2004 Skate America

2004 Skate America Grand Prix October 21 24 2004–05 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S. Figure Skating Mellon Arena FRA Brian Joubert USA Angela Nikodinov CHN Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao USA Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto 2003 Skate America 2005 Skate America 2004 Skate Canada International The 2004 Skate America was the first event of six in the 2004–05 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 21–24. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2004–05 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz. Results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Brian Joubert 193.46 1 72.10 2 121.36 2 Ryan Jahnke 186.71 4 60.83 1 125.88 3 Michael Weiss 179.56 2 64.82 3 114.74 4 Roman Serov 174.42 3 62.24 4 112.18 5 Evan Lysacek 162.51 5 54.87 8 107.64 6 Song Lun 161.46 9 51.08 6 110.38 7 Nicholas Young 160.82 6 52.60 7 108.22 8 Ben Ferreira 157.41 7 51.33 9 106.08 9 Stefan Lindemann 156.73 11 44.99 5 111.74 10 Vakhtang Murvanidze 143.10 8 51.22 11 91.88 11 Alexander Shubin 142.42 10 47.08 10 95.34 Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Angela Nikodinov 149.50 2 53.62 2 95.88 2 Cynthia Phaneuf 144.40 3 50.20 3 94.20 3 Miki Ando 142.64 1 53.64 6 89.00 4 Alissa Czisny 141.36 3 50.20 4 91.16 5 Susanna Pöykiö 140.38 8 42.98 1 97.40 6 Elena Liashenko 135.80 6 45.68 5 90.12 7 Yukina Ota 130.70 5 47.42 7 83.28 8 Miriam Manzano 125.30 7 44.06 8 81.24 9 Idora Hegel 116.98 10 39.64 9 77.34 10 Anne-Sophie Calvez 102.88 9 39.88 10 63.00 11 Zhang Fan 85.52 11 30.84 11 54.68 Pairs There was an accident during the free skating. Maxim Marinin lost his balance while attempting a difficult lasso lift and his partner Tatiana Totmianina slammed to the ice head first, sustaining a concussion, but was not seriously hurt. http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/columbian-vancouver-wash/mi_8100/is_20041024/scary-fall-mars-skate-america/ai_n51299547/ https://web.archive.org/web/20111124110708/http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/columbian-vancouver-wash/mi_8100/is_20041024/scary-fall-mars-skate-america/ai_n51299547/ usurped November 24, 2011 Scary fall mars Skate America; Totmianina taken to hospital after Yates Jennifer C. October 24, 2004 Associated Press November 27, 2010 A short while later, Julia Obertas fell out of a lasso lift but her partner Sergei Slavnov managed to catch her to prevent her head hitting the ice.http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_265308.html Skater injured at Skate America Klimovich Harrop JoAnne October 24, 2004 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review November 27, 2010May 2017 InternetArchiveBot yes Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao 166.86 3 56.98 1 109.88 2 Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov 166.26 2 57.58 2 108.68 3 Rena Inoue / John Baldwin, Jr. 158.10 4 56.52 3 101.58 4 Ding Yang / Ren Zhongfei 139.42 6 47.98 5 91.44 5 Elizabeth Putnam / Sean Wirtz 136.88 7 45.38 4 91.50 6 Kathryn Orscher / Garrett Lucash 129.32 8 43.76 6 85.56 7 Jennifer Don / Jonathon Hunt 125.28 5 51.00 7 74.28 8 Julia Shapiro / Vadim Akolzin 100.74 9 41.36 8 59.38 WD Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin 1 64.98 Ice dancing Rank Name Nation Total points CD OD FD 1 Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto 212.87 1 43.71 1 63.40 1 105.76 2 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski 204.32 2 40.98 2 60.48 2 102.86 3 Megan Wing / Aaron Lowe 178.60 3 36.65 3 51.66 3 90.29 4 Svetlana Kulikova / Vitali Novikov 173.43 4 33.89 4 50.65 4 88.89 5 Sinead Kerr / John Kerr 156.56 5 31.89 5 43.14 5 81.53 6 Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko 143.92 7 27.08 6 42.81 7 74.03 7 Eve Bentley / Cédric Pernet 140.22 8 26.39 8 39.04 6 74.79 8 Kendra Goodwin / Brent Bommentre 136.08 9 25.72 7 40.62 10 69.74 9 Loren Galler-Rabinowitz / David Mitchell 133.45 10 24.35 9 38.96 9 70.14 10 Alexandra Kauc / Michał Zych 131.25 6 27.40 10 35.79 11 68.06 11 Elena Romanovskaya / Alexander Grachev 131.06 11 23.83 11 34.94 8 72.29 References External links 2004 Smart Ones Skate America Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Skate America, 2004 Category:Skate America