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The Icechallenge (formerly known as the Leo-Scheu-Gedächtnislaufen or Leo Scheu Memorial) is an annual international figure skating competition organized by the Grazer Eislaufverein and sanctioned by the Austrian Figure Skating association and the International Skating Union. The event is usually held every autumn in Graz, Austria. Medals may be awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. In 2014 and 2015, the Ice Challenge's senior events were part of the ISU Challenger Series. In 2021, the Icechallenge returned to the ISU Challenger Series under the name Cup of Austria.

History

The event began in 1971 as the Leo-Scheu-Gedächtnislaufen (Leo Scheu Memorial). It was re-titled the Icechallenge in 2008.[1] The name Leo Scheu Memorial was retained for a junior, novice, and lower-level competition that is held in conjunction with the senior event. Leo Scheu was the founder of the ice skating club Graz and a member of the Nazi Party.[2]

In 2011, the ISU designated the Ice Challenge as one of the events at which skaters could achieve a minimum score.[3] In 2014 and 2015, the Ice Challenge's senior events were part of the ISU Challenger Series. The 2016 edition was cancelled.[4]

Senior medalists

CS: ISU Challenger Series

Men

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Czech Republic Tomáš Verner Ukraine Anton Kovalevski France Alban Préaubert [5]
2010 Sweden Alexander Majorov United States Douglas Razzano Sweden Kristoffer Berntsson [6]
2011 United States Stephen Carriere Uzbekistan Misha Ge Austria Viktor Pfeifer [7]
2012 Germany Peter Liebers United States Douglas Razzano United States Armin Mahbanoozadeh [8]
2013 Kazakhstan Denis Ten Austria Viktor Pfeifer Russia Gordei Gorshkov [9]
2014 CS United States Douglas Razzano Russia Alexander Samarin Germany Martin Rappe [10]
2015 CS Russia Artur Dmitriev Jr. United States Jason Brown Russia Mikhail Kolyada [11]
2017 Italy Daniel Grassl Spain Javier Raya France Adrien Tesson [12]
2021 CS Georgia (country) Nika Egadze Japan Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda United States Ilia Malinin [13]

Ladies

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Japan Kanako Murakami Italy Valentina Marchei United States Amanda Dobbs [5]
2010 France Lena Marrocco Ukraine Natalia Popova Germany Sarah Hecken [6]
2011 United States Caroline Zhang Ukraine Natalia Popova Sweden Linnea Mellgren [7]
2012 United Kingdom Jenna McCorkell Sweden Isabelle Olsson Slovakia Monika Simančíková [8]
2013 United States Courtney Hicks Japan Miki Ando Slovakia Nicole Rajičová [9]
2014 CS United States Hannah Miller Sweden Isabelle Olsson Hungary Ivett Tóth [10]
2015 CS United States Mirai Nagasu Russia Maria Artemieva United States Tyler Pierce [11]
2017 Slovenia Dasa Grm Italy Giada Russo Austria Natalie Klotz [12]
2021 CS Japan Wakaba Higuchi South Korea Park Yeon-jeong Estonia Niina Petrõkina [13]

Pairs

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 United States Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin United States Chloe Katz / Joseph Lynch Italy Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek [5]
2010 Germany Maylin Hausch / Daniel Wende United States Tiffany Vise / Don Baldwin North Korea Ji Hyang Ri / Won Hyok Thae [6]
2011 United States Andrea Poapst / Chris Knierim Germany Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave Israel Danielle Montalbano / Evgeni Krasnopolski [7]
2012 United States Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir United States Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff Israel Danielle Montalbano / Evgeni Krasnopolski [8]
2013 United States Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff Germany Maylin Wende / Daniel Wende United States Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea [9]
2014 CS Russia Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin Austria Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer Germany Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave [10]
2015 CS United States Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim Germany Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert Italy Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise [11]
2017 Germany Lena Kreitmeier / Anton Kempf No other competitors [12]
2021 Australia Campbell Young / Lachlan Lewer No other competitors [14]

Ice dancing

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Hungary Nóra Hoffmann / Maxim Zavozin United States Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt Germany Christina Beier / William Beier [5]
2010 United Kingdom Louise Walden / Owen Edwards Georgia (country) Allison Reed / Otar Japaridze Germany Tanja Kolbe / Stefano Caruso [6]
2011 United States Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt United States Isabella Cannuscio / Ian Lorello Ukraine Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri Dun [7]
2012 United States Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt Czech Republic Lucie Myslivečková / Neil Brown Switzerland Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost [8]
2013 United States Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Denmark Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen Germany Tanja Kolbe / Stefano Caruso [9]
2014 CS United States Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Denmark Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen Austria Barbora Silná / Juri Kurakin [10]
2015 CS United States Danielle Thomas / Daniel Eaton Italy Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri Finland Olesia Karmi / Max Lindholm [11]
2017 Finland Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen United Kingdom Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Finland Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis [12]
2021 CS Italy Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri Canada Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen Spain Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz [13]

Junior medalists

Men

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Germany Franz Streubel Poland Kamil Białas Switzerland Timothy Leemann [5]
2010 Ukraine Stanislav Pertsov Germany Martin Rappe Ukraine Olexander Kucher [6]
2011 United Kingdom Peter James Hallam Poland Kamil Dymowski Switzerland Nicola Todeschini [7]
2012 Czech Republic Tomáš Kupka Germany Alexander Bjelde United Kingdom Peter James Hallam [8]
2013 Russia Alexey Genya Czech Republic Tomáš Kupka France Charles Tetar [9]
2014 Russia Dmitri Aliev South Korea Byun Se-jong Germany Anton Kempf [15]
2015 Russia Petr Gumennik Italy Daniel Grassl Germany Catalin Dimitrescu [16]
2016 No competition held
2017 Germany Jonathan Hess Italy Gabriele Frangipani Italy Nik Folini [17]
2021 Switzerland Naoki Rossi Canada Aleksa Rakic Turkey Alp Eren Ozkan [14]

Ladies

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Estonia Gerli Liinamäe Czech Republic Barbora Švédová Switzerland Anastasia Kistler [5]
2010 Slovakia Monika Simančíková Sweden Isabelle Olsson Austria Lara Eisenbauer [6]
2011 Russia Kristina Zaseeva Sweden Elin Hallberg Sweden Gabriella Josefsson [7]
2012 Austria Sabrina Schulz Germany Minami Hanashiro Finland Nelma Hede [8]
2013 Germany Maria-Katharina Herceg Czech Republic Anna Dušková Switzerland Yasmine Kimiko Yamada [9]
2014 Germany Lea Johanna Dastich South Korea Byun Jihyun Czech Republic Anna Dušková [15]
2015 Russia Stanislava Konstantinova Russia Maria Perederova Germany Kristina Isaev [16]
2016 No competition held
2017 Italy Alessia Tornaghi Austria Stefanie Pesendorfer Hungary Júlia Láng [17]
2021 Hungary Vivien Papp Estonia Amalia Zelenjak Belarus Varvara Kisel [14]

Pairs

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Czech Republic Klára Kadlecová / Petr Bidař Russia Evgenia Krapivina / Konstantin Medovikov United Kingdom Catherine Clement / James Hunt [5]
2010 Netherlands Rachel Epstein / Dmitry Epstein No other competitors [6]
2011 Russia Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin Poland Magdalena Klatka / Radosław Chruściński Austria Stina Martini / Severin Kiefer [7]
2012 Germany Annabelle Prölss / Ruben Blommaert No other competitors [8]
2013 Czech Republic Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař No other competitors [9]
2014 Czech Republic Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař No other competitors [15]
2015 No pairs competition
2016 No competition held
2017 Italy Sara Carli / Marco Pauletti No other competitors [17]
2021 France Oxana Vouillamoz / Flavien Giniaux Australia Campbell Young / Lachlan Lewer No other competitors [14]

Ice dancing

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Germany Stefanie Frohberg / Tim Giesen Ukraine Maria Nosulia / Evgeni Kholoniuk Switzerland Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost [5]
2010 Czech Republic Karolina Procházková / Michal Češka Ukraine Lolita Yermak / Alexander Liubchenko Czech Republic Jana Čejková / Alexandr Sinicyn [6]
2011 Israel Ekaterina Bugrov / Vasili Rogov United Kingdom Sophie Jones / Richard Sharpe Germany Ria Schiffner / Julian Salatzki [7]
2012 Turkey Çağla Demirsal / Berk Akalın Russia Julia Dolgikh / Alexandr Prachanov Russia Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd [8]
2013 Hungary Carolina Moscheni / Ádám Lukács France Estelle Elizabeth / Romain Le Gac Austria Christine Smith / Simon Eisenbauer [9]
2014 Hungary Carolina Moscheni / Ádám Lukács Italy Sara Ghislandi / Giona Ortenzi Russia Eva Khachaturian / Andrei Bagin [15]
2015 No ice dancing competition
2016 No competition held
2017 United Kingdom Sasha Fear / George Waddell Germany Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich Hungary Villö Marton / Danyil Semko [17]
2021 Canada Natalie D'Alessandro / Bruce Waddell Czech Republic Katerina Mrazkova / Daniel Mrazek Spain Sofia Val / Nikita Vitryanyuk [14]

Advanced novice medalists

Boys

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Philippines Michael Christian Martinez Austria Clement Ledoux Austria Simon-Gabriel Ionian [5]
2010 Austria Simon-Gabriel Ionian Slovakia Marco Klepoch Netherlands Thomas Kennes [6]
2011 Norway Sondre Oddvoll Boe Sweden John Hallman Slovakia Marco Klepoch [7]
2012 Slovenia Matej Gregorc Germany Niclas Rust Croatia Steven Spencer Baker [8]
2013 Germany Severin Reich Czech Republic Petr Kotlařík Czech Republic Matýaš Bělohradský [9]
2014 Czech Republic Radek Jakubka Germany Florian Paschke Germany Kai Jagoda [15]
2015 Sweden Gabriel Folkesson Germany Maxim Knorr Sweden Jonathan Egyptsson [16]
2016 No novice competition
2017 Germany Davide Calderari Austria Mozes-Jozsef Berei Netherlands Didier Dijkstra [17]
2021 Austria Daniel Ruis No other competitors [18]

Girls

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Czech Republic Jana Čejková Italy Victoria Manni Poland Agata Kryger [5]
2010 Switzerland Alisson Perticheto Germany Lutricia Bock Austria Kristina Yntema [6]
2011 Finland Liubov Efimenko Russia Elizaveta Yushenko Austria Kristina Yntema [7]
2012 United Kingdom Danielle Harrison Sweden Sallianna Öztürk Slovakia Nina Letenayová [8]
2013 Sweden Anita Östlund Sweden Anastasia Schneider Czech Republic Michaela Lucie Hanzlíková [9]
2014 France Pauline Wanner Germany Ann-Christin Marold France Noemie Carroue [15]
2015 Latvia Alina Urušadze Germany Ann-Christin Marold Hungary Dora Nagy [16]
2016 No novice competition
2017 Hungary Zoe Gal Hungary Regina Schermann Hungary Bernadett Szigeti [17]
2021 Estonia Elina Goidina Hungary Lena Ekker Austria Hannah Frank [18]

Pairs

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Russia Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin No other competitors [5]
2010–
2011
No pairs competition
2012 Czech Republic Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař Czech Republic Natálie Kratěnová / Petr Kotlařík Croatia Christina Baker / Steven Baker [8]
2013 Czech Republic Natálie Kratěnová / Petr Kotlařík No other competitors [9]
2014–
2017
No pairs competition [15]
2021 No pairs competition [18]

Ice dancing

Year Gold Silver Bronze Details
2009 Germany Ria Schiffner / Julian Salatzki Poland Joanna Zając / Damian Binkowski Germany Colette Long / Daniel Linovice [5]
2010 United Kingdom Annika Maczka / Henry Aiken Austria Christine Smith / Simon Eisenbauer Belgium Laura Abts / Maarten Buckens [6]
2011 Russia Valeria Neiman / Grigory Smirnov No other competitors [7]
2012 Russia Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov Russia Anastasia Savitskaya / Alexey Dubrovin Russia Polina Velikanova / Elisey Kramar [8]
2013 No ice dancing competition
2014 Russia Maria Marchenko / Egor Pozdnyakov France Candice Girardot / Thomas De Lorenzi Germany Salome Gehmlich / Samuel Joshua Steffan [15]
2015–
2016
No ice dancing competition
2017 United Kingdom Emily-Lucine Phillips / Jayin Panesar Germany Lea Enderlein / Malte Brandt Czech Republic Klara Kazdova / Filip Strubl [17]
2021 No ice dancing competition [18]

References

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  2. ^ Endbericht der ExpertInnenkommission für Straßennamen Graz (Final Report of Experts of The City of Graz Street Names), Graz 2017, pp. 126-128.
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