World Team Trophy

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World Team Trophy

The World Team Trophy is a figure skating team competition organized by the International Skating Union to mark the end of the figure skating season.

history

Traditionally, the World Figure Skating Championship ended the season. The World Team Trophy was launched in 2008 with the aim of encouraging nations to promote figure skaters in all four disciplines. The World Team Trophy was first held in April 2009 in the Yoyogi National Sports Hall in Tokyo . The USA won the first team competition. The prize money in 2009 was one million US dollars, the highest prize money in an ISU competition. The winning nation got $ 200,000.

mode

Each of the six best nations of the season sends two men, two women, a pair of skating and an ice dancing pair . For each placement there are points, for first place 12 points, for second place 11 points, for third place 10 points, etc., so that the last individual runner gets one point and the last pair skating and ice dancing pair 7 points.

Until the third edition of the competition in 2013, this point was awarded on the basis of the combined overall result from the results of the short program and freestyle. Since 2015, the points for the short program and the freestyle have been awarded separately. The maximum number of points that a team can achieve doubled from 70 to 140 points.

Participating Nations

So far (as of 2019) only seven nations have each participated in the World Team Trophy. France, Japan, Canada, Russia and the USA were present at every event. China was represented four times and Italy twice. So far, the winners have come exclusively from the USA or Japan.

Medalist

Team USA 2009 at the award ceremony of the first World Team Trophy
year place gold Points silver Points bronze Points
2009 JapanJapan Tokyo United StatesUnited States United States 60 CanadaCanada Canada 54 JapanJapan Japan 50
2011 canceled due to the Tōhoku earthquake
2012 JapanJapan Tokyo JapanJapan Japan 55 United StatesUnited States United States 53 CanadaCanada Canada 42
2013 JapanJapan Tokyo United StatesUnited States United States 57 CanadaCanada Canada 51 JapanJapan Japan 49
2015 JapanJapan Tokyo United StatesUnited States United States 110 RussiaRussia Russia 109 JapanJapan Japan 103
2017 JapanJapan Tokyo JapanJapan Japan 109 RussiaRussia Russia 105 United StatesUnited States United States 97
2019 JapanJapan Fukuoka United StatesUnited States United States 117 JapanJapan Japan 104 RussiaRussia Russia 102

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze
1 United StatesUnited States United States 4th 1 1
2 JapanJapan Japan 2 1 3
3 CanadaCanada Canada 0 2 1
3 RussiaRussia Russia 0 2 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating, Day 3 ( Memento from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://ca.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idCAL2156845120080321