2016 Rostelecom Cup Explained

2016 Rostelecom Cup
Comptype:	Grand Prix
Startdate:	November 4
Enddate:	5
Skatingseason:	2016–17
Location:	Moscow
Host:	Figure Skating Federation of Russia
Venue:	Megasport Arena
Championmen:	Javier Fernández
Championladies:	Anna Pogorilaya
Championpairs:	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot
Championdance:	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
Previouscomp:	2015 Rostelecom Cup
Nextcomp:	2017 Rostelecom Cup
Previousgp:	2016 Skate Canada International
Nextgp:	2016 Trophée de France

The 2016 Rostelecom Cup was the third event of six in the 2016–17 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Megasport Arena in Moscow on November 4–5. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final.

Entries

The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 30, 2016.

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
		Anastasia Galustyan
				Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev
	Elladj Baldé		Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
		Li Zijun
				Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen
	Chafik Besseghier
			Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot
	Oleksii Bychenko
		Roberta Rodeghiero	Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
	Keiji Tanaka Shoma Uno	Yura Matsuda Kanako Murakami
		Elizabet Tursynbayeva
	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Angelīna Kučvaļska
			Goda Butkutė / Nikita Ermolaev
	Artur Dmitriev Jr. Mikhail Kolyada Gordei Gorshkov	Yulia Lipnitskaya Anna Pogorilaya Elena Radionova	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin Natalja Zabijako / Alexander Enbert	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin
		Nicole Rajičová
	Javier Fernández
	Alexander Majorov
				Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar
	Max Aaron	Courtney Hicks		Madison Chock / Evan Bates Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit

Changes to preliminary assignments

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason/Other notes	Refs
September 15	Men	N/A	Gordei Gorshkov	Host pick
September 15	Ice dancing	N/A	Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin	Host pick
September 28 and 30	Pairs	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Goda Butkutė / Nikita Ermolaev	Illness (Scimeca)	^[1]
October 12 and 17	Ladies	Polina Edmunds	Anastasia Galustyan	Injury	^[2]
October 17	Pairs	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe		^[3]
October 17 and 20	Pairs	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Javier Fernández		292.98	2	91.55	1	201.43
2	Shoma Uno		285.07	1	98.59	2	186.48
3	Oleksii Bychenko		255.52	4	86.81	3	168.71
4	Mikhail Kolyada		245.30	3	90.28	6	155.02
5	Max Aaron		235.58	8	73.64	4	161.94
6	Elladj Baldé		225.45	6	76.36	8	149.09
7	Keiji Tanaka		224.91	10	69.13	5	155.78
8	Chafik Besseghier		223.98	5	80.68	10	143.30
9	Gordei Gorshkov		223.51	9	73.37	7	150.14
10	Artur Dmitriev Jr.		221.52	7	76.06	9	145.46
11	Deniss Vasiļjevs		203.77	12	62.40	11	141.37
12	Alexander Majorov		192.14	11	67.80	12	124.34

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Anna Pogorilaya		215.21	1	73.93	1	141.28
2	Elena Radionova		195.60	2	71.93	2	123.67
3	Courtney Hicks		182.98	6	63.68	3	119.30
4	Li Zijun		181.83	5	63.89	4	117.94
5	Elizabet Tursynbayeva		181.32	4	64.31	5	117.01
6	Yura Matsuda		177.65	7	61.57	6	116.08
7	Nicole Rajičová		167.56	8	57.91	7	109.65
8	Roberta Rodeghiero		159.80	12	52.57	8	107.23
9	Anastasia Galustyan		159.26	9	55.93	9	103.33
10	Angelīna Kučvaļska		151.09	11	54.29	10	96.80
11	Kanako Murakami		151.03	10	55.25	11	95.78
12	Yulia Lipnitskaya		148.46	3	69.25	12	79.21

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot		207.89	2	69.51	1	138.38
2	Natalja Zabijako / Alexander Enbert		197.77	1	69.76	2	128.01
3	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov		188.74	4	65.51	3	123.23
4	Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek		187.61	3	66.82	5	120.79
5	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau		183.37	5	61.72	4	121.65
6	Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe		167.19	7	60.09	6	107.10
7	Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin		165.07	6	61.27	7	103.80
8	Goda Butkutė / Nikita Ermolaev		137.08	8	47.39	8	89.69

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev		186.68	2	74.92	1	111.76
2	Madison Chock / Evan Bates		182.13	1	75.04	3	107.09
3	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje		178.57	3	69.81	2	108.76
4	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri		170.45	4	67.72	4	102.73
5	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro		156.95	5	64.28	5	92.67
6	Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit		153.92	6	62.93	6	90.99
7	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen		152.52	7	62.82	7	89.70
8	Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar		143.90	8	59.31	8	84.59
9	Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin		133.37	9	55.83	9	77.54
10	Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev		129.55	10	54.64	10	74.91

External links

• 2016 Rostelecom Cup at the International Skating Union

Notes and References

1. Web site: ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Pairs . International Skating Union . 30 September 2016.
2. Web site: ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Ladies . International Skating Union . 17 October 2016.
3. Web site: ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Pairs . International Skating Union . 17 October 2016.