2016–17 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2016–17 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and ISU Junior Grand Prix Final took place from 8 to 11 December 2016 at the Palais omnisports Marseille Grand-Est in Marseille, France.[1] Marseille was announced as the host on 27 October 2015.[2] The combined event is the culmination of two international series — the Grand Prix of Figure Skating and the Junior Grand Prix.[3] Medals will be awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.

2016–17 Grand Prix Final
Type:Grand Prix
Date:December 8 – 11, 2016
Season:2016–17
Location:Marseille, France
Host:FFSG
Venue:Palais omnisports Marseille Grand-Est
Champions
Men's singles:
Japan Yuzuru Hanyu (S)
Russia Dmitri Aliev (J)
Ladies' singles:
Russia Evgenia Medvedeva (S)
Russia Alina Zagitova (J)
Pairs:
Russia Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (S)
Russia Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev (J)
Ice dance:
Canada Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (S)
United States Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons (J)
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Records

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

EventComponentSkater(s)ScoreDateRef
Junior ladiesShort program Alina Zagitova70.928 December 2016[4]
Free skating Anastasiia Gubanova133.779 December 2016[4]
Alina Zagitova136.51[4]
Total score Alina Zagitova207.43[4]
Ice dancingShort dance Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir80.50[5]
LadiesShort program Evgenia Medvedeva79.21[6]
Junior menTotal score Dmitri Aliev240.0710 December 2016[7]
Ice dancingTotal score Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir197.22[8]

Two consecutive world records has been set in back to back performances during the junior ladies free skating segment by russian ladies Anastasiia Gubanova, who became the first junior lady to break the 130-points barrier, and Alina Zagitova, who outscored her by almost 3 points.

Zagitova also became the first junior lady to break the 70-points barrier in the free skate, Dmitri Aliev the first junior man to break the 240-points barrier for the total score, while Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir became the first ice dancers to break the 80-points barrier in the short dance.

Schedule

(Local time)

Thursday, December 8

  • 14:05 - Junior: Short dance
  • 15:20 - Junior: Men's short
  • 16:25 - Junior: Pairs' short
  • 17:40 - Junior: Ladies' short
  • Opening ceremony
  • 19:45 - Senior: Pairs' short
  • 21:10 - Senior: Men's short

Friday, December 9

  • 15:45 - Junior: Free dance
  • 17:05 - Junior: Ladies' free
  • 19:05 - Senior: Short dance
  • 20:20 - Senior: Pairs' free
  • 21:45 - Senior: Ladies' short

Saturday, December 10

  • 14:00 - Junior: Men's free
  • 15:20 - Junior: Pairs' free
  • 16:45 - Senior: Free dance
  • 19:00 - Senior: Ladies' free
  • 20:20 - Senior: Men's free
  • Awards ceremony

Sunday, December 11

  • Gala exhibition

Qualifiers

Senior-level qualifiers

Men[9]Ladies[10]Pairs[11]Ice dancing[12]
1 Javier Fernández Evgenia Medvedeva Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
2 Patrick Chan Anna Pogorilaya Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (withdrew) Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
3 Yuzuru Hanyu Elena Radionova Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
4 Shoma Uno Kaetlyn Osmond Peng Cheng / Jin Yang Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
5 Nathan Chen Maria Sotskova Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Madison Chock / Evan Bates
6 Adam Rippon Satoko Miyahara Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Alternates
1st Jin Boyang Ashley Wagner Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert (called up) Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
2nd Sergei Voronov Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
3rd Oleksii Bychenko Mai Mihara Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

Junior-level qualifiers

Men[13]Ladies[14]Pairs[15]Ice dance[16]
1 Alexander Samarin Anastasiia Gubanova Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd
2 Cha Jun-hwan Polina Tsurskaya (withdrew) Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
3 Alexei Krasnozhon Rika Kihira Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
4 Roman Savosin Kaori Sakamoto Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron
5 Ilia Skirda Alina Zagitova Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
6 Dmitri Aliev Marin Honda Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot (withdrew) Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov
Alternates
1st Vincent Zhou Elizaveta Nugumanova (called up) Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor (called up) Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin
2nd Andrew Torgashev Stanislava Konstantinova Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov
3rd Roman Sadovsky Yuna Shiraiwa Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland Nicole Kuzmich / Alexandr Sinicyn

Changes

DateDisciplineWithdrewAddedReason/Other notesRefs
November 29Junior ladies Polina Tsurskaya Elizaveta NugumanovaKnee injury[14][17]
November 29Junior pairs Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor[17]
December 2Senior pairs Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander EnbertAnkle injury[11][18]

Medalists

Senior

DisciplineGoldSilverBronze
Men Yuzuru Hanyu Nathan Chen Shoma Uno
Ladies Evgenia Medvedeva Satoko Miyahara Anna Pogorilaya
Pairs Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Ice dancing Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

Junior

DisciplineGoldSilverBronze
Men Dmitri Aliev Alexander Samarin Cha Jun-hwan
Ladies Alina Zagitova Anastasiia Gubanova Kaori Sakamoto
Pairs Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii
Ice dancing Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

Medals table

Overall

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)53210
2  Japan (JPN)1124
 United States (USA)1124
4  Canada (CAN)1012
5  China (CHN)0101
 Czech Republic (CZE)0101
 France (FRA)0101
8  South Korea (KOR)0011
Totals (8 entries)88824

Senior

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)2013
2  Japan (JPN)1113
3  Canada (CAN)1012
4  United States (USA)0112
5  China (CHN)0101
 France (FRA)0101
Totals (6 entries)44412

Junior

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)3317
2  United States (USA)1012
3  Czech Republic (CZE)0101
4  Japan (JPN)0011
 South Korea (KOR)0011
Totals (5 entries)44412

Senior-level results

Men

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFS
1Yuzuru Hanyu  Japan293.901106.533187.37
2Nathan Chen  United States282.85585.301197.55
3Shoma Uno  Japan282.51486.822195.69
4Javier Fernández  Spain268.77391.764177.01
5Patrick Chan  Canada266.75299.765166.99
6Adam Rippon  United States233.10683.936149.17

Ladies

Evgenia Medvedeva set a new world record for the short program (79.21 points).[6]

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFS
1Evgenia Medvedeva  Russia227.66179.211148.45
2Satoko Miyahara  Japan218.33374.642143.69
3Anna Pogorilaya  Russia216.47473.293143.18
4Kaetlyn Osmond  Canada212.45275.544136.91
5Maria Sotskova  Russia198.79665.745133.05
6Elena Radionova  Russia188.81568.986119.83

Pairs

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFS
1Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov  Russia213.85178.601135.25
2Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao  China206.71275.343131.37
3Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford  Canada205.99371.442134.55
4Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert  Russia188.32565.795122.53
5Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau  Canada186.85660.864125.99
6Peng Cheng / Jin Yang  China183.19470.846112.35

Ice dancing

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a new world record for the short dance (80.50 points)[5] and for the combined total (197.22 points).[8]

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFS
1Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir  Canada197.22180.501116.72
2Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron  France192.81377.862114.95
3Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani  United States189.60277.973111.63
4Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev  Russia181.95474.045107.91
5Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue  United States179.59572.476107.12
6Madison Chock / Evan Bates  United States179.32670.874108.45

Junior-level results

Men

Dmitri Aliev set a new junior world record for the combined total score (240.07 points).[7]

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFS
1Dmitri Aliev  Russia240.07181.371158.70
2Alexander Samarin  Russia236.52281.082155.44
3Cha Jun-hwan  South Korea225.55471.853153.70
4Roman Savosin  Russia212.39372.984139.41
5Alexei Krasnozhon  United States208.85571.486137.37
6Ilia Skirda  Russia207.11668.315138.80

Ladies

Alina Zagitova set a new junior world record for the short program (70.92 points), for the free skating (136.51 points), and for the combined total (207.43 points). Anastasiia Gubanova set a new junior world record for the free skating (133.77 points) but Zagitova broke that record less than 10 minutes later.[4]

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFS
1Alina Zagitova  Russia207.43170.921136.51
2Anastasiia Gubanova  Russia194.07360.382133.77
3Kaori Sakamoto  Japan176.33264.484111.85
4Rika Kihira  Japan175.16554.783120.38
5Elizaveta Nugumanova  Russia170.08458.345111.74
WDMarin Honda  Japanwithdrewwithdrew from competition

Pairs

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFS
1Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev  Russia180.63164.731115.90
2Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař  Czech Republic167.76261.382106.38
3Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii  Russia159.72458.753100.97
4Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin  Russia158.14359.05499.09
5Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor  Australia141.36557.08584.28
6Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov  Russia139.50656.78682.72

Ice dancing

RankNameNationTotal pointsSDFD
1Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons  United States162.50266.91195.59
2Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd  Russia161.87167.58294.29
3Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter  United States153.47363.73389.74
4Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko  United States149.98461.39488.59
5Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron  France146.12560.08586.04
6Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov  Russia140.64659.29681.35

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