Figure skating grand prix final. The results of the short and free programs in the finals of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Japan have become known. Men's single skating

World junior champions Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya (18 years old) and Harley Windsor (21 years old) are competing together for the second season.

Ekaterina was born on January 1, 2000 in Moscow. Until December 2011, she studied singles skating at the CSKA Sports School (Moscow), first with Inna Goncharenko, and later with Svetlana Sokolovskaya. In the spring of 2012, she moved to Dnepropetrovsk, where she first paired up with Vladislav Lysov in the group pair skating SC "Meteor" with coach Vladislav Zhovnirsky.

But in 2014, the girl returned to Moscow and became a couple with Alexander Epifanov at the Sports Complex “Inspiration” SDYUSSHOR “ Sparrow Hills" However, due to low results, the couple does not seek the right to compete at international competitions.

In the spring of 2016, Ekaterina received an offer from the Australian federation to perform with Harley Windsor under the direction of Russian coaches Andrey Hekalo and Nina Moser. In summer Russian Federation agreed to change Catherine’s sports citizenship.

And since the 2016/17 season, Alexandrovskaya has been playing for Australia. At the beginning of September, the couple made their debut on the international stage in Ostrava at the junior stage of the Grand Prix, where they took a place at the bottom of the standings. However, a month later in Tallinn, at the next junior stage of the Grand Prix, they created a sensation and won it. This allowed them to become the first substitutes for the final itself. At the same time, they qualified for the continental and junior championships.

A week later, the skaters made their debut among adults in Espoo at the Finnish Trophy, where they were in the middle of the table.

At the beginning of December 2016 in Melbourne, Alexandrovskaya and Windsor confidently became champions of Australia. At the Junior Grand Prix Final in Marseille, Australian skaters finished fifth, but managed to improve on their previous achievement in short program.

In mid-February 2017, the couple made their debut in South Korea at the continental championship, but did not perform very confidently, finishing at the bottom of the standings.

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Final of the Grand Prix series figure skating The 2017/18 season in Nagoya, Japan ended for Russia with the success of the singles skating representatives. The competitive part of the tournament ended on Saturday.

List of participants:

Women

Alina Zagitova (Russia), Maria Sotskova (Russia), Kathleen Osmond (Canada). Carolina Costner (Italy), Wakaba Higuchi (Japan), Satoko Miyahara (Japan)

Men

Nathan Chen (USA), Adam Rippon (USA), Mikhail Kolyada (Russia), Sergey Voronov (Russia), Shoma Uno (Japan), Jin Boyan (China)

Couples

Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (Russia), Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov (Russia), Sun Wenjing / Han Cun (China), Yu Xiaoyu / Hao Zhang (China), Alena Savchenko / Bruno Massot (Germany), Megan Duhamel / Eric Redford (Canada)

Dancing

Maya Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA), Madison Chalke/Evan Bates, Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue (USA), Gabriela Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (France), Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (Canada), Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (Italy)

The Russians won three awards: Alina Zagitova took gold, Maria Sotskova took silver in women's singles, Mikhail Kolyada took bronze in men's singles.

Zagitova’s relief and Sotskova’s worries

The women's singles skating tournament was quite unpredictable. Firstly, she was forced to withdraw from the tournament in Nagoya due to an ankle injury. two-time champion world and winner of the Grand Prix Finals of the previous two seasons, Russian Evgenia Medvedeva. Secondly, the silver medalist of the 2015 World Championships, Japanese Satoko Miyahara, showed competitive scores at the Skate America stage.

After the short program, Zagitova and Sotskova took second and fourth places, respectively, having scored a decent number of points (76.27 and 74.00 points). Canadian Kaitlyn Osmond took the lead with 77.04. And in the free program, Sotskova, demonstrating clean skating, showed her best result - 142.28 points and a personal record for the sum of points for two programs - 216.28.

First, one of the tournament favorites, Japanese Wakaba Higuchi, could not beat her, and then Osmond, who eventually became third (215.16). Zagitova, having performed the most difficult element, the triple lutz-triple loop cascade, made mistakes on the other two jumps, but 223.30 points scored for two programs ultimately practically guaranteed her victory. Miyahara, who competed last, did not create competition for the Russians.

“I feel good, I’m glad that the competition ended well for me, and I also feel relieved,” Zagitova said. The athlete made mistakes on two jumps. "But these blots are insignificant, and on their own best jumps, so I’m happy with these competitions. There are always blots and shortcomings, which is why every athlete responds this way. It may sound corny, but it’s true,” she added.

Sotskova, in turn, admitted that for the first time she was so worried at the Grand Prix Final.

“Actually, I was worried and quite a lot,” said the figure skater. “It was the first time I was worried at the Final. Usually I feel relaxed, I enjoy it, but here for some reason I was worried. Probably only because I really want to get on the podium, that’s why there is excitement."

Stolbova's injury and Morozova's faith

In the sports pairs tournament, the short program was won by the Germans Alena Savchenko and Bruno Massot, and immediately behind them were the Russians Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov. It’s nice for both duos that they beat the current world champions, Chinese Sui Wenjing and Cong Han, who screwed up the parallel triple toe loop. The athletes from the Middle Kingdom also looked imperfect during training; once a couple fell during support.

Other Russians Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov performed their short program with dignity, with the exception of being demoted to the second level for a triple twist and an unfortunate fall of their partner a little later. In the free program, the duo again made a twist of the second level, performed a good Lutz throw, but ruined a cascade of three sheepskin coats, and then a parallel triple Salchow. The result is fourth place (209.26).

“I made two serious mistakes, unfortunately, it so happened that in the short program I received a slight injury. Apparently, due to the fact that the skate fell off (in the short program) and twisted my leg. And I can’t do the push elements fully strength. I thought it would be a little easier, but no,” the partner explained.

The winners of the Grand Prix Final of last season in Marseille, Tarasova/Morozov, failed on a triple Salchow and a combination of toe loops, and ended up finishing fifth (208.73).

“We won’t be upset, it happens. Probably. We’ll draw some conclusions later. Well, the rental didn’t work out, what else can you say,” Morozov told reporters. “We prepared normally, we were also prepared normally, we just couldn’t cope with our nerves, probably. Maybe "Maybe there's a decline, I don't know. We'll continue to work, there's a little time before the Russian Championship, we'll rethink what happened here and make the programs good at the Russian Championship."

The Germans Savchenko/Masso won in Nagoya (236.68), while the skaters did not use the extremely complex triple axel throw. Silver went to Sui Wenjing/Cun Han, who made a quadruple twist, but did without a quadruple throw (230.89). Canadians Megan Duhamel and Eric Radford took bronze (210.83), who unsuccessfully performed a quadruple salchow throw.

Censorship of Kolyada

Managed to climb onto the podium in men's single skating to the current champion Russia Kolyada. In the short program, the athlete failed the quadruple lutz, but received a very respectable 99.22 points, taking intermediate third place, and later retained it in the free program (182.78, total - 282.00 points), despite failures on the quadruple lutz and Salchow, as well as triple Axel.

The Grand Prix Final in Figure Skating 2017/2018 is the final tournament of the Grand Prix in Figure Skating series. The final will take place for the fifth time in Japan and the first time in Nagoya from December 7 to 10, 2017. Athletes will compete in the categories: men's and women's singles, pair skating and ice dancing. At the same time, the finals of the Grand Prix series among juniors will be held in the same four disciplines. The finals in each discipline will include the six best adults and juniors (singles or pairs), determined based on the results of the series.

As before, the Russian federal sports channel ignores the Grand Prix stages, so the final will be available on the Eurosport 2 TV channel and on the Internet on the Telesport channel, and live broadcasts will be embedded on this page of our website and available for viewing both Live and recordings, after processing streaming video.

Broadcast of the first day of the competition - 12/07/2017 (Thursday) - beginning 12.10 Moscow time

Broadcast of the second day of the competition - 12/08/2017 (Friday) - starts at 12.45 Moscow time

Broadcast of the third day of competition - 12/09/2017 (Saturday) - starts at 10.25 Moscow time

Broadcast of demonstration performances - 12/10/2017 (Sunday) - starts at 8.30 Moscow time

Alternative broadcast sources

Grand Prix Final will be shown on Eurosport 2 TV channel.

• 12.15 Pairs, short program (Eurosport 2) - live
• 13.30 Men's short program (Eurosport 2) - live
• 14.40 Ice dancing, short dance (Eurosport 2) - live

• 01.00 Men's free program (Eurosport 2) - recording

• 10.25 Pairs, free program (Eurosport 2) - live
• 11.55 Ice dancing, free dance (Eurosport 2) - live
• 13.20 Women's free program (Eurosport 2; Channel One) - live

Competition schedule (Moscow time)

December 7, 2017 (Thursday)

12.15 – 13.09 Pairs, short program

13.30 – 14.17 Men, short program

14.40 -15.33 Ice dancing, short dance

December 8, 2017 (Friday)

12.55 -13.42 Women, short program

14.15 – 15.13 Men, free program

December 9, 2017 (Saturday)

10.25 -11.30 Pairs, free program

11.55 – 12.55 Ice dancing, free dance

13.20 – 14.15 Women, free program

December 10, 2017 (Sunday)

8.30 – 11.30 Demonstration performances

Final participants

The tables present top scores, shown by the final participants at the Grand Prix stages of the current season separately in a short, free program oh and the amount. If a skater does not have a result indicated, it means this result not in the top ten.

Men's single skating

Women's singles skating

Pair skating

Dancing on Ice

The Grand Prix of Figure Skating finals ended in Nagoya. Alina Zagitova won the competition among girls, becoming the fourth athlete in history who managed to score more than 220 points based on the results of two skates. Maria Sotskova rose to second place. In pairs Russian athletes were left without awards because they made too many mistakes in their free programs. Read about the results of the competition in Japan in RT's material.

Gold and silver of Russian girls

Alina Zagitova continues to conquer one height after another in her first season at the adult level. Now in her collection there is Golden medal a truly large and prestigious tournament - the Grand Prix final. As expected, the Russian was able to take first place thanks to her excellent free program. Two not entirely confident landings did not spoil the overall picture - in all other respects the 15-year-old figure skater was impeccable.

Zagitova became the fourth figure skater in history to score more than 220 points in total. Previously, only the last two succeeded in this. Olympic champions and Evgenia Medvedeva, who, unfortunately, did not come out to fight with her friend in the coaching group due to injury. After the victory, Zagitova wished Medvedeva a speedy recovery.

“I feel good, I’m glad that the competition ended well for me, and I also feel relieved. Two blots were minor, on my best jumps, so I’m happy with these competitions. There are always blots and shortcomings. Last year at the Junior Grand Prix it was also difficult for me, because I made my debut at these competitions, and this year I will make my debut at more senior competitions, and it is also difficult. I didn’t feel anything in Nagoya that I was missing at the competitions. I would like to wish Zhenya a speedy recovery and return to the ice,” R-Sport quotes the athlete.

If Medvedeva had taken part in the tournament, the podium would definitely have been purely Russian - after all, Maria Sotskova managed to climb to second place. Following Zagitova’s example, she moved most of her jumps to the second half of the program and can now, due to this, beat almost all the elite skaters. In Nagoya, the 17-year-old Russian scored a total of 216.28 points and broke three personal records at these starts.

“We did a lot of work, so the result is appropriate. With experience, confidence comes, the quality of my skating improves, so that the elements are stable, so that you are confident in them. Consequently, skating becomes easier, you feel more relaxed, and you can show all your emotions. I’m making progress, I’m not standing still, and certainly not going down. Every start pushes me to work even harder,” Sotskova commented on her silver medal.

Third place went to Canadian Caitlin Osmond, who was in the lead in the short program. She again failed to land on the right edge in the Lutz, and the Canadian fell on the Salchow, which led to the loss of points. Her final score was 215.16 points. It is worth noting that according to the results of the free skate, the Italian Carolina Costner became third. The 30-year-old figure skater did not receive significant bonuses for her last jumps, but for the components, Alexei Mishin’s student received two tens from one judge at once, and this partly helped her rise from last to fourth place.

Podium of Russian juniors

But in junior competitions, Russian athletes managed to take three first places. Alexandra Trusova, another student of Eteri Tutberidze, became the best. In the short program, she broke Zagitova’s world record, and scored more than 200 points in total. The 13-year-old Ryazan skater is known for opening her free skate with a quadruple Salchow! Even though Trusova fell on it this time, the attempt was included in the final protocol. She also has in her arsenal the most complex lutz-rittberger and lutz-toe loop cascades, with which you can safely think about participating in the 2022 Olympics.

The second was Alena Kostornaya, who managed to win the free program. Is it worth reminding that she also grew to such significant heights, studying under the leadership of Tutberidze. This could also be understood from the content of Kostornaya’s free skate - she can already perform all triple jumps, except for the Axel, and shows them in the second half of the program, like Zagitova. By the way, she also managed to score more than 200 points in total.

Paired errors

In pairs competitions Russian figure skaters there were good chances for medals, but these hopes were not justified. They were primarily tied to Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, who finished second in the short program. However, their free program turned out very poorly. The pair made mistakes on the jumps, failed the cascade, failed to throw a triple Lutz, and in the end the Russians weren’t even credited with spinning. Last year's winners Grand Prix finals scored a total of 208.73 points and took the final fifth place.

“What happened, happened. Let's not get upset, it happens. We will draw some conclusions later. Well, the rental didn’t work out, what else can you say? We prepared normally, we were also ready, we just couldn’t cope with our nerves, probably. Maybe there has been a decline, I don’t know. We will continue to work, there is a little time before the Russian Championship, we will rethink what has happened here, and we will do a good program at the Russian Championship,” Morozov commented on the performance.

The pair let Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov go ahead, who will probably also want to quickly forget their performance in Nagoya. They never learned at least a triple twist, again failed to cope with the cascade, and to add to all the troubles, their partner fell on the Salchow, which the couple had previously performed consistently.

Alena Savchenko and Bruno Massot, representing Germany, won the free program with a world record. It was impossible to find fault with the Germans. Savchenko and Masso scored 157.25 points on the second day of the competition, taking away the previous achievement from the Chinese Sui Wenjing and Han Tsun, who were left with silver in Nagoya. Based on the results of two skates, the German skaters were only 1.03 points short of the record of Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov.

Crazy dancing

But in ice dancing the world record was updated. Frenchmen Gabriela Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron are close to achieving the mathematically highest possible marks in their discipline. They scored 202.16 points in the Grand Prix Final, raising the bar for all dancers for the third time this season.

Their eternal rivals - Canadians Tessa Vertu and Scott Moir - were unable to jump above their heads, as they did last season. With a score of 199.86 points, they repeated their result at the home stage of the Grand Prix, which at that time was a world record, but now brought the couple not gold, but silver. It is difficult to say which duet is better - French or Canadian, but it is a fact that the judges love the former more.

Russians were represented in dance only at the junior level. Anastasia Skoptsova and Kirill Aleshin won, albeit without a world record for their age category. Sofia Polishchuk and Alexander Vakhnov can now boast bronze medals.