2008 Four Continents Championships
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The 2008
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships The Four Continents Figure Skating Championships (4CC) is an annual figure skating competition. The International Skating Union established it in 1999 to provide skaters representing non-African and non-European countries with a similar competit ...
was an international figure skating competition in the 2007–08 season. It was held at the Seongsa Ice Rink in
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on February 11–17. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles,
pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...
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ice dancing Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...
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Notes

* Unlike the other three ISU championships, each nation was allowed to enter 3 skaters/couples in each event, regardless of its skaters performance in the previous year's championships. * The corresponding competition for European skaters was the
2008 European Figure Skating Championships The 2008 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2007–08 season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was ...
. * Skaters must have reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2007 in order to compete.


Medals table


Results


Men

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set a new world record for the free skating (175.84) and the combined total (264.41).


Ladies


Pairs


Ice dancing


References


External links


ISU site

Starting Orders and Results


* {{2007–08 in figure skating Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
Four Continents Europeans in the 16th century divided the world into four continents: Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Each of the four continents was seen to represent its quadrant of the world—Africa in the south, America in the west, Asia in the east, a ...
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Four Continents Europeans in the 16th century divided the world into four continents: Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Each of the four continents was seen to represent its quadrant of the world—Africa in the south, America in the west, Asia in the east, a ...
International figure skating competitions hosted by South Korea Sport in Goyang