Autumn Classic International

Autumn Classic International
Autumn Classic International
Status	Inactive
Genre	ISU Challenger Series
Frequency	Annual
Country	Canada
Inaugurated	2014
Previous event	2023 Autumn Classic International
Organised by	Skate Canada

The Autumn Classic International is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by Skate Canada. The competition debuted in 2014 in Barrie, Ontario, as one of the inaugural competitions of the Challenger Series. The Autumn Classic International has been a Challenger Series event six times during its history. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; and when the event was part of the Challenger Series, skaters earned ISU World Standing points based on their results. The event was last held in 2023 in Montreal.

Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan holds the record for the most wins at the Autumn Classic International in men's singles (with four). Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada, and Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès of France, are tied for winning the most titles in pair skating (with two each). Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, and Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, also of Canada, are tied for winning the most titles in ice dance (with two each). No one skater holds the record in women's singles as there has been a unique champion each time the event has been held.

History

The ISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It is a series of international figure skating competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union and organized by ISU member nations. The objective is to ensure consistent organization and structure within a series of international competitions linked together, providing opportunities for senior-level skaters to compete at the international level and also earn ISU World Standing points.^[1] When an event is held as part of the Challenger Series, it must host at least three of the four disciplines (men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance) and representatives from at least ten different ISU member nations. The minimum number of entrants required for each discipline is eight skaters each in men's singles and women's singles, five teams in pair skating, and six teams in ice dance. Each ISU member nation is eligible to enter up to three skaters or teams per discipline in each competition, although Skate Canada may enter an unlimited number of entrants in their own event.^[2]

The inaugural edition of the Autumn Classic International coincided with the launch of the Challenger Series and was held in Barrie, Ontario. Ross Miner of the United States won the men's event, Gabrielle Daleman of Canada won the women's event, Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada won the pairs event, and Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France won the ice dance event.^[3] The Autumn Classic International was a Challenger Series event in 2014, from 2016 to 2019, in 2021, and in 2023.^[4] No competition was held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic,^[5] and the event in 2021 was held without spectators or media present.^[6] The most recent iteration was held in 2023 in Montreal.^[4]

Senior medalists

Ilia Malinin at the 2024 World Championships

Kaori Sakamoto at the 2024 World Championships

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps at the 2024 World Championships

Eva Pate and Logan Bye at the 2023 Skate Canada International

The 2023 Autumn Classic International champions (from left to right): Ilia Malinin of the United States (men's singles); Kaori Sakamoto of Japan (women's singles); Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada (pair skating); and Eva Pate and Logan Bye of the United States (ice dance)

CS: Challenger Series event

Men's singles

The men's event at the 2021 Autumn Classic International was not part of the Challenger Series competition.^[7]

Senior men's event medalists
Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2014 CS	Barrie	Ross Miner	Nam Nguyen	Jeremy Ten	^[3]
2015	Barrie	Yuzuru Hanyu	Nam Nguyen	Sean Rabbitt	^[8]
2016 CS	Montreal	Yuzuru Hanyu	Misha Ge	Max Aaron	^[9]
2017 CS	Montreal	Javier Fernández	Yuzuru Hanyu	Keegan Messing	^[10]
2018 CS	Oakville	Yuzuru Hanyu	Cha Jun-hwan	Roman Sadovsky	^[11]
2019 CS		Yuzuru Hanyu	Kévin Aymoz	Keegan Messing	^[12]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			^[5]
2021	Montreal	Conrad Orzel	Bennet Toman	Beres Clements	^[13]
2022	No competition held				^[4]
2023 CS	Montreal	Ilia Malinin	Kévin Aymoz	Stephen Gogolev	^[14]

Women's singles

Senior women's event medalists
Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2014 CS	Barrie	Gabrielle Daleman	Angela Wang	Julianne Séguin	^[3]
2015	Barrie	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Haruka Imai	Angela Wang	^[8]
2016 CS	Montreal	Mirai Nagasu	Alaine Chartrand	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	^[9]
2017 CS	Montreal	Kaetlyn Osmond	Mai Mihara	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	^[10]
2018 CS	Oakville	Bradie Tennell	Evgenia Medvedeva	Maé-Bérénice Méité	^[11]
2019 CS		Rika Kihira	Evgenia Medvedeva	Lim Eun-soo	^[12]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			^[5]
2021 CS	Montreal	Marilena Kitromilis	You Young	Ji Seo-yeon	^[13]
2022	No competition held				^[4]
2023 CS	Montreal	Kaori Sakamoto	Kaiya Ruiter	Justine Miclette	^[14]

Pairs

Senior pairs' event medalists
Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2014 CS	Barrie	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	Haven Denney Brandon Frazier	Jessica Calalang Zack Sidhu	^[3]
2015	Barrie	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	Marissa Castelli Mervin Tran	Jessica Pfund Joshua Santillan	^[8]
2016 CS	Montreal	Julianne Séguin Charlie Bilodeau	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	Marissa Castelli Mervin Tran	^[9]
2017 CS	Montreal	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	Julianne Séguin Charlie Bilodeau	^[10]
2018 CS	Oakville	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	Haven Denney Brandon Frazier	^[11]
2019		No pairs competition held			^[12]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			^[5]
2021 CS	Montreal	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Vanessa James Eric Radford	Ashley Cain-Gribble Timothy LeDuc	^[13]
2022	No competition held				^[4]
2023 CS	Montreal	Deanna Stellato-Dudek Maxime Deschamps	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Emmanuelle Proft Nicolas Nadeau	^[14]

Ice dance

Senior ice dance event medalists
Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2014 CS	Barrie	Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen	^[3]
2015	Barrie	Nicole Orford Asher Hill	Andréanne Poulin Marc-André Servant	Karina Manta Joseph Johnson	^[8]
2016 CS	Montreal	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen	^[9]
2017 CS	Montreal	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	^[10]
2018 CS	Oakville	Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Olivia Smart Adrián Díaz	Carolane Soucisse Shane Firus	^[11]
2019 CS		Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	Marie-Jade Lauriault Romain Le Gac	^[12]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			^[5]
2021 CS	Montreal	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Olivia Smart Adrián Díaz	Caroline Green Michael Parsons	^[13]
2022	No competition held				^[4]
2023 CS	Montreal	Eva Pate Logan Bye	Evgeniia Lopareva Geoffrey Brissaud	Hannah Lim Ye Quan	^[14]

Junior medalists

Men's singles

Junior men's event medalists
Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2015	Barrie	Cha Jun-hwan	Joseph Phan	Hugh Brabyn-Jones	^[8]
2016	Montreal	Edrian Paul Celestino	Mark Gorodnitsky	Iliya Kovler	^[9]
2017	Montreal	Eric Liu	Beresford Clements	Iliya Kovler	^[15]

Women's singles

Junior women's event medalists
Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2015	Barrie	Amanda Stan	Alicia Pineault	McKenna Colthorp	^[8]
2016	Montreal	Aurora Cotop	Olivia Gran	An So-hyun	^[9]
2017	Montreal	Julie Froetscher	Jeon Su-been	Hannah Dawson	^[15]

Records

Yuzuru Hanyu at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford at the 2011 Trophée Éric Bompard

Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès at the 2016 Trophée de France

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir at the 2012 World Championships

Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier at the 2012 World Championships

From left to right: Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan won four Autumn Classic International titles in men's singles; Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada, and Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès of France, each won two Autumn Classic International titles in pair skating; and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, and Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, both of Canada, each won two Autumn Classic International titles in ice dance.

Records
Discipline	Most titles
Discipline	Skater(s)	No.	Years	Ref.
Men's singles	Yuzuru Hanyu	4	2015–16; 2018–19	^[16]
Women's singles	N/a
Pairs	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	2	2014–15	^[17]
Pairs	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	2	2017–18	^[18]
Ice dance	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	2	2016–17	^[19]
Ice dance	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	2	2019; 2021	^[20]

Cumulative medal count (senior medalists)

Men's singles

Total number of Autumn Classic International medals in men's singles by nation
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	1	0	5
2	United States	2	0	2	4
3	Canada	1	3	6	10
4	Spain	1	0	0	1
5	France	0	2	0	2
6	South Korea	0	1	0	1
6	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Women's singles

Total number of Autumn Classic International medals in women's singles by nation
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	2	2	2	6
2	Japan	2	2	0	4
3	United States	2	1	1	4
4	Kazakhstan	1	0	2	3
5	Cyprus	1	0	0	1
6	Russia	0	2	0	2
7	South Korea	0	1	2	3
8	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	8	24

Pairs

Ice dance

Total number of Autumn Classic International medals in ice dance by nation
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	6	3	2	11
2	United States	1	1	2	4
3	France	1	1	1	3
4	Spain	0	2	0	2
5	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
6	Denmark	0	0	2	2
7	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Total medals

Total number of Autumn Classic International medals by nation
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	13	11	12	36
2	Japan	7	4	0	11
3	United States	5	4	10	19
4	France	3	4	2	9
5	Spain	1	2	0	3
6	Kazakhstan	1	0	2	3
7	Cyprus	1	0	0	1
8	South Korea	0	2	3	5
9	Russia	0	2	0	2
10	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
10	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
12	Denmark	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)		31	31	31	93

References

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External links

Skate Canada

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[ISU1994-2] "Communication No. 1994" (PDF). International Skating Union. 26 February 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

[ACI2014-3] 1 2 3 4 5 "2014 Autumn Classic intl". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 12 October 2025. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

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[2020Cancelled-5] 1 2 3 4 5 "Cancelled – 2020 Autumn Classic Intl". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 14 June 2025. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

[6] "2021 Autumn Classic International". International Figure Skating Magazine. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.

[7] "International competition returns to Canada at Autumn Classic International in Pierrefonds, Quebec". Skate Canada. 14 September 2021. Archived from the original on 16 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2026. Please note that the men's discipline will be a domestic event only.

[ACI2015-8] 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2015 Autumn Classic Intl". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 4 February 2024. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

[ACI2016-9] 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2016 Autumn Classic intl". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 5 February 2024. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

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[ACI2021-13] 1 2 3 4 "2021 Autumn Classic Intl". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

[ACI2023-14] 1 2 3 4 "2023 Autumn Classic Intl". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 27 December 2024. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

[ACI2017JR-15] 1 2 "2017 Autumn Classic International". Skate Canada. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2019.

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[17] "Competition Results – Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford". International Skating Union. 25 June 2018. Archived from the original on 10 May 2022. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

[18] "Competition Results – Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres". International Skating Union. 12 September 2019. Archived from the original on 17 February 2026. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

[19] "Competition Results – Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir". International Skating Union. 25 June 2018. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

[20] "Competition Results – Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier". International Skating Union. 12 June 2025. Archived from the original on 4 November 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

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