Friday, October 31, 2008

2008 Skate Canada - Men's SP

Men - Short Program
  1. Yannick Ponsero (FRA) 78.05 pts
  2. Patrick Chan (CAN) 77.47 pts
  3. Ryan Bradley (USA) 72.50 pts
  4. Evan Lysacek (USA) 71.40 pts
  5. Sergei Voronov (RUS) 70.45 pts
  6. Brandon Mroz (USA) 67.03 pts
  7. Shawn Sawyer (CAN) 64.20 pts
  8. Anton Kovalevski (UKR) 64.06 pts
  9. Yasuharu Nanri (JPN) 63.36 pts
  10. Vladimir Upenski (RUS) 56.17 pts
  11. Jeremy Ten (CAN) 50.93 pts

2008 Skate Canada - Compulsory Dance

Ice Dance - Compulsory Dance
  1. Meryl Davis & Charlie White (USA) 34.29 pts
  2. Nathalie Pechalat & Fabian Bourzat (FRA) 33.90 pts
  3. Kimberly Navarro & Brent Bommentre (USA) 31.67 pts
  4. Vanessa Crone & Paul Poirier (CAN) 31.11 pts
  5. Kristina Gorshkova & Vitali Butikov (RUS) 30.50 pts
  6. Jennifer Wester & Daniil Barantsev (USA) 28.71 pts
  7. Ekaterina Bobrova & Dmitri Soloviev (RUS) 28.42 pts
  8. Andrea Chong & Guillame Gfeller (CAN) 26.29 pts

2008 Skate Canada - Ladies' SP

Ladies - Short Program
  1. Joannie Rochette (CAN) 64.74 pts
  2. Fumi Suguri (JPN) 57.92 pts
  3. Caroline Zhang (USA) 53.28 pts
  4. Jenna McCorkell (GBR) 51.64 pts
  5. Beatrisa Liang (USA) 49.92 pts
  6. Alissa Czisny (USA) 49.66 pts
  7. Carolina Kostner (ITA) 48.56 pts
  8. Nana Takeda (JPN) 45.14 pts
  9. Cynthia Phaneuf (CAN) 45.06 pts
  10. Jenni Vahamaa (FIN) 44.90 pts
  11. Elena Glebova (EST) 41.18 pts
  12. Myriane Samson (CAN) 40.42 pts

2008 Skate Canada - Pairs' SP

Pairs - Short Program
  1. Yuko Kawaguchi & Alexander Smirnov (RUS) 65.02 pts
  2. Keauna McLaughlin & Rockne Brubaker (USA) 60.66 pts
  3. Jessica Dubé & Bryce Davison (CAN) 60.14 pts
  4. Tiffany Vise & Derek Trent (USA) 53.94 pts
  5. Huibo Dong & Yiming Wu (CHN) 50.84 pts
  6. Mylene Brodeur & John Mattatal (CAN) 50.76 pts
  7. Rachel Kirkland & Eric Radford (CAN) 50.08 pts
  8. Amanda Evora & Mark Ladwig (USA) 47.04 pts

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Chan works on his greatest leap yet - the Olympics challenge

Already master of the skate blade, Patrick Chan has the challenge now of trying to master the roller-coaster ride. Because that's what he'll be on during the next 15 months before the Vancouver Olympics.

All eyes are turned onto the fresh-faced figure skater as Canada's greatest male skating hope, especially after the surprising retirement of world champion Jeffrey Buttle.

"Same plan. Same goals. Same everything," Chan said, by way of reaction.

Chan had dreamed of a rematch with Buttle in January at the 2009 Canadian championships in Saskatoon. Last January, Chan, of Toronto, had just turned 17 when he defeated three-time Canadian champion Buttle at the nationals in Vancouver.

That's a pretty big faceoff," Chan said, speaking of the extra pressure he would have been under to retain his title against such a competitor. "It's unfortunate that it's not going to happen. But now I can really focus on the international field and on who is going to be at the Olympics and worlds."

Chan will start his march to the world championships by competing at the Skate Canada Grand Prix, starting today in Ottawa. He'll meet two-time world bronze medalist Evan Lysacek of the United States, French skater Yannick Ponsero and Russia's best skater, Sergei Voronov.

The men's field as a whole is limping, with the added retirement of two-time world champion Stéphane Lambiel of Switzerland.

The best contest may come at the NHK Trophy in Japan, with the two top Japanese skaters taking on Johnny Weir, the world bronze medalist from the United States.

Chan, who finished ninth in the worlds last year, seems up to the challenge of seizing the spotlight this year. He'll meet former world champion Brian Joubert at the Trophée Bompard in Paris, an event the young Canadian won last year.

When he qualified for the Grand Prix Final last year, he was the youngest skater by five years. At the world championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, last March, Chan drew the same practice group as Joubert.

Full article.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

2008 Skate America - Ladies' LP

Ladies - Long Program
  1. Yu-Na Kim (KOR) 123.95 pts
  2. Yukari Nakano (JPN) 115.07 pts
  3. Miki Ando (JPN) 110.62 pts
  4. Rachael Flatt (USA) 100.81 pts
  5. Susanna Poykio (FIN) 94.32 pts
  6. Mira Leung (CAN) 90.42 pts
  7. Mirai Nagasu (USA) 86.48 pts
  8. Yan Liu (CHN) 81.16 pts
  9. Kimmie Meissner (USA) 81.02 pts
  10. Tugba Karademir (TUR) 72.65 pts
  11. Annette Dytrt (GER) 68.51 pts
Ladies - Final result
  1. Yu-Na Kim (KOR) 193.45 pts
  2. Yukari Nakano (JPN) 172.53 pts
  3. Miki Ando (JPN) 168.42 pts
  4. Rachael Flatt (USA) 155.73 pts
  5. Mirai Nagasu (USA) 142.90 pts
  6. Susanna Poykio (FIN) 142.14 pts
  7. Mira Leung (CAN) 136.16 pts
  8. Kimmie Meissner (USA) 135.92 pts
  9. Yan Liu (CHN) 128.12 pts
  10. Annette Dytrt (GER) 116.83 pts
  11. Tugba Karademir (TUR) 113.91 pts
WD Valentina Marchei (ITA)

2008 Skate America - Free Dance

Ice Dance - Free Dance
  1. Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto (USA) 91.43 pts
  2. Isabelle Delobel & Olivier Schoenfelder (FRA) 90.89 pts
  3. Emily Samuelson & Evan Bates (USA) 88.84 pts
  4. Sinead Kerr & John Kerr (GBR) 88.09 pts
  5. Pernelle Carron & Mathieu Jost (FRA) 81.92 pts
  6. Ekaterina Rubleva & Ivan Shefer (RUS) 80.25 pts
  7. Jane Summersett & Todd Gilles (USA) 78.61 pts
  8. Katherine Copely & Deividas Stagniunas (LTU) 78.12 pts
  9. Allie Hann-McCurdy & Michael Coreno (CAN) 71.77 pts
Ice Dance - Final Result
  1. Isabelle Delobel & Olivier Schoenfelder (FRA) 187.64 pts
  2. Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto (USA) 186.53 pts
  3. Sinead Kerr & John Kerr (GBR) 180.20 pts
  4. Emily Samuelson & Evan Bates (USA) 175.66 pts
  5. Pernelle Carron & Mathieu Jost (FRA) 166.92 pts
  6. Ekaterina Rubleva & Ivan Shefer (RUS) 159.03 pts
  7. Jane Summersett & Todd Gilles (USA) 156.62 pts
  8. Katherine Copely & Deividas Stagniunas (LTU) 156.28 pts
  9. Allie Hann-McCurdy & Michael Coreno (CAN) 142.95 pts