#JGPF1819

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Five years ago today Stephen won gold at 2018/19 Junior Grand Prix Final.

I think he’s ready to surpass the personal best scores he set there half a decade later.

Credit: Aflo (link unavailable)

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Four years ago today

Credit: Olga Trofimova/Flickr

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Throwing it back to 2018 JGPF. Barring a withdrawal, Stephen, Petr, and Koshiro will be competing against each other once again next week at 2021 Warsaw Cup. Photo:  kei_taira/Instagram

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Two years ago today Stephen won the 2018/19 Junior Grand Prix Final.

Brief updates

In case you missed it: the ISU announced last month that the 2021 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships have been cancelled.

Southern California is under a stay-at-home order from today. Indoor recreational facilities are required to close. No word yet on what will happen with Great Park Ice, though the Sheriff of OC is not going to enforce Governor Newsom’s orders.

After getting an exemption for high performance athletes to train in regions under lockdown, Skate Ontario is filming the performances of their skaters competing at Challenge through the end of this week. A preliminary schedule for 2021 Skate Canada Challenge is posted. We await an entry list for confirmation of Stephen’s participation.

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Happy Canada Day!

Today also marks the first day that Stephen is eligible to skate internationally as a senior, with the start of the 2020/21 season.

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Stephen Gogolev: 2010s decade in review

2010 - Began figure skating 2014 - Pre-novice champion of Canada 2015 - Pre-novice champion at the Canada Winter Games 2016 - Novice champion of Canada 2017 - Junior champion of Canada 2018 - Junior Grand Prix Final champion 2019 - Canadian National silver medallist

Stephen has accomplished so much in just a decade of involvement in figure skating.

Here’s to 10 more years of great memories on ice.

P.S. Gif thread with more detailed highlights can be viewed here.

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One year ago today Stephen became the youngest skater and the first Canadian to win the Junior Grand Prix Final men's title. Skating in Vancouver as an alternate, he set the junior men's FS and total score records at the time.

Photo credit: Skate Canada

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Congratulatory handshakes 2018 JGPF →  2019 JGP Lake Placid

Follow up to this post.

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The Future Has Arrived - Susan D. Russell’s coverage of 2018/19 JGPF in the February 2019 issue of IFS Magazine.

Note: Only coverage related to Stephen is posted here. The full article can be found on pages 32-37.

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The Ubyssey (The University of British Columbia’s student newspaper) posted this photo of Stephen in their collection of best photos, in their year in review. The caption:

The 2018 International Skating Union Figure Skating Grand Prix Final was held in the Doug Mitchell arena. After three days of competition, 13-year-old Canadian skater Stephen Gogolev won first place in the junior men’s division, and he currently holds the junior world records for the men's free skate and total score. Elizabeth Wang

 Credit: The Ubyssey/Elizabeth Wang

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Stephen will be the first performer in the exhibition gala at 2018/19 Grand Prix Final, taking place on December 9, 2 PM PST.

His exhibition program was choreographed by Marie-France Dubreil and Samuel Chouinard back in May.

This isn’t the first time Stephen is participating in an exhibition after a competition - he did his SP at 2016 Coupe du Printemps as an exhibtion. However, this is his first time debuting a new show program after a competition, and his first new exhibition in 2.5 years. Hope he has loads of fun. :)

This program is in a PDF file here.

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Edea shared two more cards/photos on their site from 2018/19 JGPF. The other 10 photos were shared here earlier.

Credit: Edea

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A 2018 Canadian podium for new year’s eve from Skate Canada.

Happy new year!

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Some shots from the international coverage of 2018/19 GPF.

Credits:

1. Sports Navi Figure 2. Tatjana Flade / FFKK  3. 小海途　良幹 / Sponichi Tokyo Photo 4. Kinoshita Group Sports 5. Y. Wada / Japan Sports 6. 小海途　良幹 / Sponichi Tokyo Photo 7. Y. Wada / Japan Sports

Just a little note: In link 2 above the Cyrillic transliteration of Stephen’s name is Стивен Гоголев, which is a bit different from the Степан Гоголев we had before. Which transliteration does Stephen prefer? We’re not sure. So we’re keeping both until we find out some day.

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Photographer Richard Lam captured these cool shots of Stephen’s skates in the 2018/19 GPF gala. He was the first on the ice so all the tracings are his. You can see his blades are Gold Seal Revolution in the last photo. We’ll have to see if these photos end up being used somewhere because they are like stock photos, but since they are editorial images they cannot be used commercially.

Credit: Richard Lam (1, 2, 3)

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Victory ceremony and post-VC photos of Stephen.

Captions and credits

Photos 1-2

VANCOUVER, BC - DECEMBER 7: Stephen Gogolev of Canada stands on top of the podium after winning the Junior Men's Competition with second place Petr Gumennik of Russia and third place Koshiro Shimada of Japan on December, 7, 2018 during the ISU Junior & Senior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Rich Lam - International Skating Union (ISU))

Photos 3-4

VANCOUVER, BC - DECEMBER 7: Stephen Gogolev of Canada (middle) poses for photos after winning the Junior Men's Competition with second place Petr Gumennik of Russia (left) and third place Koshiro Shimada of Japan (right) on December, 7, 2018 during the ISU Junior & Senior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Rich Lam - International Skating Union (ISU))

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VANCOUVER, BC - DECEMBER 7: Stephen Gogolev of Canada poses for a photo after winning the Junior Men Competition on December, 7, 2018 during the ISU Junior & Senior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Rich Lam - International Skating Union (ISU))

Photo 6: IFS Magazine/Twitter

Photo 7: Scott Russell/Twitter