2020–21 figure skating season

The 2020–21 figure skating season will begin on July 1, 2020, and end on June 30, 2021. During this season, elite skaters will compete on the ISU Championship level at the 2021 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships. They will also compete in elite events such as the Grand Prix series, culminating in the Grand Prix Final, and the ISU Challenger Series.

2020–21 figure skating season
Date:	July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021
Previous: 2019–20
Next: 2021–22

On July 20, 2020, the ISU cancelled the Junior Grand Prix series, originally scheduled for late August through mid-October.[1]

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

On May 1, 2020, the International Skating Union established a working group, chaired by ISU Vice-President for Figure Skating Alexander Lakernik, to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Its responsibilities include determining the feasibility of holding events as scheduled, possibly behind closed doors, during the first half of the season and the financial impact of any potential cancellations.[2]

On July 9, the General Administration of Sport of China announced that no international sporting events would be held in China in 2020, except for 2022 Winter Olympics test events.[3] The Chinese Skating Association was scheduled to host several events during the season, including the Asian Open Trophy, Cup of China, the Grand Prix Final, and the Junior World Championships; the Grand Prix Final, to be hosted in Beijing, is the only event exempt from the Chinese government's ruling, due to its status as the test event for the Olympic Games.[4] On July 13, the International Skating Union announced that the 2020 Cup of China remained scheduled as planned.[5]

On July 20, the ISU officially cancelled the Junior Grand Prix series, citing increased travel and entry requirements between countries and potentially excessive sanitary & health care costs for hosting members.[1] On August 4, the ISU confirmed that the Grand Prix series would proceed as scheduled during the fall, but each event would mainly invite skaters located domestically in an effort to limit travel during the global pandemic.[6][7]

ISU member nations' response

On July 13, the Japan Skating Federation announced that it would not assign any skaters to the Junior Grand Prix and Challenger Series events, assuming the competitions proceeded as scheduled.[8]

On August 7, British Ice Skating told its members that no skaters would be sent to any international events in 2020, with the exception of Grand Prix and Challenger events to be evaluated on an individual case-by-case basis.[9] In addition, BIS announced the cancellation of its national championships, citing skaters' lack of training time due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom causing prolonged closure of ice rinks.

Season notes

Age eligibility

Skaters are eligible to compete in ISU events on the junior or senior levels according to their age:

Level	Date of birth
Junior (females in all disciplines; males in singles)	Born between July 1, 2001 and June 30, 2007
Junior (males in pairs)	Born between July 1, 1999 and June 30, 2007
Junior (males in ice dance)[lower-alpha 1]	Born between July 1, 1998 and June 30, 2007
Senior (all disciplines)	Born before July 1, 2005
Rules may not apply to non-ISU events such as national championships

Changes

If skaters of different nationalities team up, the ISU requires that they choose one country to represent.
Date refers to date when the change occurred or, if not available, the date when the change was announced.

Partnership changes

Discipline	Date	Type	Skaters	Other info	Refs
Ice dance	July 3, 2020	Formed	Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov	For the United States.	[11]
	July 3, 2020	Dissolved	Lila-Maya Seclet Monchot / Renan Manceau		[12]
		Formed	Lila-Maya Seclet Monchot / Martin Chardain
Ice dance	July 16, 2020	Formed	Chiara Calderone / Aleksei Dubrovin		[13]
Pairs	July 18, 2020	Dissolved	Stanislava Vislobokova / Aleksei Briukhanov		[14]
		Formed	Polina Kostiukovich / Aleksei Briukhanov
Ice dance	July 26, 2020	Dissolved	Ksenia Golubeva / Andrei Pylin		[15]
		Formed	Alena Kanysheva / Andrei Pylin
Pairs	July 31, 2020	Dissolved	Karina Akapova / Maksim Shagalov		[16]
		Formed	Karina Akapova / Nikita Rakhmanin
	August 3, 2020	Formed	Daria Boyarintseva / Maksim Shagalov		[17]
Pairs	August 16, 2020	Formed	Valeria Ponosova / Dmitrii Ialin		[18]
			Evgenia Tumanova / Georgy Kunitsa
			Stanislava Vislobokova / Andrey Shaderkov

Retirements

Discipline	Date	Skater(s)	Refs
Ladies	July 8, 2020	Maria Sotskova	[19]
	July 15, 2020	Polina Edmunds	[20]
Ice dance	July 23, 2020	Yuri Hulitski	[21]
Ladies	July 27, 2020	Viveca Lindfors	[22]
Ice dance		Emiliya Kalehanova	[23]
Ladies	August 3, 2020	Sofia Sula	[24]

Coaching changes

Discipline	Date	Skater(s)	From	To	Refs
Men	July 2, 2020	Yaroslav Paniot	Tammy Gambill	Todd Eldredge	[25]
		Alexey Erokhov	Eteri Tutberidze, Sergei Dudakov	Viktoria Butsaeva	[26]
Ice dance	July 8, 2020	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Marina Zoueva, Rostislav Sinicyn, Martin Skotnický	Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer	[27]
Ladies	July 31, 2020	Alena Kostornaia	Eteri Tutberidze, Sergei Dudakov, Daniil Gleikhengauz	Evgeni Plushenko, Sergei Rozanov	[28]

Nationality changes

Discipline	Date	Skater(s)	From	To	Other info	Refs
Ice dance	July 3, 2020	Anton Spiridonov	Russia	United States	Partnering with Lorraine McNamara.	[11]

Competitions

For national and sub-national competitions, see 2020–21 national figure skating championships.

Scheduled competitions:[29]

Key

ISU Championships

Grand Prix

Challenger Series

Other international

Date	Event	Type	Level	Disc.	Location	Results
2020
August 26–30	JGP Canada	Grand Prix	Junior	All	Richmond, British Columbia, Canada	Cancelled[30]
September 2–5	JGP Slovakia	Grand Prix	Junior	All	Košice, Slovakia	Cancelled[31]
September 9–10	JGP Hungary	Grand Prix	Junior	M/L/D	Budapest, Hungary	Cancelled[1]
TBD[lower-alpha 2]	Asian Open Trophy	Challenger	Senior	M/L/D	Beijing, China	Postponed
September 16–19	Nepela Memorial	Challenger	Senior	M/L/D	Bratislava, Slovakia	Cancelled[31]
September 16–19	JGP Japan	Grand Prix	Junior	M/L/D	Shin-Yokohama, Japan	Cancelled[33]
TBD[lower-alpha 3]	Autumn Classic	Challenger	Senior	All	Oakville, Ontario, Canada	Postponed
September 23–26	Nebelhorn Trophy	Challenger	Senior	All	Oberstdorf, Germany
TBD[lower-alpha 4]	Tayside Trophy	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L/P	Dundee, United Kingdom	Postponed
September 23–26	JGP Czech Republic	Grand Prix	Junior	All	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Cancelled[1]
Sept. 29 – Oct. 1[lower-alpha 5]	Denis Ten Memorial	Challenger	Senior	All	Almaty, Kazakhstan
Sept. 30 – Oct. 3	JGP Uzbekistan	Grand Prix	Junior	All	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Cancelled[1]
TBD[lower-alpha 6]	Japan Open	Other int.	Senior	M/L	Saitama, Japan	Postponed
October 7–10	JGP Slovenia	Grand Prix	Junior	M/L/D	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Cancelled[1]
October 8–11	Finlandia Trophy	Challenger	Senior	All	Espoo, Finland
October 9–10	Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur	Other int.	Sen.–Jun.	M/L/D	Nice, France
October 14–17[lower-alpha 7]	JGP Latvia	Grand Prix	Junior	All	Riga, Latvia	Cancelled[1]
October 15–17	Budapest Trophy	Challenger	Senior	M/L/D	Budapest, Hungary
October 21–24	Crystal Skate	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Bucharest, Romania
October 22–25	Minsk Arena Ice Star	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	All	Minsk, Belarus
October 23–25	Skate America	Grand Prix	Senior	All	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
October 29–31	Autumn Talents Cup Ukraine	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	All	Kiev, Ukraine
Oct. 29 – Nov. 1	Tirnavia Ice Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Trnava, Slovakia
Oct. 30 – Nov. 1	Skate Canada	Grand Prix	Senior	All	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
November 3	Volvo Open Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	All	Riga, Latvia
November 6–8	Cup of China	Grand Prix	Senior	All	Chongqing, China[lower-alpha 8]
November 6–8	Icelab International Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L/P	Bergamo, Italy
November 6–8	Pavel Roman Memorial	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	D	Olomouc, Czech Republic
November 6–8	Prague Ice Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Prague, Czech Republic
November 10-15	Denkova-Staviski Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Sofia, Bulgaria
November 12–15	Warsaw Cup	Challenger	Senior	M/L/D	Warsaw, Poland
November 13–15	Internationaux de France	Grand Prix	Senior	All	Grenoble, France
November 18–22	Open d'Andorra	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L/D	Canillo, Andorra
November 19–22	Skate Celje	Other int.	Jun.–Nov.	M/L	Celje, Slovenia
November 20–22	Rostelecom Cup	Grand Prix	Senior	All	Moscow, Russia
November 23–30	Inge Solar Trophy	Challenger	Senior	M/L/D	Innsbruck, Austria
November 27–29	NHK Trophy	Grand Prix	Senior	All	Osaka, Japan
December 2–5	Golden Spin of Zagreb	Challenger	Senior	All	Zagreb, Croatia
December 10–13	Christmas Magic Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Bucharest, Romania
December 10–13	Grand Prix Final	Grand Prix	Sen.–Jun.	All	Beijing, China
December 11–13	Grand Prix of Bratislava	Other int.	Jun.–Nov.	All	Bratislava, Slovakia
December 11–13	Latvia Open	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	All	Mārupe, Latvia
December 18–20	Sarajevo Open	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2021
January 5–10	Mentor Toruń Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov. Junior	M/L/D P	Toruń, Poland
January 12–21	Skate Helena	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Belgrade, Serbia
January 13–17	EduSport Trophy	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Bucharest, Romania
January 21–31	Winter Universiade	Other int.	Senior	M/L	Lucerne, Switzerland
January 25–31	Bavarian Open	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	All	Oberstdorf, Germany
January 25–31	Europeans	Championship	Senior	All	Zagreb, Croatia
January 28–31	Dragon Trophy & Tivoli Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Ljubljana, Slovenia
January 29–31	Reykjavik International Games	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Reykjavik, Iceland
February 2–7	Egna Dance Trophy	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	D	Egna, Italy
February 2–7	Sofia Trophy	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Sofia, Bulgaria
February 3–7	The Nordics – Nordic Open	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Copenhagen, Denmark
February 8–14	Four Continents	Championship	Senior	All	Sydney, Australia
February 10–13	LuMi Dance Trophy (memory of Ludmila Mikhailovskaya)	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	D	Odessa, Ukraine
February 12–14	Jégvirág Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov. Jun.–Nov.	M/L D	Miskolc, Hungary
February 17–20	Open Ice Mall Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov. Sen.–Jun.	M/L P/D	Eilat, Israel
February 18–21	Tallink Hotels Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Jun.	M/L	Tallinn, Estonia
February 25–28	Bellu Memorial	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Bucharest, Romania
February 25–28	Challenge Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov. Senior	M/L/P D	The Hague, Netherlands
March 1–7	Junior Worlds	Championship	Junior	All	Harbin, China
March 12–14	Coupe du Printemps	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg
March 22–28	Worlds	Championship	Senior	All	Stockholm, Sweden
March 26–27	Abu Dhabi Classic Trophy	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
March 26–28	Egna Spring Trophy	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L/P	Egna, Italy
April 1–3	Spring Talents Cup Ukraine	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	All	Brovary, Ukraine
April 7–11	Black Sea Ice Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Kranevo, Bulgaria
April 7–11	Triglav Trophy & Narcisa Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	M/L	Jesenice, Slovenia
April 9–11	Ice Cup	Other int.	Sen.–Nov.	All	Minsk, Belarus
April 15–18	World Team Trophy	Other int.	Senior	All	Osaka, Japan
April 17–18	Kurbada Cup	Other int.	Jun.–Nov.	M/L	Riga, Latvia

International medalists

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dance

Season's best scores

Men

Best total score

Best short program score

Best free skating score

Ladies

Best total score

Best short program score

Best free skating score

Pairs

Best total score

Best short program score

Best free skating score

Ice dance

Best total score

Best rhythm dance score

Best free dance score

Standings and ranking

Current standings (top 30)

Men

As of April 20, 2020.[36]

Rank	Nation	Skater	Points	Season	ISU Championships or Olympics	(Junior) Grand Prix and Final		Selected International Competition
					Best	Best	2nd Best	Best	2nd Best
1	JPN	Yuzuru Hanyu	3786	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	840	720	400	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	756	280	280	210
2	RUS	Alexander Samarin	3046	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	325	583	400	250	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	529	227	204	170	139
3	RUS	Dmitri Aliev	2957	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	840	472	360	300	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)		204	183	189	139
4	USA	Nathan Chen	2880	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		800	400
				2018/2019 season (70%)	840	560	280
5	ITA	Matteo Rizzo	2859	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	551	324	236	270	243
				2018/2019 season (70%)	476	227	204	175	153
6	USA	Jason Brown	2844	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	756	360	262	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	386	252	165	210	153
7	ITA	Daniel Grassl	2658	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	612	250	207	300	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	347	142	115	210	175
8	GEO	Morisi Kvitelashvili	2651	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	680	292	213	270	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	237	252	134	170	153
9	JPN	Shoma Uno	2640	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		292	191	300	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	613	504	280	210
10	KOR	Cha Jun-hwan	2603	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	551	236	191	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	347	454	227	189	189
11	CHN	Jin Boyang	2571	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	612	525	400	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	551	183
12	CAN	Keegan Messing	2487	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	402	292	292	243
				2018/2019 season (70%)	428	368	252	210
13	FRA	Kévin Aymoz	2177	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		648	360	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)	428	183	149	139
14	CAN	Nam Nguyen	2123	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	496	360	262	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	228	183	165	210
15	LAT	Deniss Vasiļjevs	2075	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	496	262	236	243
				2018/2019 season (70%)	205	149	134	175	175
16	RUS	Artur Danielian	1923	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	756	225	225	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	256	127	115
17	USA	Camden Pulkinen	1907	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	293	292	191	198	178
				2018/2019 season (70%)	167	175	161	127	125
18	JPN	Keiji Tanaka	1861	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		324	262	300	225
				2018/2019 season (70%)	312	134	134	170
19	CZE	Michal Březina	1697	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	446
				2018/2019 season (70%)	402	408	252	189
20	RUS	Petr Gumennik	1687	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	405	250	230	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)	136	221	175
21	USA	Tomoki Hiwatashi	1658	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	362	262		198
				2018/2019 season (70%)	350	158	158	170
22	FRA	Adam Siao Him Fa	1653	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	293	164	120	243	160
				2018/2019 season (70%)	207	179	175	112
23	USA	Vincent Zhou	1652	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)				243
				2018/2019 season (70%)	680	204	183	189	153
24	RUS	Andrei Mozalev	1644	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	500	315	250	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)		175	104
25	JPN	Yuma Kagiyama	1628	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	680	255	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)		158	127	158
26	JPN	Kazuki Tomono	1610	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	446	262	191	160
				2018/2019 season (70%)	185	227		139
27	AUS	Brendan Kerry	1533	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	264	213		250	203
				2018/2019 season (70%)	253			175	175
28	USA	Andrew Torgashev	1508	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	239	182	182	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)		175	127	175	158
29	RUS	Sergei Voronov	1477	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		292	236	178
				2018/2019 season (70%)		330	252	189
30	AZE	Vladimir Litvintsev	1387	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	362			250	203
				2018/2019 season (70%)	155	84		175	158

Ladies

As of April 20, 2020.[37]

Rank	Nation	Skater	Points	Season	ISU Championships or Olympics	(Junior) Grand Prix and Final		Selected International Competition
					Best	Best	2nd Best	Best	2nd Best
1	JPN	Rika Kihira	4171	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	840	583	360	300	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	613	560	280	210	175
2	USA	Bradie Tennell	3133	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	680	525	360	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)	447	227	204	210	210
3	RUS	Anna Shcherbakova	2841	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	756	720	400	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	315	175	175
4	RUS	Alexandra Trusova	2774	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	680	648	400	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	350	221	175
5	JPN	Kaori Sakamoto	2769	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	551	292	292	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)	551	408	252	153
6	RUS	Alena Kostornaia	2760	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	840	800	400	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)		245	175
7	JPN	Satoko Miyahara	2693	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		360	292	300	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	496	330	280	210	175
8	RUS	Alina Zagitova	2666	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		472	360
				2018/2019 season (70%)	840	504	280	210
9	KOR	Lim Eun-soo	2537	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	402	262	213	300	243
				2018/2019 season (70%)	326	227	165	210	189
10	RUS	Sofia Samodurova	2414	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		262	236	300	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	588	368	252	189
11	RUS	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	2372	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		324	324	300	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)		454	280	210	210
12	KOR	You Young	2368	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	756	324	292	270	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	207	142	127
13	RUS	Evgenia Medvedeva	2192	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		360	262	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)	680	227	204	189
14	USA	Mariah Bell	2020	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		324	324	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	362	204	183	170	153
15	AZE	Ekaterina Ryabova	1971	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	496	262		243	225
				2018/2019 season (70%)	237	104	104	175	125
16	KOR	Kim Ye-lim	1965	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	496	213		270	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	281	158	158	170
17	SUI	Alexia Paganini	1830	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	612	213		178
				2018/2019 season (70%)	347	204		175	101
18	JPN	Wakaba Higuchi	1674	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	612	236	236	144
				2018/2019 season (70%)		165		142	139
19	USA	Starr Andrews	1553	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	239	262	191	198	198
				2018/2019 season (70%)		149		158	158
20	KAZ	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	1482	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)
				2018/2019 season (70%)	756	183	165	189	189
21	GER	Nicole Schott	1425	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	237	213		243	243
				2018/2019 season (70%)	173			158	158
22	JPN	Yuhana Yokoi	1393	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		292	236	243	225
				2018/2019 season (70%)	151	142	104
23	FIN	Emmi Peltonen	1378	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	551			225	182
				2018/2019 season (70%)	281			139
24	EST	Eva-Lotta Kiibus	1369	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	446	133	120	225	178
				2018/2019 season (70%)	92			175
25	RUS	Stanislava Konstantinova	1346	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)				160
				2018/2019 season (70%)	428	252	183	170	153
26	USA	Amber Glenn	1306	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	362	236	213	243
				2018/2019 season (70%)				127	125
27	JPN	Marin Honda	1296	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		236	213	225	198
				2018/2019 season (70%)		165	134	125
28	BUL	Alexandra Feigin	1295	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	156			250	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	205	84		175	175
29	KOR	Lee Hae-in	1264	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	328	250	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	167	142	127
30	FRA	Maé-Bérénice Méité	1253	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	362			160
				2018/2019 season (70%)	312	134		170	115

Pairs

As of April 20, 2020.[38]

Rank	Nation	Couple	Points	Season	ISU Championships or Olympics	(Junior) Grand Prix and Final		Selected International Competition
					Best	Best	2nd Best	Best	2nd Best
1	CHN	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	3488	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	756	720	400	243
				2018/2019 season (70%)	613	504	252
2	RUS	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	3410	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	756	360	324	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)	756	454	280	210
3	CAN	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	3203	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	680	525	360	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	529	227	204	189	189
4	RUS	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	3109	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	840	583	400
				2018/2019 season (70%)	496	227	204	189	170
5	CHN	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	2880	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	840	800	400
				2018/2019 season (70%)	840
6	RUS	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	2736	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	680	472	360
				2018/2019 season (70%)	386	330	227	142	139
7	AUT	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	2638	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	496	292	262	250	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	326	204	204	210	175
8	ITA	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	2538	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	612	292	191	225
				2018/2019 season (70%)	428	368	252	170
9	GER	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	2536	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	551	324	213	243	198
				2018/2019 season (70%)	347	183	149	175	153
10	USA	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	2483	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	551	236	236	270	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	347	252	183	189
11	RUS	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov	2368	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		648	400	300	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	350	245	175
12	USA	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	2323	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		292	262	300	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	428	227	165	210	139
13	ITA	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	1780	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	402	213	191	250	203
				2018/2019 season (70%)	253			153	115
14	RUS	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov	1772	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	500	350	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	315	199	158
15	USA	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	1763	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	612	292	236	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)				170	153
16	FRA	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	1638	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)
				2018/2019 season (70%)	588	560	280	210
17	RUS	Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin	1608	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		292	191	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)		252	183	210	210
18	USA	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	1584	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		292	213	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)		227	204	189	189
19	RUS	Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert	1578	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)
				2018/2019 season (70%)	680	408	280	210
20	CAN	Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud	1552	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	496	236	191
				2018/2019 season (70%)	312	183	134
21	USA	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	1369	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		324	324
				2018/2019 season (70%)	386	165		170
22	RUS	Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov	1338	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	450	284	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)		179	175
23	CAN	Liubov Ilyushechkina / Charlie Bilodeau	1275	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	446	324	262	243
				2018/2019 season (70%)
24	USA	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	1256	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		191		225	198
				2018/2019 season (70%)		165	149	189	139
25	CAN	Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe	1209	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		236	236
				2018/2019 season (70%)	281	183	134	139
26	PRK	Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik	1185	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		262		243
				2018/2019 season (70%)	293	204	183
27	GBR	Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji	1165	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	264	191		182
				2018/2019 season (70%)	228			158	142
28	CHN	Tang Feiyao / Yang Yongchao	1109	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		213	213	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	256	115	93
29	RUS	Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov	1095	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		230	203	270	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)		142
30	GER	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	1081	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	446	207	203	225
				2018/2019 season (70%)

Ice dance

As of April 20, 2020.[39]

Rank	Nation	Couple	Points	Season	ISU Championships or Olympics	(Junior) Grand Prix and Final		Selected International Competition
					Best	Best	2nd Best	Best	2nd Best
1	RUS	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	3734	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	840	472	400	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	756	504	252	210
2	ITA	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	3462	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	612	324	324	300	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	476	454	252	210	210
3	USA	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	3458	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	680	648	400
				2018/2019 season (70%)	680	560	280	210
4	CAN	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	3331	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	756	525	400	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	476	227	227	210	210
5	USA	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	3283	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	840	720	360	300	300
				2018/2019 season (70%)	588			175
6	RUS	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	3134	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	680	583	360
				2018/2019 season (70%)	613	408	280	210
7	FRA	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	3076	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	756	800	400
				2018/2019 season (70%)	840	280
8	GBR	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	2682	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	551	324	292	270	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	347	204	183	153	139
9	CHN	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	2666	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	612	292	262	270	225
				2018/2019 season (70%)	312	165	165	210	153
10	ESP	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	2540	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	446	324	262	300	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)	312	252	204	170
11	POL	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev	2503	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	362	292	236	270	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	386	183	165	189	170
12	ESP	Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz	2446	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	402	292	292	250	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	281	183	149	189	189
13	USA	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	2316	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	496	292	262	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)	386	330	280
14	GEO	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya	2041	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	450	350	250	243	225
				2018/2019 season (70%)	207	158	158
15	CAN	Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus	1931	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	446	213	191	243	198
				2018/2019 season (70%)		183	134	170	153
16	CAN	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	1923	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	551	236	213	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)	350	179	175
17	FRA	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	1862	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		191	191	300	243
				2018/2019 season (70%)	228	204	165	170	170
18	USA	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	1851	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		236	236	300	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)		227	183	210	189
19	RUS	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro	1815	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	496	262	262
				2018/2019 season (70%)		368	252	175
20	USA	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik	1657	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	500	315	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	256	175	161
21	LTU	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	1607	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	293	262		250	198
				2018/2019 season (70%)	166	165		158	115
22	CAN	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	1565	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		324	324	300	270
				2018/2019 season (70%)	347
23	FRA	Adelina Galyavieva / Louis Thauron	1337	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	264	191		225	203
				2018/2019 season (70%)	185			142	127
24	RUS	Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov	1281	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		191		243	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)		149	134	175	170
25	USA	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	1271	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)				243	219
				2018/2019 season (70%)		227	204	189	189
26	RUS	Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin	1246	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		236		203
				2018/2019 season (70%)	253	204		175	175
27	UKR	Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	1240	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	325			250	243
				2018/2019 season (70%)	113	134		175
28	ITA	Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti	1238	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	173			250	203
				2018/2019 season (70%)	150	134		175	153
29	RUS	Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy	1224	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)	405	284	250
				2018/2019 season (70%)		158	127
30	RUS	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko	1167	2020/2021 season (100%)
				2019/2020 season (100%)		213		250
				2018/2019 season (70%)	284	245	175

Notes

1. Due to disturbances in skaters' training schedules resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the ISU extended the upper age limit for males in junior and novice ice dance by one year. However, the new age limit only applies to couples who competed together during the 2019–20 season and maintain the same programs for the 2020–21 season.[10]
2. Originally scheduled for September 9–13.[32]
3. Originally scheduled for September 17–19.[34]
4. Originally scheduled for September 26.
5. Rescheduled from Oct. 29 – Nov. 1.
6. Originally scheduled for October 3.
7. Added on June 15, following the cancellation of JGP Canada and JGP Slovakia.[35]
8. Confirmed to be held in China as scheduled.[5]

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