International Challenge Cup

The International Challenge Cup (formerly the Ennia Challenge Cup and the Aegon Cup)^[1] is an annual figure skating competition generally held in February or March in The Hague, Netherlands.

Medals may be awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior, junior, novice, and pre-novice levels, such as "Debs". Some categories may be omitted in some years due to a lack of participants.

History[]

In the 1970s and 1980s, the competition was titled the Ennia Challenge Cup and held in November.^[2][3] It did not include compulsory figures.^[4] The event later become known as the Aegon Challenge Cup after its title sponsor, Aegon N.V.^[1]

By the 21st century, the competition had moved to February or March. The 2016 edition was cancelled.

Senior medalists[]

Men[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
1977–78	David Santee	Fumio Igarashi	Daniel Béland	[1]
1978–79	Scott Cramer	Jean-Christophe Simond	Dennis Coi	[1]
1979–80	Robin Cousins	Gordon Forbes	Robert Wagenhoffer	[1][3]
1980–81	Jean-Christophe Simond	Mark Cockerell	Daniel Béland	[1]
1981–82	Rudi Cerne	James Santee	Dennis Coi	[1]
1982–83	Brian Boitano	Norbert Schramm	Jozef Sabovčík	[1]
1983–84	Brian Orser	Takashi Mura	Rudi Cerne	[1]
1984–85	Petr Barna	Viktor Petrenko	Christopher Bowman	[1]
2008	Kristoffer Berntsson	Samuel Contesti	Clemens Brummer	[5]
2009	Samuel Contesti	Kevin van der Perren	Jamal Othman	[6]
2012	Brian Joubert	Jeremy Abbott	Samuel Contesti	[7]
2013	Brian Joubert	Alexander Johnson	Chafik Besseghier	[8]
2014	Takahito Mura	Douglas Razzano	Chafik Besseghier	[9]
2015	Ivan Righini	Javier Raya	Ryuju Hino	[10]
2017	Jorik Hendrickx	Jordan Moeller	Moris Kvitelashvili	[11]
2018	Adrien Tesson	Daniel Grassl	Valtter Virtanen	[12]
2019	Sōta Yamamoto	Yuma Kagiyama	Lukas Britschgi	[13]
2020	Shoma Uno	Keiji Tanaka	Adrien Tesson	[14]
2021	Mikhail Kolyada	Romain Ponsart	Adam Siao Him Fa	[15]

Ladies[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
1977–78	Emi Watanabe	Susan Broman	Kristiina Wegelius	[1]
1978–79	Denise Biellmann	Renata Baierová	Natalia Strelkova	[1]
1979–80	Renata Baierová	Elaine Zayak	Heather Kemkaran	[1]
1980–81	Jackie Farrell	Katarina Witt		[1]
1981–82	Katarina Witt	Elaine Zayak	Diane Ogibowski	[4]
1982–83	Vikki de Vries	Claudia Leistner	Anna Antonova	[1]
1983–84	Katarina Witt	Midori Ito	Sachie Yuki	[1]
1984–85	Constanze Gensel		Yvonne Gómez	[1]
2007	Karen Venhuizen	Kathrin Freudelsperger	Viviane Käser	[16]
2008	Akiko Suzuki	Tuğba Karademir	Becky Bereswill	[5]
2009	Viktoria Helgesson	Joshi Helgesson	Constanze Paulinus	[6]
2012	Carolina Kostner	Valentina Marchei	Alissa Czisny	[7]
2013	Carolina Kostner	Maé-Bérénice Méité	Kerstin Frank	[8]
2014	Isabelle Olsson	Haruka Imai	Anna Ovcharova	[9]
2015	Kanako Murakami	Joshi Helgesson	Niki Wories	[10]
2017	Loena Hendrickx	Caroline Zhang	Larkyn Austman	[11]
2018	Wakaba Higuchi	Rika Hongo	Marin Honda	[12]
2019	Rika Kihira	Starr Andrews	Wakaba Higuchi	[13]
2020	Rika Kihira	Yuhana Yokoi	Madeline Schizas	[14]
2021	Loena Hendrickx	Emmy Ma	Emilea Zingas	[15]

Pairs[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
1978–79	Irina Vorobieva / Igor Lisovsky	Sheryl Franks / Michael Botticelli	Ingrid Spieglová / Alan Spiegl	[1]
1979–80	Irina Vorobieva / Igor Lisovsky	Veronica Pershina / Marat Akbarov	Christina Riegel / Andreas Nischwitz	[1][2]
1980–81	Christina Riegel / Andreas Nischwitz	Kitty Carruthers / Peter Carruthers	Susan Garland / Robert Daw	[1]
1981–82	Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini	Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov	/ Peter Oppegard	[1]
1982–83	Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov	Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert	Susan Garland / Ian Jenkins	[1]
1983–84	Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert	Cynthia Coull / Mark Rowsom	Katherina Matousek / Lloyd Eisler	[1][2]
1984–85	Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov	Melinda Kunhegyi / Lyndon Johnston	Natalie Seybold / Wayne Seybold	[1]
2013	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea	Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave	[8]
2014	Daria Popova / Bruno Massot	Annabelle Prölß / Ruben Blommaert	/ Luca Demattè	[9]
2015	Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay	Caitlin Yankowskas / Hamish Gaman	Minerva-Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	[10]
2017	Daria Beklemishcheva / Márk Magyar	Emilia Simonen /	N/A	[11]
2018	Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu	Ioulia Chtchetinina /	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	[12]
2019	Minerva Hase / Nolan Seegert	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	Annika Hocke / Ruben Blommaert	[13]
2020	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	[14]
2021	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	Ioulia Chtchetinina / Márk Magyar	[15]

Ice dancing[]

Season	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
1977–78	Elena Garanina / Igor Zavozin	? Skoro / ? Badaj	Stacey Smith / John Summers	[1]
1978–79	Liliana Řeháková / Stanislav Drastich	Natalia Karamysheva / Rostislav Sinitsyn	Susanne Handschmann / Peter Handschmann
1979–80	Liliana Řeháková / Stanislav Drastich	Elena Garanina / Igor Zavozin	Susanne Handschmann / Peter Handschmann
1980–81	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin	Natalia Karamysheva / Rostislav Sinitsyn	Wendy Sessions / Stephen Williams	[1]
1981–82	Carol Fox / Richard Dalley	Jana Beránková / Jan Barták	Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall	[1]
1982–83	Karen Barber / Nicky Slater	Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko	Natalia Karamysheva / Rostislav Sinitsyn	[1]
1983–84	Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko	Elena Batanova / Alexei Soloviev	Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall	[1]
1984–85	Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko	Maia Usova / Alexander Zhulin	Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck	[1]
2021	Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács	Chelsea Verhaegh / Sherim van Geffen	[15]

Junior medalists[]

Men[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
2008		Daniel O'Shea		[5]
2009	Daisuke Murakami	Joshua Farris	Jorik Hendrickx	[6]
2012	Peter James Hallam			[7]
2014	Sei Kawahara	Kazuki Tomono	Panagiotis Polizoakis	[9]
2015	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Juho Pirinen		[10]
2017	Nurullah Sahaka			[11]
2018		Yuto Kishina		[12]
2019	Shun Sato			[13]
2020		Denis Gurdzhi		[14]

Ladies[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
2007	Rachael Flatt	Alexe Gilles	Chrissy Hughes	[16]
2008		Shoko Ishikawa	Amanda Dobbs	[5]
2009	Kanako Murakami	Ellie Kawamura	Isabelle Olsson	[6]
2012	Leah Keiser	Gabrielle Daleman	Giada Russo	[7]
2014	Kaori Sakamoto		Emmi Peltonen	[9]
2015		Kyarha van Tiel	Loena Hendrickx	[10]
2017	Emmy Ma		Smilla Szalkai	[11]
2018	Nana Araki	Yuhana Yokoi	Stefanie Pesendorfer	[12]
2019	Yuhana Yokoi			[13]
2020				[14]

Pairs[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
2012	Jessica Pfund /	Anastasia Dolidze / Vadim Ivanov	Vanessa Bauer / Nolan Seegert	[7]
2014	Jessica Lee /	/ Brian Johnson	/	[9]
2015	/ Francis Boudreau-Audet	Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei	/	[10]
2019	Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba	N/A		[13]

Ice dancing[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
2008	/	Justyna Plutowska / Dawid Pietrzyński	/ Tobias Eisenbauer	[5]

Advanced novice medalists[]

Boys[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
2008	Keiji Tanaka		Filippo Ambrosini	[5]
2009	Sei Kawahara	Carlo Roethlisberger		[6]
2012	Roman Sadovsky		Sondre Oddvoll Bøe	[7]
2013	Illya Solomin			[8]
2014				[9]
2015	Sena Miyake			[10]
2017	Maxim Naumov			[11]
2018		Shunsuke Nakamura	Haru Kakiuchi	[12]
2019	Daniel Martynov	Naoki Rossi	Sora Tarumi	[13]
2020	Michael Xie	Lucas Broussard	Naoki Rossi	[14]

Girls[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
2007	Angela Maxwell	Miriam Ziegler	Alessandra Laurencik	[16]
2008	Marissa Secundy	Maé Bérénice Méité	Roanna Sari Oshikawa	[5]
2009	Mao Watanabe	Camilla Gjersem	Ayaka Osamura	[6]
2012	Yura Matsuda	Nelma Hede	Victoria Englund	[7]
2013	Wakaba Higuchi	Sallianna Öztürk	Emma Niemi	[8]
2014	Wakaba Higuchi	Kyarha van Tiel	Nikola Mažgane	[9]
2015	Yuna Aoki	Maggie Hills	Maële Oberlander	[10]
2017	Kaitlyn Nguyen	Hannah Harrell	Sophie Sprung	[11]
2018	Hanna Yoshida	Alysa Liu	Kinayu Yokoi	[12]
2019	Sara Honda	Nina Pinzarrone	Mikai Van Ommeren	[13]
2020	Janna Jyrkinen	Mariya Grechanaya	Sophia Katerina Fraser	[14]

Pairs[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Details
2009	Magdalena Klatka / Radosław Chruściński	Karolin Salatzki / Nolan Seegert	Rachel Epstein / Dmitry Epstein	[6]

References[]

External links[]

• Schaatsen.nl (in Dutch)
• Official videos