2022 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

During the 2020–21 season, the CSA had already cancelled several events due to the country's stringent quarantine requirements – 21 days in isolation for non-residents – and limited flights in and out of the country; among the cancelled events were the 2021 World Junior Championships and the Olympic test event, the 2020–21 Grand Prix Final.[4] Less than a month prior to the cancellation of the Four Continents Championships, the CSA cancelled its annual Grand Prix event, the Cup of China, for similar reasons as the events last season.[5] Again citing "the complicated epidemic situation," the CSA, the local organizing committee, and the Tianjin Municipal Government informed the ISU of the cancellation of Four Continents on September 13, 2021.[3]

The Four Continents Championships would have been the first ISU Championship event during the 2021–22 season to be cancelled, before being relocated to Tallinn. The ISU and various host federations had already cancelled or relocated several other events earlier in the season, including events on the Junior Grand Prix, Grand Prix, and Challenger Series. After the ISU was able to find a replacement host for Cup of China, it again asked non-European ISU members to consider applying to host Four Continents on the originally scheduled dates.[6] After the search was unsuccessful for Four Continents, with no federations applying to host, Tallinn was chosen as the replacement host due to it hosting the European Championships a week prior.[1]

Due to the original Four Continents' proximity in both geographical location and timeline to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China's decision to cancel the event prompted further concerns about whether the Winter Olympics would be able to proceed as scheduled, and if so, be conducted in a safe manner.[7][8]

Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2021. The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on December 29, 2021.

Country	Men[11]	Women[12]	Pairs[13]	Ice dance[14]
Australia[15]	Jordan Dodds Brendan Kerry James Min	Victoria Alcantara Kailani Craine		Holly Harris / Jason Chan India Nette / Eron Westwood
Canada[16]	Corey Circelli Joseph Phan	Gabrielle Daleman Véronik Mallet Alison Schumacher	Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus
Chinese Taipei		Ting Tzu-Han
Hong Kong	Harrison Jon-Yen Wong
India		Tara Prasad
Japan[17]	Kao Miura Sena Miyake Kazuki Tomono	Rino Matsuike Mai Mihara Yuhana Yokoi		Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi
Kazakhstan	Dias Jirenbayev Mikhail Shaidorov
South Korea[18]	Cha Jun-hwan Kyeong Jae-seok Lee Si-hyeong	Kim Ye-lim Lee Hae-in You Young
Mexico		Eugenia Garza Andrea Montesinos Cantú
New Zealand		Jocelyn Hong		Charlotte Lafond-Fournier / Richard Kang-in Kam
Philippines		Sofia Lexi Jacqueline Frank
United States[19]	Tomoki Hiwatashi Jimmy Ma Camden Pulkinen	Starr Andrews Gabriella Izzo Audrey Shin	Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov Katie McBeath / Nathan Bartholomay	Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Caroline Green / Michael Parsons

Changes to preliminary assignments

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason/Other notes	Refs
January 5	Pairs	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore			[13]
	Ice dance	Chantelle Kerry / Andrew Dodds			[14]
January 6	Women	Satoko Miyahara	Yuhana Yokoi	Poor physical condition[20]	[12]
January 10	Men	Donovan Carrillo		COVID-19 precautionary measure[21]	[11]
	Women	Joanna So			[12]
	Pairs	Maria Chernyshova / Harley Windsor			[13]
January 15	Men	Matthew Samuels			[11]
January 17		Wesley Chiu		Positive COVID-19 test of his coach[22]

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