2018 Skate Canada International Explained

2018 Skate Canada
Comptype:	Grand Prix
Startdate:	October 26
Enddate:	28
Skatingseason:	2018–19
Location:	Laval, Quebec
Venue:	Place Bell
Host:	Skate Canada
Championmen:	Shoma Uno
Championladies:	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
Championpairs:	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès
Championdance:	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Previouscomp:	2017 Skate Canada International
Nextcomp:	2019 Skate Canada International
Previousgp:	2018 Skate America
Nextgp:	2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki

The 2018 Skate Canada International was the second event of the 2018–19 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Place Bell in Laval, Quebec from October 26–28. 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.^[1]

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
	Brendan Kerry		Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor
	Keegan Messing Nam Nguyen Roman Sadovsky	Alaine Chartrand Alicia Pineault	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus
			Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
	Kévin Aymoz		Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
	Daniel Samohin
	Shoma Uno Kazuki Tomono	Wakaba Higuchi Yura Matsuda Mako Yamashita
		Elizabet Tursynbaeva
	Alexander Samarin	Evgenia Medvedeva Daria Panenkova Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
	Cha Jun-hwan
				Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz
	Alexander Majorov
				Robynne Tweedale / Joseph Buckland
	Jason Brown	Starr Andrews Mariah Bell	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

Changes to preliminary assignments

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason/Other notes	Refs
September 11	Men	N/A	Nam Nguyen	Host pick	^[2]
October 12	Ladies	Larkyn Austman	Véronik Mallet	Foot injury; host pick	^[3]
		Gabrielle Daleman	Alicia Pineault	Focus on health; host pick
October 12 and 16			Starr Andrews	Boot issues	^[4] ^[5]
October 25	Ladies	Véronik Mallet	N/A	Foot injury	^[6]

Records

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

Event	Component	Skater(s)	Score	Date	Ref
Pairs	Short program	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	74.51	26 October 2018	^[7]
Ice dance	Rhythm dance	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	80.49		^[8]
Pairs	Free skating	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	147.30	27 October 2018	^[9]
	Total score		221.81		^[10]

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Shoma Uno		277.25	2	88.87	1	188.38
2			265.17	1	95.05	2	170.12
3	Cha Jun-hwan		254.77	3	88.86	3	165.91
4	Alexander Samarin		248.78	4	88.06	4	160.72
5	Nam Nguyen		240.94	7	82.22	5	158.72
6	Jason Brown		234.97	11	76.46	6	158.51
7	Kévin Aymoz		230.09	10	78.83	7	151.26
8	Daniel Samohin		225.89	5	84.90	9	140.99
9	Kazuki Tomono		220.83	8	81.63	10	139.20
10	Alexander Majorov		220.30	6	84.64	12	135.66
11	Brendan Kerry		220.08	9	80.99	11	139.09
12	Roman Sadovsky		210.60	12	67.72	8	142.88

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva		203.32	1	74.22	3	129.10
2	Mako Yamashita		203.06	3	66.30	2	136.76
3	Evgenia Medvedeva		197.91	7	60.83	1	137.08
4	Mariah Bell		190.25	5	63.35	4	126.90
5	Elizabet Tursynbaeva		185.71	6	61.19	5	124.52
6			181.29	2	66.51	7	114.78
7	Starr Andrews		174.72	4	64.77	9	109.95
8	Alaine Chartrand		172.17	8	60.47	8	111.70
9	Daria Panenkova		168.54	11	51.41	6	117.13
10	Alicia Pineault		158.29	9	59.02	11	99.27
11	Yura Matsuda		157.59	10	53.35	10	104.24

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès		221.81	1	74.51	1	147.30
2	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang		201.08	2	72.00	4	129.08
3	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro		200.93	3	71.26	3	129.67
4	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii		196.54	4	64.57	2	131.97
5	Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud		172.53	6	59.59	6	112.94
6	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier		170.22	8	55.31	5	114.91
7	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor		166.95	5	60.77	7	106.18
8			162.16	7	57.53	8	104.63

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	RD		FD
1	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue		200.76	1	80.49	2	120.27
2	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov		195.17	2	74.66	1	120.51
3	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier		186.97	6	66.95	3	120.02
4	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac		180.32	4	68.90	4	111.42
5	Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz		176.57	3	72.35	5	104.22
6	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu		165.88	5	66.96	8	98.92
7	Robynne Tweedale / Joseph Buckland		162.50	8	62.65	6	99.85
8	Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus		156.74	9	57.10	7	99.64
9	Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker		150.23	10	57.09	9	93.14
10	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin		147.99	7	62.68	10	85.31

External links

• 2018 Skate Canada International

Notes and References

1. 1013419285417426950 . Who is going where? This week the Grand Prix assignments were announced. . ISU_figure . ISU Figure Skating . International Skating Union .
2. 1039631578836684801. Excited to compete to be able to compete at Skate Canada this year. namnamnoodle. Nam. Nguyen. Nam Nguyen. September 11, 2018.
3. Larkyn Austman and Gabrielle Daleman withdraw from Skate Canada International. Skate Canada. October 12, 2018.
4. Web site: ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Ladies. International Skating Union. October 12, 2018.
5. American Assignment Changes for Grand Prix Events in Canada, Finland. U.S. Figure Skating. October 16, 2018.
6. 1055522108627996673.
   1. VeronikMallet (CAN) has withdrawn from #SkateCanada before the Ladies draw due to medical reasons.
   . ISU_figure. ISU Figure Skating. International Skating Union. October 25, 2018.
7. Web site: Progression of Highest Score: Pairs – Short Program Score. 24 November 2018 . . 24 November 2018.
8. Web site: Progression of Highest Score: Ice Dance – Rhythm Dance Score. 24 November 2018 . . 24 November 2018.
9. Web site: Progression of Highest Score: Pairs – Free Program Score. 24 November 2018 . . 24 November 2018.
10. Web site: Progression of Highest Score: Pairs – Total Score . 24 November 2018 . International Skating Union. 24 November 2018.