# 2009 Skate America

The 2009 Skate America was the fifth event of six in the 2009–10 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York, on 12–15 November. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009–10 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.
The title sponsor was Cancer.Net.

## Schedule

All times are Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5).
* Friday, 13 November
** 15:00 – Ice dancing: Compulsory dance
** 19:30 – Pairs: Short program
** 21:00 – Men: Short program
* Saturday, 14 November
** 14:00 – Ice dancing: Original dance
** 15:55 – Pairs: Free skating
** 19:00 – Ladies: Short program
** 20:57 – Men: Free skating
* Sunday, 15 November
** 14:00 – Ladies: Free skating
** 16:27 – Ice dancing: Free dance

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Evan Lysacek | United States | 237.72 | 1 | 79.17 | 1 | 158.55 |
| 2 | Shawn Sawyer | Canada | 203.91 | 5 | 65.95 | 4 | 137.96 |
| 3 | Ryan Bradley | United States | 198.12 | 8 | 59.24 | 2 | 138.88 |
| 4 | Florent Amodio | France | 197.58 | 2 | 72.65 | 6 | 124.93 |
| 5 | Tomáš Verner | Czech Republic | 194.06 | 11 | 55.90 | 3 | 138.16 |
| 6 | Kevin Reynolds | Canada | 190.23 | 10 | 59.05 | 5 | 131.18 |
| 7 | Adrian Schultheiss | Sweden | 185.07 | 4 | 67.55 | 7 | 117.52 |
| 8 | Brandon Mroz | United States | 174.00 | 3 | 71.40 | 11 | 102.60 |
| 9 | Yasuharu Nanri | Japan | 168.84 | 7 | 59.35 | 8 | 109.49 |
| 10 | Andrei Lutai | Russia | 167.79 | 6 | 60.64 | 9 | 107.15 |
| 11 | Wu Jialiang | China | 164.26 | 9 | 59.16 | 10 | 105.10 |
| 12 | Igor Macypura | Slovakia | 144.02 | 12 | 51.45 | 12 | 92.57 |

### Ladies

* In the short program, Kim Yuna set an ISU World Record of 76.28 points.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Kim Yuna | South Korea | 187.98 | 1 | 76.28 | 2 | 111.70 |
| 2 | Rachael Flatt | United States | 174.91 | 2 | 58.80 | 1 | 116.11 |
| 3 | Júlia Sebestyén | Hungary | 159.03 | 3 | 58.54 | 3 | 100.49 |
| 4 | Fumie Suguri | Japan | 148.99 | 4 | 56.04 | 5 | 92.95 |
| 5 | Jelena Glebova | Estonia | 148.71 | 5 | 52.28 | 4 | 96.43 |
| 6 | Elene Gedevanishvili | Georgia | 144.19 | 6 | 52.18 | 6 | 92.01 |
| 7 | Emily Hughes | United States | 135.31 | 11 | 45.32 | 7 | 89.99 |
| 8 | Sarah Hecken | Germany | 131.10 | 12 | 43.86 | 8 | 87.24 |
| 9 | Joshi Helgesson | Sweden | 129.91 | 7 | 51.32 | 10 | 78.59 |
| 10 | Alexe Gilles | United States | 129.01 | 10 | 46.56 | 9 | 82.45 |
| 11 | Susanna Pöykiö | Finland | 124.22 | 9 | 46.72 | 11 | 77.50 |
| 12 | Tuğba Karademir | Turkey | 122.40 | 8 | 49.42 | 12 | 72.98 |

### Pairs

* In the short program, Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo tied the ISU World Record of 74.36 points.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo | China | 201.40 | 1 | 74.36 | 1 | 127.04 |
| 2 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov | Ukraine | 171.82 | 2 | 61.70 | 3 | 110.12 |
| 3 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China | 168.19 | 5 | 56.84 | 2 | 111.35 |
| 4 | Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker | United States | 165.37 | 4 | 58.54 | 4 | 106.83 |
| 5 | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | United States | 148.33 | 6 | 50.14 | 5 | 98.19 |
| 6 | Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski | United States | 139.58 | 7 | 49.52 | 6 | 90.06 |
| 7 | Stacey Kemp / David King | United Kingdom | 130.80 | 8 | 43.46 | 7 | 87.34 |
| WD | Meagan Duhamel / Craig Buntin | Canada | | 3 | 59.64 | | |
* WD = Withdrawn

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | United States | 195.85 | 1 | 39.28 | 1 | 60.95 | 1 | 95.62 |
| 2 | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | Italy | 171.86 | 3 | 32.04 | 2 | 54.09 | 3 | 85.73 |
| 3 | Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski | Israel | 171.77 | 4 | 31.93 | 3 | 51.90 | 2 | 87.94 |
| 4 | Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski | Russia | 168.25 | 2 | 36.94 | 5 | 49.53 | 4 | 81.78 |
| 5 | Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre | United States | 160.89 | 5 | 30.19 | 4 | 51.28 | 6 | 79.42 |
| 6 | Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein | United States | 153.92 | 7 | 28.88 | 8 | 44.55 | 5 | 80.49 |
| 7 | Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov | Russia | 152.43 | 6 | 29.32 | 6 | 46.64 | 7 | 76.47 |
| 8 | Caitlin Mallory / Kristjan Rand | Estonia | 143.50 | 9 | 26.89 | 7 | 44.58 | 9 | 72.03 |
| 9 | Zoé Blanc / Pierre-Loup Bouquet | France | 140.71 | 10 | 24.39 | 10 | 42.66 | 8 | 73.66 |
| 10 | Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen | China | 135.62 | 8 | 27.43 | 9 | 44.15 | 10 | 64.04 |