2017–18 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating


The 2017–18 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating was a series of invitational senior internationals which ran from October through December 2017. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points based on their placement at each event and the top six in each discipline qualified to compete at the Grand Prix Final in Nagoya.
Organized by the International Skating Union, the series set the stage for the 2018 Europeans, the 2018 Four Continents, 2018 Olympic Games, and the 2018 World Championships. The corresponding series for junior-level skaters was the 2017–18 ISU Junior Grand Prix.

Schedule

The series was composed of the following events:
DateEventLocation
October 20–222017 Rostelecom CupMoscow, Russia
October 27–292017 Skate Canada InternationalRegina, Saskatchewan, Canada
November 3–52017 Cup of ChinaBeijing, China
November 10–122017 NHK TrophyOsaka, Japan
November 17–192017 Internationaux de FranceGrenoble, France
November 24–262017 Skate AmericaLake Placid, New York, United States
December 7–102017–18 Grand Prix FinalNagoya, Japan

Requirements

Skaters were eligible to compete on the senior Grand Prix circuit if they had reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2017. They were also required to have earned either a minimum total score or minimum technical elements scores at certain international events:

Assignments

The ISU published the preliminary Grand Prix assignments on May 26, 2017.

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dance

Changes to preliminary assignments

Rostelecom Cup

Skate Canada International

Cup of China

NHK Trophy

Internationaux de France

Skate America

Medal summary

Medalists

EventDisciplineGoldSilverBronze
Skate CanadaMen Shoma Uno Jason Brown Alexander Samarin
Skate CanadaLadies Kaetlyn Osmond Maria Sotskova Ashley Wagner
Skate CanadaPairs Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès
Skate CanadaIce dancing Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

EventDisciplineGoldSilverBronze
Cup of ChinaMen Mikhail Kolyada Jin Boyang Max Aaron
Cup of ChinaLadies Alina Zagitova Wakaba Higuchi Elena Radionova
Cup of ChinaPairs Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro
Cup of ChinaIce dancing Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Madison Chock / Evan Bates Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev

EventDisciplineGoldSilverBronze
NHK TrophyMen Sergei Voronov Adam Rippon Alexei Bychenko
NHK TrophyLadies Evgenia Medvedeva Carolina Kostner Polina Tsurskaya
NHK TrophyPairs Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov
NHK TrophyIce dancing Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

EventDisciplineGoldSilverBronze
Internationaux de FranceMen Javier Fernández Shoma Uno Misha Ge
Internationaux de FranceLadies Alina Zagitova Maria Sotskova Kaetlyn Osmond
Internationaux de FrancePairs Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise
Internationaux de FranceIce dancing Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Madison Chock / Evan Bates Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

EventDisciplineGoldSilverBronze
Skate AmericaMen Nathan Chen Adam Rippon Sergei Voronov
Skate AmericaLadies Satoko Miyahara Kaori Sakamoto Bradie Tennell
Skate AmericaPairs Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Skate AmericaIce dancing Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov

EventDisciplineGoldSilverBronze
Grand Prix FinalMen Nathan Chen Shoma Uno Mikhail Kolyada
Grand Prix FinalLadies Alina Zagitova Maria Sotskova Kaetlyn Osmond
Grand Prix FinalPairs Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Grand Prix FinalIce dancing Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

Medal standings

Qualification

At each event, skaters earned points toward qualification for the Grand Prix Final. Following the sixth event, the top six highest scoring skaters/teams advanced to the Final. The points earned per placement were as follows:
PlacementPoints Points
1st1515
2nd1313
3rd1111
4th99
5th77
6th55
7th4–
8th3–
9th––
10th––

There were originally seven tie-breakers in cases of a tie in overall points:
  1. Highest placement at an event. If a skater placed 1st and 3rd, the tiebreaker is the 1st place, and that beats a skater who placed 2nd in both events.
  2. Highest combined total scores in both events. If a skater earned 200 points at one event and 250 at a second, that skater would win in the second tie-break over a skater who earned 200 points at one event and 150 at another.
  3. Participated in two events.
  4. Highest combined scores in the free skating/free dancing portion of both events.
  5. Highest individual score in the free skating/free dancing portion from one event.
  6. Highest combined scores in the short program/short dance of both events.
  7. Highest number of total participants at the events.
If a tie remained, it was considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all advanced to the Grand Prix Final.

Qualification standings

Bold denotes Grand Prix Final qualification.
PointsMenLadiesPairsIce dance
30 Nathan Chen Evgenia Medvedeva '
Alina Zagitova		 Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov		 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
28 Shoma Uno Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot
26 Mikhail Kolyada
Sergei Voronov
Adam Rippon		 Kaetlyn Osmond
Carolina Kostner
Maria Sotskova		 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov
Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao		 Madison Chock / Evan Bates
24 Wakaba Higuchi Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
22 Jin Boyang '
Jason Brown '		 Satoko Miyahara ' Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
20 Javier Fernández
Misha Ge
Alexander Samarin		 Kaori Sakamoto
Polina Tsurskaya
Elena Radionova		 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
19
18 Alexei Bychenko Mai Mihara Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
17
16 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro
Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek
Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau		 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
15 Max Aaron
14 Yan Han Marin Honda Liubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch
Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim
Peng Cheng / Jin Yang		 Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro
Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
13 Yuzuru Hanyu
12 Moris Kvitelashvili
11 Bradie Tennell
Ashley Wagner
10 Keegan Messing Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Gabrielle Daleman		 Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
9 Vincent Zhou
Patrick Chan		 Mirai Nagasu
Courtney Hicks
Alena Leonova
Rika Hongo
8 Dmitri Aliev
Deniss Vasiļjevs		 Yuna Shiraiwa
7 Jorik Hendrickx Serafima Sakhanovich
Karen Chen		 Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd
Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
6
5 Michal Březina
Ross Miner		 Mariah Bell Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran
Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc		 Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron
Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov
Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin
Olivia Smart / Adrià Díaz
4 Nam Nguyen
Takahito Mura
Keiji Tanaka
Kazuki Tomono
Nicolas Nadeau		 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
Nicole Schott
Valeria Mikhailova
3 Denis Ten
Kevin Reynolds
Liam Firus		 Li Xiangning
Maé-Bérénice Méité
Laurine Lecavelier
0 Grant Hochstein
Cha Jun-hwan
Kévin Aymoz
Andrei Lazukin
Paul Fentz
Roman Sadovsky
Alexander Majorov
Brendan Kerry
Hiroaki Sato
Romain Ponsart
Alexander Petrov
Daniel Samohin
Zhang He		 Nicole Rajičová
Choi Da-bin
Anna Pogorilaya
Polina Edmunds
Amber Glenn
Kailani Craine
Alaine Chartrand
Zhao Ziquan
Anastasia Galustyan
Park So-youn
Larkyn Austman		 Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier
Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet
Zhang Mingyang / Song Bowen
Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov
Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay
Sydney Kolodziej / Maxime Deschamps
Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara
Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji		 Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed
Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit
Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus
Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev
Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis
Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar
Chen Hong / Zhao Yan
Nicole Kuzmichová / Alexandr Sinicyn
Lorenza Alessandrini / Pierre Souquet
Misato Komatsubara / Timothy Koleto
Wang Xiaotong / Zhao Kaige

Qualifiers

Top Grand Prix scores

Men

Total score

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Shoma Uno301.102017 Skate Canada
2Nathan Chen293.792017 Rostelecom Cup
3Yuzuru Hanyu290.772017 Rostelecom Cup
4Javier Fernández283.712017 Internationaux de France
5Mikhail Kolyada282.002017–18 Grand Prix Final
6Sergei Voronov271.122017 NHK Trophy
7Adam Rippon266.452017 Skate America
8Jin Boyang264.482017 Cup of China
9Jason Brown261.142017 Skate Canada
10Max Aaron259.692017 Cup of China

Short program

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Javier Fernández107.862017 Internationaux de France
2Nathan Chen104.122017 Skate America
3Shoma Uno103.622017 Skate Canada
4Mikhail Kolyada103.132017 Cup of China
5Yuzuru Hanyu94.852017 Rostelecom Cup
6Patrick Chan94.432017 Skate Canada
7Jin Boyang93.892017 Cup of China
8Alexander Samarin91.512017 Internationaux de France
9Jason Brown90.712017 Skate Canada
10Sergei Voronov90.062017 NHK Trophy

Free program

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Shoma Uno197.482017 Skate Canada
2Yuzuru Hanyu195.922017 Rostelecom Cup
3Nathan Chen193.252017 Rostelecom Cup
4Mikhail Kolyada185.272017 Rostelecom Cup
5Sergei Voronov181.062017 NHK Trophy
6Javier Fernández179.402017 Internationaux de France
7Adam Rippon177.412017 Skate America
8Max Aaron176.582017 Cup of China
9Vincent Zhou176.432017 Cup of China
10Misha Ge172.932017 Internationaux de France

Ladies

Total score

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Evgenia Medvedeva231.212017 Rostelecom Cup
2Alina Zagitova223.302017–18 Grand Prix Final
3Maria Sotskova216.282017–18 Grand Prix Final
4Carolina Kostner215.982017 Rostelecom Cup
5Kaetlyn Osmond215.162017–18 Grand Prix Final
6Satoko Miyahara214.032017 Skate America
7Wakaba Higuchi212.522017 Cup of China
8Kaori Sakamoto210.592017 Skate America
9Polina Tsurskaya210.192017 NHK Trophy
10Elena Radionova206.822017 Cup of China

Short program

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Evgenia Medvedeva80.752017 Rostelecom Cup
2Kaetlyn Osmond77.042017–18 Grand Prix Final
3Alina Zagitova76.272017–18 Grand Prix Final
4Carolina Kostner74.622017 Rostelecom Cup
5Satoko Miyahara74.612017–18 Grand Prix Final
6Maria Sotskova74.002017–18 Grand Prix Final
7Wakaba Higuchi73.262017–18 Grand Prix Final
8Gabrielle Daleman70.652017 Cup of China
9Elena Radionova70.482017 Cup of China
10Polina Tsurskaya70.042017 NHK Trophy

Free program

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Alina Zagitova151.342017 Internationaux de France
2Evgenia Medvedeva150.462017 Rostelecom Cup
3Satoko Miyahara143.312017 Skate America
4Maria Sotskova142.282017–18 Grand Prix Final
5Wakaba Higuchi141.992017 Cup of China
6Carolina Kostner141.832017–18 Grand Prix Final
7Kaori Sakamoto141.192017 Skate America
8Polina Tsurskaya140.152017 NHK Trophy
9Mai Mihara139.172017 Cup of China
10Elizabet Tursynbaeva138.692017 Internationaux de France

Pairs

Total score

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot236.682017–18 Grand Prix Final
2Sui Wenjing / Han Cong234.532017 NHK Trophy
3Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov224.252017 Rostelecom Cup
4Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov222.742017 NHK Trophy
5Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford222.222017 Skate Canada
6Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao219.202017 Skate America
7Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès214.372017 Skate Canada
8Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov203.642017 NHK Trophy
9Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert197.892017 Skate America
10Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise197.592017 Internationaux de France

Short program

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Sui Wenjing / Han Cong80.142017 Cup of China
2Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot79.432017–18 Grand Prix Final
3Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov78.832017–18 Grand Prix Final
4Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford75.372017 Skate America
5Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov75.052017 NHK Trophy
6Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao73.672017 Skate America
7Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès73.182017 Internationaux de France
8Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise70.852017 Internationaux de France
9Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov70.472017 NHK Trophy
10Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert70.152017 Skate America

Free program

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot157.252017–18 Grand Prix Final
2Sui Wenjing / Han Cong155.102017 NHK Trophy
3Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov147.692017 NHK Trophy
4Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov147.372017 Rostelecom Cup
5Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao145.532017 Skate America
6Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford144.792017 Skate Canada
7Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès141.332017 Skate Canada
8Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov133.172017 NHK Trophy
9Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro132.002017 Cup of China
10Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau130.392017 NHK Trophy

Ice dancing

Total score

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron202.162017–18 Grand Prix Final
2Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir199.862017 Skate Canada
2Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir199.862017–18 Grand Prix Final
3Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani194.252017 Skate America
4Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje190.012017 Skate Canada
5Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue189.432017 Skate Canada
6Madison Chock / Evan Bates187.152017–18 Grand Prix Final
7Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte186.562017 NHK Trophy
8Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev184.742017 Rostelecom Cup
9Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin179.352017 Rostelecom Cup
10Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov177.152017 NHK Trophy

Short dance

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir82.682017 Skate Canada
2Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron82.072017–18 Grand Prix Final
3Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani79.182017 Skate America
4Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje77.472017 Skate Canada
5Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev76.332017 Rostelecom Cup
6Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue76.312017 NHK Trophy
7Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte75.872017 NHK Trophy
8Madison Chock / Evan Bates74.362017–18 Grand Prix Final
9Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov72.492017 NHK Trophy
10Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin71.322017 Rostelecom Cup

Free dance

RankNameNationScoreEvent
1Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron120.582017 Internationaux de France
2Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir118.332017–18 Grand Prix Final
3Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani115.072017 Skate America
4Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue113.352017 Skate Canada
5Madison Chock / Evan Bates112.792017–18 Grand Prix Final
6Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje112.542017 Skate Canada
7Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte110.992017–18 Grand Prix Final
8Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev110.502017 Cup of China
9Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin108.032017 Rostelecom Cup
10Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov107.812017 Skate America