# 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard

The 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard was a figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the French Federation of Ice Sports (French: Fédération française des sports de glace), and the fourth event of the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. It was held at the Meriadeck Ice Rink in Bordeaux, France, on 13 November 2015. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points based on their results, and the top skaters or teams in each discipline at the end of the season were then invited to compete at the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final in Barcelona, Spain.
The competition was cancelled after the first day following the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. The ISU later announced that the short program results would be considered the final results for the competition and any prize money and qualifying points for the Grand Prix Final were distributed. Shoma Uno of Japan won the men's event, Gracie Gold of the United States won the women's event, Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia won the pairs event, and Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of the United States won the ice dance event.


## Background
The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating is a series of seven events sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU) and held during the autumn: six qualifying events and the Grand Prix Final. This allows skaters to perfect their programs earlier in the season, as well as compete against the same skaters they will later encounter at the World Championships. The series also provides the viewing public with more televised skating. Skaters earn points based on their results in their respective competitions and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are invited to compete at the Grand Prix Final.
The 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard was the fourth of the six qualifying Grand Prix events. It was held at the Meriadeck Ice Rink in Bordeaux, France, on 13 November 2015. The cashmere manufacturer Éric Bompard had been the principal sponsor of the Grand Prix de France since 2003 and the competition bore the company's name.


## Changes to preliminary assignments
The International Skating Union (ISU) announced the preliminary list of entrants on 15 June 2015.


## Required performance elements
### Single skating
Men and women competing in single skating performed their short programs on Friday, 13 November. Lasting no more than 2 minutes 50 seconds, the short program had to include the following elements:
For men: one double or triple Axel; one triple or quadruple jump; one jump combination consisting of a double jump and a triple jump, two triple jumps, or a quadruple jump and a double jump or triple jump; one flying spin; one camel spin or sit spin with a change of foot; one spin combination with a change of foot; and a step sequence using the full ice surface.
For women: one double or triple Axel; one triple jump; one jump combination consisting of a double jump and a triple jump, or two triple jumps; one flying spin; one layback spin or sideways leaning spin; one spin combination with a change of foot; and one step sequence using the full ice surface.
Men and women would have performed their free skates on Saturday, 14 November, had the competition not been cancelled.


### Pair skating
Couples competing in pair skating performed their short programs on Friday, 13 November. Lasting no more than 2 minutes 50 seconds, it had to include the following elements: one hip lift, one double or triple twist lift, one double or triple throw jump, one double or triple solo jump, one solo spin combination with a change of foot, one death spiral, and a step sequence using the full ice surface.
Couples would have performed their free skates on Saturday, 14 November, had the competition not been cancelled.


### Ice dance
Couples competing in ice dance performed their short dance on Friday, 13 November. Lasting no more than 2 minutes 50 seconds, the required rhythms of the short dance this season were the waltz, plus any of the following: foxtrot, march, or polka. The required pattern dance element was the Waltz Rhythm. The rhythm dance had to include the following elements: two sections of the Ravensburger Waltz, one dance lift, one set of sequential twizzles, and one step sequence.
Couples would have performed their free dances on Saturday, 14 November, had the competition not been cancelled.


## Judging
For the 2015–2016 season, all of the technical elements in any figure skating performance – such as jumps, spins, and lifts – were assigned a predetermined base point value and were then scored by a panel of nine judges on a scale from -3 to +3 based on their quality of execution. The judging panel's Grade of Execution (GOE) was determined by calculating the trimmed mean (that is, an average after deleting the highest and lowest scores), and this GOE was added to the base value to come up with the final score for each element. The panel's scores for all elements were added together to generate a total element score. At the same time, judges evaluated each performance based on five program components – skating skills, transitions/footwork, performance/execution, choreography/composition, and interpretation of the music/timing – and assigned a score from .25 to 10 in .25 point increments. The judging panel's final score for each program component was also determined by calculating the trimmed mean. Those scores were then multiplied by the factor shown on the following chart; the results were added together to generate a total program component score.

Deductions were applied for certain violations like time infractions, stops and restarts, or falls. The total element score and total program component score were added together, minus any deductions, to generate a final performance score for each skater or team.


## November 2015 Paris attacks
A series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris and the northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis during an international soccer match after failing to gain entry to the stadium. Another group of attackers then fired on crowded cafés and restaurants in Paris, one also detonating an explosive and killing himself in the process. A third group carried out another mass shooting and took hostages at an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan theater, leading to a stand-off with police. The attackers were either shot or detonated suicide vests when police raided the theater. France had already been on high alert since the January 2015 attacks at the Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket in Paris that killed 17 people. 137 people were killed, including 90 at the Bataclan, and another 416 people were injured. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying that it was retaliation for French airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq. François Hollande, the president of France, decried the attacks as an "act of war" by the Islamic State. The attacks had been planned in Syria and organized by a terror cell based in Belgium. In response to the attacks, a three-month state of emergency was declared across the country.
The 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard was cancelled the day after the attacks. The French Federation of Ice Sports had hoped to be able to continue the competition, but Bernard Cazeneuve, Minister of the Interior, and Alain Juppé, mayor of Bordeaux, informed them that the competition must be cancelled due to France being in a state of emergency. The short programs had been completed on 13 November before the attacks began, but the free skating had been scheduled to be held the next day. American skater Gracie Gold described feeling anxious after first hearing of the attacks and seeing that one of the targets had been a soccer stadium. Anxiety gave way to sadness and numbness the next day when the skaters learned that the competition had been cancelled. "This is terrible," Gold wrote in her autobiography. "I won only because more than a hundred people died and hundreds of others were injured." On 23 November, the International Skating Union announced that the results of the short programs would be officially considered the final results for the competition, and the prize money and qualifying points for the Grand Prix Final were distributed on that basis.
Éric Bompard ended its sponsorship of the Grand Prix de France in 2016, citing the cancellation of the 2015 competition as a factor.  Losses from the 2014 Trophée Éric Bompard, which had been relocated from Paris to Bordeaux while the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy was undergoing renovations, diminishing television exposure, and the failure of the French Federation of Ice Sports to respond to the company's inquiries also influenced the decision.


## Medalists
## Results
### Men's singles
### Women's singles
### Pairs
### Ice dance
## References
## Works cited
"Special Regulations & Technical Rules – Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance 2014" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015.


## External links
2015 Trophée Éric Bompard at International Skating Union
French Federation of Ice Sports
2015 Trophée Éric Bompard at Skating Scores