2013 Skate Canada International Explained

The 2013 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 2013–14 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick on October 24–27. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2013–14 Grand Prix Final.

Eligibility

Skaters who reached the age of 14 by July 1, 2013 were eligible to compete on the 2013 senior Grand Prix circuit.

Entries

The entries were as follows.

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
	Patrick Chan Andrei Rogozine Elladj Balde	Amelie Lacoste Kaetlyn Osmond Veronik Mallet	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro	Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
			Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
	Michal Březina
			Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi
			Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek	Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri
	Takahito Mura Nobunari Oda Yuzuru Hanyu	Akiko Suzuki
		Yulia Lipnitskaya		Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
		Natalia Popova
	Ross Miner Jeremy Abbott Joshua Farris	Gracie Gold Christina Gao Courtney Hicks	Lindsay Davis / Rockne Brubaker Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

Changes to initial lineup

On September 26, 2013, it was reported that Yuna Kim withdrew because of a foot injury. Courtney Hicks was named to replace her. Kiira Korpi also withdrew and was replaced by Natalia Popova. Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov withdrew due to an injury to Smirnov.^[1] They were replaced by Haven Denney and Brandon Frazier.^[2] Alena Leonova withdrew due to a leg injury.^[3] No replacement was announced.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[4]	SP[5]		FS[6]
1	Patrick Chan		262.03	1	88.10	1	173.93
2	Yuzuru Hanyu		234.80	3	80.40	2	154.40
3	Nobunari Oda		233.00	2	80.82	3	152.18
4	Michal Březina		218.32	7	71.71	5	146.61
5	Joshua Farris		216.72	8	69.14	4	147.58
6	Jeremy Abbott		215.95	4	74.58	6	141.37
7	Elladj Baldé		205.19	6	72.35	7	132.84
8	Andrei Rogozine		197.35	9	68.31	9	129.04
9	Ross Miner		196.89	10	66.71	8	130.18
10	Takahito Mura		188.53	5	73.08	10	115.45

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[7]	SP[8]		FS[9]
1	Yulia Lipnitskaya		198.23	2	66.89	1	131.34
2	Akiko Suzuki		193.75	3	65.76	2	127.99
3	Gracie Gold		186.75	1	69.45	3	117.20
4	Christina Gao		173.69	4	62.82	5	110.87
5	Amelie Lacoste		163.11	6	59.13	6	103.98
6	Courtney Hicks		162.00	9	50.70	4	111.30
7	Natalia Popova		149.59	7	52.36	7	93.52
8	Veronik Mallet		138.13	8	50.71	8	87.42
WD	Kaetlyn Osmond		60.32	5	60.32

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[10]	SP[11]		FS[12]
1	Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek		193.92	2	69.38	2	124.54
2	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong		193.77	3	69.02	1	124.75
3	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford		190.62	1	69.57	3	121.05
4	Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers		159.82	6	52.94	4	106.88
5	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier		158.83	5	55.01	5	103.82
6	Lindsay Davis / Rockne Brubaker		153.71	7	52.69	6	101.02
7	Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave		149.59	4	55.08	7	94.51
8	Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro		131.39	8	39.50	8	91.89

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[13]	SD[14]		FD[15]
1	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir		181.03	1	73.15	1	107.88
2	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje		175.23	2	70.35	2	104.88
3	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue		153.20	3	60.92	3	92.28
4	Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko		145.56	4	59.79	5	85.77
5	Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam		143.77	7	53.74	4	90.03
6	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi		138.16	5	55.19	6	82.25
7	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri		134.28	8	52.03	7	82.25
8	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin		133.12	6	55.63	8	77.49

External links

• Skate Canada
• Entry list
• 2013 Skate Canada International results

Notes and References

1. News: Alexander Smirnov injured in tournament Panina . Figure Skating Federation of Russia . October 10, 2013.
2. Web site: Entries/Resultlist . ISU.
3. Web site: Alena will not skate at 2013 Skate Canada 25 - 27 October in Canada . Alena Leonova Official Site . 2013-10-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131016023352/http://alena-leonova.ru/news-15-10-13/ . 2013-10-16 . dead .
4. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Men - Result . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 27, 2013.
5. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Men - Short Program . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 27, 2013.
6. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Men - Free Skating . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 27, 2013.
7. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Ladies - Result . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 26, 2013.
8. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Ladies - Short Program . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 26, 2013.
9. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Ladies - Free Skating . isuresults.com . International Skating Union. October 26, 2013.
10. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Pairs - Result . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 26, 2013.
11. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Pairs - Short Program . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 26, 2013.
12. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Pairs - Free Skating . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 26, 2013.
13. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Ice Dance - Result . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 26, 2013.
14. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Ice Dance - Short Dance . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 26, 2013.
15. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2013: Senior Ice Dance - Free Dance . isuresults.com . International Skating Union . October 26, 2013.