2026 JGP Xi'an: General Info and Pregame Chat

[yuumagical]

Favorite name of the entries -
Chanelle CHUM / Osckar CHUM AUS

I can't wait to post I am rooting hard for the Chums

It's reassuring to know there's an ice dance team who are chums both on and off the ice, lol.

 

[4everchan]

It's reassuring to know there's an ice dance team who are chums both on and off the ice, lol.

in Québec, mon chum means "my boyfriend". which is clearly not the case here as they are most likely siblings.
Also, CHUM is Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.... when I had a broken limb, I did my physio there... and I was visiting my CHUM 2-3 times a week.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Favorite name of the entries -
Chanelle CHUM / Osckar CHUM AUS

I can't wait to post I am rooting hard for the Chums

It's reassuring to know there's an ice dance team who are chums both on and off the ice, lol.

in Québec, mon chum means "my boyfriend". which is clearly not the case here as they are most likely siblings.
Also, CHUM is Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.... when I had a broken limb, I did my physio there... and I was visiting my CHUM 2-3 times a week.

Whenever I hear the word "chum", I always think of a spoof of "Friends" that was shown as part of ITV's Saturday morning children's block, "SM:TV Live". It starred presenters Anthony McPartlin, Declan Donnelly, Cat Deeley, and whoever that week's celebrity guest's on the block were.

Here is the very first episode, from 1999, where the guests were S Club 7:

"Chums" - Episode 1

And here is the penultimate episode of the original run, from Ant & Dec's final edition of "SM:TV Live" in 2001, where Mariah Carey was amongst the guest stars:

"Chums" - "The One With The Wedding"

It ended a few weeks later when it was realised that the segment didn't work any more without Ant & Dec.

However, it was revived in 2003 for one last episode, with the original cast, on the final edition of "SM:TV Live":

"Chums" - "The One With The Ending"

And then in 2021, it was revived again on Ant & Dec's current show, "Saturday Night Takeaway" (which I always considered as a grown-up version of "SM:TV Live" anyway), to mark 20 years since they left "SM:TV Live". But, it is not on YouTube.

If you want to binge, here is a whole playlist with 81 episodes (I have no idea what the final video in the playlist is doing there!):

"Chums" Playlist

And here is the "Chums" section of a documentary about "SM:TV Live" shown on Boxing Day 2020:

"The Story of SM:TV Live" ("Chums" section)

I could never get into "Friends". But I loved "Chums".

CaroLiza_fan

 

[sissy7]

Question: isn't the number of quotas for Junior Pairs in the JGP unlimited for the host nation? Or has that been changed?
You would think that in China they would make use of this.....

EDIT: I see now that 3 quota is allocated as per the announcment. Still, there are only 2 pairs listed

 

[cocteautwin]

Question: isn't the number of quotas for Junior Pairs in the JGP unlimited for the host nation? Or has that been changed?
You would think that in China they would make use of this.....

EDIT: I see now that 3 quota is allocated as per the announcment. Still, there are only 2 pairs listed

Yes, it's unlimited. But there are not as many junior pairs in China as one could think. I think it's also strategically not the best option to put them all (especially the top ones) to fight against each other at domestic GP, it's better to spread them, especially since China has 3 spots at every event.
Zhang/Feng were on the initial list but they WD recently.

 

[labgoat]

Does anyone know if Karin Miyazaki is healthy? She WD from her free skate recently...
(WD before FS of Kinoshita Summer Cup Aug 11 per post in thread, no other info given)
Trying to decide where to place her and Kaoruko

 

[lariko]

Does anyone know if Karin Miyazaki is healthy? She WD from her free skate recently...
Trying to decide where to place her and Kaoruko

Noooo! Suspense at the last minute, I can't take it, I worked so hard on my preds!

 

[dorispulaski]

Detailed Results are up, but the start orders are only available for the rhythm dance.

ISU JGP Xi'an 2026

Event results for ISU JGP Xi'an 2026

results.isu.org

 

[AlexRus]

By Entries/Results:

Junior Men
1 Patrick BLACKWELL USA 222.17
2 Grayson LONG CAN 221.71
3 Yanhao LI NZL 217.58
4 Daiya EBIHARA JPN 217.52
5 Jiarui LI HKG 192.63
6 Boren LU CHN 175.11
7 Vinceman CHONG AUS 156.94
8 Kirill SHEIKO ISR 156.45
9 Felix Haoyu ZENG GER 152.50
10 Louie FUKUDA-WU TPE 149.52
11 Raul GARCIA SHIBINSKIY AND 133.38
12 Ean Ee Yang LAM MAS 110.88
13 Muhammad Dasha AKBAR INA 89.71
Unofficial Best if no official.
1 Lev LAZAREV RUS 279.25
2 Vasil BARAKHOUSKI BLR 208.43
3 Hayato OKAZAKI JPN 202.37
4 Zhuo Lang LI CHN 190.08
5 Ming Han XU CHN 183.60
6 Zachary LOPINTO USA 180.27
7 Yesung KIM KOR 160.94
8 Daniel VERBAT FRA 157.68
9 Gyujin HWANG KOR 139.07
10 Davide TOMAS ITA 138.13
11 Chawawit JIAMAHASUP THA 97.21 Novice
Kyvalya KOPPARAPU IND —
Samir TEMERGALIN UZB —

Junior Women
1 Kaoruko WADA (JPN) — 180.83
2 Jeongyul HWANG (KOR) — 178.50
3 Annika CHAO (USA) — 175.75
4 Shuxian JIN (CHN) — 172.99
5 Victoria BARAKHTINA (CAN) — 168.71
6 Chiara MINIGHINI (ITA) — 164.55
7 Lucca DIJKHUIZEN (NED) — 153.30
8 Milana SINIAVSKYTE (LTU) — 151.59
9 Natasa JERMOLICKA LAT 147.44
10 Ariel GUO (HKG) — 146.23
11 Vasilisa BOGOMOLOVA (CYP) — 138.42
12 Kalyn SHIMOGAKI (AUS) — 123.14
13 Vianna Shen-Rou LINKE (SGP) — 114.80
14 Isabella WANG (AUS) — 109.31
15 Isabella Miel HAZELTON (PHI) — 81.06
16 Pasuree Marcella TATIRAT (THA) — 77.13
17 Andrea PAZOS GUERRA (AND) — 74.55
Unofficial Best if no official.
1 Sofiia DZEPKA AIN2 223.55
2 Yuxuan LIU (CHN) 203.83
3 Varvara STAHOVICH (BLR) 188.11
4 Karin MIYAZAKI (JPN) 183.66
5 Chen Xi JIN CHN 176.89 Substitute
6 Elizaveta GRASHCHENKOVA (UZB) 162.94
7 Zlata SAPRINA (KGZ) 139.10
8 Darya TIMOFEEVA CZE 138.88 Substitute
9 Karina SHESTERIKOVA (EST) 123.45
10 Violet Zhiyan EE (MAS) 112.25
11 Cara TANG (NZL) 106.54
12 Cen Si LAI (TPE) 103.18
13 Izabella KIRILLOVA (ISR) 101.19
14 Candy Lieve Tilana LIM (INA) 69.82
15 Amina DYENISOVNA (MGL) 48.32
Jessy Raj MATHRAPU (IND) -
Shaked PINCHAS ISR -

Junior Pairs
1 CHEN Yuxuan / DONG Yinbo CHN 157.99
2 JARMOC Sofia / WITKOWSKI Luke USA 149.66
3 DION Brianna / COTE Jacob CAN 124.77
Unofficial Best if no official.
1 SHESHELEVA Polina / KARNAUKHOV Egor RUS 201.88
2 KERR Alena / HERBERT Sam USA 140.53
3 WANG Chen Ling / CHEN Yong Zheng CHN 135.61
4 TAICH Baylen / APTER Nikolai USA 135.11
5 HORCICKOVA Leontina / KLEMENT Jindrich CZE 124.54
TANG Alia / BOCSKAY William CAN —
HUO Abby / AHMED Axel FRA —

Junior Ice Dance
1 Zoe BIANCHI / Daniel BASILE ITA 149.64
2 Summer HOMICK / Nicholas BUELOW CAN 143.56
3 Annelise STAPERT / Maxim KOROTCOV USA 142.68
4 Jane CALHOUN / Mark ZHELTYSHEV USA 140.68
5 Leina YOU / Henrick CHAN KOR 134.96
6 Shanjie YIN / Shirui YANG CHN 132.35
7 Yuxuan XING / Han Wan CHAU HKG 126.92
8 Lara SUNDBERG / Hector GONZALEZ ELVIRA ESP 120.10
9 Romy REVERCHON / Victor DI MUZIO FRA 107.76
Unofficial Best if no official.
1 Mariia FEFELOVA / Artem VALOV RUS 180.11
2 Zhixuan LI / Quanshuo GE CHN 154.07
3 Ayumi SHIBAYAMA / Tomoki KIMURA JPN 137.64
4 Xin Yue KANG / Shi Bo HAO CHN 126.46
5 Kira LISTKOVA / Tahory TADDEI-DUGUE FRA 123.81
6 Varvara RAUHEN / Mikhail PRUSIANKOU BLR 116.63
7 Chanelle CHUM / Osckar CHUM AUS 111.22
Dessie Abigail HOEWING-MOXLEY / Artyom SLADKOV GER -
Rebecca Grace LICHTMAN / Blake GILMAN ISR -

 

[AlexRus]

Both Lev Lazarev and Sofiia Dzepka I've seen alive at competitions several times.

Lev Lazarev is very talented jumper. Both at JrNats and at Final of Federation Cup he landed in FS quads:
4F
4Lz
4S
(in secomd half)
4Lz+2A+2A
4T+3T

Sofiia Dzepka has both very good jumps and very nice skating, deserving high PCS. She lands all five triples and 4T. Also good spins.

 

[lariko]

Mom called me to tell that Dzepka wasn't able to land 4T in practice. Super-nervous for her now.