2004 Skate America

2004 Skate America
Type:Grand Prix
Date:October 21 – 24
Season:2004–05
Location:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Host:U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:Mellon Arena
Champions
Men's singles:
France Brian Joubert
Ladies' singles:
United States Angela Nikodinov
Pairs:
China Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao
Ice dance:
United States Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto
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The 2004 Skate America was the first event of six in the 2004–05 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 21–24. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2004–05 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.

Results

Men

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Brian Joubert  France 193.46 1 72.10 2 121.36
2 Ryan Jahnke  United States 186.71 4 60.83 1 125.88
3 Michael Weiss  United States 179.56 2 64.82 3 114.74
4 Roman Serov  Israel 174.42 3 62.24 4 112.18
5 Evan Lysacek  United States 162.51 5 54.87 8 107.64
6 Song Lun  China 161.46 9 51.08 6 110.38
7 Nicholas Young  Canada 160.82 6 52.60 7 108.22
8 Ben Ferreira  Canada 157.41 7 51.33 9 106.08
9 Stefan Lindemann  Germany 156.73 11 44.99 5 111.74
10 Vakhtang Murvanidze  Georgia 143.10 8 51.22 11 91.88
11 Alexander Shubin  Russia 142.42 10 47.08 10 95.34

Ladies

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Angela Nikodinov  United States 149.50 2 53.62 2 95.88
2 Cynthia Phaneuf  Canada 144.40 3 50.20 3 94.20
3 Miki Ando  Japan 142.64 1 53.64 6 89.00
4 Alissa Czisny  United States 141.36 3 50.20 4 91.16
5 Susanna Pöykiö  Finland 140.38 8 42.98 1 97.40
6 Elena Liashenko  Ukraine 135.80 6 45.68 5 90.12
7 Yukina Ota  Japan 130.70 5 47.42 7 83.28
8 Miriam Manzano  Australia 125.30 7 44.06 8 81.24
9 Idora Hegel  Croatia 116.98 10 39.64 9 77.34
10 Anne-Sophie Calvez  France 102.88 9 39.88 10 63.00
11 Zhang Fan  China 85.52 11 30.84 11 54.68

Pairs

There was an accident during the free skating. Maxim Marinin lost his balance while attempting a difficult lasso lift and his partner Tatiana Totmianina slammed to the ice head first, sustaining a concussion, but was not seriously hurt.[1] A short while later, Julia Obertas fell out of a lasso lift but her partner Sergei Slavnov managed to catch her to prevent her head hitting the ice.[2]

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao  China 166.86 3 56.98 1 109.88
2 Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov  Russia 166.26 2 57.58 2 108.68
3 Rena Inoue / John Baldwin, Jr.  United States 158.10 4 56.52 3 101.58
4 Ding Yang / Ren Zhongfei  China 139.42 6 47.98 5 91.44
5 Elizabeth Putnam / Sean Wirtz  Canada 136.88 7 45.38 4 91.50
6 Kathryn Orscher / Garrett Lucash  United States 129.32 8 43.76 6 85.56
7 Jennifer Don / Jonathon Hunt  United States 125.28 5 51.00 7 74.28
8 Julia Shapiro / Vadim Akolzin  Israel 100.74 9 41.36 8 59.38
WD Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin  Russia 1 64.98

Ice dancing

Rank Name Nation Total points CD OD FD
1 Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto  United States 212.87 1 43.71 1 63.40 1 105.76
2 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski  Israel 204.32 2 40.98 2 60.48 2 102.86
3 Megan Wing / Aaron Lowe  Canada 178.60 3 36.65 3 51.66 3 90.29
4 Svetlana Kulikova / Vitali Novikov  Russia 173.43 4 33.89 4 50.65 4 88.89
5 Sinead Kerr / John Kerr  United Kingdom 156.56 5 31.89 5 43.14 5 81.53
6 Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko  Ukraine 143.92 7 27.08 6 42.81 7 74.03
7 Eve Bentley / Cédric Pernet  France 140.22 8 26.39 8 39.04 6 74.79
8 Kendra Goodwin / Brent Bommentre  United States 136.08 9 25.72 7 40.62 10 69.74
9 Loren Galler-Rabinowitz / David Mitchell  United States 133.45 10 24.35 9 38.96 9 70.14
10 Alexandra Kauc / Michał Zych  Poland 131.25 6 27.40 10 35.79 11 68.06
11 Elena Romanovskaya / Alexander Grachev  Russia 131.06 11 23.83 11 34.94 8 72.29

References

  1. ^ Yates, Jennifer C. (October 24, 2004). "Scary fall mars Skate America ; Totmianina taken to hospital after". Associated Press. FindArticles. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  2. ^ Klimovich Harrop, JoAnne (October 24, 2004). "Skater injured at Skate America". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved November 27, 2010.[permanent dead link‍]