2016 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

2016 Four Continents Championships
2016 Four Continents Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 16 – 21
Season:	2015–16
Location:	Taipei, Taiwan
Host:	Chinese Taipei Skating Union
Venue:	Taipei Arena
Champions
	Men's singles: ; Patrick Chan
	Ladies' singles: ; Satoko Miyahara
	Pairs: ; Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
	Ice dance: ; Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
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The 2016 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2015–16 season. It was held at the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan on February 16–21.^[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Qualification

The competition was open to skaters from non-European member nations of the International Skating Union who reached the age of 15 before 1 July 2015. The corresponding competition for European skaters was the 2016 European Figure Skating Championships.

National associations selected their entries based on their own criteria but the ISU mandated that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the Four Continents.

Minimum TES

Minimum technical scores (TES)^[2]
Discipline	SP / SD	FS / FD
Men	25	45
Ladies	20	36
Pairs	20	36
Ice dance	19	29
Must be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores may be attained at different events.

Entries

The ISU published the list of entries on 28 January 2016. Some national associations announced their selections earlier.

Country	Men^[3]	Ladies^[4]	Pairs^[5]	Ice dancing^[6]
Argentina	Denis Margalik
Australia	Andrew Dodds Brendan Kerry	Kailani Craine Brooklee Han Katie Pasfield		Matilda Friend / William Badaoui
Canada^[7]	Patrick Chan Liam Firus Kevin Reynolds	Alaine Chartrand Kaetlyn Osmond Véronik Mallet	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette
China	Jin Boyang Song Nan Yan Han	Li Zijun Zhao Ziquan Zheng Lu	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Li Xibei / Xiang Guangyao Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu Zhang Yiyi / Wu Nan
Chinese Taipei	Chih-I Tsao	Amy Lin
North Korea			Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik
Hong Kong	Leslie Ip Harry Hau Yin Lee	Maisy Hiu Ching Ma
Japan^[8]	Shoma Uno Takahito Mura Keiji Tanaka	Satoko Miyahara Rika Hongo Kanako Murakami	Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion
Kazakhstan				Anastasia Khromova / Daryn Zhunussov
Malaysia	Julian Zhi Jie Yee
Philippines	Michael Christian Martinez
South Korea	Kim Jin-seo Lee June-hyoung Byun Se-jong	Choi Da-bin Park So-youn Kim Na-hyun		Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam Min Yura / Alexander Gamelin
South Africa		Michaela Du Toit
Thailand		Thita Lamsam
United States^[9]	Max Aaron Grant Hochstein Ross Miner	Karen Chen Gracie Gold Mirai Nagasu	Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Madison Chock / Evan Bates Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

On 15 January 2016, Mao Asada withdrew from the event to focus on Worlds. She was replaced by Kanako Murakami.^[10]
On 26 January 2016, Ashley Wagner withdrew from the event to focus on Worlds. She was replaced by Mirai Nagasu.^[11]
On 4 February 2016, it was announced that Adam Rippon had withdrawn from the event to focus on Worlds. He was replaced by Ross Miner.^[12]
On 11 February 2016, Skate Canada announced that Gabrielle Daleman and Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau had withdrawn from the event as a precaution – Daleman and Séguin having sustained minor injuries in practice – and would be replaced by Véronik Mallet and Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps, respectively.^[13]
On 12 February 2016, Polina Edmunds withdrew from the event "due to lack of time to break in my new skates."^[14] She was replaced by Karen Chen.
On 20 February 2016, Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford withdrew before the free skating due to Duhamel's illness.^[15]

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Patrick Chan	Canada	290.21	5	86.22	1	203.99
2	Jin Boyang	China	289.83	1	98.45	2	191.38
3	Yan Han	China	271.55	3	89.57	3	181.98
4	Shoma Uno	Japan	269.81	2	92.99	5	176.82
5	Takahito Mura	Japan	268.43	4	89.08	4	179.35
6	Keiji Tanaka	Japan	222.70	7	74.82	7	147.88
7	Max Aaron	United States	220.94	8	69.48	6	151.46
8	Grant Hochstein	United States	216.34	6	75.79	10	140.55
9	Michael Christian Martinez	Philippines	211.59	9	69.15	9	142.44
10	Kim Jin-seo	South Korea	201.43	12	65.13	11	136.30
11	Kevin Reynolds	Canada	198.87	20	55.14	8	143.73
12	Song Nan	China	194.81	11	66.04	15	128.77
13	Liam Firus	Canada	194.02	14	61.81	13	132.21
14	Ross Miner	United States	191.12	17	58.27	12	132.85
15	Julian Zhi Jie Yee	Malaysia	190.32	15	59.70	14	130.62
16	Lee June-hyoung	South Korea	180.92	10	67.35	19	113.57
17	Denis Margalik	Argentina	177.65	18	57.71	16	119.94
18	Byun Se-jong	South Korea	176.15	16	58.30	17	117.85
19	Brendan Kerry	Australia	172.26	19	55.83	18	116.43
20	Andrew Dodds	Australia	161.47	13	61.88	21	99.59
21	Chih-I Tsao	Chinese Taipei	159.13	22	51.83	20	107.30
22	Leslie Ip	Hong Kong	152.29	21	54.81	22	97.48
23	Harry Hau Yin Lee	Hong Kong	110.95	23	42.54	23	68.41

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	214.91	1	72.48	1	142.43
2	Mirai Nagasu	United States	193.86	3	66.06	2	127.80
3	Rika Hongo	Japan	181.78	4	64.27	5	117.51
4	Park So-youn	South Korea	178.92	5	62.49	7	116.43
5	Gracie Gold	United States	178.39	9	57.26	3	121.13
6	Kaetlyn Osmond	Canada	175.63	11	56.14	4	119.49
7	Kanako Murakami	Japan	175.12	2	68.51	13	106.61
8	Choi Da-bin	South Korea	173.71	10	56.79	6	116.92
9	Kim Na-hyun	South Korea	170.70	8	58.40	8	112.30
10	Li Zijun	China	167.88	6	60.04	11	107.84
11	Alaine Chartrand	Canada	165.73	7	59.71	14	106.02
12	Karen Chen	United States	161.52	12	53.55	10	107.97
13	Kailani Craine	Australia	157.82	16	49.02	9	108.80
14	Véronik Mallet	Canada	155.98	15	51.88	15	104.10
15	Amy Lin	Chinese Taipei	155.61	17	47.88	12	107.73
16	Zhao Ziquan	China	147.79	13	53.24	16	94.55
17	Brooklee Han	Australia	135.75	14	52.80	17	82.95
18	Michaela Du Toit	South Africa	121.12	19	45.18	18	75.94
19	Zheng Lu	China	118.73	18	45.72	20	73.01
20	Maisy Hiu Ching Ma	Hong Kong	115.10	20	42.06	19	73.04
21	Katie Pasfield	Australia	95.78	22	34.63	21	61.15
22	Thita Lamsam	Thailand	89.56	21	38.91	22	50.65

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	China	221.91	1	78.51	1	143.40
2	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	United States	207.96	3	67.61	2	140.35
3	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	China	187.33	4	64.99	3	122.34
4	Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea	United States	182.02	7	59.72	4	122.30
5	Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch	Canada	179.67	5	61.97	5	117.70
6	Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran	United States	175.08	6	61.34	6	113.74
7	Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik	North Korea	157.24	8	53.83	7	103.41
8	Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps	Canada	148.82	10	50.07	8	98.75
9	Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau Audet	Japan	145.33	9	52.70	9	92.63
WD	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	withdrew	2	71.90	withdrew from competition

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	181.62	1	72.86	1	108.76
2	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	174.64	4	67.05	2	107.59
3	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	173.85	2	72.42	4	101.43
4	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	172.29	3	69.36	3	102.93
5	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	162.19	5	63.92	5	98.27
6	Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette	Canada	146.94	6	60.15	7	86.79
7	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	Japan	145.83	7	57.13	6	88.70
8	Min Yura / Alexander Gamelin	South Korea	138.42	9	55.23	8	83.19
9	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	China	135.57	8	56.49	10	79.08
10	Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam	South Korea	128.27	11	47.46	9	80.81
11	Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov	South Korea	122.69	13	44.69	11	78.00
12	Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion	Japan	117.06	12	47.09	13	69.97
13	Zhang Yiyi / Wu Nan	China	114.84	14	42.01	12	72.83
14	Anastasia Khromova / Daryn Zhunussov	Kazakhstan	110.71	10	48.19	15	62.52
15	Li Xibei / Xiang Guangyao	China	103.75	15	39.64	14	64.11
16	Matilda Friend / William Badaoui	Australia	85.70	16	33.00	16	52.70

Medals summary

Medalists

Medals for overall placement:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Patrick Chan	Jin Boyang	Yan Han
Ladies	Satoko Miyahara	Mirai Nagasu	Rika Hongo
Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang
Ice dancing	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Jin Boyang	Shoma Uno	Yan Han
Ladies	Satoko Miyahara	Kanako Murakami	Mirai Nagasu
Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim
Ice dancing	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Patrick Chan	Jin Boyang	Yan Han
Ladies	Satoko Miyahara	Mirai Nagasu	Gracie Gold
Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang
Ice dancing	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

Medals by country

Table of medals for overall placement:

Table of small medals for placement in the short segment:

Table of small medals for placement in the free segment:

Prize money

Prize money is awarded to skaters who achieve a top 12 placement in each discipline as follows:

	Prize money (US$)
Placement	Men's / Ladies' singles	Pairs / Ice dancers
1st	15,000	22,500
2nd	9,000	13,500
3rd	6,000	9,000
4th	4,500	6,750
5th	3,250	5,000
6th	2,500	3,750
7th	2,250	3,500
8th	2,000	3,000
9th	1,750	2,500
10th	1,500	2,250
11th	1,250	1,750
12th	1,000	1,500
Pairs and ice dancing couples split the amount. Total prize money: $250,000 USD.

References

^ "ISU Championships 2015 - 2016 provisional allotments". International Skating Union. 10 June 2013. Archived from the original on 14 June 2014.
^ "Announcement: 2016 Four Continents Championships" (PDF). International Skating Union.
^ "Entries: Men". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.
^ "Entries: Ladies". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.
^ "Entries: Pairs". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.
^ "Entries: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.
^ "SKATE CANADA NAMES TEAMS FOR 2016 ISU CHAMPIONSHIPS". Skate Canada. January 24, 2016.
^ Japan Skating Federation. "世界フィギュア／四大陸／世界ジュニア　代表選手 - 公益財団法人日本スケート連盟 - Japan Skating Federation". Archived from the original on 2015-12-29. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
^ "U.S. Figure Skating Announces ISU Championship Event Selections". U.S. Figure Skating. January 24, 2016. Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
^ "Figure Skating: Asada Withdraws from 4 Continents". January 16, 2016.
^ "icenetwork". Twitter.
^ "Adam Rippon has decided not to compete... - International Figure Skating - Facebook".
^ "Gabrielle Daleman, Julianne Séguin and Charlie Bilodeau withdraw from 2016 ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships". Skate Canada. February 11, 2016. Archived from the original on February 12, 2016.
^ "Edmunds withdraws from Four Continents Champs". IceNetwork.com. February 12, 2016.
^ "Four Continents: Meagan Duhamel, Eric Radford withdraw from pairs free skate due to illness". CBC. 20 February 2016.

External links

[ISU130610-1] "ISU Championships 2015 - 2016 provisional allotments". International Skating Union. 10 June 2013. Archived from the original on 14 June 2014.

[2] "Announcement: 2016 Four Continents Championships" (PDF). International Skating Union.

[Entries-Men-3] "Entries: Men". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.

[Entries-Ladies-4] "Entries: Ladies". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.

[Entries-Pairs-5] "Entries: Pairs". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.

[Entries-Dance-6] "Entries: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.

[SC160124-7] "SKATE CANADA NAMES TEAMS FOR 2016 ISU CHAMPIONSHIPS". Skate Canada. January 24, 2016.

[8] Japan Skating Federation. "世界フィギュア／四大陸／世界ジュニア　代表選手 - 公益財団法人日本スケート連盟 - Japan Skating Federation". Archived from the original on 2015-12-29. Retrieved 2016-01-11.

[USFS160124-9] "U.S. Figure Skating Announces ISU Championship Event Selections". U.S. Figure Skating. January 24, 2016. Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2016.

[asada-10] "Figure Skating: Asada Withdraws from 4 Continents". January 16, 2016.

[11] "icenetwork". Twitter.

[12] "Adam Rippon has decided not to compete... - International Figure Skating - Facebook".

[SC160211-13] "Gabrielle Daleman, Julianne Séguin and Charlie Bilodeau withdraw from 2016 ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships". Skate Canada. February 11, 2016. Archived from the original on February 12, 2016.

[IN160212-14] "Edmunds withdraws from Four Continents Champs". IceNetwork.com. February 12, 2016.

[15] "Four Continents: Meagan Duhamel, Eric Radford withdraw from pairs free skate due to illness". CBC. 20 February 2016.

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