trophy
5	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	United States	167.28	2014 Skate Canada Autumn Classic
6	Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek	Italy	167.18	2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb
7	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	United States	166.10	2014 Nebelhorn Trophy
8	Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres	France	164.15
9	Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea	United States	161.72	2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb
10	Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin	Russia	157.80	2014 Ice Challenge

Top 10 best scores in the combined total (ice dance)

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	166.74	2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb
2	Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	166.46
3	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	166.34	2014 Ice Challenge
4	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	165.32	2014 Nebelhorn Trophy
5	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	163.73
6	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Russia	152.82	2015 Finlandia Trophy
7	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	150.20	2014 Skate Canada Autumn Classic
8	Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz	Spain	150.00	2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb
9	Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Ukraine	148.48
10	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi	Germany	147.10	2014 Nebelhorn Trophy

• ISU Challenger Series at the International Skating Union