# 2008 Skate Canada International

The 2008 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 2008–09 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario on October 30 – November 2. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2008–09 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Pasodoble.

## Schedule

The switch from daylight saving time to standard time was on November 2. Therefore, the events on Friday and Saturday were UTC-4, and the events on Sunday were UTC-5.
* Friday, October 31
** 12:05 Pairs' short program
** 14:10 Ladies' short program
** 18:30 Compulsory dance
** 19:45 Men's short program
* Saturday, November 1
** 10:45 Original dance
** 13:25 Pairs' free skating
** 16:05 Men's free skating
** 17:45 Medal ceremonies - Men and pairs
** 19:05 Ladies' free skating
** 20:50 Medal ceremonies - Ladies
* Sunday, November 2
** 12:15 Free dance
** 13:30 Medal ceremonies - Ice dancing
** 15:05 Exhibition gala

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Patrick Chan | Canada | 215.45 | 2 | 77.47 | 3 | 137.98 |
| 2 | Ryan Bradley | United States | 212.75 | 3 | 72.50 | 2 | 140.25 |
| 3 | Evan Lysacek | United States | 209.27 | 4 | 71.40 | 4 | 137.87 |
| 4 | Yannick Ponsero | France | 208.97 | 1 | 78.05 | 6 | 130.92 |
| 5 | Shawn Sawyer | Canada | 206.56 | 7 | 64.20 | 1 | 142.36 |
| 6 | Sergei Voronov | Russia | 201.59 | 5 | 70.45 | 5 | 131.14 |
| 7 | Brandon Mroz | United States | 192.23 | 6 | 67.03 | 7 | 125.20 |
| 8 | Yasuharu Nanri | Japan | 177.84 | 9 | 63.36 | 9 | 114.48 |
| 9 | Anton Kovalevski | Ukraine | 170.61 | 8 | 64.06 | 10 | 106.55 |
| 10 | Jeremy Ten | Canada | 169.79 | 11 | 50.93 | 8 | 118.86 |
| 11 | Vladimir Uspenski | Russia | 150.50 | 10 | 56.17 | 11 | 94.33 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Joannie Rochette | Canada | 188.89 | 1 | 64.74 | 1 | 124.15 |
| 2 | Fumie Suguri | Japan | 163.86 | 2 | 57.92 | 3 | 105.94 |
| 3 | Alissa Czisny | United States | 157.92 | 6 | 49.66 | 2 | 108.26 |
| 4 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 152.76 | 7 | 48.56 | 4 | 104.20 |
| 5 | Caroline Zhang | United States | 150.80 | 3 | 53.28 | 5 | 97.52 |
| 6 | Beatrisa Liang | United States | 142.12 | 5 | 49.92 | 6 | 92.20 |
| 7 | Jenna McCorkell | United Kingdom | 139.37 | 4 | 51.64 | 8 | 87.73 |
| 8 | Cynthia Phaneuf | Canada | 133.47 | 9 | 45.06 | 7 | 88.41 |
| 9 | Nana Takeda | Japan | 128.93 | 8 | 45.14 | 9 | 83.79 |
| 10 | Jenni Vähämaa | Finland | 122.75 | 10 | 44.90 | 10 | 77.85 |
| 11 | Jelena Glebova | Estonia | 116.38 | 11 | 41.18 | 11 | 75.20 |
| 12 | Myriane Samson | Canada | 112.74 | 12 | 40.42 | 12 | 72.32 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov | Russia | 176.97 | 1 | 65.02 | 2 | 111.95 |
| 2 | Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison | Canada | 176.54 | 3 | 60.14 | 1 | 116.40 |
| 3 | Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker | United States | 161.51 | 2 | 60.66 | 3 | 100.85 |
| 4 | Mylène Brodeur / John Mattatall | Canada | 149.14 | 6 | 50.76 | 4 | 98.38 |
| 5 | Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent | United States | 148.52 | 4 | 53.94 | 5 | 94.58 |
| 6 | Rachel Kirkland / Eric Radford | Canada | 141.66 | 7 | 50.08 | 6 | 91.58 |
| 7 | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | United States | 138.14 | 8 | 47.04 | 7 | 91.10 |
| 8 | Dong Huibo / Wu Yiming | China | 127.17 | 5 | 50.84 | 8 | 76.33 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | United States | 178.89 | 1 | 34.29 | 1 | 56.36 | 1 | 88.24 |
| 2 | Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier | Canada | 162.13 | 4 | 31.11 | 3 | 49.13 | 2 | 81.89 |
| 3 | Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat | France | 159.06 | 2 | 33.90 | 6 | 47.37 | 3 | 77.79 |
| 4 | Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov | Russia | 157.83 | 5 | 30.50 | 2 | 49.82 | 4 | 77.51 |
| 5 | Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre | United States | 157.54 | 3 | 31.67 | 4 | 48.68 | 5 | 77.19 |
| 6 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Russia | 151.62 | 7 | 28.42 | 5 | 47.83 | 6 | 75.37 |
| 7 | Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev | United States | 141.06 | 6 | 28.71 | 7 | 43.70 | 7 | 68.65 |
| 8 | Andrea Chong / Guillame Gfeller | Canada | 136.99 | 8 | 26.29 | 8 | 43.24 | 8 | 67.46 |