# 2016 Rostelecom Cup

The 2016 Rostelecom Cup was the third event of six in the 2016–17 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Megasport Arena in Moscow on November 4–5. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final.

## Entries

The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 30, 2016.
| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| Armenia | | Anastasia Galustyan | | |
| Belarus | | | | Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev |
| Canada | Elladj Baldé | | Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje |
| China | | Li Zijun | | |
| Denmark | | | | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen |
| France | Chafik Besseghier | | | |
| Germany | | | Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot | |
| Israel | Oleksii Bychenko | | | |
| Italy | | Roberta Rodeghiero | Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri |
| Japan | Keiji Tanaka Shoma Uno | Yura Matsuda Kanako Murakami | | |
| Kazakhstan | | Elizabet Tursynbayeva | | |
| Latvia | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Angelīna Kučvaļska | | |
| Lithuania | | | Goda Butkutė / Nikita Ermolaev | |
| Russia | Artur Dmitriev Jr. Mikhail Kolyada Gordei Gorshkov | Yulia Lipnitskaya Anna Pogorilaya Elena Radionova | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin Natalja Zabijako / Alexander Enbert | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin |
| Slovakia | | Nicole Rajičová | | |
| Spain | Javier Fernández | | | |
| Sweden | Alexander Majorov | | | |
| Turkey | | | | Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar |
| United States | Max Aaron | Courtney Hicks | | Madison Chock / Evan Bates Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit |

### Changes to preliminary assignments

| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes |
| September 15 | Men | N/A | Gordei Gorshkov | Host pick |
| September 15 | Ice dancing | N/A | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin | Host pick |
| September 28 and 30 | Pairs | Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | Goda Butkutė / Nikita Ermolaev | Illness (Scimeca) |
| October 12 and 17 | Ladies | Polina Edmunds | Anastasia Galustyan | Injury |
| October 17 | Pairs | Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro | Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe | |
| October 17 and 20 | Pairs | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin | |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Javier Fernández | Spain | 292.98 | 2 | 91.55 | 1 | 201.43 |
| 2 | Shoma Uno | Japan | 285.07 | 1 | 98.59 | 2 | 186.48 |
| 3 | Oleksii Bychenko | Israel | 255.52 | 4 | 86.81 | 3 | 168.71 |
| 4 | Mikhail Kolyada | Russia | 245.30 | 3 | 90.28 | 6 | 155.02 |
| 5 | Max Aaron | United States | 235.58 | 8 | 73.64 | 4 | 161.94 |
| 6 | Elladj Baldé | Canada | 225.45 | 6 | 76.36 | 8 | 149.09 |
| 7 | Keiji Tanaka | Japan | 224.91 | 10 | 69.13 | 5 | 155.78 |
| 8 | Chafik Besseghier | France | 223.98 | 5 | 80.68 | 10 | 143.30 |
| 9 | Gordei Gorshkov | Russia | 223.51 | 9 | 73.37 | 7 | 150.14 |
| 10 | Artur Dmitriev Jr. | Russia | 221.52 | 7 | 76.06 | 9 | 145.46 |
| 11 | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Latvia | 203.77 | 12 | 62.40 | 11 | 141.37 |
| 12 | Alexander Majorov | Sweden | 192.14 | 11 | 67.80 | 12 | 124.34 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Anna Pogorilaya | Russia | 215.21 | 1 | 73.93 | 1 | 141.28 |
| 2 | Elena Radionova | Russia | 195.60 | 2 | 71.93 | 2 | 123.67 |
| 3 | Courtney Hicks | United States | 182.98 | 6 | 63.68 | 3 | 119.30 |
| 4 | Li Zijun | China | 181.83 | 5 | 63.89 | 4 | 117.94 |
| 5 | Elizabet Tursynbayeva | Kazakhstan | 181.32 | 4 | 64.31 | 5 | 117.01 |
| 6 | Yura Matsuda | Japan | 177.65 | 7 | 61.57 | 6 | 116.08 |
| 7 | Nicole Rajičová | Slovakia | 167.56 | 8 | 57.91 | 7 | 109.65 |
| 8 | Roberta Rodeghiero | Italy | 159.80 | 12 | 52.57 | 8 | 107.23 |
| 9 | Anastasia Galustyan | Armenia | 159.26 | 9 | 55.93 | 9 | 103.33 |
| 10 | Angelīna Kučvaļska | Latvia | 151.09 | 11 | 54.29 | 10 | 96.80 |
| 11 | Kanako Murakami | Japan | 151.03 | 10 | 55.25 | 11 | 95.78 |
| 12 | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Russia | 148.46 | 3 | 69.25 | 12 | 79.21 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot | Germany | 207.89 | 2 | 69.51 | 1 | 138.38 |
| 2 | Natalja Zabijako / Alexander Enbert | Russia | 197.77 | 1 | 69.76 | 2 | 128.01 |
| 3 | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov | Russia | 188.74 | 4 | 65.51 | 3 | 123.23 |
| 4 | Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek | Italy | 187.61 | 3 | 66.82 | 5 | 120.79 |
| 5 | Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Canada | 183.37 | 5 | 61.72 | 4 | 121.65 |
| 6 | Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe | Canada | 167.19 | 7 | 60.09 | 6 | 107.10 |
| 7 | Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin | Russia | 165.07 | 6 | 61.27 | 7 | 103.80 |
| 8 | Goda Butkutė / Nikita Ermolaev | Lithuania | 137.08 | 8 | 47.39 | 8 | 89.69 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Russia | 186.68 | 2 | 74.92 | 1 | 111.76 |
| 2 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | United States | 182.13 | 1 | 75.04 | 3 | 107.09 |
| 3 | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje | Canada | 178.57 | 3 | 69.81 | 2 | 108.76 |
| 4 | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | Italy | 170.45 | 4 | 67.72 | 4 | 102.73 |
| 5 | Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro | Russia | 156.95 | 5 | 64.28 | 5 | 92.67 |
| 6 | Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit | United States | 153.92 | 6 | 62.93 | 6 | 90.99 |
| 7 | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen | Denmark | 152.52 | 7 | 62.82 | 7 | 89.70 |
| 8 | Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar | Turkey | 143.90 | 8 | 59.31 | 8 | 84.59 |
| 9 | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin | Russia | 133.37 | 9 | 55.83 | 9 | 77.54 |
| 10 | Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev | Belarus | 129.55 | 10 | 54.64 | 10 | 74.91 |