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2016 Team Challenge Cup
The 2016 Team Challenge Cup was a figure skating event held April 22–24, 2016 at the Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington. Skaters competed as part of Team Asia, Team Europe, or Team North America.
2016 Team Challenge Cup
April 22 – 24, 2016
2015–16
Spokane, Washington, USA
U.S. Figure Skating
Spokane Arena
The 2016 Team Challenge Cup was a figure skating event held April 22–24, 2016 at the Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington. Skaters competed as part of Team Asia, Team Europe, or Team North America.
The 2016 competition was the first edition of the event. Spokane was named as the host in September 2015.
Team
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
Asia
Denis Ten Shoma Uno Jin Boyang
Satoko Miyahara Elizabet Tursynbayeva Rika Hongo
Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet
Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
Europe
Sergei Voronov Michal Březina Mikhail Kolyada
Evgenia Medvedeva Roberta Rodeghiero Elena Radionova
Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
North America
Jason Brown Nam Nguyen Adam Rippon
Gracie Gold Gabrielle Daleman Ashley Wagner
Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Madison Chock / Evan Bates Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
Announced
Team
Discipline
Withdrew
Added
Reason/Other notes
April 8, 2016
Asia
Singles
None
Rika Hongo Jin Boyang
Online fan vote
April 8, 2016
Europe
Singles
None
Maxim Kovtun Elena Radionova
Online fan vote
April 8, 2016
North America
Singles
None
Adam Rippon Ashley Wagner
Online fan vote
April 8, 2016
Europe
Ladies
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
Evgenia Medvedeva
Ankle injury
April 8, 2016
Asia
Pairs
Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei
April 18, 2016
Europe
Men
Maxim Kovtun
Mikhail Kolyada
Ear infection
April 18, 2016
Europe
Ice dance
Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
Papadakis suffered minor injury
Source:
Rank
Name
Team
Total points
SP
FS
Shoma Uno
Asia
298.66
1
105.74
1
192.92
Jason Brown
North America
269.22
4
87.72
2
181.50
Adam Rippon
North America
252.73
5
86.05
3
166.68
Boyang Jin
Asia
249.89
2
93.18
6
156.71
Denis Ten
Asia
240.40
3
92.63
7
147.77
Mikhail Kolyada
Europe
236.08
6
70.60
4
165.48
Michal Brezina
Europe
222.84
8
64.54
5
158.30
Sergei Voronov
Europe
195.34
9
62.55
8
132.79
Nam Nguyen
North America
192.01
7
64.91
9
127.10
Rank
Name
Team
Total points
SP
FS
Evgenia Medvedeva
Europe
229.11
1
77.56
1
151.55
Satoko Miyahara
Asia
218.30
3
73.28
2
145.02
Ashley Wagner
North America
217.74
2
74.54
3
143.20
Gracie Gold
North America
213.34
4
71.34
4
142.00
Elena Radionova
Europe
194.67
8
61.36
5
133.31
Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Asia
189.05
6
65.44
6
123.61
Gabrielle Daleman
North America
184.38
5
68.45
8
115.93
Rika Hongo
Asia
182.58
9
60.43
7
122.15
Roberta Rodeghiero
Europe
166.75
7
61.75
9
105.00
On Friday, April 22, singles skaters competed in a head-to-head competition. There were six rounds, with one skater from each team competing. Each skater earned points for their team based on placement. The team with the most placement points won the head-to-head competition. Also, the top scoring man and woman earned an additional cash prize. The scores from this event do not contribute to Saturday's team competition.
Each skater earned points for their team based on placement in their group: 12 points for first place, 10 points for second place, and 8 points for third place. Shoma Uno and Evgenia Medvedeva had the highest scores of the night, earning them an additional cash prize.
On Saturday, April 23, skaters competed with their free skating/dance programs. The team with the highest aggregate score won this segment of the Team Challenge Cup. Also, the top scoring pairs and dance couple earned an additional cash prize. The scores from Friday's event do not contribute to the event's final results.
For each team, the highest dance score, the highest pair score, the two highest ladies scores, and the two highest men scores were combined. Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford and Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje earned an additional cash prize for being the highest scoring pair and dance couple. Team North America was the overall winner of the competition.
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