# 2022 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic

The 2022 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic was held on September 12–15, 2022, at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York. It was the first event of the 2022–23 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
American skater Ilia Malinin landed the first ever quadruple Axel in competition at this event.

## Entries

The International Skating Union published the list of entries on August 18, 2022.
| Country | Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance |
| Australia | — | Victoria Alcantara | — | — |
| Azerbaijan | — | — | — | Samantha Ritter / Daniel Brykalov |
| Canada | Wesley Chiu | — | Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac |
| Canada | Stephen Gogolev | — | Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland | Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker |
| Cyprus | — | Marilena Kitromilis | — | — |
| Czech Republic | — | Eliška Březinová | — | — |
| Estonia | Arlet Levandi | — | — | — |
| France | Kévin Aymoz | — | — | — |
| Great Britain | — | — | — | Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson |
| Greece | — | Alexandra Panagiota Manis | — | — |
| Israel | Mark Gorodnitsky | — | — | Mariia Nosovitskaya / Mikhail Nosovitskiy |
| Italy | Daniel Grassl | Alessia Tornaghi | Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini | Leia Dozzi / Pietro Papetti |
| Japan | — | Mana Kawabe | — | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto |
| Mexico | Donovan Carrillo | Andrea Montesinos Cantú | — | — |
| Mongolia | — | Merilyn Otgonbayar | — | — |
| New Zealand | — | Jocelyn Hong | — | Charlotte Lafond-Fournier / Richard Kang-in Kam |
| Philippines | — | Sofia Lexi Jacqueline Frank | — | — |
| Poland | — | — | — | Olivia Oliver / Elliott Graham |
| South Korea | — | Kim Ye-lim You Young | — | — |
| United States | Jimmy Ma | Jill Heiner | Emily Chan / Spencer Howe | Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov |
| United States | Ilia Malinin | Sonja Hilmer | Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov | Eva Pate / Logan Bye |
| United States | Camden Pulkinen | Audrey Shin | Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez | Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen |
| United States | Eric Sjoberg | — | Megan Wessenberg / Blake Eisenach | — |

### Changes to preliminary assignments

| Date | Disc. | Withdrew | Added |
| August 22 | Women | Ella Chen | — |
| August 22 | Pairs | — | Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini |
| August 22 | Ice dance | Angela Ling / Caleb Wein | — |
| September 6 | Men | Edrian Paul Celestino | — |
| September 6 | Women | Gabriella Izzo | — |
| September 13 | Women | Tara Prasad | — |
| September 13 | Pairs | Anastasia Vaipan-Law / Luke Digby | — |

## Results
### Men's singles

During the free skate, Ilia Malinin successfully performed the very first quadruple Axel in competition.
| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| | Ilia Malinin | United States | 257.28 | 6 | 71.84 | 1 | 185.44 |
| | Kévin Aymoz | France | 236.17 | 1 | 83.52 | 2 | 152.65 |
| | Camden Pulkinen | United States | 219.49 | 3 | 77.44 | 4 | 142.05 |
| 4 | Mark Gorodnitsky | Israel | 218.83 | 2 | 77.65 | 5 | 141.18 |
| 5 | Jimmy Ma | United States | 216.76 | 8 | 69.88 | 3 | 146.88 |
| 6 | Stephen Gogolev | Canada | 208.43 | 5 | 72.89 | 6 | 135.54 |
| 7 | Arlet Levandi | Estonia | 202.29 | 7 | 70.02 | 7 | 132.27 |
| 8 | Donovan Carrillo | Mexico | 181.44 | 9 | 68.10 | 10 | 113.34 |
| 9 | Eric Sjoberg | United States | 179.09 | 11 | 47.49 | 8 | 131.60 |
| 10 | Wesley Chiu | Canada | 171.69 | 10 | 55.14 | 9 | 116.55 |
| WD | Daniel Grassl | Italy | withdrew | 4 | 73.69 | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition |

### Women's singles

| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| | Kim Ye-lim | South Korea | 190.64 | 5 | 58.32 | 1 | 132.32 |
| | You Young | South Korea | 183.40 | 1 | 63.19 | 2 | 120.21 |
| | Mana Kawabe | Japan | 180.11 | 2 | 62.68 | 3 | 117.43 |
| 4 | Audrey Shin | United States | 176.44 | 3 | 61.16 | 5 | 115.28 |
| 5 | Sonja Hilmer | United States | 174.76 | 6 | 57.93 | 4 | 116.53 |
| 6 | Jocelyn Hong | New Zealand | 162.54 | 4 | 60.76 | 6 | 101.78 |
| 7 | Jill Heiner | United States | 142.53 | 9 | 47.41 | 7 | 95.12 |
| 8 | Alessia Tornaghi | Italy | 133.48 | 8 | 49.06 | 9 | 84.42 |
| 9 | Marilena Kitromilis | Cyprus | 129.64 | 7 | 52.55 | 11 | 77.09 |
| 10 | Eliška Březinová | Czech Republic | 129.15 | 10 | 43.03 | 8 | 86.12 |
| 11 | Sofia Lexi Jacqueline Frank | Philippines | 115.89 | 13 | 37.62 | 10 | 78.27 |
| 12 | Victoria Alcantara | Australia | 108.84 | 11 | 41.25 | 12 | 67.59 |
| 13 | Andrea Montesinos Cantú | Mexico | 103.29 | 12 | 39.86 | 13 | 63.43 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| | Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini | Italy | 189.22 | 1 | 64.78 | 1 | 124.44 |
| | Emily Chan / Spencer Howe | United States | 181.81 | 2 | 61.71 | 2 | 120.10 |
| | Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez | United States | 166.25 | 3 | 56.20 | 3 | 110.05 |
| 4 | Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov | United States | 160.21 | 4 | 54.65 | 4 | 106.64 |
| 5 | Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier | Canada | 150.81 | 5 | 50.48 | 5 | 100.33 |
| 6 | Megan Wessenberg / Blake Eisenach | United States | 138.22 | 6 | 46.94 | 6 | 91.28 |
| 7 | Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland | Canada | 132.15 | 7 | 46.13 | 7 | 86.02 |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | RD | RD | FD | FD |
| | Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson | Great Britain | 190.80 | 1 | 77.22 | 1 | 113.58 |
| | Eva Pate / Logan Bye | United States | 179.63 | 3 | 72.66 | 2 | 106.97 |
| | Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov | United States | 179.03 | 2 | 73.17 | 4 | 105.86 |
| 4 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | Canada | 175.67 | 4 | 69.72 | 3 | 106.95 |
| 5 | Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker | Canada | 170.11 | 5 | 66.04 | 5 | 104.07 |
| 6 | Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen | United States | 164.07 | 6 | 60.69 | 6 | 103.38 |
| 7 | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | Japan | 155.94 | 7 | 60.38 | 7 | 95.56 |
| 8 | Mariia Nosovitskaya / Mikhail Nosovitskiy | Israel | 154.29 | 8 | 59.44 | 8 | 94.85 |
| 9 | Leia Dozzi / Pietro Papetti | Italy | 149.39 | 10 | 57.76 | 9 | 91.63 |
| 10 | Olivia Oliver / Elliott Graham | Poland | 148.19 | 9 | 58.33 | 10 | 89.86 |
| 11 | Charlotte Lafond-Fournier / Richard Kang-in Kam | New Zealand | 139.41 | 11 | 57.67 | 11 | 81.74 |
| 12 | Samantha Ritter / Daniel Brykalov | Azerbaijan | 131.10 | 12 | 54.63 | 12 | 76.47 |