Finlandia Trophy

The inaugural edition of the Finlandia Trophy was held in 1995 in Helsinki. Igor Pashkevich and Elena Ivanova, both of Russia, won the men's and women's events, respectively. Sylwia Nowak and Sebastian Kolasiński of Poland won the ice dance event.^[1] No competition was held in pair skating until 2002. The Finlandia Trophy was held in Helsinki from 1995 through 2004.^[2] The 2005 Finlandia Trophy was scheduled to be held in Vantaa and would have featured the men's and women's events, but the competition was cancelled because too few skaters signed up.^[3] The competition returned in 2006 and was held in Vantaa through 2011. In 2012, the Finlandia Trophy relocated to Espoo.^[4] The Finlandia Trophy also occasionally hosted figure skating events of the Special Olympics.^[5]

The ISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It was 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.^[6] Challenger Series events must be scheduled between 1 August and 15 December. When an event is held as part of the Challenger Series, it must host at least three of the four disciplines (men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance) and representatives from at least twelve different ISU member nations. The minimum number of entrants required for each discipline is: eight skaters each in men's singles and women's singles, five teams in pair skating, and six teams in ice dance.^[7] While ISU member nations are limited to sending a maximum of three skaters or teams per discipline to each event, Skating Finland could enter an unlimited number of entrants in their own event. Additionally, each skater or team is limited to participating in at most three Challenger Series events each season.^[8] In February 2016, the ISU declared that the Finlandia Trophy, along with the Nebelhorn Trophy, the Ondrej Nepela Memorial, and the Golden Spin of Zagreb would constitute a "core group" of Challenger Series events in recognition of their long-standing tradition.^[9] The Finlandia Trophy was a Challenge Series event from 2014 through 2023, although the competition was cancelled in 2020 due to travel restrictions imposed by the Finnish government in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[10]

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ISU ordered that no international competitions would be held in Russia or Belarus. Therefore, the Rostelecom Cup, which had been scheduled for that November, was cancelled.^[11] Finland was chosen to host the replacement event: the Grand Prix of Espoo.^[12] Finland hosted both the Grand Prix of Espoo and the Finlandia Trophy in 2022 and 2023, but beginning in 2024, Skating Finland chose to focus its resources on the Grand Prix event, to which it bestowed the Finlandia Trophy name.^[13] Therefore, the last installment of the Finlandia Trophy as a Challenger Series event took place in 2023.^[14]

The 2023 Finlandia Trophy champions: Kao Miura of Japan (men's singles); Kim Ye-lim of South Korea (women's singles); Ellie Kam and Daniel O'Shea of the United States (pair skating); and Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis of Finland (ice dance)

CS: Challenger Series event

Men's singles

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Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1995	Helsinki	Igor Pashkevich	Ilia Kulik	Ruslan Novoseltsev	[1]
1996		Shepherd Clark	Szabolcs Vidrai	Anthony Liu	[15]
1997		Alexei Yagudin	Oleg Tataurov	Evgeni Plushenko	[16]
1998		Dmytro Dmytrenko	Anthony Liu	Damon Allen	[17]
1999		Roman Serov	Alexei Vasilevski	Jeff Langdon	[18]
2000		Evgeni Plushenko	Li Yunfei	Stanick Jeannette	[19]
2001		Ilia Klimkin	Roman Serov	Gheorghe Chiper	[20]
2002		Andrejs Vlaščenko	Gheorghe Chiper	Ilia Klimkin	[21]
2003		Gheorghe Chiper	Johnny Weir	Kristoffer Berntsson	[22]
2004		Frédéric Dambier	Roman Serov	Marc-André Craig	[23]
2005	Vantaa	Competition cancelled			[3]
2006		Jeremy Abbott	Alexander Uspenski	Sergei Dobrin	[24]
2007		Tomáš Verner	Parker Pennington	Kevin van der Perren	[25]
2008		Takahito Mura	Shaun Rogers	Sergei Voronov	[26]
2009		Daisuke Takahashi	Sergei Voronov	Stephen Carriere	[27]
2010		Artur Gachinski	Kristoffer Berntsson	Samuel Contesti	[28]
2011		Takahito Mura	Douglas Razzano	Maciej Cieplucha	[29]
2012	Espoo	Yuzuru Hanyu	Richard Dornbush	Javier Fernández	[4]
2013			Sergei Voronov	Artur Gachinski	[30]
2014 CS		Sergei Voronov	Adam Rippon	Alexander Petrov	[31]
2015 CS		Konstantin Menshov		Sergei Voronov	[32]
2016 CS		Nathan Chen	Patrick Chan	Maxim Kovtun	[33]
2017 CS		Jin Boyang	Vincent Zhou	Adam Rippon	[34]
2018 CS		Mikhail Kolyada	Cha Jun-hwan	Morisi Kvitelashvili	[35]
2019 CS		Shoma Uno	Sota Yamamoto	Roman Sadovsky	[36]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[37]
2021 CS		Jason Brown	Mikhail Kolyada	Dmitri Aliev	[38]
2022 CS		Cha Jun-hwan	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Andreas Nordebäck	[39]
2023 CS		Kao Miura	Shun Sato	Aleksandr Selevko	[14]

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Women's singles

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Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1995	Helsinki	Elena Ivanova	Zuzanna Szwed	Elena Sokolova	[1]
1996		Maria Butyrskaya	Julia Vorobieva		[15]
1997		Irina Slutskaya	Julia Lautowa	Krisztina Czakó	[16]
1998		Elena Sokolova	Viktoria Volchkova	Yulia Lavrenchuk	[17]
1999			Elena Liashenko	Laëtitia Hubert	[18]
2000					[19]
2001		Sasha Cohen	Alisa Drei	Viktoria Volchkova	[20]
2002		Susanna Pöykiö	Tatiana Basova	Alisa Drei	[21]
2003			Alisa Drei	Miriam Manzano	[22]
2004				Elina Kettunen	[23]
2005	Vantaa	Competition cancelled			[3]
2006		Kiira Korpi	Susanna Pöykiö	Júlia Sebestyén	[24]
2007		Jenni Vähämaa		Carolina Kostner	[25]
2008		Akiko Suzuki	Laura Lepistö	Sarah Meier	[26]
2009		Alena Leonova		Kiira Korpi	[27]
2010		Akiko Suzuki	Kiira Korpi	Alena Leonova	[28]
2011		Sofia Biryukova	Jelena Glebova	Alisa Mikonsaari	[29]
2012	Espoo	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Kiira Korpi	Mirai Nagasu	[4]
2013			Akiko Suzuki	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[30]
2014 CS		Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Samantha Cesario	Rika Hongo	[31]
2015 CS		Rika Hongo	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Joshi Helgesson	[32]
2016 CS		Kaetlyn Osmond	Mao Asada	Anna Pogorilaya	[33]
2017 CS		Maria Sotskova	Carolina Kostner	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[34]
2018 CS		Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Viveca Lindfors	[35]
2019 CS		Alena Kostornaia	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Yuhana Yokoi	[36]
2020		Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[37]
2021 CS		Kamila Valieva	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Alena Kostornaia	[38]
2022 CS		Kim Ye-lim	Kim Chae-yeon	Anastasiia Gubanova	[39]
2023 CS			Rinka Watanabe		[14]

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