2008 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

The 2008 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2007–08 season. It was held at the Seongsa Ice Rink in Goyang, South Korea on February 11–17. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

2008 Four Continents Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 11 – 17
Season:	2007–08
Location:	Goyang, South Korea
Venue:	Seongsa Ice Rink
Champions
Men's singles: Daisuke Takahashi
Ladies' singles: Mao Asada
Pair skating: Pang Qing / Tong Jian
Ice dance: Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
Previous: 2007 Four Continents Championships
Next: 2009 Four Continents Championships

Notes

• Unlike the other three ISU championships, each nation was allowed to enter 3 skaters/couples in each event, regardless of its skaters performance in the previous year's championships.
• The corresponding competition for European skaters was the 2008 European Figure Skating Championships.
• Skaters must have reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2007 in order to compete.

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	2	0	1	3
2	Canada (CAN)	1	2	0	3
3	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
4	United States (USA)	0	1	3	4
Totals (4 nations)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men

The men's podium. From left: Jeffrey Buttle (2nd), Daisuke Takahashi (1st), Evan Lysacek (3rd).

Daisuke Takahashi set a new world record for the free skating (175.84) and the combined total (264.41).[1]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Daisuke Takahashi	Japan	264.41	1	88.57	1	175.84
2	Jeffrey Buttle	Canada	234.02	3	83.85	2	150.17
3	Evan Lysacek	United States	233.11	2	84.06	3	149.05
4	Stephen Carriere	United States	218.30	4	74.08	5	144.22
5	Jeremy Abbott	United States	206.40	9	60.87	4	145.53
6	Li Chengjiang	China	197.98	5	72.25	9	125.73
7	Vaughn Chipeur	Canada	196.57	6	70.83	8	125.74
8	Takahiko Kozuka	Japan	196.38	7	67.48	6	128.90
9	Shawn Sawyer	Canada	187.18	10	60.79	7	126.39
10	Wu Jialiang	China	182.94	8	64.35	11	118.59
11	Xu Ming	China	169.17	12	49.08	10	120.09
12	Kensuke Nakaniwa	Japan	167.37	11	55.82	12	111.55
13	Abzal Rakimgaliev	Kazakhstan	138.88	13	43.17	13	95.71
14	Tristan Thode	New Zealand	115.99	14	42.16	16	73.83
15	Luis Hernández	Mexico	112.05	16	39.39	17	72.66
16	Justin Pietersen	South Africa	111.16	18	36.39	14	74.77
17	Nicholas Fernandez	Australia	109.77	15	41.14	20	68.63
18	Joel Watson	New Zealand	109.03	19	35.02	15	74.01
19	Kevin Alves	Brazil	108.12	17	37.05	18	71.07
20	Robert McNamara	Australia	102.23	21	32.42	19	69.81
21	Humberto Contreras	Mexico	95.50	20	34.20	21	61.30

Ladies

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

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Mao Asada	Japan	193.25	1	60.94	1	132.31
2	Joannie Rochette	Canada	179.54	3	60.04	2	119.50
3	Miki Ando	Japan	177.66	2	60.07	3	117.59
4	Kim Na-young	South Korea	158.49	6	53.08	4	105.41
5	Mira Leung	Canada	157.36	7	53.01	6	104.35
6	Katrina Hacker	United States	153.86	10	49.86	7	104.00
7	Cynthia Phaneuf	Canada	152.67	8	50.63	8	102.04
8	Ashley Wagner	United States	152.46	12	47.29	5	105.17
9	Anastasia Gimazetdinova	Uzbekistan	150.07	4	55.49	10	94.58
10	Fumie Suguri	Japan	145.06	9	50.24	9	94.82
11	Beatrisa Liang	United States	144.25	5	54.05	11	90.20
12	Wang Yueren	China	129.88	15	44.69	13	85.19
13	Xu Binshu	China	128.39	11	49.62	14	78.77
14	Liu Yan	China	124.09	16	37.33	12	86.76
15	Melinda Sherilyn Wang	Chinese Taipei	119.58	14	45.95	15	73.63
16	Kim Chae-hwa	South Korea	115.85	13	46.76	16	69.09
17	Loretta Hamui	Mexico	99.89	18	34.87	17	65.02
18	Ana Cecilia Cantu	Mexico	94.76	17	37.10	20	57.66
19	Tina Wang	Australia	94.28	21	30.57	18	63.71
20	Lejeanne Marais	South Africa	90.52	22	29.38	19	61.14
21	Tamami Ono	Hong Kong	88.96	20	31.97	21	56.99
22	Gracielle Jeanne Tan	Philippines	80.88	24	28.50	22	52.38
23	Charissa Tansomboon	Thailand	79.28	19	32.31	24	46.97
24	Corenne Bruhns	Mexico	76.89	23	28.63	23	48.26
Free Skating Not Reached
25	Crystal Wynewyne Kiang	Chinese Taipei		25	28.12
26	Abigail Pietersen	South Africa		26	27.44
27	Morgan Figgins	New Zealand		27	26.92
28	Phoebe Di Tommaso	Australia		28	25.76
29	Siobhan McColl	South Africa		29	23.40
30	Stacy Perfetti	Brazil		30	21.97
31	Kristine Y. Lee	Hong Kong		31	20.53
32	Tiffany Ting-Ye Wu	Chinese Taipei		32	18.64

Pairs

The pairs' podium. From left: Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao (2nd), Pang Qing / Tong Jian (1st), Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski (3rd).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Pang Qing / Tong Jian	China	187.33	2	67.70	1	119.63
2	Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao	China	181.84	1	70.45	2	111.39
3	Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski	United States	159.99	4	56.44	3	103.55
4	Rena Inoue / John Baldwin	United States	156.00	3	57.40	4	98.60
5	Jessica Miller / Ian Moram	Canada	149.24	5	54.88	5	94.36
6	Li Jiaqi / Xu Jiankun	China	144.53	6	53.26	6	91.27
7	Mylène Brodeur / John Mattatall	Canada	141.46	7	52.50	7	88.96
8	Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent	United States	134.41	8	45.82	8	88.59
9	Marina Aganina / Dmitri Zobnin	Uzbekistan	93.77	9	36.82	9	56.95

Ice dancing

The ice dancing podium. From left: Meryl Davis / Charlie White (2nd), Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (1st), Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre (3rd).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	207.32	1	38.22	1	65.02	1	104.08
2	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	United States	199.45	2	37.36	2	61.93	2	100.16
3	Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre	United States	180.65	3	34.36	3	56.67	3	89.62
4	Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev	United States	174.37	4	30.95	4	55.44	5	87.98
5	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	174.36	5	30.94	5	54.95	4	88.47
6	Allie Hann-McCurdy / Michael Coreno	Canada	164.02	6	29.73	6	50.53	6	83.76
7	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed	Japan	158.47	7	27.06	7	49.64	7	81.77
8	Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen	China	148.19	8	25.61	8	45.60	8	76.98
9	Huang Xintong / Zheng Xun	China	147.02	9	25.22	9	45.35	9	76.45
10	Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman	Australia	121.86	11	21.26	10	37.44	10	63.16
11	Guo Jiameimei / Meng Fei	China	112.29	12	20.96	11	36.80	12	54.53
12	Yu Sun Hye / Ramil Sarkulov	Uzbekistan	109.56	10	22.46	13	33.78	13	53.32
13	Maria Borounov / Evgeni Borounov	Australia	107.52	13	17.78	12	34.93	11	54.81

References

1. http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080221&content_id=44104&vkey=ice_news

External links

• ISU site
• Starting Orders and Results
• Competitors list
• "Definite Allotment of ISU Championships 2008" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-29. (74.8 KiB)