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2020 Internationaux de France
Type:Grand Prix
Date:November 13 – 15
Season:2020–21
Location:Grenoble
Host:French Federation of Ice Sports
Venue:Patinoire Polesud
Defending champions
Men's singles:
United States Nathan Chen
Ladies' singles:
Russia Alena Kostornaia
Pair skating:
Russia Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov
Ice dance:
France Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
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The 2020 Internationaux de France was scheduled to be the fourth event in the 2020–21 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It would have been held at Patinoire Polesud in Grenoble, France on November 13–15. Medals were to be awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of modifications were made to the Grand Prix structure. The competitors consisted only of skaters from the home country, skaters already training in the host nation, and skaters assigned to that event for geographic reasons.[1]

On October 19, the French Federation of Ice Sports and the ISU announced the cancellation of the event.[2]

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2020–21 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating

2020–21 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating

The 2020–21 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating was a series of invitational senior internationals which ran from October 2020 through December 2020. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Originally, before modifications resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, skaters would have earned points based on their placement at each event and the top six in each discipline would have qualified to compete at the Grand Prix Final in Beijing, China. Due to the pandemic, only four of the six events were held as scheduled, with the Grand Prix Final also ultimately cancelled.

Patinoire Polesud

Patinoire Polesud

Patinoire Polesud or Pôle Sud is a 4,208-seat multi-purpose arena in Grenoble, France. It is the home of the ice hockey club of the city, the Brûleurs de Loups, one of the bests in France.

Grenoble

Grenoble

Grenoble is the prefecture and largest city of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the capital of the Dauphiné historical province and lies where the river Drac flows into the Isère at the foot of the French Alps.

France

France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Its eighteen integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 km2 (248,573 sq mi) and had a total population of over 68 million as of January 2023. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre; other major urban areas include Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux, and Nice.

Single skating

Single skating

Single skating is a discipline of figure skating in which male and female skaters compete individually. Men's singles and women's singles are governed by the International Skating Union (ISU). Figure skating is the oldest winter sport contested at the Olympics, with men's and women's single skating appearing as two of the four figure skating events at the London Games in 1908.

Pair skating

Pair skating

Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating as compared with independent Single Skating". The ISU also states that a pairs team consists of "one Woman and one Man". Pair skating, along with men's and women's single skating, has been an Olympic discipline since figure skating, the oldest Winter Olympic sport, was introduced at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. The ISU World Figure Skating Championships introduced pair skating in 1908.

Ice dance

Ice dance

Ice dance is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. According to the International Skating Union (ISU), the governing body of figure skating, an ice dance team consists of one woman and one man.

COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of 10 March 2023, the pandemic had caused more than 676 million cases and 6.88 million confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history.

French Federation of Ice Sports

French Federation of Ice Sports

French Federation of Ice Sports is the national governing body for a number of ice sports in France.

Entries

The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on October 1, 2020.[3]

Country Men[4] Ladies[5] Pairs[6] Ice dance[7]
 Australia Brendan Kerry
 Austria Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
 Belgium Loena Hendrickx
 Estonia Eva-Lotta Kiibus
 Finland Emmi Peltonen
Jenni Saarinen
Yuka Orihara / Juho Pirinen
 France Kévin Aymoz
Landry Le May
Romain Ponsart
Adam Siao Him Fa
Adrien Tesson
Maïa Mazzara
Maé-Bérénice Méité
Léa Serna
Cléo Hamon / Denys Strekalin
Coline Keriven / Noël-Antoine Pierre
Camille Kovalev / Pavel Kovalev
Adelina Galyavieva / Louis Thauron
Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud
Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
Julia Wagret / Pierre Souquet-Basiege
 Germany Nicole Schott Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert
Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel
Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan
Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck
 Italy Daniel Grassl
Matteo Rizzo
Lara Naki Gutmann
Alessia Tornaghi
Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise
Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini
Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
 Japan Koshiro Shimada
Shoma Uno
Rika Kihira
 Latvia Deniss Vasiļjevs
 Lithuania Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
 Sweden Nikolaj Majorov
  Switzerland Alexia Paganini

Changes to preliminary assignments

Date Discipline Withdrew Added Reason/Other notes Refs
October 5 Ice dance N/A Germany Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck [8]
October 12 Men France Philip Warren France Landry Le May [9]
October 15 Ladies N/A Belgium Loena Hendrickx [10]

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International Skating Union

International Skating Union

The International Skating Union (ISU) is the international governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating. It was founded in Scheveningen, Netherlands, in July 1892, making it one of the oldest international sport federations. The ISU was formed to establish standardized international rules and regulations for the skating disciplines it governs, and to organize international competitions in these disciplines. It is now based in Switzerland.

Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical rainforests in the north-east, and mountain ranges in the south-east.

Brendan Kerry

Brendan Kerry

Brendan Kerry is an Australian figure skater. He is the 2017 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy bronze medalist, the 2017 CS Lombardia Trophy bronze medalist, the 2019 Toruń Cup champion, the 2016 Egna Spring Trophy champion, and an eight-time Australian national champion.

Austria

Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of 83,871 km2 (32,383 sq mi) and has a population of 9 million.

Belgium

Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of 30,528 km2 (11,787 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of 376/km2 (970/sq mi). Belgium is part of an area known as the Low Countries, historically a somewhat larger region than the Benelux group of states, as it also included parts of northern France. The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven.

Estonia

Estonia

Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of 45,339 square kilometres (17,505 sq mi). The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language.

Eva-Lotta Kiibus

Eva-Lotta Kiibus

Eva-Lotta Kiibus is an Estonian figure skater. She is the 2020 Nebelhorn Trophy champion, a two-time Estonian national champion (2020–21), and a three-time Tallink Hotels Cup champion. Kiibus has represented Estonia at the European and World championships and finished twenty-first at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Finland

Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, across from Estonia. Finland covers an area of 338,455 square kilometres (130,678 sq mi) with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish and Swedish are the official languages, Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes.

Emmi Peltonen

Emmi Peltonen

Emmi Peltonen is a Finnish figure skater. She is the 2017 FBMA Trophy champion, the 2020 Nordic silver medalist, and a three-time Finnish national champion. She has finished within the top ten at three European Championships.

France

France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Its eighteen integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 km2 (248,573 sq mi) and had a total population of over 68 million as of January 2023. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre; other major urban areas include Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux, and Nice.

Adam Siao Him Fa

Adam Siao Him Fa

Adam Siao Him Fa is a French figure skater. He is the 2023 European champion, the 2022 Grand Prix de France champion, the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy champion, the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy silver medalist, the 2019 CS Ice Star bronze medalist, and the 2023 French national champion.

Adrien Tesson

Adrien Tesson

Adrien Tesson is a French figure skater. He is the 2018 International Challenge Cup champion, 2017 Ice Challenge bronze medalist, 2014 NRW Trophy bronze medalist, and 2019 French national bronze medalist.

Source: "2020 Internationaux de France", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, June 26th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Internationaux_de_France.

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References
  1. ^ Associated Press (August 4, 2020). "Grand Prix figure skating series downsized to localized events". CBC.
  2. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating – Internationaux de France cancelled". International Skating Union. October 19, 2020.
  3. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2020/21 assignments announced". International Skating Union. October 1, 2020.
  4. ^ "ISU GP Internationaux de France 2020: Men". International Skating Union. October 1, 2020.
  5. ^ "ISU GP Internationaux de France 2020: Ladies". International Skating Union. October 1, 2020.
  6. ^ "ISU GP Internationaux de France 2020: Pairs". International Skating Union. October 1, 2020.
  7. ^ "ISU GP Internationaux de France 2020: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. October 1, 2020.
  8. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2020/21: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. October 5, 2020.
  9. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2020/21: Men". International Skating Union. October 12, 2020.
  10. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2020/21: Ladies". International Skating Union. October 15, 2020.

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