Ice Star

The Ice Star – originally called the Minsk-Arena Ice Star – debuted in 2012. Yakov Godorozha of Ukraine won the men's event, Polina Shelepen of Russia won the women's event, and Julia Zlobina and Alexei Sitnikov of Azerbaijan 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 (ISU) 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] Challenger Series events had to be scheduled between 1 August and 15 December. When an event was held as part of the Challenger Series, it had to 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 was: eight skaters each in men's singles and women's singles, five teams in pair skating, and six teams in ice dance.^[3] While ISU member nations were limited to sending a maximum of three skaters or teams per discipline to each event, Skate Canada could enter an unlimited number of entrants in their own event. Additionally, each skater or team was limited to participating in at most three Challenger Series events each season.^[4] The Ice Star was a Challenger Series event twice: in 2017 and 2019.^[5][6]

On 1 March 2022, the ISU banned all athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus from participating at any international competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[7] As such, the 2021 Ice Star was the last iteration of the competition to be held.^[8]

From left to right: The inaugural Ice Star champions: Yakov Godorozha of Ukraine (men's singles); Polina Shelepen of Russia (women's singles); and Julia Zlobina and Alexei Sitnikov of Azerbaijan (ice dance)

CS: Challenger Series event

Men's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Yakov Godorozha	Mark Shakhmatov	Vitali Luchanok	[1]
2013	Sergei Voronov	Zhan Bush	Pavel Ignatenko	[9]
2014	No men's competitors			[10]
2015	Kim Jin-seo	Evgeni Vlasov	Larry Loupolover	[11]
2016	Ivan Pavlov	Irakli Maysuradze		[12]
2017 CS	Sergei Voronov	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Daniel Samohin	[5]
2018	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Vladimir Litvintsev	Slavik Hayrapetyan	[13]
2019 CS	Daniel Grassl	Artem Kovalev	Adam Siao Him Fa	[6]
2020	Mikhail Kolyada	Konstantin Milyukov	Evgeni Semenenko	[14]
2021	Andrei Mozalev		Alexander Lebedev	[8]

Women's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Polina Shelepen	Kerstin Frank	Krystsina Zakharanka	[1]
2013	Helery Hälvin	Yanina Makeyenka	Svetlana Issakova	[9]
2014	Yanina Makeyenka	Aleksandra Golovkina	Helery Hälvin	[10]
2015	Kim Sena	Aleksandra Golovkina	Johanna Allik	[11]
2016	Anna Khnychenkova	Evgenia Ivankova	Kim Sena	[12]
2017 CS	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Serafima Sakhanovich	An So-hyun	[5]
2018	Ekaterina Ryabova	Léa Serna	Camilla Gjersem	[13]
2019 CS	Sofia Samodurova	Kim Ha-nul	Ekaterina Ryabova	[6]
2020	Viktoriia Safonova	Anastasiia Guliakova	Sofia Samodurova	[14]
2021			Anastasiia Shabotova	[8]