# 2017 Cup of China

The 2017 Audi Cup of China was the 3rd event of six in the 2017–18 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Capital Gymnasium in Beijing on 3–5 November. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2017–18 Grand Prix Final.

## Records

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:
| Event | Component | Skater(s) | Score | Date | Ref |
| Ice dance | Free dance | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | 119.33 | 4 November 2017 | |
| Ice dance | Total score | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | 200.43 | 4 November 2017 | |

## Entries

The ISU published the preliminary assignments on 26 May 2017.
| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| Canada | Kevin Reynolds | Gabrielle Daleman | Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro | |
| China | Jin Boyang Yan Han Zhang He | Li Xiangning Zhao Ziquan | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao Zhang Mingyang / Song Bowen | Chen Hong / Zhao Yan Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu Wang Xiaotong / Zhao Kaige |
| France | | | | Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron |
| Italy | | | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek | |
| Japan | Keiji Tanaka | Wakaba Higuchi Marin Honda Mai Mihara | | |
| Russia | Mikhail Kolyada Alexander Petrov | Elena Radionova Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Alina Zagitova | | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro |
| South Korea | | Choi Da-bin | | |
| Spain | Javier Fernández | | | |
| Sweden | Alexander Majorov | | | |
| United States | Max Aaron Grant Hochstein Vincent Zhou | Amber Glenn | Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc | Madison Chock / Evan Bates Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit |

### Changes to preliminary assignments

| Discipline | Withdrew | Withdrew | Added | Added | Notes | Ref. |
| Discipline | Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | Notes | Ref. |
| Pairs | September 15 | Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea | September 15 | Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc | Focus on injury recovery (Kayne) | |
| Men | — | — | September 20 | Zhang He | Host picks | |
| Pairs | — | — | September 20 | Zhang Mingyang / Song Bowen | Host picks | |
| Ice dance | October 16 | Song Linshu / Sun Zhuoming | October 16 | Wang Xiaotong / Zhao Kaige | | |
| Ladies | October 13 | Gracie Gold | October 23 | Amber Glenn | Focus on treatment | |
| Ladies | October 31 | Li Zijun | — | — | | |
| Pairs | October 31 | Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | — | — | Injury (Dušková) | |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Mikhail Kolyada | Russia | 279.38 | 1 | 103.13 | 3 | 176.25 |
| 2 | Jin Boyang | China | 264.48 | 2 | 93.89 | 5 | 170.59 |
| 3 | Max Aaron | United States | 259.69 | 5 | 83.11 | 1 | 176.58 |
| 4 | Vincent Zhou | United States | 256.66 | 8 | 80.23 | 2 | 176.43 |
| 5 | Yan Han | China | 254.61 | 6 | 82.22 | 4 | 172.39 |
| 6 | Javier Fernández | Spain | 253.06 | 3 | 90.57 | 6 | 162.49 |
| 7 | Keiji Tanaka | Japan | 247.17 | 4 | 87.19 | 8 | 159.98 |
| 8 | Kevin Reynolds | Canada | 226.50 | 10 | 64.40 | 7 | 162.10 |
| 9 | Grant Hochstein | United States | 216.44 | 7 | 80.55 | 9 | 135.89 |
| 10 | Alexander Majorov | Sweden | 186.04 | 11 | 64.27 | 10 | 121.77 |
| 11 | Alexander Petrov | Russia | 186.02 | 9 | 68.58 | 12 | 117.44 |
| 12 | Zhang He | China | 167.58 | 12 | 46.99 | 11 | 120.59 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Alina Zagitova | Russia | 213.88 | 4 | 69.44 | 1 | 144.44 |
| 2 | Wakaba Higuchi | Japan | 212.52 | 2 | 70.53 | 2 | 141.99 |
| 3 | Elena Radionova | Russia | 206.82 | 3 | 70.48 | 4 | 136.34 |
| 4 | Mai Mihara | Japan | 206.07 | 7 | 66.90 | 3 | 139.17 |
| 5 | Marin Honda | Japan | 198.32 | 6 | 66.90 | 5 | 131.42 |
| 6 | Gabrielle Daleman | Canada | 196.83 | 1 | 70.65 | 7 | 126.18 |
| 7 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Russia | 196.68 | 5 | 67.10 | 6 | 129.58 |
| 8 | Li Xiangning | China | 174.82 | 8 | 59.20 | 8 | 115.62 |
| 9 | Choi Da-bin | South Korea | 165.99 | 9 | 53.90 | 9 | 112.09 |
| 10 | Amber Glenn | United States | 151.14 | 10 | 52.61 | 10 | 98.53 |
| 11 | Zhao Ziquan | China | 144.71 | 11 | 50.39 | 11 | 94.32 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | China | 231.07 | 1 | 80.14 | 1 | 150.93 |
| 2 | Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao | China | 205.54 | 2 | 71.37 | 2 | 134.17 |
| 3 | Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro | Canada | 194.52 | 4 | 62.52 | 3 | 132.00 |
| 4 | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise | Italy | 190.25 | 3 | 63.76 | 5 | 126.49 |
| 5 | Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotárek | Italy | 188.01 | 5 | 59.53 | 4 | 128.48 |
| 6 | Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc | United States | 154.36 | 7 | 53.15 | 6 | 101.21 |
| 7 | Zhang Mingyang / Song Bowen | China | 148.34 | 6 | 53.15 | 7 | 95.19 |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | France | 200.43 | 1 | 81.10 | 1 | 119.33 |
| 2 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | United States | 184.50 | 2 | 72.66 | 2 | 111.84 |
| 3 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Russia | 182.84 | 3 | 72.34 | 3 | 110.50 |
| 4 | Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro | Russia | 164.41 | 4 | 67.62 | 4 | 96.79 |
| 5 | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | United States | 157.61 | 5 | 63.65 | 5 | 93.96 |
| 6 | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu | China | 151.17 | 8 | 59.07 | 6 | 92.10 |
| 7 | Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit | United States | 150.47 | 7 | 59.32 | 7 | 91.15 |
| 8 | Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron | France | 144.90 | 6 | 59.91 | 8 | 84.99 |
| 9 | Chen Hong / Zhao Yan | China | 117.64 | 9 | 47.39 | 9 | 70.25 |
| 10 | Wang Xiaotong / Zhao Kaige | China | 102.66 | 10 | 38.74 | 10 | 63.92 |