2011–12 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2011–12 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final was an international figure skating competition in the 2011–12 season. The ISU Junior Grand Prix Final was organized together with the senior event. The two competitions were the culmination of two international series, the 2011–12 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating for senior-level skaters and the 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix for juniors.

2011–12 Grand Prix Final
Type:	Grand Prix
Date:	December 8 – 11, 2011
Season:	2011–12
Location:	Quebec City, Canada
Host:	Skate Canada
Venue:	Pavillon de la Jeunesse
Champions
Men's singles: Patrick Chan (S) Jason Brown (J)
Ladies' singles: Carolina Kostner (S) Yulia Lipnitskaya (J)
Pairs: Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy (S) Sui Wenjing / Han Cong (J)
Ice dance: Meryl Davis / Charlie White (S) Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin (J)
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Previous GP: 2011 Cup of Russia

The competitions were held in Quebec City, Canada at the Pavillon de la Jeunesse, from December 8–11, 2011.^[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.

Medalists

Senior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Patrick Chan	Daisuke Takahashi	Javier Fernández
Ladies	Carolina Kostner	Akiko Suzuki	Alena Leonova
Pairs	Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov
Ice dancing	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat

Junior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Jason Brown	Yan Han	Joshua Farris
Ladies	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Polina Shelepen	Polina Korobeynikova
Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry	Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer
Ice dancing	Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin	Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	2	3	4	9
2	United States (USA)	2	0	2	4
3	Canada (CAN)	1	2	0	3
4	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
5	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
7	Japan (JPN)	0	2	0	2
8	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		8	8	8	24

Schedule

(Local time, UTC/GMT -05:00):^[2]

• Thursday, December 8
  • 16:05–16:40 – Opening ceremony
  • 17:00–17:54 – Junior: Pairs' short
  • 18:15–19:01 – Junior: Ladies' short
  • 19:20–20:12 – Junior: Short dance
  • 20:35–21:21 – Junior: Men's short
• Friday, December 9
  • 11:25–12:26 – Junior: Pairs' free
  • 13:00–13:46 – Senior: Ladies' short
  • 14:05–14:57 – Senior: Short dance
  • 18:30–19:20 – Junior: Ladies' free
  • 20:00–20:54 – Senior: Pairs' short
  • 21:15–22:01 – Senior: Men's short
• Saturday, December 10
  • 14:20–15:16 – Junior: Free dance
  • 15:40–16:33 – Senior: Ladies' free
  • 16:55–17:52 – Senior: Men's free
  • 19:00–19:55 – Junior: Men's free
  • 20:15–21:20 – Senior: Pairs' free
• Sunday, December 11
  • 13:50–14:52 – Senior: Free dance
  • 16:00–18:30 – Exhibitions

Qualifiers

Senior-level qualifiers

Skaters who reached the age of 14 by July 1, 2011, were eligible to compete at two senior 2011–12 Grand Prix events, including the 2011 Skate America, 2011 Skate Canada International, 2011 Cup of China, 2011 NHK Trophy, 2011 Trophée Éric Bompard, and 2011 Cup of Russia. They earned points at these events and the six highest ranking skaters/teams qualified for the senior Grand Prix Final.^[3] The following skaters qualified for the 2011–12 Grand Prix Final.

• On December 8, it was announced that Mao Asada had withdrawn due to a family emergency.^[4] There was no replacement.

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
1	Patrick Chan	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov	Meryl Davis / Charlie White
2	Daisuke Takahashi	Mao Asada	Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
3	Jeremy Abbott	Carolina Kostner	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
4	Michal Březina	Akiko Suzuki	Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
5	Javier Fernández	Alissa Czisny	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran	Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat
6	Yuzuru Hanyu	Alena Leonova	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
Alternates
1st	Song Nan	Adelina Sotnikova	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
2nd	Takahiko Kozuka	Mirai Nagasu	Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov	Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov
3rd	Adam Rippon	Ashley Wagner	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Isabella Tobias / Deividas Stagniūnas

Junior-level qualifiers

Skaters who reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2011, but had not turned 19 (singles and females of the other two disciplines) or 21 (male pair skaters and ice dancers) were eligible to compete at two 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix events. They earned points at these events and the six highest ranking skaters/teams qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final.

• On November 30, the U.S. pair team of Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu withdrew and were replaced by first alternates Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev of Russia.^[5]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
1	Yan Han	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin
2	Joshua Farris	Polina Shelepen	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
3	Jason Brown	Vanessa Lam	Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer	Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov
4	Maxim Kovtun	Risa Shoji	Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry	Maria Nosulia / Evgen Kholoniuk
5	Ryuju Hino	Li Zijun	Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov	Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski
6	Keiji Tanaka	Polina Korobeynikova	Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev	Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton
Alternates
1st	Artur Dmitriev, Jr.	Samantha Cesario		Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager
2nd	Zhang He	Polina Agafonova	Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro	Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin
3rd	Lee June-hyoung	Satoko Miyahara	Klára Kadlecová / Petr Bidař	Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin

Senior-level results

Men

Chan won both segments to win his second Grand Prix Final title, while Takahashi pulled up from fifth in the short to win the silver medal. Fernandez was the first Spaniard to qualify for a Grand Prix Final and also the first to win a medal at the event.^[6][7]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[8]	SP[9]		FS[10]
1	Patrick Chan	Canada	260.30	1	86.63	1	173.67
2	Daisuke Takahashi	Japan	249.12	5	76.49	2	172.63
3	Javier Fernández	Spain	247.55	3	81.26	4	166.29
4	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	245.82	4	79.33	3	166.49
5	Jeremy Abbott	United States	238.82	2	82.66	5	156.16
6	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	218.98	6	75.26	6	143.72

Ladies

Kostner won the short program, with Suzuki in second and Leonova in third.^[11][12] Kostner also won the free skate to take the gold medal, while Suzuki and Leonova held on for silver and bronze respectively, despite Tuktamysheva placing second in the free.^[13][14] Kostner became the first Italian single skater to win the Grand Prix Final and is second overall after Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, who won the ice dancing title in 2000. Mao Asada withdraw due to her mother's serious illness that led to her passing.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[15]	SP[16]		FS[17]
1	Carolina Kostner	Italy	187.48	1	66.43	1	121.05
2	Akiko Suzuki	Japan	179.76	2	61.30	3	118.46
3	Alena Leonova	Russia	176.42	3	60.46	4	115.96
4	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	174.51	5	54.99	2	119.52
5	Alissa Czisny	United States	156.97	4	60.30	5	96.67
WD	Mao Asada	Japan	withdrew from competition

Pairs

The senior pairs produced the closest battle for gold, with only 0.18 points separating the top two at the end of the event. Volosozhar and Trankov placed first in the short program^[18][19] while Savchenko and Szolkowy were first in the free skate to win their third Grand Prix Final title.^[20][21]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[22]	SP[23]		FS[24]
1	Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Germany	212.26	2	69.82	1	142.44
2	Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov	Russia	212.08	1	71.57	2	140.51
3	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Russia	187.77	4	61.37	3	126.40
4	Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao	China	182.54	3	63.43	4	119.11
5	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	170.43	5	61.04	5	109.39
6	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran	Japan	164.42	6	59.54	6	104.88

Ice dance

Davis and White won their third consecutive Grand Prix Final, while Virtue and Moir won the silver and Pechalat and Bourzat the bronze.^[25][26] According to the initial results, Davis and White won both segments of the competition but the ISU announced on December 28 that there had been a calculation error and that Virtue and Moir had won the free dance by 0.05.^[27] The ISU explained: "The calculation program used up to and including the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final had erroneously calculated the Dance result with the previous Grade of Execution (GOE) for the Combination Lift, which was upgraded with ISU Communication 1677 in July 2011."^[27]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[28]	SD[29]		FD[30]
1	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	United States	188.55	1	76.17	2	112.38
2	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	183.44	2	71.01	1	112.43
3	Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat	France	169.69	3	68.68	3	101.01
4	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	166.07	4	66.24	4	99.83
5	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	160.55	5	65.53	5	95.02
6	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Russia	157.30	6	64.05	6	93.25

Junior-level results

Junior men

Joshua Farris won the short program, with Jason Brown in second and Yan Han in third.^[31][32] Brown won the gold medal after placing second in the free skate, Yan won the segment to take the silver medal, and Farris took the bronze.^[33][34]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[35]	SP[36]		FS[37]
1	Jason Brown	United States	208.41	2	68.77	2	139.64
2	Yan Han	China	205.93	3	64.23	1	141.70
3	Joshua Farris	United States	203.98	1	72.99	3	130.99
4	Maxim Kovtun	Russia	193.76	4	63.68	4	130.08
5	Ryuju Hino	Japan	172.75	5	60.12	6	112.63
6	Keiji Tanaka	Japan	171.14	6	58.15	5	112.99

Junior ladies

Lipnitskaia won the short program, followed by Shelepen and Lam in second and third respectively.^[38] In the free skating, Lipnitskaia and Shelepen again placed first and second to win gold and silver, while Korobeynikova moved up from fifth to take the bronze medal and produce a Russian sweep.^[39][40]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[41]	SP[42]		FS[43]
1	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Russia	179.73	1	59.98	1	119.75
2	Polina Shelepen	Russia	162.34	2	54.99	2	107.35
3	Polina Korobeynikova	Russia	151.18	5	45.24	3	105.94
4	Li Zijun	China	146.53	6	43.10	4	103.43
5	Vanessa Lam	United States	145.62	3	54.34	5	91.28
6	Risa Shoji	Japan	134.35	4	51.53	6	82.82

Junior pairs

Sui and Han won the short program^[44][45] and the free skate to win their second Junior Grand Prix Final title.^[46][47] Bobak and Beharry won the silver medal while Simpson and Blackmer took the bronze, with both couples in their first season together.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[48]	SP[49]		FS[50]
1	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	China	160.43	1	57.43	1	103.00
2	Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry	Canada	152.65	2	52.77	2	99.88
3	Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer	United States	146.35	3	50.91	5	95.44
4	Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurduykov	Russia	146.17	4	48.75	4	97.42
5	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	China	144.71	5	46.83	3	97.88
6	Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev	Russia	133.79	6	45.47	6	88.32

Junior ice dance

Sinitsina and Zhiganshin won the short dance over Yanovskaya and Mozgov.^[32][51] They then won the free dance to take the gold medal, while Stepanova and Bukin rebounded from a fall in the short dance to place second in the free but Yanovskaya and Mozgov stayed in second overall.^[52] Russia swept the podium.^[34]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[53]	SD[54]		FD[55]
1	Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin	Russia	147.53	1	60.47	1	87.06
2	Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov	Russia	136.61	2	56.22	3	80.39
3	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Russia	135.17	4	52.48	2	82.69
4	Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton	United States	129.01	5	51.59	4	77.42
5	Maria Nosulia / Evgeni Kholoniuk	Ukraine	113.79	3	53.95	5	59.84
DSQ	Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski	Ukraine

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External links

• 2011–12 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final at the International Skating Union
• Senior Grand Prix Final entries at the International Skating Union
• Junior Grand Prix Final entries at the International Skating Union
• Official Junior Grand Prix videos at the International Skating Union, YouTube channel