2021 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

2021 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Type:National championship
Date:January 11 – 21
Season:2020–21
Location:Las Vegas, Nevada
Host:U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:Orleans Arena
Champions
Men's singles:
Nathan Chen (Senior)
&
Eric Prober (Junior)
Women's singles:
Bradie Tennell (Senior)
&
Isabeau Levito (Junior)
Pairs:
Alexa Scimeca Knierim
and Brandon Frazier (Senior)
&
Anastasiia Smirnova
and Danil Siianytsia (Junior)
Ice dance:
Madison Hubbell
and Zachary Donohue (Senior)
&
Katarina Wolfkostin
and Jeffrey Chen (Junior)
Previous:
2020 U.S. Championships
Next:
2022 U.S. Championships

The 2021 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from January 11–21, 2021, at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior and junior levels. The results were part of the U.S. selection criteria for the 2021 World Championships. It would also have been part of the selection criteria for the 2021 World Junior Championships and the 2021 Four Continents Championship, but both events were cancelled.

San Jose, which previously hosted the event in 1996, 2012, and 2018, was announced as the original host in October 2019.[2] On November 9, 2020, U.S. Figure Skating announced that, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the event would be moved to Las Vegas, Nevada.[3] After the success of 2020 Skate America's bubble environment in the same arena, USFSA implemented the same structure for the 2021 U.S. Championships. Las Vegas had never hosted the event prior to this year. San Jose was awarded the right to host the 2023 U.S. Championships.

No audience was allowed to be present at the event.[3]

Qualifying

During the 2020–21 season, the traditional qualification system was replaced with the Championship Series due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 U.S. Championship Series took place in a virtual format from November 10 through December 6.[4] The top scorers from the series in junior and senior men's singles, women's singles, and pair skating, as well as junior ice dance, advanced to the 2021 U.S. Championships. All senior ice dance teams who registered for the in-person qualifying season also advanced to the championships.[5]

Entries

U.S. Figure Skating published a list of entries on December 22, 2020.[6]

Changes to preliminary entries

Date Discipline Withdrew Added Notes Ref.
December 10 Senior pairs
N/a Split [7]
December 28 Senior ice dance
  • Adrienne Carhart
  • Ivan Gurianov
 Split [8][9]
January 5 Senior men Andrew Torgashev Injury recovery [10][11]
January 10 Senior pairs
  • Sarah Burden
  • Matthew Rounis
 COVID-19 exposure [12][13]
  • Winter Deardorff
  • Mikhail Johnson
  • Brynne McIsaac
  • Mark Sadusky
Senior ice dance
January 12 Senior women Paige Rydberg Positive COVID-19 test [14]
January 17 Junior ice dance Torn ACL (Chen) [15]
January 18 N/a Re-added following further medical consultation [16]

Schedule

Due to the bubble environment, the Orleans Arena hosted all practices and competitions. Senior events were held from January 12–17 and junior events from January 19–21.[17] Additionally, due to the bubble environment, there were specific entry and departure dates for each of the senior disciplines, with all junior-level skaters arriving on January 18.[18]

Date Discipline Time Event
January 14 Senior pairs 2:58 pm Short program
Senior women 6:12 pm Short program
January 15 Senior ice dance 12:58 pm Rhythm dance
Senior women 6:12 pm Free skate
January 16 Senior men 12:11 pm Short program
Senior pairs 4:01 pm Free skate (group 1)
Senior ice dance 4:58 pm Free dance (group 1)
Senior pairs 5:55 pm Free skate (groups 2 & 3)
Senior ice dance 7:28 pm Free dance (groups 2 & 3)
January 17 Senior men 12:55 pm Free skate
N/a 5:01 pm Skating Spectacular
January 20 Junior pairs 12:55 pm Short program
Junior women 3:00 pm Short program
Junior ice dance 4:59 pm Rhythm dance
Junior men 7:00 pm Short program
January 21 Junior pairs 12:55 pm Free skate
Junior women 3:00 pm Free skate
Junior ice dance 4:59 pm Free dance
Junior men 6:56 pm Free skate

Medal summary

Senior

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter
Men Nathan Chen Vincent Zhou Jason Brown Yaroslav Paniot
Women Bradie Tennell Amber Glenn Karen Chen Alysa Liu
Pairs
Ice dance

Junior

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Pewter
Men Eric Prober Joseph Klein Samuel Mindra Jacob Sanchez
Women Isabeau Levito Kanon Smith Clare Seo Ava Marie Ziegler
Pairs
  • Isabelle Martins
  • Ryan Bedard
  • Catherine Rivers
  • Timmy Chapman
Ice dance

Senior results

Men's singles

Men's results[19]
Rank Skater Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) Nathan Chen 322.28 1 113.92 1 208.36
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Vincent Zhou 291.38 2 107.79 2 183.59
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jason Brown 276.92 3 100.92 4 176.00
4 Yaroslav Paniot 266.97 4 83.74 3 183.23
5 Maxim Naumov 244.20 5 83.53 5 160.67
6 Jimmy Ma 230.78 6 82.30 8 148.48
7 Tomoki Hiwatashi 230.14 9 75.51 6 154.63
8 Camden Pulkinen 220.10 8 80.08 9 140.02
9 Eric Sjoberg 213.39 11 74.01 10 139.38
10 Dinh Tran 210.79 10 74.03 11 136.76
11 Alexei Krasnozhon 206.76 16 54.53 7 152.23
12 Joseph Kang 203.45 7 79.30 14 124.15
13 Joonsoo Kim 197.12 13 69.04 12 128.08
14 Ryan Dunk 192.66 14 65.60 13 127.06
15 Jordan Moeller 191.33 12 71.09 15 120.24
16 Peter Liu 171.18 15 56.92 16 114.26
17 Mitchell Friess 163.07 17 48.88 17 114.19

Women's singles

Women's results[20]
Rank Skater Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bradie Tennell 232.61 1 79.40 1 153.21
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Amber Glenn 215.33 5 70.83 2 144.50
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Karen Chen 214.98 4 70.99 3 143.99
4 Alysa Liu 213.39 2 76.36 4 137.03
5 Mariah Bell 199.95 3 72.37 5 127.58
6 Lindsay Thorngren 178.89 6 62.54 7 116.35
7 Audrey Shin 176.82 10 57.74 6 119.08
8 Gabriella Izzo 171.76 7 62.32 9 109.44
9 Rena Ikenishi 169.89 8 60.14 8 109.75
10 Pooja Kalyan 157.46 9 58.29 12 99.17
11 Finley Hawk 152.84 14 52.08 11 100.76
12 Starr Andrews 152.13 17 45.93 10 106.20
13 Gracie Gold 149.05 12 53.88 13 95.17
14 Emilia Murdock 138.80 15 51.25 14 87.55
15 Violeta Ushakova 136.26 16 49.76 15 86.50
16 Heidi Munger 136.05 13 52.11 16 83.94
17 Hanna Harrell 130.72 11 56.93 17 73.79

Pairs

Pairs' results[21]
Rank Team Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) 228.10 1 77.46 1 150.64
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 205.29 2 71.30 3 133.99
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 200.52 4 65.81 2 134.71
4 197.97 3 69.56 4 128.41
5 177.06 5 60.41 5 116.65
6
169.88 6 59.23 6 110.65
7 163.73 7 58.23 7 105.50
8
  • Laiken Lockley
  • Keenan Prochnow
 145.24 9 45.34 8 99.90
9
  • Evelyn Grace Hanns
  • Jim Garbutt
 140.93 8 47.98 9 92.95

Ice dance

Ice dance results[22]
Rank Team Total RD FD
1st place, gold medalist(s) 224.56 2 89.66 1 134.90
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 222.93 1 90.10 2 132.83
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 212.55 3 85.28 3 127.27
4 192.39 4 80.10 4 112.29
5 177.40 5 71.11 5 106.29
6 162.86 6 65.87 6 96.99
7 154.93 7 64.37 7 90.56
8
  • Livvy Shilling
  • Alexander Petrov
 131.10 8 53.81 8 77.29
9
  • Hilary Asher
  • Ryan O'Donnell
 122.68 9 51.38 9 71.30
10
  • Breelie Taylor
  • Tyler Vollmer
 100.76 10 39.40 10 61.36
11
  • Cara Murphy
  • Joshua Levitt
 96.91 11 36.62 11 60.29

Junior results

Men's singles

Men's results[23]
Rank Skater Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) Eric Prober 192.83 3 65.04 1 127.79
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Joseph Klein 187.30 4 63.60 2 123.70
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Samuel Mindra 181.49 8 60.37 3 121.12
4 Jacob Sanchez 177.55 1 66.91 6 110.64
5 Daniel Martynov 176.45 6 62.06 5 114.39
6 Lucas Broussard 175.49 12 55.06 4 120.43
7 Matthew Nielsen 172.30 5 62.31 7 109.99
8 Michael Xie 163.84 11 57.89 8 105.95
9 Liam Kapeikis 162.89 9 58.37 9 104.52
10 Robert Yampolsky 160.85 7 61.60 10 99.25
11 Nicholas Hsieh 152.99 10 57.93 11 95.06
12 Maxim Zharkov 141.27 2 65.51 12 75.76

Women's singles

Women's results[24]
Rank Skater Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) Isabeau Levito 187.48 1 65.66 2 121.82
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kanon Smith 185.88 2 62.52 1 123.36
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Clare Seo 173.51 3 60.27 3 113.24
4 Ava Marie Ziegler 160.77 8 53.73 4 107.04
5 Elsa Cheng 158.85 7 53.75 5 105.10
6 Kate Wang 158.01 4 58.28 6 99.73
7 Adele Zheng 149.89 6 55.83 10 94.06
8 Mia Kalin 149.65 10 51.92 8 97.73
9 Jessica Lin 147.57 11 51.55 9 96.02
10 Abigail Ross 143.89 9 53.35 11 90.54
11 Tamnhi Huynh 140.17 5 57.94 12 82.23
12 Maryn Pierce 138.92 12 41.05 7 97.87

Pairs

Pairs' results[25]
Rank Team Total SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) 169.85 1 59.07 1 110.78
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
  • Isabelle Martins
  • Ryan Bedard
 148.02 2 52.14 2 95.88
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 137.29 4 47.07 3 90.22
4
  • Catherine Rivers
  • Timmy Chapman
 134.01 5 45.97 4 88.04
5
  • Sydney Cooke
  • Keyton Bearinger
 131.39 3 48.61 5 82.78
6
119.38 6 43.31 6 76.07
7
  • Haley Conrad
  • Kristofer Ogren
 97.32 8 34.54 7 62.78
8
  • Juliette Reed
  • Jordan Gillette
 94.74 7 35.17 8 59.57

Ice dance

Ice dance results[26]
Rank Team Total RD FD
1st place, gold medalist(s) 167.22 1 68.81 1 98.41
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 162.91 2 66.20 2 96.71
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
147.30 3 60.26 3 87.04
4 146.40 4 59.98 4 86.42
5
  • Angela Ling
  • Caleb Wein
 140.47 5 56.27 5 84.20
6 128.02 6 50.76 6 77.26
7 124.55 7 48.33 7 76.22
8
  • Elliana Peal
  • Ethan Peal
 109.73 9 43.71 8 66.02
9
  • Vanessa Pham
  • Jonathan Rogers
 109.66 8 44.58 9 65.08
10
  • Gracie Vainik
  • Daniel Brykalov
 104.07 10 40.99 10 63.08

Controversy

U.S. Figure Skating maintained strict COVID-19 protocols within the bubble, including asking skaters to don a mask immediately after leaving the ice, but appeared to apply inconsistent requirements to skaters who had come into contact with positive cases prior to the event. After three senior pairs teams training under the same coach came into contact with a COVID-positive case, they voluntarily chose to withdraw out of precaution, whereas senior ice dance team Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko appeared to be asked to withdraw by the federation.[13] However, Carreira/Ponomarenko's rinkmates and coaches were able to attend the competition, despite Carreira/Ponomarenko having come into contact with the positive case at their training rink. In addition, coach Tom Zakrajsek was unable to travel to the event due to contracting COVID-19 in early January and one of his students, Paige Rydberg, also tested positive upon arrival in Las Vegas; despite this, no contact tracing protocols were enacted, with the remaining athletes from Zakrajsek's training group and rink being allowed to compete.[27]

International team selections

World Championships

The World Championships were held from March 22–28 in Stockholm, Sweden. U.S. Figure Skating announced the women's team on January 16 and the men's, pairs, and ice dance teams on January 17.[28][29]

No. Men Women Pairs Ice dance
1 Jason Brown Karen Chen (withdrew)
2 Nathan Chen Bradie Tennell
3 Vincent Zhou N/a
Alternates
No. Men Women Pairs Ice dance
1 Tomoki Hiwatashi Amber Glenn (called up)
2 Maxim Naumov Mariah Bell
3 Camden Pulkinen Audrey Shin
4 Jimmy Ma N/a
N/a

Four Continents Championships

The 2021 Four Continents Championships, originally scheduled to be held from February 9–14 in Sydney, Australia, were cancelled.[30]

World Junior Championships

The 2021 World Junior Championships were scheduled to be held from March 1–7 in Harbin, China, but were cancelled.[31]

References

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  3. 1 2 "2021 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships Relocated to Las Vegas". U.S. Figure Skating. November 9, 2020.
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  13. 1 2 "Carreira/Ponomarenko, 3 pairs teams withdraw from skating nationals due to COVID-19 exposure". NBC Sports. January 11, 2021.
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  15. ↑ Chen, Jeffrey (January 17, 2021). "This past Tuesday, I tore my ACL as we were preparing for Nationals. We are heartbroken to have to withdraw from Nationals due to the recent injury" (Instagram). Archived from the original on 2021-12-24.
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