Golden Spin of Zagreb
Status	Active
Genre	ISU Challenger Series
Frequency	Annual
Venue	Klizalište Velesajem
Location	Zagreb
Country	Yugoslavia (1968–90) Croatia (since 1992)
Inaugurated	1967
Previous event	2024 Golden Spin of Zagreb
Next event	2025 Golden Spin of Zagreb
Organised by	Croatian Skating Federation

TheGolden Spin of Zagreb (Croatian:Zlatna pirueta Zagreba) is an annualfigure skating competition sanctioned by theInternational Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Croatian Skating Federation (Croatian:Hrvatski klizački savez) and held inZagreb, Croatia. The competition debuted in 1967 when Zagreb was part ofYugoslavia, and continued as a Croatian event after Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. When the ISU launched theChallenger Series in 2014, the Golden Spin of Zagreb was one of the inaugural competitions. It has been a Challenger Series event ever since, except for 2020, when it was cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. Medals are awarded inmen's singles, women's singles,pair skating, andice dance; and when the event is part of the Challenger Series, skaters earnWorld Standing points based on their results.

The first installment of the Golden Spin of Zagreb was held in 1967 inZagreb, in what was at the timeYugoslavia.

Thebreakup of Yugoslavia began with the secession of Slovenia and Croatia in June 1991. TheYugoslav Wars began immediately thereafter. No competition was held in 1991 owing to theCroatian War of Independence.^[1] Despite some hesitation, the Croatian government was adamant that the Golden Spin of Zagreb be held in 1992, even while Croatia experienced intermittent combat with Yugoslavia over regions of Croatia withsignificant Serbian populations. While some nations declined to send athletes to Zagreb, the competition was held in 1992, and every year thereafter until the war ended in 1995.

In 2001, this event served as the qualifying competition for the2002 Winter Olympics.^[2]

TheISU Challenger Series was introduced in 2014. It is a series of international figure skating competitions sanctioned by theInternational Skating Union and organized byISU 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 earnISU World Standing points.^[3]

The2025 Golden Spin of Zagreb is scheduled to take place 3–6 December in Zagreb.^[4]

The2024 Golden Spin of Zagreb champions:Mihhail Selevko of Estonia (men's singles);Alysa Liu of the United States (women's singles);Ioulia Chtchetinina andMichał Woźniak of Poland (pair skating); andPhebe Bekker andJames Hernandez of Great Britain (ice dance)

CS:Challenger Series event

Men's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971	László Vajda	Mr. Masek	Michael Glaubitz	[5]
1972		Michael Glaubitz	Rudi Cerne	[6]
1973	Sergey Volkov	Zdeněk Pazdírek	Didier Gailhaguet	[7]
1974	László Vajda	Alexander Majorov	Christophe Boyadjian	[8]
1975	Grzegorz Głowania	Ludwik Jankowski	Jacek Tascher	[9]
1976	František Pechar	Igor Lisovsky	Gerhard Haubmann	[10]
1977	Gert-Walter Gräbner	Gerhard Haubmann	Torsten Ohlow	[11]
1978	Jean-Christoph Simond	Helmut Kristofics-Binder	László Vajda	[12]
1979	Rudi Cerne	Reggie Raiford	Helmut Kristofics-Binder	[13]
1980	Herve Pornet	Ralf Lewandowski	James Santee	[14]
1981	James Santee		Herve Pornet	[15]
1982	Masaru Ogawa	Joachim Ehmann	Miljan Begović
1983	Scott Hamilton	Norbert Schramm	Makato Kano
1984	Scott Williams	Grzegorz Filipowski	Fernand Fedronic	[16]
1985	Heiko Fischer	John Filbig	Nils Köpp	[17]
1986	Viktor Petrenko	Philippe Roncoli	James Cygan	[18]
1987	Scott Kurttila	Cameron Medhurst	Martin Marceau	[19]
1988	Riko Krahnert	András Száraz	Norm Proft	[20]
1989	Sergei Dudakov	Craig Heath	Peter Johansson	[21]
1990	Aren Nielsen	Ralph Burghart	Igor Pashkevich	[22]
1991	Competition cancelled due to theCroatian War of Independence			[1]
1992	Axel Médéric	Tomislav Čižmešija	dnul. Tajfas
1993
1994
1995			Jan Čejvan
1996	Roman Serov	Szabolcs Vidrai	Anthony Liu	[15]
1997		Trifun Živanović	Szabolcs Vidrai	[23]
1998	Yevgeny Martynov	Sergei Rylov	Stefan Lindemann	[24]
1999	Roman Serov		Gabriel Monnier	[25]
2000	Ryan Bradley		Markus Leminen	[26]
2001	Sergei Davydov	Kevin van der Perren	Vakhtang Murvanidze	[27]
2002	Gheorghe Chiper	Alexei Vasilevski	Benjamin Miller	[28]
2003	Ma Xiaodong	Zoltán Tóth	Roman Serov	[29]
2004	Hugh Yik	Martin Liebers	Anton Kovalevski	[30]
2005	Gregor Urbas	Marc-André Craig	Ilia Klimkin	[31]
2006		Denis Leushin	Martin Liebers	[32]
2007		Adrian Schultheiss	Vladimir Uspenski	[33]
2008	Yasuharu Nanri	Samuel Contesti	Alexander Majorov	[34]
2009	Denis Ten	Artem Borodulin	Adrian Schultheiss	[35]
2010	Denis Leushin	Michal Březina	Anton Kovalevski	[36]
2011	Tatsuki Machida	Denis Ten	Ivan Bariev	[37]
2012	Vladislav Sesganov	Mark Shakhmatov	Justus Strid	[38]
2013	Sergei Voronov	Artur Gachinski	Ivan Righini	[39]
2014 CS	Denis Ten	Michal Březina	Konstantin Menshov	[40]
2015 CS		Adam Rippon	Adian Pitkeev	[41]
2016 CS	Alexei Bychenko	Daniel Samohin	Keegan Messing	[42]
2017 CS	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Alexei Bychenko	Artur Dmitriev Jr.	[43]
2018 CS	Jason Brown	Mikhail Kolyada	Alexander Samarin	[44]
2019 CS		Morisi Kvitelashvili	Makar Ignatov	[45]
2020	Competition cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic			[46]
2021 CS	Keegan Messing	Andrei Mozalev	Jimmy Ma	[47]
2022 CS	Camden Pulkinen	Matteo Rizzo	Mihhail Selevko	[48]
2023 CS	Jin Boyang	Mikhail Shaidorov	Aleksandr Selevko	[49]
2024 CS	Mihhail Selevko	Aleksandr Selevko	François Pitot	[50]

Women's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1967
1968	Britt Elfving	Bärbel Fimmen	Maja Winter
1969
1970
1971	Marion Weber	Zsuzsa Homolya	Ilka Spormann	[5]
1972	Ms. Brigitt	Manuela Bertelé	Frigge Drzymalla	[6]
1973	Anett Pötzsch	Zdenka Fiurášková	Susanne Altur	[7]
1974	Rakonszka	Ms. Fialová	Eva Hansson	[8]
1975	Grażyna Dudek	Ms. Temtová	Ms. Belszkaja	[9]
1976	Carola Weißenberg	Lotta Crispin	Sanda Dubravčić	[10]
1977	Sanda Dubravčić	Belinda Coulthard	Liudmila Mineyeva	[11]
1978	Claudia Kristofics-Binder	Sanda Dubravčić	Katarina Witt	[12]
1979	Sanda Dubravčić	Joyce Newell	Dagmar Lurz
1980		Priscilla Hill	Janina Wirth	[51]
1981		Hildescheimer	Ms. Roskam	[52]
1982		Natalia Ovchinnikova	Katrien Pauwels	[53]
1983		Rosalynn Sumners	Karin Telser	[15]
1984	Agnès Gosselin	Kelly Webster	Claudia Villiger	[16]
1985	Constanze Gensel	Manuela Tschupp	Heike Gobbers	[17]
1986	Caryn Kadavy	Ana Kondrasova	Željka Čižmešija	[18]
1987	Jeri Campbell	Charlene Wong	Katrien Pauwels	[19]
1988	Lisa Sargeant	Kelly Szmurlo	Anja Geissler	[20]
1989	Kelly Szmurlo	Dianne Takeuchi	Lily Lyoonjung Lee	[21]
1990	Julia Vorobieva	Anja Geissler	Tisha Walker	[22]
1991	Competition cancelled due to theCroatian War of Independence			[1]
1992	Melita Juratek	Ivana Jakupčević	Vanessa Gusméroli
1993	Julia Vorobieva[54]
1994
1995		Mojca Kopač
1996	Mojca Kopač	Joanne Carter	Sabina Wojtala	[15]
1997	Tatiana Malinina	Brittney McConn	Júlia Sebestyén	[23]
1998	Julia Soldatova	Júlia Sebestyén	Vanessa Gusméroli	[24]
1999	Viktoria Volchkova	Zuzana Paurova	Tamara Dorofejev	[25]
2000	Julia Soldatova	Kristina Oblasova		[55]
2001	Michelle Currie	Amber Corwin	Julia Lautowa	[27]
2002	Alisa Drei	Yebin Mok	Júlia Sebestyén	[28]
2003	Zuzana Babiaková	Diána Póth	Idora Hegel	[29]
2004	Idora Hegel	Galina Maniachenko	Diána Póth	[30]
2005	Alisa Drei	Meagan Duhamel	Silvia Fontana	[31]
2006	Nella Simaová	Tamar Katz	Alisa Drei	[32]
2007	Akiko Suzuki	Kiira Korpi	Katarina Gerboldt	[33]
2008	Júlia Sebestyén	Joshi Helgesson	Jenna McCorkell	[34]
2009	Shion Kokubun	Ekaterina Kozireva	Katarina Gerboldt	[35]
2010	Sonia Lafuente	Kako Tomotaki	Patricia Gleščič	[36]
2011	Adelina Sotnikova	Haruna Suzuki	Maria Artemieva	[37]
2012	Carolina Kostner	Kristina Zaseeva	Isadora Williams	[38]
2013	Yuna Kim	Miki Ando	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[39]
2014 CS	Kiira Korpi	Maria Artemieva	Nicole Rajičová	[40]
2015 CS	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Karen Chen	[41]
2016 CS	Carolina Kostner	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Alena Leonova	[42]
2017 CS	Stanislava Konstantinova	Alisa Fedichkina	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[43]
2018 CS	Bradie Tennell	Anastasiia Gubanova	Mariah Bell	[44]
2019 CS	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Viktoriia Safonova	Nicole Schott	[45]
2020	Competition cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic			[46]
2021 CS	Anastasiia Gubanova	Amber Glenn	Niina Petrõkina	[47]
2022 CS	Lindsay Thorngren	Bradie Tennell	Madeline Schizas	[48]
2023 CS	Sarina Joos	Amber Glenn	Starr Andrews	[49]
2024 CS	Alysa Liu	Nina Pinzarrone	Bradie Tennell	[50]

Junior men's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2017	Mark Gorodnitsky	Nikolaj Majorov	Chadwick Wang	[43]
2018	Gabriele Frangipani	Chen Yudong	Rakhat Bralin	[44]
2019	Lucas Altieri	Charles Katanovic	Arlet Levandi	[59]
2020–24	No junior-level competitions held since 2019

Junior women's event medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2017	Anastasiia Guliakova	Alina Solovyeva	Ann-Christin Marold	[43]
2018	Alina Soupian	Nelli Ioffe	Alana Toktarova	[44]
2019	Ksenia Tsibinova	Starr Andrews	Nargiz Süleymanova	[59]
2020–24	No junior-level competitions held since 2019

Total number of Golden Spin of Zagreb medals in men's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	9	5	4	18
2	Russia	7	7	8	22
3	Hungary	3	3	2	8
4	Soviet Union	3	2	1	6
	West Germany	3	2	1	6
6	Kazakhstan	3	2	0	5
7	Japan	3	0	1	4
	Slovenia	3	0	1	4
9	France	2	1	6	9
10	Canada	2	1	3	6
11	China	2	0	0	2
12	East Germany	1	3	3	7
13	Israel	1	2	1	4
	Poland	1	2	1	4
15	Czechoslovakia	1	2	0	3
16	Estonia	1	1	2	4
17	Georgia	1	1	1	3
18	Ukraine	1	0	2	3
19	Romania	1	0	1	2
20	Belarus	1	0	0	1
21	Austria	0	3	2	5
22	Azerbaijan	0	3	0	3
23	Italy	0	2	1	3
24	Czech Republic	0	2	0	2
25	Sweden	0	1	3	4
26	Germany	0	1	2	3
27	Australia	0	1	1	2
28	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
30	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 entries)		49	49	50	148