2016–17 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2016–17 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and ISU Junior Grand Prix Final took place from 8 to 11 December 2016 at the Palais omnisports Marseille Grand-Est in Marseille, France.^[1] Marseille was announced as the host on 27 October 2015.^[2] The combined event is the culmination of two international series — the Grand Prix of Figure Skating and the Junior Grand Prix.^[3] Medals will be awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.

2016–17 Grand Prix Final
Type:	Grand Prix
Date:	December 8 – 11, 2016
Season:	2016–17
Location:	Marseille, France
Host:	FFSG
Venue:	Palais omnisports Marseille Grand-Est
Champions
Men's singles: Yuzuru Hanyu (S) Dmitri Aliev (J)
Ladies' singles: Evgenia Medvedeva (S) Alina Zagitova (J)
Pairs: Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (S) Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev (J)
Ice dance: Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (S) Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons (J)
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Previous Grand Prix: 2016 NHK Trophy

Records

See also: List of highest historical scores in figure skating and List of highest historical junior scores in figure skating

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:

Event	Component	Skater(s)	Score	Date	Ref
Junior ladies	Short program	Alina Zagitova	70.92	8 December 2016	[4]
	Free skating	Anastasiia Gubanova	133.77	9 December 2016	[4]
		Alina Zagitova	136.51		[4]
	Total score	Alina Zagitova	207.43		[4]
Ice dancing	Short dance	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	80.50		[5]
Ladies	Short program	Evgenia Medvedeva	79.21		[6]
Junior men	Total score	Dmitri Aliev	240.07	10 December 2016	[7]
Ice dancing	Total score	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	197.22		[8]

Two consecutive world records has been set in back to back performances during the junior ladies free skating segment by russian ladies Anastasiia Gubanova, who became the first junior lady to break the 130-points barrier, and Alina Zagitova, who outscored her by almost 3 points.

Zagitova also became the first junior lady to break the 70-points barrier in the short program, Dmitri Aliev the first junior man to break the 240-points barrier for the total score, while Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir became the first ice dancers to break the 80-points barrier in the short dance.

Schedule

(Local time)

Thursday, December 8

• 14:05 - Junior: Short dance
• 15:20 - Junior: Men's short
• 16:25 - Junior: Pairs' short
• 17:40 - Junior: Ladies' short
• Opening ceremony
• 19:45 - Senior: Pairs' short
• 21:10 - Senior: Men's short

Friday, December 9

• 15:45 - Junior: Free dance
• 17:05 - Junior: Ladies' free
• 19:05 - Senior: Short dance
• 20:20 - Senior: Pairs' free
• 21:45 - Senior: Ladies' short

Saturday, December 10

• 14:00 - Junior: Men's free
• 15:20 - Junior: Pairs' free
• 16:45 - Senior: Free dance
• 19:00 - Senior: Ladies' free
• 20:20 - Senior: Men's free
• Awards ceremony

Sunday, December 11

• Gala exhibition

Qualifiers

Senior-level qualifiers

	Men[9]	Ladies[10]	Pairs[11]	Ice dancing[12]
1	Javier Fernández	Evgenia Medvedeva	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
2	Patrick Chan	Anna Pogorilaya	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (withdrew)	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
3	Yuzuru Hanyu	Elena Radionova	Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
4	Shoma Uno	Kaetlyn Osmond	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
5	Nathan Chen	Maria Sotskova	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
6	Adam Rippon	Satoko Miyahara	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Alternates
1st	Jin Boyang	Ashley Wagner	Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert (called up)	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
2nd	Sergei Voronov	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
3rd	Oleksii Bychenko	Mai Mihara	Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

Junior-level qualifiers

	Men[13]	Ladies[14]	Pairs[15]	Ice dance[16]
1	Alexander Samarin	Anastasiia Gubanova	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd
2	Cha Jun-hwan	Polina Tsurskaya (withdrew)	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
3	Alexei Krasnozhon	Rika Kihira	Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
4	Roman Savosin	Kaori Sakamoto	Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov	Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron
5	Ilia Skirda	Alina Zagitova	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
6	Dmitri Aliev	Marin Honda	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot (withdrew)	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov
Alternates
1st	Vincent Zhou	Elizaveta Nugumanova (called up)	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor (called up)	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin
2nd	Andrew Torgashev	Stanislava Konstantinova	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson	Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov
3rd	Roman Sadovsky	Yuna Shiraiwa	Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland	Nicole Kuzmich / Alexandr Sinicyn

Changes

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason/Other notes	Refs
November 29	Junior ladies	Polina Tsurskaya	Elizaveta Nugumanova	Knee injury	[14][17]
November 29	Junior pairs	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	—	[17]
December 2	Senior pairs	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert	Ankle injury	[11][18]

Medalists

Senior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Yuzuru Hanyu	Nathan Chen	Shoma Uno
Ladies	Evgenia Medvedeva	Satoko Miyahara	Anna Pogorilaya
Pairs	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Ice dancing	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

Junior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Dmitri Aliev	Alexander Samarin	Cha Jun-hwan
Ladies	Alina Zagitova	Anastasiia Gubanova	Kaori Sakamoto
Pairs	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii
Ice dancing	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

Medals table

Senior

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	2	0	1	3
2	Japan (JPN)	1	1	1	3
3	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
4	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
5	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

Junior

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	3	3	1	7
2	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
4	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		4	4	4	12

Senior-level results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	293.90	1	106.53	3	187.37
2	Nathan Chen	United States	282.85	5	85.30	1	197.55
3	Shoma Uno	Japan	282.51	4	86.82	2	195.69
4	Javier Fernández	Spain	268.77	3	91.76	4	177.01
5	Patrick Chan	Canada	266.75	2	99.76	5	166.99
6	Adam Rippon	United States	233.10	6	83.93	6	149.17

Ladies

Evgenia Medvedeva set a new world record for the short program (79.21 points).^[6]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Evgenia Medvedeva	Russia	227.66	1	79.21	1	148.45
2	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	218.33	3	74.64	2	143.69
3	Anna Pogorilaya	Russia	216.47	4	73.29	3	143.18
4	Kaetlyn Osmond	Canada	212.45	2	75.54	4	136.91
5	Maria Sotskova	Russia	198.79	6	65.74	5	133.05
6	Elena Radionova	Russia	188.81	5	68.98	6	119.83

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	213.85	1	78.60	1	135.25
2	Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	China	206.71	2	75.34	3	131.37
3	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	205.99	3	71.44	2	134.55
4	Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert	Russia	188.32	5	65.79	5	122.53
5	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	186.85	6	60.86	4	125.99
6	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	China	183.19	4	70.84	6	112.35

Ice dancing

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a new world record for the short dance (80.50 points)^[5] and for the combined total (197.22 points).^[8]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	197.22	1	80.50	1	116.72
2	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	192.81	3	77.86	2	114.95
3	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	189.60	2	77.97	3	111.63
4	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Russia	181.95	4	74.04	5	107.91
5	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	179.59	5	72.47	6	107.12
6	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	179.32	6	70.87	4	108.45

Junior-level results

Men

Dmitri Aliev set a new junior world record for the combined total score (240.07 points).^[7]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Dmitri Aliev	Russia	240.07	1	81.37	1	158.70
2	Alexander Samarin	Russia	236.52	2	81.08	2	155.44
3	Cha Jun-hwan	South Korea	225.55	4	71.85	3	153.70
4	Roman Savosin	Russia	212.39	3	72.98	4	139.41
5	Alexei Krasnozhon	United States	208.85	5	71.48	6	137.37
6	Ilia Skirda	Russia	207.11	6	68.31	5	138.80

Ladies

Alina Zagitova set a new junior world record for the short program (70.92 points), for the free skating (136.51 points), and for the combined total (207.43 points). Anastasiia Gubanova set a new junior world record for the free skating (133.77 points) but Zagitova broke that record less than 10 minutes later.^[4]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Alina Zagitova	Russia	207.43	1	70.92	1	136.51
2	Anastasiia Gubanova	Russia	194.07	3	60.38	2	133.77
3	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	176.33	2	64.48	4	111.85
4	Rika Kihira	Japan	175.16	5	54.78	3	120.38
5	Elizaveta Nugumanova	Russia	170.08	4	58.34	5	111.74
WD	Marin Honda	Japan	withdrew	withdrew from competition

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Russia	180.63	1	64.73	1	115.90
2	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Czech Republic	167.76	2	61.38	2	106.38
3	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Russia	159.72	4	58.75	3	100.97
4	Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin	Russia	158.14	3	59.05	4	99.09
5	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Australia	141.36	5	57.08	5	84.28
6	Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov	Russia	139.50	6	56.78	6	82.72

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	United States	162.50	2	66.91	1	95.59
2	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd	Russia	161.87	1	67.58	2	94.29
3	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	United States	153.47	3	63.73	3	89.74
4	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	149.98	4	61.39	4	88.59
5	Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron	France	146.12	5	60.08	5	86.04
6	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov	Russia	140.64	6	59.29	6	81.35