The 2019–20 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and ISU Junior Grand Prix Final was held from December 5–8, 2019 at the Torino Palavela in Turin, Italy. The combined event was the culmination of two international series — the Grand Prix of Figure Skating and the Junior Grand Prix. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance on the senior and junior levels.
Strasbourg, France was announced as the provisional host, before being changed to Turin.
Qualifiers Senior Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance 1 Yuzuru Hanyu Alena Kostornaia Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron 2 Nathan Chen Alexandra Trusova Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov 3 Alexander Samarin Anna Shcherbakova Peng Cheng / Jin Yang Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier 4 Dmitri Aliev Rika Kihira Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue 5 Kévin Aymoz Alina Zagitova Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 6 Jin Boyang Bradie Tennell Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin Madison Chock / Evan Bates Alternates 1st Nam Nguyen Satoko Miyahara Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri 2nd Jason Brown Mariah Bell Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen 3rd Keiji Tanaka Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Liubov Ilyushechkina / Charlie Bilodeau Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
Junior Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance 1 Andrei Mozalev Kamila Valieva Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik 2 Yuma Kagiyama Alysa Liu Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy 3 Petr Gumennik Lee Hae-in Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Andrey Filatov 4 Daniel Grassl Ksenia Sinitsyna Diana Mukhametzianova / Ilya Mironov Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya 5 Daniil Samsonov Daria Usacheva Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier 6 Shun Sato Viktoria Vasilieva Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin Alternates 1st Artur Danielian Anna Frolova Kate Finster / Balazs Nagy Sofya Tyutyunina / Alexander Shustitskiy 2nd Stephen Gogolev Wi Seo-yeong Anna Shcheglova / Ilia Kalashnikov Natalie D'Alessandro / Bruce Waddell 3rd Ilya Yablokov Anastasia Tarakanova Wang Huidi / Jia Ziqi Ekaterina Katashinskaia / Aleksandr Vaskovich
Medals summary Medalists Senior Men Nathan Chen Yuzuru Hanyu Kévin Aymoz Ladies Alena Kostornaia Anna Shcherbakova Alexandra Trusova Pairs Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Peng Cheng / Jin Yang Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov Ice dance Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Madison Chock / Evan Bates Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Junior Men Shun Sato Andrei Mozalev Daniil Samsonov Ladies Kamila Valieva Alysa Liu Daria Usacheva Pairs Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov Diana Mukhametzianova / Ilya Mironov Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov Ice dance Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy
Medals table
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Records
The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:
Event Component Skater(s) Score Date Ref Ladies Short program Alena Kostornaia 85.45 December 6, 2019 Men Free skating Nathan Chen 224.92December 7, 2019 Total score 335.30 Junior men Free skating Shun Sato 177.86 Total score 255.11 Junior ice dance Free dance Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya 106.14 Ladies Total score Alena Kostornaia 247.59
Senior-level results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Nathan Chen 335.30 WR 1 110.38 1 224.92 WR 2 Yuzuru Hanyu 291.43 2 97.43 2 194.00 3 Kévin Aymoz 275.63 3 96.71 3 178.92 4 Alexander Samarin 248.83 5 81.32 4 167.51 5 Jin Boyang 241.44 6 80.67 5 160.77 6 Dmitri Aliev 220.04 4 88.78 6 131.26
Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Alena Kostornaia 247.59 WR 1 85.45 WR 2 162.14 2 Anna Shcherbakova 240.92 3 78.27 1 162.65 3 Alexandra Trusova 233.185 71.453 161.734 Rika Kihira 216.47 6 70.71 4 145.76 5 Bradie Tennell 212.18 4 72.20 5 139.98 6 Alina Zagitova 205.23 2 79.60 6 125.63
Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Sui Wenjing / Han Cong 211.69 1 77.50 2 134.19 2 Peng Cheng / Jin Yang 204.27 5 69.67 1 134.60 3 Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov 203.13 4 71.48 3 131.65 4 Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii 201.84 2 76.65 5 125.19 5 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro 197.99 6 67.08 4 130.91 6 Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin 194.75 3 75.16 6 119.59
Ice dance Rank Name Nation Total points RD FD 1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron 219.85 1 83.83 1 136.02 2 Madison Chock / Evan Bates 210.68 3 81.67 2 129.01 3 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue 207.93 2 82.72 3 125.21 4 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 204.88 5 81.14 5 123.74 5 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier 203.50 6 79.75 4 123.97 6 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov 203.39 4 81.51 6 121.88
Junior-level results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Shun Sato 255.11 3 77.25 1 177.86 2 Andrei Mozalev 241.48 1 82.45 2 159.03 3 Daniil Samsonov 230.19 2 77.75 4 152.44 4 Yuma Kagiyama 227.09 6 71.19 3 155.90 5 Petr Gumennik 212.62 4 72.16 5 140.46 6 Daniel Grassl 195.66 5 71.95 6 123.71
Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Kamila Valieva 207.47 4 69.02 1 138.45 2 Alysa Liu 204.65 1 71.19 2 133.46 3 Daria Usacheva 200.37 2 70.15 3 130.22 4 Ksenia Sinitsyna 195.57 3 69.40 5 126.17 5 Lee Hae-in 194.38 6 65.39 4 128.99 6 Viktoria Vasilieva 184.37 5 68.07 6 116.30
Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov 185.23 1 68.80 2 116.43 2 Diana Mukhametzianova / Ilya Mironov 184.37 3 64.90 1 119.47 3 Kseniia Akhanteva / Valerii Kolesov 179.68 2 66.64 4 113.04 4 Iuliia Artemeva / Mikhail Nazarychev 178.56 5 63.89 3 114.67 5 Alina Pepeleva / Roman Pleshkov 172.53 4 64.67 5 107.86 6 Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel 159.22 6 59.47 6 99.75
Ice dance Rank Name Nation Total points RD FD 1 Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya 174.90 1 68.76 1 106.14 2 Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik 174.74 2 68.72 2 106.02 3 Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy 164.22 3 66.21 3 98.01 4 Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Andrey Filatov 163.03 4 65.07 4 97.96 5 Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier 156.26 5 62.84 5 93.42 6 Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin 152.21 6 59.89 6 92.32
Senior recap Men Yuzuru Hanyu finished the first half of the season with the highest scores in all three categories - short program, free skate and total score; thus was seen as the favorite to win his first Grand Prix title since 2017, with Nathan Chen tipped to be the skater most likely to beat him. It was the first time since the 2014 Junior Grand Prix Final that two-time silver medallist Shoma Uno did not qualify for the final, while Kévin Aymoz became the first French man to qualify since Brian Joubert.
Short program Chen skated a clean short program receiving scores that let him lead Hanyu by over 12 points and 1.44 shy of Hanyu's current world record from the 2020 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. Hanyu made an error, as he was unable to add a combo jump to his program, notably sitting in the kiss and cry alone after one his coaches, Ghislain Briand experienced difficulties travelling from Toronto to Turin, with Ghislain's passport stolen while transiting through Frankfurt Airport. Aymoz finished in third after the rink organisers accidentally began playing the wrong short program music, however he was able to keep his composure and earned a personal best short program score. Aliev's short program placed him in fourth place, after a near-fall when his blades clipped the ice during his step sequence. Samarin made a variety of jumping errors during his performance and finished fifth, while Jin fell on his opening quadruple lutz which cost him ten points in his technical score.
Free skate Anticipation was high for the free skate after Hanyu was filmed attempting quadruple axels during the public practice session, although he would not perform the jump during the free skate. While both Chen and Hanyu landed five quadruple jumps each, Hanyu singled a triple axel attempt which was enough to give Chen, who already had a huge lead from the short program, the victory. Hanyu was also able to land the quadruple lutz, the first since his ankle injury before the 2018 Winter Olympics and was visibly exhausted at the end of the performance. Aymoz skated a sublimely performed free skate, the best of his career, to win his first major competition medal and the first for France since Brian Joubert in 2007.
Ladies It was highly predicted that Russia would complete a historic podium sweep, the first in the history of the ladies event as Alena Kostornaia, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova swept the Grand Prix events, the first time one country has swept every event in the ladies division. Trusova, who was ranked number one in the world, was the favorite to win the title from her fellow training partners. Bradie Tennell became the first American skater to qualify for the final since Ashley Wagner in 2015, as well as the first non-Russian and non-Japanese skater to qualify since Kaetlyn Osmond in 2017. Defending Gold and Silver medalists, Rika Kihira and Alina Zagitova also requalified for the final, while last year's bronze medallist Elizaveta Tuktamysheva missed the final on a tie-breaker to Tennell after both achieved the same number of points at the end of the season.
Short program Kostornaia once again set the short program world record with a six-point lead over training partners Zagitova and Shcherbakova. Kostornaia believed that her score was not going to break the world record and was pleasantly surprised when she accomplished it. Shcherbakova impressed the audience and the judges, with a clean executed program and an improvement in performance component scores. Tennell finished in fourth with a clean performance, with her triple toeloop at the end of her combination jump called under-rotated. Trusova and Kihira were fifth and sixth respectively after both making mistakes on their triple axel attempts, with Kihira also falling at the end of her triple flip-triple toeloop combination.
Free skate Despite featuring no quadruple jumps in the free skate like her training partners, Kostornaia's score in the short program was enough to maintain her lead and claim victory, with her performance being highly praised by critics and fans. Her performance in the free skate also made Kostornaia the new world record holder for the highest combined total in ladies' singles, with a score of 247.59. Shcherbakova won the free skate with a personal best, with her technical content gaining the edge over Kostornaia, with the judges placing her second overall. Trusova became the first female skater to execute a quadruple flip, as well as achieving the highest technical score of the session, although could not execute the performance standard that Shcherbakova - who achieved a technical score four points lower - had achieved, therefore, she placed third overall and third in the free skate by the judging panel. Defending champion Kihira made her first quadruple jump attempt of her international career, falling on a quadruple salchow in spite of having it previously in practice. Nonetheless, she executed two triple axels, including one in combination. Zagitova, skating the last program of the day, stunned the audience with a fall on her double axel, a two-footed landing on her triple loop and suffered multiple under-rotations and downgrades that saw her slide from second to last place, being close to tears in the kiss-and-cry as the scores were revealed.
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