# 2016–17 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2016–17 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and ISU Junior Grand Prix Final took place from 8 to 11 December 2016 at the Palais omnisports Marseille Grand-Est in Marseille, France. Marseille was announced as the host on 27 October 2015. The combined event is the culmination of two international series — the Grand Prix of Figure Skating and the Junior Grand Prix. Medals will be awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.

## Records

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:
| Event | Component | Skater(s) | Score | Date |
| Junior ladies | Short program | Alina Zagitova | 70.92 | 8 December 2016 |
| Junior ladies | Free skating | Anastasiia Gubanova | 133.77 | 9 December 2016 |
| Junior ladies | Free skating | Alina Zagitova | 136.51 | 9 December 2016 |
| Junior ladies | Total score | Alina Zagitova | 207.43 | 9 December 2016 |
| Ice dancing | Short dance | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | 80.50 | 9 December 2016 |
| Ladies | Short program | Evgenia Medvedeva | 79.21 | 9 December 2016 |
| Junior men | Total score | Dmitri Aliev | 240.07 | 10 December 2016 |
| Ice dancing | Total score | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | 197.22 | 10 December 2016 |
Two consecutive world records has been set in back to back performances during the junior ladies free skating segment by russian ladies Anastasiia Gubanova, who became the first junior lady to break the 130-points barrier, and Alina Zagitova, who outscored her by almost 3 points.
Zagitova also became the first junior lady to break the 70-points barrier in the short program, Dmitri Aliev the first junior man to break the 240-points barrier for the total score, while Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir became the first ice dancers to break the 80-points barrier in the short dance.

## Schedule

(Local time)
Thursday, December 8
* 14:05 - Junior: Short dance
* 15:20 - Junior: Men's short
* 16:25 - Junior: Pairs' short
* 17:40 - Junior: Ladies' short
* Opening ceremony
* 19:45 - Senior: Pairs' short
* 21:10 - Senior: Men's short
Friday, December 9
* 15:45 - Junior: Free dance
* 17:05 - Junior: Ladies' free
* 19:05 - Senior: Short dance
* 20:20 - Senior: Pairs' free
* 21:45 - Senior: Ladies' short
Saturday, December 10
* 14:00 - Junior: Men's free
* 15:20 - Junior: Pairs' free
* 16:45 - Senior: Free dance
* 19:00 - Senior: Ladies' free
* 20:20 - Senior: Men's free
* Awards ceremony
Sunday, December 11
* Gala exhibition

## Qualifiers
### Senior-level qualifiers

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Javier Fernández | Evgenia Medvedeva | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir |
| 2 | Patrick Chan | Anna Pogorilaya | Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (withdrew) | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |
| 3 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Elena Radionova | Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron |
| 4 | Shoma Uno | Kaetlyn Osmond | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev |
| 5 | Nathan Chen | Maria Sotskova | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Madison Chock / Evan Bates |
| 6 | Adam Rippon | Satoko Miyahara | Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue |
| Alternates |||||
| 1st | Jin Boyang | Ashley Wagner | Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert (called up) | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje |
| 2nd | Sergei Voronov | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier |
| 3rd | Oleksii Bychenko | Mai Mihara | Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte |

### Junior-level qualifiers

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| 1 | Alexander Samarin | Anastasiia Gubanova | Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd |
| 2 | Cha Jun-hwan | Polina Tsurskaya (withdrew) | Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons |
| 3 | Alexei Krasnozhon | Rika Kihira | Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter |
| 4 | Roman Savosin | Kaori Sakamoto | Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov | Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron |
| 5 | Ilia Skirda | Alina Zagitova | Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko |
| 6 | Dmitri Aliev | Marin Honda | Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot (withdrew) | Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov |
| Alternates |||||
| 1st | Vincent Zhou | Elizaveta Nugumanova (called up) | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor (called up) | Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin |
| 2nd | Andrew Torgashev | Stanislava Konstantinova | Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson | Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov |
| 3rd | Roman Sadovsky | Yuna Shiraiwa | Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland | Nicole Kuzmich / Alexandr Sinicyn |

### Changes

| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes |
| November 29 | Junior ladies | Polina Tsurskaya | Elizaveta Nugumanova | Knee injury |
| November 29 | Junior pairs | Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor | — |
| December 2 | Senior pairs | Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot | Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert | Ankle injury |

## Medalists
### Senior

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Yuzuru Hanyu | Nathan Chen | Shoma Uno |
| Ladies | Evgenia Medvedeva | Satoko Miyahara | Anna Pogorilaya |
| Pairs | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford |
| Ice dancing | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |

### Junior

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Dmitri Aliev | Alexander Samarin | Cha Jun-hwan |
| Ladies | Alina Zagitova | Anastasiia Gubanova | Kaori Sakamoto |
| Pairs | Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev | Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii |
| Ice dancing | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter |

## Medals table
### Senior

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

### Junior

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Senior-level results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Japan | 293.90 | 1 | 106.53 | 3 | 187.37 |
| 2 | Nathan Chen | United States | 282.85 | 5 | 85.30 | 1 | 197.55 |
| 3 | Shoma Uno | Japan | 282.51 | 4 | 86.82 | 2 | 195.69 |
| 4 | Javier Fernández | Spain | 268.77 | 3 | 91.76 | 4 | 177.01 |
| 5 | Patrick Chan | Canada | 266.75 | 2 | 99.76 | 5 | 166.99 |
| 6 | Adam Rippon | United States | 233.10 | 6 | 83.93 | 6 | 149.17 |

### Ladies

Evgenia Medvedeva set a new world record for the short program (79.21 points).
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Evgenia Medvedeva | Russia | 227.66 | 1 | 79.21 | 1 | 148.45 |
| 2 | Satoko Miyahara | Japan | 218.33 | 3 | 74.64 | 2 | 143.69 |
| 3 | Anna Pogorilaya | Russia | 216.47 | 4 | 73.29 | 3 | 143.18 |
| 4 | Kaetlyn Osmond | Canada | 212.45 | 2 | 75.54 | 4 | 136.91 |
| 5 | Maria Sotskova | Russia | 198.79 | 6 | 65.74 | 5 | 133.05 |
| 6 | Elena Radionova | Russia | 188.81 | 5 | 68.98 | 6 | 119.83 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 213.85 | 1 | 78.60 | 1 | 135.25 |
| 2 | Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao | China | 206.71 | 2 | 75.34 | 3 | 131.37 |
| 3 | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Canada | 205.99 | 3 | 71.44 | 2 | 134.55 |
| 4 | Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert | Russia | 188.32 | 5 | 65.79 | 5 | 122.53 |
| 5 | Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Canada | 186.85 | 6 | 60.86 | 4 | 125.99 |
| 6 | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | China | 183.19 | 4 | 70.84 | 6 | 112.35 |

### Ice dancing

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a new world record for the short dance (80.50 points) and for the combined total (197.22 points).
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada | 197.22 | 1 | 80.50 | 1 | 116.72 |
| 2 | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | France | 192.81 | 3 | 77.86 | 2 | 114.95 |
| 3 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | United States | 189.60 | 2 | 77.97 | 3 | 111.63 |
| 4 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Russia | 181.95 | 4 | 74.04 | 5 | 107.91 |
| 5 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | United States | 179.59 | 5 | 72.47 | 6 | 107.12 |
| 6 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | United States | 179.32 | 6 | 70.87 | 4 | 108.45 |

## Junior-level results
### Men

Dmitri Aliev set a new junior world record for the combined total score (240.07 points).
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Dmitri Aliev | Russia | 240.07 | 1 | 81.37 | 1 | 158.70 |
| 2 | Alexander Samarin | Russia | 236.52 | 2 | 81.08 | 2 | 155.44 |
| 3 | Cha Jun-hwan | South Korea | 225.55 | 4 | 71.85 | 3 | 153.70 |
| 4 | Roman Savosin | Russia | 212.39 | 3 | 72.98 | 4 | 139.41 |
| 5 | Alexei Krasnozhon | United States | 208.85 | 5 | 71.48 | 6 | 137.37 |
| 6 | Ilia Skirda | Russia | 207.11 | 6 | 68.31 | 5 | 138.80 |

### Ladies

Alina Zagitova set a new junior world record for the short program (70.92 points), for the free skating (136.51 points), and for the combined total (207.43 points). Anastasiia Gubanova set a new junior world record for the free skating (133.77 points) but Zagitova broke that record less than 10 minutes later.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Alina Zagitova | Russia | 207.43 | 1 | 70.92 | 1 | 136.51 |
| 2 | Anastasiia Gubanova | Russia | 194.07 | 3 | 60.38 | 2 | 133.77 |
| 3 | Kaori Sakamoto | Japan | 176.33 | 2 | 64.48 | 4 | 111.85 |
| 4 | Rika Kihira | Japan | 175.16 | 5 | 54.78 | 3 | 120.38 |
| 5 | Elizaveta Nugumanova | Russia | 170.08 | 4 | 58.34 | 5 | 111.74 |
| WD | Marin Honda | Japan | withdrew | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev | Russia | 180.63 | 1 | 64.73 | 1 | 115.90 |
| 2 | Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | Czech Republic | 167.76 | 2 | 61.38 | 2 | 106.38 |
| 3 | Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii | Russia | 159.72 | 4 | 58.75 | 3 | 100.97 |
| 4 | Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin | Russia | 158.14 | 3 | 59.05 | 4 | 99.09 |
| 5 | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor | Australia | 141.36 | 5 | 57.08 | 5 | 84.28 |
| 6 | Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov | Russia | 139.50 | 6 | 56.78 | 6 | 82.72 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | United States | 162.50 | 2 | 66.91 | 1 | 95.59 |
| 2 | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd | Russia | 161.87 | 1 | 67.58 | 2 | 94.29 |
| 3 | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | United States | 153.47 | 3 | 63.73 | 3 | 89.74 |
| 4 | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko | United States | 149.98 | 4 | 61.39 | 4 | 88.59 |
| 5 | Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron | France | 146.12 | 5 | 60.08 | 5 | 86.04 |
| 6 | Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov | Russia | 140.64 | 6 | 59.29 | 6 | 81.35 |