# 2018–19 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2018–19 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and ISU Junior Grand Prix Final took place from 6 to 9 December 2018 at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The combined event was the culmination of two international series — the Grand Prix of Figure Skating and the Junior Grand Prix. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.

## Schedule

Listed in local time (UTC−8)
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
* Official practices (all day)
Thursday, December 6, 2018
* 14:05 – Junior dance: rhythm dance
* 15:20 – Junior men: short program
* 16:25 – Junior pairs: short program
* 17:40 – Junior ladies: short program
* 19:00 – Opening ceremony
* 19:45 – Senior men: short program
* 21:00 – Senior ladies: short program
Friday, December 7, 2018
* 15:45 – Junior dance: free dance
* 17:05 – Junior men: free skating
* Victory ceremonies – junior men, junior ice dance
* 19:05 – Senior dance: rhythm dance
* 20:20 – Senior pairs: short program
* 21:35 – Senior men: free skating
* Victory ceremony – senior men
Saturday, December 8, 2018
* 13:55 – Senior ladies: free skating
* 15:15 – Junior ladies: free skating
* 16:30 – Junior pairs: free skating
* Victory ceremonies – junior pairs, senior ladies, junior ladies
* 19:00 – Senior dance: free dance
* 20:20 – Senior pairs: free skating
* Victory ceremonies – senior pairs, senior ice dance
Sunday, December 9, 2018
* 14:00 – Exhibition gala

## Qualifiers
### Senior-level qualifiers

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| 1 | Yuzuru Hanyu (withdrew) | Alina Zagitova | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue |
| 2 | Shoma Uno | Rika Kihira | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin |
| 3 | Nathan Chen | Satoko Miyahara | Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov |
| 4 | Michal Březina | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri |
| 5 | Sergei Voronov | Kaori Sakamoto | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker |
| 6 | Cha Jun-hwan | Sofia Samodurova | Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin | Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro |
| Alternates |||||
| 1st | Keegan Messing (called up) | Mai Mihara | Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin | Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin |
| 2nd | Alexander Samarin | Stanislava Konstantinova | Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier |
| 3rd | Matteo Rizzo | Evgenia Medvedeva | Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter |

### Junior-level qualifiers

| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| 1 | Petr Gumennik | Alexandra Trusova | Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov | Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov |
| 2 | Camden Pulkinen | Alena Kostornaia | Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin | Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov |
| 3 | Adam Siao Him Fa | Anna Shcherbakova | Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov | Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik |
| 4 | Tomoki Hiwatashi | Anastasia Tarakanova | Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko |
| 5 | Andrew Torgashev (withdrew) | Kim Ye-lim | Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot | Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha |
| 6 | Koshiro Shimada | Alena Kanysheva | Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman | Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya |
| Alternates |||||
| 1st | Stephen Gogolev (called up) | Anna Tarusina | Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow | Polina Ivanenko / Daniil Karpov |
| 2nd | Kirill Iakovlev | You Young | Riku Miura / Shoya Ichihashi | Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy |
| 3rd | Yuma Kagiyama | Rion Sumiyoshi | Patricia Andrew / Paxton Fletcher | Darya Popova / Volodymyr Byelikov |

### Changes to preliminary qualifiers

| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes | Refs |
| November 12 | Junior men | Andrew Torgashev | Stephen Gogolev | Injury | |
| November 29 | Senior men | Yuzuru Hanyu | Keegan Messing | Injury | |

## Records

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:
| Event | Component | Skater(s) | Score | Date |
| Junior pairs | Short program | Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov | 66.44 | 6 December 2018 |
| Junior pairs | Short program | Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin | 66.84 | 6 December 2018 |
| Junior ladies | Short program | Alena Kostornaia | 76.32 | 6 December 2018 |
| Ladies | Short program | Rika Kihira | 82.51 | 6 December 2018 |
| Junior men | Free skating | Stephen Gogolev | 154.76 | 7 December 2018 |
| Junior men | Total score | Stephen Gogolev | 233.58 | 7 December 2018 |
| Junior pairs | Free skating | Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov | 126.26 | 8 December 2018 |
| Junior pairs | Total score | Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov | 190.63 | 8 December 2018 |
| Pairs | Free skating | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | 148.37 | 8 December 2018 |

## Medalists
### Senior

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Nathan Chen | Shoma Uno | Cha Jun-hwan |
| Ladies | Rika Kihira | Alina Zagitova | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva |
| Pairs | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov |
| Ice dancing | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri |

### Junior

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Stephen Gogolev | Petr Gumennik | Koshiro Shimada |
| Ladies | Alena Kostornaia | Alexandra Trusova | Alena Kanysheva |
| Pairs | Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov | Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin | Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov |
| Ice dancing | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko | Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov | Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov |

## Medals table
### Senior

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States (USA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

### Junior

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 2 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (3 entries) | Totals (3 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Senior-level results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Nathan Chen | United States | 282.42 | 1 | 92.99 | 1 | 189.42 |
| 2 | Shoma Uno | Japan | 275.10 | 2 | 91.67 | 2 | 183.43 |
| 3 | Cha Jun-hwan | South Korea | 263.49 | 4 | 89.07 | 3 | 174.42 |
| 4 | Michal Březina | Czech Republic | 255.26 | 3 | 89.21 | 4 | 166.05 |
| 5 | Keegan Messing | Canada | 236.05 | 6 | 79.56 | 5 | 156.49 |
| 6 | Sergei Voronov | Russia | 226.44 | 5 | 82.96 | 6 | 143.48 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Rika Kihira | Japan | 233.12 | 1 | 82.51 | 1 | 150.61 |
| 2 | Alina Zagitova | Russia | 226.53 | 2 | 77.93 | 2 | 148.60 |
| 3 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Russia | 215.32 | 3 | 70.65 | 3 | 144.67 |
| 4 | Kaori Sakamoto | Japan | 211.68 | 4 | 70.23 | 4 | 141.45 |
| 5 | Sofia Samodurova | Russia | 204.33 | 5 | 68.24 | 5 | 136.09 |
| 6 | Satoko Miyahara | Japan | 201.31 | 6 | 67.52 | 6 | 133.79 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | France | 219.88 | 4 | 71.51 | 1 | 148.37 |
| 2 | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | China | 216.90 | 1 | 75.69 | 2 | 141.21 |
| 3 | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 214.20 | 3 | 74.04 | 3 | 140.16 |
| 4 | Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert | Russia | 201.07 | 2 | 75.18 | 4 | 125.89 |
| 5 | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise | Italy | 187.63 | 5 | 69.77 | 6 | 117.86 |
| 6 | Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin | Russia | 186.81 | 6 | 61.24 | 5 | 125.57 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | RD | RD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | United States | 205.35 | 1 | 80.53 | 1 | 124.82 |
| 2 | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov | Russia | 201.37 | 3 | 77.33 | 2 | 124.04 |
| 3 | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | Italy | 198.65 | 2 | 78.30 | 3 | 120.35 |
| 4 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Russia | 196.72 | 4 | 77.20 | 4 | 119.52 |
| 5 | Tiffani Zagorski / Jonathan Guerreiro | Russia | 184.37 | 5 | 72.98 | 6 | 111.39 |
| 6 | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | United States | 184.04 | 6 | 71.33 | 5 | 112.71 |

## Junior-level results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Stephen Gogolev | Canada | 233.58 | 2 | 78.82 | 1 | 154.76 |
| 2 | Petr Gumennik | Russia | 218.75 | 3 | 76.16 | 2 | 142.59 |
| 3 | Koshiro Shimada | Japan | 214.38 | 4 | 73.97 | 4 | 140.41 |
| 4 | Adam Siao Him Fa | France | 207.04 | 5 | 66.48 | 3 | 140.56 |
| 5 | Camden Pulkinen | United States | 197.68 | 1 | 80.31 | 6 | 117.37 |
| 6 | Tomoki Hiwatashi | United States | 190.80 | 6 | 62.48 | 5 | 128.32 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Alena Kostornaia | Russia | 217.98 | 1 | 76.32 | 1 | 141.66 |
| 2 | Alexandra Trusova | Russia | 215.20 | 2 | 74.43 | 2 | 140.77 |
| 3 | Alena Kanysheva | Russia | 198.14 | 3 | 68.66 | 3 | 129.48 |
| 4 | Anastasia Tarakanova | Russia | 190.46 | 5 | 61.78 | 4 | 128.68 |
| 5 | Anna Shcherbakova | Russia | 181.83 | 6 | 56.26 | 5 | 125.57 |
| 6 | Kim Ye-lim | South Korea | 177.91 | 4 | 62.51 | 6 | 115.40 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov | Russia | 190.63 | 3 | 64.37 | 1 | 126.26 |
| 2 | Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin | Russia | 189.53 | 1 | 66.84 | 2 | 122.69 |
| 3 | Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov | Russia | 186.59 | 2 | 66.44 | 3 | 120.15 |
| 4 | Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov | Russia | 172.51 | 4 | 62.04 | 4 | 110.47 |
| 5 | Anastasia Poluianova / Dmitry Sopot | Russia | 158.33 | 5 | 59.28 | 5 | 99.05 |
| WD | Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman | United States | withdrew | 6 | 49.82 | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | RD | RD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko | Russia | 170.66 | 1 | 67.73 | 2 | 102.93 |
| 2 | Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov | Russia | 170.65 | 2 | 67.49 | 1 | 103.16 |
| 3 | Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov | Russia | 164.54 | 3 | 66.29 | 4 | 98.25 |
| 4 | Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha | Canada | 164.51 | 4 | 66.25 | 3 | 98.26 |
| 5 | Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik | United States | 158.47 | 5 | 63.73 | 5 | 94.74 |
| 6 | Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya | Georgia | 148.76 | 6 | 57.51 | 6 | 91.25 |