# 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy

The 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy was held on September 19–22, 2018, at the Ondrej Nepela Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was part of the 2018–19 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

## Entries

The International Skating Union published the list of entries on August 27, 2018.
| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| Austria | Manuel Drechsler Albert Mück | | | |
| Belarus | Anton Karpuk | Alisa Turchina | | Anna Kublikova / Yuri Hulitski |
| Bulgaria | Nicky Obreykov | | | |
| Czech Republic | Jiří Bělohradský | Elizaveta Ukolova | | |
| Finland | | | | Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis |
| France | | | | Adelina Galayavieva / Louis Thauron |
| Georgia | Morisi Kvitelashvili | | | |
| Germany | | | | Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck |
| Hungary | Alexander Borovoj Andras Csernoch | | | |
| Israel | Daniel Samohin | | | |
| Italy | | | Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini | Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti |
| Japan | Keiji Tanaka | Rika Kihira Rin Nitaya | | |
| Kazakhstan | | Elizabet Tursynbaeva | | |
| Poland | Krzysztof Gala | Elzbieta Gabryszak | | |
| Russia | Mikhail Kolyada Alexander Samarin Sergei Voronov | Stanislava Konstantinova Polina Tsurskaya | Lina Kudryavtseva / Ilia Spiridonov | Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov |
| Slovakia | Marco Klepoch Michael Neuman | Silvia Hugec Nina Letenayova Maria Sofia Pucherova | | |
| South Korea | | Choi Yu-jin Kim Hyun-soo | | |
| Turkey | Burak Demirboğa | | | |
| Great Britain | Graham Newberry | Danielle Harrison Kristen Spours | | Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Robynne Tweedale / Joseph Buckland |
| United States | Sean Rabbitt | Katie McBeath Megan Wessenberg | Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter |

### Changes to preliminary assignments

| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Notes |
| August 29 | Ladies | Choi Da-bin | Kim Hyun-soo | |
| August 31 | Ladies | Hana Cvijanovic | — | |
| August 31 | Ice dance | Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro | — | |
| September 12 | Ladies | Lutricia Bock | — | |
| September 12 | Ladies | Daria Jakab | — | |
| September 12 | Ladies | Ceciliane Mei Ling Hartmann | — | |
| September 12 | Ladies | Sıla Saygı | — | |
| September 12 | Ladies | Nicole Rajičová | Maria Sofia Pucherova | |
| September 13 | Men | Luc Maierhofer | Nicky Obreykov | |
| September 13 | Men | Alexei Bychenko | — | |
| September 13 | Men | Daniel Grassl | — | |
| September 13 | Men | Jari Kessler | — | |
| September 13 | Men | Alexey Erokhov | Alexander Samarin | |
| September 13 | Ice dance | Shira Ichilov / Vadim Davidovich | — | |
| September 13 | Ice dance | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev | — | |
| September 18 | Pairs | Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji | — | No longer enough pairs entries to be considered a Challenger Series event |
| September 18 | Ice dance | Elise Montanier / Laurent Abecassis | — | |
| September 19 | Men | Lap Kan Yuen | — | |
| September 19 | Ladies | Alina Zagitova | — | Visa issues |

## Results
### Men's singles

| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| | Mikhail Kolyada | Russia | 274.37 | 1 | 96.82 | 1 | 177.55 |
| | Sergei Voronov | Russia | 239.73 | 2 | 81.77 | 2 | 157.96 |
| | Keiji Tanaka | Japan | 221.92 | 3 | 77.53 | 4 | 144.39 |
| 4 | Morisi Kvitelashvili | Georgia | 221.63 | 4 | 76.49 | 3 | 145.14 |
| 5 | Alexander Samarin | Russia | 215.69 | 5 | 76.30 | 5 | 139.39 |
| 6 | Daniel Samohin | Israel | 197.80 | 7 | 70.93 | 6 | 126.87 |
| 7 | Sean Rabbitt | United States | 195.83 | 6 | 70.98 | 7 | 124.85 |
| 8 | Jiří Bělohradský | Czech Republic | 177.36 | 8 | 64.86 | 10 | 112.50 |
| 9 | Burak Demirboğa | Turkey | 170.62 | 11 | 55.54 | 8 | 115.08 |
| 10 | Graham Newberry | Great Britain | 169.19 | 10 | 58.32 | 11 | 110.87 |
| 11 | Nicky Obreykov | Bulgaria | 163.60 | 14 | 49.24 | 9 | 114.36 |
| 12 | Krzysztof Gala | Poland | 151.59 | 13 | 53.81 | 12 | 97.78 |
| 13 | Marco Klepoch | Slovakia | 150.33 | 12 | 53.98 | 13 | 96.35 |
| 14 | Michael Neuman | Slovakia | 146.03 | 9 | 60.04 | 14 | 85.99 |
| 15 | Alexander Borovoj | Hungary | 124.81 | 15 | 44.34 | 15 | 80.47 |
| 16 | Anton Karpuk | Belarus | 116.19 | 18 | 37.28 | 16 | 78.91 |
| 17 | Andras Csernoch | Hungary | 114.42 | 19 | 36.70 | 17 | 77.72 |
| 18 | Manuel Drechsler | Austria | 104.04 | 17 | 38.33 | 18 | 65.71 |
| 19 | Albert Mück | Austria | 86.05 | 16 | 38.62 | 19 | 47.43 |

### Ladies' singles

| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| | Rika Kihira | Japan | 218.16 | 1 | 70.79 | 1 | 147.37 |
| | Elizabet Tursynbaeva | Kazakhstan | 192.30 | 2 | 69.99 | 2 | 122.31 |
| | Stanislava Konstantinova | Russia | 180.02 | 3 | 65.03 | 3 | 114.99 |
| 4 | Polina Tsurskaya | Russia | 154.61 | 4 | 54.36 | 5 | 100.25 |
| 5 | Katie McBeath | United States | 154.56 | 7 | 52.85 | 4 | 101.71 |
| 6 | Choi Yu-jin | South Korea | 150.14 | 6 | 54.20 | 6 | 95.94 |
| 7 | Megan Wessenberg | United States | 143.47 | 8 | 52.01 | 7 | 91.46 |
| 8 | Silvia Hugec | Slovakia | 135.00 | 5 | 54.24 | 10 | 80.76 |
| 9 | Rin Nitaya | Japan | 133.86 | 10 | 45.57 | 8 | 88.29 |
| 10 | Elzbieta Gabryszak | Poland | 132.46 | 9 | 46.91 | 9 | 85.55 |
| 11 | Elizaveta Ukolova | Czech Republic | 121.77 | 12 | 42.78 | 11 | 78.99 |
| 12 | Danielle Harrison | Great Britain | 120.02 | 11 | 43.26 | 12 | 76.76 |
| 13 | Maria Sofia Pucherova | Slovakia | 106.51 | 13 | 37.77 | 14 | 68.74 |
| 14 | Kim Hyun-soo | South Korea | 105.83 | 14 | 35.60 | 13 | 70.23 |
| 15 | Alisa Turchina | Belarus | 89.04 | 15 | 31.31 | 15 | 57.73 |

### Pairs

Note: For this category, the 2018 Ondrej Nepela Trophy was not considered a Challenger Series event, since the minimum required number of entries for a Challenger Series event was not reached.
| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| | Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc | United States | 181.56 | 1 | 65.68 | 1 | 115.88 |
| | Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay | United States | 174.78 | 3 | 59.60 | 2 | 115.18 |
| | Lina Kudryavtseva / Ilia Spiridonov | Russia | 157.12 | 2 | 62.69 | 4 | 94.43 |
| 4 | Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini | Italy | 155.02 | 4 | 53.09 | 3 | 101.93 |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | RD | RD | FD | FD |
| | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov | Russia | 196.42 | 1 | 75.96 | 1 | 120.46 |
| | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | United States | 178.64 | 2 | 70.37 | 2 | 108.27 |
| | Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov | Russia | 170.47 | 3 | 67.65 | 3 | 102.82 |
| 4 | Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti | Italy | 159.21 | 5 | 61.05 | 5 | 98.16 |
| 5 | Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson | Great Britain | 158.85 | 8 | 59.34 | 4 | 99.51 |
| 6 | Robynne Tweedale / Joseph Buckland | Great Britain | 153.59 | 7 | 59.61 | 6 | 93.98 |
| 7 | Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis | Finland | 150.66 | 6 | 60.61 | 7 | 90.05 |
| 8 | Adelina Galayavieva / Louis Thauron | France | 149.69 | 4 | 62.37 | 8 | 87.32 |
| 9 | Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck | Germany | 141.03 | 9 | 55.86 | 9 | 85.17 |
| 10 | Anna Kublikova / Yuri Hulitski | Belarus | 129.49 | 10 | 48.61 | 10 | 80.88 |