The 2019 Skate America presented by American Cruise Lines was the first event in the 2019–20 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 18–20. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final.
| 2019 Skate America | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Grand Prix |
| Date: | October 18 – 20 |
| Season: | 2019–20 |
| Location: | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Host: | U.S. Figure Skating |
| Venue: | Orleans Arena |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Nathan Chen | |
Ladies' singles:  Anna Shcherbakova | |
Pairs:  Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | |
| Ice dance: Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | |
| Previous: 2018 Skate America | |
| Next: 2020 Skate America | |
| Next GP: 2019 Skate Canada International | |
Skate America was the first senior international event in International Skating Union history to be streamed live by the ISU on YouTube with geographical restrictions, as part of the federation's new deal for the 2019–20 Grand Prix series to reach countries that do not have broadcasting rights for any skating events.[1]
Entries edit
The ISU announced the preliminary assignments on June 20, 2019.[2]
Changes to preliminary assignments edit
| Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Notes | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | |||
| Men | — | September 10 | Alexei Krasnozhon
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Host picks | [3] | |
| Ladies | Amber Glenn
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| Pairs | Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson
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| Ice dance | Caroline Green / Michael Parsons
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| Pairs | October 1 | Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert
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October 4 |  Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji
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Health (Enbert) | [4] |
| Men | October 3 |  Romain Ponsart
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October 5 |  Alexei Bychenko
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| Ladies | October 11 |  Elizabet Tursynbaeva
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October 14 |  Yi Christy Leung
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Injury | |
Results edit
Men edit
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Chen |  United States
|
299.09 | 1 | 102.71 | 1 | 196.38 |
| 2 | Jason Brown | United States
|
255.09 | 4 | 83.45 | 2 | 171.64 |
| 3 | Dmitri Aliev | Russia
|
253.55 | 2 | 96.57 | 3 | 156.98 |
| 4 | Keegan Messing |  Canada
|
239.34 | 3 | 96.34 | 8 | 143.00 |
| 5 | Kazuki Tomono |  Japan
|
229.72 | 8 | 75.01 | 4 | 154.71 |
| 6 | Jin Boyang | China
|
224.98 | 9 | 74.56 | 5 | 150.42 |
| 7 | Alexei Bychenko | Israel
|
219.70 | 6 | 79.76 | 10 | 139.94 |
| 8 | Cha Jun-hwan |  South Korea
|
219.67 | 7 | 78.98 | 9 | 140.69 |
| 9 | Alexei Krasnozhon | United States
|
216.59 | 10 | 72.30 | 6 | 144.29 |
| 10 | Koshiro Shimada | Japan
|
216.03 | 11 | 72.12 | 7 | 143.91 |
| 11 | Michal Březina |  Czech Republic
|
213.17 | 5 | 81.11 | 11 | 132.06 |
| 12 | Roman Savosin | Russia
|
182.16 | 12 | 57.92 | 12 | 124.24 |
Ladies edit
Russia's Anna Shcherbakova became the first woman to land two quad lutzes in the free skate.[5]
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Shcherbakova | Russia
|
227.76 | 4 | 67.60 | 1 | 160.16 |
| 2 | Bradie Tennell | United States
|
216.14 | 1 | 75.10 | 2 | 141.04 |
| 3 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Russia
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205.97 | 5 | 67.28 | 3 | 138.69 |
| 4 | Kaori Sakamoto | Japan
|
202.47 | 2 | 73.25 | 4 | 129.22 |
| 5 | Lim Eun-soo | South Korea
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184.50 | 8 | 63.96 | 5 | 120.54 |
| 6 | Wakaba Higuchi | Japan
|
181.32 | 3 | 71.76 | 6 | 109.56 |
| 7 | Amber Glenn | United States
|
169.63 | 7 | 64.71 | 9 | 104.92 |
| 8 | Karen Chen | United States
|
165.67 | 6 | 66.03 | 10 | 99.64 |
| 9 | Yi Christy Leung | Hong Kong
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163.68 | 10 | 54.25 | 7 | 109.43 |
| 10 | Véronik Mallet | Canada
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161.75 | 9 | 56.69 | 8 | 105.06 |
| 11 | Stanislava Konstantinova | Russia
|
143.39 | 11 | 48.27 | 12 | 95.12 |
| 12 | Mako Yamashita | Japan
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142.40 | 12 | 46.21 | 11 | 96.19 |
Pairs edit
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | China
|
200.89 | 1 | 72.73 | 1 | 128.16 |
| 2 | Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin | Russia
|
196.98 | 2 | 71.25 | 3 | 125.73 |
| 3 | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | United States
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192.70 | 4 | 65.18 | 2 | 127.52 |
| 4 | Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson | United States
|
180.52 | 5 | 61.27 | 4 | 119.25 |
| 5 | Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc | United States
|
177.54 | 3 | 68.20 | 5 | 109.34 |
| 6 | Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe | Canada
|
155.16 | 7 | 54.63 | 6 | 100.53 |
| 7 | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor |  Australia
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152.94 | 6 | 55.06 | 7 | 97.88 |
| 8 | Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji | United Kingdom
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138.79 | 8 | 47.92 | 8 | 90.87 |
Ice dance edit
The scores for the rhythm dance were initially calculated erroneously, omitting the Grade of Execution points for the man's half of the pattern step. Hours later, the scores were revised to reflect the proper point totals.[6]
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | United States
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209.55 | 1 | 84.97 | 2 | 124.58 |
| 2 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Russia
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206.57 | 2 | 81.91 | 1 | 124.66 |
| 3 | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | Canada
|
197.53 | 3 | 79.17 | 3 | 118.36 |
| 4 | Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz |  Spain
|
191.01 | 4 | 76.62 | 4 | 114.39 |
| 5 | Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro | Russia
|
181.82 | 5 | 71.18 | 5 | 110.64 |
| 6 | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko | United States
|
180.55 | 6 | 70.41 | 6 | 110.14 |
| 7 | Caroline Green / Michael Parsons | United States
|
173.03 | 8 | 67.97 | 7 | 105.06 |
| 8 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | France
|
167.14 | 7 | 68.23 | 9 | 98.91 |
| 9 | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko | Russia
|
166.51 | 9 | 66.79 | 8 | 99.72 |
| 10 | Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming | China
|
159.94 | 10 | 61.74 | 10 | 98.20 |
References edit
- ^ "Where to watch ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series 2019". International Skating Union. October 16, 2019.
- ^ "Olympic and World Champions to compete in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series 2019/20" (Press release). International Skating Union. June 20, 2019.
- ^ "Final Athletes Announced for 2019 Skate America Presented by American Cruise Lines". U.S. Figure Skating. September 10, 2019.
- ^ Selenkova, Maria (October 1, 2019). "Серебряные призеры Игр-2018 Забияко и Энберт пропустят серию Гран-при. Партнер приостановил карьеру по рекомендации врачей" [Silver medalists of the 2018 Games Zabiyako and Enbert will miss the Grand Prix series. Enbert suspended his career on the recommendation of doctors]. R-Sport.
- ^ Lutz, Rachel (October 20, 2019). "Anna Shcherbakova lands two quad Lutzes to win Skate America in Grand Prix debut". NBC Sports.
- ^ ISU Figure Skating [@ISU_Figure] (October 19, 2019). "Thanks for pointing it out. We noticed the problem as well. We are working on it" (Tweet) – via Twitter.