2012 Rostelecom Cup

Technopedia Center

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
S1 Informatics S1 Information Systems S1 Information Technology S1 Computer Engineering S1 Electrical Engineering S1 Civil Engineering

faculty of Economics and Business
S1 Management S1 Accountancy

Faculty of Letters and Educational Sciences
S1 English literature S1 English language education S1 Mathematics education S1 Sports Education

2012 Rostelecom Cup - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from 2012 Cup of Russia)

2012 Rostelecom Cup
Opening Ceremony of ROSTELECOM CUP 2012 (International figure skating competition).
Type:	Grand Prix
Date:	November 8 – 11
Season:	2012–13
Location:	Moscow
Host:	Figure Skating Federation of Russia
Venue:	Ice Palace Megasport
Champions
Men's singles: Patrick Chan
Ladies' singles: Kiira Korpi
Pairs: Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov
Ice dance: Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
Navigation
Previous: 2011 Rostelecom Cup
Next: 2013 Rostelecom Cup
Previous GP: 2012 Cup of China
Next GP: 2012 Trophée Éric Bompard

The 2012 Rostelecom Cup was the fourth event of six in the 2012–13 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Ice Palace Megasport in Moscow on November 8–11.^[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2012–13 Grand Prix Final.

Eligibility

Skaters who reached the age of 14 by July 1, 2012, were eligible to compete on the senior Grand Prix circuit.

Prior to competing in a Grand Prix event, skaters were required to have earned the following scores (3/5 of the top scores at the 2012 World Championships):^[2]

Discipline	Minimum
Men	159.66
Ladies	113.43
Pairs	120.90
Ice dancing	109.59

Entries

The entries were as follows.^[3]

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
Canada	Patrick Chan		Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams
Czech Republic	Michal Březina
Finland		Kiira Korpi
United Kingdom				Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
Germany				Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi
Israel			Danielle Montalbano / Evgeni Krasnopolski
Italy		Valentina Marchei	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise
Japan	Takahiko Kozuka Nobunari Oda	Kanako Murakami
Kazakhstan	Denis Ten
Russia	Zhan Bush Artur Gachinski Konstantin Menshov	Alena Leonova Adelina Sotnikova Polina Korobeynikova	Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov	Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin
Sweden		Viktoria Helgesson
United States	Richard Dornbush Johnny Weir	Gracie Gold Agnes Zawadzki Caroline Zhang	Caydee Denney / John Coughlin Tiffany Vise / Don Baldwin	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

Overview

Canada's Patrick Chan led after the men's short program, followed by Russia's Konstantin Menshov and Japan's Takahiko Kozuka.^[4]^[5] Chan was also first in the free skating, with Nobunari Oda in second and Kozuka in third. Chan won the title, Kozuka finished with the silver medal, and the Czech Republic's Michal Březina took the bronze.^[6]^[7] Johnny Weir re-aggravated an injury to his anterior cruciate ligament and withdrew after the short program.^[8]

Gracie Gold of the United States won the ladies' short program ahead of Finland's Kiira Korpi and American Agnes Zawadzki.^[9]^[10] Korpi won the free skating and her first gold medal on the Grand Prix series, with Gold and Zawadzki taking silver and bronze respectively, their first GP medals.^[11]^[12]

Russia's Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov won the pairs' short program ahead of teammates Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov and the United States' Caydee Denney / John Coughlin.^[13]^[14] The standings remained the same after the free skating.^[15]^[16]

Canada's Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir were first in the short dance, followed by Russia's Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov and Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin.^[17]^[18] The standing remained the same after the free dance. Virtue / Moir won gold, Ilinykh / Katsalapov the silver, and Sinitsina / Zhiganshin their first senior Grand Prix medal.^[19]^[20]

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Patrick Chan	Canada	262.35	1	85.44	1	176.91
2	Takahiko Kozuka	Japan	229.99	3	76.34	3	153.65
3	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	224.56	6	73.83	4	150.73
4	Konstantin Menshov	Russia	223.72	2	76.73	5	146.99
5	Nobunari Oda	Japan	217.92	8	63.18	2	154.74
6	Richard Dornbush	United States	210.89	7	67.44	6	143.45
7	Artur Gachinski	Russia	209.84	5	74.07	7	135.77
8	Zhan Bush	Russia	199.37	4	74.50	8	124.87
9	Denis Ten	Kazakhstan	177.77	9	59.42	9	118.35
WD	Johnny Weir	United States		10	57.47

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Kiira Korpi	Finland	177.19	2	61.55	1	115.64
2	Gracie Gold	United States	175.03	1	62.16	2	112.87
3	Agnes Zawadzki	United States	166.61	3	60.18	4	106.43
4	Kanako Murakami	Japan	166.34	6	56.78	3	109.56
5	Adelina Sotnikova	Russia	157.98	5	57.11	7	100.87
6	Alena Leonova	Russia	157.27	4	58.85	8	98.42
7	Polina Korobeynikova	Russia	153.32	8	51.45	6	101.87
8	Viktoria Helgesson	Sweden	151.48	7	54.10	9	97.38
9	Valentina Marchei	Italy	148.67	9	46.25	5	102.42
10	Caroline Zhang	United States	138.21	10	46.15	10	92.06

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov	Russia	207.53	1	74.74	1	132.79
2	Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov	Russia	191.08	2	66.02	2	125.06
3	Caydee Denney / John Coughlin	United States	179.21	3	59.02	3	120.19
4	Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers	Canada	154.16	4	51.86	4	102.30
5	Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov	Russia	150.15	5	50.90	5	99.25
6	Tiffany Vise / Don Baldwin	United States	143.15	7	45.91	6	97.24
7	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Italy	142.53	6	50.25	7	92.28

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	173.99	1	70.65	1	103.34
2	Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia	158.46	2	65.70	2	92.76
3	Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin	Russia	145.08	3	60.85	4	84.23
4	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	140.91	4	58.26	5	82.65
5	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi	Germany	140.54	6	55.53	3	85.01
6	Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin	Russia	135.84	5	55.81	6	80.03
7	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland	United Kingdom	126.66	8	51.39	7	75.27
8	Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams	Canada	124.96	7	51.44	8	73.52

References

^ "Announcement". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2013-08-26. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
^ "Competitors for ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series 2012/2013 Announced". International Skating Union. May 21, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-06-01. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
^ International Skating Union Archived 2011-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
^ Kondakova, Anna (November 9, 2012). "Chan learns something new in Moscow". GoldenSkate.
^ "Anxious Chan chops men's field at Rostelecom". International Skating Union. IceNetwork. November 9, 2012.
^ Kondakova, Anna (November 10, 2012). "Chan is back on the top". GoldenSkate.
^ "Just like old times: Chan dominates all in Moscow". International Skating Union. IceNetwork. November 10, 2012.
^ "Injury forces Weir to withdraw from Rostelecom". IceNetwork. November 10, 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
^ Kondakova, Anna (November 9, 2012). "Gold rebounds from Skate Canada; leads in Moscow". GoldenSkate.
^ "Gold overcomes nerves to take Rostelecom short". International Skating Union. IceNetwork. November 9, 2012.
^ Kondakova, Anna (November 10, 2012). "Gold for Korpi, silver for Gold". GoldenSkate.
^ "Korpi edges Gold for ladies crown at Rostelecom". International Skating Union. IceNetwork. November 10, 2012.
^ Kondakova, Anna (November 9, 2012). "Volosozhar and Trankov take big lead at 2012 Cup of Russia". GoldenSkate.
^ "Volosozhar, Trankov sleep with lead in Moscow". International Skating Union. IceNetwork. November 9, 2012.
^ Kondakova, Anna (November 10, 2012). "Volosozhar and Trankov win in Moscow; qualify for Grand Prix Final". GoldenSkate.
^ "Volosozhar, Trankov strike Grand Prix gold again". International Skating Union. IceNetwork. November 10, 2012.
^ Kondakova, Anna (November 9, 2012). "Virtue and Moir take confident lead in Moscow". GoldenSkate.
^ "Virtue, Moir show improvement, go on to lead". International Skating Union. IceNetwork. November 9, 2012.
^ Kondakova, Anna (November 10, 2012). "Virtue and Moir provide a perfect conclusion to 2012 Cup of Russia". GoldenSkate.
^ "World champion Canadians dance to easy gold". International Skating Union. IceNetwork. November 10, 2012.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2012 Rostelecom Cup.

v t e Rostelecom Cup
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

v t e 2012–13 figure skating season
ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking
ISU Championships	European Championships Four Continents Championships World Junior Championships World Championships World Synchronized Skating Championships World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships
ISU Grand Prix	Skate America Skate Canada International Cup of China Cup of Russia Trophée Éric Bompard NHK Trophy Grand Prix Final
Senior Internationals	U.S. International Classic Nebelhorn Trophy Ondrej Nepela Memorial Finlandia Trophy Coupe de Nice NRW Trophy Ice Challenge Nordics Triglav Trophy
Junior Internationals	ISU Junior Grand Prix Junior Grand Prix Final European Youth Olympic Festival
National Championships	Australia Austria Belgium Canada China Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan New Zealand Norway Poland Russia Slovakia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States

Categories:

Hidden categories: