# 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix

The 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the 15th season of the series of junior international competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2011–12 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating contested by senior-level skaters. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
Skaters earned points towards qualifying for the final at each of the seven Junior Grand Prix events. The top six skaters/teams in the series from each discipline met at the 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final, which was held concurrently with the senior final.

## Competitions

The locations of the JGP events change yearly. In the 2011–12 season, the series was composed of the following events in autumn 2011:
| Date | Event | Location | Other notes |
| September 1–3 | 2011 JGP Volvo Cup | Riga, Latvia | |
| September 8–10 | 2011 JGP Brisbane | Brisbane, Australia | No pair competition |
| September 15–17 | 2011 JGP Baltic Cup | Gdańsk, Poland | |
| September 22–24 | 2011 JGP Brasov Cup | Braşov, Romania | No pair competition |
| Sept. 29 – Oct. 1 | 2011 JGP Cup of Austria | Innsbruck, Austria | |
| October 6–8 | 2011 JGP Trofeo W. Lombardi | Milan, Italy | No pair competition |
| October 13–15 | 2011 JGP Tallinn Cup | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| December 8–11 | 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final | Quebec City, Canada | |
The JGP Final was held in conjunction with the senior-level version.

## Qualifying

Skaters who reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2011, but had not turned 19 (singles and females of the other two disciplines) or 21 (male pair skaters and ice dancers) were eligible to compete on the junior circuit. Unlike the senior Grand Prix, skaters for the JGP were not seeded by the ISU. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member federation was determined by their skaters' placements at the previous season's Junior World Championships in each respective discipline.
For the 2011–2012 season, in singles, the three best placed member nations at the 2011 Junior Worlds were allowed to enter two skaters in all seven events. Member nations which placed 4th through 6th were allowed to enter one skater in all seven events, those which placed 7th through 12th were allowed one skater in six of the seven events, and those with a skater who qualified for the free skate were allowed one skater in five of the events. Member nations which did not qualify for the free skate but placed 25th through 30th in the short program were allowed to enter one skater in four of the events, those which placed 31st and lower in the short program were allowed one skater in three of the events, and those countries which did not participate in the 2011 Junior Worlds were allowed one skater in two events. There were provisions for additional entries per member country if another country did not use all of its allotted entries.
In pairs, member nations which placed in the top five at the 2011 World Junior Championships were allowed to enter three entries in all four events which included pairs. Member nations which qualified for the free skate were allowed two entries in all four events, and all others were allowed one entry in all four events. There was no limit on host nation pair entries.
In ice dance, the multiple spots allowance was the same as for singles, through one entry in five events.
The host country was allowed to enter up to three skaters/teams in singles and dance, with no limit for pair teams from the host nation.
The general spots allowance for the 2011–2012 Junior Grand Prix events was as follows:
| Entries | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| 3 per event | | | Canada China Japan Russia United States | |
| 2 per event | Canada Japan Sweden | Japan Russia United States | Austria Czech Republic Hungary Italy Poland Switzerland Ukraine | France Russia United States |
| 1 per event | China Russia United States | Belgium China France | | Canada Spain Slovakia |
| 1 in six events | Belgium Czech Republic Estonia France Kazakhstan Ukraine | Austria Estonia Finland Italy Switzerland Slovakia | | Estonia United Kingdom Germany Kazakhstan Switzerland Ukraine |
| 1 in five events | Belarus Finland Germany Poland | Australia Germany South Korea Slovenia Sweden | | Italy |
| 1 in four events | Italy South Korea Spain Switzerland Chinese Taipei | Canada Denmark Latvia Poland Turkey | | Austria Uzbekistan China Switzerland Estonia Belarus Romania |
| 1 in three events | Armenia Australia Brazil Bulgaria United Kingdom Georgia Hong Kong Latvia Lithuania Malaysia Netherlands Romania Thailand Turkey | Armenia Belarus Brazil Bulgaria United Kingdom Hong Kong Hungary Israel Kazakhstan Lithuania Malaysia Mexico Mongolia Netherlands Norway New Zealand Philippines South Africa Singapore Serbia Spain Thailand Chinese Taipei Ukraine | | Australia Finland Israel Japan Latvia Lithuania New Zealand Turkey |
All other member nations had one entry per discipline in two of the seven events in singles and ice dance and one entry in all four events in pairs.

## Junior Grand Prix Final qualification and qualifiers
### Qualification rules

At each event, skaters/teams earned points toward qualification for the Junior Grand Prix Final. Following the 7th event, the top six highest scoring skaters/teams advanced to the Final. The points earned per placement was as follows:
| Placement | Points (Singles/Dance) | Points (Pairs) |
| 1st | 15 | 15 |
| 2nd | 13 | 13 |
| 3rd | 11 | 11 |
| 4th | 9 | 9 |
| 5th | 7 | 7 |
| 6th | 5 | 5 |
| 7th | 4 | 4 |
| 8th | 3 | 3 |
| 9th | 2 | – |
| 10th | 1 | – |
There were seven tie-breakers in cases of a tie in overall points:
* Highest placement at an event. If a skater placed 1st and 3rd, the tiebreaker was the 1st place, and that beat a skater who placed 2nd in both events.
* Highest combined total scores in both events. If a skater earned 200 points at one event and 250 at a second, that skater would win in the second tie-break over a skater who earned 200 points at one event and 150 at another.
* Participated in two events.
* Highest combined scores in the free skating/free dance portion of both events.
* Highest individual score in the free skating/free dance portion from one event.
* Highest combined scores in the short program/short dance of both events.
* Highest number of total participants at the events.
If there was still a tie, the tie was considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all advanced to the Junior Grand Prix Final.

### Qualifiers

The following skaters qualified for the 2011–2012 Junior Grand Prix Final.
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| 1 | Yan Han | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin |
| 2 | Joshua Farris | Polina Shelepen | Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin |
| 3 | Jason Brown | Vanessa Lam | Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry | Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov |
| 4 | Maxim Kovtun | Risa Shoji | Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang | Maria Nosulia / Evgen Kholoniuk |
| 5 | Ryuju Hino | Zijun Li | Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov | Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski |
| 6 | Keiji Tanaka | Polina Korobeynikova | Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu (withdrew) | Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton |
| Alternates |||||
| 1st | Artur Dmitriev, Jr. | Samantha Cesario | Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev (called up) | Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager |
| 2nd | Zhang He | Polina Agafonova | Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro | Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin |
| 3rd | Lee June-hyoung | Satoko Miyahara | Klára Kadlecová / Petr Bidař | Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin |

## Medalists
### Men

In Milan, Italy, Lee June-hyoung became the first Korean male skater to medal at an ISU competition.
| Competition | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
| JGP Latvia | Ryuju Hino | Zhang He | Timothy Dolensky | Details |
| JGP Australia | Jason Brown | Keiji Tanaka | Liam Firus | Details |
| JGP Poland | Joshua Farris | Artur Dmitriev, Jr. | Ryuichi Kihara | Details |
| JGP Romania | Maxim Kovtun | Ryuju Hino | Nam Nguyen | Details |
| JGP Austria | Han Yan | Gordei Gorshkov | Keiji Tanaka | Details |
| JGP Italy | Han Yan | Jason Brown | Lee June-hyoung | Details |
| JGP Estonia | Joshua Farris | Maxim Kovtun | Shoma Uno | Details |
| JGP Final | Jason Brown | Yan Han | Joshua Farris | Details |

### Ladies

| Competition | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
| JGP Latvia | Polina Shelepen | Li Zijun | Polina Agafonova | Details |
| JGP Australia | Courtney Hicks | Risa Shoji | Vanessa Lam | Details |
| JGP Poland | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Satoko Miyahara | Samantha Cesario | Details |
| JGP Romania | Polina Shelepen | Polina Korobeynikova | Kim Hae-jin | Details |
| JGP Austria | Vanessa Lam | Li Zijun | Polina Agafonova | Details |
| JGP Italy | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Anna Shershak | Hannah Miller | Details |
| JGP Estonia | Gracie Gold | Risa Shoji | Samantha Cesario | Details |
| JGP Final | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Polina Shelepen | Polina Korobeynikova | Details |

### Pairs

| Competition | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
| JGP Latvia | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang | Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro | Details |
| JGP Australia | No pairs competition held | No pairs competition held | No pairs competition held | |
| JGP Poland | Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer | Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry | Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev | Details |
| JGP Romania | No pairs competition held | No pairs competition held | No pairs competition held | |
| JGP Austria | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang | Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov | Details |
| JGP Italy | No pairs competition held | No pairs competition held | No pairs competition held | |
| JGP Estonia | Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry | Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer | Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu | Details |
| JGP Final | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry | Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer | Details |

### Ice dance

| Competition | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
| JGP Latvia | Maria Nosulia / Evgeni Kholoniuk | Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin | Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton | Details |
| JGP Australia | Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams | Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager | Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin | Details |
| JGP Poland | Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin | Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski | Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov | Details |
| JGP Romania | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski | Mackenzie Bent / Garrett MacKeen | Details |
| JGP Austria | Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin | Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton | Maria Nosulia / Evgeni Kholoniuk | Details |
| JGP Italy | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin | Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager | Details |
| JGP Estonia | Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov | Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand | Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin | Details |
| JGP Final | Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin | Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Details |

## Medals table

The following is the table of total medals earned by each country on the 2011–2012 Junior Grand Prix. It can be sorted by country name, number of gold medals, number of silver medals, number of bronze medals, and total medals overall. The table is numbered by number of total medals.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 12 | 9 | 9 | 30 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 8 | 4 | 10 | 22 |
| 3 | China (CHN) | 5 | 6 | 0 | 11 |
| 4 | Canada (CAN) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Estonia (EST) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 29 | 29 | 29 | 87 |

## Top scores
### Men's singles

Top 10 best scores in the men's combined total :
| No. | Skater | Nation | Score | Event |
| 1 | Han Yan | China | 219.37 | 2011 JGP Italy |
| 2 | Jason Brown | United States | 208.41 | 2011–12 JGP Final |
| 3 | Joshua Farris | United States | 207.67 | 2011 JGP Estonia |
| 4 | Artur Dmitriev, Jr. | Russia | 197.09 | 2011 JGP Poland |
| 5 | Maxim Kovtun | Russia | 193.76 | 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final |
| 6 | Keiji Tanaka | Japan | 192.36 | 2011 JGP Australia |
| 7 | Ryuju Hino | Japan | 182.71 | 2011 JGP Latvia |
| 8 | Zhang He | China | 182.38 | 2011 JGP Latvia |
| 9 | Gordei Gorshkov | Russia | 180.25 | 2011 JGP Austria |
| 10 | Liam Firus | Canada | 180.00 | 2011 JGP Australia |

### Women's singles

Top 10 best scores in the women's combined total :
| No. | Skater | Nation | Score | Event |
| 1 | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Russia | 183.05 | 2011 JGP Italy |
| 2 | Gracie Gold | United States | 172.69 | 2011 JGP Estonia |
| 3 | Polina Shelepen | Russia | 162.34 | 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final |
| 4 | Satoko Miyahara | Japan | 162.20 | 2011 JGP Poland |
| 5 | Risa Shoji | Japan | 157.83 | 2011 JGP Estonia |
| 6 | Vanessa Lam | United States | 156.58 | 2011 JGP Austria |
| 7 | Li Zijun | China | 156.40 | 2011 JGP Austria |
| 8 | Samantha Cesario | United States | 153.84 | 2011 JGP Poland |
| 9 | Courtney Hicks | United States | 151.91 | 2011 JGP Australia |
| 10 | Polina Korobeynikova | Russia | 151.18 | 2011–12 JGP Final |

### Pairs

Top 10 best scores in the pairs' combined total :
| No. | Team | Nation | Score | Event |
| 1 | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | China | 167.14 | 2011 JGP Austria |
| 2 | Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang | China | 154.37 | 2011 JGP Austria |
| 3 | Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry | Canada | 152.65 | 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final |
| 4 | Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer | United States | 146.35 | 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final |
| 5 | Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov | Russia | 146.17 | 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final |
| 6 | Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu | United States | 139.32 | 2011 JGP Estonia |
| 7 | Li Meiyi / Jiang Bo | China | 138.92 | 2011 JGP Austria |
| 8 | Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin | Russia | 134.88 | 2011 JGP Austria |
| 9 | Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro | Canada | 134.46 | 2011 JGP Latvia |
| 10 | Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev | Russia | 133.79 | 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix Final |

### Ice dance

Top 10 season's best scores in the combined total (ice dance) :
| No. | Team | Nation | Score | Event |
| 1 | Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin | Russia | 151.10 | 2011 JGP Austria |
| 2 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Russia | 149.98 | 2011 JGP Italy |
| 3 | Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov | Russia | 142.72 | 2011 JGP Estonia |
| 4 | Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton | United States | 136.85 | 2011 JGP Austria |
| 5 | Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin | Russia | 130.58 | 2011 JGP Italy |
| 6 | Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager | United States | 129.63 | 2011 JGP Italy |
| 7 | Maria Nosulia / Evgen Kholoniuk | Ukraine | 128.34 | 2011 JGP Austria |
| 8 | Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams | Canada | 127.21 | 2011 JGP Australia |
| 9 | Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand | Estonia | 126.51 | 2011 JGP Estonia |
| 10 | Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern | Germany | 124.35 | 2011 JGP Italy |