The 2020

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was the sixth event in the

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, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Osaka Prefectural Kadoma Sports Center (

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) in

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on November 27–29. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and

ice dance 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 ...

. Due to the ongoing

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, a large number of modifications were made to the Grand Prix structure. The competitors consisted only of skaters from the home country, skaters already training in the host nation, and skaters assigned to that event for geographic reasons. As a result, there were no entrants for the

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 ...

segment of the competition.

Entries

The

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announced the preliminary assignments on October 1, 2020.

Changes to preliminary assignments

Results

Men

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withdrew prior to the short program due to a fever.

Ladies

Ice dance

References

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