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.

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

Medalists Senior 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 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

Schedule (Local time, UTC/GMT -05:00):

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 Senior-level qualifiers 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. 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. 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 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. On November 30, the U.S. pair team of Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu withdrew and were replaced by first alternates Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev of Russia.

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 Men 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.

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Patrick Chan 260.30 1 86.63 1 173.67 2 Daisuke Takahashi 249.12 5 76.49 2 172.63 3 Javier Fernández 247.55 3 81.26 4 166.29 4 Yuzuru Hanyu 245.82 4 79.33 3 166.49 5 Jeremy Abbott 238.82 2 82.66 5 156.16 6 Michal Březina 218.98 6 75.26 6 143.72

Ladies Kostner won the short program, with Suzuki in second and Leonova in third. 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. 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 death.

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

Pairs 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 while Savchenko and Szolkowy were first in the free skate to win their third Grand Prix Final title.

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

Ice dance Davis and White won their third consecutive Grand Prix Final, while Virtue and Moir won the silver and Pechalat and Bourzat the bronze. 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. 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."

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

Junior-level results Junior men Joshua Farris won the short program, with Jason Brown in second and Yan Han in third. 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.

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

Junior ladies Lipnitskaia won the short program, followed by Shelepen and Lam in second and third respectively. 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.

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

Junior pairs Sui and Han won the short program and the free skate to win their second Junior Grand Prix Final title. 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 SP FS 1 Sui Wenjing / Han Cong 160.43 1 57.43 1 103.00 2 Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry 152.65 2 52.77 2 99.88 3 Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer 146.35 3 50.91 5 95.44 4 Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov 146.17 4 48.75 4 97.42 5 Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang 144.71 5 46.83 3 97.88 6 Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev 133.79 6 45.47 6 88.32

Junior ice dance Sinitsina and Zhiganshin won the short dance over Yanovskaya and Mozgov. 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. Russia swept the podium.

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

References

External links

Senior Grand Prix Final entries at the International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix Final entries at the International Skating Union Official Junior Grand Prix videos at the International Skating Union, YouTube channel