2005 Skate Canada International
# 2005 Skate Canada International

The 2005 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 2005–06 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Mile One Stadium in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, on October 27–30. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2005–06 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Yankee Polka.

## Results

### Men

Jeffrey Buttle's pants split during his free skating; it posed no danger so he continued skating with no pause.

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Emanuel Sandhu | Canada | 201.85 | 6 | 62.15 | 1 | 139.70 |
| 2 | Jeffrey Buttle | Canada | 201.19 | 1 | 74.53 | 3 | 126.66 |
| 3 | Nobunari Oda | Japan | 193.08 | 7 | 59.84 | 2 | 133.24 |
| 4 | Takeshi Honda | Japan | 191.80 | 3 | 67.92 | 4 | 123.88 |
| 5 | Matthew Savoie | United States | 181.73 | 4 | 64.37 | 6 | 117.36 |
| 6 | Shawn Sawyer | Canada | 180.76 | 5 | 63.34 | 5 | 117.42 |
| 7 | Johnny Weir | United States | 177.59 | 2 | 70.25 | 8 | 107.34 |
| 8 | Zhang Min | China | 161.11 | 8 | 55.21 | 9 | 105.90 |
| 9 | Andrei Griazev | Russia | 153.95 | 9 | 51.99 | 10 | 101.96 |
| 10 | Karel Zelenka | Italy | 153.25 | 10 | 45.43 | 7 | 107.82 |
| 11 | Jamal Othman | Switzerland | 131.64 | 11 | 43.38 | 11 | 88.26 |

### Ladies

Cynthia Phaneuf was originally scheduled to compete but withdrew due to a minor stress fracture in an ankle.

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Alissa Czisny | United States | 168.32 | 1 | 58.54 | 1 | 109.78 |
| 2 | Joannie Rochette | Canada | 158.30 | 3 | 50.68 | 2 | 107.62 |
| 3 | Yukari Nakano | Japan | 149.54 | 4 | 49.84 | 3 | 99.70 |
| 4 | Liu Yan | China | 142.58 | 7 | 47.46 | 4 | 95.12 |
| 5 | Sarah Meier | Switzerland | 141.78 | 6 | 47.80 | 5 | 93.98 |
| 6 | Mira Leung | Canada | 134.30 | 8 | 44.94 | 7 | 89.36 |
| 7 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 132.64 | 5 | 49.46 | 8 | 83.18 |
| 8 | Fumie Suguri | Japan | 132.00 | 2 | 52.12 | 9 | 79.88 |
| 9 | Lesley Hawker | Canada | 127.80 | 10 | 38.36 | 6 | 89.44 |
| 10 | Joanne Carter | Australia | 116.70 | 9 | 43.04 | 10 | 73.66 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | Germany | 175.60 | 1 | 60.54 | 1 | 115.06 |
| 2 | Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov | Russia | 174.14 | 2 | 60.10 | 2 | 114.04 |
| 3 | Valérie Marcoux / Craig Buntin | Canada | 158.90 | 3 | 53.40 | 3 | 105.50 |
| 4 | Anabelle Langlois / Cody Hay | Canada | 142.76 | 4 | 51.68 | 5 | 91.08 |
| 5 | Viktoria Borzenkova / Andrei Chuvilaev | Russia | 141.52 | 5 | 49.70 | 4 | 91.82 |
| 6 | Utako Wakamatsu / Jean-Sébastien Fecteau | Canada | 140.14 | 6 | 49.34 | 6 | 90.80 |
| 7 | Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov | Russia | 136.12 | 7 | 45.56 | 7 | 90.56 |
| 8 | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | United States | 124.04 | 8 | 39.02 | 8 | 85.02 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon | Canada | 179.60 | 1 | 33.24 | 2 | 53.87 | 1 | 92.49 |
| 2 | Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov | Ukraine | 170.50 | 2 | 31.76 | 1 | 55.68 | 3 | 83.06 |
| 3 | Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov | United States | 164.12 | 3 | 31.31 | 3 | 47.19 | 2 | 85.62 |
| 4 | Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin | Azerbaijan | 155.22 | 4 | 28.16 | 5 | 45.82 | 4 | 81.24 |
| 5 | Elena Romanovskaya / Alexander Grachev | Russia | 150.94 | 6 | 26.36 | 4 | 46.04 | 5 | 78.54 |
| 6 | Chantal Lefebvre / Arseni Markov | Canada | 143.90 | 5 | 27.18 | 7 | 43.27 | 6 | 73.45 |
| 7 | Sinead Kerr / John Kerr | United Kingdom | 142.72 | 7 | 25.47 | 6 | 45.16 | 7 | 72.09 |
| 8 | Mylène Girard / Bradley Yaeger | Canada | 133.12 | 8 | 24.49 | 9 | 37.02 | 8 | 71.61 |
| 9 | Alessia Aureli / Andrea Vaturi | Italy | 127.64 | 9 | 22.93 | 8 | 38.10 | 9 | 66.61 |
