{"id":11605,"date":"2026-10-11T08:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/?p=11605"},"modified":"2026-10-11T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:32:30","slug":"denis-ten-memorial-2026-almaty-podiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/denis-ten-memorial-2026-almaty-podiums\/","title":{"rendered":"Dikidzhi leads the podiums at the Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 2026 in Almaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>News \u2014 11 October 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 2026, the eighth event of the ISU Challenger Series, was held from 7 to 11 October at the Halyk Arena in Almaty (Kazakhstan), with titles decided in men&#8217;s, women&#8217;s and ice dance: Dikidzhi (312.79 points), Ignatova (226.01) and the Finnish duo Turkkila\/Versluis (191.32) took the gold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The Almaty podiums<\/h2>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s event, Dikidzhi won with 312.79 points, ahead of Lutfullin (277.23) and Gumennik (261.76). In the women&#8217;s event, Ignatova prevailed with 226.01 points, followed by Kim (209.20) and Samodelkina (204.36), who took the bronze in front of the home Kazakh crowd. In ice dance, the Finnish pair Turkkila\/Versluis completed the golden podium with 191.32 points.<\/p>\n<h2>A competition in memory of Denis Ten<\/h2>\n<p>The competition is named after Denis Ten, the Kazakh skater, 2013 world champion and bronze medallist at Sochi 2014, who died in 2018. His memorial has become a fixture of the international calendar and, in this edition, part of the ISU Challenger Series 2026\/27.<\/p>\n<h2>The ice behind the results<\/h2>\n<p>Behind every score lie hours of work on a well-maintained real-ice rink: a smooth, level surface, reliable refrigeration and constant maintenance. Napapiri designs, manufactures, rents and sells real-ice rinks since 1993 for event organizers, municipalities and sports and leisure facilities worldwide; quotation within 24 hours at <a href=\"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/\">napapiri.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.9em;\"><em>Photo: facade of the Halyk Arena in Almaty (Kazakhstan), venue of the Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 2026. Photograph by Mazur Vlad (\u041c\u0430\u0437\u0443\u0440 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434), CC BY-SA 4.0, via <a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8B%D0%BA_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0_2019_01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>. Archive photo (winter 2019); it does not show the 2026 competition or a Napapiri installation.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denistenmemorial.kz\/results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official results of the Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 2026<\/a> (denistenmemorial.kz), consulted on 11 October 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 2026 in Almaty closed with Dikidzhi (312.79), Ignatova (226.01) and Turkkila\/Versluis (191.32) as Challenger Series champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"two_page_speed":[],"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11613,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605\/revisions\/11613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}