2008 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships Explained

2008 Four Continents Championships
Comptype:	ISU Championship
Startdate:	February 11
Enddate:	17
Skatingseason:	2007–08
Location:	Goyang, South Korea
Venue:	Seongsa Ice Rink
Championmen:	Daisuke Takahashi
Championladies:	Mao Asada
Championpairs:	Pang Qing / Tong Jian
Championdance:	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
Previouscomp:	2007 Four Continents Championships
Nextcomp:	2009 Four Continents Championships

The 2008 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2007–08 season. It was held at the Seongsa Ice Rink in Goyang, South Korea on February 11–17. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Notes

Unlike the other three ISU championships, each nation was allowed to enter 3 skaters/couples in each event, regardless of its skaters performance in the previous year's championships.
The corresponding competition for European skaters was the 2008 European Figure Skating Championships.
Skaters must have reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2007 in order to compete.

Daisuke Takahashi set a new world record for the free skating (175.84) and the combined total (264.41).^[1]

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1		264.41	1	88.57	1	175.84
2		234.02	3	83.85	2	150.17
3		233.11	2	84.06	3	149.05
4		218.30	4	74.08	5	144.22
5		206.40	9	60.87	4	145.53
6		197.98	5	72.25	9	125.73
7		196.57	6	70.83	8	125.74
8		196.38	7	67.48	6	128.90
9		187.18	10	60.79	7	126.39
10		182.94	8	64.35	11	118.59
11		169.17	12	49.08	10	120.09
12		167.37	11	55.82	12	111.55
13		138.88	13	43.17	13	95.71
14	Tristan Thode	115.99	14	42.16	16	73.83
15		112.05	16	39.39	17	72.66
16		111.16	18	36.39	14	74.77
17		109.77	15	41.14	20	68.63
18	Joel Watson	109.03	19	35.02	15	74.01
19		108.12	17	37.05	18	71.07
20		102.23	21	32.42	19	69.81
21		95.50	20	34.20	21	61.30

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1		193.25	1	60.94	1	132.31
2		179.54	3	60.04	2	119.50
3		177.66	2	60.07	3	117.59
4		158.49	6	53.08	4	105.41
5		157.36	7	53.01	6	104.35
6	Katrina Hacker	153.86	10	49.86	7	104.00
7		152.67	8	50.63	8	102.04
8		152.46	12	47.29	5	105.17
9		150.07	4	55.49	10	94.58
10		145.06	9	50.24	9	94.82
11		144.25	5	54.05	11	90.20
12		129.88	15	44.69	13	85.19
13		128.39	11	49.62	14	78.77
14		124.09	16	37.33	12	86.76
15		119.58	14	45.95	15	73.63
16		115.85	13	46.76	16	69.09
17		99.89	18	34.87	17	65.02
18		94.76	17	37.10	20	57.66
19		94.28	21	30.57	18	63.71
20		90.52	22	29.38	19	61.14
21		88.96	20	31.97	21	56.99
22		80.88	24	28.50	22	52.38
23		79.28	19	32.31	24	46.97
24		76.89	23	28.63	23	48.26
Free Skating Not Reached
25			25	28.12
26			26	27.44
27			27	26.92
28			28	25.76
29			29	23.40
30			30	21.97
31	Kristine Y. Lee		31	20.53
32			32	18.64

Rank	Total points	SP		FS
1	187.33	2	67.70	1	119.63
2	181.84	1	70.45	2	111.39
3	159.99	4	56.44	3	103.55
4	156.00	3	57.40	4	98.60
5	149.24	5	54.88	5	94.36
6	144.53	6	53.26	6	91.27
7	141.46	7	52.50	7	88.96
8	134.41	8	45.82	8	88.59
9	93.77	9	36.82	9	56.95

Rank	Name	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1		207.32	1	38.22	1	65.02	1	104.08
2		199.45	2	37.36	2	61.93	2	100.16
3		180.65	3	34.36	3	56.67	3	89.62
4		174.37	4	30.95	4	55.44	5	87.98
5		174.36	5	30.94	5	54.95	4	88.47
6		164.02	6	29.73	6	50.53	6	83.76
7		158.47	7	27.06	7	49.64	7	81.77
8		148.19	8	25.61	8	45.60	8	76.98
9		147.02	9	25.22	9	45.35	9	76.45
10		121.86	11	21.26	10	37.44	10	63.16
11	Guo Jiameimei / Meng Fei	112.29	12	20.96	11	36.80	12	54.53
12		109.56	10	22.46	13	33.78	13	53.32
13		107.52	13	17.78	12	34.93	11	54.81

ISU site
Starting Orders and Results
Competitors list
Web site: Definite Allotment of ISU Championships 2008 . 2007-08-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930015443/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0,11040,4844-184057-201279-123464-0-file,00.pdf . 2007-09-30 . dead.