54th Volvo Open Cup | Jan 16-19

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The 54th Volvo Open Cup is set to take place Jan 16-19, 2025, in Riga, Latvia, at the Volvo Sports Center.

The event will feature the Singles (Women and Men) in the Junior and Senior categories. It will be conducted in accordance with the ISU Constitution and General Regulations, the ISU Special Regulations & Technical Rules for Single & Pair Skating, and relevant ISU Communications.

• Official Site
• ISU Event Page
• Announcement (ISU)
• Announcement (Interclub)
• Sportity (Password: Volvo54)
• Schedule
  • Day 1 Update
  • Day 2 Update
  • Day 3 Update
  • Day 4 Update
• Entries / Results (ISU)
• Entries / Results (Interclub)
• Streaming Channel

Time Schedule
(Local Time, UTC +02:00)​

Date​	Time​	Category​	Segment​	Reports​	Livestream​
16.01.2025		Day 1​			Livestream
	12:30:00	Junior Women	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:05:00	Junior Men	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
	19:30:00	Men	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
	20:50:00	Women	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
17.01.2025		Day 2​			Livestream
	09:00:00	Intermediate Novice Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	10:40:00	Junior Women	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	16:05:00	Junior Men	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	17:35:00	Men	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	19:10:00	Women	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	20:50:00	Junior B Women	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	21:30:00	Bronze Women	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	21:31:00	Silver Women	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	21:32:00	Gold Artistic Women	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	21:33:00	Silver 2 Artistic Women	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
18.01.2025		Day 3​			Livestream
	08:00:00	Novice B Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	08:25:00	Cubs B Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	10:25:00	Basic Novice Girls 2013 and Younger	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	12:15:00	Basic Novice Boys	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	13:10:00	Beginners 2012-2014 and Younger Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	13:50:00	Hobby Class Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	14:35:00	Advanced Novice Girls 2008-2011	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
	16:40:00	Chicks A Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	17:15:00	Chicks A Boys	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	17:16:00	Pre-Chicks A Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:05:00	Advanced Novice Girls 2012-2014	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:45:00	Advanced Novice Boys	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
	19:30:00	Basic Novice Girls 2010-2012	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	21:35:00	Springs Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
19.01.2025		Day 4​			Livestream
	08:00:00	Beginners 2010-2011 Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	09:25:00	Beginners 2010-2011 Boys	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	09:26:00	Beginners 2004-2009 Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	10:20:00	Advanced Novice Girls 2008-2011	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	12:35:00	Advanced Novice Girls 2012-2014	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	13:25:00	Advanced Novice Boys	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	14:15:00	Pre-Chicks C Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	15:10:00	Pre-Chicks C Boys	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	15:11:00	Chicks B Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	15:50:00	Chicks C Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	16:31:00	Chicks Axel Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:05:00	Pre-Chicks B Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:45:00	Elements 2018-2020 A Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:46:00	Elements 2016-2017 A Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:47:00	Elements 2016-2017 B Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:48:00	Elements 2014-2015 B Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:49:00	Elements 2012-2013 A Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:50:00	Elements 2012-2013 B Girls	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)

 

[Jumping_Bean]

ISU entry list is out! 9 Sr men, 13 Sr women, 11 Jr men and 45 (!) Jr women.
Some overlap with the entry list for Sofia Trophy, so either a tight turn-around for some skaters or we can expect a few of them to drop out.
Sofya Titova is scheduled to make her international debut for Armenia here.

(Also, results page for the Interclub part of the event)

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Some overlap with the entry list for Sofia Trophy, so either a tight turn-around for some skaters or we can expect a few of them to drop out.

You never know. Some skaters might be planning to do back-to-back competitions.

But, if it is the case that they are only doing one, I would almost guarantee you that Varvara Abramkina (CYP) and Leilah Patten (GBR) will drop out of the Volvo Open Cup. They both belong to the Denkova-Staviski club, the hosts of the Sofia Trophy. And they may think that they are likely to do better in familiar surroundings. (Plus, it's a lot less hassle to just stay at home than to travel to Latvia!)

Mind you, it would be nice if Varvara in particular did do both, as I would love to see the two Moscow girls that are representing Cyprus going head-to-head. (Vasilisa Bogomolova is also entered here). The only time it has happened so far is at the Denis Ten Memorial, which Vasilisa won with Varvara in 5th.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Some might drop out, some might do both of it´s not an actual overlap.

Looking at both entries in senior women, it would be wiser strategically to go for this one if they are going to drop one of them - less entries and also I would say a little bit less competitive field - bigger changes to collect ranking point, IF there isn´t a huge dropout so there isn´t enough entries for that.
I can never remember how many entries from different nations there has to be for ranking points. Is it 4 different ISU members and how many in total? Even with some dropout now, it still looks like it will be valid. One competition that didn´t give ranking points this season was Northern Lights Trophy in Iceland after some WD, there were only 3 ISU members competing at last, Norway, Finland and Poland in the senior women event, and 5 in total (Norway had the most entries with 3 ladies). But the competitions did give valid points for minimums though.

I would bet that Brezinova will do both, considering her crazy amount of competitions this fall. She did 10 competitions already. I think she is doing so many to try get her Worlds mins back. She did some very close competitions this fall - Tayside Trophy (Oct. 12) and Diamond Spin (Oct. 15) and Tirnavia (Nov. 1) and Denkova Staviski Cup (Nov. 5). I hope she doesn´t burn herself out on this task.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

You never know. Some skaters might be planning to do back-to-back competitions.

But, if it is the case that they are only doing one, I would almost guarantee you that Varvara Abramkina (CYP) and Leilah Patten (GBR) will drop out of the Volvo Open Cup. They both belong to the Denkova-Staviski club, the hosts of the Sofia Trophy. And they may think that they are likely to do better in familiar surroundings. (Plus, it's a lot less hassle to just stay at home than to travel to Latvia!)

Mind you, it would be nice if Varvara in particular did do both, as I would love to see the two Moscow girls that are representing Cyprus going head-to-head. (Vasilisa Bogomolova is also entered here). The only time it has happened so far is at the Denis Ten Memorial, which Vasilisa won with Varvara in 5th.

CaroLiza_fan

That's why I said it might be a tight turn-around for some of these skaters. The Sofia Trophy finishes on the 11th, with the Volvo Open Cup starting on the 16th, which is doable but not necessarily easy.

Leilah will probably be doing both unless she manages to get the Jr Worlds minimums at the Sofia Trophy already, as she did win British Nationals and the entry deadline for Jr Worlds is coming up (28.01.2025). I wouldn't even be surprised if she was also on the preliminary entry list for the Bavarian Open, just in case.

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Senior women entries:

Victoria Alcantara AUS (listed at Sophia Trophy, might WD)
Eliska Brezinova CZE (listed at Sophia Trophy, but seems to be doing all competitions possible)
Olivia Lisko FIN
Minja Peltonen FIN
Selma Valitalo FIN
Tara Prasad IND (listed at Sophia Trophy, might WD)
Emilija Ozola LAT
Lueta Silina LAT
Meda Variakojyte LTU
Katherine Ong Pui Kuan MAS (listed at Sophy Trophy, might WD)
Mia Risa Gomez NOR
Oda Havgar NOR
Cathryn Limketkai PHI

Even if all those listed at Sophia Trophy drop out, there is still 5 different ISU members competing, which I think is still enough for ranking points. Most likely 6 because I would count on Brezinova doing both. Latvia, Norway and Finland with multiple entries would most likely still have an entry if someone WD. So if i´m not wrong I think there just need to be one other member to be valid for ranking points.

Risa Gomez is the only one at this competition who is going to Euros, this would really be good chance for her to climb a warm up group at Euros if she can place top 5.

 

[TT_Fin]

Olivia is hunting for scores and minimums for WC, so I am quite sure at least she will be there and other competitions where she can go and is selected by local fed. At the second part of the season GP/CS scores can be replaced by other 2nd part's international ISU competition scores at the two best scores list and that is the reason there are so many Finns in so many competitions. I think all of them are dreaming about WC spot. It might well happen that in singles the spot goes to somebody else than skaters who take part in EC.

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Olivia is hunting for scores and minimums for WC, so I am quite sure at least she will be there and other competitions where she can go and is selected by local fed. At the second part of the season GP/CS scores can be replaced by other 2nd part's international ISU competition scores at the two best scores list and that is the reason there are so many Finns in so many competitions. I think all of them are dreaming about WC spot. It might well happen that in singles the spot goes to somebody else than skaters who take part in EC.

She should go, she has a really good chance of podium in this competition. She could very well win. So could probably all the Finnish ladies. I would also put Meda in the medal mix, perhaps Eliska if she shows up and Mia if she can produce something similar like Nationals.

Edit: The haunt for minimums could perhaps lead to mistakes. It´s always very stressful when there are fewer and fewer competitions to achieve them.

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Regarding valid as ranking points: The number of entries has to be 8 from 4 different ISU members (just checked rules for 2023 and i´m guessing it´s stil the same). There are still 13 listed, so there is still a good chance for it to be valid, but there is not room for many other WD if the 4 ladies who are going to Sofia Trophy WD, that would leave the competition with 9 entries (still strongly believing Brezinova would do both competitions).

Potentially I think numbers of entries under 8 is a bigger danger then that it would end up with only 3 different ISU members.

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Senior men has a bigger danger though, there are only 9 men listed for now.

 

[aroundtheworld778]

Cathryn Limketkai PHI is doing both Junior and Seniors in search of CTES mins for Junior Worlds (needs just 3 points) and 4CC (needs 5.7 points). She is the PHI nationals silver medalist but champion Maxine Bautista cannot compete this year since she is transferring federations.

 

[kurakovabot]

Lowkey excited for Titova's intl. debut

 

[Mariiiiskate]

Lowkey excited for Titova's intl. debut

Me too, we haven't seen anything from her in almost year and half now as Armenian nats as far as I know are not broadcasted.

 

[labgoat]

54th Volvo Open Cup | Jan 16-19, 2025
Riga, Latvia - Volvo Sports Center | Entries/Results
Sportity (Password: Volvo54) | Livestream YT
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4

Junior Men Short WD 1. Itay Shegelman ISR 2. Vladislav Churakov EST 3. Kirills Korkacs LAT 4. Albin Samuelsson SWE 5. Julio Potapenko AUS 6. Nikolajs Krivoseja LAT 7. Benjamin Eriksson FIN 8. Daniil Valanov NOR 9. Daniel Korabelnik LTU 10. Casper Johansson SWE

Senior Men Short 1. Tim England GER 2. Fedir Kulish LAT 3. Artu Juusola FIN 4. Jan Ollikainen FIN 5. Jari Kessler CRO 6. Vladimir Samoilov POL 7. Charlton Doherty AUS 8. Adrian Jimenez Debaldomero ESP 9. Lincoln Yuen Lap Kan HKG

Junior Women Short 1. Diana Erport EST 2. Meea Manniko FIN 3. Therese Havag NOR 4. Leilah Patten GBR 5. Elea Rustgaard NOR WD 6. Sofiia Hryhorenko UKR 7. Zlata Rudakova LAT 8. Vasilisa Bogomolova CYP 9. Jelizaveta Derecina LAT 10. Jelizaveta Rudneva EST 11. Ariadna Gupta Espada ESP 12. Agne Ivanovaite LTU 13. Gabriele Juskaite LTU 14. Venla Sinisalo FIN 15. Ella Fehn SWE 16. Fernanda Guasco Robles MEX WD 17. Dieu Le Huong VIE WD 18. Daria Moskvitina ESP 19. Iida Karhunen FIN 20. Elizabeth Nou EST WD 21. Varvara Abramkina CYP 22. Kira Baranovska LAT 23. Cathryn Limketkai PHI 24. Evelina Stavickyte LTU 25. Emma Maevski NOR 26. Milana Siniavskyte LTU 27. Darja Trubitson FIN 28. Ann Kyle AUS 29. Alexandra Odman SWE 30. Sofya Titova ARM 31. Lilian Musgrave GBR 32. Celin Beate Ellingsen NOR 33. Megija Fogelmane LAT 34. Mia Liisu Krumins EST 35. Taisia Krivosheya LAT 36. Jasmine Coetzee RSA 37. Pernille With NOR 38. Miriama Sosina LAT 39. Maria Dorlova EST

Senior Women Short 1. Eliska Brezinova CZE 2. Tara Prasad IND 3. Oda Havgar NOR 4. Lueta Silina LAT 5. Minja Peltonen FIN 6. Emilija Ozola LAT WD 7. Katherine Ong Pui Kuan MAS 8. Meda Variakojyte LTU 9. Mia Risa Gomez NOR 10. Cathryn Limketkai PHI 11. Olivia Lisko FIN

Spoiler: Free Skate Start Orders

Junior Men Free 1. Benjamin Eriksson FIN 2. Daniil Valanov NOR 3. Kirills Korkacs LAT 4. Daniel Korabelnik LTU 5. Julio Potapenko AUS 6. Nikolajs Krivoseja LAT 7. Albin Samuelsson SWE 8. Vladislav Churakov EST 9. Casper Johansson SWE

Senior Men Free 1. Charlton Doherty AUS 2. Jan Ollikainen FIN 3. Adrian Jimenez Debaldomero ESP 4. Artu Juusola FIN 5. Tim England GER 6. Lincoln Yuen Lap Kan HKG 7. Jari Kessler CRO 8. Fedir Kulish LAT 9. Vladimir Samoilov POL

Advanced Novice Women Entries / Results (Interclub) 1 Marta MULAREKA LAT SP | FS Junior Women Free 1. Jasmine Coetzee RSA 2. Maria Dorlova EST 3. Jelizaveta Rudneva EST 4. Lilian Musgrave GBR 5. Ann Kyle AUS 6. Celin Beate Ellingsen NOR 7. Taisia Krivosheya LAT 8. Fernanda Guasco Robles MEX 9. Zlata Rudakova LAT 10. Diana Erport EST 11. Mia Liisu Krumins EST 12. Emma Maevski NOR 13. Ella Fehn SWE 14. Megija Fogelmane LAT 15. Elea Rustgaard NOR 16. Miriama Sosina LAT 17. Therese Havag NOR 18. Leilah Patten GBR 19. Jelizaveta Derecina LAT 20. Agne Ivanovaite LTU 21. Pernille With NOR 22. Cathryn Limketkai PHI 23. Milana Siniavskyte LTU 24. Gabriele Juskaite LTU 25. Ariadna Gupta Espada ESP 26. Meea Manniko FIN 27. Vasilisa Bogomolova CYP 28. Evelina Stavickyte LTU 29. Darja Trubitson FIN 30. Elizabeth Nou EST 31. Venla Sinisalo FIN 32. Alexandra Odman SWE 33. Sofya Titova ARM 34. Kira Baranovska LAT 35. Iida Karhunen FIN

Senior Women Free WD 1. Cathryn Limketkai PHI 2. Lueta Silina LAT 3. Oda Havgar NOR 4. Eliska Brezinova CZE 5. Minja Peltonen FIN 6. Emilija Ozola LAT 7. Tara Prasad IND 8. Mia Risa Gomez NOR 9. Meda Variakojyte LTU 10. Olivia Lisko FIN

 

[norwegianfairytale]

There seems to be a paid stream but very reasonable. It seems one day pass is 3 Euros!

https://solidsport.com/volvo-open-cup/watch/volvo-open-cup-51st-thursday-18-january

 

[kurakovabot]

There seems to be a paid stream but very reasonable. It seems one day pass is 3 Euros!

https://solidsport.com/volvo-open-cup/watch/volvo-open-cup-51st-thursday-18-january

isn't there a free livestream for each day on youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/@iSPLive/streams

 

[Jeanie19]

isn't there a free livestream for each day on youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/@iSPLive/streams

I hope its free.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

There seems to be a paid stream but very reasonable. It seems one day pass is 3 Euros!

https://solidsport.com/volvo-open-cup/watch/volvo-open-cup-51st-thursday-18-january

That SolidSport stream was for the 51st edition, which was a year ago in January 2024.

Don't worry, every January it takes me a few weeks (well, more like months!) to get used to it being a different year.

isn't there a free livestream for each day on youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/@iSPLive/streams

Yep, that's where the streams for the 54th edition are.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[norwegianfairytale]

I hope its free.

isn't there a free livestream for each day on youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/@iSPLive/streams

That SolidSport stream was for the 51st edition, which was a year ago in January 2024.

Don't worry, every January it takes me a few weeks (well, more like months!) to get used to it being a different year.



Yep, that's where the streams for the 54th edition are.

CaroLiza_fan

Well, that is really excellent news. I love to be wrong about this one

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Senior women entries:

Victoria Alcantara AUS (listed at Sophia Trophy, might WD)
Eliska Brezinova CZE (listed at Sophia Trophy, but seems to be doing all competitions possible)
Olivia Lisko FIN
Minja Peltonen FIN
Selma Valitalo FIN
Tara Prasad IND (listed at Sophia Trophy, might WD)
Emilija Ozola LAT
Lueta Silina LAT
Meda Variakojyte LTU
Katherine Ong Pui Kuan MAS (listed at Sophy Trophy, might WD)
Mia Risa Gomez NOR
Oda Havgar NOR
Cathryn Limketkai PHI

Official result page is up. Alcantara (AUS) and Valitalo (FIN) is out. Unless there is more changes senior women is still valid for ranking points