2023–24 ISU Challenger Series

The 2023–24 ISU Challenger Series was held from September to December 2023. It was the tenth season that the ISU Challenger Series, a group of senior-level international figure skating competitions, was held.

2023–24 ISU Challenger Series
Type:	ISU Challenger Series
Date:	September 8 – December 10, 2023
Season:	2023–24
Previous: 2022–23 ISU Challenger Series
Next: 2024–25 ISU Challenger Series

Competitions

This season, the series included the following events.

Date	Event	Location	Notes	Results
September 8–10	2023 Lombardia Trophy	Bergamo, Italy		Details
September 14–16	2023 Autumn Classic International	Montreal, Quebec, Canada		Details
September 20–23	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy	Oberstdorf, Germany		Details
September 28–30	2023 Nepela Memorial	Bratislava, Slovakia	No pairs	Details
October 4–8	2023 Finlandia Trophy	Espoo, Finland		Details
October 13–15	2023 Budapest Trophy	Budapest, Hungary	No pairs	Details
November 1–4	2023 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Astana, Kazakhstan	No pairs	Details
November 7–12	2023 Ice Challenge	Cancelled
November 15–19	2023 Warsaw Cup	Warsaw, Poland	No pairs	Details
December 7–10	2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb	Sisak, Croatia		Details

Requirements

Skaters were eligible to compete on the Challenger Series if they had reached the age of 16 before July 1, 2023.

Medal summary

Men's singles

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Lombardia Trophy	Yuma Kagiyama	Nika Egadze	Andrew Torgashev	Details
Autumn Classic International	Ilia Malinin	Kévin Aymoz	Stephen Gogolev	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Adam Siao Him Fa	Kazuki Tomono	Koshiro Shimada	Details
Nepela Memorial	Gabriele Frangipani	Nika Egadze	Mark Gorodnitsky	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Kao Miura	Shun Sato	Aleksandr Selevko	Details
Budapest Trophy	Nikolaj Memola	Lukas Britschgi	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Details
Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Lim Ju-heon	Nika Egadze	Kim Han-gil	Details
Warsaw Cup	Lukas Britschgi	Mark Gorodnitsky	Jason Brown	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Jin Boyang	Mikhail Shaidorov	Aleksandr Selevko	Details

Women's singles

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Lombardia Trophy	Anastasiia Gubanova	Hana Yoshida	Kim Chae-yeon	Details
Autumn Classic International	Kaori Sakamoto	Kaiya Ruiter	Justine Miclette	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Isabeau Levito	Kimmy Repond	Kim Min-chae	Details
Nepela Memorial	Kim Chae-yeon	Lee Hae-in	Madeline Schizas	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Kim Ye-lim	Rinka Watanabe	Anastasiia Gubanova	Details
Budapest Trophy	Bradie Tennell	Léa Serna	Clare Seo	Details
Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Mariia Seniuk	Choi Da-bin	Alina Urushadze	Details
Warsaw Cup	Ekaterina Kurakova	Anna Pezzetta	Elyce Lin-Gracey	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Sarina Joos	Amber Glenn	Starr Andrews	Details

Pairs

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Lombardia Trophy	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	Details
Autumn Classic International	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Emmanuelle Proft / Nicolas Nadeau	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin	Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Milania Väänänen / Filippo Clerici	Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez	Sofiia Holichenko / Artem Darenskyi	Details

Ice dance

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Results
Lombardia Trophy	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya	Details
Autumn Classic International	Eva Pate / Logan Bye	Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	Hannah Lim / Ye Quan	Details
Nebelhorn Trophy	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevicius	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Details
Nepela Memorial	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler	Details
Finlandia Trophy	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Details
Budapest Trophy	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier	Details
Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan	Mariia Pinchuk / Mykyta Pogorielov	Details
Warsaw Cup	Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	Hannah Lim / Ye Quan	Marie Dupayage / Thomas Nabais	Details
Golden Spin of Zagreb	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik	Isabella Flores / Ivan Desyatov	Details

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	5	4	7	16
2	Italy	5	3	0	8
3	Japan	3	5	1	9
4	Georgia	3	4	3	10
5	South Korea	3	3	4	10
6	France	2	3	2	7
7	Finland	2	0	1	3
8	Great Britain	2	0	0	2
9	Canada	1	2	5	8
10	Germany	1	2	2	5
11	Switzerland	1	2	0	3
12	Israel	1	1	1	3
13	Lithuania	1	1	0	2
14	China	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
16	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
17	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
18	Estonia	0	0	2	2
	Ukraine	0	0	2	2
20	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		32	32	32	96

Challenger Series rankings

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

Men's singles

As of December 29, 2023.

No.	Skater	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Lukas Britschgi	Switzerland	Budapest Trophy	246.12	Warsaw Cup	246.22	492.34
2	Jin Boyang	China	Autumn Classic International	230.99	Golden Spin of Zagreb	258.67	489.66
3	Nika Egadze	Georgia	Lombardia Trophy	243.35	Nepela Memorial	243.31	486.66
4	Mark Gorodnitsky	Israel	Nepela Memorial	236.30	Warsaw Cup	243.29	479.59
5	Nikolaj Memola	Italy	Finlandia Trophy	222.98	Budapest Trophy	250.37	473.35

Women's singles

As of December 29, 2023.

No.	Skater	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Kim Chae-yeon	South Korea	Lombardia Trophy	180.78	Nepela Memorial	202.26	383.04
2	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia		185.60	Finlandia Trophy	179.61	365.21
3	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	Nepela Memorial	181.98	Warsaw Cup	181.71	363.69
4	Léa Serna	France	Budapest Trophy	178.56		174.59	353.15
5	Livia Kaiser	Switzerland		170.39		173.20	343.59

Pairs

As of December 29, 2023.

No.	Team	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin	Germany	Lombardia Trophy	194.52	Nebelhorn Trophy	194.96	389.48
2	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel			191.76		189.01	380.77
3	Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise	Italy		185.06		191.71	376.77
4	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini			182.33	Finlandia Trophy	177.03	359.36
5	Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko	Hungary	Nebelhorn Trophy	182.60		169.39	351.99

Ice dance

As of December 29, 2023.

No.	Team	Nation	First event	Score	Second event	Score	Total score
1	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	Nebelhorn Trophy	207.84	Nepela Memorial	200.46	408.30
2	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania		190.55	Golden Spin of Zagreb	200.11	390.66
3	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Georgia	Budapest Trophy	191.84	Denis Ten Memorial Challenge	192.67	384.51
4	Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	France	Autumn Classic International	186.94	Warsaw Cup	196.56	383.50
5	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Finland	Nebelhorn Trophy	183.63	Finlandia Trophy	193.73	377.36

Top scores

For the all-time highest scores, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

For the season's highest scores, see 2023–24 figure skating season § Season's best scores.

Men's singles

Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Ilia Malinin	United States	281.68	2023 Autumn Classic International
2	Adam Siao Him Fa	France	279.57	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
3	Kao Miura	Japan	267.81	2023 Finlandia Trophy
4	Kazuki Tomono		265.78	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
5	Yuma Kagiyama		265.59	2023 Lombardia Trophy
6	Shun Sato		261.23	2023 Finlandia Trophy
7	Jin Boyang	China	258.67	2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
8	Nikolaj Memola	Italy	250.37	2023 Budapest Trophy
9	Koshiro Shimada	Japan	247.43	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
10	Lukas Britschgi	Switzerland	246.22	2023 Warsaw Cup

Top 10 best scores in the men's short program

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Ilia Malinin	United States	100.87	2023 Autumn Classic International
2	Adam Siao Him Fa	France	95.17	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
3	Kazuki Tomono	Japan	93.55
4	Lukas Britschgi	Switzerland	91.51	2023 Warsaw Cup
5	Yuma Kagiyama	Japan	91.47	2023 Lombardia Trophy
6	Jin Boyang	China	91.25	2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
7	Kao Miura	Japan	90.95	2023 Finlandia Trophy
8	Nikolaj Memola	Italy	88.99	2023 Budapest Trophy
9	Shun Sato	Japan	87.47	2023 Finlandia Trophy
10	Andrew Torgashev	United States	86.41	2023 Lombardia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the men's free skating

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Adam Siao Him Fa	France	184.40	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Ilia Malinin	United States	180.81	2023 Autumn Classic International
3	Kao Miura	Japan	176.86	2023 Finlandia Trophy
4	Yuma Kagiyama		174.12	2023 Lombardia Trophy
5	Shun Sato		173.76	2023 Finlandia Trophy
6	Kazuki Tomono		172.23	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
7	Lukas Britschgi	Switzerland	168.34	2023 Budapest Trophy
8	Koshiro Shimada	Japan	167.86	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
9	Jin Boyang	China	167.42	2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
10	Gabriele Frangipani	Italy	164.87	2023 Nepela Memorial

Women's singles

Top 10 best scores in the women's combined total

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	203.20	2023 Autumn Classic International
2	Kim Chae-yeon	South Korea	202.26	2023 Nepela Memorial
3	Isabeau Levito	United States	198.79	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
4	Kimmy Repond	Switzerland	191.94
5	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	191.10	2023 Nepela Memorial
6	Madeline Schizas	Canada	188.88
7	Kim Ye-lim	South Korea	187.91	2023 Finlandia Trophy
8	Bradie Tennell	United States	185.84	2023 Budapest Trophy
9	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	185.60	2023 Lombardia Trophy
10	Hana Yoshida	Japan	185.45

Top 10 best scores in the women's short program

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	75.62	2023 Autumn Classic International
2	Kim Ye-lim	South Korea	70.20	2023 Finlandia Trophy
3	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	69.65	2023 Lombardia Trophy
4	Isabeau Levito	United States	69.30	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
5	Kim Chae-yeon	South Korea	67.42	2023 Nepela Memorial
	Madeline Schizas	Canada	67.42
7	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	66.08
8	Livia Kaiser	Switzerland	65.21	2023 Warsaw Cup
9	Bradie Tennell	United States	65.09	2023 Budapest Trophy
10	Ava Marie Ziegler		65.07	2023 Finlandia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the women's free skating

No.	Skater	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kim Chae-yeon	South Korea	134.84	2023 Nepela Memorial
2	Kimmy Repond	Switzerland	130.39	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
3	Isabeau Levito	United States	129.49
4	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	127.58	2023 Autumn Classic International
5	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	125.02	2023 Nepela Memorial
6	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	124.26	2023 Warsaw Cup
7	Hana Yoshida	Japan	122.91	2023 Lombardia Trophy
8	Madeline Schizas	Canada	121.46	2023 Nepela Memorial
9	Kim Min-chae	South Korea	121.27	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
10	Bradie Tennell	United States	120.75	2023 Budapest Trophy

Pairs

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	Canada	203.62	2023 Autumn Classic International
2	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii	Italy	200.35	2023 Lombardia Trophy
3	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin	Germany	194.96	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
4	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel		191.76	2023 Lombardia Trophy
5	Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise	Italy	191.71	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
6	Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud	Canada	188.94
7	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	188.05	2023 Autumn Classic International
8	Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko	Hungary	182.60	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
9	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Italy	182.33	2023 Lombardia Trophy
10	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea	United States	182.07	2023 Finlandia Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' short program

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	Canada	71.80	2023 Autumn Classic International
2	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii	Italy	70.16	2023 Lombardia Trophy
3	Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise		66.94
4	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin	Germany	66.22
5	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel		66.06
6	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea	United States	63.03	2023 Finlandia Trophy
7	Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud	Canada	62.38	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
8	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Italy	61.75	2023 Finlandia Trophy
9	Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko	Hungary	61.66
10	Milania Väänänen / Filippo Clerici	Finland	60.95	2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' free skating

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin	Germany	132.11	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	Canada	131.82	2023 Autumn Classic International
3	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii	Italy	130.19	2023 Lombardia Trophy
4	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	128.92	2023 Autumn Classic International
5	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Italy	127.34	2023 Lombardia Trophy
6	Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud	Canada	126.56	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
7	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	Germany	125.70	2023 Lombardia Trophy
8	Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise	Italy	125.35	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
9	Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko	Hungary	121.26
10	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea	United States	119.04	2023 Finlandia Trophy

Ice dance

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

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	208.02	2023 Lombardia Trophy
2	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	207.84	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
3	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	200.11	2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
4	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Finland	193.73	2023 Finlandia Trophy
5	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Georgia	192.67	2023 Denis Ten Memorial
6	Eva Pate / Logan Bye	United States	191.20	2023 Autumn Classic International
7	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko		191.14	2023 Finlandia Trophy
8	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler	Czech Republic	189.23	2023 Lombardia Trophy
9	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	188.56	2023 Finlandia Trophy
10	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac		188.32	2023 Budapest Trophy

Top 10 best scores in the rhythm dance

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	84.61	2023 Lombardia Trophy
2	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	82.42	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
3	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	81.19	2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
4	Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik	United States	78.23
5	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Georgia	77.62	2023 Nepela Memorial
6	Eva Pate / Logan Bye	United States	77.02	2023 Autumn Classic International
7	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Finland	75.76	2023 Finlandia Trophy
8	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler	Czech Republic	75.21	2023 Lombardia Trophy
9	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	74.15	2023 Finlandia Trophy
10	Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck	Spain	72.56

Top 10 best scores in the free dance

No.	Team	Nation	Score	Event
1	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	125.42	2023 Nebelhorn Trophy
2	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	123.41	2023 Lombardia Trophy
3	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	120.89	2023 Finlandia Trophy
4	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	118.92	2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb
5	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Finland	117.97	2023 Finlandia Trophy
6	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	116.99
7	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	Georgia	116.63	2023 Budapest Trophy
8	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	Canada	116.40
9	Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	France	114.66	2023 Autumn Classic International
10	Eva Pate / Logan Bye	United States	114.18

External links

• ISU Challenger Series at the International Skating Union