2012 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

2012 Four Continents Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 7 – 12
Season:	2011–12
Location:	Colorado Springs, USA
Venue:	World Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Patrick Chan
Ladies' singles: Ashley Wagner
Pair skating: Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
Ice dancing: Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir

Previous: 2011 Four Continents Championships
Next: 2013 Four Continents Championships

The 2012 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2011–12 season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing for the title of Four Continents Champion. The event's name refers to the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, which are four of the continents represented in the Olympic rings, omitting Europe.

The competition was held in Colorado Springs, USA from February 7 to 12, 2012.^[1]

Qualification

The competition was open to skaters from a non-European member nation of the International Skating Union who reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2011. The corresponding competition for European skaters was the 2012 European Championships.

Entries

The entries for the 2012 Four Continents Championships:^[2] Jeremy Abbott withdrew due to injury and was replaced by Richard Dornbush.^[3]

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
Australia	Brendan Kerry Mark Webster Nicholas Fernandez	Chantelle Kerry Jaimee Nobbs Zara Pasfield		Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman
Brazil	Kevin Alves Luiz Manella
Canada	Kevin Reynolds Patrick Chan Jeremy Ten	Amélie Lacoste Cynthia Phaneuf Alexandra Najarro	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers Jessica Dubé / Sébastien Wolfe	Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
China	Guan Jinlin Song Nan Wu Jialiang	Geng Bingwa Zhu Qiuying Zhang Kexin	Dong Huibo / Wu Yiming Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Zhang Yue / Wang Lei	Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen
Chinese Taipei	Jordan Ju Wun-Chang Shih	Crystal Kiang Chaochih Liu Melinda Wang
Hong Kong	Harry Hau Yin Lee
Japan	Tatsuki Machida Takahito Mura Daisuke Takahashi	Haruka Imai Mao Asada Kanako Murakami	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran
Kazakhstan	Abzal Rakimgaliev Denis Ten			Cortney Mansour / Daryn Zhunussov
Mexico		Reyna Hamui		Corenne Bruhns / Ryan Van Natten
Philippines	Christopher Caluza Maverick Eguia	Mericien Venzon Zhaira Costiniano
Puerto Rico		Victoria Muniz
Singapore		Brittany Lau
South Africa		Lejeanne Marais
South Korea	Kim Min-seok Alex Kang-chan Kam Kim Hwan-jin	Suhr Chae-yeon Kwak Min-jeong Yun Yea-ji
Thailand		Mimi Tanasorn Chindasook Sandra Khopon Melanie Swang
United States	Richard Dornbush Ross Miner Adam Rippon	Ashley Wagner Agnes Zawadzki Caroline Zhang	Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker Caydee Denney / John Coughlin	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Meryl Davis / Charlie White Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
Uzbekistan	Misha Ge			Anna Nagornyuk / Viktor Kovalenko

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Patrick Chan	Canada	273.94	1	87.95	1	185.99
2	Daisuke Takahashi	Japan	244.33	3	82.59	2	161.74
3	Ross Miner	United States	223.23	6	76.89	4	146.34
4	Adam Rippon	United States	221.55	7	74.92	3	146.63
5	Takahito Mura	Japan	217.16	2	83.44	6	133.72
6	Denis Ten	Kazakhstan	210.03	5	77.73	7	132.30
7	Tatsuki Machida	Japan	208.04	4	82.37	10	125.67
8	Kevin Reynolds	Canada	203.26	9	68.22	5	135.04
9	Misha Ge	Uzbekistan	196.53	11	64.49	8	132.04
10	Guan Jinlin	China	196.53	10	66.36	9	130.17
11	Song Nan	China	190.51	8	69.34	11	121.17
12	Christopher Caluza	Philippines	172.60	14	58.02	12	114.58
13	Richard Dornbush	United States	164.29	13	61.34	14	102.95
14	Jeremy Ten	Canada	159.22	12	61.37	18	97.85
15	Kim Min-seok	South Korea	157.14	21	49.39	13	107.75
16	Wu Jialiang	China	156.62	15	56.19	17	100.43
17	Alex Kang-chan Kam	South Korea	154.07	16	52.12	15	101.95
18	Abzal Rakimgaliev	Kazakhstan	153.63	17	52.10	16	101.53
19	Brendan Kerry	Australia	144.26	23	47.01	19	97.25
20	Mark Webster	Australia	138.87	18	50.88	20	87.99
21	Jordan Ju	Chinese Taipei	134.97	20	49.49	22	85.48
22	Luiz Manella	Brazil	133.07	19	50.17	24	82.90
23	Kevin Alves	Brazil	132.94	22	47.96	23	84.98
24	Nicholas Fernandez	Australia	131.76	24	44.57	21	87.19
Did not advance to free skating
25	Harry Hau Yin Lee	Hong Kong		25	42.00
26	Maverick Eguia	Philippines		26	41.63
27	Wun-Chang Shih	Chinese Taipei		27	37.27
28	Hwan-Jin Kim	South Korea		28	36.95

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Ashley Wagner	United States	192.41	2	64.07	1	128.34
2	Mao Asada	Japan	188.62	1	64.25	2	124.37
3	Caroline Zhang	United States	176.18	4	58.74	3	117.44
4	Kanako Murakami	Japan	169.32	3	63.45	5	105.87
5	Zhang Kexin	China	162.59	5	54.07	4	108.52
6	Agnes Zawadzki	United States	157.23	6	52.87	6	104.36
7	Amélie Lacoste	Canada	147.65	7	51.72	8	95.93
8	Cynthia Phaneuf	Canada	147.47	8	50.76	7	96.71
9	Haruka Imai	Japan	134.49	11	45.19	9	89.30
10	Kwak Min-jeong	South Korea	130.52	9	48.72	10	81.80
11	Geng Bingwa	China	127.89	10	46.98	11	80.91
12	Victoria Muniz	Puerto Rico	117.83	12	42.63	13	75.20
13	Alexandra Najarro	Canada	117.11	14	37.08	12	80.03
14	Melinda Wang	Chinese Taipei	103.69	18	35.35	15	68.34
15	Sandra Khopon	Thailand	103.15	17	35.58	16	67.57
16	Zhu Qiuying	China	102.77	16	36.43	17	66.34
17	Chantelle Kerry	Australia	102.49	20	32.28	14	70.21
18	Mimi Tanasorn Chindasook	Thailand	97.19	13	37.23	22	59.96
19	Yun Yea-ji	South Korea	96.85	19	32.46	19	64.39
20	Melanie Swang	Thailand	96.16	22	31.21	18	64.95
21	Suhr Chae-yeon	South Korea	94.95	15	36.54	23	58.41
22	Lejeanne Marais	South Africa	94.34	21	32.15	21	62.19
23	Crystal Kiang	Chinese Taipei	93.79	23	30.91	20	62.88
24	Zhaira Costiniano	Philippines	87.26	24	30.33	24	56.93
Did not advance to free skating
25	Reyna Hamui	Mexico		25	29.84
26	Chaochih Liu	Chinese Taipei		26	29.07
27	Mericien Venzon	Philippines		27	28.91
28	Brittany Lau	Singapore		28	28.79
29	Zara Pasfield	Australia		29	28.14
30	Jaimee Nobbs	Australia		30	26.33

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	China	201.83	1	66.75	1	135.08
2	Caydee Denney / John Coughlin	United States	185.42	2	63.35	2	122.07
3	Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker	United States	178.89	3	62.42	3	116.47
4	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	171.76	8	57.53	4	114.23
5	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran	Japan	171.11	4	61.54	5	109.57
6	Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig	United States	167.99	5	60.75	6	107.24
7	Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers	Canada	158.66	6	57.97	7	100.69
8	Jessica Dubé / Sébastien Wolfe	Canada	154.79	7	57.68	8	97.11
9	Zhang Yue / Wang Lei	China	140.24	10	48.04	9	92.20
10	Dong Huibo / Wu Yiming	China	137.91	9	49.52	10	88.39

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	182.84	2	71.60	1	111.24
2	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	United States	179.40	1	72.15	2	107.25
3	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	163.26	3	64.23	3	99.03
4	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	158.29	4	63.38	4	94.91
5	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	129.20	5	49.93	5	79.27
6	Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam	Canada	117.97	6	48.52	7	69.45
7	Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen	China	115.05	7	45.42	6	69.63
8	Anna Nagornyuk / Viktor Kovalenko	Uzbekistan	107.61	9	39.93	8	67.68
9	Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman	Australia	105.91	8	40.10	9	65.81
10	Corenne Bruhns / Ryan Van Natten	Mexico	91.57	10	35.93	10	55.64
11	Cortney Mansour / Daryn Zhunussov	Kazakhstan	78.66	11	25.53	11	53.13

Medals summary

Medalists

Medals for overall placement:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Patrick Chan	Daisuke Takahashi	Ross Miner
Ladies	Ashley Wagner	Mao Asada	Caroline Zhang
Pair skating	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Caydee Denney / John Coughlin	Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker
Ice dancing	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Patrick Chan	Takahito Mura	Daisuke Takahashi
Ladies	Mao Asada	Ashley Wagner	Kanako Murakami
Pair skating	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Caydee Denney / John Coughlin	Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker
Ice dancing	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Patrick Chan	Daisuke Takahashi	Adam Rippon
Ladies	Ashley Wagner	Mao Asada	Caroline Zhang
Pair skating	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Caydee Denney / John Coughlin	Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker
Ice dancing	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

Medals by country

Table of medals for overall placement:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	2	0	1	3
2	United States	1	2	3	6
3	China	1	0	0	1
4	Japan	0	2	0	2

Table of small medals for placement in the short segment:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	2	1	4
2	Japan	1	1	2	4
3	Canada	1	1	1	3
4	China	1	0	0	1

Table of small medals for placement in the free segment:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	2	0	1	3
2	United States	1	2	3	6
3	China	1	0	0	1
4	Japan	0	2	0	2

References

↑ "Colorado Springs to host 2012 Four Continents". U.S. Figure Skating. Icenetwork. January 23, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
↑ "Four Continents Championships 2012: Entries". International Skating Union.
↑ "Dornbush to replace Abbott at Four Continents". U.S. Figure Skating. Ice Network. February 3, 2012.

External links

2012 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships at the International Skating Union

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