2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki
Type:Grand Prix
Date:November 2 – 4
Season:2018–19
Location:Helsinki, Finland
Champions
Men's singles:
Japan Yuzuru Hanyu
Ladies' singles:
Russia Alina Zagitova
Pairs:
Russia Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert
Ice dance:
Russia Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
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The 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki was held in Helsinki, Finland, from November 2–4. It was the third event of the 2018–19 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. Finland was chosen as the host after the Chinese Skating Association declined to host their annual Grand Prix event, the Cup of China.[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters competed to earn points toward qualifying for the 2018–19 Grand Prix Final. Over 20,000 tickets were sold.[2]

Entries

The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.[3]

Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing
 Austria Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
 Belgium Loena Hendrickx
 China Jin Boyang
 Czech Republic Michal Březina
 North Korea Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik
 Finland Valtter Virtanen Viveca Lindfors
Emmi Peltonen 		Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
 Germany Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern
Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck
 Israel Alexei Bychenko
 Italy Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti
 Japan Yuzuru Hanyu
Keiji Tanaka 		Rika Hongo
Kaori Sakamoto
Yuna Shiraiwa 		Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara
 Russia Mikhail Kolyada
Andrei Lazukin 		Stanislava Konstantinova
Daria Panenkova
Alina Zagitova 		Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin
Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert 		Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
 South Korea Cha Jun-hwan Kim Ha-nul
 Spain Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin
 United Kingdom Phillip Harris
 United States Alexei Krasnozhon Angela Wang Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

Changes to preliminary assignments

Date Discipline Withdrew Added Reason/Other notes Refs
July 19 and August 10 Pairs Canada Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau Japan Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara Split [4][5]
July 30 and August 9 China Sui Wenjing / Han Cong China Li Xiangning / Xie Zhong Injury recovery (Sui) [6][7]
August 6 — United States Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay Host picks [8]
August 9 and 26 Ladies Slovakia Nicole Rajičová Finland Viveca Lindfors [9][10]
August 15 and 16 Ice dance Czech Republic Cortney Mansour / Michal Češka Germany Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern [11]
August 15 and 31 Men Belgium Jorik Hendrickx South Korea Cha Jun-hwan [12][13]
August 25 — Finland Valtter Virtanen Host picks [14]
August 28 Ice dance Finland Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis [15]
September 21 Ladies Finland Emmi Peltonen [16]
Ice dance Finland Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen Italy Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti [17]
October 8 and 9 Pairs China Li Xiangning / Xie Zhong Spain Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu [18][19]
October 15 and 16 Ladies United States Karen Chen United States Angela Wang Injury recovery [20][21]
October 16 and 18 Ice dance United States Madison Chock / Evan Bates Germany Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck Injury recovery (Chock) [21][22]
October 20 and 23 Ladies Italy Carolina Kostner South Korea Kim Ha-nul Hip injury [23][24]
October 29 Men Russia Alexey Erokhov — [25]
Ladies Germany Nicole Schott [26]

Records

For the all-time highest scores, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

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

Event Component Skater(s) Score Date Ref
Men Short program Japan Yuzuru Hanyu 106.69 November 3, 2018 [27]
Free skating 190.43 4 November 2018 [28]
Total score 297.12 [29]

Results

Men

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Yuzuru Hanyu  Japan 297.12 1 106.69 1 190.43
2 Michal Březina  Czech Republic 257.98 2 93.31 2 164.67
3 Cha Jun-hwan  South Korea 243.19 4 82.82 3 160.37
4 Mikhail Kolyada  Russia 238.79 6 81.76 4 157.03
5 Jin Boyang  China 227.28 3 85.97 5 141.31
6 Andrei Lazukin  Russia 218.22 5 82.54 7 135.68
7 Alexei Krasnozhon  United States 211.03 8 74.05 6 136.98
8 Keiji Tanaka  Japan 206.82 7 80.60 9 126.22
9 Alexei Bychenko  Israel 202.33 9 73.44 8 128.89
10 Phillip Harris  United Kingdom 182.66 10 58.99 10 123.67
11 Valtter Virtanen  Finland 154.74 11 48.16 11 106.58

Ladies

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Alina Zagitova  Russia 215.29 1 68.90 1 146.39
2 Stanislava Konstantinova  Russia 197.57 4 62.56 3 135.01
3 Kaori Sakamoto  Japan 197.42 7 57.26 2 140.16
4 Yuna Shiraiwa  Japan 191.46 2 63.77 5 127.69
5 Loena Hendrickx  Belgium 191.22 3 63.17 4 128.05
6 Daria Panenkova  Russia 161.48 6 58.23 9 103.25
7 Kim Ha-nul  South Korea 160.15 8 55.38 8 104.77
8 Viveca Lindfors  Finland 159.62 10 52.95 6 106.67
9 Emmi Peltonen  Finland 158.72 5 59.90 10 98.82
10 Rika Hongo  Japan 156.59 11 51.11 7 105.48
11 Angela Wang  United States 149.57 9 53.76 11 95.81

Pairs

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert  Russia 198.51 2 67.59 1 130.92
2 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise  Italy 185.77 1 68.18 3 117.59
3 Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin  Russia 185.61 3 63.80 2 121.81
4 Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer  Austria 174.81 4 62.69 5 112.12
5 Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik  North Korea 174.24 5 56.87 4 117.37
6 Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay  United States 159.21 6 56.44 6 102.77
7 Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu  Spain 149.54 7 50.91 8 98.63
8 Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara  Japan 145.65 8 46.22 7 99.43

Ice dancing

Rank Name Nation Total points RD FD
1 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin  Russia 200.09 1 78.18 1 121.91
2 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri  Italy 196.29 2 77.36 2 118.93
3 Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter  United States 176.66 3 71.40 4 105.26
4 Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin  Spain 172.09 5 66.25 3 105.84
5 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko  United States 167.28 4 66.93 5 100.35
6 Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis  Finland 160.62 6 63.06 6 97.56
7 Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov  Russia 157.56 7 62.35 8 95.21
8 Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti  Italy 153.89 8 58.48 7 95.41
9 Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern  Germany 143.62 9 56.71 10 86.91
10 Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck  Germany 143.59 10 56.59 9 87.00

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