The 2018 Rostelecom Cup was the fifth event of six in the 2018–19 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held on November 16–18, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2018–19 Grand Prix Final.

Entries The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.

Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Brendan Kerry Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer Keegan Messing Morisi Kvitelashvili Paul Fentz Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Yuzuru Hanyu Kazuki Tomono Yura Matsuda Mako Yamashita Yuna Shiraiwa Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto Elizabet Tursynbaeva Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius Julian Zhi Jie Yee Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev Artur Dmitriev Mikhail Kolyada Andrei Lazukin Sofia Samodurova Polina Tsurskaya Alina Zagitova Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Lim Eun-soo Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin Alexander Majorov Alexia Paganini Alexei Krasnozhon Gracie Gold Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko

Changes to preliminary assignments Date Discipline Withdrew Added Reason/Other notes Refs June 29 and August 28 Ice dance Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius Split July 16 and August 10 Men Maurizio Zandron Brendan Kerry Nationality change July 19 and August 28 Men Denis Ten Julian Zhi Jie Yee Deceased August 9 and 28 Ice dance Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto Split September 18 LadiesN/A Sofia SamodurovaHost pick Ice dance Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin November 7 and 8 Ladies Wakaba Higuchi Yuna Shiraiwa Foot injury November 8 Ice dance Madison Chock / Evan Bates N/A Injury recovery (Chock) November 12 Ladies Karen Chen N/A Injury recovery November 13 Men Alexey Erokhov Andrei Lazukin Host pick November 13 Ladies Nicole Schott N/A

Records

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

Event Component Skater(s) Score Date Ref MenShort program Yuzuru Hanyu 110.5316 November 2018 Pairs Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov 78.47 Ladies Alina Zagitova 80.78 Ice dance Free dance Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 124.94 17 November 2018

Results Men Yuzuru Hanyu set a new world record for the short program (110.53).

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Yuzuru Hanyu 278.42 1 110.53 1 167.89 2 Morisi Kvitelashvili 248.58 2 89.94 2 158.64 3 Kazuki Tomono 238.73 4 82.26 3 156.47 4 Mikhail Kolyada 225.42 8 69.10 4 156.32 5 Keegan Messing 220.75 7 73.83 6 146.92 6 Paul Fentz 220.57 5 78.28 7 142.29 7 Andrei Lazukin 215.78 11 62.45 5 153.33 8 Alexei Krasnozhon 208.01 6 75.32 8 132.69 9 Alexander Majorov 205.59 3 82.33 10 123.26 10 Brendan Kerry 197.59 10 65.22 9 132.37 11 Artur Dmitriev Jr. 189.58 9 67.58 11 122.00 12 Julian Yee 178.71 12 60.37 12 118.34

Ladies Alina Zagitova set a new world record for the short program (80.78).

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Alina Zagitova 222.95 1 80.78 1 142.17 2 Sofia Samodurova 198.01 2 67.40 2 130.61 3 Lim Eun-soo 185.67 6 57.76 3 127.91 4 Alexia Paganini 182.50 3 63.43 5 119.07 5 Yuna Shiraiwa 180.93 5 60.35 4 120.58 6 Elizabet Tursynbaeva 180.45 4 61.73 6 118.72 7 Mako Yamashita 161.22 9 51.00 7 110.22 8 Polina Tsurskaya 149.45 7 56.81 8 92.64 9 Yura Matsuda 137.99 8 52.00 9 85.99 WD Gracie Gold 10 37.51 colspan=2

Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov 220.25 1 78.47 1 141.78 2 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise 203.83 2 72.32 2 131.51 3 Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin 190.01 3 69.38 4 120.63 4 Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer 187.01 5 63.75 3 123.26 5 Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin 181,62 4 65.46 5 116.16 6 Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc 170.29 7 58.79 6 112.50 7 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor 144.00 6 59.28 7 84.72 WD Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay 8 51.25 colspan=2

Ice dancing Rank Name Nation Total points RD FD 1 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 199.43 1 74.49 1 124.94 2 Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin 174.42 3 66.40 2 108.02 3 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko 174.21 2 69.01 3 105.20 4 Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin 164.66 6 64.05 4 100.61 5 Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev 161.62 4 66.30 5 95.32 6 Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius 158.03 5 64.54 6 93.49 7 Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács 148.13 7 54.83 7 93.30 8 Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto 143.28 8 52.99 8 90.29 9 Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin 133.58 9 51.69 9 81.89

References

External links at the International Skating Union