| 2019 Skate America | |
| Comptype: | Grand Prix |
| Startdate: | October 18 |
| Enddate: | 20 |
| Skatingseason: | 2019–20 |
| Location: | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Host: | U.S. Figure Skating |
| Venue: | Orleans Arena |
| Championmen: |  Nathan Chen |
| Championladies: |  Anna Shcherbakova |
| Championpairs: |  Peng Cheng / Jin Yang |
| Championdance: | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue |
| Previouscomp: | 2018 Skate America |
| Nextcomp: | 2020 Skate America |
| Nextgp: | 2019 Skate Canada International |
The 2019 Skate America presented by American Cruise Lines was the first event in the 2019–20 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 18–20. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final.
Skate America was the first senior international event in International Skating Union history to be streamed live by the ISU on YouTube with geographical restrictions, as part of the federation's new deal for the 2019–20 Grand Prix series to reach countries that do not have broadcasting rights for any skating events.[1]
The ISU announced the preliminary assignments on June 20, 2019.[2]
| Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | ||||
| Men | September 10 | Alexei Krasnozhon | Host picks | [3] | |||
| Ladies | Amber Glenn | ||||||
| Pairs | Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson | ||||||
| Ice dance | Caroline Green / Michael Parsons | ||||||
| Pairs | October 1 | Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert | October 4 |  Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji | Health (Enbert) | [4] | |
| Men | October 3 |  Romain Ponsart | October 5 |  Alexei Bychenko | |||
| Ladies | October 11 |  Elizabet Tursynbaeva | October 14 |  Yi Christy Leung | Injury |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Chen | 299.09 | 1 | 102.71 | 1 | 196.38 | ||
| 2 | Jason Brown | 255.09 | 4 | 83.45 | 2 | 171.64 | ||
| 3 | Dmitri Aliev | 253.55 | 2 | 96.57 | 3 | 156.98 | ||
| 4 | Keegan Messing | 239.34 | 3 | 96.34 | 8 | 143.00 | ||
| 5 | Kazuki Tomono | 229.72 | 8 | 75.01 | 4 | 154.71 | ||
| 6 | Jin Boyang | 224.98 | 9 | 74.56 | 5 | 150.42 | ||
| 7 | Alexei Bychenko | 219.70 | 6 | 79.76 | 10 | 139.94 | ||
| 8 | Cha Jun-hwan | 219.67 | 7 | 78.98 | 9 | 140.69 | ||
| 9 | Alexei Krasnozhon | 216.59 | 10 | 72.30 | 6 | 144.29 | ||
| 10 | Koshiro Shimada | 216.03 | 11 | 72.12 | 7 | 143.91 | ||
| 11 | Michal Březina | 213.17 | 5 | 81.11 | 11 | 132.06 | ||
| 12 | Roman Savosin | 182.16 | 12 | 57.92 | 12 | 124.24 | ||
Russia's Anna Shcherbakova became the first woman to land two quad lutzes in the free skate.[5]
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Shcherbakova | 227.76 | 4 | 67.60 | 1 | 160.16 | ||
| 2 | Bradie Tennell | 216.14 | 1 | 75.10 | 2 | 141.04 | ||
| 3 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | 205.97 | 5 | 67.28 | 3 | 138.69 | ||
| 4 | Kaori Sakamoto | 202.47 | 2 | 73.25 | 4 | 129.22 | ||
| 5 | Lim Eun-soo | 184.50 | 8 | 63.96 | 5 | 120.54 | ||
| 6 | Wakaba Higuchi | 181.32 | 3 | 71.76 | 6 | 109.56 | ||
| 7 | Amber Glenn | 169.63 | 7 | 64.71 | 9 | 104.92 | ||
| 8 | Karen Chen | 165.67 | 6 | 66.03 | 10 | 99.64 | ||
| 9 | Yi Christy Leung | 163.68 | 10 | 54.25 | 7 | 109.43 | ||
| 10 | Véronik Mallet | 161.75 | 9 | 56.69 | 8 | 105.06 | ||
| 11 | Stanislava Konstantinova | 143.39 | 11 | 48.27 | 12 | 95.12 | ||
| 12 | Mako Yamashita | 142.40 | 12 | 46.21 | 11 | 96.19 | ||
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | 200.89 | 1 | 72.73 | 1 | 128.16 | ||
| 2 | Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin | 196.98 | 2 | 71.25 | 3 | 125.73 | ||
| 3 | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | 192.70 | 4 | 65.18 | 2 | 127.52 | ||
| 4 | Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson | 180.52 | 5 | 61.27 | 4 | 119.25 | ||
| 5 | Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc | 177.54 | 3 | 68.20 | 5 | 109.34 | ||
| 6 | Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe | 155.16 | 7 | 54.63 | 6 | 100.53 | ||
| 7 | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor | 152.94 | 6 | 55.06 | 7 | 97.88 | ||
| 8 | Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji | 138.79 | 8 | 47.92 | 8 | 90.87 | ||
The scores for the rhythm dance were initially calculated erroneously, omitting the Grade of Execution points for the man's half of the pattern step. Hours later, the scores were revised to reflect the proper point totals.[6]
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | RD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | 209.55 | 1 | 84.97 | 2 | 124.58 | ||
| 2 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | 206.57 | 2 | 81.91 | 1 | 124.66 | ||
| 3 | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | 197.53 | 3 | 79.17 | 3 | 118.36 | ||
| 4 | Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz | 191.01 | 4 | 76.62 | 4 | 114.39 | ||
| 5 | Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro | 181.82 | 5 | 71.18 | 5 | 110.64 | ||
| 6 | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko | 180.55 | 6 | 70.41 | 6 | 110.14 | ||
| 7 | Caroline Green / Michael Parsons | 173.03 | 8 | 67.97 | 7 | 105.06 | ||
| 8 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | 167.14 | 7 | 68.23 | 9 | 98.91 | ||
| 9 | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko | 166.51 | 9 | 66.79 | 8 | 99.72 | ||
| 10 | Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming | 159.94 | 10 | 61.74 | 10 | 98.20 | ||