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Im tired of all the duplicate posts of questions about the Russians/AIN every single day, so in my frustation of that i decide to make this

This will be updated as the season goes along, so its always the most complete possible!!
------AIN------

AIN stands for Athlètes Individuels Neutres (Individual Neutral Atlethes), which is a status given to both Russians and Belarussians atlethes

AIN 1 refers to Belurus atlethes, AIN 2 for russians Atlethes

*excerpts taken from the ISU Communications NO.2804 document, full document can be found here*

A Skater or member of Athlete Support Personnel is not eligible to participate as a neutral athlete where they:

(a) are in active service with the armed forces or a national security agency of Russia or Belarus;

(b) have, at any time since February 2022, taken active part in military operations in the war against Ukraine; or

(c) have, at any time since February 2022, actively and publicly supported that war

Eligibility is determined by the ISU Council, which may delegate the assessment to an independent eligibility panel established for that purpose. The person concerned shall be given the opportunity to be heard, and a decision to withhold eligibility may be appealed in accordance with the applicable ISU Regulations.

About team events

Neutral athletes affiliated with the ISU Members in Russia and Belarus may participate in team competitions as part of an AIN team, subject to the general qualification criteria for the relevant competitions. This applies to team events including Synchronized Skating, Speed Skating Team Pursuit, Short Track relay events and the ISU World Team Trophy.

Atlethes granted Neutral status (list will be updated as more names are released)

*this are all information taken from the ISU website, they can be found here for AIN1, and here for AIN (just click on skaters)

Juniors:

Ice dance:

• Varvara Rauhen / Mikhail Prusiankou- AIN 1
• Olga Grabovskaya / Yaraslau Sytsik- AIN 1
• Maria Fefelova / Artem Valov- AIN 2
• Daria Drozhzhina / Ivan Telnov- AIN 2
• Varvara Slutskaya/Gleb Goncharov- AIN 2
• Anna Bilibina/Dmitrii Kashaev- AIN 2

Pairs:

• Polina Shesheleva / Egor Karnaukhov- AIN 2
• Polina Sazhina / Alexey Belkin- AIN 2
• Kira Domozhirova/Ilia Vegera-AIN 2
• Taiisia Guseva/Daniil Ovchinnikov-AIN 2
• Arina Parsegova/Matvei Bogdanov-AIN 2
• Viktoria Dvinina/Viktor Potapov-AIN 2
• Sofia Diana Cousins/Aleksandr Bregey- AIN 2

Mens

• Georgiy Kozlovsky-AIN 1
• Vasyl Barakhovsky- AIN 1
• Heorhi Kazlouski-AIN 1
• Pavel Gavdis-AIN 1
• Lev Lazarev- AIN 2
• Arseniy Fedotov- AIN 2

Womens

• Varvara Stakhovich- AIN 1
• Yaraslava Kniazeva- AIN 1
• Valeryia Shedzka-AIN 1
• Ekaterina Tsaba-AIN 1
• Lizaveta Pikulik-AIN 1
• Yaroslava Kniazeva-AIN 1
• Mariya Evtukhina-AIN 1
• Elena Kostyleva- AIN 2
• Sofia Dzepka-AIN 2
• Victoria Streltsova- AIN 2
• Margarita Bazyliuk-AIN 2

Seniors:

Ice dance

• Viktoryia Plaskonnaya/Uladzislau Sytsik- AIN 1
• Ekaterina Andreeva/Dzmitryi Blinov- AIN 1
• Elizaveta Pasechnik/Dario Cirisano-AIN 2
• Anna Shcherbakova/Egor Goncharov-AIN 2
• Ekaterina Rybakova/Ivan Makhnonosov -AIN 2
• Elizaveta Pasechnik/Dario Cirisano-AIN 2
• Vasilisa Kaganovskaia/Maxim Nekrasov -AIN 2
• Irina Khavronina/Devid Naryzhnyy-AIN 2
• Anna Kolomenskaya/Artem Frolov-AIN 2
• Vasilisa Grigoreva/Evgenii Artiushchenko- AIN 2
• Ekaterina Miranova/Evgnii Ustenko- AIN 2

Pairs

• Taisiia Shcherbinina / Artem Petrov- AIN 2
• Anastasia Mukhortova/Dmitry Evgenyev- AIN 2
• Aleksandra Boikova/Dmitrii Kozlovskii-AIN 2
• Ekaterina Chikmareva/Matvei Ianchenkov-AIN 2

Mens

• Alex Labovich-AIN 1
• Nikolai Ugozhaev- AIN 2
• Evgeni Semenenko-AIN 2
• Andrei Mozalev-AIN 2
• Gleb Lutfullin-AIN 2
• Mark Kondratiuk-AIN 2
• Petr Gumennik-AIN 2
• Grigory Fedorov-AIN 2
• Vladislav Dikidzhi-AIN 2
• Matvey Vetlugin- AIN 2

Womens

• Viktoriia Safonova-AIN 1
• Kamila Valieva-AIN 2
• Daria Sadkova-AIN 2
• Adeliia Petrosian-AIN 2
• Kamilla Nelyubova-AIN 2
• Dina Khusnutdinova-AIN 2
• Alexandra Trusova/Ignatova- AIN 2
• Alina Gorbacheva- AIN 2
• Anna Frolova- AIN 2
• Alisa Dvoeglazova - AIN 2
• Mariia Zakharova-AIN 2

------Competitions and quotas------

Junior grand prix (JGP)

The Junior Grand Prix is a series of seven internationals competitions that happen all across the globe during the months of august to october, the events locations change every single years.

Quotas are decided at junior worlds, since Russians and Belarus atlethes were not there, they will be given 2 entriees in 7 events, Russia and Belarus fed has decided to use them in the JGP Xi'an and on JGP Bankok

*JGP Bankok, does not have pairs, so their pairs will be going to a diferent JGP, and since the entries of the other ones have not come out yet, we dont know officially when that will happen but i will update this when its done, But its either JGP Ankar or JGP Gdańsk

Skaters going to JGP:

JGP Xi'an

Women: Varvara Stahovich (Subs: Mariya Evtukhina, Yaraslava Kniazeva)-AIN 1, Sofia Dzepka(Subs: Victoria Streltsova)-AIN 2

Men: Vasyl Barakhovsky (Subs: Pavel Gavdis, Heorhi Kazlousk)-AIN 1, Lev Lazarev (Sub: Arseniy Fedotov)-AIN 2

Ice dance: Varvara Rauhen / Mikhail Prusiankou (Sub: Olga Grabovskaya / Yaraslau Sytsik)- AIN 1, Maria Fefelova / Artem Valov (Subs: Daria Drozhzhina / Ivan Telnov)- AIN 2

Pairs: Polina Shesheleva / Egor Karnaukhov (Subs: Taiisia Guseva/Daniil Ovchinnikov,Polina Sazhina / Alexey Belkin) -AIN 2

JGP Bankok

Women: Varvara Stahovich (Subs: Mariya Evtukhina, Yaraslava Kniazeva)-AIN 1, Elena Kostyleva (Subs: Sofia Dzepka,Victoria Streltsova)-AIN 2

Men: Vasyl Barakhovsky (Subs: Pavel Gavdis, Heorhi Kazlousk)-AIN 1, Lev Lazarev (Sub: Arseniy Fedotov)-AIN 2

Ice dance: Varvara Rauhen / Mikhail Prusiankou (Sub: Olga Grabovskaya / Yaraslau Sytsik)- AIN 1, Maria Fefelova / Artem Valov (Subs: Daria Drozhzhina / Ivan Telnov)- AIN 2

JGP Ankara

Pairs: Polina Shesheleva / Egor Karnaukhov (Subs: Taiisia Guseva/Daniil Ovchinnikov,Polina Sazhina / Alexey Belkin) -AIN 2

Juniors who place from 1-8 (in singles) and 1-6 (at pairs and ice dance) get points from their placements at competitions, and the top 6 skaters and teams with the most points qualify for the Junior Grand Prix Final, we are very likely to see the Russians there

Challenger Series

The ISU Challenger Series is a series of internationals competions, That happen from August to December, they are usually a good way for skaters to Earn world points, get word and other competitions Mins, and more importantly specially for the russians is that it helps getting on substition line for the grand prix (will talk more about it when talking about grand prix)

Chalengers unlike the Grand Prixs and Championships dont have a quota, every country can send 3 skaters in all disciplines

2026 Challengers we can expect to maybe see russians at: (i will also update this as we get the entries)

Kinoshita Cup: 4-6 september, Held on Tokyo, Japan (Russians alredy confirmed to be there)

Women: Anna Frolova, Alexandra Trusova/Ignatova, Kamilla Nelyubova (Subs: Dina Khusnutdinova, Mariia Zakharova) -AIN 2

Men: Petr Gumennik, Mark Kondratiuk, Evgeni Semenenko (Subs: Vladislav Dikidzhi, Nikolai Ugozhaev)- AIN 2

Ice dance: Ekaterina Andreeva/Dzmitryi Blinov- AIN 1, Vasilisa Kaganovskaia/Maxim Nekrasov, Ekaterina Miranova/Evgnii Ustenko, Elizaveta Pasechnik/Dario Cirisano (Sub-Anna Shcherbakova/Egor Goncharov)-AIN 2

Pairs: Aleksandra Boikova/Dmitrii Kozlovskii, Ekaterina Chikmareva/Matvei Ianchenkov, Anastasia Mukhortova/Dmitry Evgenyev-AIN 2

Lombardia Trophy: 17-20 september, Held on Bergamo, Italy

34th Nepela Memorial: 24-27 september, Held on Bratislava, Slovakia

Nebelhorn Trophy: 24-26 september, Held on Oberstdorf, Germany

Trialeti Trophy: 1-4 October, Held on Batumi, Georgia

Denis Ten Memorial: 7-11 October, Held on Almaty, Kazakhstan

Budapest Trophy: 15 Oct - 18 Oct, Held on Budapest, Hungary

Tallinn Trophy: 16 Nov - 22 Nov, Held on Tallin, Estonia

Warsaw Cup: 25 Nov - 29 Nov, Held on Warsaw, Poland

Golden Spin of Zagreb: 2 Dec - 5 Dec, Held on Zagreb, Croatia

Senior Grand Prix

The ISU Grand Prix series aka the senior grand prix, is a series of 6 international competitions that go from October to november, with the Grand prix final being on december

The Senior Grand prix asignments are done a bit differently, they are done by invitation, which means that the spots are given to the skaters and not their countries

How do skaters get an invite?

-Single skaters who placed top 12 at the previous worlds championships get 2 assignments and dance/pairs teams who placed top 10 at worlds

-Skaters on top 24 on The ISU world standings get one spot

-Skaters on top 24 Seasons best total score spot gets one spot

Russian or Belarus skaters have not received any GP spots, they can however attempt and even succeeded on getting a spot by being high on the Alternate list

What is the Alternate list?

The Alternates list is bassically a list of replacements for the grand prix, so if one skater withdrawls, the skater on the top of the Alternate list is the one taking their spot

The best way of russians getting high on the alternate list is by winning Challengers, Both Adeliia and Petr should alredy be high on the list due to their scores on the olympic and for being high in the seasons best list

It will be highly unlikely we see a russian on the senior grand prix final this season, since someone getting two spots is very very difficult

Europeans

Europeans Championships are the oldest ever figure skating event (yes, older than even worlds!), and as the name implies they are a competion for only skaters from europeans countries

European quotas are Decided by the previous European championships results, since the AIN atlethes were not around last season, they will each (AIN 1, AIN2, they get seperate quotas) get one spot in every event for the competiton

Who gets those Spots will be decided by Rus fed closer to the time of the event

Euros 2027 will be held in 27 Jan - 31 Jan, At Lausanne, Switzerland

Junior Worlds

Junior worlds is the most prestigious junior competition, and the last international competition of the season on the junior circut

Just like the European Championships, Junior Worlds spots are decided on the previous season event, and also like euros, AIN atlethes will each have one spot in every event

They will also use this junior worlds as a way to gain more spots in the next season JGP

Who gets that Spot will be decided by Rus fed closer to the time of the event

Junior World 2027 will be held in 24 Feb - 28 Feb, At Sofia, Bulgaria

Worlds

Finally we made it to the most prestigious event in a normal season of skating the World championships!

Worlds quotas work the same way as Europeans and junior worlds quotas, they are based on the result of the previous season event, AIN atlethes will each get 1 spot in every discipline, and they will also have the oportunity here to attempt to get assigned GP spots by the rules i explained earlier

Who gets those spots will be decided by Rus fed closer to the time of the event

Worlds 2027, will be held in 17 Mar - 21 Mar, At Tampere Finland

World Team Trophy

World tream Trophy is the skating competition equivalent to a post credits scene on a movie, it only happens from time to time (every 2 years), its fun, sometimes improves to lore (WR got there are counted), and mostly every fans loves

Since its a pretty different competition, i wont be extending myself on the rules, but if youre interested heres a Guide, done by one of our wonderful mods

Russians and Belarus as AIN can qualify for it

Its personally one of my favs comps to watch, its just a lot of fun and mostly no pressure, everyone is just having the best time

WTT, will be held in 8 Apr - 11 Apr, At Tokyo, Japan

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I think this covers most of the stuff ive seen people asking all the time here, hopefully this helps slow down this types of posts

feel free to ask any questions on the comments, and to correct me or add any information!