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2025 CS John Nicks International Pairs Competition
Logo of the John Nicks Pairs Challenge
Type:ISU Challenger Series
Date:September 2 – 3
Season:2025–26
Location:New York City, New York,
United States
Host:U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:Skating Club of New York
Champions
Pairs:
Canada Deanna Stellato-Dudek
and Maxime Deschamps
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The 2025 CS John Nicks International Pairs Competition is a figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by U.S. Figure Skating, and the second event of the 2025–26 ISU Challenger Series. It will be held at the Skating Club of New York in New York City, New York, in the United States, on September 2–3, 2025.[1] Medals will be awarded in pair skating only, and skaters will earn ISU World Standing points based on their results.

Background

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The ISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It is a series of international figure skating competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU) and organized by ISU member nations. The objective was to ensure consistent organization and structure within a series of international competitions linked together, providing opportunities for senior-level skaters to compete at the international level and also earn ISU World Standing points.[2] The 2025–26 Challenger Series consists of eleven events, of which the John Nicks International Pairs Competition is the second.

Changes to preliminary assignments

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The International Skating Union published the list of entries on August 5, 2025.[3]

Date Withdrew Ref.
August 18
  • United States
 [4]

Required performance elements

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Couples competing in pair skating first performed a short program on Tuesday, September 2.[5] Lasting no more than 2 minutes 40 seconds,[6] the short program had to include the following elements: one pair lift, one double or triple twist lift, one double or triple throw jump, one double or triple solo jump, one solo spin combination with a change of foot, one death spiral, and a step sequence using the full ice surface.[7]

Skaters performed their free skates on Wednesday, September 3.[5] The free skate performance could last no more than 4 minutes,[6] and had to include the following: three pair lifts, of which one has to be a twist lift; two different throw jumps; one solo jump; one jump combination or sequence; one pair spin combination; one death spiral; and a choreographic sequence.[8]

Judging

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See also: ISU Judging System

For the 2025–26 season, all of the technical elements in any figure skating performance – such as jumps and spins – were assigned a predetermined base point value and were then scored by a panel of seven or nine judges on a scale from -5 to 5 based on their quality of execution.[9] The judging panel's Grade of Execution (GOE) was determined by calculating the trimmed mean (that is, an average after deleting the highest and lowest scores), and this GOE was added to the base value to come up with the final score for each element. The panel's scores for all elements were added together to generate a total element score.[10] At the same time, judges evaluated each performance based on three program components – skating skills, presentation, and composition – and assigned a score from .25 to 10 in .25 point increments.[11] The judging panel's final score for each program component was also determined by calculating the trimmed mean. Those scores were then multiplied by the factor shown on the following chart; the results were added together to generate a total program component score.[12]

Program component factoring[13]
Discipline Short program Free skate
Pairs 1.33 2.67

Deductions were applied for certain violations like time infractions, stops and restarts, or falls.[14] The total element score and total program component score were added together, minus any deductions, to generate a final performance score for each skater or team.[15]

Medal summary

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Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps at the 2025 World Championships
Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov at the 2025 World Championships
The 2025 John Nicks International Pairs Competition gold and silver medalists: Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada (gold); and Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov of the United States (silver)
Medalists
Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Pairs

Results

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Pairs' results [16]
Rank Team Nation Total points SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Canada 199.43 1 70.66 1 128.66
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States 193.54 2 66.85 2 126.69
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United States 187.89 3 65.62 3 122.27
4  United States 183.22 4 65.58 4 117.64
5  Armenia 174.84 5 65.20 5 109.64
6  United States 168.27 6 59.88 6 108.39
7  United States 165.76 7 59.64 7 106.12
8  Austria 165.00 8 59.59 8 105.41
9  Austria 153.37 9 53.59 9 99.78
10  United States 148.14 10 53.22 10 94.92
11  United States 125.91 12 43.17 11 82.74
12  United States 122.66 11 45.01 12 77.65

References

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  1. ^ "2025 John Nicks Pairs International Challenger Series" (PDF). International Skating Union. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
  2. ^ "Challenger Series". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 29, 2025. Retrieved May 14, 2025.
  3. ^ "ISU CS John Nicks Pairs Challenge International 2025". International Skating Union. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  4. ^ @AnythingGOE (August 20, 2025). "🇺🇸 Ellie Kam/Danny O'Shea have withdrawn from John Nicks Pairs Challenge" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ a b "2025 John Nicks Pairs International Challenger Series" (PDF). International Skating Union. p. 10. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 16, 2025. Retrieved August 15, 2025.
  6. ^ a b International Skating Union 2024, p. 82.
  7. ^ International Skating Union 2024, p. 119.
  8. ^ International Skating Union 2024, p. 122.
  9. ^ International Skating Union 2024, pp. 83–84.
  10. ^ International Skating Union 2024, pp. 15–16.
  11. ^ International Skating Union 2024, pp. 84–85.
  12. ^ International Skating Union 2024, pp. 16–17.
  13. ^ International Skating Union 2024, p. 17.
  14. ^ International Skating Union 2024, pp. 18–19.
  15. ^ International Skating Union 2024, p. 20.
  16. ^ "2025 John Nicks Pairs International Challenger Series - Pairs". September 3, 2025.

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