# 2017 Rostelecom Cup

The 2017 Rostelecom Cup was the first 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 Megasport Arena in Moscow on October 20–22. 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.

## Entries

The ISU published the preliminary assignments on May 26, 2017.
| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| Armenia | | Anastasia Galustyan | | |
| Austria | | | Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | |
| Canada | Nam Nguyen | | Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier |
| Czech Republic | | | | Nicole Kuzmichová / Alexandr Sinicyn |
| France | | Maé-Bérénice Méité | | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac |
| Georgia | Moris Kvitelashvili | | | |
| Germany | | Nicole Schott | | |
| Israel | Daniel Samohin | | | |
| Italy | | Carolina Kostner | Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri |
| Japan | Yuzuru Hanyu | Wakaba Higuchi Kaori Sakamoto | Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet | |
| Kazakhstan | Denis Ten | Elizabet Tursynbayeva | | |
| Latvia | Deniss Vasiļjevs | | | |
| Russia | Dmitri Aliev Mikhail Kolyada Andrei Lazukin | Evgenia Medvedeva Valeria Mikhailova Elena Radionova | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin |
| Turkey | | | | Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar |
| United States | Nathan Chen Grant Hochstein | Mariah Bell Mirai Nagasu | Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |
| Uzbekistan | Misha Ge | | | |

### Changes to preliminary assignments

| Discipline | Withdrew | Withdrew | Added | Added | Notes | Ref. |
| Discipline | Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | Notes | Ref. |
| Ladies | September 13 | Ivett Tóth | September 26 | Nicole Schott | Injury | |
| Men | — | — | September 14 | Andrei Lazukin | Host picks | |
| Pairs | — | — | September 14 | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov | Host picks | |
| Ice dance | — | — | September 14 | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin | Host picks | |
| Ladies | — | — | September 20 | Valeria Mikhailova | Host picks | |
| Pairs | September 20 | Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei | September 22 | Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | Injury (Xuehan) | |
| Ice dance | October 9 | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin | October 9 | Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov | Injury (Evdokimova) | |
| Ladies | October 9 | Park So-youn | October 10 | Anastasia Galustyan | Injury recovery | |
| Men | October 16 | Keiji Tanaka | October 16 | Moris Kvitelashvili | Injury | |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Nathan Chen | United States | 293.79 | 1 | 100.54 | 2 | 193.25 |
| 2 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Japan | 290.77 | 2 | 94.85 | 1 | 195.92 |
| 3 | Mikhail Kolyada | Russia | 271.06 | 4 | 85.79 | 3 | 185.27 |
| 4 | Misha Ge | Uzbekistan | 255.33 | 5 | 85.02 | 4 | 170.31 |
| 5 | Moris Kvitelashvili | Georgia | 250.26 | 8 | 80.67 | 5 | 169.59 |
| 6 | Dmitri Aliev | Russia | 239.61 | 3 | 88.77 | 7 | 150.84 |
| 7 | Nam Nguyen | Canada | 238.45 | 7 | 80.74 | 6 | 157.71 |
| 8 | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Latvia | 227.53 | 6 | 82.44 | 9 | 145.09 |
| 9 | Denis Ten | Kazakhstan | 214.35 | 10 | 69.00 | 8 | 145.35 |
| 10 | Andrei Lazukin | Russia | 212.14 | 9 | 78.54 | 11 | 133.60 |
| 11 | Grant Hochstein | United States | 206.09 | 11 | 67.56 | 10 | 138.53 |
| 12 | Daniel Samohin | Israel | 183.79 | 12 | 62.02 | 12 | 121.77 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Evgenia Medvedeva | Russia | 231.21 | 1 | 80.75 | 1 | 150.46 |
| 2 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 215.98 | 2 | 74.62 | 2 | 141.36 |
| 3 | Wakaba Higuchi | Japan | 207.17 | 3 | 69.60 | 3 | 137.57 |
| 4 | Elena Radionova | Russia | 195.52 | 5 | 68.75 | 4 | 126.77 |
| 5 | Kaori Sakamoto | Japan | 194.00 | 4 | 68.88 | 5 | 125.12 |
| 6 | Mariah Bell | United States | 188.56 | 7 | 63.85 | 6 | 124.71 |
| 7 | Valeria Mikhailova | Russia | 185.09 | 8 | 63.38 | 8 | 121.71 |
| 8 | Elizabet Tursynbayeva | Kazakhstan | 184.95 | 6 | 63.92 | 9 | 121.03 |
| 9 | Mirai Nagasu | United States | 178.25 | 9 | 56.15 | 7 | 122.10 |
| 10 | Nicole Schott | Germany | 168.72 | 10 | 55.55 | 10 | 113.17 |
| 11 | Maé-Bérénice Méité | France | 160.96 | 11 | 54.24 | 12 | 106.72 |
| 12 | Anastasia Galustyan | Armenia | 154.90 | 12 | 48.10 | 11 | 106.80 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 224.25 | 1 | 76.88 | 1 | 147.37 |
| 2 | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Russia | 204.43 | 2 | 71.39 | 2 | 133.04 |
| 3 | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov | Russia | 199.11 | 4 | 67.14 | 3 | 131.97 |
| 4 | Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek | Italy | 193.63 | 3 | 68.48 | 4 | 125.15 |
| 5 | Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Canada | 186.16 | 5 | 67.06 | 5 | 119.10 |
| 6 | Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | Austria | 175.06 | 6 | 59.35 | 7 | 115.71 |
| 7 | Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran | United States | 170.53 | 7 | 54.37 | 6 | 116.16 |
| 8 | Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet | Japan | 136.80 | 8 | 48.93 | 8 | 87.87 |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | United States | 189.24 | 1 | 77.30 | 1 | 111.94 |
| 2 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Russia | 184.74 | 2 | 76.33 | 2 | 108.41 |
| 3 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Russia | 179.35 | 3 | 71.32 | 3 | 108.03 |
| 4 | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | Canada | 172.29 | 4 | 69.67 | 4 | 102.62 |
| 5 | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | Italy | 171.37 | 5 | 68.99 | 5 | 102.38 |
| 6 | Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov | Russia | 164.02 | 6 | 64.14 | 6 | 99.88 |
| 7 | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | United States | 148.75 | 7 | 59.41 | 8 | 89.34 |
| 8 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | France | 147.19 | 8 | 55.64 | 7 | 91.55 |
| 9 | Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar | Turkey | 140.79 | 10 | 53.11 | 9 | 87.68 |
| 10 | Nicole Kuzmichová / Alexandr Sinicyn | Czech Republic | 136.81 | 9 | 54.39 | 10 | 82.42 |