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.

2019 Skate America
Type:Grand Prix
Date:October 18 – 20
Season:2019–20
Location:Las Vegas, Nevada
Host:U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:Orleans Arena
Champions
Men's singles:
United States Nathan Chen
Ladies' singles:
Russia Anna Shcherbakova
Pairs:
China Peng Cheng / Jin Yang
Ice dance:
United States Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
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2020 Skate America
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2019 Skate Canada International

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]

Entries

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The ISU announced the preliminary assignments on June 20, 2019.[2]

Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance
  Australia Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor
  Canada Keegan Messing Véronik Mallet Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
  China Jin Boyang Peng Cheng / Jin Yang Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming
  Czech Republic Michal Březina
  France Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
  Great Britain Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji
  Hong Kong Yi Christy Leung
  Israel Alexei Bychenko
  Japan Koshiro Shimada
Kazuki Tomono
Wakaba Higuchi
Kaori Sakamoto
Mako Yamashita
  Russia Dmitri Aliev
Roman Savosin
Stanislava Konstantinova
Anna Shcherbakova
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro
  South Korea Cha Jun-hwan Lim Eun-soo
  Spain Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz
  United States Jason Brown
Nathan Chen
Alexei Krasnozhon
Karen Chen
Amber Glenn
Bradie Tennell
Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc
Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson
Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier
Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
Caroline Green / Michael Parsons
Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

Changes to preliminary assignments

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Discipline Withdrew Added Notes Ref.
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

Results

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Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Nathan Chen   United States 299.09 1 102.71 1 196.38
2 Jason Brown   United States 255.09 4 83.45 2 171.64
3 Dmitri Aliev   Russia 253.55 2 96.57 3 156.98
4 Keegan Messing   Canada 239.34 3 96.34 8 143.00
5 Kazuki Tomono   Japan 229.72 8 75.01 4 154.71
6 Jin Boyang   China 224.98 9 74.56 5 150.42
7 Alexei Bychenko   Israel 219.70 6 79.76 10 139.94
8 Cha Jun-hwan   South Korea 219.67 7 78.98 9 140.69
9 Alexei Krasnozhon   United States 216.59 10 72.30 6 144.29
10 Koshiro Shimada   Japan 216.03 11 72.12 7 143.91
11 Michal Březina   Czech Republic 213.17 5 81.11 11 132.06
12 Roman Savosin   Russia 182.16 12 57.92 12 124.24

Ladies

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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   Russia 227.76 4 67.60 1 160.16
2 Bradie Tennell   United States 216.14 1 75.10 2 141.04
3 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva   Russia 205.97 5 67.28 3 138.69
4 Kaori Sakamoto   Japan 202.47 2 73.25 4 129.22
5 Lim Eun-soo   South Korea 184.50 8 63.96 5 120.54
6 Wakaba Higuchi   Japan 181.32 3 71.76 6 109.56
7 Amber Glenn   United States 169.63 7 64.71 9 104.92
8 Karen Chen   United States 165.67 6 66.03 10 99.64
9 Yi Christy Leung   Hong Kong 163.68 10 54.25 7 109.43
10 Véronik Mallet   Canada 161.75 9 56.69 8 105.06
11 Stanislava Konstantinova   Russia 143.39 11 48.27 12 95.12
12 Mako Yamashita   Japan 142.40 12 46.21 11 96.19

Pairs

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Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Peng Cheng / Jin Yang   China 200.89 1 72.73 1 128.16
2 Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin   Russia 196.98 2 71.25 3 125.73
3 Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier   United States 192.70 4 65.18 2 127.52
4 Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson   United States 180.52 5 61.27 4 119.25
5 Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc   United States 177.54 3 68.20 5 109.34
6 Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe   Canada 155.16 7 54.63 6 100.53
7 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor   Australia 152.94 6 55.06 7 97.88
8 Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji   United Kingdom 138.79 8 47.92 8 90.87

Ice dance

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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   United States 209.55 1 84.97 2 124.58
2 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin   Russia 206.57 2 81.91 1 124.66
3 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen   Canada 197.53 3 79.17 3 118.36
4 Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz   Spain 191.01 4 76.62 4 114.39
5 Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro   Russia 181.82 5 71.18 5 110.64
6 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko   United States 180.55 6 70.41 6 110.14
7 Caroline Green / Michael Parsons   United States 173.03 8 67.97 7 105.06
8 Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac   France 167.14 7 68.23 9 98.91
9 Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko   Russia 166.51 9 66.79 8 99.72
10 Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming   China 159.94 10 61.74 10 98.20

References

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  1. ^ "Where to watch ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series 2019". International Skating Union. October 16, 2019.
  2. ^ "Olympic and World Champions to compete in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series 2019/20" (Press release). International Skating Union. June 20, 2019.
  3. ^ "Final Athletes Announced for 2019 Skate America Presented by American Cruise Lines". U.S. Figure Skating. September 10, 2019.
  4. ^ Selenkova, Maria (October 1, 2019). "Серебряные призеры Игр-2018 Забияко и Энберт пропустят серию Гран-при. Партнер приостановил карьеру по рекомендации врачей" [Silver medalists of the 2018 Games Zabiyako and Enbert will miss the Grand Prix series. Enbert suspended his career on the recommendation of doctors]. R-Sport.
  5. ^ Lutz, Rachel (October 20, 2019). "Anna Shcherbakova lands two quad Lutzes to win Skate America in Grand Prix debut". NBC Sports.
  6. ^ ISU Figure Skating [@ISU_Figure] (October 19, 2019). "Thanks for pointing it out. We noticed the problem as well. We are working on it" (Tweet) – via Twitter.