The 2015 Progressive Skate America was the first event of six in the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 23–25. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final.
Entries Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Brendan Kerry Alaine Chartrand Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Yan Han Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu Florent Amodio Alexei Bychenko Takahito Mura Shoma Uno Haruka Imai Satoko Miyahara Miyu Nakashio Denis Ten Elizabet Tursynbaeva Park So-youn Konstantin Menshov Adian Pitkeev Yulia Lipnitskaya Evgenia Medvedeva Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov Nicole Rajičová Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin Max Aaron Jason Brown Ross Miner Mariah Bell Karen Chen Gracie Gold Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Madison Chock / Evan Bates Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
Changes to preliminary assignments On August 21, three out of the four host picks were announced as Ross Miner, Karen Chen, and Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay. On August 26, the fourth host pick was officially announced as Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus. On October 21, Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay were replaced by Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan as Donlan / Bartholomay withdrew due to Donlan recovering from an illness.
Results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Max Aaron 258.95 1 86.67 2 172.28 2 Shoma Uno 257.43 4 80.78 1 176.65 3 Jason Brown 238.47 8 78.64 3 159.83 4 Yan Han 236.03 2 86.53 5 149.50 5 Konstantin Menshov 230.79 3 86.15 6 144.64 6 Adian Pitkeev 230.75 5 79.90 4 150.85 7 Ross Miner 215.11 7 78.96 8 136.15 8 Brendan Kerry 203.48 11 65.41 7 138.07 9 Denis Ten 201.52 6 79.02 11 122.50 10 Takahito Mura 200.83 10 71.66 9 129.17 11 Florent Amodio 197.45 9 71.96 10 125.49 12 Alexei Bychenko 171.83 12 50.68 12 121.15
Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Evgenia Medvedeva 206.01 1 70.92 2 135.09 2 Gracie Gold 202.80 2 65.39 1 137.41 3 Satoko Miyahara 188.07 3 65.12 3 122.95 4 Elizabet Tursynbaeva 178.56 7 59.26 4 119.30 5 Karen Chen 172.54 4 62.28 6 110.26 6 Yulia Lipnitskaya 170.63 5 62.24 7 108.39 7 Nicole Rajičová 167.32 12 50.33 5 116.99 8 Mariah Bell 160.94 11 52.73 8 108.21 9 Park So-youn 159.66 10 53.78 9 105.88 10 Haruka Imai 158.65 9 56.52 10 102.13 11 Miyu Nakashio 153.29 8 57.01 11 96.28 12 Alaine Chartrand 148.20 6 59.40 12 88.80
Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Sui Wenjing / Han Cong 202.00 2 68.28 1 133.72 2 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim 191.97 1 69.69 4 122.28 3 Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau 189.49 4 64.85 3 124.64 4 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov 189.06 5 63.41 2 125.65 5 Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei 171.77 3 64.95 6 106.82 6 Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea 165.99 6 58.38 5 107.61 7 Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov 157.97 7 58.25 8 99.72 8 Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan 151.40 8 50.20 7 101.20
Ice dancing Rank Name Nation Total points SD FD 1 Madison Chock / Evan Bates 173.22 1 70.56 1 102.66 2 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov 162.21 2 62.76 2 99.45 3 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier 157.58 3 61.33 3 96.25 4 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker 150.69 4 56.54 4 94.15 5 Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus 143.67 6 52.92 5 90.75 6 Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov 140.92 5 53.35 6 87.57 7 Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin 135.60 7 50.53 7 85.07 8 Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu 129.59 8 49.37 8 80.22
References
External links 2015 Skate America at the International Skating Union Starting orders and result details