2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

2009 Four Continents Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 2 – 8
Season:	2008–09
Location:	Vancouver, Canada
Venue:	Pacific Coliseum
Champions
Men's singles: Patrick Chan
Ladies' singles: Kim Yuna
Pair skating: Pang Qing / Tong Jian
Ice dancing: Meryl Davis / Charlie White
Previous: 2008 Four Continents Championships
Next: 2010 Four Continents Championships

The 2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships for the 2008–09 season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The competition was open to skaters from a non-European Member nation of the International Skating Union. The four continents of the event's name refer to the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, which are four of the continents represented in the Olympic rings, omitting Europe.

The competition was held from February 2 to 8 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada.

Competition notes

Skaters who reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2008 were eligible to compete. Unlike the other three ISU championships, each nation was allowed three entries in each discipline, regardless of its skaters' performance in the previous year's championships. The corresponding competition for European skaters was the 2009 European Figure Skating Championships.

This event served as the Olympic test event for figure skating for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games although the rink was NHL-sized.^[1] The compulsory dance was the Finnstep. In the ladies' event, Kim Yuna set a new ISU World Record of 72.24 points for the ladies short program.^[2]

Schedule

(Local Time, UTC−8)

• Wednesday, February 4
  • 13:00 Ice dancing – Compulsory Dance
  • 15:15 Pairs – Short Program
  • 17:30 Opening Ceremony
  • 18:15 Ladies – Short Program
• Thursday, February 5
  • 11:00 Ice dancing – Original Dance
  • 13:35 Pairs – Free Skating
  • 16:30 Men – Short Program
• Friday, February 6
  • 13:45 Ice dancing – Free Dance
  • 18:00 Ladies – Free Skating
• Saturday, February 7
  • 10:45 Men – Free Skating
• Sunday, February 8
  • 12:00: Gala Exhibition

Results

Men

The men's podium. From left: Evan Lysacek (2nd), Patrick Chan (1st), Takahiko Kozuka (3rd).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Patrick Chan	Canada	249.19	1	88.90	1	160.29
2	Evan Lysacek	United States	237.15	2	81.65	2	155.50
3	Takahiko Kozuka	Japan	221.76	3	76.61	4	145.15
4	Nobunari Oda	Japan	220.26	6	75.04	3	145.22
5	Jeremy Abbott	United States	216.94	4	75.67	6	141.27
6	Vaughn Chipeur	Canada	212.81	7	68.00	5	144.81
7	Jeremy Ten	Canada	207.27	9	66.60	7	140.67
8	Brandon Mroz	United States	196.78	5	75.05	9	121.73
9	Denis Ten	Kazakhstan	184.82	10	61.32	8	123.50
10	Wu Jialiang	China	182.92	8	67.75	11	115.17
11	Li Chengjiang	China	178.94	12	59.22	10	119.72
12	Yasuharu Nanri	Japan	157.91	11	59.44	13	98.47
13	Gao Song	China	155.45	13	58.74	14	96.71
14	Abzal Rakimgaliev	Kazakhstan	152.67	14	53.65	12	99.02
15	Mark Webster	Australia	123.08	17	43.93	15	79.15
16	Kevin Alves	Brazil	121.97	16	43.97	16	78.00
17	Luis Hernández	Mexico	118.70	15	44.66	18	74.04
18	Robert McNamara	Australia	116.47	18	41.59	17	74.88
19	Kim Min-seok	South Korea	108.75	19	41.04	21	67.71
20	Justin Pietersen	South Africa	106.26	22	34.48	19	71.78
21	Nicholas Fernandez	Australia	105.54	21	37.64	20	67.90
22	Charles Shou-San Pao	Chinese Taipei	96.37	23	34.45	23	61.92
23	Humberto Contreras	Mexico	96.10	20	39.87	24	56.23
24	Wun-Chang Shih	Chinese Taipei	96.04	24	31.52	22	64.52
Did not advance to free skating
25	Mathieu Wilson	New Zealand		25	31.15
26	Sebra Yen	Chinese Taipei		26	31.05

Ladies

The ladies' podium. From left: Joannie Rochette (2nd), Kim Yuna (1st), Mao Asada (3rd).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Kim Yuna	South Korea	189.07	1	72.24	3	116.83
2	Joannie Rochette	Canada	183.91	2	66.90	2	117.01
3	Mao Asada	Japan	176.52	6	57.86	1	118.66
4	Caroline Zhang	United States	171.22	5	58.16	4	113.06
5	Cynthia Phaneuf	Canada	169.41	3	60.98	5	108.43
6	Fumie Suguri	Japan	167.74	4	60.18	6	107.56
7	Rachael Flatt	United States	162.83	8	55.44	7	107.39
8	Akiko Suzuki	Japan	160.36	9	55.40	8	104.96
9	Alissa Czisny	United States	159.81	7	55.62	9	104.19
10	Amélie Lacoste	Canada	146.18	10	49.78	10	96.40
11	Liu Yan	China	139.50	12	47.60	11	91.90
12	Anastasia Gimazetdinova	Uzbekistan	125.39	13	46.22	14	79.17
13	Cheltzie Lee	Australia	123.88	15	43.96	13	79.92
14	Kim Hyeon-jung	South Korea	121.64	17	41.64	12	80.00
15	Xu Binshu	China	121.00	11	48.38	16	72.62
16	Kim Na-young	South Korea	120.28	16	43.94	15	76.34
17	Ana Cecilia Cantu	Mexico	108.75	14	44.82	18	63.93
18	Tina Wang	Australia	108.02	18	37.64	17	70.38
19	Chaochih Liu	Chinese Taipei	97.51	19	37.20	19	60.31
20	Tamami Ono	Hong Kong	91.89	24	33.80	20	58.09
21	Michele Cantu	Mexico	90.08	20	37.16	22	52.92
22	Loretta Hamui	Mexico	87.64	23	33.84	21	53.80
23	Wang Yueren	China	85.04	21	34.38	23	50.66
24	Gracielle Jeanne Tan	Philippines	80.37	22	34.02	24	46.35
Did not advance to free skating
25	Crystal Kiang	Chinese Taipei		25	32.52
26	Melinda Wang	Chinese Taipei		26	31.64
27	Charissa Tansomboon	Thailand		27	31.58
28	Lejeanne Marais	South Africa		28	31.32
29	Mary Grace Baldo	Philippines		29	29.18
30	Jessica Kurzawski	Australia		30	28.94
31	Elizabeth Stern	Philippines		31	27.58
32	Abigail Pietersen	South Africa		32	27.32
33	Alessia Baldo	Brazil		33	26.36
34	Stacy Perfetti	Brazil		34	24.44
35	Kristine Y Lee	Hong Kong		35	23.76
WD	Megan Allely	South Africa

Pairs

The pairs' podium. From left: Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison (2nd), Pang Qing / Tong Jian (1st), Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao (3rd).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Pang Qing / Tong Jian	China	194.94	1	65.60	1	129.34
2	Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison	Canada	185.62	2	64.36	2	121.26
3	Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao	China	174.98	3	63.20	3	111.78
4	Meagan Duhamel / Craig Buntin	Canada	168.43	4	62.08	6	106.35
5	Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker	United States	164.01	7	54.16	4	109.85
6	Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett	United States	161.69	8	53.60	5	108.09
7	Rena Inoue / John Baldwin	United States	157.38	5	56.78	7	100.60
8	Mylène Brodeur / John Mattatall	Canada	149.85	6	55.16	8	94.69
9	Dong Huibo / Wu Yiming	China	143.33	9	52.40	9	90.93
10	Amanda Sunyoto-Yang / Darryll Sulindro-Yang	Chinese Taipei	126.73	10	43.38	10	83.35
11	Marina Aganina / Dmitri Zobnin	Uzbekistan	102.52	11	36.88	11	65.64

Ice dancing

The ice dancing podium. From left: Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (2nd), Meryl Davis / Charlie White (1st), Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates (3rd).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	United States	192.39	2	35.23	2	60.42	1	96.74
2	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	191.81	1	36.40	1	60.90	2	94.51
3	Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates	United States	180.79	4	31.41	3	59.48	3	89.90
4	Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier	Canada	176.82	3	32.43	4	56.36	4	88.03
5	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	168.76	5	30.62	5	53.33	5	84.81
6	Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre	United States	151.82	6	30.59	6	47.59	6	73.64
7	Huang Xintong / Zheng Xun	China	142.30	7	27.56	7	46.95	8	67.79
8	Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen	China	137.90	8	24.65	8	42.12	7	71.13
9	Wang Jiayue / Gao Chongbo	China	132.53	9	23.31	9	41.74	9	67.48
10	Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman	Australia	112.93	10	19.70	10	36.13	10	57.10
11	Maria Borounov / Evgeni Borounov	Australia	101.35	11	17.51	11	31.15	11	52.69
WD	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed	Japan

References

1. "Chan grabs gold at Four Continents". The Canadian Press. February 7, 2009. Archived from the original on June 4, 2009.
2. Elliott, Helene (February 6, 2009). "Kim Yu-Na is first at Four Continents event". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 12, 2009.

External links

• Official site
• 2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships at the International Skating Union
• Competitors list
• "Calendar of Events". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 20 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-24.