2011–12 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2011–12 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final was an international figure skating competition in the 2011–12 season. The ISU Junior Grand Prix Final was organized together with the senior event. The two competitions were the culmination of two international series, the 2011–12 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating for senior-level skaters and the 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix for juniors.

2011–12 Grand Prix Final
Type:Grand Prix
Date:December 8 – 11, 2011
Season:2011–12
Location:Quebec City, Canada
Host:Skate Canada
Venue:Pavillon de la Jeunesse
Champions
Men's singles:
Canada Patrick Chan (S)
United States Jason Brown (J)
Ladies' singles:
Italy Carolina Kostner (S)
Russia Yulia Lipnitskaya (J)
Pairs:
Germany Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy (S)
China Sui Wenjing / Han Cong (J)
Ice dance:
United States Meryl Davis / Charlie White (S)
Russia Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin (J)
Navigation
Previous:
2010–11 Grand Prix Final
Next:
2012–13 Grand Prix Final
Previous GP:
2011 Cup of Russia

The competitions were held in Quebec City, Canada at the Pavillon de la Jeunesse, from December 8–11, 2011.[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.

Medalists

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Senior

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Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men   Patrick Chan   Daisuke Takahashi   Javier Fernández
Ladies   Carolina Kostner   Akiko Suzuki   Alena Leonova
Pairs   Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy   Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov   Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov
Ice dancing   Meryl Davis / Charlie White   Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir   Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat

Junior

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Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men   Jason Brown   Yan Han   Joshua Farris
Ladies   Yulia Lipnitskaya   Polina Shelepen   Polina Korobeynikova
Pairs   Sui Wenjing / Han Cong   Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry   Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer
Ice dancing   Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin   Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov   Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

Medals table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)2349
2  United States (USA)2024
3  Canada (CAN)1203
4  China (CHN)1102
5  Germany (GER)1001
  Italy (ITA)1001
7  Japan (JPN)0202
8  France (FRA)0011
  Spain (ESP)0011
Totals (9 entries)88824

Schedule

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(Local time, UTC/GMT -05:00):[2]

  • Thursday, December 8
    • 16:05–16:40 – Opening ceremony
    • 17:00–17:54 – Junior: Pairs' short
    • 18:15–19:01 – Junior: Ladies' short
    • 19:20–20:12 – Junior: Short dance
    • 20:35–21:21 – Junior: Men's short
  • Friday, December 9
    • 11:25–12:26 – Junior: Pairs' free
    • 13:00–13:46 – Senior: Ladies' short
    • 14:05–14:57 – Senior: Short dance
    • 18:30–19:20 – Junior: Ladies' free
    • 20:00–20:54 – Senior: Pairs' short
    • 21:15–22:01 – Senior: Men's short
  • Saturday, December 10
    • 14:20–15:16 – Junior: Free dance
    • 15:40–16:33 – Senior: Ladies' free
    • 16:55–17:52 – Senior: Men's free
    • 19:00–19:55 – Junior: Men's free
    • 20:15–21:20 – Senior: Pairs' free
  • Sunday, December 11
    • 13:50–14:52 – Senior: Free dance
    • 16:00–18:30 – Exhibitions

Qualifiers

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Senior-level qualifiers

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Skaters who reached the age of 14 by July 1, 2011, were eligible to compete at two senior 2011–12 Grand Prix events, including the 2011 Skate America, 2011 Skate Canada International, 2011 Cup of China, 2011 NHK Trophy, 2011 Trophée Éric Bompard, and 2011 Cup of Russia. They earned points at these events and the six highest ranking skaters/teams qualified for the senior Grand Prix Final.[3] The following skaters qualified for the 2011–12 Grand Prix Final.

  • On December 8, it was announced that Mao Asada had withdrawn due to a family emergency.[4] There was no replacement.
Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing
1   Patrick Chan   Elizaveta Tuktamysheva   Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov   Meryl Davis / Charlie White
2   Daisuke Takahashi   Mao Asada   Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy   Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
3   Jeremy Abbott   Carolina Kostner   Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov   Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
4   Michal Březina   Akiko Suzuki   Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao   Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
5   Javier Fernández   Alissa Czisny   Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran   Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat
6   Yuzuru Hanyu   Alena Leonova   Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford   Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
Alternates
1st   Song Nan   Adelina Sotnikova   Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch   Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
2nd   Takahiko Kozuka   Mirai Nagasu   Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov   Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov
3rd   Adam Rippon   Ashley Wagner   Sui Wenjing / Han Cong   Isabella Tobias / Deividas Stagniūnas

Junior-level qualifiers

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Skaters who reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2011, but had not turned 19 (singles and females of the other two disciplines) or 21 (male pair skaters and ice dancers) were eligible to compete at two 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix events. They earned points at these events and the six highest ranking skaters/teams qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final.

Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing
1   Yan Han   Yulia Lipnitskaya   Sui Wenjing / Han Cong   Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin
2   Joshua Farris   Polina Shelepen   Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang   Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
3   Jason Brown   Vanessa Lam   Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer   Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov
4   Maxim Kovtun   Risa Shoji   Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry   Maria Nosulia / Evgen Kholoniuk
5   Ryuju Hino   Li Zijun   Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov   Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski
6   Keiji Tanaka   Polina Korobeynikova   Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev   Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton
Alternates
1st   Artur Dmitriev, Jr.   Samantha Cesario   Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager
2nd   Zhang He   Polina Agafonova   Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro   Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin
3rd   Lee June-hyoung   Satoko Miyahara   Klára Kadlecová / Petr Bidař   Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin

Senior-level results

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Chan won both segments to win his second Grand Prix Final title, while Takahashi pulled up from fifth in the short to win the silver medal. Fernandez was the first Spaniard to qualify for a Grand Prix Final and also the first to win a medal at the event.[6][7]

Rank Name Nation Total points[8] SP[9] FS[10]
1 Patrick Chan   Canada 260.30 1 86.63 1 173.67
2 Daisuke Takahashi   Japan 249.12 5 76.49 2 172.63
3 Javier Fernández   Spain 247.55 3 81.26 4 166.29
4 Yuzuru Hanyu   Japan 245.82 4 79.33 3 166.49
5 Jeremy Abbott   United States 238.82 2 82.66 5 156.16
6 Michal Březina   Czech Republic 218.98 6 75.26 6 143.72

Ladies

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Kostner won the short program, with Suzuki in second and Leonova in third.[11][12] Kostner also won the free skate to take the gold medal, while Suzuki and Leonova held on for silver and bronze respectively, despite Tuktamysheva placing second in the free.[13][14] Kostner became the first Italian single skater to win the Grand Prix Final and is second overall after Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, who won the ice dancing title in 2000. Mao Asada withdraw due to her mother's serious illness that led to her passing.

Rank Name Nation Total points[15] SP[16] FS[17]
1 Carolina Kostner   Italy 187.48 1 66.43 1 121.05
2 Akiko Suzuki   Japan 179.76 2 61.30 3 118.46
3 Alena Leonova   Russia 176.42 3 60.46 4 115.96
4 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva   Russia 174.51 5 54.99 2 119.52
5 Alissa Czisny   United States 156.97 4 60.30 5 96.67
WD Mao Asada   Japan withdrew from competition

Pairs

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The senior pairs produced the closest battle for gold, with only 0.18 points separating the top two at the end of the event. Volosozhar and Trankov placed first in the short program[18][19] while Savchenko and Szolkowy were first in the free skate to win their third Grand Prix Final title.[20][21]

Rank Name Nation Total points[22] SP[23] FS[24]
1 Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy   Germany 212.26 2 69.82 1 142.44
2 Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov   Russia 212.08 1 71.57 2 140.51
3 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov   Russia 187.77 4 61.37 3 126.40
4 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao   China 182.54 3 63.43 4 119.11
5 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford   Canada 170.43 5 61.04 5 109.39
6 Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran   Japan 164.42 6 59.54 6 104.88

Ice dance

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Davis and White won their third consecutive Grand Prix Final, while Virtue and Moir won the silver and Pechalat and Bourzat the bronze.[25][26] According to the initial results, Davis and White won both segments of the competition but the ISU announced on December 28 that there had been a calculation error and that Virtue and Moir had won the free dance by 0.05.[27] The ISU explained: "The calculation program used up to and including the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final had erroneously calculated the Dance result with the previous Grade of Execution (GOE) for the Combination Lift, which was upgraded with ISU Communication 1677 in July 2011."[27]

Rank Name Nation Total points[28] SD[29] FD[30]
1 Meryl Davis / Charlie White   United States 188.55 1 76.17 2 112.38
2 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir   Canada 183.44 2 71.01 1 112.43
3 Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat   France 169.69 3 68.68 3 101.01
4 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje   Canada 166.07 4 66.24 4 99.83
5 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani   United States 160.55 5 65.53 5 95.02
6 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev   Russia 157.30 6 64.05 6 93.25

Junior-level results

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Junior men

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Joshua Farris won the short program, with Jason Brown in second and Yan Han in third.[31][32] Brown won the gold medal after placing second in the free skate, Yan won the segment to take the silver medal, and Farris took the bronze.[33][34]

Rank Name Nation Total points[35] SP[36] FS[37]
1 Jason Brown   United States 208.41 2 68.77 2 139.64
2 Yan Han   China 205.93 3 64.23 1 141.70
3 Joshua Farris   United States 203.98 1 72.99 3 130.99
4 Maxim Kovtun   Russia 193.76 4 63.68 4 130.08
5 Ryuju Hino   Japan 172.75 5 60.12 6 112.63
6 Keiji Tanaka   Japan 171.14 6 58.15 5 112.99

Junior ladies

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Lipnitskaia won the short program, followed by Shelepen and Lam in second and third respectively.[38] In the free skating, Lipnitskaia and Shelepen again placed first and second to win gold and silver, while Korobeynikova moved up from fifth to take the bronze medal and produce a Russian sweep.[39][40]

Rank Name Nation Total points[41] SP[42] FS[43]
1 Yulia Lipnitskaya   Russia 179.73 1 59.98 1 119.75
2 Polina Shelepen   Russia 162.34 2 54.99 2 107.35
3 Polina Korobeynikova   Russia 151.18 5 45.24 3 105.94
4 Li Zijun   China 146.53 6 43.10 4 103.43
5 Vanessa Lam   United States 145.62 3 54.34 5 91.28
6 Risa Shoji   Japan 134.35 4 51.53 6 82.82

Junior pairs

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Sui and Han won the short program[44][45] and the free skate to win their second Junior Grand Prix Final title.[46][47] Bobak and Beharry won the silver medal while Simpson and Blackmer took the bronze, with both couples in their first season together.

Rank Name Nation Total points[48] SP[49] FS[50]
1 Sui Wenjing / Han Cong   China 160.43 1 57.43 1 103.00
2 Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry   Canada 152.65 2 52.77 2 99.88
3 Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer   United States 146.35 3 50.91 5 95.44
4 Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov   Russia 146.17 4 48.75 4 97.42
5 Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang   China 144.71 5 46.83 3 97.88
6 Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev   Russia 133.79 6 45.47 6 88.32

Junior ice dance

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Sinitsina and Zhiganshin won the short dance over Yanovskaya and Mozgov.[32][51] They then won the free dance to take the gold medal, while Stepanova and Bukin rebounded from a fall in the short dance to place second in the free but Yanovskaya and Mozgov stayed in second overall.[52] Russia swept the podium.[34]

Rank Name Nation Total points[53] SD[54] FD[55]
1 Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin   Russia 147.53 1 60.47 1 87.06
2 Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov   Russia 136.61 2 56.22 3 80.39
3 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin   Russia 135.17 4 52.48 2 82.69
4 Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton   United States 129.01 5 51.59 4 77.42
5 Maria Nosulia / Evgeni Kholoniuk   Ukraine 113.79 3 53.95 5 59.84
DSQ Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski   Ukraine

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