2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating

The 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating was a series of senior invitational internationals which ran from October 23 to December 13, 2015. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points based on their placement at each event and the top six in each discipline qualified to compete at the Grand Prix Final, held in Barcelona, Spain.

2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
Type:	Grand Prix
Date:	October 23 – December 13, 2015
Season:	2015–16
Previous: 2014–15 Grand Prix
Next: 2016–17 Grand Prix

Organized by the International Skating Union, the series set the stage for the 2016 Europeans, the 2016 Four Continents, and the 2016 World Championships. The corresponding series for junior-level skaters was the 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix.

Schedule

The series was composed of the following events:[1][2][3]

Date	Event	Location
October 23–25	2015 Skate America	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Oct. 30 – Nov. 1	2015 Skate Canada International	Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
November 6–8	2015 Cup of China	Beijing, China
November 13–15	2015 Trophée Éric Bompard	Bordeaux, France
November 20–22	2015 Rostelecom Cup	Moscow, Russia
November 27–29	2015 NHK Trophy	Nagano, Japan
December 10–13	2015–16 Grand Prix Final	Barcelona, Spain

Assignments

The preliminary Grand Prix assignments were announced on June 15, 2015.[2]

Men

Skater	Assignment(s)
2 Assignments
Brendan Kerry	Skate America, NHK Trophy (added)
Elladj Baldé	Cup of China (added), NHK Trophy
Patrick Chan	Skate Canada International, Trophée Éric Bompard
Nam Nguyen	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
Jin Boyang	Cup of China, NHK Trophy
Yan Han	Skate America, Cup of China
Michal Březina	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy
Chafik Besseghier	Trophee Éric Bompard (added), NHK Trophy
Oleksii Bychenko	Skate America, Rostelecom Cup
Ivan Righini	Cup of China (added), Rostelecom Cup
Yuzuru Hanyu	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy
Takahiko Kozuka	Cup of China, Rostelecom Cup
Takahito Mura	Skate America, NHK Trophy
Daisuke Murakami	Skate Canada International, Trophée Éric Bompard
Shoma Uno	Skate America, Trophée Éric Bompard
Denis Ten	Skate America, Trophée Éric Bompard
Kim Jin-seo	Skate Canada International (added), Trophée Éric Bompard (added)
Maxim Kovtun	Trophée Éric Bompard, NHK Trophy
Konstantin Menshov	Skate America, NHK Trophy
Alexander Petrov	Skate Canada International, Trophée Éric Bompard
Adian Pitkeev	Skate America, Rostelecom Cup
Sergei Voronov	Cup of China, Rostelecom Cup
Javier Fernández	Cup of China, Rostelecom Cup
Max Aaron	Skate America, Trophée Éric Bompard
Richard Dornbush	Cup of China, NHK Trophy
Grant Hochstein	Cup of China, NHK Trophy (added)
Ross Miner	Skate America (added), Rostelecom Cup
Adam Rippon	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
1 Assignment
Keegan Messing	Skate Canada International (added)
Song Nan	Cup of China
Wang Yi	Trophée Éric Bompard
Florent Amodio	Skate America, Trophée Éric Bompard
Romain Ponsart	Trophée Éric Bompard
Sei Kawahara	Skate Canada International (added)
Keiji Tanaka	NHK Trophy (added)
Lee June-hyoung	Skate Canada International
Michael Christian Martinez	Cup of China
Mikhail Kolyada	Rostelecom Cup
Moris Kvitelashvili	Cup of China
Jason Brown	Skate America, NHK Trophy
Timothy Dolensky	Skate Canada International (added)
Misha Ge	Cup of China, Trophée Éric Bompard
Removed
Peter Liebers	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
Ronald Lam	Skate Canada International
Daniel Samohin	Cup of China
Alexander Majorov	Rostelecom Cup
Joshua Farris	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy

[4]

Ladies

Skater	Assignment(s)
2 Assignments
Alaine Chartrand	Skate America, Rostelecom Cup
Gabrielle Daleman	Skate Canada International, Trophée Éric Bompard
Kaetlyn Osmond	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy
Li Zijun	Cup of China, NHK Trophy
Roberta Rodeghiero	Trophée Éric Bompard (added), Rostelecom Cup
Mao Asada	Cup of China, NHK Trophy
Rika Hongo	Cup of China, Rostelecom Cup
Haruka Imai	Skate America, Trophée Éric Bompard
Satoko Miyahara	Skate America, NHK Trophy
Kanako Murakami	Skate Canada International, Trophée Éric Bompard
Yuka Nagai	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Skate America, Skate Canada International
Park So-youn	Skate America, Cup of China
Alena Leonova	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy
Yulia Lipnitskaya	Skate America, Trophée Éric Bompard
Evgenia Medvedeva	Skate America, Rostelecom Cup
Anna Pogorilaya	Cup of China, NHK Trophy
Elena Radionova	Cup of China, Rostelecom Cup
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Skate Canada International, Trophée Éric Bompard
Nicole Rajičová	Skate America, Cup of China
Joshi Helgesson	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
Karen Chen	Skate America (added), Cup of China
Polina Edmunds	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
Gracie Gold	Skate America, Trophée Éric Bompard
Courtney Hicks	Cup of China, NHK Trophy
Hannah Miller	Cup of China, Rostelecom Cup
Ashley Wagner	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy
1 Assignment
Brooklee Han	Trophée Éric Bompard (added)
Véronik Mallet	Skate Canada International (added)
Zhao Ziquan	Cup of China (added)
Zheng Lu	Cup of China (added)
Laurine Lecavelier	Trophée Éric Bompard
Maé-Bérénice Méité	Trophée Éric Bompard, NHK Trophy
Riona Kato	Rostelecom Cup
Mariko Kihara	NHK Trophy (added)
Miyu Nakashio	Skate America
Angelīna Kučvaļska	Trophée Éric Bompard
Maria Artemieva	NHK Trophy
Adelina Sotnikova	Rostelecom Cup (added)
Daša Grm	Rostelecom Cup
Isabelle Olsson	Skate Canada International (added)
Mariah Bell	Skate America
Mirai Nagasu	NHK Trophy
Angela Wang	Trophée Éric Bompard
Removed
Kiira Korpi	Trophée Éric Bompard
Elene Gedevanishvili	Skate Canada International

[5]

Pairs

Pair	Assignment(s)
2 Assignments
Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	Skate Canada International, Trophée Éric Bompard (added)
Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy
Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps	Skate Canada International (added), Cup of China (added)
Liubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch	Cup of China, NHK Trophy
Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Skate America, Trophée Éric Bompard
Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao	Trophée Éric Bompard, Rostelecom Cup
Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Skate America, Cup of China
Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei	Skate America, Cup of China
Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Cup of China, NHK Trophy
Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Trophée Éric Bompard, NHK Trophy
Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov	Skate America, Cup of China
Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy
Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Cup of China, Rostelecom Cup
Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Skate America, Rostelecom Cup
Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Skate Canada International, Trophée Éric Bompard
Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran	Skate Canada International, Trophée Éric Bompard
Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea	Skate America, Rostelecom Cup
Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Skate America, NHK Trophy
1 Assignment
Hayleigh Bell / Rudi Swiegers	Rostelecom Cup
Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert	Cup of China (added)
Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji	NHK Trophy (added)
Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Trophée Éric Bompard
Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov	Trophée Éric Bompard, NHK Trophy
Natalja Zabijako / Alexander Enbert	Rostelecom Cup (added)
Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu	NHK Trophy
Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan	Skate America (added)
Removed
Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin	Cup of China
Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage	Cup of China
Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay	Skate America (added)

[6]

Ice dance

Team	Assignment(s)
2 Assignments
Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Skate America, Trophée Éric Bompard
Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	Skate America, Cup of China
Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Skate Canada International, Trophée Éric Bompard (added)
Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland	Trophée Éric Bompard, NHK Trophy (added)
Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Cup of China, Rostelecom Cup
Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy
Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin	Cup of China, Rostelecom Cup
Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin	Skate Canada International, Rostelecom Cup
Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Skate America, Rostelecom Cup (added)
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Trophée Éric Bompard, NHK Trophy
Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov	Skate America, Trophée Éric Bompard
Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus	Skate America (added), NHK Trophy (added)
Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Skate America, Cup of China
Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	Skate America, Cup of China
Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Trophée Éric Bompard, NHK Trophy
Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy
1 Assignment
Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev	Rostelecom Cup (added)
Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette	Skate Canada International (added)
Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam	Skate Canada International, NHK Trophy
Zhao Yue / Zheng Xun	Cup of China
Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion	NHK Trophy
Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	NHK Trophy (added)
Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov	Rostelecom Cup
Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley	Cup of China
Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar	Trophée Éric Bompard (added)
Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Skate America
Removed
Cong Yue / Sun Zhuoming	Cup of China (added)
Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Trophée Éric Bompard, NHK Trophy
Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz	Trophée Éric Bompard (added), Rostelecom Cup

[7]

Changes to preliminary assignments

Skate America

• On August 21, three out of the four host picks were announced as Ross Miner, Karen Chen, and Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay.[8][9][10]
• On August 26, the fourth host pick was officially announced as Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus.[11]
• On October 21, Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay were replaced by Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan as Donlan / Bartholomay withdrew due to Donlan recovering from an illness.[12][13]

Skate Canada International

• On July 24, Ronald Lam announced his retirement.[14] He was officially removed from the roster on August 21.[8] On September 4, he was officially replaced with Kim Jin-seo.[15]
• On August 21, Véronik Mallet was announced as a host pick.[10]
• On September 2, Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps, and Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette were announced as host picks.[16][17]
• On September 24, Joshua Farris was removed from the roster due to a concussion.[18][19] On September 25, it was announced that he was replaced by Timothy Dolensky.[20] Dolensky was officially added to the roster on September 28.[21]
• On October 16, Elene Gedevanishvili was removed from the roster.[22] No reason has been given. On October 19, her replacement was announced as Isabelle Olsson.[23]
• On October 22, Peter Liebers was replaced by Sei Kawahara. No reason has been given.[24]

Cup of China

• On August 17, Daniel Samohin and Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin were removed from the roster. No reasons were given. However, Samohin is not eligible to compete on the Senior Grand Prix circuit due to competing on the Junior Grand Prix this season. On August 21, Elladj Baldé and Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps were announced as their replacements.[8][9][25][26]
• On September 15, Zhao Ziquan, Zheng Lu, and Cong Yue / Sun Zhuoming were added as host picks.[27][28]
• On October 6, Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage were removed from the roster. No reason has been given.[29] Their replacement was announced as Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert.[30]
• On October 15, Takahiko Kozuka was removed from the roster due to an injury.[31][32] On October 16, his replacement was announced as Ivan Righini.[33]
• On November 5, China's Cong / Sun withdrew from the ice dancing event due to a medical reason.[34]

Trophée Éric Bompard

• On August 14, Kiira Korpi was removed from the roster.[35] On August 21, her replacement was announced as Roberta Rodeghiero.[10] On August 27, it was announced that Korpi had retired.[36]
• On September 14, Chafik Besseghier was added as a host pick.[37]
• On September 23, Brooklee Han, Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer, Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz, and Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar were added to the roster in place of host picks.[38][39][40]
• On September 28, Misha Ge was removed from the roster due to visa problems.[41][42] On October 15, Kim Jin-seo was announced as his replacement.[31]
• On October 16, Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz were removed from the roster.[43] It was announced that the couple had split, because Hurtado had dissolved the partnership.[44] On October 26, their replacement was announced as Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen.[45]
• On November 6, Florent Amodio was removed from the roster due to an injury.[46] No replacement was made.
• On November 11, Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron withdrew due to Papadakis not having fully recovered from her concussion.[47] No replacement was made.

Rostelecom Cup

• On September 14, Adelina Sotnikova, Natalja Zabijako / Alexander Enbert, and Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov were added as a host picks.[27][28][48]
• On October 16, Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz were removed from the roster.[43] It was announced that the couple had split, because Hurtado had dissolved the partnership.[44] On October 26, their replacement was announced as Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev.[45]

NHK Trophy

• On September 9, Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed, Mariko Kihara, and Keiji Tanaka were added as host picks.[49][50][51]
• On September 24, Joshua Farris was removed from the roster due to a concussion.[18][19] On September 28, his replacement was announced as Grant Hochstein.[42]
• On November 11, Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron withdrew due to Papadakis not having fully recovered from her concussion.[47] On November 17, Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland were announced as their replacement.[52]
• On November 20, Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov withdrew due to an injury to Volosozhar. They were replaced by Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji.[53] Ice dancers Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam also withdrew.[54] On November 21, they were replaced by Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus.[55]
• On November 21, Jason Brown withdrew due to a back strain injury.[56] On November 23, he was replaced by Brendan Kerry.[57]
• On November 23, Maé-Bérénice Méité withdrew from the ladies' event.[58]

Medal summary

Medalists

Event	Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Skate America	Men	Max Aaron	Shoma Uno	Jason Brown
	Ladies	Evgenia Medvedeva	Gracie Gold	Satoko Miyahara
	Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau
	Ice dancing	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

Event	Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Skate Canada	Men	Patrick Chan	Yuzuru Hanyu	Daisuke Murakami
	Ladies	Ashley Wagner	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Yuka Nagai
	Pairs	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro
	Ice dancing	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev

Event	Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Cup of China	Men	Javier Fernández	Jin Boyang	Yan Han
	Ladies	Mao Asada	Rika Hongo	Elena Radionova
	Pairs	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang
	Ice dancing	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin

Event	Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Trophée Bompard[59]	Men	Shoma Uno	Maxim Kovtun	Daisuke Murakami
	Ladies	Gracie Gold	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Roberta Rodeghiero
	Pairs	Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau
	Ice dancing	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

Event	Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Rostelecom Cup	Men	Javier Fernández	Adian Pitkeev	Ross Miner
	Ladies	Elena Radionova	Evgenia Medvedeva	Adelina Sotnikova
	Pairs	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao
	Ice dancing	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov

Event	Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
NHK Trophy	Men	Yuzuru Hanyu	Jin Boyang	Takahito Mura
	Ladies	Satoko Miyahara	Courtney Hicks	Mao Asada
	Pairs	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim
	Ice dancing	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

Event	Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Grand Prix Final	Men	Yuzuru Hanyu	Javier Fernández	Shoma Uno
	Ladies	Evgenia Medvedeva	Satoko Miyahara	Elena Radionova
	Pairs	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov
	Ice dancing	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	7	9	8	24
2	United States (USA)	6	6	4	16
3	Canada (CAN)	6	2	4	12
4	Japan (JPN)	5	4	7	16
5	Spain (ESP)	2	1	0	3
6	China (CHN)	1	4	3	8
7	Italy (ITA)	1	1	2	4
8	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (8 nations)		28	28	28	84

Qualification

At each event, skaters earned points toward qualification for the Grand Prix Final. Following the sixth event, the top six highest scoring skaters/teams advanced to the Final. The points earned per placement were as follows:[2]

Placement	Points (Singles)	Points (Pairs/Dance)
1st	15	15
2nd	13	13
3rd	11	11
4th	9	9
5th	7	7
6th	5	5
7th	4	–
8th	3	–
9th	–	–
10th	–	–

There were originally seven tie-breakers in cases of a tie in overall points:

1. Highest placement at an event. If a skater placed 1st and 3rd, the tiebreaker is the 1st place, and that beats a skater who placed 2nd in both events.
2. Highest combined total scores in both events. If a skater earned 200 points at one event and 250 at a second, that skater would win in the second tie-break over a skater who earned 200 points at one event and 150 at another.
3. Participated in two events.
4. Highest combined scores in the free skating/free dancing portion of both events.
5. Highest individual score in the free skating/free dancing portion from one event.
6. Highest combined scores in the short program/short dance of both events.
7. Highest number of total participants at the events.

However, due to the cancellation of the free skating/dance at Trophée Éric Bompard, the International Skating Union revised the tie-breakers to the following:[60]

1. Highest placement at an event. If a skater placed 1st and 3rd, the tiebreaker is the 1st place, and that beats a skater who placed 2nd in both events.
2. Highest combined scores in the short program/short dance of both events.
3. Participated in two events.
4. Highest number of total participants at the events.

If a tie remained, it was considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all advanced to the Grand Prix Final.

Qualification standings

Bold denotes Grand Prix Final qualification.

Points	Men[61]	Ladies[62]	Pairs[63]	Ice dance[64]
30	Javier Fernández		Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
28	Yuzuru Hanyu Shoma Uno	Gracie Gold Evgenia Medvedeva	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov Sui Wenjing / Han Cong (withdrew)	Madison Chock / Evan Bates Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
26	Jin Boyang	Satoko Miyahara Mao Asada Elena Radionova		Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
24		Ashley Wagner	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
22	Patrick Chan Daisuke Murakami		Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau
20	Yan Han	Rika Hongo Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao (called up)	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
19	Max Aaron
18	Adian Pitkeev Adam Rippon Grant Hochstein	Courtney Hicks Yulia Lipnitskaya Kanako Murakami	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
17
16			Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
15	Ross Miner	Roberta Rodeghiero	Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov
14		Yuka Nagai Polina Edmunds Karen Chen	Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea
13	Maxim Kovtun	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov
12	Konstantin Menshov Sergei Voronov	Gabrielle Daleman		Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus
11	Takahito Mura Jason Brown Nam Nguyen	Adelina Sotnikova	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro
10	Alexander Petrov			Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov
9	Denis Ten	Anna Pogorilaya		Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley
8		Nicole Rajičová
7	Mikhail Kolyada Keiji Tanaka Michal Březina Richard Dornbush	Mirai Nagasu	Liubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Natalja Zabijako / Alexander Enbert	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin Zhao Yue / Zheng Xun
6		Alena Leonova
5	Michael Christian Martinez	Alaine Chartrand Kaetlyn Osmond	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov
4	Timothy Dolensky	Li Zijun Angelīna Kučvaļska
3	Ivan Righini Brendan Kerry Wang Yi Misha Ge	Park So-youn Angela Wang Mariah Bell
0	Chafik Besseghier Kim Jin-seo Song Nan Takahiko Kozuka Alexei Bychenko Takahito Mura Sei Kawahara Elladj Baldé Florent Amodio Keegan Messing Romain Ponsart Moris Kvitelashvili Lee June-hyoung Peter Liebers	Joshi Helgesson Haruka Imai Hannah Miller Mariko Kihara Véronik Mallet Riona Kato Brooklee Han Miyu Nakashio Maria Artemieva Zhao Ziquan Maé-Bérénice Méité Isabelle Olsson Zheng Lu Laurine Lecavelier Daša Grm	Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan Hayleigh Bell / Rudi Swiegers Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin Alisa Agafanova / Alper Uçar Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion Cong Yue / Sun Zhuoming

Qualifiers

Due to the cancellation of the free skating/dance at the Trophée Éric Bompard, the International Skating Union announced an exception to the qualification criteria. For the skaters who placed seventh in qualifying for the Grand Prix Final, if they competed at Trophée Bompard, they would receive an invite to the Final.[60]

	Men[65]	Ladies[66]	Pairs[67]	Ice dancing[68]
1	Javier Fernández	Gracie Gold	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
2	Yuzuru Hanyu	Evgenia Medvedeva	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
3	Shoma Uno	Satoko Miyahara	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong (withdrew)	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
4	Jin Boyang	Mao Asada	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
5	Patrick Chan	Elena Radionova	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
6	Daisuke Murakami	Ashley Wagner	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
7	N/A	N/A	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	N/A
Alternates
1st	Yan Han	Rika Hongo	Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao (called up)	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
2nd	Max Aaron	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
3rd	Adian Pitkeev	Courtney Hicks	N/A	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

Top Grand Prix scores

For the all-time highest scores, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

Men

Total score

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	330.43	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Javier Fernández	Spain	292.95	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
3	Shoma Uno	Japan	276.79	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
4	Patrick Chan	Canada	271.14	2015 Skate Canada
5	Jin Boyang	China	266.43	2015 NHK Trophy
6	Max Aaron	United States	258.95	2015 Skate America
7	Daisuke Murakami	Japan	252.25	2015 Skate Canada
8	Adian Pitkeev	Russia	250.47	2015 Rostelecom Cup
9	Ross Miner	United States	248.92	2015 Rostelecom Cup
10	Adam Rippon	United States	248.63	2015 Rostelecom Cup

Short program

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	110.95	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Jin Boyang	China	95.64	2015 NHK Trophy
3	Javier Fernández	Spain	93.19	2015 Cup of China
4	Shoma Uno	Japan	89.56	2015 Trophée Éric Bompard
5	Takahito Mura	Japan	88.29	2015 NHK Trophy
6	Adian Pitkeev	Russia	87.54	2015 Rostelecom Cup
7	Maxim Kovtun	Russia	86.82	2015 Trophée Éric Bompard
8	Max Aaron	United States	86.67	2015 Skate America
9	Yan Han	China	86.53	2015 Skate America
10	Konstantin Menshov	Russia	86.15	2015 Skate America

Free program

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	219.48	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Javier Fernández	Spain	201.43	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
3	Patrick Chan	Canada	192.84	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
4	Shoma Uno	Japan	190.32	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
5	Jin Boyang	China	176.50	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
6	Max Aaron	United States	172.28	2015 Skate America
7	Daisuke Murakami	Japan	171.37	2015 Skate Canada
8	Adam Rippon	United States	169.86	2015 Rostelecom Cup
9	Mikhail Kolyada	Russia	168.33	2015 Rostelecom Cup
10	Ross Miner	United States	163.56	2015 Rostelecom Cup

Ladies

Total score

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Evgenia Medvedeva	Russia	222.54	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Elena Radionova	Russia	211.32	2015 Rostelecom Cup
3	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	208.85	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
4	Gracie Gold	United States	202.80	2015 Skate America
5	Ashley Wagner	United States	202.52	2015 Skate Canada
6	Mao Asada	Japan	197.48	2015 Cup of China
7	Rika Hongo	Japan	195.76	2015 Cup of China
8	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	188.99	2015 Skate Canada
9	Anna Pogorilaya	Russia	184.16	2015 Cup of China
10	Polina Edmunds	United States	183.20	2015 Rostelecom Cup

Short program

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Evgenia Medvedeva	Russia	74.58	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Gracie Gold	United States	73.32	2015 Trophée Éric Bompard
3	Elena Radionova	Russia	71.79	2015 Rostelecom Cup
4	Mao Asada	Japan	71.73	2015 Cup of China
5	Ashley Wagner	United States	70.73	2015 Skate Canada
6	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	69.53	2015 NHK Trophy
7	Alaine Chartrand	Canada	67.38	2015 Rostelecom Cup
8	Rika Hongo	Japan	65.79	2015 Cup of China
9	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Russia	65.63	2015 Trophée Éric Bompard
10	Courtney Hicks	United States	65.60	2015 NHK Trophy

Free program

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Evgenia Medvedeva	Russia	147.96	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	140.09	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
3	Ashley Wagner	United States	139.77	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
4	Elena Radionova	Russia	139.53	2015 Rostelecom Cup
5	Gracie Gold	United States	137.41	2015 Skate America
6	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Russia	133.62	2015 Skate Canada
7	Rika Hongo	Japan	129.97	2015 Cup of China
8	Mao Asada	Japan	125.75	2015 Cup of China
9	Anna Pogorilaya	Russia	122.69	2015 Cup of China
10	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Kazakhstan	119.30	2015 Skate America

Pairs

Total score

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Russia	229.44	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	216.67	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
3	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Russia	216.00	2015 Cup of China
4	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	China	215.62	2015 Cup of China
5	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	200.98	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
6	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	China	197.75	2015 Cup of China
7	Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao	China	193.04	2015 Rostelecom Cup
8	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	United States	191.97	2015 Skate America
9	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	191.19	2015 Skate Canada
10	Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei	China	186.76	2015 Cup of China

Short program

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Russia	75.45	2015 Rostelecom Cup
2	Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov	Russia	74.50	2015 Trophée Éric Bompard
3	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	China	74.40	2015 Cup of China
4	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Russia	73.64	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
5	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	72.74	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
6	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	71.16	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
7	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	China	70.06	2015 Cup of China
8	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	United States	69.69	2015 Skate America
9	Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei	China	69.36	2015 Cup of China
10	Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao	China	68.10	2015 Rostelecom Cup

Free program

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Russia	154.60	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	143.93	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
3	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	Russia	143.55	2015 Cup of China
4	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	China	141.22	2015 Cup of China
5	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	129.82	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
6	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	China	127.69	2015 Cup of China
7	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	127.19	2015 Skate Canada
8	Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao	China	124.94	2015 Rostelecom Cup
9	Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea	United States	122.45	2015 Rostelecom Cup
10	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	United States	122.28	2015 Skate America

Ice dance

Total score

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	182.66	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	177.55	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
3	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	176.37	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
4	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	174.92	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
5	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Russia	169.33	2015 NHK Trophy
6	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	167.49	2015 NHK Trophy
7	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia	167.40	2015 Rostelecom Cup
8	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Russia	160.64	2015 NHK Trophy
9	Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin	Russia	159.00	2015 Cup of China
10	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	157.58	2015 Skate America

Short dance

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	72.75	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	71.64	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
3	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	70.14	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
4	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	69.11	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
5	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	66.57	2015 NHK Trophy
6	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Russia	66.19	2015 NHK Trophy
7	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	63.94	2015 Trophée Éric Bompard
7	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia	63.63	2015 Rostelecom Cup
8	Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin	Russia	63.54	2015 Cup of China
9	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Russia	61.96	2015 NHK Trophy
10	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	61.29	2015 Skate Canada

Free dance

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Event
1	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	109.91	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
2	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	106.91	2015 Cup of China
3	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	106.35	2015 NHK Trophy
4	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	105.91	2015–16 Grand Prix Final
5	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia	103.77	2015 Rostelecom Cup
6	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Russia	103.14	2015 NHK Trophy
7	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	100.92	2015 NHK Trophy
8	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Russia	98.68	2015 NHK Trophy
9	Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin	Russia	98.55	2015 Rostelecom Cup
10	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	96.25	2015 Skate America

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