2017–18 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

2017–18 Grand Prix 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: ; Nathan Chen (S) ; Alexei Krasnozhon (J)
	Ladies' singles: ; Alina Zagitova (S) ; Alexandra Trusova (J)
	Pairs: ; Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (S) ; Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor (J)
	Ice dance: ; Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (S) ; Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin (J)
Navigation
	Previous: ; 2016–17 Grand Prix Final
	Next: ; 2018–19 Grand Prix Final
	Previous GP: ; 2017 Skate America
	Next GP: ; 2018 Skate America

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 edit

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

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

Schedule edit

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(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 edit

Senior-level qualifiers edit

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

Junior-level qualifiers edit

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

Medalists edit

Senior edit

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

Junior edit

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

Medals table edit

Overall edit


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	3	3	4	10
2	United States (USA)	2	2	1	5
3	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
6	Canada (CAN)	0	1	2	3
7	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
8	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	8	24

Senior edit


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
2	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
3	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
3	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
5	Canada (CAN)	0	1	2	3
6	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
6	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		4	4	4	12

Junior edit


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	2	2	3	7
2	United States (USA)	1	2	0	3
3	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
4	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		4	4	4	12

Senior-level results edit

Men edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

Men edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

Citations edit

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

External links edit

Official ISU results

[JPN-host-1] "ISU Grand Prix Final of Figure Skating 2017/18 to be held in Japan". International Skating Union. 3 November 2016.

[isu-progression-JL-2] "Ladies: Score over 125". International Skating Union. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.

[isu-progression-P-FS-3] "Progression of Highest Score: Pairs - Free Program Score". International Skating Union. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2017.

[isu-progression-D-FD-4] "Progression of Highest Score: Ice Dance - Total Score". International Skating Union. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2017.

[GPF-announcement-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.

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