The 2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was a Senior ISU figure skating championship held in the 2014–15 season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing for the title of Four Continents Champion. The event's name refers to the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, which are four of the continents represented in the Olympic rings, omitting Europe.
In February 2015, the Korea Skating Union organised a competition that was held at the Mokdong Ice Rink in Seoul, South Korea. The rink has a seating capacity of 5,000 spectators.
The 2015 competition featured a total of ninety-one athletes from fifteen nations from North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. There were twenty-six competitors in the men's event and nineteen competitors in the ladies' event. There was also pair teams and thirteen ice dancing teams.
Qualification The competition was open to skaters from non-European member nations of the International Skating Union who reach the age of 15 before July 1, 2014. The corresponding competition for European skaters will be the 2015 European Championships.
National associations selected up to three skaters to compete in both singles disciplines and three couples in both Pairs and Ice Dancing. Selection is based on each associations own criteria but the ISU mandates that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the Four Continents.
Minimum TES Minimum technical scores (TES) Discipline SP / SD FS / FD Men 25 45 Ladies 20 36 Pairs 20 36 Ice dancing 19 29 Must be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores may be attained at different events.
Entries Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Denis Margalik Andrew Dodds Brendan Kerry Kailani Craine Brooklee Han Isadora Williams Nam Nguyen Jeremy Ten Liam Firus Gabrielle Daleman Alaine Chartrand Véronik Mallet Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam Guan Yuhang Wang Yi Yan Han Li Zijun Pang Qing / Tong Jian Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu Zhang Yiyi / Wu Nan Zhao Yue / Zheng Xun Chih-I Tsao Jui-Shu Chen Ronald Lam Harry Hau Yin Lee Shoma Uno Takahito Mura Daisuke Murakami Satoko Miyahara Rika Hongo Yuka Nagai Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion Denis Ten Abzal Rakimgaliev Karina Uzurova / Ilias Ali Julian Zhi Jie Yee Reyna Hamui Pilar Maekawa / Leonardo Maekawa Melissa Bulanhagui Alisson Krystle Perticheto Lee June-hyoung Kim Jin-seo Byun Se-jong Park So-youn Kim Hae-jin Chea Song-joo Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov Jason Brown Joshua Farris Adam Rippon Samantha Cesario Polina Edmunds Gracie Gold Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim Madison Chock / Evan Bates Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Misha Ge
Withdrawals On 10 February 2015, Japanese ice dancers Cathy Reed / Chris Reed withdrew due to Chris Reed's knee injury. On 10 February 2015, Philippines' Michael Christian Martinez withdrew due to hip and ankle injury. On 13 February 2015, Chinese ice dancers Zhang Yiyi / Wu Nan withdrew before the free dance due to Yiyi's injury.
Schedule All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+9).
Day Date Start Finish Discipline Event Day 1 Thursday, 12 February 11:30 13:40 Ice dancing Short dance 14:10 15:55 Pairs Short program 16:30 17:00 Opening ceremony 17:15 21:20 Men Short program Day 2 Friday, 13 February 13:30 16:00 Ice dancing Free dance 16:00 16:15 Ice dancing Victory ceremony 17:00 19:50 Ladies Short program Day 3 Saturday, 14 February 14:30 16:30 Pairs Free skating 16:30 16:45 Pairs Victory ceremony 17:30 21:35 Men Free skating 21:35 21:50 Men Victory ceremony Day 4 Sunday, 15 February 12:30 15:45 Ladies Free skating 15:45 16:00 Ladies Victory ceremony 17:30 19:30 Exhibition gala
Overview and record 2014 Men's champion Takahito Mura & Pair's Champions Wenjing Sui / Cong Han participated in the competition. 2014 Ladies' champion Kanako Murakami & Ice dancing champions Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue did not defend their titles as they were not selected by their respected National associations to compete at the 2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
Argentina was represented by a skater at the Four Continents Championships for the first time in history.
Results Men Final results Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Denis Ten 289.46 1 97.61 1 191.85 2 Joshua Farris 260.01 5 84.29 2 175.72 3 Yan Han 259.47 3 87.34 4 172.13 4 Daisuke Murakami 256.47 6 82.86 3 173.61 5 Shoma Uno 256.45 2 88.90 5 167.55 6 Jason Brown 243.21 9 75.86 6 167.35 7 Takahito Mura 235.75 4 84.88 7 150.87 8 Misha Ge 226.20 7 82.25 9 143.95 9 Wang Yi 214.76 10 72.83 11 141.93 10 Adam Rippon 212.30 12 68.37 10 143.93 11 Nam Nguyen 209.33 14 63.78 8 145.55 12 Jeremy Ten 207.75 8 77.09 14 130.66 13 Ronald Lam 202.81 13 63.89 12 138.92 14 Liam Firus 199.81 11 70.21 16 129.60 15 Kim Jin-seo 199.64 17 61.53 13 138.11 16 Denis Margalik 191.25 18 60.81 15 130.44 17 Brendan Kerry 181.25 16 63.23 18 118.02 18 Lee June-hyoung 180.06 15 63.35 19 116.71 19 Chih-I Tsao 178.46 21 55.27 17 123.19 20 Abzal Rakimgaliev 168.10 19 57.54 20 110.56 21 Guan Yuhang 162.51 22 54.99 21 107.52 22 Julian Zhi Jie Yee 157.35 20 57.02 22 100.00 23 Byun Se-jong 154.20 23 54.20 23 100.00 24 Harry Hau Yin Lee 134.10 24 51.10 24 83.00 Did not advance to Free Skating 25 Andrew Dodds 25 46.91 colspan=2 26 Jui-Shu Chen 26 44.48 colspan=2
Short program In the Short Program, the Program Component Score (PCS) is calculated by adding the averaged score of each of the five different components (each component is originally out of 10 marks)- Skating Skills (SS), Transitions & Linking Footwork (TR), Performance & Execution (PE), Choreography & Composition (CH) and Interpretation (IN). That total is then multiplied by 1.00. In other words, the Program Component Score is marked out of 50 points.
Pl. Name Nation TSS TES PCS SS TR PE CH IN Ded. StN. 1 Denis Ten 97.61 52.86 44.75 8.82 8.54 9.14 9.04 9.21 0.00 #26 2 Shoma Uno 88.90 49.72 39.18 8.11 7.46 7.89 7.86 7.86 0.00 #22 3 Yan Han 87.34 47.44 39.90 8.21 7.68 8.04 8.04 7.93 0.00 #24 4 Takahito Mura 84.88 45.77 39.11 8.04 7.46 7.89 7.93 7.79 0.00 #21 5 Joshua Farris 84.29 44.53 39.76 7.82 7.61 8.11 8.04 8.18 0.00 #20 6 Daisuke Murakami 82.86 45.43 37.43 7.64 7.07 7.68 7.54 7.50 0.00 #14 7 Misha Ge 82.25 43.25 39.00 7.71 7.36 7.96 7.93 8.04 0.00 #25 8 Jeremy Ten 77.09 40.94 36.15 7.18 7.00 7.29 7.29 7.39 0.00 #15 9 Jason Brown 75.86 36.50 39.36 7.75 7.68 7.93 7.96 8.04 0.00 #23 10 Wang Yi 72.83 40.54 32.29 6.61 6.11 6.57 6.46 6.54 0.00 #11 11 Liam Firus 70.21 37.25 32.96 6.64 6.36 6.57 6.68 6.71 0.00 #2 12 Adam Rippon 68.37 31.55 36.82 7.61 6.86 7.39 7.46 7.50 0.00 #17 13 Ronald Lam 63.89 35.64 29.25 5.96 5.54 5.82 6.00 5.93 1.00 #7 14 Nam Nguyen 63.78 31.77 33.01 6.75 6.36 6.43 6.79 6.68 1.00 #19 15 Lee June-hyoung 63.35 30.74 32.61 6.64 6.18 6.61 6.68 6.50 0.00 #18 16 Brendan Kerry 63.23 33.55 30.68 6.32 5.79 6.11 6.32 6.14 1.00 #10 17 Kim Jin-seo 61.53 29.82 31.71 6.61 6.00 6.39 6.39 6.32 0.00 #16 18 Denis Margalik 60.81 31.31 30.50 6.07 5.86 6.21 6.18 6.18 1.00 #8 19 Abzal Rakimgaliev 57.54 29.04 28.50 5.96 5.14 5.79 5.86 5.75 0.00 #6 20 Julian Zhi Jie Yee 57.02 31.16 27.86 5.68 5.32 5.54 5.71 5.61 2.00 #12 21 Chih-I Tsao 55.27 27.06 28.21 5.79 5.32 5.75 5.71 5.64 0.00 #9 22 Guan Yuhang 54.99 28.41 27.58 5.79 5.18 5.54 5.57 5.50 1.00 #5 23 Byun Se-jong 54.20 27.49 26.71 5.61 4.96 5.39 5.43 5.32 0.00 #13 24 Harry Hau Yin Lee 51.10 28.06 23.04 4.61 4.29 4.75 4.68 4.71 0.00 #1 25 Andrew Dodds 46.91 22.60 25.31 5.21 4.71 5.04 5.21 5.14 1.00 #3 26 Jui-Shu Chen 44.48 22.80 21.68 4.54 4.00 4.39 4.54 4.21 0.00 #4
Free skating In the Free Skating, the Program Component Score (PCS) is calculated by adding the averaged score of each of the five different components (each component is originally out of 10 marks)- Skating Skills (SS), Transitions & Linking Footwork (TR), Performance & Execution (PE), Choreography & Composition (CH) and Interpretation (IN). That total is then multiplied by 2.00. In other words, the Program Component Score is marked out of 100 points.
Pl. Name Nation TSS TES PCS SS TR PE CH IN Ded. StN. 1 Denis Ten 191.85 100.45 91.40 9.21 8.75 9.32 9.21 9.21 0.00 #22 2 Joshua Farris 175.72 91.02 84.70 8.25 8.14 8.57 8.64 8.65 0.00 #21 3 Daisuke Murakami 173.61 91.47 82.14 8.39 7.96 8.32 8.29 8.11 0.00 #24 4 Yan Han 172.13 88.99 83.14 8.54 7.89 8.46 8.29 8.39 0.00 #19 5 Shoma Uno 167.55 86.11 82.44 8.50 7.93 8.25 8.29 8.25 1.00 #23 6 Jason Brown 167.35 84.23 83.12 8.21 8.11 8.39 8.39 8.46 0.00 #13 7 Takahito Mura 150.87 72.37 78.50 8.07 7.54 7.89 7.93 7.82 0.00 #20 8 Nam Nguyen 145.55 78.47 67.08 6.82 6.32 6.75 6.86 6.79 0.00 #7 9 Misha Ge 143.95 68.29 75.66 7.57 7.11 7.75 7.61 7.79 0.00 #15 10 Adam Rippon 143.93 70.01 75.92 7.68 7.14 7.71 7.68 7.75 2.00 #14 11 Wang Yi 141.93 70.73 71.20 7.21 6.71 7.32 7.18 7.18 0.00 #18 12 Ronald Lam 138.92 75.10 64.82 6.54 6.11 6.61 6.61 6.54 1.00 #9 13 Kim Jin-seo 138.11 72.91 65.20 6.64 6.07 6.71 6.57 6.61 0.00 #8 14 Jeremy Ten 130.66 58.78 73.88 7.43 7.11 7.29 7.54 7.57 2.00 #16 15 Denis Margalik 130.44 66.46 63.98 6.46 6.18 6.64 6.32 6.39 0.00 #10 16 Liam Firus 129.60 61.96 69.64 7.21 6.68 6.89 7.00 7.04 2.00 #17 17 Chih-I Tsao 123.19 63.91 59.28 6.18 5.57 6.14 5.86 5.89 0.00 #6 18 Brendan Kerry 118.02 58.08 59.94 6.32 5.75 5.86 6.18 5.86 0.00 #11 19 Lee June-hyoung 116.71 54.01 63.70 6.46 6.14 6.32 6.50 6.43 1.00 #12 20 Abzal Rakimgaliev 110.56 56.06 55.50 5.71 5.11 5.64 5.61 5.68 1.00 #4 21 Guan Yuhang 107.52 52.60 55.92 5.71 5.18 5.68 5.75 5.64 1.00 #3 22 Julian Zhi Jie Yee 100.33 48.47 51.86 5.43 4.79 5.36 5.21 5.14 0.00 #1 23 Byun Se-jong 100.00 49.30 50.70 5.21 4.71 5.04 5.18 5.21 0.00 #2 24 Harry Hau Yin Lee 83.00 40.36 43.64 4.57 4.04 4.36 4.46 4.39 1.00 #5
Ladies Final results Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Polina Edmunds 184.02 4 61.03 1 122.99 2 Satoko Miyahara 181.59 1 64.84 2 116.75 3 Rika Hongo 177.44 3 61.28 3 116.16 4 Gracie Gold 176.58 2 62.67 5 113.91 5 Zijun Li 175.92 5 60.28 4 115.64 6 Yuka Nagai 168.09 7 56.94 8 111.15 7 Gabrielle Daleman 167.09 8 55.25 6 111.84 8 Samantha Cesario 166.76 9 54.95 7 111.81 9 Park So-youn 163.75 10 53.47 9 110.28 10 Alaine Chartrand 161.22 6 58.50 10 102.72 11 Kim Hae-jin 147.30 11 51.41 12 95.89 12 Kailani Craine 142.16 12 47.91 13 94.25 13 Chea Song-joo 139.09 15 42.16 11 96.93 14 Veronik Mallet 130.15 13 42.92 14 87.23 15 Melissa Bulanhagui 126.32 16 41.67 15 84.65 16 Alisson Krystle Perticheto 115.87 17 41.63 16 74.24 17 Brooklee Han 114.02 18 40.68 17 73.34 18 Isadora Williams 113.96 14 42.68 18 71.28 19 Reyna Hamui 105.94 19 39.93 19 66.01
Short program In the Short Program, the Program Component Score (PCS) is calculated by adding the averaged score of each of the five different components (each component is originally out of 10 marks)- Skating Skills (SS), Transitions & Linking Footwork (TR), Performance & Execution (PE), Choreography & Composition (CH) and Interpretation (IN). That total is then multiplied by 0.80. In other words, the Program Component Score is marked out of 40 points.