# 2019 Skate America

The 2019 Skate America presented by American Cruise Lines was the first event in the 2019–20 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 18–20. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final.
Skate America was the first senior international event in International Skating Union history to be streamed live by the ISU on YouTube with geographical restrictions, as part of the federation's new deal for the 2019–20 Grand Prix series to reach countries that do not have broadcasting rights for any skating events.

## Entries

The ISU announced the preliminary assignments on June 20, 2019.
| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| Australia | | | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor | |
| Canada | Keegan Messing | Véronik Mallet | Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen |
| China | Jin Boyang | | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming |
| Czech Republic | Michal Březina | | | |
| France | | | | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac |
| Great Britain | | | Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji | |
| Hong Kong | | Yi Christy Leung | | |
| Israel | Alexei Bychenko | | | |
| Japan | Koshiro Shimada Kazuki Tomono | Wakaba Higuchi Kaori Sakamoto Mako Yamashita | | |
| Russia | Dmitri Aliev Roman Savosin | Stanislava Konstantinova Anna Shcherbakova Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro |
| South Korea | Cha Jun-hwan | Lim Eun-soo | | |
| Spain | | | | Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz |
| United States | Jason Brown Nathan Chen Alexei Krasnozhon | Karen Chen Amber Glenn Bradie Tennell | Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Caroline Green / Michael Parsons Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue |

### Changes to preliminary assignments

| Discipline | Withdrew | Withdrew | Added | Added | Notes | Ref. |
| Discipline | Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | Notes | Ref. |
| Men | — | — | September 10 | Alexei Krasnozhon | Host picks | |
| Ladies | — | — | September 10 | Amber Glenn | Host picks | |
| Pairs | — | — | September 10 | Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson | Host picks | |
| Ice dance | — | — | September 10 | Caroline Green / Michael Parsons | Host picks | |
| Pairs | October 1 | Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert | October 4 | Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji | Health (Enbert) | |
| Men | October 3 | Romain Ponsart | October 5 | Alexei Bychenko | | |
| Ladies | October 11 | Elizabet Tursynbaeva | October 14 | Yi Christy Leung | Injury | |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Nathan Chen | United States | 299.09 | 1 | 102.71 | 1 | 196.38 |
| 2 | Jason Brown | United States | 255.09 | 4 | 83.45 | 2 | 171.64 |
| 3 | Dmitri Aliev | Russia | 253.55 | 2 | 96.57 | 3 | 156.98 |
| 4 | Keegan Messing | Canada | 239.34 | 3 | 96.34 | 8 | 143.00 |
| 5 | Kazuki Tomono | Japan | 229.72 | 8 | 75.01 | 4 | 154.71 |
| 6 | Jin Boyang | China | 224.98 | 9 | 74.56 | 5 | 150.42 |
| 7 | Alexei Bychenko | Israel | 219.70 | 6 | 79.76 | 10 | 139.94 |
| 8 | Cha Jun-hwan | South Korea | 219.67 | 7 | 78.98 | 9 | 140.69 |
| 9 | Alexei Krasnozhon | United States | 216.59 | 10 | 72.30 | 6 | 144.29 |
| 10 | Koshiro Shimada | Japan | 216.03 | 11 | 72.12 | 7 | 143.91 |
| 11 | Michal Březina | Czech Republic | 213.17 | 5 | 81.11 | 11 | 132.06 |
| 12 | Roman Savosin | Russia | 182.16 | 12 | 57.92 | 12 | 124.24 |

### Ladies

Russia's Anna Shcherbakova became the first woman to land two quad lutzes in the free skate.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Anna Shcherbakova | Russia | 227.76 | 4 | 67.60 | 1 | 160.16 |
| 2 | Bradie Tennell | United States | 216.14 | 1 | 75.10 | 2 | 141.04 |
| 3 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Russia | 205.97 | 5 | 67.28 | 3 | 138.69 |
| 4 | Kaori Sakamoto | Japan | 202.47 | 2 | 73.25 | 4 | 129.22 |
| 5 | Lim Eun-soo | South Korea | 184.50 | 8 | 63.96 | 5 | 120.54 |
| 6 | Wakaba Higuchi | Japan | 181.32 | 3 | 71.76 | 6 | 109.56 |
| 7 | Amber Glenn | United States | 169.63 | 7 | 64.71 | 9 | 104.92 |
| 8 | Karen Chen | United States | 165.67 | 6 | 66.03 | 10 | 99.64 |
| 9 | Yi Christy Leung | Hong Kong | 163.68 | 10 | 54.25 | 7 | 109.43 |
| 10 | Véronik Mallet | Canada | 161.75 | 9 | 56.69 | 8 | 105.06 |
| 11 | Stanislava Konstantinova | Russia | 143.39 | 11 | 48.27 | 12 | 95.12 |
| 12 | Mako Yamashita | Japan | 142.40 | 12 | 46.21 | 11 | 96.19 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | China | 200.89 | 1 | 72.73 | 1 | 128.16 |
| 2 | Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin | Russia | 196.98 | 2 | 71.25 | 3 | 125.73 |
| 3 | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | United States | 192.70 | 4 | 65.18 | 2 | 127.52 |
| 4 | Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson | United States | 180.52 | 5 | 61.27 | 4 | 119.25 |
| 5 | Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc | United States | 177.54 | 3 | 68.20 | 5 | 109.34 |
| 6 | Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe | Canada | 155.16 | 7 | 54.63 | 6 | 100.53 |
| 7 | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor | Australia | 152.94 | 6 | 55.06 | 7 | 97.88 |
| 8 | Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji | United Kingdom | 138.79 | 8 | 47.92 | 8 | 90.87 |

### Ice dance

The scores for the rhythm dance were initially calculated erroneously, omitting the Grade of Execution points for the man's half of the pattern step. Hours later, the scores were revised to reflect the proper point totals.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | RD | RD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | United States | 209.55 | 1 | 84.97 | 2 | 124.58 |
| 2 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Russia | 206.57 | 2 | 81.91 | 1 | 124.66 |
| 3 | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | Canada | 197.53 | 3 | 79.17 | 3 | 118.36 |
| 4 | Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz | Spain | 191.01 | 4 | 76.62 | 4 | 114.39 |
| 5 | Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro | Russia | 181.82 | 5 | 71.18 | 5 | 110.64 |
| 6 | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko | United States | 180.55 | 6 | 70.41 | 6 | 110.14 |
| 7 | Caroline Green / Michael Parsons | United States | 173.03 | 8 | 67.97 | 7 | 105.06 |
| 8 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | France | 167.14 | 7 | 68.23 | 9 | 98.91 |
| 9 | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko | Russia | 166.51 | 9 | 66.79 | 8 | 99.72 |
| 10 | Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming | China | 159.94 | 10 | 61.74 | 10 | 98.20 |