We reached the end of our project: here are the hypothetical rankings of the season, according to the scores received by the athletes participating at Skate America, Skate Canada, Cup of China, NHK Trophy, Trophée Eric Bompard and Rostelecom Cup. At the end of the week, at the Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka, we’ll see if some of these rankings transfer themselves into the official rankings of the event.
by Florentina Tone
After 2013 Rostelecom Cup, few changes happened in the rankings: Carolina Kostner entered the Top 6 of the ladies (replacing Adelina Sotnikova; on the other hand, given her placement at the Grand Prix events of the season, third at Cup of China and second at Rostelecom Cup, the Italian hasn’t earned a place at the Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka), Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy remained on the third place in the pairs’ ranking, but with a bigger score (206.33 points at Rostelecom Cup vs. 201.21 points at Cup of China), and Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov entered this hypothetical ranking on the fourth place.
MEN
1. Patrick Chan: 295.27 points (Trophée Eric Bompard)
2. Daisuke Takahashi: 268.31 points (NHK Trophy)
3. Tatsuki Machida: 265.38 points (Skate America)
4. Yuzuru Hanyu: 263.59 points (Trophée Eric Bompard)
5. Nobunari Oda: 253.16 points (NHK Trophy)
6. Yan Han: 245.62 points (Cup of China)
LADIES
1. Mao Asada: 207.59 points (NHK Trophy)
2. Julia Lipnitskaia: 198.23 points (Skate Canada)
3. Ashley Wagner: 194.37 points (Trophée Eric Bompard)
4. Akiko Suzuki: 193.75 points (Skate Canada)
5. Elena Radionova: 191.81 points (NHK Trophy; of course, Elena is still too young to compete at the Olympics…)
6. Carolina Kostner: 190.12 points (Rostelecom Cup)
ICE DANCE
1. Meryl Davis and Charlie White: 188.23 points (Skate America)
2. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir: 181.03 points (Skate Canada)
3. Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje: 175.23 points (Skate Canada)
4. Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov: 171.89 points (Trophée Eric Bompard)
5. Nathalie Péchalat and Fabian Bourzat: 171.08 (Trophée Eric Bompard)
6. Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte: 168.49 points (Skate America)
If IOlympics were tomorrow, Meryl Davis and Charlie White would win the gold in the ice dancing event (photo taken in Nice, at the 2012 Worlds)
PAIRS
1. Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov: 237.71 points (Skate America)
2. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch: 208.45 points (Skate America)
3. Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy: 206.33 points (Rostelecom Cup)
4. Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov: 201.61 points (Rostelecom Cup)
5. Qing Pang and Jian Tong: 194.38 points (Cup of China)
6. Stefania Berton and Ondrej Hotarek: 193.92 points (Skate Canada)