The 2008
Trophée Éric Bompard was the fourth event of six in the
2008–09 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the
Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Accor Arena (originally known as the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy), also known as Bercy Arena, is an indoor sports arena and List of concert halls, concert hall in the neighbourhood of Bercy, on the Boulevard de Bercy, in the 12th arrondisse ...
in
Paris
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on November 13–16. 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 ...
, 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
2008–09 Grand Prix Final. The
compulsory dance was the Paso Doble.
Results
Men
Patrick Chan won his second Grand Prix title.
Ladies
Pairs
During the free skating,
Meagan Duhamel accidentally sliced
Craig Buntin's hand a minute into the program on their side-by-side salchow jumps and blood dripped on the ice; the pair stopped to get his hand bandaged and then completed the program to win the bronze medal.
Ice dancing
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