2018–19 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

2018–19 Grand Prix Final
2018–19 Grand Prix Final
Type:	Grand Prix
Date:	6 – 9 December 2018
Season:	2018–19
Location:	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Host:	Skate Canada
Venue:	Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
Champions
	Men's singles: ; Nathan Chen (S) ; Stephen Gogolev (J)
	Ladies' singles: ; Rika Kihira (S) ; Alena Kostornaia (J)
	Pairs: ; Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès (S) ; Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov (J)
	Ice dance: ; Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue (S) ; Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko (J)
Navigation
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	Next: ; 2019–20 Grand Prix Final
	Previous GP: ; 2018 Internationaux de France
	Next GP: ; 2019 Skate America

The 2018–19 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and ISU Junior Grand Prix Final took place from 6 to 9 December 2018 at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 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 dancing on the senior and junior levels.

Schedule

Listed in local time (UTC−8)^[1]

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Official practices (all day)

Thursday, December 6, 2018

14:05 – Junior dance: rhythm dance
15:20 – Junior men: short program
16:25 – Junior pairs: short program
17:40 – Junior ladies: short program
19:00 – Opening ceremony
19:45 – Senior men: short program
21:00 – Senior ladies: short program

Friday, December 7, 2018

15:45 – Junior dance: free dance
17:05 – Junior men: free skating
Victory ceremonies – junior men, junior ice dance
19:05 – Senior dance: rhythm dance
20:20 – Senior pairs: short program
21:35 – Senior men: free skating
Victory ceremony – senior men

Saturday, December 8, 2018

13:55 – Senior ladies: free skating
15:15 – Junior ladies: free skating
16:30 – Junior pairs: free skating
Victory ceremonies – junior pairs, senior ladies, junior ladies
19:00 – Senior dance: free dance
20:20 – Senior pairs: free skating
Victory ceremonies – senior pairs, senior ice dance

Sunday, December 9, 2018

14:00 – Exhibition gala

Qualifiers

Senior-level qualifiers

	Men^[2]	Ladies^[3]	Pairs^[4]	Ice dance^[5]
1	~~Yuzuru Hanyu~~ (withdrew)	Alina Zagitova	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
2	Shoma Uno	Rika Kihira	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
3	Nathan Chen	Satoko Miyahara	Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
4	Michal Březina	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
5	Sergei Voronov	Kaori Sakamoto	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
6	Cha Jun-hwan	Sofia Samodurova	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro
Alternates
1st	Keegan Messing (called up)	Mai Mihara	Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin
2nd	Alexander Samarin	Stanislava Konstantinova	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
3rd	Matteo Rizzo	Evgenia Medvedeva	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

Junior-level qualifiers

	Men^[6]	Ladies^[7]	Pairs^[8]	Ice dance^[9]
1	Petr Gumennik	Alexandra Trusova	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov
2	Camden Pulkinen	Alena Kostornaia	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov
3	Adam Siao Him Fa	Anna Shcherbakova	Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik
4	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Anastasia Tarakanova	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko
5	~~Andrew Torgashev~~ (withdrew)	Kim Ye-lim	Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha
6	Koshiro Shimada	Alena Kanysheva	Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya
Alternates
1st	Stephen Gogolev (called up)	Anna Tarusina	Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow	Polina Ivanenko / Daniil Karpov
2nd	Kirill Iakovlev	You Young	Riku Miura / Shoya Ichihashi	Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy
3rd	Yuma Kagiyama	Rion Sumiyoshi	Patricia Andrew / Paxton Fletcher	Darya Popova / Volodymyr Byelikov

Changes to preliminary qualifiers

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason/Other notes	Refs
November 12	Junior men	Andrew Torgashev	Stephen Gogolev	Injury	^[10]
November 29	Senior men	Yuzuru Hanyu	Keegan Messing	Injury

Records

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

Event	Component	Skater(s)	Score	Date	Ref
Junior pairs	Short program	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov	66.44	6 December 2018	^[11]
Junior pairs		Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin	66.84		^[11]
Junior ladies		Alena Kostornaia	76.32		^[12]
Ladies		Rika Kihira	82.51		^[13]
Junior men	Free skating	Stephen Gogolev	154.76	7 December 2018	^[14]
Junior men	Total score	Stephen Gogolev	233.58	7 December 2018	^[15]
Junior pairs	Free skating	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov	126.26	8 December 2018	^[16]
Junior pairs	Total score	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov	190.63		^[17]
Pairs	Free skating	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	148.37		^[18]

Medalists

Senior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Nathan Chen	Shoma Uno	Cha Jun-hwan
Ladies	Rika Kihira	Alina Zagitova	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
Pairs	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov
Ice dancing	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri

Junior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Stephen Gogolev	Petr Gumennik	Koshiro Shimada
Ladies	Alena Kostornaia	Alexandra Trusova	Alena Kanysheva
Pairs	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov
Ice dancing	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov

Medals table

Overall


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	3	6	5	14
2	United States (USA)	2	0	0	2
3	Japan (JPN)	1	1	1	3
4	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
4	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
6	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
7	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
7	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	8	24

Senior


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	0	0	2
2	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
3	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
4	Russia (RUS)	0	2	2	4
5	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
6	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
6	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		4	4	4	12

Junior

Senior-level results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Nathan Chen	United States	282.42	1	92.99	1	189.42
2	Shoma Uno	Japan	275.10	2	91.67	2	183.43
3	Cha Jun-hwan	South Korea	263.49	4	89.07	3	174.42
4	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	255.26	3	89.21	4	166.05
5	Keegan Messing	Canada	236.05	6	79.56	5	156.49
6	Sergei Voronov	Russia	226.44	5	82.96	6	143.48

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Rika Kihira	Japan	233.12	1	82.51	1	150.61
2	Alina Zagitova	Russia	226.53	2	77.93	2	148.60
3	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	215.32	3	70.65	3	144.67
4	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	211.68	4	70.23	4	141.45
5	Sofia Samodurova	Russia	204.33	5	68.24	5	136.09
6	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	201.31	6	67.52	6	133.79

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	France	219.88	4	71.51	1	148.37
2	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	China	216.90	1	75.69	2	141.21
3	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	214.20	3	74.04	3	140.16
4	Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert	Russia	201.07	2	75.18	4	125.89
5	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Italy	187.63	5	69.77	6	117.86
6	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Russia	186.81	6	61.24	5	125.57

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	RD		FD
1	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	205.35	1	80.53	1	124.82
2	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia	201.37	3	77.33	2	124.04
3	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	198.65	2	78.30	3	120.35
4	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Russia	196.72	4	77.20	4	119.52
5	Tiffani Zagorski / Jonathan Guerreiro	Russia	184.37	5	72.98	6	111.39
6	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	184.04	6	71.33	5	112.71

Junior-level results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Stephen Gogolev	Canada	233.58	2	78.82	1	154.76
2	Petr Gumennik	Russia	218.75	3	76.16	2	142.59
3	Koshiro Shimada	Japan	214.38	4	73.97	4	140.41
4	Adam Siao Him Fa	France	207.04	5	66.48	3	140.56
5	Camden Pulkinen	United States	197.68	1	80.31	6	117.37
6	Tomoki Hiwatashi	United States	190.80	6	62.48	5	128.32

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Alena Kostornaia	Russia	217.98	1	76.32	1	141.66
2	Alexandra Trusova	Russia	215.20	2	74.43	2	140.77
3	Alena Kanysheva	Russia	198.14	3	68.66	3	129.48
4	Anastasia Tarakanova	Russia	190.46	5	61.78	4	128.68
5	Anna Shcherbakova	Russia	181.83	6	56.26	5	125.57
6	Kim Ye-lim	South Korea	177.91	4	62.51	6	115.40

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov	Russia	190.63	3	64.37	1	126.26
2	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin	Russia	189.53	1	66.84	2	122.69
3	Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov	Russia	186.59	2	66.44	3	120.15
4	Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov	Russia	172.51	4	62.04	4	110.47
5	Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot	Russia	158.33	5	59.28	5	99.05
WD	Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman	United States	withdrew	6	49.82	withdrew from competition

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	RD		FD
1	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko	Russia	170.66	1	67.73	2	102.93
2	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov	Russia	170.65	2	67.49	1	103.16
3	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov	Russia	164.54	3	66.29	4	98.25
4	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Canada	164.51	4	66.25	3	98.26
5	Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik	United States	158.47	5	63.73	5	94.74
6	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya	Georgia	148.76	6	57.51	6	91.25

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v t e ISU Junior Grand Prix
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v t e Record scores in figure skating
Note: These records start from the 2018–19 season with the introduction of the +5/-5 GOE system. Combined total (Total) Short program (SP) Free skating (FS) Rhythm dance (RD) Free dance (FD) Junior level (J)
Men	Total: Nathan Chen 335.30 SP: Nathan Chen 113.97 FS: Ilia Malinin 227.79 Total (J): Ilia Malinin 276.11 SP (J): Ilia Malinin 88.99 FS (J): Ilia Malinin 187.12
Women	Total: Kamila Valieva 272.71 SP: Kamila Valieva 87.42 FS: Kamila Valieva 185.29 Total (J): Sofia Akateva 233.08 SP (J): Alena Kostornaia 76.32 FS (J): Sofia Akateva 157.19
Pairs	Total: Sui Wenjing / Han Cong 239.88 SP: Sui / Han 84.41 FS: Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov 157.46 Total (J): Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov 199.21 SP (J): Panfilova / Rylov 73.71 FS (J): Panfilova / Rylov 127.47
Ice dance	Total: Madison Chock / Evan Bates 232.32 RD: Chock / Bates 93.91 FD: Chock / Bates 138.41 Total (J): Kateřina Mrázková / Daniel Mrázek 177.36 RD (J): Leah Neset / Artem Markelov 72.48 FD (J): Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik 108.91
See also: List of highest scores in figure skating List of highest junior scores in figure skating