2021 Gran Premio d'Italia
The 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia was the third event in the 2021–22 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Torino Palavela in Turin on November 5–7. It was the replacement event for Cup of China. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2021–22 Grand Prix Final.
| 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Grand Prix |
| Date: | November 5 – 7 |
| Season: | 2021–22 |
| Location: | Turin |
| Host: | Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio |
| Venue: | Torino Palavela |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Yuma Kagiyama | |
Women's singles:  Anna Shcherbakova | |
Pair skating:  Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | |
Ice dance:  Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | |
| Previous GP: 2021 Skate Canada International | |
| Next GP: 2021 NHK Trophy | |
On August 27, 2021, the International Skating Union announced that the Gran Premio d'Italia would replace Cup of China, which was cancelled on August 16 due to travel restrictions and quarantine requirements related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] In an attempt to preserve the Grand Prix series, the ISU asked for other ISU members to apply as hosts on the originally scheduled dates. In addition to the successful bid from the Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio (Turin), the ISU received applications from the Hungarian Skating Federation (Debrecen) and U.S. Figure Skating (Norwood, Massachusetts).[2]
At the time of Cup of China's cancellation, the Figure Skating Federation of Russia expressed confidence in the ISU's ability to find a replacement, but declined to bid itself.[3] The last time the event was cancelled, in 2018, Cup of China was replaced by the Grand Prix of Helsinki.
Entries
The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2021.[4] The Gran Premio d'Italia assignments were updated on September 10; the Chinese Skating Association's not-yet-assigned host spots (one in pairs and one in ice dance) as of Cup of China's cancellation were reallocated to the Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio. Subsequent withdrawals by Chinese skaters were also replaced by Italian skaters.
Changes to preliminary assignments
| Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes | Refs | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | |||
| Men | September 21 | Yan Han |
October 1 |  Gabriele Frangipani |
Host pick | [5] |
| Women | Lin Shan |
Lara Naki Gutmann |
[6] | |||
| Pairs | N/A | Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii |
[7] | |||
| Ice dance | Carolina Portesi Peroni / Michael Chrastecky |
[8] | ||||
| October 11 | Carolina Portesi Peroni / Michael Chrastecky |
October 11 | Carolina Moscheni / Francesco Fioretti |
Injury (Portesi Peroni)[9] | ||
| Women | October 19 | Chen Hongyi |
October 20 | Lucrezia Beccari |
Host pick | [6] |
| October 26 |  Bradie Tennell |
October 27 |  Nicole Schott |
Injury[10] | ||
Results
Men
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuma Kagiyama | Japan |
278.02 | 7 | 80.53 | 1 | 197.49 |
| 2 | Mikhail Kolyada | Russia |
273.55 | 4 | 92.30 | 2 | 181.25 |
| 3 | Daniel Grassl | Italy |
269.00 | 2 | 95.67 | 3 | 173.33 |
| 4 | Deniss Vasiļjevs |  Latvia |
248.44 | 5 | 85.09 | 4 | 163.35 |
| 5 | Cha Jun-hwan |  South Korea |
247.74 | 3 | 95.56 | 6 | 152.18 |
| 6 | Kazuki Tomono | Japan |
245.11 | 6 | 83.91 | 5 | 161.20 |
| 7 | Jin Boyang | China |
242.27 | 1 | 97.89 | 9 | 144.38 |
| 8 | Petr Gumennik | Russia |
226.76 | 9 | 76.81 | 7 | 149.95 |
| 9 | Dmitri Aliev | Russia |
217.67 | 10 | 71.07 | 8 | 146.60 |
| 10 | Chen Yudong | China |
200.96 | 8 | 78.79 | 10 | 122.17 |
| 11 | Gabriele Frangipani | Italy |
167.60 | 12 | 55.09 | 11 | 112.51 |
| WD | Paul Fentz | Germany |
withdrew | 11 | 57.17 | withdrew from competition | |
Women
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Shcherbakova | Russia |
236.78 | 3 | 71.73 | 1 | 165.05 |
| 2 | Maiia Khromykh | Russia |
226.35 | 2 | 72.04 | 2 | 154.31 |
| 3 | Loena Hendrickx | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Belgium |
219.05 | 1 | 73.52 | 3 | 145.53 |
| 4 | Mai Mihara | Japan |
214.95 | 5 | 70.46 | 4 | 144.49 |
| 5 | Satoko Miyahara | Japan |
209.57 | 4 | 70.85 | 5 | 138.72 |
| 6 | Kim Ye-lim | South Korea |
193.50 | 7 | 62.78 | 6 | 130.72 |
| 7 | Sofia Samodurova | Russia |
180.59 | 9 | 58.68 | 7 | 121.91 |
| 8 | Lim Eun-soo | South Korea |
179.58 | 6 | 67.03 | 8 | 112.55 |
| 9 | Zhu Yi | China |
171.25 | 8 | 60.00 | 9 | 111.25 |
| 10 | Nicole Schott | Germany |
167.20 | 10 | 58.33 | 10 | 108.87 |
| 11 | Lara Naki Gutmann | Italy |
158.57 | 11 | 54.83 | 11 | 103.74 |
| 12 | Lucrezia Beccari | Italy |
148.29 | 12 | 53.35 | 12 | 94.94 |
Pairs
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | China |
224.55 | 1 | 80.07 | 1 | 144.48 |
| 2 | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | China |
211.86 | 2 | 76.71 | 2 | 135.15 |
| 3 | Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev | Russia |
187.01 | 4 | 61.90 | 3 | 125.11 |
| 4 | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise | Italy |
179.26 | 3 | 65.12 | 4 | 114.14 |
| 5 | Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini | Italy |
165.45 | 5 | 60.89 | 6 | 104.56 |
| 6 | Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov | Russia |
162.71 | 7 | 52.72 | 5 | 109.99 |
| 7 | Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii | Italy |
152.72 | 6 | 54.55 | 7 | 98.17 |
| WD | Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel | Germany |
withdrew | 8 | 49.16 | withdrew from competition | |
Ice dance
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | France |
220.06 | 1 | 87.45 | 1 | 132.61 |
| 2 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | United States |
207.90 | 2 | 84.79 | 2 | 123.11 |
| 3 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Russia |
202.18 | 3 | 81.47 | 3 | 120.71 |
| 4 | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu | China |
184.59 | 5 | 73.28 | 4 | 111.31 |
| 5 | Caroline Green / Michael Parsons | United States |
178.26 | 4 | 75.60 | 6 | 102.66 |
| 6 | Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud | France |
174.63 | 6 | 67.31 | 5 | 107.32 |
| 7 | Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Canada |
163.86 | 8 | 63.40 | 7 | 100.46 |
| 8 | Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck | Germany |
159.97 | 7 | 63.41 | 9 | 95.56 |
| 9 | Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming | China |
158.12 | 9 | 62.37 | 8 | 95.75 |
| 10 | Carolina Moscheni / Francesco Fioretti | Italy |
140.83 | 10 | 55.79 | 10 | 85.04 |
References
- "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating – Cup of China 2021 cancelled". International Skating Union. August 16, 2021.
- "Third ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating event moves from Chongqing (CHN) to Torino (ITA)". International Skating Union. August 27, 2021.
- Astakhov, Sergey (August 16, 2021). "В ФФККР отреагировали на отмену этапа Гран-при по фигурному катанию в Китае" [FFKKR responded to the cancellation of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating in China]. RIA Novosti (in Russian).
- "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2021/22 assignments announced". International Skating Union. June 29, 2021.
- "ISU GP Gran Premio D'Italia 2021: Men". International Skating Union. September 10, 2021.
- "ISU GP Gran Premio D'Italia 2021: Women". International Skating Union. September 10, 2021.
- "ISU GP Gran Premio D'Italia 2021: Pairs". International Skating Union. September 10, 2021.
- "ISU GP Gran Premio D'Italia 2021: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. September 10, 2021.
- Portesi Peroni, Carolina [@carolinaportesi] (October 6, 2021). "Purtroppo la vita a volte decide di metterti davanti tanti ostacoli…" [Unfortunately, life sometimes decides to put you in front of so many obstacles...] (in Italian) – via Instagram.
- "Bradie Tennell Withdraws from Gran Premio d'Italia". U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone. U.S. Figure Skating. October 26, 2021.