2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki

{{Short description|Figure skating competition}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}}

{{Infobox Figure Skating Competition

| title = 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki

| comptype = Grand Prix

| startdate = November 2

| enddate = 4

| skatingseason = 2018–19

| location = Helsinki, Finland

| host =

| championmen = {{flagicon|Japan}} Yuzuru Hanyu

| championladies = {{flagicon|RUS}} Alina Zagitova

| championpairs = {{flagicon|RUS}} Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert

| championdance = {{flagicon|RUS}} Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

| nextcomp = 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo

| previousgp = 2018 Skate Canada International

| nextgp = 2018 NHK Trophy

}}

The 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki was held in Helsinki, Finland, from November 2–4. It was the third event of the 2018–19 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. Finland was chosen as the host after the Chinese Skating Association declined to host their annual Grand Prix event, the Cup of China.{{cite web | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180910020426/https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/figure-skating-events/figure-skating-calendar/eventdetail/11456/-/isu-grand-prix-of-figure-skating?templateParam=11 | title = Calendar of Events: ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating | date = June 28, 2018 | publisher = International Skating Union}} Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters competed to earn points toward qualifying for the 2018–19 Grand Prix Final. Over 20,000 tickets were sold.{{cite news |url= https://www.stll.fi/2018/12/20/helsinki-gp-toi-miljoonatuloksen/ |title= Helsinki GP toi miljoonatuloksen |language= fi |publisher= Finnish Figure Skating Association |date= December 20, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190114000440/https://www.stll.fi/2018/12/20/helsinki-gp-toi-miljoonatuloksen/ |archive-date= January 14, 2019 |url-status= live }}

Entries

The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.{{cite tweet | number = 1013419285417426950 | title = Who is going where? This week the Grand Prix assignments were announced. | user= ISU_figure | author = ISU Figure Skating | authorlink=International Skating Union }}

class="wikitable"
Country

! Men

! Ladies

! Pairs

! Ice dancing

{{AUT}}

|

|

| Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer

|

{{BEL}}

|

| Loena Hendrickx

|

|

{{CHN}}

| Jin Boyang

|

|

|

{{CZE}}

| Michal Březina

|

|

|

{{PRK}}

|

|

| Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik

|

{{FIN}}

| Valtter Virtanen

| Viveca Lindfors
Emmi Peltonen

|

| Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis

{{GER}}

|

|

|

| Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern
Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck

{{ISR}}

| Alexei Bychenko

|

|

|

{{ITA}}

|

|

| Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise

| Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti

{{JPN}}

| Yuzuru Hanyu
Keiji Tanaka

| Rika Hongo
Kaori Sakamoto
Yuna Shiraiwa

| Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara

|

{{RUS}}

| Mikhail Kolyada
Andrei Lazukin

| Stanislava Konstantinova
Daria Panenkova
Alina Zagitova

| Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin
Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert

| Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

{{KOR}}

| Cha Jun-hwan

| Kim Ha-nul

|

|

{{ESP}}

|

|

| Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu

| Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin

{{GBR}}

| Phillip Harris

|

|

|

{{USA}}

| Alexei Krasnozhon

| Angela Wang

| Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay

| Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

=Changes to preliminary assignments=

class="wikitable sortable"
Date

! Discipline

! Withdrew

! Added

! Reason/Other notes

! Refs

July 19 and August 10

| rowspan="3" | Pairs

| {{flagicon|CAN}} Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau

| {{flagicon|JPN}} Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara

| Split

| {{cite press release| url= https://skatecanada.ca/2018/07/canadian-pair-skaters-seguin-and-bilodeau-end-skating-partnership/ |title= Canadian pair skaters Séguin and Bilodeau end skating partnership|publisher=Skate Canada|date= July 19, 2018 }}{{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Pairs|url=https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17410-pair-skating-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=August 10, 2018}}

July 30 and August 9

| {{flagicon|CHN}} Sui Wenjing / Han Cong

| {{flagicon|CHN}} Li Xiangning / Xie Zhong

| Injury recovery (Sui)

| {{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Pairs|url=https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17410-pair-skating-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=July 30, 2018}}{{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Pairs|url=https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17410-pair-skating-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=August 9, 2018}}

August 6

| {{NA}}

| {{flagicon|USA}} Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay

| rowspan="2" | Host picks

| {{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Pairs|url=https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17410-pair-skating-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=August 6, 2018}}

August 9 and 26

| Ladies

| {{flagicon|SVK}} Nicole Rajičová

| {{flagicon|FIN}} Viveca Lindfors

| {{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Ladies|url=https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17412-ladies-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=August 9, 2018}}{{cite web|title= So happy to tell you that I will compete in my first ever GP event in Helsinki

|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm55KFMnGMn/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/Bm55KFMnGMn |archive-date=2021-12-24 |url-access=limited|type=Instagram|first=Viveca|last=Lindfors|author-link=Viveca Lindfors (figure skater)|date=August 26, 2018}}{{cbignore}}

August 15 and 16

| Ice dance

| {{flagicon|CZE}} Cortney Mansour / Michal Češka

| {{flagicon|GER}} Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern

|

| {{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Ice Dance|url=https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17411-ice-dance-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=August 16, 2018}}

August 15 and 31

| rowspan="2" | Men

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Jorik Hendrickx

| {{flagicon|KOR}} Cha Jun-hwan

|

| {{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Men|url=https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17413-men-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=August 16, 2018}}{{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Men|url=https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17413-men-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=August 31, 2018}}

August 25

| rowspan="3" {{NA}}

| {{flagicon|FIN}} Valtter Virtanen

| rowspan="4" | Host picks

| {{cite web|title=I am really happy to announce that I will skate the grand prix Helsinki 2018 |url=https://www.facebook.com/1159335811/posts/10216513424405660/|type=Facebook|first=Valtter|last=Virtanen|author-link=Valtter Virtanen|date=August 25, 2018}}

August 28

| Ice dance

| {{flagicon|FIN}} Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis

| {{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Ice Dance|url=https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17411-ice-dance-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=August 28, 2018}}

rowspan=2|September 21

| Ladies

| {{flagicon|FIN}} Emmi Peltonen

| {{cite web|title=ISU GP Helsinki 2018: Ladies|url=http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03108868.htm|publisher=International Skating Union|date=September 21, 2018}}

Ice dance

| {{flagicon|FIN}} Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti

| {{cite web|title=ISU GP Helsinki 2018: Ice Dance|url=http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03108870.htm|publisher=International Skating Union|date=September 21, 2018}}

October 8 and 9

| Pairs

| {{flagicon|CHN}} Li Xiangning / Xie Zhong

| {{flagicon|ESP}} Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu

|

| {{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Pairs|url=https://www.isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17410-pair-skating-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=October 8, 2018}}{{cite web|title=ISU GP Helsinki 2018: Pairs|url=http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03108869.htm|publisher=International Skating Union|date=October 9, 2018}}

October 15 and 16

| Ladies

| {{flagicon|USA}} Karen Chen

| {{flagicon|USA}} Angela Wang

| Injury recovery

| {{cite press release|url=http://www.usfigureskating.org/story?id=91868&type=media|title=Karen Chen Withdraws from Helsinki Grand Prix of Figure Skating|publisher=U.S. Figure Skating|date=October 15, 2018}}{{cite press release|title=American Assignment Changes for Grand Prix Events in Canada, Finland|url=http://www.usfigureskating.org/story?id=91873&type=media|publisher=U.S. Figure Skating|date=October 16, 2018}}

October 16 and 18

| Ice dance

| {{flagicon|USA}} Madison Chock / Evan Bates

| {{flagicon|GER}} Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck

| Injury recovery (Chock)

| {{cite web|title=ISU GP Helsinki 2018: Ice Dance|url=http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03108870.htm|publisher=International Skating Union|date=October 18, 2018}}

October 20 and 23

| Ladies

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Carolina Kostner

| {{flagicon|KOR}} Kim Ha-nul

| Hip injury

| {{cite web|url=https://www.oasport.it/2018/10/pattinaggio-artistico-infortunio-per-carolina-kostner-la-reginetta-salta-il-grand-prix/|title=Pattinaggio artistico, infortunio per Carolina Kostner! La Reginetta salta il Grand Prix|trans-title=Figure skating, accident for Carolina Kostner! The Queen skips the Grand Prix|language=it|first=Stefano|last=Villa|publisher=OA Sport|date=October 20, 2018}}{{cite web|title=ISU GP Helsinki 2018: Ladies|url=http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03108868.htm|publisher=International Skating Union|date=October 23, 2018}}

rowspan=2|October 29

| Men

| {{flagicon|RUS}} Alexey Erokhov

| rowspan="2" {{NA}}

|

| {{cite web|title=ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2018/19: Men|url=https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2018-19/gp-8/series-files-19/entries-2/17413-men-2018-19-all-6-events/file|publisher=International Skating Union|date=October 29, 2018}}

Ladies

| {{flagicon|GER}} Nicole Schott

|

| {{cite web|title=ISU GP Helsinki 2018: Ladies|url=http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03108868.htm|publisher=International Skating Union|date=October 29, 2018}}

Records

{{for|the all-time highest scores|list of highest scores in figure skating}}

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:

class="wikitable sortable"
EventComponentSkater(s)ScoreDateRef
rowspan=3| Men

| Short program

| rowspan=3| {{flagicon|JPN}} Yuzuru Hanyu

| 106.69

|November 3, 2018

| {{cite web |url=http://www.isuresults.com/isujsstat/phsmsp.htm |title=Progression of Highest Score: Men – Short Program Score |date=November 24, 2018 |publisher=International Skating Union |access-date=November 24, 2018}}

Free skating

| 190.43

| rowspan=2|4 November 2018

| {{cite web |url=http://www.isuresults.com/isujsstat/phsmfs.htm |title=Progression of Highest Score: Men – Free Program Score |date=November 24, 2018 |publisher=International Skating Union |access-date=November 24, 2018}}

Total score

| 297.12

| {{cite web |url=http://www.isuresults.com/isujsstat/phsmto.htm |title=Progression of Highest Score: Men – Total Score |date=November 24, 2018 |publisher=International Skating Union |access-date=November 24, 2018}}

Results

= Men =

class="wikitable sortable"
Rank

! Name

! Nation

! Total points

! colspan="2" width="80px" | SP

! colspan="2" width="80px" | FS

bgcolor="gold"

| align="center" | 1

|Yuzuru Hanyu

|{{JPN}}

| align="center" |297.12

| align="center" |1

| align="center" |106.69

| align="center" |1

| align="center" |190.43

bgcolor="silver"

| align="center" | 2

|Michal Březina

|{{CZE}}

| align="center" |257.98

| align="center" |2

| align="center" |93.31

| align="center" |2

| align="center" |164.67

bgcolor="cc9966"

| align="center" | 3

|Cha Jun-hwan

|{{KOR}}

| align="center" |243.19

| align="center" |4

| align="center" |82.82

| align="center" |3

| align="center" |160.37

4

|Mikhail Kolyada

|{{RUS}}

| align="center" |238.79

| align="center" |6

| align="center" |81.76

| align="center" |4

| align="center" |157.03

5

|Jin Boyang

|{{CHN}}

| align="center" |227.28

| align="center" |3

| align="center" |85.97

| align="center" |5

| align="center" |141.31

6

|Andrei Lazukin

|{{RUS}}

| align="center" |218.22

| align="center" |5

| align="center" |82.54

| align="center" |7

| align="center" |135.68

7

|Alexei Krasnozhon

|{{USA}}

| align="center" |211.03

| align="center" |8

| align="center" |74.05

| align="center" |6

| align="center" |136.98

8

|Keiji Tanaka

|{{JPN}}

| align="center" |206.82

| align="center" |7

| align="center" |80.60

| align="center" |9

| align="center" |126.22

9

|Alexei Bychenko

|{{ISR}}

| align="center" |202.33

| align="center" |9

| align="center" |73.44

| align="center" |8

| align="center" |128.89

10

|Phillip Harris

|{{GBR}}

| align="center" |182.66

| align="center" |10

| align="center" |58.99

| align="center" |10

| align="center" |123.67

11

|Valtter Virtanen

|{{FIN}}

| align="center" |154.74

| align="center" |11

| align="center" |48.16

| align="center" |11

| align="center" |106.58

= Ladies =

class="wikitable sortable"
Rank

! Name

! Nation

! Total points

! colspan="2" width="80px" | SP

! colspan="2" width="80px" | FS

bgcolor="gold"

| align="center" | 1

| Alina Zagitova

| {{RUS}}

| align="center" | 215.29

| align="center" | 1

| align="center" | 68.90

| align="center" | 1

| align="center" | 146.39

bgcolor="silver"

| align="center" | 2

| Stanislava Konstantinova

| {{RUS}}

| align="center" | 197.57

| align="center" | 4

| align="center" | 62.56

| align="center" | 3

| align="center" | 135.01

bgcolor="cc9966"

| align="center" | 3

| Kaori Sakamoto

| {{JPN}}

| align="center" | 197.42

| align="center" | 7

| align="center" | 57.26

| align="center" | 2

| align="center" | 140.16

4

| Yuna Shiraiwa

| {{JPN}}

| align="center" | 191.46

| align="center" | 2

| align="center" | 63.77

| align="center" | 5

| align="center" | 127.69

5

| Loena Hendrickx

| {{BEL}}

| align="center" | 191.22

| align="center" | 3

| align="center" | 63.17

| align="center" | 4

| align="center" | 128.05

6

| Daria Panenkova

| {{RUS}}

| align="center" | 161.48

| align="center" | 6

| align="center" | 58.23

| align="center" | 9

| align="center" | 103.25

7

| Kim Ha-nul

| {{KOR}}

| align="center" | 160.15

| align="center" | 8

| align="center" | 55.38

| align="center" | 8

| align="center" | 104.77

8

| Viveca Lindfors

| {{FIN}}

| align="center" | 159.62

| align="center" | 10

| align="center" | 52.95

| align="center" | 6

| align="center" | 106.67

9

| Emmi Peltonen

| {{FIN}}

| align="center" | 158.72

| align="center" | 5

| align="center" | 59.90

| align="center" | 10

| align="center" | 98.82

10

| Rika Hongo

| {{JPN}}

| align="center" | 156.59

| align="center" | 11

| align="center" | 51.11

| align="center" | 7

| align="center" | 105.48

11

| Angela Wang

| {{USA}}

| align="center" | 149.57

| align="center" | 9

| align="center" | 53.76

| align="center" | 11

| align="center" | 95.81

= Pairs =

class="wikitable sortable"
Rank

! Name

! Nation

! Total points

! colspan="2" width="80px" | SP

! colspan="2" width="80px" | FS

bgcolor="gold"

| align="center" | 1

|Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert

|{{RUS}}

| align="center" |198.51

| align="center" | 2

| align="center" | 67.59

| align="center" |1

| align="center" |130.92

bgcolor="silver"

| align="center" | 2

|Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise

|{{ITA}}

| align="center" |185.77

| align="center" | 1

| align="center" | 68.18

| align="center" |3

| align="center" | 117.59

bgcolor="cc9966"

| align="center" | 3

| Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin

| {{RUS}}

| align="center" |185.61

| align="center" | 3

| align="center" | 63.80

| align="center" |2

| align="center" |121.81

4

| Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer

| {{AUT}}

| align="center" |174.81

| align="center" | 4

| align="center" | 62.69

| align="center" |5

| align="center" |112.12

5

| Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik

| {{PRK}}

| align="center" |174.24

| align="center" | 5

| align="center" | 56.87

| align="center" |4

| align="center" |117.37

6

| Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Nathan Bartholomay

| {{USA}}

| align="center" |159.21

| align="center" | 6

| align="center" | 56.44

| align="center" |6

| align="center" |102.77

7

| Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu

| {{ESP}}

| align="center" |149.54

| align="center" | 7

| align="center" | 50.91

| align="center" |8

| align="center" |98.63

8

| Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara

| {{JPN}}

| align="center" |145.65

| align="center" | 8

| align="center" | 46.22

| align="center" |7

| align="center" |99.43

= Ice dancing =

class="wikitable sortable"
Rank

! Name

! Nation

! Total points

! colspan="2" width="80px" | RD

! colspan="2" width="80px" | FD

bgcolor="gold"

| align="center" | 1

| Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

| {{RUS}}

| align="center" | 200.09

| align="center" | 1

| align="center" | 78.18

| align="center" | 1

| align="center" | 121.91

bgcolor="silver"

| align="center" | 2

| Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri

| {{ITA}}

| align="center" | 196.29

| align="center" | 2

| align="center" | 77.36

| align="center" | 2

| align="center" | 118.93

bgcolor="cc9966"

| align="center" | 3

| Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

| {{USA}}

| align="center" | 176.66

| align="center" | 3

| align="center" | 71.40

| align="center" | 4

| align="center" | 105.26

4

| Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin

| {{ESP}}

| align="center" | 172.09

| align="center" | 5

| align="center" | 66.25

| align="center" | 3

| align="center" | 105.84

5

| Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko

| {{USA}}

| align="center" | 167.28

| align="center" | 4

| align="center" | 66.93

| align="center" | 5

| align="center" | 100.35

6

| Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis

| {{FIN}}

| align="center" | 160.62

| align="center" | 6

| align="center" | 63.06

| align="center" | 6

| align="center" | 97.56

7

| Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov

| {{RUS}}

| align="center" | 157.56

| align="center" | 7

| align="center" | 62.35

| align="center" | 8

| align="center" | 95.21

8

| Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti

| {{ITA}}

| align="center" | 153.89

| align="center" | 8

| align="center" | 58.48

| align="center" | 7

| align="center" | 95.41

9

| Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern

| {{GER}}

| align="center" | 143.62

| align="center" | 9

| align="center" | 56.71

| align="center" | 10

| align="center" | 86.91

10

| Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck

| {{GER}}

| align="center" | 143.59

| align="center" | 10

| align="center" | 56.59

| align="center" | 9

| align="center" | 87.00

References

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