2015 Skate America

2015 Skate America
2015 Skate America
Type:	Grand Prix
Date:	October 23 – 25
Season:	2015–16
Location:	Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Host:	U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:	UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena
Champions
	Men's singles: ; Max Aaron
	Ladies' singles: ; Evgenia Medvedeva
	Pairs: ; Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
	Ice dance: ; Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Navigation
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	Next GP: ; 2015 Skate Canada International

The 2015 Progressive Skate America was the first event of six in the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 23–25.^[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final.

Entries

Country	Men^[2]	Ladies^[3]	Pairs^[4]	Ice dancing^[5]
Australia	Brendan Kerry
Canada		Alaine Chartrand	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
China	Yan Han		Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
France	Florent Amodio
Israel	Alexei Bychenko
Japan	Takahito Mura Shoma Uno	Haruka Imai Satoko Miyahara Miyu Nakashio
Kazakhstan	Denis Ten	Elizabet Tursynbaeva
South Korea		Park So-youn
Russia	Konstantin Menshov Adian Pitkeev	Yulia Lipnitskaya Evgenia Medvedeva	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov
Slovakia		Nicole Rajičová
Ukraine				Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin
United States	Max Aaron Jason Brown Ross Miner	Mariah Bell Karen Chen Gracie Gold	Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Madison Chock / Evan Bates Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker

On August 21, three out of the four host picks were announced as Ross Miner, Karen Chen, and Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay.^[6]^[7]^[8]
On August 26, the fourth host pick was officially announced as Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus.^[9]
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.^[10]^[11]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Max Aaron	United States	258.95	1	86.67	2	172.28
2	Shoma Uno	Japan	257.43	4	80.78	1	176.65
3	Jason Brown	United States	238.47	8	78.64	3	159.83
4	Yan Han	China	236.03	2	86.53	5	149.50
5	Konstantin Menshov	Russia	230.79	3	86.15	6	144.64
6	Adian Pitkeev	Russia	230.75	5	79.90	4	150.85
7	Ross Miner	United States	215.11	7	78.96	8	136.15
8	Brendan Kerry	Australia	203.48	11	65.41	7	138.07
9	Denis Ten	Kazakhstan	201.52	6	79.02	11	122.50
10	Takahito Mura	Japan	200.83	10	71.66	9	129.17
11	Florent Amodio	France	197.45	9	71.96	10	125.49
12	Alexei Bychenko	Israel	171.83	12	50.68	12	121.15

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Evgenia Medvedeva	Russia	206.01	1	70.92	2	135.09
2	Gracie Gold	United States	202.80	2	65.39	1	137.41
3	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	188.07	3	65.12	3	122.95
4	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	Kazakhstan	178.56	7	59.26	4	119.30
5	Karen Chen	United States	172.54	4	62.28	6	110.26
6	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Russia	170.63	5	62.24	7	108.39
7	Nicole Rajičová	Slovakia	167.32	12	50.33	5	116.99
8	Mariah Bell	United States	160.94	11	52.73	8	108.21
9	Park So-youn	South Korea	159.66	10	53.78	9	105.88
10	Haruka Imai	Japan	158.65	9	56.52	10	102.13
11	Miyu Nakashio	Japan	153.29	8	57.01	11	96.28
12	Alaine Chartrand	Canada	148.20	6	59.40	12	88.80

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	China	202.00	2	68.28	1	133.72
2	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	United States	191.97	1	69.69	4	122.28
3	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	189.49	4	64.85	3	124.64
4	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Russia	189.06	5	63.41	2	125.65
5	Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei	China	171.77	3	64.95	6	106.82
6	Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea	United States	165.99	6	58.38	5	107.61
7	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov	Russia	157.97	7	58.25	8	99.72
8	Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan	United States	151.40	8	50.20	7	101.20

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	173.22	1	70.56	1	102.66
2	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia	162.21	2	62.76	2	99.45
3	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	157.58	3	61.33	3	96.25
4	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	150.69	4	56.54	4	94.15
5	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus	United States	143.67	6	52.92	5	90.75
6	Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov	Russia	140.92	5	53.35	6	87.57
7	Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Ukraine	135.60	7	50.53	7	85.07
8	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	China	129.59	8	49.37	8	80.22

^ "Milwaukee to serve as host of 2015 Skate America". IceNetwork.com. 4 May 2015.
^ "Entry/Resultlist - Men". ISU. 15 June 2015.
^ "Entry/Resultlist - Ladies". ISU. 15 June 2015.
^ "Entry/Resultlist - Pairs". ISU. 15 June 2015.
^ "Entry/Resultlist - Ice Dance". ISU. 15 June 2015.
^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 - Men" (PDF). August 21, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-02. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 - Pairs" (PDF). August 21, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-08-22. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 - Ladies" (PDF). August 21, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-08-22. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 - Ice Dance" (PDF). August 26, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-08-29. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating - Pairs" (PDF). ISU. October 21, 2015.
^ "Pfund and Santillan compete at 2015 Progressive Skate America". USFSA. October 21, 2015.