2004 Skate America
# 2004 Skate America

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 | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Brian Joubert | France | 193.46 | 1 | 72.10 | 2 | 121.36 |
| 2 | Ryan Jahnke | United States | 186.71 | 4 | 60.83 | 1 | 125.88 |
| 3 | Michael Weiss | United States | 179.56 | 2 | 64.82 | 3 | 114.74 |
| 4 | Roman Serov | Israel | 174.42 | 3 | 62.24 | 4 | 112.18 |
| 5 | Evan Lysacek | United States | 162.51 | 5 | 54.87 | 8 | 107.64 |
| 6 | Song Lun | China | 161.46 | 9 | 51.08 | 6 | 110.38 |
| 7 | Nicholas Young | Canada | 160.82 | 6 | 52.60 | 7 | 108.22 |
| 8 | Ben Ferreira | Canada | 157.41 | 7 | 51.33 | 9 | 106.08 |
| 9 | Stefan Lindemann | Germany | 156.73 | 11 | 44.99 | 5 | 111.74 |
| 10 | Vakhtang Murvanidze | Georgia | 143.10 | 8 | 51.22 | 11 | 91.88 |
| 11 | Alexander Shubin | Russia | 142.42 | 10 | 47.08 | 10 | 95.34 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Angela Nikodinov | United States | 149.50 | 2 | 53.62 | 2 | 95.88 |
| 2 | Cynthia Phaneuf | Canada | 144.40 | 3 | 50.20 | 3 | 94.20 |
| 3 | Miki Ando | Japan | 142.64 | 1 | 53.64 | 6 | 89.00 |
| 4 | Alissa Czisny | United States | 141.36 | 3 | 50.20 | 4 | 91.16 |
| 5 | Susanna Pöykiö | Finland | 140.38 | 8 | 42.98 | 1 | 97.40 |
| 6 | Elena Liashenko | Ukraine | 135.80 | 6 | 45.68 | 5 | 90.12 |
| 7 | Yukina Ota | Japan | 130.70 | 5 | 47.42 | 7 | 83.28 |
| 8 | Miriam Manzano | Australia | 125.30 | 7 | 44.06 | 8 | 81.24 |
| 9 | Idora Hegel | Croatia | 116.98 | 10 | 39.64 | 9 | 77.34 |
| 10 | Anne-Sophie Calvez | France | 102.88 | 9 | 39.88 | 10 | 63.00 |
| 11 | Zhang Fan | China | 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. 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.

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China | 166.86 | 3 | 56.98 | 1 | 109.88 |
| 2 | Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov | Russia | 166.26 | 2 | 57.58 | 2 | 108.68 |
| 3 | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin, Jr. | United States | 158.10 | 4 | 56.52 | 3 | 101.58 |
| 4 | Ding Yang / Ren Zhongfei | China | 139.42 | 6 | 47.98 | 5 | 91.44 |
| 5 | Elizabeth Putnam / Sean Wirtz | Canada | 136.88 | 7 | 45.38 | 4 | 91.50 |
| 6 | Kathryn Orscher / Garrett Lucash | United States | 129.32 | 8 | 43.76 | 6 | 85.56 |
| 7 | Jennifer Don / Jonathon Hunt | United States | 125.28 | 5 | 51.00 | 7 | 74.28 |
| 8 | Julia Shapiro / Vadim Akolzin | Israel | 100.74 | 9 | 41.36 | 8 | 59.38 |
| WD | Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin | Russia | | 1 | 64.98 | | |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | United States | 212.87 | 1 | 43.71 | 1 | 63.40 | 1 | 105.76 |
| 2 | Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski | Israel | 204.32 | 2 | 40.98 | 2 | 60.48 | 2 | 102.86 |
| 3 | Megan Wing / Aaron Lowe | Canada | 178.60 | 3 | 36.65 | 3 | 51.66 | 3 | 90.29 |
| 4 | Svetlana Kulikova / Vitali Novikov | Russia | 173.43 | 4 | 33.89 | 4 | 50.65 | 4 | 88.89 |
| 5 | Sinead Kerr / John Kerr | United Kingdom | 156.56 | 5 | 31.89 | 5 | 43.14 | 5 | 81.53 |
| 6 | Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko | Ukraine | 143.92 | 7 | 27.08 | 6 | 42.81 | 7 | 74.03 |
| 7 | Eve Bentley / Cédric Pernet | France | 140.22 | 8 | 26.39 | 8 | 39.04 | 6 | 74.79 |
| 8 | Kendra Goodwin / Brent Bommentre | United States | 136.08 | 9 | 25.72 | 7 | 40.62 | 10 | 69.74 |
| 9 | Loren Galler-Rabinowitz / David Mitchell | United States | 133.45 | 10 | 24.35 | 9 | 38.96 | 9 | 70.14 |
| 10 | Alexandra Kauc / Michał Zych | Poland | 131.25 | 6 | 27.40 | 10 | 35.79 | 11 | 68.06 |
| 11 | Elena Romanovskaya / Alexander Grachev | Russia | 131.06 | 11 | 23.83 | 11 | 34.94 | 8 | 72.29 |
