| 2003 Skate America | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Grand Prix |
| Date: | October 23 – 26 |
| Season: | 2003–04 |
| Location: | Reading, Pennsylvania |
| Host: | U.S. Figure Skating |
| Venue: | Sovereign Center |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Michael Weiss | |
| Ladies' singles: Sasha Cohen | |
Pairs:  Pang Qing / Tong Jian | |
| Ice dance: Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | |
| Previous: 2002 Skate America | |
| Next: 2004 Skate America | |
| Next GP: 2003 Skate Canada International | |
The 2003 Skate America was the first event of six in the 2003–04 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. It was held at the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 23–26. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2003–04 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Austrian Waltz.
This was the first Grand Prix event to use the New Judging System.
Results
Men
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Weiss | United States |
206.94 | 1 | 73.85 | 2 | 133.09 |
| 2 | Takeshi Honda |  Japan |
199.27 | 4 | 62.65 | 1 | 136.62 |
| 3 | Zhang Min | China |
190.77 | 2 | 67.55 | 5 | 123.22 |
| 4 | Andrejs Vlascenko |  Germany |
188.54 | 3 | 64.86 | 4 | 123.68 |
| 5 | Scott Smith | United States |
182.92 | 7 | 57.41 | 3 | 125.51 |
| 6 | Vakhtang Murvanidze |  Georgia |
173.29 | 6 | 57.60 | 6 | 115.69 |
| 7 | Trifun Živanović |  Serbia and Montenegro |
170.62 | 5 | 58.75 | 8 | 111.87 |
| 8 | Stanislav Timchenko |  Russia |
161.37 | 11 | 47.08 | 7 | 114.29 |
| 9 | Stefan Lindemann | Germany |
160.95 | 10 | 51.59 | 10 | 109.36 |
| 10 | Ivan Dinev |  Bulgaria |
153.86 | 12 | 43.60 | 9 | 110.26 |
| 11 | Sergei Davydov |  Belarus |
150.04 | 8 | 54.67 | 11 | 95.37 |
| 12 | Ryan Jahnke | United States |
147.49 | 9 | 52.92 | 12 | 94.57 |
Ladies
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sasha Cohen | United States |
197.35 | 1 | 66.46 | 1 | 130.89 |
| 2 | Jennifer Kirk | United States |
178.77 | 3 | 58.68 | 2 | 120.09 |
| 3 | Shizuka Arakawa | Japan |
172.39 | 2 | 59.02 | 3 | 113.37 |
| 4 | Amber Corwin | United States |
156.95 | 4 | 54.66 | 4 | 102.29 |
| 5 | Susanna Pöykiö |  Finland |
143.36 | 8 | 48.48 | 5 | 94.88 |
| 6 | Viktoria Volchkova | Russia |
139.57 | 6 | 53.54 | 8 | 86.03 |
| 7 | Annie Bellemare |  Canada |
138.79 | 9 | 48.08 | 6 | 90.71 |
| 8 | Yukari Nakano | Japan |
132.10 | 10 | 44.20 | 7 | 87.90 |
| 9 | Carolina Kostner |  Italy |
127.29 | 7 | 49.22 | 10 | 78.07 |
| 10 | Galina Maniachenko |  Ukraine |
127.13 | 5 | 53.54 | 12 | 73.59 |
| 11 | Julia Lautowa |  Austria |
122.48 | 12 | 39.10 | 9 | 83.38 |
| 12 | Michelle Currie | Canada |
116.16 | 11 | 41.04 | 11 | 75.12 |
Pairs
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | China |
185.04 | 1 | 67.08 | 2 | 117.96 |
| 2 | Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov | Russia |
184.92 | 2 | 64.94 | 1 | 119.98 |
| 3 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China |
171.26 | 4 | 56.14 | 3 | 115.12 |
| 4 | Utako Wakamatsu / Jean-Sébastien Fecteau | Canada |
163.88 | 3 | 56.88 | 5 | 107.00 |
| 5 | Tiffany Scott / Philip Dulebohn | United States |
159.28 | 6 | 51.12 | 4 | 108.16 |
| 6 | Elizabeth Putnam / Sean Wirtz | Canada |
154.40 | 5 | 52.02 | 6 | 102.38 |
| 7 | Larisa Spielberg / Craig Joeright | United States |
136.54 | 7 | 50.82 | 7 | 85.72 |
| 8 | Kathryn Orscher / Garrett Lucash | United States |
130.16 | 8 | 46.44 | 8 | 83.72 |
| 9 | Veronika Havlíčková / Karel Štefl |  Czech Republic |
123.16 | 10 | 40.12 | 9 | 83.04 |
| 10 | Marylin Pla / Yannick Bonheur |  France |
120.74 | 9 | 41.64 | 10 | 79.10 |
Ice dancing
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | OD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | United States |
212.08 | 2 | 40.02 | 2 | 61.27 | 1 | 110.79 |
| 2 | Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov | Ukraine |
197.66 | 1 | 40.53 | 3 | 56.57 | 2 | 100.56 |
| 3 | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | France |
197.59 | 3 | 37.15 | 1 | 61.67 | 3 | 98.77 |
| 4 | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali | Italy |
178.78 | 4 | 34.38 | 4 | 51.96 | 5 | 92.44 |
| 5 | Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov | United States |
177.48 | 5 | 32.99 | 5 | 51.75 | 4 | 92.74 |
| 6 | Christie Moxley / Alexander Kirsanov | United States |
152.26 | 6 | 31.12 | 7 | 42.95 | 6 | 78.19 |
| 7 | Natalia Gudina / Alexei Beletski |  Israel |
148.50 | 7 | 29.68 | 6 | 43.66 | 7 | 75.16 |
| 8 | Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko | Ukraine |
131.76 | 8 | 27.88 | 8 | 41.15 | 9 | 62.73 |
| 9 | Melissa Piperno / Liam Dougherty | Canada |
127.88 | 9 | 25.05 | 9 | 34.50 | 8 | 68.33 |
| 10 | Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen | China |
117.79 | 10 | 23.96 | 10 | 32.47 | 10 | 61.36 |
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