The 2004
Skate America
Skate America is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. It is hosted by U.S. Figure Skating. The location changes yearly. Medals are awarded in four disciplines: men ...
was the first event of six in the 2004–05
ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the
Mellon Arena
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in
Pittsburgh
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,
Pennsylvania
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on October 21–24. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of
men's singles, ladies' singles,
pair skating, and
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. A ...
. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the
2004–05 Grand Prix Final. The
compulsory dance
The compulsory dance (CD), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the competing couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to the music of a specified tempo and gen ...
was the Golden Waltz.
Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
There was an accident during the free skating.
Maxim Marinin
Maxim Viktorovich Marinin (russian: link=no, Максим Викторович Маринин, born 23 March 1977) is a Russian former competitive pair skater. With partner Tatiana Totmianina, he is the 2006 Olympic champion, two-time World cham ...
lost his balance while attempting a difficult
lasso lift and his partner
Tatiana Totmianina
Tatiana Ivanovna Totmianina (russian: Татьяна Ивановна Тотьмянина; born 2 November 1981) is a Russian former competitive pair skater. With partner Maxim Marinin, she is the 2006 Olympic champion, two-time World champion, ...
slammed to the ice head first, sustaining a concussion, but was not seriously hurt.
A short while later,
Julia Obertas fell out of a lasso lift but her partner
Sergei Slavnov managed to catch her to prevent her head hitting the ice.
Ice dancing
References
External links
2004 Smart Ones Skate America* http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/24/sports/sp-skate24
* http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/23/sports/sp-skate23
* http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/20/sports/sp-nwirebox20
{{2004–05 in figure skating
Skate America, 2004
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