2016–17 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2016–17 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and ISU Junior Grand Prix Final took place from 8 to 11 December 2016 at the Palais omnisports Marseille Grand-Est in Marseille, France.[1] Marseille was announced as the host on 27 October 2015.[2] The combined event is the culmination of two international series — the Grand Prix of Figure Skating and the Junior Grand Prix.[3] Medals will be awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.

2016–17 Grand Prix Final
Type:Grand Prix
Date:December 8 – 11, 2016
Season:2016–17
Location:Marseille, France
Host:FFSG
Venue:Palais omnisports Marseille Grand-Est
Champions
Men's singles:
Japan Yuzuru Hanyu (S)
Russia Dmitri Aliev (J)
Ladies' singles:
Russia Evgenia Medvedeva (S)
Russia Alina Zagitova (J)
Pairs:
Russia Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (S)
Russia Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev (J)
Ice dance:
Canada Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (S)
United States Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons (J)
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Records edit

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

Event Component Skater(s) Score Date Ref
Junior ladies Short program   Alina Zagitova 70.92 8 December 2016 [4]
Free skating   Anastasiia Gubanova 133.77 9 December 2016 [4]
  Alina Zagitova 136.51 [4]
Total score   Alina Zagitova 207.43 [4]
Ice dancing Short dance   Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir 80.50 [5]
Ladies Short program   Evgenia Medvedeva 79.21 [6]
Junior men Total score   Dmitri Aliev 240.07 10 December 2016 [7]
Ice dancing Total score   Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir 197.22 [8]

Two consecutive world records has been set in back to back performances during the junior ladies free skating segment by russian ladies Anastasiia Gubanova, who became the first junior lady to break the 130-points barrier, and Alina Zagitova, who outscored her by almost 3 points.

Zagitova also became the first junior lady to break the 70-points barrier in the free skate, Dmitri Aliev the first junior man to break the 240-points barrier for the total score, while Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir became the first ice dancers to break the 80-points barrier in the short dance.

Schedule edit

(Local time)

Thursday, December 8

  • 14:05 - Junior: Short dance
  • 15:20 - Junior: Men's short
  • 16:25 - Junior: Pairs' short
  • 17:40 - Junior: Ladies' short
  • Opening ceremony
  • 19:45 - Senior: Pairs' short
  • 21:10 - Senior: Men's short

Friday, December 9

  • 15:45 - Junior: Free dance
  • 17:05 - Junior: Ladies' free
  • 19:05 - Senior: Short dance
  • 20:20 - Senior: Pairs' free
  • 21:45 - Senior: Ladies' short

Saturday, December 10

  • 14:00 - Junior: Men's free
  • 15:20 - Junior: Pairs' free
  • 16:45 - Senior: Free dance
  • 19:00 - Senior: Ladies' free
  • 20:20 - Senior: Men's free
  • Awards ceremony

Sunday, December 11

  • Gala exhibition

Qualifiers edit

Senior-level qualifiers edit

Men[9] Ladies[10] Pairs[11] Ice dancing[12]
1   Javier Fernández   Evgenia Medvedeva   Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford   Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
2   Patrick Chan   Anna Pogorilaya   Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (withdrew)   Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
3   Yuzuru Hanyu   Elena Radionova   Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao   Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
4   Shoma Uno   Kaetlyn Osmond   Peng Cheng / Jin Yang   Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
5   Nathan Chen   Maria Sotskova   Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov   Madison Chock / Evan Bates
6   Adam Rippon   Satoko Miyahara   Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau   Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Alternates
1st   Jin Boyang   Ashley Wagner   Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert (called up)   Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
2nd   Sergei Voronov   Elizaveta Tuktamysheva   Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier   Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
3rd   Oleksii Bychenko   Mai Mihara   Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch   Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

Junior-level qualifiers edit

Men[13] Ladies[14] Pairs[15] Ice dance[16]
1   Alexander Samarin   Anastasiia Gubanova   Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev   Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd
2   Cha Jun-hwan   Polina Tsurskaya (withdrew)   Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař   Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
3   Alexei Krasnozhon   Rika Kihira   Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin   Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
4   Roman Savosin   Kaori Sakamoto   Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov   Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron
5   Ilia Skirda   Alina Zagitova   Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii   Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
6   Dmitri Aliev   Marin Honda   Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot (withdrew)   Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov
Alternates
1st   Vincent Zhou   Elizaveta Nugumanova (called up)   Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor (called up)   Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin
2nd   Andrew Torgashev   Stanislava Konstantinova   Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson   Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov
3rd   Roman Sadovsky   Yuna Shiraiwa   Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland   Nicole Kuzmich / Alexandr Sinicyn

Changes edit

Date Discipline Withdrew Added Reason/Other notes Refs
November 29 Junior ladies   Polina Tsurskaya   Elizaveta Nugumanova Knee injury [14][17]
November 29 Junior pairs   Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot   Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor [17]
December 2 Senior pairs   Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot   Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert Ankle injury [11][18]

Medalists edit

Senior edit

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men   Yuzuru Hanyu   Nathan Chen   Shoma Uno
Ladies   Evgenia Medvedeva   Satoko Miyahara   Anna Pogorilaya
Pairs   Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov   Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao   Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Ice dancing   Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir   Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron   Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

Junior edit

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men   Dmitri Aliev   Alexander Samarin   Cha Jun-hwan
Ladies   Alina Zagitova   Anastasiia Gubanova   Kaori Sakamoto
Pairs   Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev   Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař   Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii
Ice dancing   Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons   Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd   Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

Medals table edit

Overall edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)53210
2  Japan (JPN)1124
  United States (USA)1124
4  Canada (CAN)1012
5  China (CHN)0101
  Czech Republic (CZE)0101
  France (FRA)0101
8  South Korea (KOR)0011
Totals (8 entries)88824

Senior edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)2013
2  Japan (JPN)1113
3  Canada (CAN)1012
4  United States (USA)0112
5  China (CHN)0101
  France (FRA)0101
Totals (6 entries)44412

Junior edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)3317
2  United States (USA)1012
3  Czech Republic (CZE)0101
4  Japan (JPN)0011
  South Korea (KOR)0011
Totals (5 entries)44412

Senior-level results edit

Men edit

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Yuzuru Hanyu   Japan 293.90 1 106.53 3 187.37
2 Nathan Chen   United States 282.85 5 85.30 1 197.55
3 Shoma Uno   Japan 282.51 4 86.82 2 195.69
4 Javier Fernández   Spain 268.77 3 91.76 4 177.01
5 Patrick Chan   Canada 266.75 2 99.76 5 166.99
6 Adam Rippon   United States 233.10 6 83.93 6 149.17

Ladies edit

Evgenia Medvedeva set a new world record for the short program (79.21 points).[6]

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Evgenia Medvedeva   Russia 227.66 1 79.21 1 148.45
2 Satoko Miyahara   Japan 218.33 3 74.64 2 143.69
3 Anna Pogorilaya   Russia 216.47 4 73.29 3 143.18
4 Kaetlyn Osmond   Canada 212.45 2 75.54 4 136.91
5 Maria Sotskova   Russia 198.79 6 65.74 5 133.05
6 Elena Radionova   Russia 188.81 5 68.98 6 119.83

Pairs edit

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov   Russia 213.85 1 78.60 1 135.25
2 Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao   China 206.71 2 75.34 3 131.37
3 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford   Canada 205.99 3 71.44 2 134.55
4 Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert   Russia 188.32 5 65.79 5 122.53
5 Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau   Canada 186.85 6 60.86 4 125.99
6 Peng Cheng / Jin Yang   China 183.19 4 70.84 6 112.35

Ice dancing edit

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a new world record for the short dance (80.50 points)[5] and for the combined total (197.22 points).[8]

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir   Canada 197.22 1 80.50 1 116.72
2 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron   France 192.81 3 77.86 2 114.95
3 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani   United States 189.60 2 77.97 3 111.63
4 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev   Russia 181.95 4 74.04 5 107.91
5 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue   United States 179.59 5 72.47 6 107.12
6 Madison Chock / Evan Bates   United States 179.32 6 70.87 4 108.45

Junior-level results edit

Men edit

Dmitri Aliev set a new junior world record for the combined total score (240.07 points).[7]

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Dmitri Aliev   Russia 240.07 1 81.37 1 158.70
2 Alexander Samarin   Russia 236.52 2 81.08 2 155.44
3 Cha Jun-hwan   South Korea 225.55 4 71.85 3 153.70
4 Roman Savosin   Russia 212.39 3 72.98 4 139.41
5 Alexei Krasnozhon   United States 208.85 5 71.48 6 137.37
6 Ilia Skirda   Russia 207.11 6 68.31 5 138.80

Ladies edit

Alina Zagitova set a new junior world record for the short program (70.92 points), for the free skating (136.51 points), and for the combined total (207.43 points). Anastasiia Gubanova set a new junior world record for the free skating (133.77 points) but Zagitova broke that record less than 10 minutes later.[4]

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Alina Zagitova   Russia 207.43 1 70.92 1 136.51
2 Anastasiia Gubanova   Russia 194.07 3 60.38 2 133.77
3 Kaori Sakamoto   Japan 176.33 2 64.48 4 111.85
4 Rika Kihira   Japan 175.16 5 54.78 3 120.38
5 Elizaveta Nugumanova   Russia 170.08 4 58.34 5 111.74
WD Marin Honda   Japan withdrew withdrew from competition

Pairs edit

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev   Russia 180.63 1 64.73 1 115.90
2 Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař   Czech Republic 167.76 2 61.38 2 106.38
3 Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii   Russia 159.72 4 58.75 3 100.97
4 Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin   Russia 158.14 3 59.05 4 99.09
5 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor   Australia 141.36 5 57.08 5 84.28
6 Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov   Russia 139.50 6 56.78 6 82.72

Ice dancing edit

Rank Name Nation Total points SD FD
1 Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons   United States 162.50 2 66.91 1 95.59
2 Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd   Russia 161.87 1 67.58 2 94.29
3 Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter   United States 153.47 3 63.73 3 89.74
4 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko   United States 149.98 4 61.39 4 88.59
5 Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron   France 146.12 5 60.08 5 86.04
6 Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov   Russia 140.64 6 59.29 6 81.35

References edit

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  8. ^ a b "Progression of Highest Score: Ice Dance – Total Score". International Skating Union. 1 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
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  11. ^ a b "Pairs". International Skating Union. 28 November 2016.
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  14. ^ a b "Junior Ladies". International Skating Union. 29 November 2016. Archived from the original on 29 November 2016.
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  16. ^ "Junior Ice Dance". International Skating Union. 14 November 2016.
  17. ^ a b "Фигуристка Цурская и пара Борисова/Сопот пропустят Финал" [Figure skaters Tsurskaya and Borisova/Sopot will miss the JGP Final]. rsport.ru (in Russian). 29 November 2016.
  18. ^ "Savchenko & Massot, Russian Juniors Withdraw from Grand Prix Finale". 2 December 2016.

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