The 2008 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 2008–09 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario on October 30 – November 2. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2008–09 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Pasodoble.
Schedule The switch from daylight saving time to standard time was on November 2. Therefore, the events on Friday and Saturday were UTC-4, and the events on Sunday were UTC-5.
Friday, October 31 12:05 Pairs' short program 14:10 Ladies' short program 18:30 Compulsory dance 19:45 Men's short program Saturday, November 1 10:45 Original dance 13:25 Pairs' free skating 16:05 Men's free skating 17:45 Medal ceremonies - Men and pairs 19:05 Ladies' free skating 20:50 Medal ceremonies - Ladies Sunday, November 2 12:15 Free dance 13:30 Medal ceremonies - Ice dancing 15:05 Exhibition gala
Results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Patrick Chan 215.45 2 77.47 3 137.98 2 Ryan Bradley 212.75 3 72.50 2 140.25 3 Evan Lysacek 209.27 4 71.40 4 137.87 4 Yannick Ponsero 208.97 1 78.05 6 130.92 5 Shawn Sawyer 206.56 7 64.20 1 142.36 6 Sergei Voronov 201.59 5 70.45 5 131.14 7 Brandon Mroz 192.23 6 67.03 7 125.20 8 Yasuharu Nanri 177.84 9 63.36 9 114.48 9 Anton Kovalevski 170.61 8 64.06 10 106.55 10 Jeremy Ten 169.79 11 50.93 8 118.86 11 Vladimir Uspenski 150.50 10 56.17 11 94.33
Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Joannie Rochette 188.89 1 64.74 1 124.15 2 Fumie Suguri 163.86 2 57.92 3 105.94 3 Alissa Czisny 157.92 6 49.66 2 108.26 4 Carolina Kostner 152.76 7 48.56 4 104.20 5 Caroline Zhang 150.80 3 53.28 5 97.52 6 Beatrisa Liang 142.12 5 49.92 6 92.20 7 Jenna McCorkell 139.37 4 51.64 8 87.73 8 Cynthia Phaneuf 133.47 9 45.06 7 88.41 9 Nana Takeda 128.93 8 45.14 9 83.79 10 Jenni Vähämaa 122.75 10 44.90 10 77.85 11 Jelena Glebova 116.38 11 41.18 11 75.20 12 Myriane Samson 112.74 12 40.42 12 72.32
Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov 176.97 1 65.02 2 111.95 2 Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison 176.54 3 60.14 1 116.40 3 Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker 161.51 2 60.66 3 100.85 4 Mylène Brodeur / John Mattatall 149.14 6 50.76 4 98.38 5 Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent 148.52 4 53.94 5 94.58 6 Rachel Kirkland / Eric Radford 141.66 7 50.08 6 91.58 7 Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig 138.14 8 47.04 7 91.10 8 Dong Huibo / Wu Yiming 127.17 5 50.84 8 76.33
Ice dancing Rank Name Nation Total points CD OD FD 1 Meryl Davis / Charlie White 178.89 1 34.29 1 56.36 1 88.24 2 Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier 162.13 4 31.11 3 49.13 2 81.89 3 Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat 159.06 2 33.90 6 47.37 3 77.79 4 Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov 157.83 5 30.50 2 49.82 4 77.51 5 Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre 157.54 3 31.67 4 48.68 5 77.19 6 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev 151.62 7 28.42 5 47.83 6 75.37 7 Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev 141.06 6 28.71 7 43.70 7 68.65 8 Andrea Chong / Guillame Gfeller 136.99 8 26.29 8 43.24 8 67.46
External links
2008 Skate Canada official site Skate Canada International at Skate Canada