2025 Cup of China
| 2025 Cup of China | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Grand Prix |
| Date: | 24 – 26 October |
| Season: | 2025–26 |
| Location: | Chongqing, China |
| Host: | Chinese Skating Association |
| Venue: | Chongqing Huaxi Culture and Sports Center |
| Defending champions | |
Men's singles:  Shun Sato | |
Women's singles:  Amber Glenn | |
Pairs:  Sara Contiand Niccolò Macii | |
| Ice dance: Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri | |
| Previous: 2024 Cup of China | |
| Next: 2026 Cup of China | |
| Previous Grand Prix: 2025 Grand Prix de France | |
| Next Grand Prix: 2025 Skate Canada International | |
The 2025 Cup of China is a figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU). Organized and hosted by the Chinese Skating Association, it is the second event of the 2025–26 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. It will be held at the Chongqing Huaxi Culture and Sports Center in Chongqing, from October 24–26.[1] Medals will be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earn points based on their results, and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are invited to then compete at the 2025–26 Grand Prix Final.
Background
The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating is a series of seven events sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU) and held during the autumn: six qualifying events and the Grand Prix Final. This allows skaters to perfect their programs earlier in the season, as well as compete against the skaters with whom they will later compete at the World Championships. This series also provides the viewing public with additional televised skating, which was in high demand. Skaters earn points based on their results in their respective competitions and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are invited to compete at the Grand Prix Final.[2]
Entries
The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on 6 June 2025.[3][4]
| Country | Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Azerbaijan
|
Vladimir Litvintsev | — | ||
.svg.png){kind=small} Canada
|
— | — | ||
 China
|
Dai Daiwei | An Xiangyi |
| |
| Jin Boyang | Zhang Ruiyang | |||
| Peng Zhiming | Zhu Yi | TBA |
| |
 France
|
— | |||
| — | ||||
 Georgia
|
— | Anastasiia Gubanova | — | |
| Italy
|
Daniel Grassl | — | — | |
| — | ||||
| Japan
|
Shun Sato | Rino Matsuike | — | |
| Sōta Yamamoto | Rinka Watanabe | |||
| — | Hana Yoshida | |||
 Kazakhstan
|
Mikhail Shaidorov | — | ||
 Latvia
|
Deniss Vasiļjevs | — | ||
.svg.png){kind=small} Switzerland
|
— | Kimmy Repond | — | |
 South Korea
|
Cha Jun-hwan | Lee Hae-in | — | |
| — | Shin Ji-a | — | ||
.png){kind=small} United States
|
Camden Pulkinen | Amber Glenn | ||
| Jacob Sanchez | Alysa Liu | — | ||
| — | — | — | ||
Changes to preliminary assignments
| Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Notes | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | |||
| Pairs | August 13 | August 14 | [5][6] | |||
| Men | — | August 18 |
|
Host picks | [7] | |
| Women | ||||||
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| Pairs | ||||||
| Ice dance | ||||||
References
- ^ "ISU GP Cup of China 2025". International Skating Union. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ^ Hines, James R. (2006). Figure Skating: A History. University of Illinois Press. pp. 246–247, 332–335. ISBN 978-0-252-07286-4.
- ^ "Grand Prix Assignments 2025/26". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ^ "ISU announces 2025-2026 Grand Prix assignments". Figure Skaters Online. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ^ "🇺🇿 Ekaterina Geynish / Dmitrii Chigirev have withdrawn from Cup of China". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
- ^ "🇮🇹 Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise have been assigned to Cup of China". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
- ^ "🇨🇳 Zhiming Peng, Xiangyi An, Ruiyang Zhang, Jiaxuan Zhang / Yihang Huang, and Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu have been assigned host picks at Cup of China". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved 18 August 2025.