2004 Skate America
| 2004 Skate America | |
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| Type: | Grand Prix |
| Date: | October 21 – 24 |
| Season: | 2004–05 |
| Location: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Venue: | Mellon Arena |
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Men's singles: Brian Joubert |
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Ladies' singles: Angela Nikodinov |
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Pair skating: Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao |
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| Ice dancing: Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto |
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Skate America is an international, senior-level invitation-only figure skating competition organized by the USFSA. It is the first ISU Grand Prix event to be held. The location changes yearly. Medals are awarded in four disciplines: men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
The 2004 competition was held at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from October 21 through 24. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.
There was an accident during the pairs' free skating. Maxim Marinin lost his balance while attempting a difficult lasso lift and his partner Tatiana Totmianina slammed to the ice head first, sustaining a concussion, but was not seriously hurt.[1] A short while later, Julia Obertas fell out of a lasso lift but her partner Sergei Slavnov managed to catch her to prevent her head hitting the ice.[2]
Results
Men
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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| 1 | Brian Joubert | France |
193.46 | 1 | 72.10 | 2 | 121.36 |
| 2 | Ryan Jahnke | United States |
186.71 | 4 | 60.83 | 1 | 125.88 |
| 3 | Michael Weiss | United States |
179.56 | 2 | 64.82 | 3 | 114.74 |
| 4 | Roman Serov |  Israel |
174.42 | 3 | 62.24 | 4 | 112.18 |
| 5 | Evan Lysacek | United States |
162.51 | 5 | 54.87 | 8 | 107.64 |
| 6 | Song Lun | China |
161.46 | 9 | 51.08 | 6 | 110.38 |
| 7 | Nicholas Young |  Canada |
160.82 | 6 | 52.60 | 7 | 108.22 |
| 8 | Ben Ferreira | Canada |
157.41 | 7 | 51.33 | 9 | 106.08 |
| 9 | Stefan Lindemann |  Germany |
156.73 | 11 | 44.99 | 5 | 111.74 |
| 10 | Vakhtang Murvanidze |  Georgia |
143.10 | 8 | 51.22 | 11 | 91.88 |
| 11 | Alexander Shubin |  Russia |
142.42 | 10 | 47.08 | 10 | 95.34 |
Ladies
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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| 1 | Angela Nikodinov | United States |
149.50 | 2 | 53.62 | 2 | 95.88 |
| 2 | Cynthia Phaneuf | Canada |
144.40 | 3 | 50.20 | 3 | 94.20 |
| 3 | Miki Ando |  Japan |
142.64 | 1 | 53.64 | 6 | 89.00 |
| 4 | Alissa Czisny | United States |
141.36 | 3 | 50.20 | 4 | 91.16 |
| 5 | Susanna Pöykiö |  Finland |
140.38 | 8 | 42.98 | 1 | 97.40 |
| 6 | Elena Liashenko |  Ukraine |
135.80 | 6 | 45.68 | 5 | 90.12 |
| 7 | Yukina Ota | Japan |
130.70 | 5 | 47.42 | 7 | 83.28 |
| 8 | Miriam Manzano |  Australia |
125.30 | 7 | 44.06 | 8 | 81.24 |
| 9 | Idora Hegel |  Croatia |
116.98 | 10 | 39.64 | 9 | 77.34 |
| 10 | Anne-Sophie Calvez | France |
102.88 | 9 | 39.88 | 10 | 63.00 |
| 11 | Zhang Fan | China |
85.52 | 11 | 30.84 | 11 | 54.68 |
Pairs
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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| 1 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China |
166.86 | 3 | 56.98 | 1 | 109.88 |
| 2 | Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov | Russia |
166.26 | 2 | 57.58 | 2 | 108.68 |
| 3 | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin, Jr. | United States |
158.10 | 4 | 56.52 | 3 | 101.58 |
| 4 | Ding Yang / Ren Zhongfei | China |
139.42 | 6 | 47.98 | 5 | 91.44 |
| 5 | Elizabeth Putnam / Sean Wirtz | Canada |
136.88 | 7 | 45.38 | 4 | 91.50 |
| 6 | Kathryn Orscher / Garrett Lucash | United States |
129.32 | 8 | 43.76 | 6 | 85.56 |
| 7 | Jennifer Don / Jonathon Hunt | United States |
125.28 | 5 | 51.00 | 7 | 74.28 |
| 8 | Julia Shapiro / Vadim Akolzin | Israel |
100.74 | 9 | 41.36 | 8 | 59.38 |
| WD | Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin | Russia |
1 | 64.98 | |||
Ice dancing
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | OD | FD | |||
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| 1 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | United States |
212.87 | 1 | 43.71 | 1 | 63.40 | 1 | 105.76 |
| 2 | Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski | Israel |
204.32 | 2 | 40.98 | 2 | 60.48 | 2 | 102.86 |
| 3 | Megan Wing / Aaron Lowe | Canada |
178.60 | 3 | 40.98 | 3 | 51.66 | 3 | 90.29 |
| 4 | Svetlana Kulikova / Vitali Novikov | Russia |
173.43 | 4 | 33.89 | 4 | 50.65 | 4 | 88.89 |
| 5 | Sinead Kerr / John Kerr |  United Kingdom |
156.56 | 5 | 31.89 | 5 | 43.14 | 5 | 81.53 |
| 6 | Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko | Ukraine |
143.92 | 7 | 27.08 | 6 | 42.81 | 7 | 74.03 |
| 7 | Eve Bentley / Cedric Pernet | France |
140.22 | 8 | 26.39 | 8 | 39.04 | 6 | 74.79 |
| 8 | Kendra Goodwin / Brent Bommentre | United States |
136.08 | 9 | 25.72 | 7 | 40.62 | 10 | 69.74 |
| 9 | Loren Galler-Rabinowitz / David Mitchell | United States |
133.45 | 10 | 24.35 | 9 | 38.96 | 9 | 70.14 |
| 10 | Alexandra Kauc / Michał Zych |  Poland |
131.25 | 6 | 27.40 | 10 | 35.79 | 11 | 68.06 |
| 11 | Elena Romanovskaya / Alexander Grachev | Russia |
131.06 | 11 | 23.83 | 11 | 34.94 | 8 | 72.29 |
