2025 Sofia Trophy | Jan 7-12

[gsk8]

2025 Sofia Trophy is set to take place Jan 7-12, 2025, in Sofia, Bulgaria, at the Winter Sports Palace. The competition will feature the Singles (Women and Men) and Ice Dance disciplines in the Novice, Junior, and Senior categories.

The event will be conducted in accordance with the ISU Constitution and General Regulations, ISU Special Regulations & Technical Rules for Single & Pair Skating, and relevant ISU Communications.

• Official Site
• ISU Event Page
• Announcement (Interclub)
• Announcement (ISU)
• Schedule
• Entries / Results (Interclub)
• Entries / Results (ISU)
• Streaming Channel (Bulgarian stream free. International stream €)

Time Schedule
Local Time, UTC +02:00​

Date​	Time​	Category​	Segment​	Reports​	Livestream​
08.01.2025		Day 1​			Livestream (Bulgarian) Livestream (International)
	08:15:00	CHICKS II. GIRLS (1.7.2017 AND YOUNGER)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	08:43:00	CHICKS I. GIRLS (1.7.2016 - 30.6.2017)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	09:58:00	CHICKS BOYS (1.7.2016 AND YOUNGER)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	10:30:00	CUBS II. GIRLS (1.7.2015 - 30.6.2016)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	11:47:00	CUBS I. GIRLS (1.7.2014 - 30.6.2015)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	13:47:00	CUBS BOYS (1.7.2014 - 30.6.2016)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	14:10:00	INTERMEDIATE NOVICE BOYS (1.7.2008 - 30.06.2010)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	14:26:00	INTERMEDIATE NOVICE GIRLS (1.7.2008 - 30.06.2010)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	17:55:00	ADVANCE NOVICE GIRLS (1.7.2008 - 30.6.2014)	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
	20:22:00	ADVANCE NOVICE BOYS (1.7.2008 - 30.6.2014)	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
09.01.2025		Day 2​			Livestream (Bulgarian) Livestream (International)
	08:15:00	BASIC NOVICE II. GIRLS (1.7.2012 - 30.06.2014)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	12:40:00	BASIC NOVICE I. GIRLS (1.7.2010 - 30.06.2012)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	14:40:00	BASIC NOVICE II. BOYS (1.7.2012 - 30.06.2014)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	15:16:00	BASIC NOVICE I. BOYS (1.7.2010 - 30.06.2012)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	15:50:00	Junior Ice Dance	Rhythm Dance	Time Schedule (pdf)
	17:15:00	Ice Dance	Rhythm Dance	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:35:00	ADVANCE NOVICE GIRLS (1.7.2008 - 30.6.2014)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	21:20:00	ADVANCE NOVICE BOYS (1.7.2008 - 30.6.2014)	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
10.01.2025		Day 3​			Livestream (Bulgarian) Livestream (International)
	08:00:00	Junior Women	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
	13:20:00	Junior Men	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
	15:30:00	Junior Ice Dance	Free Dance	Time Schedule (pdf)
	17:00:00	Ice Dance	Free Dance	Time Schedule (pdf)
	18:30:00	Women	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
	21:30:00	Men	Short Program	Time Schedule (pdf)
11.01.2025		Day 4​			Livestream (Bulgarian) Livestream (International)
	08:30:00	Junior Women	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	13:30:00	Junior Men	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	16:00:00	Women	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)
	19:30:00	Men	Free Skating	Time Schedule (pdf)

 

[TT_Fin]

Finland's team: This is from Finland's fed's homepage.

Sofia BUL

7.-12.1.

Yuka Orihara – Juho Pirinen Enna Kesti – Oskari Liedenpohja

SEN JUN

Shouldn't all entries be announced already as this comes so soon? I tried to find out but did not manage.

 

[Walt FSHunter]

Entry List

http://www.europeancriterium.eu/sign_up_list_manual.aspx?id=1085

 

[Walt FSHunter]

50 junior women. But I don't think I'll watch it as it belongs to European Criterium series which is streamed on paid platform SolidSport.

 

[Jeanie19]

Entry List

http://www.europeancriterium.eu/sign_up_list_manual.aspx?id=1085

50 junior women. Will there be a stream?

 

[Jeanie19]

50 junior women. But I don't think I'll watch it as it belongs to European Criterium series which is streamed on paid platform SolidSport.

Not solidsport.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Quite a few skaters that I keep an eye out for competing here.

Good to see Leilah Patten (GBR), Varvara Abramkina (CYP), and the Hristova sisters (BUL) in the Junior Ladies entries. But, not surprising since they all belong to the host club.

But the Hristova sisters aren't the only set of sisters in Junior Ladies. There are three sets! We also have the Cusak sisters (HRV) and the Lengyelova sisters (SVK). I wonder what the most sets of sibllings we have ever had in a competition is.

By the way, I see three girls with the same surname from the same club in the Chicks II entries. I wonder if they are sisters. If they are, given that the age range of that competition is just 12 months, that would probably mean that they are triplets!

And on that note, in case you are wondering, none of the Huber triplets (AUT) are entered for the Sofia Trophy.

But, it is good to see a healthy number of entries in the Ice Dance competitions. Even if they have messed them up. According to the entry lists, we have:

• 4 male Junior Ice Dancers
• 8 female Junior Ice Dancers
• 10 female Senior Ice Dancers
• 12 male Senior Ice Dancers

What seems to have happened is that some of the French partnerships have had the girls listed in Juniors and the corresponding boys listed in Seniors.

It's so funny the way they list the female and male members of the Ice Dance partnerships separately. It makes it look like they are holding Solo Dance competitions in the traditional format (you know, what we had until the ISU started poking their noses in and messed it up ).

Looking forward to keeping an eye on what is happening via the results pages.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

The 2025 Sofia Trophy is kicking off now with the first of the Interclub competitions.

There are actually two streams each day. There is a free stream with Bulgarian commentary which is geo-blocked outside of Bulgaria. And there is an international pay stream with no commentary, but unfortunately the page does not tell you the price.

Here is the link for today's Bulgarian livestream (Free):
https://ice-stars.tv/sofia-trophy/watch/sofia-trophy-2025-day-1-bulgaria

And here is the link for today's International livestream (€):
https://ice-stars.tv/sofia-trophy/watch/sofia-trophy-2025-day-2

As I am not watching, I will not be doing reminder posts at the start of each segment. However, all the information I normally put into them is in the OP, including links to time zone conversion tables for the time that each of the segments is due to start.

Hope this helps

ALL THE BEST EVERYBODY

CaroLiza_fan

 

[Andrea82]

Some teams in quest of TES minimums for ISU Championships improved their chances after Rhythm Dance

Juniors
Sipunova/Korjagin (Estonia) are 0.12 off from Junior Worlds minimums. In Free Dance they need to improve their current top TES from 38.80 (Bosphorus Cup) to 38.92
MacKenzie/Lockwood (Sweden) 1.15 off from the JW minimums. In Free Dance they need to improve their current top TES from 40.67 (Denkova-Staviski Cup) to 41.82
Kesti/Liednpohja (Finland) are 44.61 off. In Free Dance they need to improve their current top TES from 40.37 (Santa Claus Cup) to 44.61
Wheldon/Hammon (Great Britain) would need a 45.32 Free Dance

Seniors
Kudryavtesva/Karankevich (Cyprus) are 2.45 points off from Senior World minimums. In Free Dance they need to improve their current top TES from 56.64 (Nebelhorn Trophy) to 59.1.
Ritter/Brykalov (Azerbaijan) are 4.19 off from Senior World minimums. In Free Dance they need to improve their current top TES from 54.53 (Santa Claus Cup) to 58.71.
Stanley/Urano (Mexico) are 0.69 off the 4 Continents minimums. It's their last chance before the entry deadline. In Free Dance they need to improve their current top TES from 50.21 (EduSport Trophy) to 50.90.

No improvements for Ziabrowska/Judd (Romania). They are still 2.53 off from Senior World minimums. In Free Dance they need to improve their current top TES from 54.95(EduSport Trophy) to 57.48

 

[Andrea82]

Stanley/Urano got the TES for Four Continents

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Stanley/Urano got the TES for Four Continents

And Sipunova/Korjagin (EST) for Jr Worlds and Ritter/Brykalov (AZE) for Sr Worlds.

Scoring here was, for lack of better words, creative. Some teams got quite the boost, others not so much. Fradji/Fourneaux and Demougeot/le Mercier outscored both their international and national (!) personal best scores - and French domestic competitions are hardly conservative in their scoring. Orihara/Pirinen on the other hand must have done something to anger this panel, because they got their lowest PCS of the season by quite a bit.

 

[Miriam090]

And Sipunova/Korjagin (EST) for Jr Worlds and Ritter/Brykalov (AZE) for Sr Worlds.

Scoring here was, for lack of better words, creative. Some teams got quite the boost, others not so much. Fradji/Fourneaux and Demougeot/le Mercier outscored both their international and national (!) personal best scores - and French domestic competitions are hardly conservative in their scoring. Orihara/Pirinen on the other hand must have done something to anger this panel, because they got their lowest PCS of the season by quite a bit.

Demougeot/le Mercier rarely score well at nationals - they don't seem to be terribly well liked domestically for some reason, they scored higher at Euros and worlds last season than at nationals. The fed should definitely be pushing them more imo (and as you said, we know they can bc it's not like they haven't scored L/B insanely high). Karine Arribert has actually talked about it a bit iirc in regards to several of her teams being deflated by the domestic scoring her teams are getting relatively to how they're perceived by international judges (there's a bit at the end of this interview about f/f https://www.skate-info-glace.com/2024-12-8-interviewfradjifourneaux/ )

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Chiu Hei Cheung (HKG) has achieved the 4CC TES minimums and Nargiz Süleymanova (AZE) the Euros TES minimums after the Short. Additionally, Andre Zapata (ESP) has achieved Junior Worlds minimums (and is currently leading the Junior men's field).

Demougeot/le Mercier rarely score well at nationals - they don't seem to be terribly well liked domestically for some reason, they scored higher at Euros and worlds last season than at nationals. The fed should definitely be pushing them more imo (and as you said, we know they can bc it's not like they haven't scored L/B insanely high). Karine Arribert has actually talked about it a bit iirc in regards to several of her teams being deflated by the domestic scoring her teams are getting relatively to how they're perceived by international judges (there's a bit at the end of this interview about f/f https://www.skate-info-glace.com/2024-12-8-interviewfradjifourneaux/ )

With all due respect, while not all of Karine's teams are always getting the same boost domestically anymore, they certainly used to. They aren't scored super low domestically either.
In 2022/23, Demougeot/le Mercier scored over 6 points higher at Nationals than internationally. Since last season, they in particular have been scored on par domestically and internationally, but other Arribert teams have not.
Dupayage/Nabais got a massive boost at French Masters earlier this season, and at the same competition, Fradji/Fourneaux similarly received their highest score before the Sofia Trophy.

Of course, all of France's sports organisations have real political problems, but at the end, nobody cares until they are the ones on the short end of the stick. That's why there's never any long-term improvement or change, despite so many controversies and issues.

 

[labgoat]

2025 Sofia Trophy - Jan 7-12, 2025
Sofia, BUL - Winter Sports Palace | Entries/Results
Streaming Channel (Bulgarian stream free. International stream €)

Junior Men Short 1 Deyan MIHAYLOV BUL 2 Rosen PEEV BUL 3 Tobia OELLERER AUT 4 Nikolay di TRIA ITA 5 Razvan CIONAC ROU 6 Niccolo BOERIS SVK 7 Kalojan NALBANTOV BUL WD 8 Jedidiah LINCOLN GBR 9 Tadeas VACLAVIK CZE 10 Daniel KORABELNIK LTU 11 Andre ZAPATA ESP | v2 12 Maksym PETRYCHENKO AUT 13 Itay SHEGELMAN ISR 14 Jakub TYKAL CZE 15 Juan URENA RUIZ ESP 16 Alex VALKY SVK Senior Men Short 1 Chiu Hei CHEUNG HKG 2 Paolo BORROMEO PHI 3 Nico STEFFEN SUI 4 Adam HAGARA SVK 5 Zhiming PENG CHN 6 Alexander ZLATKOV BUL 7 Beat SCHUEMPERLI BUL 8 Filip KAYMAKCHIEV BUL

Junior Women Short (36 Qualify) 1 Lorna MACKOVA SVK 2 Evelina STAVICKYTE LTU 3 Flora Marie SCHALLER AUT 4 Fernanda GUASCO ROBLES MEX 5 Alica LENGYELOVA SVK 6 Ana SCEPANOVIC SRB 7 Neza Rikke RUTAR SLO 8 Lena CUSAK CRO 9 Anastasiia FILINA BUL 10 Noa Fay CAPPENBERG NED 11 Samira MITISKA AUT 12 Camilla Vinther POULSEN DEN 13 Meri MARINAC CRO 14 Varvara ABRAMKINA CYP 15 Tsvetelina PANOVA BUL 16 Carlota GARCIA BARRANCO ESP 17 Marta KAIC CRO 18 Klara CUSAK CRO 19 Krista GEORGIEVA BUL 20 Milena VELCHEVA BUL 21 Ivayla VLADIMIROVA BUL 22 Olivia LENGYELOVA SVK 23 Adela VALLOVA CZE 24 Roos HARKEMA NED 25 Emma CERKALOVA SVK WD 26 Noelie HAYMOZ SUI 27 Cayetana GONZALEZ MEX 28 Scarlet ZMEKOVA SVK 29 Ana STRATULAT ROU 30 Milana SINIAVSKYTE LTU 31 Leilah PATTEN GBR 32 Zoja KRAMAR SLO 33 Estela RUIZ GARROTE ESP 34 Regina Alejandra TORRES MEDRANO MEX 35 Ariadna GUPTA ESPADA ESP | v2 36 Lia LYUBENOVA BUL 37 Leyli AKHUNDOVA AZE 38 Anastasiia YURCHUCK BUL 39 Sabina ALIEVA AZE 40 Eugenia SEKULOVSKI SUI 41 Alessia IRIMIA ROU 42 Agne IVANOVAITE LTU 43 Barbora TYKALOVA CZE 44 Vita KAS SLO

Senior Women Short 1 Jogaile AGLINSKYTE LTU 2 Tara PRASAD IND 3 KURAKOVA EKATERINA POL 4 Victoria ALCANTARA AUS 5 Kristen SPOURS GBR 6 Marianne MUST EST 7 Julia SAUTER ROU 8 Ophelie CLERC SUI 9 Elena AGOSTINELLI ITA 10 Genevieve SOMERVILLE GBR 11 Lois LIBREGTS NED 12 Eliska BREZINOVA CZE 13 Mariia KRYZHOVA SRB 14 Afrina DIYANAH MAS 15 Julija LOVRENCIC SLO 16 Elisavet VOULGARI GRE 17 Niki WORIES NED 18 Jolanda VOS NED 19 Katherine ONG PUI KUAN MAS 20 Kristina GRIGOROVA BUL 21 Sarah Marie PESCH GER 22 Alexandra FEIGIN BUL 23 Nargiz SUELEYMANOVA AZE

Junior Rhythm Dance 1 Louise BORDET / Martin CHARDAIN FRA 2 Ksenia SIPUNOVA / Miron KORJAGIN EST 3 Lou KOCH / Lucas CHATAIGNOUX FRA 4 Lena MALIQUEO-REPOUX / Illia SYNELNIKOV FRA 5 Kiah WHIELDON / Jamie HAMMOND GBR 6 Enna KESTI / Oskari LIEDENPOHJA FIN 7 Celina FRADJI / Jean-Hans FOURNEAUX FRA 8 Anna MACKENZIE / Wesley LOCKWOOD SWE 9 Villo Mira SZILAGYI / Istvan JARACS HUN 10 Alexia KRUK / Jan EISENHABER GER Senior Rhythm Dance 1 Yuka ORIHARA / Juho PIRINEN FIN 2 Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROETHLISBERGER ITA 3 Emilia Monika ZIOBROWSKA / Shiloh Douglas JUDD ROU 4 Mariia PINCHUK / Mykyta POGORIELOV UKR 5 Loicia DEMOUGEOT / Theo le MERCIER FRA 6 Angelina KUDRYAVTSEVA / Ilia KARANKEVICH CYP 7 Harlow Lynella STANLEY / Seiji URANO MEX 8 Samantha RITTER / Daniel BRYKALOV AZE 9 Marie DUPAYAGE / Thomas NABAIS FRA

Spoiler: Free Skate Start Orders

Junior Men Free 1 Kalojan NALBANTOV BUL 2 Juan URENA RUIZ ESP 3 Razvan CIONAC ROU 4 Rosen PEEV BUL 5 Itay SHEGELMAN ISR 6 Niccolo BOERIS SVK 7 Alex VALKY SVK 8 Nikolay di TRIA ITA 9 Deyan MIHAYLOV BUL 10 Tadeas VACLAVIK CZE 11 Maksym PETRYCHENKO AUT 12 Tobia OELLERER AUT 13 Daniel KORABELNIK LTU 14 Jakub TYKAL CZE 15 Andre ZAPATA ESP | v2 Senior Men Free 1 Filip KAYMAKCHIEV BUL 2 Paolo BORROMEO PHI 3 Alexander ZLATKOV BUL 4 Nico STEFFEN SUI 5 Chiu Hei CHEUNG HKG 6 Beat SCHUEMPERLI BUL 7 Zhiming PENG CHN 8 Adam HAGARA SVK

Junior Women Free WD 1 Samira MITISKA AUT 2 Anastasiia YURCHUCK BUL 3 Estela RUIZ GARROTE ESP 4 Fernanda GUASCO ROBLES MEX 5 Adela VALLOVA CZE 6 Leyli AKHUNDOVA AZE WD 7 Ana SCEPANOVIC SRB 8 Evelina STAVICKYTE LTU 9 Lena CUSAK CRO 10 Vita KAS SLO 11 Tsvetelina PANOVA BUL 12 Ana STRATULAT ROU 13 Meri MARINAC CRO 14 Roos HARKEMA NED 15 Milana SINIAVSKYTE LTU 16 Regina Alejandra TORRES MEDRANO MEX 17 Anastasiia FILINA BUL 18 Agne IVANOVAITE LTU 19 Carlota GARCIA BARRANCO ESP WD 20 Sabina ALIEVA AZE 21 Klara CUSAK CRO 22 Zoja KRAMAR SLO 23 Krista GEORGIEVA BUL 24 Lorna MACKOVA SVK 25 Cayetana GONZALEZ MEX 26 Varvara ABRAMKINA CYP 27 Ariadna GUPTA ESPADA ESP | v2 28 Camilla Vinther POULSEN DEN 29 Flora Marie SCHALLER AUT 30 Leilah PATTEN GBR 31 Eugenia SEKULOVSKI SUI 32 Emma CERKALOVA SVK 33 Barbora TYKALOVA CZE 34 Lia LYUBENOVA BUL 35 Alica LENGYELOVA SVK 36 Olivia LENGYELOVA SVK

Senior Women Free 1 Afrina DIYANAH MAS 2 Elisavet VOULGARI GRE 3 Lois LIBREGTS NED WD 4 Genevieve SOMERVILLE GBR 5 Kristina GRIGOROVA BUL 6 Katherine ONG PUI KUAN MAS 7 Eliska BREZINOVA CZE 8 Ophelie CLERC SUI 9 Sarah Marie PESCH GER 10 Mariia KRYZHOVA SRB 11 Jolanda VOS NED 12 Tara PRASAD IND 13 Victoria ALCANTARA AUS 14 Elena AGOSTINELLI ITA 15 Julija LOVRENCIC SLO | v2 16 Jogaile AGLINSKYTE LTU 17 Niki WORIES NED 18 Marianne MUST EST 19 Nargiz SUELEYMANOVA AZE 20 Kristen SPOURS GBR 21 KURAKOVA EKATERINA POL 22 Julia SAUTER ROU 23 Alexandra FEIGIN BUL

Junior Free Dance 1 Villo Mira SZILAGYI / Istvan JARACS HUN 2 Kiah WHIELDON / Jamie HAMMOND GBR 3 Enna KESTI / Oskari LIEDENPOHJA FIN 4 Lena MALIQUEO-REPOUX / Illia SYNELNIKOV FRA 5 Anna MACKENZIE / Wesley LOCKWOOD SWE 6 Lou KOCH / Lucas CHATAIGNOUX FRA 7 Alexia KRUK / Jan EISENHABER GER 8 Ksenia SIPUNOVA / Miron KORJAGIN EST 9 Louise BORDET / Martin CHARDAIN FRA 10 Celina FRADJI / Jean-Hans FOURNEAUX FRA Senior Free Dance 1 Emilia Monika ZIOBROWSKA / Shiloh Douglas JUDD ROU 2 Harlow Lynella STANLEY / Seiji URANO MEX 3 Samantha RITTER / Daniel BRYKALOV AZE 4 Angelina KUDRYAVTSEVA / Ilia KARANKEVICH CYP 5 Mariia PINCHUK / Mykyta POGORIELOV UKR 6 Yuka ORIHARA / Juho PIRINEN FIN 7 Marie DUPAYAGE / Thomas NABAIS FRA 8 Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROETHLISBERGER ITA 9 Loicia DEMOUGEOT / Theo le MERCIER FRA

 

[saine]

Nargiz Süleymanova must have had a good free skate, she just got the Worlds CTES with 61.35 TES in the free (116.09 for the free/172.80 total)

 

[RatedPG]

Nargiz Süleymanova must have had a good free skate, she just got the Worlds CTES with 61.35 TES in the free (116.09 for the free/172.80 total)

Doesn’t she train at TCC?
I’m happy for her

 

[saine]

Doesn’t she train at TCC?
I’m happy for her

She does. A TCC fanpage posted her short program from here on Instagram:

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Nargiz Süleymanova must have had a good free skate, she just got the Worlds CTES with 61.35 TES in the free (116.09 for the free/172.80 total)

Worlds will only be Nargiz's second ISU Championship, after her singular Jr Worlds appearance. She'll be one of the very few (small fed) skaters who compete at Worlds before ever competing at any Continental Championships. (Side note - It's not unlikely that the only German female single skaters at Worlds this year will not be representing Germany - Nargiz and Julia have their Worlds minimums already, Kristina doesn't)

Apart from her, Tobia Oeller and Flora Maria Schaller (both Austrians) achieved Jr Worlds minimums.

 

[saine]

Paolo Borromeo (PHI) earned the 4CC CTES and Alexander Zlatkov (BUL) just got the Worlds CTES (need 66.22 in the free, got 66.48).

 

[saine]

Zhiming Peng (CHN) earned the Worlds CTES along with a medal.