The 2018 Rostelecom Cup was the fifth event of six in the 2018–19 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held on November 16–18, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. 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.
| 2018 Rostelecom Cup | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Grand Prix |
| Date: | November 16 – 18 |
| Season: | 2018-19 |
| Location: | Moscow |
| Host: | Figure Skating Federation of Russia |
| Venue: | Megasport Arena |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Yuzuru Hanyu | |
Ladies' singles:  Alina Zagitova | |
| Pairs: Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | |
| Ice dance: Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | |
| Previous: 2017 Rostelecom Cup | |
| Next: 2019 Rostelecom Cup | |
| Previous GP: 2018 NHK Trophy | |
| Next GP: 2018 Internationaux de France | |
Entries
editThe ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.[1]
Changes to preliminary assignments
edit| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 29 and August 28 | Ice dance |  Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
|
 Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
|
Split | [2][3] |
| July 16 and August 10 | Men |  Maurizio Zandron
|
 Brendan Kerry
|
Nationality change | [4][5] |
| July 19 and August 28 | Men |  Denis Ten
|
 Julian Zhi Jie Yee
|
Deceased | [6][7] |
| August 9 and 28 | Ice dance | Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed
|
Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
|
Split | [8][3] |
| September 18 | Ladies | N/A | Sofia Samodurova
|
Host pick | [9] |
| Ice dance | Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin
|
[10] | |||
| November 7 and 8 | Ladies | Wakaba Higuchi
|
Yuna Shiraiwa
|
Foot injury | [11][12] |
| November 8 | Ice dance |  Madison Chock / Evan Bates
|
N/A | Injury recovery (Chock) | [13] |
| November 12 | Ladies | Karen Chen
|
N/A | Injury recovery | [14] |
| November 13 | Men | Alexey Erokhov
|
Andrei Lazukin
|
Host pick | [15] |
| November 13 | Ladies |  Nicole Schott
|
N/A | [16] |
Records
editThe following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:
| Event | Component | Skater(s) | Score | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Short program | Yuzuru Hanyu
|
110.53 | 16 November 2018 | [17] |
| Pairs | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov
|
78.47 | [18] | ||
| Ladies | Alina Zagitova
|
80.78 | [19] | ||
| Ice dance | Free dance | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
|
124.94 | 17 November 2018 | [20] |
Results
editMen
editYuzuru Hanyu set a new world record for the short program (110.53).
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Japan
|
278.42 | 1 | 110.53 | 1 | 167.89 |
| 2 | Morisi Kvitelashvili |  Georgia
|
248.58 | 2 | 89.94 | 2 | 158.64 |
| 3 | Kazuki Tomono | Japan
|
238.73 | 4 | 82.26 | 3 | 156.47 |
| 4 | Mikhail Kolyada | Russia
|
225.42 | 8 | 69.10 | 4 | 156.32 |
| 5 | Keegan Messing |  Canada
|
220.75 | 7 | 73.83 | 6 | 146.92 |
| 6 | Paul Fentz | Germany
|
220.57 | 5 | 78.28 | 7 | 142.29 |
| 7 | Andrei Lazukin | Russia
|
215.78 | 11 | 62.45 | 5 | 153.33 |
| 8 | Alexei Krasnozhon |  United States
|
208.01 | 6 | 75.32 | 8 | 132.69 |
| 9 | Alexander Majorov |  Sweden
|
205.59 | 3 | 82.33 | 10 | 123.26 |
| 10 | Brendan Kerry | Australia
|
197.59 | 10 | 65.22 | 9 | 132.37 |
| 11 | Artur Dmitriev Jr. | Russia
|
189.58 | 9 | 67.58 | 11 | 122.00 |
| 12 | Julian Yee |  Malaysia
|
178.71 | 12 | 60.37 | 12 | 118.34 |
Ladies
editAlina Zagitova set a new world record for the short program (80.78).
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alina Zagitova | Russia
|
222.95 | 1 | 80.78 | 1 | 142.17 |
| 2 | Sofia Samodurova | Russia
|
198.01 | 2 | 67.40 | 2 | 130.61 |
| 3 | Lim Eun-soo |  South Korea
|
185.67 | 6 | 57.76 | 3 | 127.91 |
| 4 | Alexia Paganini |  Switzerland
|
182.50 | 3 | 63.43 | 5 | 119.07 |
| 5 | Yuna Shiraiwa | Japan
|
180.93 | 5 | 60.35 | 4 | 120.58 |
| 6 | Elizabet Tursynbaeva | Kazakhstan
|
180.45 | 4 | 61.73 | 6 | 118.72 |
| 7 | Mako Yamashita | Japan
|
161.22 | 9 | 51.00 | 7 | 110.22 |
| 8 | Polina Tsurskaya | Russia
|
149.45 | 7 | 56.81 | 8 | 92.64 |
| 9 | Yura Matsuda | Japan
|
137.99 | 8 | 52.00 | 9 | 85.99 |
| WD | Gracie Gold | United States
|
withdrew | 10 | 37.51 | withdrew from competition | |
Pairs
edit| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Russia
|
220.25 | 1 | 78.47 | 1 | 141.78 |
| 2 | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise | Italy
|
203.83 | 2 | 72.32 | 2 | 131.51 |
| 3 | Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin | Russia
|
190.01 | 3 | 69.38 | 4 | 120.63 |
| 4 | Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer |  Austria
|
187.01 | 5 | 63.75 | 3 | 123.26 |
| 5 | Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin | Russia
|
181,62 | 4 | 65.46 | 5 | 116.16 |
| 6 | Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc | United States
|
170.29 | 7 | 58.79 | 6 | 112.50 |
| 7 | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor | Australia
|
144.00 | 6 | 59.28 | 7 | 84.72 |
| WD | Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay | United States
|
withdrew | 8 | 51.25 | withdrew from competition | |
Ice dancing
edit| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Russia
|
199.43 | 1 | 74.49 | 1 | 124.94 |
| 2 | Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin |  Spain
|
174.42 | 3 | 66.40 | 2 | 108.02 |
| 3 | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko | United States
|
174.21 | 2 | 69.01 | 3 | 105.20 |
| 4 | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin | Russia
|
164.66 | 6 | 64.05 | 4 | 100.61 |
| 5 | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev |  Poland
|
161.62 | 4 | 66.30 | 5 | 95.32 |
| 6 | Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius | Lithuania
|
158.03 | 5 | 64.54 | 6 | 93.49 |
| 7 | Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács |  Hungary
|
148.13 | 7 | 54.83 | 7 | 93.30 |
| 8 | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | Japan
|
143.28 | 8 | 52.99 | 8 | 90.29 |
| 9 | Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin | Russia
|
133.58 | 9 | 51.69 | 9 | 81.89 |
References
edit- ^ ISU Figure Skating [@ISU_figure] (July 1, 2018). "Who is going where? This week the Grand Prix assignments were announced" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Tina Garabedian – Partner Search". icepartnersearch. May 1, 2018.
- ^ a b "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. August 28, 2018.
- ^ "Pattinaggio artistico, Maurizio Zandron lascia la nazionale azzurra: sarà un atleta austriaco" [Figure skating, Maurizio Zandron leaves the national team: he will be an Austrian athlete] (in Italian). OA Sport. July 16, 2018.
- ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Men". International Skating Union. August 10, 2018.
- ^ "Kazakh figure skater Denis Ten dies at the age of 25". Kazinform. July 19, 2018.
- ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Men". International Skating Union. August 28, 2018.
- ^ "平昌五輪アイスダンスの村元・リード組がペア解消「方向性の違い」" [Pyeongchang Olympians Muramoto and Reed end partnership due to "difference in direction"] (in Japanese). Daily Sports Japan. August 9, 2018.
- ^ "ISU GP Rostelecom Cup 2018: Ladies". International Skating Union. September 18, 2018.
- ^ "ISU GP Rostelecom Cup 2018: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. September 18, 2018.
- ^ "樋口新葉、ＧＰシリーズ・ロシア杯欠場 右足リスフラン関節損傷" [Wakaba Higuchi to miss GP series Russian Cup, right foot Lisfranc joint damage] (in Japanese). Sponichi. November 8, 2018.
- ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Ladies". International Skating Union. November 8, 2018.
- ^ "Madison Chock and Evan Bates Withdraw from Rostelecom Cup" (Press release). U.S. Figure Skating. November 8, 2018.
- ^ Chen, Karen (November 12, 2018). "Although I know that injuries make me stronger, I also understand that it takes time" (Instagram). Archived from the original on 2021-12-24.
- ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Men". International Skating Union. November 13, 2018.
- ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Ladies". International Skating Union. November 13, 2018.
- ^ "Progression of Highest Score: Men – Short Program Score". International Skating Union. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- ^ "Progression of Highest Score: Pairs – Short Program Score". International Skating Union. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- ^ "Progression of Highest Score: Ladies – Short Program Score". International Skating Union. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- ^ "Progression of Highest Score: Ice Dance – Free Dance Score". International Skating Union. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
External links
edit- [1] at the International Skating Union
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