2012 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
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| 2012 Four Continents Championships | |
|---|---|
| Type: | ISU Championship |
| Date: | February 7 – 12 |
| Season: | 2011–12 |
| Location: | Colorado Springs, USA |
| Venue: | World Arena |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Patrick Chan | |
Ladies' singles:  Ashley Wagner | |
Pairs:  Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | |
| Ice dance: Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | |
| Previous: 2011 Four Continents Championships | |
| Next: 2013 Four Continents Championships | |
The 2012 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2011–12 season. It was held at the World Arena in Colorado Springs, USA on February 7–12.[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
Qualification
[edit]The competition was open to skaters from a non-European member nation of the International Skating Union who reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2011. The corresponding competition for European skaters was the 2012 European Championships.
Entries
[edit]The entries were as follows.[2] Jeremy Abbott withdrew due to injury and was replaced by Richard Dornbush.[3]
Results
[edit]Men
[edit]| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Chan | Canada
|
273.94 | 1 | 87.95 | 1 | 185.99 |
| 2 | Daisuke Takahashi |  Japan
|
244.33 | 3 | 82.59 | 2 | 161.74 |
| 3 | Ross Miner |  United States
|
223.23 | 6 | 76.89 | 4 | 146.34 |
| 4 | Adam Rippon | United States
|
221.55 | 7 | 74.92 | 3 | 146.63 |
| 5 | Takahito Mura | Japan
|
217.16 | 2 | 83.44 | 6 | 133.72 |
| 6 | Denis Ten |  Kazakhstan
|
210.03 | 5 | 77.73 | 7 | 132.30 |
| 7 | Tatsuki Machida | Japan
|
208.04 | 4 | 82.37 | 10 | 125.67 |
| 8 | Kevin Reynolds | Canada
|
203.26 | 9 | 68.22 | 5 | 135.04 |
| 9 | Misha Ge |  Uzbekistan
|
196.53 | 11 | 64.49 | 8 | 132.04 |
| 10 | Guan Jinlin | China
|
196.53 | 10 | 66.36 | 9 | 130.17 |
| 11 | Song Nan | China
|
190.51 | 8 | 69.34 | 11 | 121.17 |
| 12 | Christopher Caluza |  Philippines
|
172.60 | 14 | 58.02 | 12 | 114.58 |
| 13 | Richard Dornbush | United States
|
164.29 | 13 | 61.34 | 14 | 102.95 |
| 14 | Jeremy Ten | Canada
|
159.22 | 12 | 61.37 | 18 | 97.85 |
| 15 | Kim Min-seok |  South Korea
|
157.14 | 21 | 49.39 | 13 | 107.75 |
| 16 | Wu Jialiang | China
|
156.62 | 15 | 56.19 | 17 | 100.43 |
| 17 | Alex Kang-chan Kam | South Korea
|
154.07 | 16 | 52.12 | 15 | 101.95 |
| 18 | Abzal Rakimgaliev | Kazakhstan
|
153.63 | 17 | 52.10 | 16 | 101.53 |
| 19 | Brendan Kerry |  Australia
|
144.26 | 23 | 47.01 | 19 | 97.25 |
| 20 | Mark Webster | Australia
|
138.87 | 18 | 50.88 | 20 | 87.99 |
| 21 | Jordan Ju |  Chinese Taipei
|
134.97 | 20 | 49.49 | 22 | 85.48 |
| 22 | Luiz Manella |  Brazil
|
133.07 | 19 | 50.17 | 24 | 82.90 |
| 23 | Kevin Alves | Brazil
|
132.94 | 22 | 47.96 | 23 | 84.98 |
| 24 | Nicholas Fernandez | Australia
|
131.76 | 24 | 44.57 | 21 | 87.19 |
| Did not advance to free skating | |||||||
| 25 | Harry Hau Yin Lee |  Hong Kong
|
25 | 42.00 | |||
| 26 | Maverick Eguia | Philippines
|
26 | 41.63 | |||
| 27 | Wun-Chang Shih | Chinese Taipei
|
27 | 37.27 | |||
| 28 | Hwan-Jin Kim | South Korea
|
28 | 36.95 | |||
Ladies
[edit]| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashley Wagner | United States
|
192.41 | 2 | 64.07 | 1 | 128.34 |
| 2 | Mao Asada | Japan
|
188.62 | 1 | 64.25 | 2 | 124.37 |
| 3 | Caroline Zhang | United States
|
176.18 | 4 | 58.74 | 3 | 117.44 |
| 4 | Kanako Murakami | Japan
|
169.32 | 3 | 63.45 | 5 | 105.87 |
| 5 | Zhang Kexin | China
|
162.59 | 5 | 54.07 | 4 | 108.52 |
| 6 | Agnes Zawadzki | United States
|
157.23 | 6 | 52.87 | 6 | 104.36 |
| 7 | Amélie Lacoste | Canada
|
147.65 | 7 | 51.72 | 8 | 95.93 |
| 8 | Cynthia Phaneuf | Canada
|
147.47 | 8 | 50.76 | 7 | 96.71 |
| 9 | Haruka Imai | Japan
|
134.49 | 11 | 45.19 | 9 | 89.30 |
| 10 | Kwak Min-jeong | South Korea
|
130.52 | 9 | 48.72 | 10 | 81.80 |
| 11 | Geng Bingwa | China
|
127.89 | 10 | 46.98 | 11 | 80.91 |
| 12 | Victoria Muniz |  Puerto Rico
|
117.83 | 12 | 42.63 | 13 | 75.20 |
| 13 | Alexandra Najarro | Canada
|
117.11 | 14 | 37.08 | 12 | 80.03 |
| 14 | Melinda Wang | Chinese Taipei
|
103.69 | 18 | 35.35 | 15 | 68.34 |
| 15 | Sandra Khopon |  Thailand
|
103.15 | 17 | 35.58 | 16 | 67.57 |
| 16 | Zhu Qiuying | China
|
102.77 | 16 | 36.43 | 17 | 66.34 |
| 17 | Chantelle Kerry | Australia
|
102.49 | 20 | 32.28 | 14 | 70.21 |
| 18 | Mimi Tanasorn Chindasook | Thailand
|
97.19 | 13 | 37.23 | 22 | 59.96 |
| 19 | Yun Yea-ji | South Korea
|
96.85 | 19 | 32.46 | 19 | 64.39 |
| 20 | Melanie Swang | Thailand
|
96.16 | 22 | 31.21 | 18 | 64.95 |
| 21 | Suhr Chae-yeon | South Korea
|
94.95 | 15 | 36.54 | 23 | 58.41 |
| 22 | Lejeanne Marais |  South Africa
|
94.34 | 21 | 32.15 | 21 | 62.19 |
| 23 | Crystal Kiang | Chinese Taipei
|
93.79 | 23 | 30.91 | 20 | 62.88 |
| 24 | Zhaira Costiniano | Philippines
|
87.26 | 24 | 30.33 | 24 | 56.93 |
| Did not advance to free skating | |||||||
| 25 | Reyna Hamui |  Mexico
|
25 | 29.84 | |||
| 26 | Chaochih Liu | Chinese Taipei
|
26 | 29.07 | |||
| 27 | Mericien Venzon | Philippines
|
27 | 28.91 | |||
| 28 | Brittany Lau |  Singapore
|
28 | 28.79 | |||
| 29 | Zara Pasfield | Australia
|
29 | 28.14 | |||
| 30 | Jaimee Nobbs | Australia
|
30 | 26.33 | |||
Pairs
[edit]| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | China
|
201.83 | 1 | 66.75 | 1 | 135.08 |
| 2 | Caydee Denney / John Coughlin | United States
|
185.42 | 2 | 63.35 | 2 | 122.07 |
| 3 | Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker | United States
|
178.89 | 3 | 62.42 | 3 | 116.47 |
| 4 | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Canada
|
171.76 | 8 | 57.53 | 4 | 114.23 |
| 5 | Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran | Japan
|
171.11 | 4 | 61.54 | 5 | 109.57 |
| 6 | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | United States
|
167.99 | 5 | 60.75 | 6 | 107.24 |
| 7 | Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers | Canada
|
158.66 | 6 | 57.97 | 7 | 100.69 |
| 8 | Jessica Dubé / Sébastien Wolfe | Canada
|
154.79 | 7 | 57.68 | 8 | 97.11 |
| 9 | Zhang Yue / Wang Lei | China
|
140.24 | 10 | 48.04 | 9 | 92.20 |
| 10 | Dong Huibo / Wu Yiming | China
|
137.91 | 9 | 49.52 | 10 | 88.39 |
Ice dancing
[edit]| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada
|
182.84 | 2 | 71.60 | 1 | 111.24 |
| 2 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | United States
|
179.40 | 1 | 72.15 | 2 | 107.25 |
| 3 | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje | Canada
|
163.26 | 3 | 64.23 | 3 | 99.03 |
| 4 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | United States
|
158.29 | 4 | 63.38 | 4 | 94.91 |
| 5 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | United States
|
129.20 | 5 | 49.93 | 5 | 79.27 |
| 6 | Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam | Canada
|
117.97 | 6 | 48.52 | 7 | 69.45 |
| 7 | Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen | China
|
115.05 | 7 | 45.42 | 6 | 69.63 |
| 8 | Anna Nagornyuk / Viktor Kovalenko | Uzbekistan
|
107.61 | 9 | 39.93 | 8 | 67.68 |
| 9 | Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman | Australia
|
105.91 | 8 | 40.10 | 9 | 65.81 |
| 10 | Corenne Bruhns / Ryan Van Natten | Mexico
|
91.57 | 10 | 35.93 | 10 | 55.64 |
| 11 | Cortney Mansour / Daryn Zhunussov | Kazakhstan
|
78.66 | 11 | 25.53 | 11 | 53.13 |
Medals summary
[edit]Medalists
[edit]Medals for overall placement:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Patrick Chan
|
Daisuke Takahashi
|
Ross Miner
|
| Ladies | Ashley Wagner
|
Mao Asada
|
Caroline Zhang
|
| Pair skating | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
|
Caydee Denney / John Coughlin
|
Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker
|
| Ice dancing | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
|
Meryl Davis / Charlie White
|
Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
|
Small medals for placement in the short segment:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Patrick Chan
|
Takahito Mura
|
Daisuke Takahashi
|
| Ladies | Mao Asada
|
Ashley Wagner
|
Kanako Murakami
|
| Pair skating | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
|
Caydee Denney / John Coughlin
|
Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker
|
| Ice dancing | Meryl Davis / Charlie White
|
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
|
Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
|
Small medals for placement in the free segment:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Patrick Chan
|
Daisuke Takahashi
|
Adam Rippon
|
| Ladies | Ashley Wagner
|
Mao Asada
|
Caroline Zhang
|
| Pair skating | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
|
Caydee Denney / John Coughlin
|
Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker
|
| Ice dancing | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
|
Meryl Davis / Charlie White
|
Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
|
Medals by country
[edit]Table of medals for overall placement:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada (CAN) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | China (CHN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Totals (4 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
References
[edit]- ^ "Colorado Springs to host 2012 Four Continents". U.S. Figure Skating. Icenetwork. January 23, 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-09-26. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
- ^ "Four Continents Championships 2012: Entries". International Skating Union.
- ^ "Dornbush to replace Abbott at Four Continents". U.S. Figure Skating. Ice Network. February 3, 2012. Archived from the original on February 10, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2012.