{{Short description|Figure skating competition}} {{Infobox Figure Skating Competition | title= 2015 Ice Challenge | image= | caption= | comptype= ISU Challenger Series | startdate= 27 | enddate= 31 October 2015 | skatingseason= 2015–16 | location= Graz, Austria | host= Skate Austria | venue= Liebenauer Eishalle | prizemoney= | championmen= {{flagicon|RUS}} Artur Dmitriev, Jr. | championladies= {{flagicon|USA}} Mirai Nagasu | championpairs= {{flagicon|USA}} Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | championdance= {{flagicon|USA}} Danielle Thomas / Daniel Eaton | previouscomp= 2014 Ice Challenge | nextcomp= 2016 Ice Challenge }}
The '''2015 Ice Challenge''' was a senior international figure skating competition held in late October 2015 at the Liebenauer Eishalle in Graz, Austria.<ref name=Announce/> It was part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
==Entries== The preliminary entries were published on 6 October 2015.<ref name=Entries-M/><ref name=Entries-L/><ref name=Entries-P/><ref name=Entries-D/>
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Country ! Men ! Ladies ! Pairs ! Ice dance |- | {{ARM}} | | | | Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal |- | {{AUS}} | | Kailani Craine | | |- | {{AUT}} | Mario-Rafael Ionian <br> Simon-Gabriel Ionian <br> Manuel Koll | Christina Grill <br> Ines Wohlmuth <br> Nina Larissa Wolfslast | | Barbora Silná / Juri Kurakin |- | {{BEL}} | Jorik Hendrickx | Loena Hendrickx | | |- | {{BIH}} | | Arijana Tirak | | |- | {{CZE}} | Jiří Bělohradský <br> Petr Kotlařík | Anna Dušková <br> Elizaveta Ukolova | | |- | {{EST}} | | Gerli Liinamäe | | |- | {{FIN}} | Viktor Zubik | Nelma Hede <br> Emilia Toikkanen | | Olesia Karmi / Max Lindholm |- | {{GER}} | Anton Kempf | Lutricia Bock <br> Nathalie Weinzierl | Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert | |- | {{HUN}} | | Fruzsina Medgyesi <br> Ivett Tóth | | |- | {{ISR}} | | Aimee Buchanan | | |- | {{ITA}} | Adrien Bannister <br> Alessandro Fadini | Sara Casella <br> Sara Falotico | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise | Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri <br> Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti |- | {{LTU}} | | Inga Janulevičiūtė | | |- | {{PRK}} | | | Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik | |- | {{NOR}} | | Camilla Gjersem | | |- | {{RUS}} | Artur Dmitriev, Jr. <br> Mikhail Kolyada <br> Anton Shulepov | Maria Artemieva <br> Serafima Sakhanovich | | |- | {{SLO}} | | Daša Grm | | |- | {{KOR}} | | | | Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin |- | {{SUI}} | Stéphane Walker | Matilde Gianocca | | |- | {{GBR}} | Phillip Harris | | | |- | {{USA}} | Jason Brown <br> Jordan Moeller | Mirai Nagasu <br> Tyler Pierce | Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu <br> Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | Danielle Thomas / Daniel Eaton |}
==Results: Challenger Series==
===Medal summary=== {| {{MedalistTable|type=Discipline}} |- | Men | {{flagicon|RUS}} Artur Dmitriev, Jr. | {{flagicon|USA}} Jason Brown | {{flagicon|RUS}} Mikhail Kolyada |- | Ladies | {{flagicon|USA}} Mirai Nagasu | {{flagicon|RUS}} Maria Artemieva | {{flagicon|USA}} Tyler Pierce |- | Pairs | {{flagicon|USA}} Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | {{flagicon|GER}} Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert | {{flagicon|ITA}} Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise |- | Ice dancing | {{flagicon|USA}} Danielle Thomas / Daniel Eaton | {{flagicon|ITA}} Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri | {{flagicon|FIN}} Olesia Karmi / Max Lindholm |}
===Men=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Rank<ref name=Protocol/> ! Name ! Nation ! width="80px" | Total ! colspan="2" width="80px" | {{tooltip|SP|Short program}} ! colspan="2" width="80px" | {{tooltip|FS|Free skating}} |- bgcolor="gold" | align="center" | '''1''' | Artur Dmitriev, Jr. | {{RUS}} | align="center" | 247.57 | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 84.46 | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 163.11 |- bgcolor="silver" | align="center" | '''2''' | Jason Brown | {{USA}} | align="center" | 240.65 | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 85.29 | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 155.36 |- bgcolor="cc9966" | align="center" | '''3''' | Mikhail Kolyada | {{RUS}} | align="center" | 239.77 | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 74.86 | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 164.91 |- ! 4 | Jorik Hendrickx | {{BEL}} | align="center" | 233.47 | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 74.55 | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 158.92 |- ! 5 | Anton Shulepov | {{RUS}} | align="center" | 215.01 | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 74.16 | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 140.85 |- ! 6 | Phillip Harris | {{GBR}} | align="center" | 183.33 | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 65.93 | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 117.40 |- ! 7 | Jordan Moeller | {{USA}} | align="center" | 178.21 | align="center" | 7 | align="center" | 63.50 | align="center" | 9 | align="center" | 114.71 |- ! 8 | Stéphane Walker | {{SUI}} | align="center" | 175.44 | align="center" | 8 | align="center" | 60.39 | align="center" | 8 | align="center" | 115.05 |- ! 9 | Jiří Bělohradský | {{CZE}} | align="center" | 167.55 | align="center" | 9 | align="center" | 54.71 | align="center" | 10 | align="center" | 112.84 |- ! 10 | Anton Kempf | {{GER}} | align="center" | 163.69 | align="center" | 12 | align="center" | 47.28 | align="center" | 7 | align="center" | 116.41 |- ! 11 | Adrien Bannister | {{ITA}} | align="center" | 153.42 | align="center" | 10 | align="center" | 53.41 | align="center" | 11 | align="center" | 100.01 |- ! 12 | Mario-Rafael Ionian | {{AUT}} | align="center" | 137.12 | align="center" | 14 | align="center" | 43.77 | align="center" | 12 | align="center" | 93.35 |- ! 13 | Viktor Zubik | {{FIN}} | align="center" | 134.54 | align="center" | 13 | align="center" | 44.69 | align="center" | 13 | align="center" | 89.85 |- ! 14 | Alessandro Fadini | {{ITA}} | align="center" | 131.10 | align="center" | 11 | align="center" | 47.83 | align="center" | 14 | align="center" | 83.27 |- ! 15 | Manuel Koll | {{AUT}} | align="center" | 113.09 | align="center" | 15 | align="center" | 37.11 | align="center" | 15 | align="center" | 75.98 |- ! 16 | Simon-Gabriel Ionian | {{AUT}} | align="center" | 95.71 | align="center" | 16 | align="center" | 29.98 | align="center" | 16 | align="center" | 65.73 |- ! WD | Petr Kotlařík | {{CZE}} | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" | |}
===Ladies=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Rank<ref name=Protocol/> ! Name ! Nation ! width="80px" | Total ! colspan="2" width="80px" | SP ! colspan="2" width="80px" | FS |- bgcolor="gold" | align="center" | '''1''' | Mirai Nagasu | {{USA}} | align="center" | 169.38 | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 57.85 | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 111.53 |- bgcolor="silver" | align="center" | '''2''' | Maria Artemieva | {{RUS}} | align="center" | 166.81 | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 57.49 | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 109.32 |- bgcolor="cc9966" | align="center" | '''3''' | Tyler Pierce | {{USA}} | align="center" | 162.69 | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 58.47 | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 104.22 |- ! 4 | Serafima Sakhanovich | {{RUS}} | align="center" | 157.73 | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 54.39 | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 103.34 |- ! 5 | Ivett Tóth | {{HUN}} | align="center" | 150.15 | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 54.89 | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 95.26 |- ! 6 | Anna Dušková | {{CZE}} | align="center" | 142.23 | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 53.83 | align="center" | 9 | align="center" | 88.40 |- ! 7 | Kailani Craine | {{AUS}} | align="center" | 141.59 | align="center" | 8 | align="center" | 49.70 | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 91.89 |- ! 8 | Lutricia Bock | {{GER}} | align="center" | 141.07 | align="center" | 7 | align="center" | 50.14 | align="center" | 7 | align="center" | 90.93 |- ! 9 | Daša Grm | {{SLO}} | align="center" | 134.35 | align="center" | 12 | align="center" | 44.94 | align="center" | 8 | align="center" | 89.41 |- ! 10 | Nathalie Weinzierl | {{GER}} | align="center" | 128.49 | align="center" | 9 | align="center" | 47.73 | align="center" | 11 | align="center" | 80.76 |- ! 11 | Aimee Buchanan | {{ISR}} | align="center" | 122.83 | align="center" | 11 | align="center" | 45.07 | align="center" | 13 | align="center" | 77.76 |- ! 12 | Sara Casella | {{ITA}} | align="center" | 120.75 | align="center" | 19 | align="center" | 38.49 | align="center" | 10 | align="center" | 82.26 |- ! 13 | Elizaveta Ukolova | {{CZE}} | align="center" | 118.65 | align="center" | 13 | align="center" | 42.62 | align="center" | 15 | align="center" | 76.03 |- ! 14 | Fruzsina Medgyesi | {{HUN}} | align="center" | 118.47 | align="center" | 10 | align="center" | 47.32 | align="center" | 17 | align="center" | 71.15 |- ! 15 | Emilia Toikkanen | {{FIN}} | align="center" | 115.15 | align="center" | 16 | align="center" | 40.58 | align="center" | 16 | align="center" | 74.57 |- ! 16 | Camilla Gjersem | {{NOR}} | align="center" | 114.71 | align="center" | 21 | align="center" | 36.55 | align="center" | 12 | align="center" | 78.16 |- ! 17 | Inga Janulevičiūtė | {{LTU}} | align="center" | 112.55 | align="center" | 22 | align="center" | 35.23 | align="center" | 14 | align="center" | 77.32 |- ! 18 | Gerli Liinamäe | {{EST}} | align="center" | 109.17 | align="center" | 17 | align="center" | 40.45 | align="center" | 18 | align="center" | 68.72 |- ! 19 | Matilde Gianocca | {{SUI}} | align="center" | 106.02 | align="center" | 20 | align="center" | 37.69 | align="center" | 19 | align="center" | 68.33 |- ! 20 | Sara Falotico | {{ITA}} | align="center" | 104.72 | align="center" | 15 | align="center" | 40.84 | align="center" | 20 | align="center" | 63.88 |- ! 21 | Nelma Hede | {{FIN}} | align="center" | 103.65 | align="center" | 14 | align="center" | 42.10 | align="center" | 21 | align="center" | 61.55 |- ! 22 | Nina Larissa Wolfslast | {{AUT}} | align="center" | 92.42 | align="center" | 23 | align="center" | 31.40 | align="center" | 22 | align="center" | 61.02 |- ! 23 | Christina Grill | {{AUT}} | align="center" | 85.43 | align="center" | 24 | align="center" | 27.94 | align="center" | 23 | align="center" | 57.49 |- ! 24 | Ines Wohlmuth | {{AUT}} | align="center" | 76.62 | align="center" | 25 | align="center" | 22.11 | align="center" | 24 | align="center" | 54.51 |- ! 25 | Arijana Tirak | {{BIH}} | align="center" | 45.47 | align="center" | 26 | align="center" | 15.54 | align="center" | 25 | align="center" | 29.93 |- ! WD | Loena Hendrickx | {{BEL}} | align="center" | | align="center" | 18 | align="center" | 39.92 | align="center" | | align="center" | |}
===Pairs=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Rank<ref name=Protocol/> ! Name ! Nation ! width="80px" | Total ! colspan="2" width="80px" | SP ! colspan="2" width="80px" | FS |- bgcolor="gold" | align="center" | '''1''' | Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | {{USA}} | align="center" | 189.28 | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 68.74 | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 120.54 |- bgcolor="silver" | align="center" | '''2''' | Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert | {{GER}} | align="center" | 155.62 | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 56.38 | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 99.24 |- bgcolor="cc9966" | align="center" | '''3''' | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise | {{ITA}} | align="center" | 154.78 | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 58.34 | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 96.44 |- ! 4 | Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu | {{USA}} | align="center" | 150.96 | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 52.58 | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 98.38 |- ! 5 | Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik | {{PRK}} | align="center" | 132.18 | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 44.16 | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 88.02 |}
===Ice dancing=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Rank<ref name=Protocol/> ! Name ! Nation ! width="80px" | Total ! colspan="2" width="80px" | SD ! colspan="2" width="80px" | FD |- bgcolor="gold" | align="center" | '''1''' | Danielle Thomas / Daniel Eaton | {{USA}} | align="center" | 132.44 | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 52.34 | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 80.10 |- bgcolor="silver" | align="center" | '''2''' | Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri | {{ITA}} | align="center" | 126.66 | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 51.76 | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 74.90 |- bgcolor="cc9966" | align="center" | '''3''' | Olesia Karmi / Max Lindholm | {{FIN}} | align="center" | 124.26 | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 49.32 | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 74.94 |- ! 4 | Barbora Silná / Juri Kurakin | {{AUT}} | align="center" | 123.60 | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 51.08 | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 72.52 |- ! 5 | Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin | {{KOR}} | align="center" | 107.76 | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 40.48 | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 67.28 |- ! 6 | Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal | {{ARM}} | align="center" | 102.54 | align="center" | 7 | align="center" | 39.90 | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 62.64 |- ! 7 | Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti | {{ITA}} | align="center" | 97.16 | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 41.12 | align="center" | 7 | align="center" | 56.04 |}
==Results: Leo Scheu Memorial== ===Medal summary: Junior=== {| {{MedalistTable|type=Discipline}} |- | Men | Petr Gumennik | Daniel Grassl | Catalin Dimitrescu |- | Ladies | Stanislava Konstantinova | Maria Perederova | Kristina Isaev |}
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=Announce>{{cite web |url= http://www.isu.org/media/213203/2015-ice-challenge-_announcement.pdf |title= 2015 Ice Challenge: Announcement |publisher= Skate Austria / International Skating Union |accessdate= 30 November 2015 }}</ref>
<ref name=Entries-M>{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028374.htm |title= Entries: Men |publisher= International Skating Union |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20151006191159/http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028374.htm |archivedate= 6 October 2015 }}</ref>
<ref name=Entries-L>{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028375.htm |title= Entries: Ladies |publisher= International Skating Union |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20151006191222/http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028375.htm |archivedate= 6 October 2015 }}</ref>
<ref name=Entries-P>{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028376.htm |title= Entries: Pairs |publisher= International Skating Union |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20151006191243/http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028376.htm |archivedate= 6 October 2015 }}</ref>
<ref name=Entries-D>{{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028377.htm |title= Entries: Ice Dance |publisher= International Skating Union |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20151006191305/http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028377.htm |archivedate= 6 October 2015 }}</ref>
<ref name=Protocol>{{cite web |url= http://www.isu.org/media/257201/ice-challenge_protocol.pdf |title= 2015 Ice Challenge: Protocol |publisher= International Skating Union |date= 31 October 2015 }}</ref>
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==External links== * {{official website|http://www.icechallenge.at/}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20151028011355/http://skateaustria.lvps91-250-98-130.dedicated.hosteurope.de/img/competition/1.2015_16/00006/ 2015 Ice Challenge results], [https://web.archive.org/web/20151027080528/http://skateaustria.lvps91-250-98-130.dedicated.hosteurope.de/img/competition/1.2015_16/00005/ 2015 Leo Scheu Memorial results] * [http://www.isu.org/en/single-and-pair-skating-and-ice-dance/calendar-of-events/2015/10/cs-icechallenge 2015 Ice Challenge] at the International Skating Union
{{2015–16 in figure skating}}
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