2015 Trophée Éric Bompard

2015 Trophée Éric Bompard
Logo of the 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard
Type:Grand Prix competition
Date:13 November 2015
Season:2015–16
Location:Bordeaux, France
Host:French Federation of Ice Sports
Venue:Meriadeck Ice Rink
Champions
Men's singles:
Japan Shoma Uno
Women's singles:
United States Gracie Gold
Pairs:
Russia Tatiana Volosozhar
and Maxim Trankov
Ice dance:
United States Madison Hubbell
and Zachary Donahue
Previous:
2014 Trophée Éric Bompard
Next:
2016 Trophée de France
Previous Grand Prix:
2015 Cup of China
Next Grand Prix:
2015 Rostelecom Cup

The 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard was a figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the French Federation of Ice Sports (French: Fédération française des sports de glace), and the fourth event of the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. It was held at the Meriadeck Ice Rink in Bordeaux, France, on 13 November 2015. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points based on their results, and the top skaters or teams in each discipline at the end of the season were then invited to then compete at the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final in Barcelona, Spain.[1]

The competition was cancelled after the first day following the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. The ISU later announced that the short program results would be considered the final results for the competition and any prize money and qualifying points for the Grand Prix Final were distributed. Shoma Uno of Japan won the men's event, Gracie Gold of the United States won the women's event, Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia won the pairs event, and Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of the United States won the ice dance event.

Background

The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating is a series of seven events sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU) and held during the autumn: six qualifying events and the Grand Prix Final. This allows skaters to perfect their programs earlier in the season, as well as compete against the same skaters whom they would later encounter at the World Championships. This series also provides the viewing public with additional televised skating. Skaters earn points based on their results in their respective competitions and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are invited to compete at the Grand Prix Final.[2]

The 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard was the fourth installment of the six qualifying Grand Prix events. The cashmere manufacturer Éric Bompard had been the principal sponsor of the Grand Prix de France since 2003 and the competition bore the company's name in recognition.[3]

Changes to preliminary assignments

Discipline Withdrew Added Notes Ref.
Date Skater(s) Date Skater(s)
Women 14 August
  • Finland
 21 August Retirement [4][5][6]
Men — 15 September Host pick [7]
Women 23 September — [8]
Pairs [9]
Ice dance [10]
Men 7 October 15 October Unable to secure the necessary visa [11][12][13]
Ice dance 16 October 26 October Retirement (Hurtado) [14][15][16]
Men 6 November — Injury [17][18]
Ice dance 11 November Recovery from concussion (Papadakis) [19]

Required performance elements

Single skating

Men and women competing in single skating performed their short programs on Friday, 13 November.[20] Lasting no more than 2 minutes 50 seconds,[21] the short program had to include the following elements:

For men: one double or triple Axel; one triple or quadruple jump; one jump combination consisting of a double jump and a triple jump, two triple jumps, or a quadruple jump and a double jump or triple jump; one flying spin; one camel spin or sit spin with a change of foot; one spin combination with a change of foot; and a step sequence using the full ice surface.[22]

For women: one double or triple Axel; one triple jump; one jump combination consisting of a double jump and a triple jump, or two triple jumps; one flying spin; one layback spin or sideways leaning spin; one spin combination with a change of foot; and one step sequence using the full ice surface.[22]

Men and women would have performed their free skates on Saturday, 14 November, had the competition not been cancelled.[20]

Pair skating

Couples competing in pair skating performed their short programs on Friday, 13 November.[20] Lasting no more than 2 minutes 50 seconds,[21] it had to include the following elements: one hip lift, one double or triple twist lift, one double or triple throw jump, one double or triple solo jump, one solo spin combination with a change of foot, one death spiral, and a step sequence using the full ice surface.[23]

Couples would have performed their free skates on Saturday, 14 November, had the competition not been cancelled.[20]

Ice dance

See also: Competition elements in ice dance

Couples competing in ice dance performed their short dance on Friday, 13 November.[20] Lasting no more than 2 minutes 50 seconds,[24] the required rhythms of the short dance this season were the waltz, plus any of the following: foxtrot, march, or polka. The required pattern dance element was the Waltz Rhythm. The rhythm dance had to include the following elements: two sections of the Ravensburger Waltz, one dance lift, one set of sequential twizzles, and one step sequence.[25]

Couples would have performed their free dances on Saturday, 14 November, had the competition not been cancelled.[20]

Judging

For the 2015–2016 season, all of the technical elements in any figure skating performance – such as jumps, spins, and lifts – were assigned a predetermined base point value and were then scored by a panel of nine judges on a scale from -3 to +3 based on their quality of execution.[26] The judging panel's Grade of Execution (GOE) was determined by calculating the trimmed mean (that is, an average after deleting the highest and lowest scores), and this GOE was added to the base value to come up with the final score for each element. The panel's scores for all elements were added together to generate a total element score.[27] At the same time, judges evaluated each performance based on five program components – skating skills, transitions/footwork, performance/execution, choreography/composition, and interpretation of the music/timing – and assigned a score from .25 to 10 in .25 point increments. The judging panel's final score for each program component was also determined by calculating the trimmed mean. Those scores were then multiplied by the factor shown on the following chart; the results were added together to generate a total program component score.[28]

Program component factoring[28]
Discipline Short progam
or Short dance
Men 1.00
Women 0.80
Pairs 0.80
Ice dance 0.80

Deductions were applied for certain violations like time infractions, stops and restarts, or falls.[29] The total element score and total program component score were added together, minus any deductions, to generate a final performance score for each skater or team.[30]

November 2015 Paris attacks

A series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks[31] took place on Friday, 13 November 2015[32][33] in Paris and the northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis during an international soccer match after failing to gain entry to the stadium. Another group of attackers then fired on crowded cafés and restaurants in Paris, with one also detonating an explosive, killing himself in the process. A third group carried out another mass shooting and took hostages at an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan theater, leading to a stand-off with police. The attackers were either shot or detonated suicide vests when police raided the theater.[34] France had already been on high alert since the January 2015 attacks at the Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket in Paris that killed 17 people.[35] 137 people were killed, including 90 at the Bataclan,[36] and another 416 people were injured.[37] The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying that it was retaliation for French airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq.[38][39] François Hollande, the president of France, decried the attacks as an "act of war" by the Islamic State.[40] The attacks had been planned in Syria and organized by a terror cell based in Belgium.[41] In response to the attacks, a three-month state of emergency was declared across the country.[42]

The 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard was cancelled the day after the attacks. While the French Federation of Ice Sports had hoped to be able to continue the competition, Bernard Cazeneuve, Minister of the Interior, and Alain Juppé, mayor of Bordeaux, informed them that the competition must be cancelled due to France being in a state of emergency.[43] The short programs had been completed on 13 November before the attacks began, but the free skating had been scheduled to be held the next day.[44] American skater Gracie Gold described feeling anxious after first hearing of the attacks and seeing that one of the targets had been a soccer stadium. Anxiety gave way to sadness and numbness the next day when the skaters learned that the competition had been cancelled. "This is terrible," Gold wrote in her autobiography. "I won only because more than a hundred people died and hundreds of others were injured."[45] On 23 November, the International Skating Union announced that the results of the short programs would be officially considered the final results for the competition, and any prize money and qualifying points for the Grand Prix Final were distributed.[46][47]

Éric Bompard ended its sponsorship of the Grand Prix de France in 2016, citing the cancellation of the 2015 competition as a factor. Losses from the 2014 Trophée Éric Bompard, which had been relocated from Paris to Bordeaux while the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy was undergoing renovations, diminishing television exposure, and the failure of the French Federation of Ice Sports to respond to the company's inquiries also influenced the decision.[3]

Medalists

Shoma Uno at the 2015 Grand Prix Final
Gracie Gold at the 2015 Grand Prix Final
Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov at the 2011 Trophée Éric Bompard
Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue at the 2011 Skate America
From left to right: The 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard champions: Shoma Uno of Japan (men's singles); Gracie Gold of the United States (women's singles); Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia (pair skating); and Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of the United States (ice dance)
Medal recipients[48]
Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men
Women
Pairs
Ice dance

Results

Men's singles

Men's results[49]
Rank Skater Nation SP
1st place, gold medalist(s) Shoma Uno  Japan 89.56
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Maxim Kovtun  Russia 86.82
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Daisuke Murakami  Japan 80.24
4 Denis Ten  Kazakhstan 80.10
5 Patrick Chan  Canada 76.10
6 Alexander Petrov  Russia 74.64
7 Max Aaron  United States 72.91
8 Wang Yi  China 72.08
9 Kim Jin-seo  South Korea 71.24
10 Chafik Besseghier  France 68.36
11 Romain Ponsart  France 62.86

Women's singles

Women's results[50]
Rank Skater Nation SP
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gracie Gold  United States 73.32
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yulia Lipnitskaya  Russia 65.63
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Roberta Rodeghiero  Italy 58.81
4 Kanako Murakami  Japan 58.30
5 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva  Russia 56.21
6 Gabrielle Daleman  Canada 55.35
7 Angelīna Kučvaļska  Latvia 53.68
8 Angela Wang  United States 53.60
9 Haruka Imai  Japan 47.87
10 Brooklee Han  Australia 47.65
11 Maé-Bérénice Méité  France 46.82
12 Laurine Lecavelier  France 46.53

Pairs

Pairs results[51]
Rank Team Nation SP
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Russia 74.50
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  France 65.75
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Canada 64.95
4  China 64.10
5  Italy 64.08
6  United States 62.63
7  Russia 62.32
8  Austria 50.56

Ice dance

Ice dance results[52]
Rank Team Nation SD
1st place, gold medalist(s)  United States 64.45
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Canada 63.94
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Russia 60.64
4  Great Britain 58.34
5  Denmark 54.72
6  Russia 52.88
7  Turkey 47.64

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