2017–18 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

2017–18 Grand Prix Final
Type:Grand Prix
Date:December 7 – 10, 2017
Season:2017–18
Location:Nagoya, Japan
Host:Japan Skating Federation
Venue:Nagoya Civic General Gymnasium
(Nippon Gaishi Hall)
Champions
Men's singles:
United States Nathan Chen (S)
United States Alexei Krasnozhon (J)
Ladies' singles:
Russia Alina Zagitova (S)
Russia Alexandra Trusova (J)
Pairs:
Germany Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (S)
Australia Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor (J)
Ice dance:
France Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (S)
Russia Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin (J)
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The 2017–18 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and ISU Junior Grand Prix Final took place from 7 to 10 December 2017 at the Nagoya Civic General Gymnasium (Nippon Gaishi Hall) in Nagoya, Japan. Nagoya was announced as the host on 3 November 2016.[1] The combined event was the culmination of two international series — the Grand Prix of Figure Skating and the Junior Grand Prix. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance on the senior and junior levels.

Records

See also: List of highest historical scores in figure skating and List of highest historical junior scores in figure skating

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:

Event Component Skater(s) Score Date Ref
Junior ladies Short program Russia Alena Kostornaia 71.65 7 December 2017 [2]
Russia Alexandra Trusova 73.25 [2]
Pairs Free skate Germany Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot 157.25 9 December 2017 [3]
Ice dance Total score France Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron 202.16 [4]

Schedule

[5]
(Local time)

Thursday, December 7

  • 14:10 - Junior: Pairs' short
  • 15:30 - Junior: Men's short
  • 16:40 - Junior: Ladies' short
  • Opening ceremony
  • 18:15 - Senior: Pairs' short
  • 19:30 - Senior: Men's short
  • 20:40 - Senior: Short dance

Friday, December 8

  • 14:40 - Junior: Short dance
  • 16:00 - Junior: Pairs' free
  • 17:30 - Junior: Men's free
  • 18:55 - Senior: Ladies' short
  • 20:15 - Senior: Men's free
  • Victory ceremony – Senior Men, Junior Men, Junior Pairs

Saturday, December 9

  • 13:45 - Junior: Free dance
  • 15:05 - Junior: Ladies' free
  • 16:25 - Senior: Pairs' free
  • 17:55 - Senior: Free dance
  • 19:20 - Senior: Ladies' free
  • Victory ceremony – Senior Ladies, Junior Ice Dance, Junior Ladies, Senior Pairs, Senior Ice Dance

Sunday, December 10

  • Gala exhibition

Qualifiers

Senior-level qualifiers

Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance
1 United States Nathan Chen Russia Evgenia Medvedeva (withdrew) China Sui Wenjing / Han Cong France Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
2 Japan Shoma Uno Russia Alina Zagitova Russia Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Canada Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
3 Russia Mikhail Kolyada Canada Kaetlyn Osmond Germany Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot United States Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
4 Russia Sergei Voronov Italy Carolina Kostner Canada Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford United States Madison Chock / Evan Bates
5 United States Adam Rippon Russia Maria Sotskova Russia Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov United States Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
6 China Jin Boyang (withdrew) Japan Wakaba Higuchi China Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao Italy Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
Alternates
1st United States Jason Brown (called up) Japan Satoko Miyahara (called up) France Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès Russia Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
2nd Spain Javier Fernández Japan Kaori Sakamoto Russia Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Canada Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
3rd Uzbekistan Misha Ge Russia Polina Tsurskaya Italy Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Russia Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

Junior-level qualifiers

Men[6] Ladies[7] Pairs[8] Ice dance[9]
1 Russia Alexey Erokhov Russia Alexandra Trusova Russia Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin United States Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
2 United States Alexei Krasnozhon Russia Sofia Samodurova Russia Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov Russia Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin
3 United States Camden Pulkinen Russia Alena Kostornaia Australia Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor Russia Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov
4 Japan Mitsuki Sumoto Russia Daria Panenkova Russia Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot Canada Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha
5 Russia Makar Ignatov Russia Anastasia Tarakanova Russia Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii Russia Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko
6 United States Andrew Torgashev Japan Rika Kihira China Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong Russia Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov
Alternates
1st Canada Joseph Phan Japan Mako Yamashita Russia Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin Russia Ksenia Konkina / Grigory Yakushev
2nd France Luc Economides Japan Nana Araki Canada Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud Russia Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov
3rd Russia Roman Savosin South Korea Lim Eun-soo United States Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow United States Caroline Green / Gordon Green

Medalists

Senior

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men United States Nathan Chen Japan Shoma Uno Russia Mikhail Kolyada
Ladies Russia Alina Zagitova Russia Maria Sotskova Canada Kaetlyn Osmond
Pairs Germany Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot China Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Canada Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Ice dance France Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Canada Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir United States Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

Junior

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men United States Alexei Krasnozhon United States Camden Pulkinen Japan Mitsuki Sumoto
Ladies Russia Alexandra Trusova Russia Alena Kostornaia Russia Anastasia Tarakanova
Pairs Australia Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor Russia Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov Russia Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin
Ice dance Russia Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin United States Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Russia Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov

Medals table

Senior

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia (RUS)1113
2 United States (USA)1012
3 France (FRA)1001
 Germany (GER)1001
5 Canada (CAN)0123
6 China (CHN)0101
 Japan (JPN)0101
Totals (7 entries)44412

Junior

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia (RUS)2237
2 United States (USA)1203
3 Australia (AUS)1001
4 Japan (JPN)0011
Totals (4 entries)44412

Senior-level results

Men

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Nathan Chen  United States 286.51 1 103.32 2 183.19
2 Shoma Uno  Japan 286.01 2 101.51 1 184.50
3 Mikhail Kolyada  Russia 282.00 3 99.22 3 182.78
4 Sergei Voronov  Russia 266.59 5 87.77 4 178.82
5 Adam Rippon  United States 254.33 6 86.19 5 168.14
6 Jason Brown  United States 253.81 4 89.02 6 164.79

Ladies

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Alina Zagitova  Russia 223.30 2 76.27 1 147.03
2 Maria Sotskova  Russia 216.28 4 74.00 2 142.28
3 Kaetlyn Osmond  Canada 215.16 1 77.04 5 138.12
4 Carolina Kostner  Italy 214.65 6 72.82 3 141.83
5 Satoko Miyahara  Japan 213.49 3 74.61 4 138.88
6 Wakaba Higuchi  Japan 202.11 5 73.26 6 128.85

Pairs

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot  Germany 236.68 1 79.43 1 157.25
2 Sui Wenjing / Han Cong  China 230.89 3 75.82 2 155.07
3 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford  Canada 210.83 5 72.18 3 138.65
4 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov  Russia 209.26 4 73.15 5 136.11
5 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov  Russia 208.73 2 78.83 6 129.90
6 Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao  China 207.14 6 70.15 4 136.99

Ice dance

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron  France 202.16 1 82.07 1 120.09
2 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir  Canada 199.86 2 81.53 2 118.33
3 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani  United States 188.00 3 78.09 6 109.91
4 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue  United States 187.40 4 74.81 4 112.59
5 Madison Chock / Evan Bates  United States 187.15 5 74.36 3 112.79
6 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte  Italy 185.23 6 74.24 5 110.99

Junior-level results

Men

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Alexei Krasnozhon  United States 236.35 1 81.33 1 155.02
2 Camden Pulkinen  United States 217.10 5 70.90 2 146.20
3 Mitsuki Sumoto  Japan 214.45 3 77.10 3 137.35
4 Makar Ignatov  Russia 211.99 4 75.78 4 136.21
5 Alexey Erokhov  Russia 207.04 2 78.39 5 128.65
6 Andrew Torgashev  United States 160.49 6 64.73 6 95.76

Ladies

Alena Kostornaia broke the junior world record in the women's short program, 70.92 held by Alina Zagitova, with a score of 71.65. Alexandra Trusova broke it again 13 minutes later with a score of 73.25. Rika Kihira became the first woman to land triple Axel-triple toe loop combination in the free skate.

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Alexandra Trusova  Russia 205.61 1 73.25 2 132.36
2 Alena Kostornaia  Russia 204.58 2 71.65 1 132.93
3 Anastasia Tarakanova  Russia 199.64 3 67.90 3 131.74
4 Rika Kihira  Japan 192.45 4 66.82 4 125.63
5 Daria Panenkova  Russia 191.16 5 65.65 5 125.51
6 Sofia Samodurova  Russia 187.74 6 65.01 6 122.73

Pairs

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor  Australia 173.85 2 60.26 1 113.59
2 Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov  Russia 173.01 1 60.81 3 112.20
3 Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin  Russia 172.94 3 59.51 2 113.43
4 Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong  China 165.03 4 59.47 4 105.56
5 Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii  Russia 160.80 6 55.92 5 104.88
6 Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot  Russia 160.47 5 57.28 6 103.19

Ice dance

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin  Russia 153.61 1 65.87 1 87.74
2 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko  United States 151.76 2 64.10 2 87.66
3 Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov  Russia 149.04 3 63.17 3 85.87
4 Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko  Russia 144.38 5 60.10 4 84.28
5 Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov  Russia 141.88 6 58.53 5 83.35
6 Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha  Canada 141.28 4 60.52 6 80.76

References

Citations

  1. ^ "ISU Grand Prix Final of Figure Skating 2017/18 to be held in Japan". International Skating Union. 3 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Ladies: Score over 125". International Skating Union. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Progression of Highest Score: Pairs - Free Program Score". International Skating Union. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Progression of Highest Score: Ice Dance - Total Score". International Skating Union. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  5. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2017/18 Announcement". International Skating Union. 18 June 2017.
  6. ^ "ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2017 / 2018 – Junior Men". ISU Results. ISU.
  7. ^ "ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2017 / 2018 – Junior Ladies". ISU Results. ISU.
  8. ^ "ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2017 / 2018 – Junior Pairs". ISU Results. ISU.
  9. ^ "ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2017 / 2018 – Junior Ice Dance". ISU Results. ISU.