U.S. International Figure Skating Classic

The inaugural edition of the U.S. International Classic was held in 2012 in Salt Lake City. Skaters from the United States won a majority of the medals, including a sweep of the men's event. Max Aaron and Agnes Zawadzki of the United States won the men's and women's events, respectively. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch of Canada won the pairs event, and Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, also of Canada, won the ice dance event.^[1]

The ISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It is a series of international figure skating competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union and organized by ISU member nations. The objective is 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] 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 ten 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. Each ISU member nation is eligible to enter up to three skaters or teams per discipline in each competition, although U.S. Figure Skating could enter an unlimited number of entrants in their own event.^[3]

The U.S. International Classic was a Challenger Series event from 2014 through 2019, and again in 2022.^[4] No competition was held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic,^[5] although it had already been left off the slate of competitions for the 2020–21 ISU Challenger Series.^[6] The U.S. International Classic returned in 2021, hosted by the Skating Club of Boston at their new facility in Norwood, Massachusetts. The 2021 edition was not part of the Challenger Series, and in addition, the pairs event was omitted.^[7]

The 2022 U.S. International Classic gained media attention when Ilia Malinin of the United States landed the first ever quadruple Axel in competition.^[8] While skaters in the past had attempted a quadruple Axel, Malinin was the first to successfully land one with four-and-a-half proper rotations in the air.^[9] Although the 2022 installment was held as an event in the 2022–23 ISU Challenger Series, it was also the last installment of the U.S. International Classic to be held.^[4]

The 2022 U.S. International Classic champions (from left to right): Ilia Malinin of the United States (men's singles); Kim Ye-lim of South Korea (women's singles); Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini of Italy (pair skating); and Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson of Great Britain (ice dance)

CS: Challenger Series event

Men's singles

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Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Salt Lake City, Utah	Max Aaron	Armin Mahbanoozadeh	Ross Miner	[10]
2013			Stephen Carriere	Joshua Farris	[11]
2014 CS			Ross Miner	Daisuke Murakami	[12]
2015 CS		Daniel Samohin	Keiji Tanaka	Ross Miner	[13]
2016 CS		Jason Brown	Takahito Mura	Adam Rippon	[14]
2017 CS		Nathan Chen	Max Aaron	Liam Firus	[15]
2018 CS		Nam Nguyen	Michal Březina	Jimmy Ma	[16]
2019 CS		Keiji Tanaka	Sota Yamamoto	Vincent Zhou	[17]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic				[5]
2021	Norwood, Massachusetts	Michal Březina	Jimmy Ma	Eric Sjoberg	[18]
2022 CS	Lake Placid, New York	Ilia Malinin	Kévin Aymoz	Camden Pulkinen	[19]

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Women's singles

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Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Salt Lake City, Utah	Agnes Zawadzki	Gracie Gold	Amelie Lacoste	[10]
2013		Courtney Hicks		Samantha Cesario	[11]
2014 CS		Polina Edmunds	Courtney Hicks	Riona Kato	[12]
2015 CS		Satoko Miyahara	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Angela Wang	[13]
2016 CS			Mariah Bell	Karen Chen	[14]
2017 CS		Marin Honda	Mirai Nagasu		[15]
2018 CS		Satoko Miyahara	Lim Eun-soo	Kim Ye-lim	[16]
2019 CS			You Young	Amber Glenn	[17]
2020	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic				[5]
2021	Norwood, Massachusetts	Alexandra Trusova	Park Yeon-jeong	Gabriella Izzo	[18]
2022 CS	Lake Placid, New York	Kim Ye-lim	You Young	Mana Kawabe	[19]

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