2017 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

The 2017 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2016–17 figure skating season. It was held at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea on February 16–19.^[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The competition served as the figure skating test event for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

2017 Four Continents Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 15 – 19
Season:	2016–17
Location:	Gangneung, South Korea
Host:	Korea Skating Union
Venue:	Gangneung Ice Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Nathan Chen
Ladies' singles: Mai Mihara
Pairs: Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
Ice dance: Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
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Qualification

The competition was open to skaters from non-European member nations of the International Skating Union who reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2016. The corresponding competition for European skaters was the 2017 European Figure Skating Championships.

Each National Federation from the four represented regions were permitted to send up to three skaters/couples for each discipline. National Federations could select their entries based on their own criteria, as long as the selected skater/couples attained a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international senior event prior to the Four Continents.

Minimum TES

Minimum technical scores (TES)[2]
Discipline	SP / SD	FS / FD
Men	25	45
Ladies	20	36
Pairs	20	36
Ice dance	19	29
Must be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores may be attained at different events.

Entries

A total of 111 athletes (26 men, 23 ladies, 15 pair teams, and 16 ice dancing teams) competed at the championship. The ISU published a list of entries on 27 January:

Country	Men[3]	Ladies[4]	Pairs[5]	Ice dancing[6]
Australia[7]	Andrew Dodds Brendan Kerry Mark Webster	Kailani Craine Brooklee Han	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Matilda Friend / William Badaoui Kimberley Hew-Low / Timothy McKernan Adele Morrison / Demid Rokachev
Canada[8]	Patrick Chan Kevin Reynolds Nam Nguyen	Alaine Chartrand Gabrielle Daleman Kaetlyn Osmond	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
China	Jin Boyang Yan Han	Li Xiangning Li Zijun Zhao Ziquan	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	Chen Hong / Zhao Yan Song Linshu / Sun Zhuoming Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
Chinese Taipei	Micah Tang Chih-I Tsao	Amy Lin
Hong Kong	Leslie Man Cheuk Ip Harry Hau Yin Lee Harrison Jon-Yen Wong	Maisy Hiu Ching Ma
Japan[9]	Yuzuru Hanyu Shoma Uno Keiji Tanaka	Wakaba Higuchi Rika Hongo Mai Mihara	Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau Audet Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara	Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed
Kazakhstan		Elizabet Tursynbayeva
Malaysia	Kai Xiang Chew Julian Zhi Jie Yee
Philippines	Michael Christian Martinez
South Korea	Kim Jin-seo Lee June-hyoung Lee Si-Hyeong	Choi Da-bin Kim Na-hyun Son Suh-hyun	Ji Min-ji / Themistocles Leftheris Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kang-chan Kam Kim Su-yeon / Kim Hyung-tae	Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin
Singapore		Chloe Ing Yu Shuran
South Africa		Michaela du Toit
United States[10]	Jason Brown Nathan Chen Grant Hochstein	Mariah Bell Karen Chen Mirai Nagasu	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Madison Chock / Evan Bates Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
Uzbekistan	Misha Ge

Changes to initial assignments

Announced	Country	Discipline	Initial	Replacement	Reason/Other notes
February 7, 2017	Kazakhstan	Men	Abzal Rakimgaliev	N/A	[3]
February 7, 2017	Japan	Ladies	Satoko Miyahara	Rika Hongo	Stress fracture[11]
February 9, 2017	Kazakhstan	Men	Denis Ten	N/A	[3]

Competition schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+9).

Discipline	Event	Start
Thursday, 16 February
Ice Dancing	Short dance	11:00
Pairs	Short program	14:15
	Opening ceremony	17:30
Ladies	Short program	18:30
Friday, 17 February
Ice dancing	Free dance	13:30
Ice dancing	Victory ceremony	16:20
Men	Short program	17:45
Saturday, 18 February
Pairs	Free skating	14:00
Pairs	Victory ceremony	16:55
Ladies	Free skating	18:00
Ladies	Victory ceremony	21:50
Sunday, 19 February
Men	Free skating	11:00
Men	Victory ceremony	15:10
	Exhibition gala	17:30

Results

Men

The last warm-up group in Men's free skating

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Nathan Chen	United States	307.46	1	103.12	2	204.34
2	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	303.71	3	97.04	1	206.67
3	Shoma Uno	Japan	288.05	2	100.28	3	187.77
4	Patrick Chan	Canada	267.98	5	88.46	4	179.52
5	Jin Boyang	China	267.51	4	91.33	5	176.18
6	Jason Brown	United States	245.85	9	80.77	6	165.08
7	Misha Ge	Uzbekistan	239.41	8	81.85	8	157.56
8	Nam Nguyen	Canada	237.08	13	72.99	7	164.09
9	Grant Hochstein	United States	235.72	7	81.94	9	153.78
10	Yan Han	China	235.45	6	84.08	10	151.37
11	Brendan Kerry	Australia	227.39	10	78.11	11	149.28
12	Kevin Reynolds	Canada	222.31	12	76.36	12	145.95
13	Keiji Tanaka	Japan	220.18	11	77.55	13	142.63
14	Michael Christian Martinez	Philippines	214.15	14	72.47	14	141.68
15	Julian Zhi Jie Yee	Malaysia	202.67	15	72.21	16	130.46
16	Lee Si-hyeong	South Korea	195.72	17	65.40	17	130.32
17	Kim Jin-seo	South Korea	195.05	18	64.26	15	130.79
18	Lee June-hyoung	South Korea	187.58	16	67.55	18	120.03
19	Chih-I Tsao	Chinese Taipei	169.63	22	51.02	19	118.61
20	Andrew Dodds	Australia	162.05	19	60.17	21	101.88
21	Mark Webster	Australia	160.03	20	54.92	20	105.11
22	Leslie Man Cheuk Ip	Hong Kong	146.74	21	52.86	22	93.88
23	Kai Xiang Chew	Malaysia	138.46	23	47.38	23	91.08
24	Micah Tang	Chinese Taipei	135.79	24	46.41	24	89.38
did not advance to Free Skating
25	Harry Hau Yin Lee	Hong Kong	—	25	45.27	—
26	Harrison Jon-Yen Wong	Hong Kong	—	26	45.12	—

Ladies

The ladies podium at the 2017 Four Continents Championships

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Mai Mihara	Japan	200.85	4	66.51	1	134.34
2	Gabrielle Daleman	Canada	196.91	1	68.25	3	128.66
3	Mirai Nagasu	United States	194.95	5	62.91	2	132.04
4	Kaetlyn Osmond	Canada	184.17	2	68.21	6	115.96
5	Choi Da-bin	South Korea	182.41	6	61.62	4	120.79
6	Mariah Bell	United States	177.10	7	61.21	7	115.89
7	Li Zijun	China	177.05	8	60.37	5	116.68
8	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Kazakhstan	176.65	3	66.87	11	109.78
9	Wakaba Higuchi	Japan	172.05	10	58.83	9	113.22
10	Rika Hongo	Japan	167.42	9	59.16	13	108.26
11	Alaine Chartrand	Canada	167.12	14	53.64	8	113.48
12	Karen Chen	United States	166.82	12	55.60	10	111.22
13	Li Xiangning	China	164.85	11	55.73	12	109.12
14	Brooklee Han	Australia	152.05	16	48.44	14	103.61
15	Zhao Ziquan	China	147.37	15	49.97	15	97.40
16	Kailani Craine	Australia	136.91	13	54.70	17	82.21
17	Amy Lin	Chinese Taipei	125.02	18	45.40	19	79.62
18	Maisy Ma	Hong Kong	124.65	19	43.55	18	81.10
19	Son Suh-hyun	South Korea	122.35	22	38.61	16	83.74
20	Chloe Ing	Singapore	120.18	21	41.61	20	78.57
21	Shuran Yu	Singapore	118.40	20	43.26	21	75.14
WD	Kim Na-hyun	South Korea	withdrew	17	45.95	withdrew from competition
WD	Michaela du Toit	South Africa	withdrew	23	33.39	withdrew from competition

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	China	225.03	1	80.75	1	144.28
2	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	212.23	3	74.31	2	137.92
3	Liubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch	Canada	205.31	4	73.04	4	132.27
4	Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	China	203.40	2	75.20	5	128.20
5	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	China	202.92	7	66.44	3	136.48
6	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	United States	193.91	6	69.10	6	124.81
7	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Canada	192.35	5	70.89	7	121.46
8	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	United States	179.45	8	63.39	8	116.06
9	Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc	United States	168.87	9	62.58	10	106.27
10	Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet	Japan	164.96	10	58.14	9	106.82
11	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Australia	154.10	11	56.10	11	98.00
12	Kim Su-yeon / Kim Hyung-tae	South Korea	140.68	13	49.88	12	90.80
13	Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	130.85	12	50.48	14	80.37
14	Ji Min-ji / Themistocles Leftheris	South Korea	129.19	14	45.81	13	83.38
15	Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kang-chan Kam	South Korea	118.91	15	41.06	15	77.85

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	196.95	1	79.75	1	117.20
2	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	191.85	2	76.59	2	115.26
3	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	185.58	3	74.67	3	110.91
4	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	180.82	4	73.79	6	107.03
5	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	180.09	5	71.15	4	108.94
6	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	170.14	7	61.21	5	108.93
7	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	China	154.23	6	61.45	7	92.78
8	Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin	South Korea	144.69	8	59.01	8	85.68
9	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	Japan	140.38	9	57.80	9	82.58
10	Chen Hong / Zhao Yan	China	128.55	11	51.34	10	77.21
11	Song Linshu / Sun Zhuoming	China	124.59	10	51.60	11	72.99
12	Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion	Japan	121.71	12	49.35	12	72.36
13	Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam	South Korea	112.42	13	44.57	13	67.85
14	Adele Morrison / Demid Rokachev	Australia	96.35	14	37.87	14	58.48
15	Matilda Friend / William Badaoui	Australia	89.29	16	32.75	15	56.54
16	Kimberley Hew-Low / Timothy McKernan	Australia	84.97	15	33.54	16	51.43

Medals summary

Medalists

Medals for overall placement:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Nathan Chen	Yuzuru Hanyu	Shoma Uno
Ladies	Mai Mihara	Gabrielle Daleman	Mirai Nagasu
Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Liubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch
Ice dancing	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Madison Chock / Evan Bates

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Nathan Chen	Shoma Uno	Yuzuru Hanyu
Ladies	Gabrielle Daleman	Kaetlyn Osmond	Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Ice dancing	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Madison Chock / Evan Bates

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Yuzuru Hanyu	Nathan Chen	Shoma Uno
Ladies	Mai Mihara	Mirai Nagasu	Gabrielle Daleman
Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang
Ice dancing	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Madison Chock / Evan Bates

Medals by country

Table of medals for overall placement:

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