2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy

The 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy was held on September 22–25, 2021 in Oberstdorf, Germany.[1] It was part of the 2021–22 ISU Challenger Series.[2] It was also the final qualifying event for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
Type:ISU Challenger Series
Date:September 22 – 25
Season:2021–22
Location:Oberstdorf, Germany
Host:Deutsche Eislauf Union
Venue:Eissportzentrum Oberstdorf
Champions
Men's singles:
United States Vincent Zhou
Women's singles:
United States Alysa Liu
Pairs:
Germany Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert
Ice dance:
Finland Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
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In December 2020, the International Skating Union designated Nebelhorn Trophy as the official figure skating qualification competition for the 2022 Winter Olympics.[3][4] The 2009, 2013, and 2017 editions of the event served the same role for the 2010, 2014, and 2018 Winter Olympics, respectively.[5]

Entries

The International Skating Union published the list of entries on September 2, 2021. Names with an asterisk (*) denote skaters not competing for Olympic qualification.

CountryMen[6]Women[7]Pairs[8]Ice dance[9]
 ArmeniaSlavik HayrapetyanTina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
 Australia[10]Brendan KerryKailani CraineAnastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos MooreHolly Harris / Jason Chan
 AustriaLuc Maierhofer*
Maurizio Zandron
Sophia Schaller
 AzerbaijanVladimir LitvintsevEkaterina Kuznetsova / Oleksandr Kolosovskyi
 BelarusViktoriia SafonovaBogdana Lukashevich / Alexander StepanovViktoria Semenjuk / Ilya Yukhimuk
 Bosnia and HerzegovinaEkaterina Mitrofanova / Vladislav Kasinskij
 Brazil[11]Isadora Williams
 BulgariaLarry Loupolover
 Canada[12]Roman Sadovsky
 ChileYae-Mia Neira
 ChinaWang Yuchen / Huang Yihang
 Chinese Taipei[13]Yeh Che YuTing Tzu-Han
 CroatiaJari KesslerLana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru
 CyprusEmilea Zingas
 Czech RepublicNatálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler
 DenmarkMaia Sørensen
 EstoniaGerli Liinamäe*
 FinlandValtter VirtanenOona Ounasvuori*Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
 FranceAdam Siao Him FaLéa SernaColine Keriven / Noël-Antoine Pierre
 GeorgiaKarina Safina / Luka BerulavaMaria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya
 GermanyPaul Fentz
Kai Jagoda*
Thomas Stoll*
Nathalie Weinzierl*Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert*
Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel*
Viktoriia Lopusova / Asaf Kazimov*
Lara Luft / Maximilian Pfisterer*
Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck*
Anne-Marie Wolf / Max Liebers*
 Great BritainPeter James HallamZoe Jones / Christopher BoyadjiSasha Fear / George Waddell
 GreeceDimitra Korri
 Hong KongHarrison Jon-Yen WongJoanna So
 HungaryAndrás CsernochJúlia LángAnna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács
 IcelandAldís Kara Bergsdóttir
 IndiaTara Prasad
 IrelandConor Stakelum
 IsraelTaylor MorrisHailey Kops / Evgeni KrasnopolskiShira Ichilov / Laurent Abecassis
 ItalyGabriele Frangipani*Lara Naki GutmannSara Conti / Niccolò Macii*Carolina Portesi Peroni / Michael Chrastecky
 KazakhstanDias JirenbayevBagdana Rakhishova
 LatviaAnete Lāce
 LiechtensteinRomana Kaiser
 LithuaniaAleksandra Golovkina
 MexicoEugenia Garza
 MonacoDavide Lewton Brain
 NetherlandsDaria Danilova / Michel TsibaChelsea Verhaegh / Sherim van Geffen
 New ZealandJocelyn HongCharlotte Lafond-Fournier / Richard Kang-in Kam
 Philippines[14]Edrian Paul CelestinoSofia Frank
 PolandKornel WitkowskiEkaterina KurakovaAnna Hernik / Michał Woźniak
 RomaniaJulia Sauter
 RussiaMark Kondratiuk
 SerbiaAntonina Dubinina
 SlovakiaAdam HagaraNicole RajičováMária Sofia Pucherová / Nikita Lysak
 SloveniaDaša Grm
 South AfricaMatthew Samuels
 South Korea[15]Lee Si-hyeongYura Min / Daniel Eaton
 SpainTomàs Llorenç Guarino SabatéLaura Barquero / Marco Zandron
 SwedenJosefin Taljegård*Greta Crafoord / John Crafoord
 SwitzerlandNicola Todeschini*Alexia Paganini
 ThailandThita Lamsam
 TurkeyBurak Demirboğa*
Başar Oktar
Sinem PekderYuliia Zhata / Berk Akalın
 UkraineAnastasiia ShabotovaSofiia Holichenko / Artem Darenskyi
 United States[16]Vincent ZhouAlysa Liu

Changes to preliminary assignments

DateDisciplineWithdrewAddedReason/Other notesRefs
September 5Women Angelīna Kučvaļska Anete LāceFurther consideration[7]
September 7Men Başar Oktar replaces Burak Demirboğa as the skater competing for Olympic qualification.[6]
September 13 Dmitri Aliev Mark KondratiukFurther consideration
Women Nikola Rychtaříková[7]
Ice dance Carolina Moscheni / Francesco Fioretti Carolina Portesi Peroni / Michael ChrasteckyFurther consideration[9]
September 15MenN/A Matthew Samuels[6]
September 17Women Maïa Mazzara Léa SernaFurther consideration[7]
Alexandra Mintsidou Dimitra Korri
Pairs Cléo Hamon / Denys Strekalin Coline Keriven / Noël-Antoine PierreHealth reasons (Hamon)[17][8]
September 20Women Anastasiya Galustyan[7]
Pairs Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii[8]

Results

Men

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFSOlympic Qualification
1Vincent Zhou  United States284.23197.351186.88Qualified
2Adam Siao Him Fa  France243.78289.233154.55Qualified
3Mark Kondratiuk  Russia241.06581.482159.58Qualified
4Gabriele Frangipani  Italy229.39483.116146.28
5Lee Si-hyeong  South Korea229.14779.954149.19Qualified
6Vladimir Litvintsev  Azerbaijan228.65680.545148.11Qualified
7Brendan Kerry  Australia218.95385.897133.06Qualified
8Roman Sadovsky  Canada207.62876.108131.52Qualified
9Burak Demirboğa  Turkey203.281073.5610129.72
10Başar Oktar  Turkey203.22974.7713128.45Reserve 1
11Slavik Hayrapetyan  Armenia199.471269.8912129.58Reserve 2
12Peter James Hallam  Great Britain196.391566.7711129.62Reserve 3
13Paul Fentz  Germany194.701173.3215121.38Reserve 4
14Maurizio Zandron  Austria192.731762.859129.88
15Jari Kessler  Croatia190.391369.2816121.11
16Nicola Todeschini  Switzerland185.091466.7917118.30
17Tomàs Llorenç Guarino Sabaté  Spain187.722259.4514128.27
18Edrian Paul Celestino  Philippines176.101664.3218111.78
19Davide Lewton Brain  Monaco170.131862.3821107.75
20Kai Jagoda  Germany169.232061.4820107.75
21András Csernoch  Hungary164.412159.5224104.89
22Larry Loupolover  Bulgaria163.801961.8227101.98
23Adam Hagara  Slovakia162.412554.2019108.21
24Valtter Virtanen  Finland161.022455.2222105.80
25Matthew Samuels  South Africa160.152356.0925104.06
26Harrison Jon-Yen Wong  Hong Kong158.492653.5523104.94
27Dias Jirenbayev  Kazakhstan156.292852.8126103.48
28Thomas Stoll  Germany153.772952.3228101.45
29Conor Stakelum  Ireland140.672753.013087.66
30Yeh Che Yu  Chinese Taipei137.133046.912990.22
WDLuc Maierhofer  Austriawithdrewwithdrew from competition
WDKornel Witkowski  Polandwithdrewwithdrew from competition

Women

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFSOlympic Qualification
1Alysa Liu  United States207.40170.861136.54Qualified
2Ekaterina Kurakova  Poland193.58661.042132.54Qualified
3Viktoriia Safonova  Belarus190.29362.023128.27Qualified
4Alexia Paganini  Switzerland180.48265.655114.83Qualified
5Anastasiia Shabotova  Ukraine177.70561.494116.21Qualified
6Josefin Taljegård  Sweden166.05954.966111.09
7Kailani Craine  Australia165.35461.6210103.73Qualified
8Lara Naki Gutmann  Italy164.60757.167107.44Reserve 1
9Emilea Zingas  Cyprus158.161152.909105.26Reserve 2
10Ting Tzu-Han  Chinese Taipei157.211351.338105.88Reserve 3
11Oona Ounasvuori  Finland155.671251.9411103.73
12Daša Grm  Slovenia148.791550.191398.60Reserve 4
13Taylor Morris  Israel148.341053.361694.98
14Léa Serna  France146.521450.931595.59
15Jocelyn Hong  New Zealand146.411749.131497.28
16Júlia Láng  Hungary145.642445.2212100.42
17Anete Lāce  Latvia145.17854.961990.21
18Nicole Rajičová  Slovakia143.001650.001793.00
19Sophia Schaller  Austria138.751848.922089.83
20Julia Sauter  Romania136.492048.792187.70
21Joanna So  Hong Kong135.781948.792386.99
22Eugenia Garza  Mexico135.292147.842287.45
23Gerli Liinamäe  Estonia133.832843.441890.39
24Sofia Frank  Philippines128.782247.652981.13
25Nathalie Weinzierl  Germany127.992544.622683.37
26Antonina Dubinina  Serbia127.972644.092583.88
27Maia Sørensen  Denmark127.322346.693080.63
28Aleksandra Golovkina  Lithuania125.332743.952881.38
29Yae-Mia Neira  Chile122.342941.863180.48
30Tara Prasad  India122.273437.512484.76
31Sinem Pekder  Turkey122.123040.012782.11
32Aldís Kara Bergsdóttir  Iceland118.093139.923278.17
33Bagdana Rakhishova  Kazakhstan104.183338.223365.96
34Romana Kaiser  Liechtenstein92.393731.383461.01
35Dimitra Korri  Greece91.893632.893559.00
36Thita Lamsam  Thailand90.133533.333656.80
WDIsadora Williams  Brazilwithdrew3238.52withdrew from competition

Pairs

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFSOlympic Qualification
1Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert  Germany185.25266.262118.99
2Laura Barquero / Marco Zandron  Spain181.61362.011119.60Qualified
3Karina Safina / Luka Berulava  Georgia178.16166.463111.70Qualified
4Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel  Germany168.21559.115109.10
5Hailey Kops / Evgeni Krasnopolski  Israel167.08755.584111.50Qualified
6Wang Yuchen / Huang Yihang  China162.66460.216102.45Reserve 1
7Bogdana Lukashevich / Alexander Stepanov  Belarus159.08658.257100.83Reserve 2
8Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore  Australia149.351349.55899.80Reserve 3
9Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba  Netherlands145.26855.39989.87Reserve 4
10Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii  Italy143.44953.961189.48
11Sofiia Holichenko / Artem Darenskyi  Ukraine142.381052.631089.75
12Lana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru  Croatia141.181152.421288.76
13Coline Keriven / Noël-Antoine Pierre  France137.501251.231386.27
14Greta Crafoord / John Crafoord  Sweden134.401448.871485.53
15Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji  Great Britain129.121544.901584.22
16Anna Hernik / Michał Woźniak  Poland105.421640.051665.37

Ice dance

RankNameNationTotal pointsRDFDOlympic Qualification
1Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis  Finland181.19170.921110.27Qualified
2Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck  Germany173.74468.473105.27
3Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya  Georgia173.20566.952106.25Qualified
4Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal  Armenia173.03368.614104.42Qualified
5Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler  Czech Republic172.98270.515102.47Qualified
6Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács  Hungary160.41864.68695.74Reserve 1
7Yura Min / Daniel Eaton  South Korea158.54666.791091.75Reserve 2
8Carolina Portesi Peroni / Michael Chrastecky  Italy157.741062.69795.05Reserve 3
9Holly Harris / Jason Chan  Australia157.21963.05894.16Reserve 4
10Shira Ichilov / Laurent Abecassis  Israel154.76764.901189.86
11Sasha Fear / George Waddell  Great Britain154.241160.51993.73
12Charlotte Lafond-Fournier / Richard Kang-in Kam  New Zealand146.181358.611287.57
13Lara Luft / Maximilian Pfisterer  Germany144.211259.231384.98
14Yuliia Zhata / Berk Akalın  Turkey140.661456.491484.17
15Viktoriia Lopusova / Asaf Kazimov  Germany132.001556.371675.63
16Anne-Marie Wolf / Max Liebers  Germany129.801653.651576.15
17Ekaterina Kuznetsova / Oleksandr Kolosovskyi  Azerbaijan123.971752.141871.83
18Mária Sofia Pucherová / Nikita Lysak  Slovakia120.512046.201774.31
19Chelsea Verhaegh / Sherim van Geffen  Netherlands118.681947.881970.80
20Ekaterina Mitrofanova / Vladislav Kasinskij  Bosnia and Herzegovina113.981848.532065.45
WDViktoria Semenjuk / Ilya Yukhimuk  Belaruswithdrewwithdrew from competition

Olympic qualification event

Initially, a total of six spots per singles event, three spots in pairs, and four spots in ice dance were available at the Nebelhorn Trophy. One additional quota spot became available in men's singles following the 2021 World Championships.[18] Available spots were allocated in descending order of placement among eligible nations.

Only ISU member nations that had not already earned an entry to the Olympics via the 2021 World Championships were allowed to attempt to earn a qualification berth at Nebelhorn Trophy. However, if a country earned two or three spots at the World Championships, but did not have two or three skaters, respectively, qualify for the free skating/dance, then they were allowed to send a skater/team who did not qualify for the free segment at World Championships to Nebelhorn Trophy to qualify the remaining spot.[4] The following ISU member nations were eligible to qualify a second or third spot in the listed disciplines at Nebelhorn Trophy:[18]

Spot #MenWomenPairsDance
3  United States
 ROC[a]
 United States  China
2  Canada
 France
 South Korea
 Belgium
 Austria
 Japan  Italy
 Great Britain
All other ISU member nations not previously qualified were eligible to earn one quota spot.

Unlike at the World Championships, where countries could qualify more than one spot depending on the placement of their skater(s), at Nebelhorn Trophy, countries could earn only one spot per discipline, regardless of ranking. The following ISU member nations qualified a berth for their National Olympic Committee at Nebelhorn Trophy:[19]

MenWomenPairsDance
 United States  United States  Spain  Finland
 France  Poland  Georgia  Georgia
 ROC[a]  Belarus  Israel  Armenia
 South Korea  Switzerland  Czech Republic
 Azerbaijan  Ukraine
 Australia  Australia
 Canada

If a country declines to use one or more of its qualified spots for the Olympics, the vacated spot will be awarded using the results of Nebelhorn Trophy in descending order of placement.[4] The following countries are next in line for Olympic quota spots:[19]

MenWomenPairsDance
 Turkey  Italy  China  Hungary
 Armenia  Cyprus  Belarus  South Korea
 Great Britain  Chinese Taipei  Australia  Italy
 Germany  Slovenia  Netherlands  Australia

Notes

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