| Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2001, Gdansk (POL) |
Event 3 (of 7) For immediate release: 12 October 2001
The third of the seven qualifying international events of the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating, takes place in Gdansk (POL) on October 11-14. The full list of entries is attached and final and immediate results of the competition are available directly from the ISU Internet site on ww2.isu.org .
66 entries from 25 ISU Members will be competing in Gdansk (POL). Although the majority of skaters entered in this event are starting off their Junior Grand Prix season, the Ladies event will feature Olga Agapkina of Russia, silver medallist at the Sofia Cup in Bulgaria, which was the first event of the Junior Grand Prix series. Also coming from the Sofia Cup are Ice Dance couple, Marian Kozlova/Sergei Baranov (UKR) and Pair Cathy Monette/ Daniel Castelo (CAN), who captured the silver and bronze medal in their respective categories. They are joined by Ukrainian Pair Tatiana Volosozhar/Petro Kharchenko, who began their Junior Grand Prix season in Ostrava (CZE) two weeks ago, where they won the bronze medal.
At each of the seven events, the top skaters are awarded points and prize money made available by the ISU. The top 8 Men, Ladies, Pairs and Dance Couples in the overall standings will qualify to compete at the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final which will be held in Bled, Slovenia on December 13-16, 2001. The total prize money, amounting to US$ 105.000,00 for the Junior Grand Prix Final, will be awarded to the top six skaters in each category.
The global prize money per individual qualifying event is US $22.500,00 and is awarded to the medal winners for each category as follows:
Singles Pairs and Dance 1st place US$ 2,000.00 US$ 3,000.00 2nd place US$ 1,500.00 US$ 2,250.00 3rd place US$ 1,000.00 US$ 1,500.00 List of Competitors Men No. Name Nat. 1 Casal MARC AND 2 Serguei SHILIAEV BLR 3 Maxim LIPPE CAN 4 Kevin WOYTAS CAN 5 Jong Chol HAN PRK 6 Visa TUOMINEN FIN 7 Mathieu DELCAMBRE FRA 8 Andrej PRIMAK GER 9 Bertalan ZAKANY HUN 10 Karel ZELENKA ITA 11 Tomas KATUKEVICIUS LTU 12 Przemyslaw DOMANSKI POL 13 Krzysztof KOMOSA POL 14 Maciej KUS POL 15 Stanislav TIMCHENKO RUS 16 Alexander USPENSKY RUS 17 Tibor PETRIK SVK 18 Anton KOVALEVSKY UKR 19 Vladimir BELOMOIN UZB Ladies No. Name Nat. 1 Natalie HOSTE BEL 2 Emilie CARRIERE CAN 3 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN 4 Kristina DAUB EST 5 Sari HAKOLA FIN 6 Hanna KAIJOMAA FIN 7 Stefanie DANKERT GER 8 Viktoria PAVUK HUN 9 Giorgia CARROSSA ITA 10 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 11 Aleksandra PETUSHKO LAT 12 Julija SELEPEN LTU 13 Anna BERNAUER LUX 14 Anna BUNIEWICZ POL 15 Magdalena LESKA POL 16 Hyo Jung JEON KOR 17 Olga AGAPKINA RUS 18 Irina TKATCHUK RUS 19 Silvia KONCOKOVA SVK 20 Darja SKRLJ SLO 21 Rebeca GARCIA ESP 22 Lucie - Anne BLAZEK SUI 23 Karademir TUGBA TUR 24 Svitlana PILIPENKO UKR 25 Ksenja JASTSENSKI YUG Pairs No. Name Nat. 1 Cathy MONETTE / Daniel CASTELO CAN 2 Dominika PIATKOWSKA / Aleksander LEVINTSOV POL 3 Rinata ARASLANOVA / Alexei MENSHIKOV RUS 4 Yulia KARBOVSKAYA / Serguei SLAVNOV RUS 5 Yuliya BILOGLAZOVA / Andriy BEKH UKR 6 Tetyana VOLOSOZHAR / Petro KHARCHENKO UKR Ice Dance No. Name Nat. 1 Siobhan KARAM / Joshua MCGRATH CAN 2 Hyang Ok RIM / Jin RYU PRK 3 Marina TIMOFEJEVA / Jevgeni STRIGANOV EST 4 Pernelle CARRON / Edouard DEZUTTER FRA 5 Valerie TAHAR / Mathieu BREMONT FRA 6 Myriam TRIVIDIC / Yann-Ahmed ABBACK FRA 7 Christina BEIER / William BEIER GER 8 Petra NEMETHI / Daniel GAL HUN 9 Alessia AURELI / Andrea VATURI ITA 10 Marta DZIOBEK / Michal ZYCH POL 11 Agata ROSLONSKA / Michal TOMASZEWSKI POL 12 Elena KHALIAVINA / Maxim SHABALIN RUS 13 Natalia MIKHAILOVA / Arkadi SERGEEV RUS 14 Yuliya GRYGORENKO / Alexander SHAKALOV UKR 15 Marina KOZLOVA / Sergei BARANOV UKR 16 Yulia KLOCHKO / Ramil SARKULOV UZB For further information please contact: Aline Bussat Ingwersen, ISU Media Coordinator Tel: +41 21 612 66 66 Fax: +41 21 612 66 77 E-mail: bussat@isu.org or Ewa Kierzkowska Tel: +48 602 38 68 15 Fax: +48 58 550 76 35 E-mail: lj.sogrand@orbis.pl