2016–17 ISU Junior Grand Prix

The locations of the JGP events change yearly. This season, the series was composed of the following events.^[2]

Date	Event	Location	Notes	Results
August 24–28	2016 JGP France	Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France	No pairs	[3]
August 31 – September 4	2016 JGP Czech Republic	Ostrava, Czech Republic		[4]
September 7–11	2016 JGP Japan	Yokohama, Japan	No pairs	[5]
September 14–18	2016 JGP Russia	Saransk, Russia		[6]
September 21–25	2016 JGP Slovenia	Ljubljana, Slovenia	No pairs	[7]
September 28 – October 2	2016 JGP Estonia	Tallinn, Estonia		[8]
October 5–9	2016 JGP Germany	Dresden, Germany		[9]
December 8–11	2016–17 JGP Final	Marseille, France		[10]

Skaters who reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2016, but had not turned 19 (singles skaters and female pairs or ice dance skaters) or 21 (male pairs or ice dance skaters) were eligible to compete on the junior circuit. Competitors were chosen by their countries according to their federations' selection procedures. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member federation was determined by their skaters' placements at the 2016 World Junior Championships in each discipline.^[11]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	16	14	14	44
2	United States (USA)	6	5	4	15
3	Japan (JPN)	2	5	7	14
4	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	2	4
5	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	3	1	5
6	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
7	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
8	Canada (CAN)	0	2	0	2
Totals (8 entries)		29	29	29	87

Starting in the 2015–16 season, the ISU added standings per nation. Points were calculated for each discipline separately before being combined for a total score per nation. For each discipline, each nation combined the points from up to four JGP events. A country did not have to use the same events for each discipline (e.g. a country can combine points from JGP events in France, Japan, Russia, and Slovenia for pairs while using Czech Republic, Japan, Estonia, and Germany for ice dance). For each discipline at each event, each nation combined the points from up to two skaters/teams. The points that each skater/team earned is based on placement. Placement to point conversion was the same as for qualification, with first place earning 15 points, second earning 13 points, etc. In the event ties in the total scores, the country with the fewer skaters/teams (only counting skaters/teams from whom points were combined), won the tie breaker. If the tie was not broken, the nations would have the same rank.^[13]

The current standings were:^[14]

No.	Nation	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance	Total
1	Russia	100	106	100	102	408
2	United States	64	22	31	69	186
3	Japan	44	102	3	5	154
4	Canada	40	11	26	46	123
5	France	15	10	0	58	83
6	Czech Republic	17	6	28	22	73
7	South Korea	33	36	3	0	72
8	Ukraine	27	0	5	19	51
9	China	10	0	21	0	31
10	Australia	0	0	18	0	18

At each event, skaters earned points toward qualification for the Junior Grand Prix Final. Following the seventh event, the top six highest-scoring skaters/teams advanced to the Final. The points earned per placement were as follows.^[11]

There were originally seven tie-breakers in cases of a tie in overall points:

1. Highest placement at an event. If a skater placed 1st and 3rd, the tiebreaker is the 1st place, and that beats a skater who placed 2nd in both events.
2. Highest combined total scores in both events. If a skater earned 200 points at one event and 250 at a second, that skater would win in the second tie-break over a skater who earned 200 points at one event and 150 at another.
3. Participated in two events.
4. Highest combined scores in the free skating/free dance portion of both events.
5. Highest individual score in the free skating/free dance portion from one event.
6. Highest combined scores in the short program/short dance of both events.
7. Highest number of total participants at the events.

If a tie remained, it was considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all advanced to the Junior Grand Prix Final.

No.	Men[15]	Ladies[16]	Pairs[17]	Ice dance[18]
1	Alexander Samarin	Anastasiia Gubanova	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd
2	Cha Jun-hwan	Polina Tsurskaya (withdrew)	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
3	Alexei Krasnozhon	Rika Kihira	Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
4	Roman Savosin	Kaori Sakamoto	Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov	Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron
5	Ilia Skirda	Alina Zagitova	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
6	Dmitri Aliev	Marin Honda	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot (withdrew)	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov

Alternates

No.	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
1	Vincent Zhou	Elizaveta Nugumanova (called up)	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor (called up)	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin
2	Andrew Torgashev	Stanislava Konstantinova	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov
3	Roman Sadovsky	Yuna Shiraiwa	Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland	Nicole Kuzmich / Alexandr Sinicyn

• ISU Junior Grand Prix at the International Skating Union
• Official YouTube channel