2012 Finlandia Trophy

The 2012 Finlandia Trophy was an international figure skating competition in the 2012–13 season. The 17th edition of the annual event was held on October 5–7, 2012 at the Barona Arena in Espoo.[1] Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, ice dancing, and synchronized skating on the senior level.[2]

2012 Finlandia Trophy
Type:	Senior International
Date:	October 5 – 7
Season:	2012–13
Location:	Espoo
Host:	Finnish Figure Skating Association
Venue:	Barona Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Yuzuru Hanyu
Ladies' singles: Yulia Lipnitskaya
Synchronized skating: Team Unique
Previous: 2011 Finlandia Trophy
Next: 2013 Finlandia Trophy

Competitors

The initial entries were:[3]

Country	Men	Ladies	Ice dancing	Synchro
Belgium		Ira Vannut
Belarus			Lesia Volodenkova / Vitaly Vakunov
Canada			Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
Estonia	Samuel Koppel	Jasmine Costa	Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand
Finland	Julian Lagus Matthias Versluis Valtter Virtanen Viktor Zubik	Kiira Korpi Alisa Mikonsaari Beata Papp Juulia Turkkila	Olesia Karmi / Max Lindholm Henna Lindholm / Ossi Kanervo	Marigold IceUnity Revolutions Rockettes Team Unique
Hungary			Dóra Turóczi / Balázs Major
Italy			Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
Japan	Yuzuru Hanyu Kento Nakamura		Bryna Oi / Taiyo Mizutani
Luxembourg		Fleur Maxwell
Poland	Maciej Cieplucha		Justyna Plutowska / Peter Gerber
Russia	Zhan Bush	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Paradise
Spain	Javier Fernández	Sonia Lafuente
Sweden	Adrian Schultheiss	Isabelle Olsson
Switzerland	Mikael Redin		Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost
Ukraine		Natalia Popova	Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri Dun
United States	Richard Dornbush Johnny Weir	Mirai Nagasu	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Uzbekistan	Misha Ge

Overview

Spain's Javier Fernández won the men's short program ahead of Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu and the United States' Richard Dornbush.[4][5] Hanyu placed first in the free program and won the title while Dornbush moved up to take the silver and Fernandez slipped to third.[5][6] Johnny Weir made his return to competition at Finlandia Trophy after a two-season absence.[6]

In the ladies' event, Finland's Kiira Korpi was first in the short program, followed by Russia's Yulia Lipnitskaya and the United States' Mirai Nagasu.[5][7] Yulia Lipnitskaya won the free program and the overall ladies' event.[5][8]

Canada's Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir withdrew before the event due to a slight muscle strain in Moir's neck.[9] Russia's Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev won the short dance ahead of Italy's Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte and the United States' Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue.[5][10] Cappellini and Lanotte were first in the free dance by a small margin but it was not enough to overtake Bobrova and Soloviev for the gold.[2][5][8]

In the synchronized skating competition, included in Finlandia Trophy for the first time, the Finnish Team Unique took gold by a margin of 2.48 points to the fellow Finnish Rockettes, who in turn were closely followed by the Russian Paradise by a margin of only 0.61 points.[2]

Results

[2]

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	248.13	2	75.57	1	172.56
2	Richard Dornbush	United States	239.99	3	71.19	2	168.80
3	Javier Fernández	Spain	235.20	1	80.77	3	154.43
4	Johnny Weir	United States	201.42	4	69.03	5	132.39
5	Zhan Bush	Russia	194.29	5	69.01	7	125.28
6	Misha Ge	Uzbekistan	187.92	6	61.32	6	126.60
7	Kento Nakamura	Japan	187.42	9	54.14	4	133.28
8	Adrian Schultheiss	Sweden	177.84	7	57.30	9	120.54
9	Maciej Cieplucha	Poland	177.82	10	53.59	8	124.23
10	Valtter Virtanen	Finland	151.93	8	56.81	11	95.12
11	Mikael Redin	Switzerland	146.27	12	47.40	10	98.87
12	Matthias Versluis	Finland	144.92	11	52.71	12	92.21
13	Julian Lagus	Finland	134.46	13	43.79	13	90.67
14	Viktor Zubik	Finland	131.06	14	41.53	14	89.53
15	Samuel Koppel	Estonia	118.90	15	38.20	15	80.70

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Russia	188.23	2	64.05	1	124.18
2	Kiira Korpi	Finland	181.16	1	69.27	2	111.89
3	Mirai Nagasu	United States	163.09	3	52.75	3	110.34
4	Natalia Popova	Ukraine	153.39	5	48.74	4	104.65
5	Isabelle Olsson	Sweden	151.67	4	51.18	5	100.49
6	Juulia Turkkila	Finland	143.04	6	47.04	6	96.00
7	Sonia Lafuente	Spain	126.80	7	45.75	7	81.09
8	Beata Papp	Finland	118.95	8	45.59	8	73.36
9	Fleur Maxwell	Luxembourg	112.57	9	44.93	10	67.64
10	Alisa Mikonsaari	Finland	112.04	11	39.54	9	72.50
11	Jasmine Costa	Estonia	109.46	10	42.66	11	66.80

Synchronized skating

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP
1	Team Unique	Finland	60.43	1	60.43
2	Rockettes	Finland	57.95	2	57.95
3	Paradise	Russia	57.34	3	57.34
4	Marigold IceUnity	Finland	51.80	4	51.80
5	Revolutions	Finland	46.39	5	46.39

References

1. "Finlandia Trophy Announcement". International Skating Union. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-08-26. Retrieved 2012-08-31.
2. "Full event protocol" (PDF). Finnish Figure Skating Association. 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 16, 2012.
3. "Entries". Finnish Figure Skating Association. September 26, 2012. Archived from the original on October 6, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
4. Pirkkalainen, Jyrki (October 5, 2012). "Fernandez steals Weir's thunder in Finlandia short". Icenetwork.
5. Flade, Tatjana (October 8, 2012). "2012 Finlandia Trophy". Golden Skate.
6. Pirkkalainen, Jyrki (October 6, 2012). "Humble Hanyu wins Finlandia with grace on, off ice". Icenetwork.
7. Pirkkalainen, Jyrki (October 6, 2012). "Flaxen-haired Korpi delights Finn crowd with win". Icenetwork.
8. Pirkkalainen, Jyrki (October 7, 2012). "Russia wins ladies, dance on last day at Finlandia". Icenetwork.
9. "Virtue, Moir withdraw from Finlandia Trophy". Skate Canada. Icenetwork. October 4, 2012.
10. Pirkkalainen, Jyrki (October 6, 2012). "Bobrova, Soloviev dot Finlandia lead with polka". Icenetwork.

External links

• 2012 Finlandia Trophy results
• Finlandia Trophy at the Finnish Figure Skating Association