# 2008–09 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2008–09 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final was the senior and junior Grand Prix Final competition of the 2008–09 season. It was the culminating competition of the 2008–09 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition, and the 2008–09 ISU Junior Grand Prix, a junior-level international competition. The junior and senior finals were hosted together for the first time.
Skaters had earned points towards qualifying for the senior Grand Prix Final at the 2008 Skate America, the 2008 Skate Canada International, the 2008 Cup of China, the 2008 Trophée Eric Bompard, the 2008 Cup of Russia, and the 2008 NHK Trophy. Skaters had earned points towards qualifying for the junior Grand Prix Final at each of the eight Junior Grand Prix events. The six highest ranking skaters/teams from the Grand Prix series and the eight highest ranking skaters/teams from the Junior Grand Prix met at the Grand Prix Final.
Hosted by the Korea Skating Union, the Grand Prix Final was held in Goyang, South Korea from December 10 to 14, 2008. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.
Unlike the other events in both series, there was no compulsory dance portion of the competition. Ice dancers were ranked in the original dance starting order in reverse order of their qualification to the Final.

## Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+9).
* Thursday, December 11
** 16:00 Opening ceremony
** 16:45 Junior ice dancing - Original dance
** 18:10 Junior men - Short program
** 19:35 Junior pairs - Short program
** 21:00 Junior ladies - Short program
* Friday, December 12
** 14:24 Junior pairs - Free skating
** 16:00 Junior men - Free skating
** 18:00 Senior ice dancing - Original dance
** 19:10 Senior men - Short program
** 20:15 Senior ladies - Short program
** 21:20 Senior pairs - Short program
* Saturday, December 13
** 14:00 Junior ice dancing - Free dance
** 15:25 Junior ladies - Free skating
** 17:30 Senior ice dancing - Free dance
** 18:50 Senior men - Free skating
** 20:05 Senior ladies - Free skating
** 21:45 Senior pairs - Free skating
* Sunday, December 14
** 14:00 Gala exhibition

## Qualifiers
### Senior-level qualifiers

The following skaters qualified for the Grand Prix Final, in order of qualification.
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Patrick Chan | Kim Yuna | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder |
| 2 | Takahiko Kozuka | Joannie Rochette | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin |
| 3 | Johnny Weir | Mao Asada | Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali |
| 4 | Brian Joubert | Carolina Kostner | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski |
| 5 | Jeremy Abbott | Yukari Nakano | Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov | Meryl Davis / Charlie White |
| 6 | Tomáš Verner | Miki Ando | Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto |
| Alternates |||||
| 1st | Alban Préaubert | Fumie Suguri | Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker | Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat |
| 2nd | Evan Lysacek | Rachael Flatt | Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison | Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier |
| 3rd | Yannick Ponsero | Alissa Czisny | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin | Sinead Kerr / John Kerr |

### Junior-level qualifiers

The following skaters qualified for the 2008–09 Junior Grand Prix Final, in order of qualification.
* Michal Březina, the second qualifier in the men's event, withdrew on December 1. Artur Gachinski, the first alternate, replaced him.
* Piper Gilles / Zachary Donohue, the fifth qualifiers in the ice dancing event, withdrew due to an injury to Gilles. Marina Antipova / Artem Kudashev, the first alternates, replaced them.
* Ekaterina Sheremetieva / Mikhail Kuznetsov, the first alternates in the pairs event, withdrew on December 1.
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Richard Dornbush | Kristine Musademba | Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze | Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell |
| 2 | Michal Březina (WD) | Yukiko Fujisawa | Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov | Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein |
| 3 | Armin Mahbanoozadeh | Alexe Gilles | Sabina Imaikina / Andrei Novoselov | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |
| 4 | Alexander Johnson | Kanako Murakami | Ksenia Krasilnikova / Konstantin Bezmaternikh | Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro |
| 5 | Florent Amodio | Amanda Dobbs | Ksenia Ozerova / Alexander Enbert | Piper Gilles / Zachary Donohue (WD) |
| 6 | Ivan Bariev | Becky Bereswill | Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran | Alisa Agafonova / Dmitri Dun |
| 7 | Denis Ten | Angela Maxwell | Zhang Yue / Wang Lei | Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill |
| 8 | Elladj Baldé | Diane Szmiett | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | Ekaterina Pushkash / Dmitri Kiselev |
| Alternates |||||
| 1st | Artur Gachinski (called up) | Stefania Berton | Ekaterina Sheremetieva / Mikhail Kuznetsov (WD) | Marina Antipova / Artem Kudashev (called up) |
| 2nd | Keegan Messing | Sarah Hecken | Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers | Karen Routhier / Eric Saucke-Lacelle |
| 3rd | Cheng Gongming | Shoko Ishikawa | Anaïs Morand / Antoine Dorsaz | Lucie Myslivečková / Matěj Novák |

## Senior-level results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Jeremy Abbott | United States | 237.72 | 2 | 78.26 | 1 | 159.46 |
| 2 | Takahiko Kozuka | Japan | 224.63 | 1 | 83.90 | 3 | 140.73 |
| 3 | Johnny Weir | United States | 215.50 | 4 | 72.50 | 2 | 143.00 |
| 4 | Tomáš Verner | Czech Republic | 206.65 | 5 | 69.34 | 4 | 137.31 |
| 5 | Patrick Chan | Canada | 205.16 | 6 | 68.00 | 5 | 137.16 |
| WD | Brian Joubert | France | | 3 | 74.55 | | |

### Ladies

This was Mao Asada’s second win.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Mao Asada | Japan | 188.55 | 2 | 65.38 | 1 | 123.17 |
| 2 | Kim Yuna | South Korea | 186.35 | 1 | 65.94 | 2 | 120.41 |
| 3 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 168.01 | 4 | 55.88 | 4 | 112.13 |
| 4 | Joannie Rochette | Canada | 166.36 | 6 | 50.48 | 3 | 115.88 |
| 5 | Yukari Nakano | Japan | 161.93 | 3 | 62.08 | 6 | 99.85 |
| 6 | Miki Ando | Japan | 158.25 | 5 | 55.44 | 5 | 102.81 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | China | 191.49 | 3 | 66.24 | 1 | 125.25 |
| 2 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China | 188.22 | 2 | 68.34 | 2 | 119.88 |
| 3 | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | Germany | 185.09 | 1 | 70.14 | 3 | 114.95 |
| 4 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov | Ukraine | 175.83 | 4 | 64.08 | 5 | 111.75 |
| 5 | Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov | Russia | 167.45 | 6 | 55.42 | 4 | 112.03 |
| 6 | Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov | Russia | 153.16 | 5 | 61.56 | 6 | 91.60 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | France | 156.10 | 1 | 60.35 | 1 | 95.75 |
| 2 | Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin | Russia | 152.95 | 2 | 59.33 | 2 | 93.62 |
| 3 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | United States | 148.04 | 5 | 55.89 | 3 | 92.15 |
| 4 | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali | Italy | 145.12 | 3 | 57.89 | 4 | 87.23 |
| WD | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | United States | | 4 | 57.33 | | |
| WD | Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski | Russia | | | | | |

## Junior-level results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Florent Amodio | France | 199.58 | 1 | 68.20 | 1 | 131.38 |
| 2 | Armin Mahbanoozadeh | United States | 193.48 | 2 | 67.05 | 2 | 126.43 |
| 3 | Richard Dornbush | United States | 183.93 | 3 | 66.50 | 4 | 117.43 |
| 4 | Ivan Bariev | Russia | 180.65 | 5 | 63.75 | 5 | 116.90 |
| 5 | Denis Ten | Kazakhstan | 180.34 | 7 | 60.59 | 3 | 119.75 |
| 6 | Alexander Johnson | United States | 178.40 | 4 | 64.85 | 6 | 113.55 |
| 7 | Elladj Baldé | Canada | 170.34 | 8 | 59.89 | 7 | 110.45 |
| 8 | Artur Gachinski | Russia | 168.68 | 6 | 62.20 | 8 | 106.48 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Becky Bereswill | United States | 146.69 | 4 | 48.68 | 2 | 98.01 |
| 2 | Yukiko Fujisawa | Japan | 145.92 | 7 | 44.48 | 1 | 101.44 |
| 3 | Alexe Gilles | United States | 144.49 | 1 | 54.24 | 4 | 90.25 |
| 4 | Kanako Murakami | Japan | 141.63 | 2 | 51.04 | 3 | 90.59 |
| 5 | Angela Maxwell | United States | 131.75 | 3 | 48.84 | 5 | 82.91 |
| 6 | Kristine Musademba | United States | 122.86 | 8 | 43.04 | 6 | 79.82 |
| 7 | Amanda Dobbs | United States | 117.07 | 5 | 47.48 | 7 | 69.59 |
| 8 | Diane Szmiett | Canada | 113.25 | 6 | 45.64 | 8 | 67.61 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze | Russia | 149.38 | 1 | 56.88 | 1 | 92.50 |
| 2 | Zhang Yue / Wang Lei | China | 137.92 | 4 | 50.22 | 3 | 87.70 |
| 3 | Ksenia Krasilnikova / Konstantin Bezmaternikh | Russia | 137.22 | 2 | 51.54 | 5 | 85.68 |
| 4 | Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov | Russia | 137.03 | 3 | 50.60 | 4 | 86.43 |
| 5 | Sabina Imaikina / Andrei Novoselov | Russia | 134.91 | 5 | 46.04 | 2 | 88.87 |
| 6 | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | United States | 126.40 | 6 | 44.84 | 6 | 81.56 |
| 7 | Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran | Japan | 106.04 | 8 | 34.24 | 7 | 71.80 |
| WD | Ksenia Ozerova / Alexander Enbert | Russia | | 7 | 43.46 | | |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein | United States | 131.15 | 1 | 51.84 | 1 | 79.31 |
| 2 | Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell | United States | 124.68 | 6 | 47.98 | 2 | 76.70 |
| 3 | Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro | Russia | 124.30 | 2 | 50.85 | 4 | 73.45 |
| 4 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | United States | 120.60 | 7 | 47.05 | 3 | 73.55 |
| 5 | Ekaterina Pushkash / Dmitri Kiselev | Russia | 120.35 | 5 | 48.59 | 5 | 71.76 |
| 6 | Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill | Canada | 120.09 | 4 | 48.72 | 6 | 71.37 |
| 7 | Alisa Agafonova / Dmitri Dun | Ukraine | 119.38 | 3 | 49.45 | 7 | 69.93 |
| 8 | Marina Antipova / Artem Kudashev | Russia | 111.43 | 8 | 43.64 | 8 | 67.79 |

## Medals table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States (USA) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | France (FRA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | China (CHN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Russia (RUS) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |