| 2009 Four Continents Championships | |
|---|---|
| Type: | ISU Championship |
| Date: | February 2 – 8 |
| Season: | 2008–09 |
| Location: | Vancouver,Canada |
| Venue: | Pacific Coliseum |
| Champions | |
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The2009Four Continents Figure Skating Championships an international figure skating competition in the2008–09 season. It was held at thePacific Coliseum inVancouver,Canada on February 2–8. Medals were awarded in the disciplines ofmen's singles, ladies' singles,pair skating, andice dancing. Thecompulsory dance was the Finnstep.
Skaters who reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2008, were eligible to compete. Unlike the other three ISU championships, each nation was allowed three entries in each discipline, regardless of its skaters' performance in the previous year's championships. The corresponding competition for European skaters was the2009 European Figure Skating Championships.
This event served as the Olympic test event for figure skating for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games although the rink was NHL-sized.[1]
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| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Chan | 249.19 | 1 | 88.90 | 1 | 160.29 | |
| 2 | Evan Lysacek | United States | 237.15 | 2 | 81.65 | 2 | 155.50 |
| 3 | Takahiko Kozuka | 221.76 | 3 | 76.61 | 4 | 145.15 | |
| 4 | Nobunari Oda | 220.26 | 6 | 75.04 | 3 | 145.22 | |
| 5 | Jeremy Abbott | United States | 216.94 | 4 | 75.67 | 6 | 141.27 |
| 6 | Vaughn Chipeur | 212.81 | 7 | 68.00 | 5 | 144.81 | |
| 7 | Jeremy Ten | 207.27 | 9 | 66.60 | 7 | 140.67 | |
| 8 | Brandon Mroz | United States | 196.78 | 5 | 75.05 | 9 | 121.73 |
| 9 | Denis Ten | 184.82 | 10 | 61.32 | 8 | 123.50 | |
| 10 | Wu Jialiang | 182.92 | 8 | 67.75 | 11 | 115.17 | |
| 11 | Li Chengjiang | 178.94 | 12 | 59.22 | 10 | 119.72 | |
| 12 | Yasuharu Nanri | 157.91 | 11 | 59.44 | 13 | 98.47 | |
| 13 | Gao Song | 155.45 | 13 | 58.74 | 14 | 96.71 | |
| 14 | Abzal Rakimgaliev | 152.67 | 14 | 53.65 | 12 | 99.02 | |
| 15 | Mark Webster | 123.08 | 17 | 43.93 | 15 | 79.15 | |
| 16 | Kevin Alves | 121.97 | 16 | 43.97 | 16 | 78.00 | |
| 17 | Luis Hernández | 118.70 | 15 | 44.66 | 18 | 74.04 | |
| 18 | Robert McNamara | 116.47 | 18 | 41.59 | 17 | 74.88 | |
| 19 | Kim Min-seok | 108.75 | 19 | 41.04 | 21 | 67.71 | |
| 20 | Justin Pietersen | 106.26 | 22 | 34.48 | 19 | 71.78 | |
| 21 | Nicholas Fernandez | 105.54 | 21 | 37.64 | 20 | 67.90 | |
| 22 | Charles Shou-San Pao | 96.37 | 23 | 34.45 | 23 | 61.92 | |
| 23 | Humberto Contreras | 96.10 | 20 | 39.87 | 24 | 56.23 | |
| 24 | Wun-Chang Shih | 96.04 | 24 | 31.52 | 22 | 64.52 | |
| Did not advance to free skating | |||||||
| 25 | Mathieu Wilson | 25 | 31.15 | ||||
| 26 | Sebra Yen | 26 | 31.05 | ||||

Kim Yuna set a new world record for the short program.[2]

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pang Qing /Tong Jian | 194.94 | 1 | 65.60 | 1 | 129.34 | |
| 2 | Jessica Dubé /Bryce Davison | 185.62 | 2 | 64.36 | 2 | 121.26 | |
| 3 | Zhang Dan /Zhang Hao | 174.98 | 3 | 63.20 | 3 | 111.78 | |
| 4 | Meagan Duhamel /Craig Buntin | 168.43 | 4 | 62.08 | 6 | 106.35 | |
| 5 | Keauna McLaughlin /Rockne Brubaker | United States | 164.01 | 7 | 54.16 | 4 | 109.85 |
| 6 | Caydee Denney /Jeremy Barrett | United States | 161.69 | 8 | 53.60 | 5 | 108.09 |
| 7 | Rena Inoue /John Baldwin | United States | 157.38 | 5 | 56.78 | 7 | 100.60 |
| 8 | Mylène Brodeur /John Mattatall | 149.85 | 6 | 55.16 | 8 | 94.69 | |
| 9 | Dong Huibo /Wu Yiming | 143.33 | 9 | 52.40 | 9 | 90.93 | |
| 10 | Amanda Sunyoto-Yang /Darryll Sulindro-Yang | 126.73 | 10 | 43.38 | 10 | 83.35 | |
| 11 | Marina Aganina /Dmitri Zobnin | 102.52 | 11 | 36.88 | 11 | 65.64 | |

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | OD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meryl Davis /Charlie White | United States | 192.39 | 2 | 35.23 | 2 | 60.42 | 1 | 96.74 |
| 2 | Tessa Virtue /Scott Moir | 191.81 | 1 | 36.40 | 1 | 60.90 | 2 | 94.51 | |
| 3 | Emily Samuelson /Evan Bates | United States | 180.79 | 4 | 31.41 | 3 | 59.48 | 3 | 89.90 |
| 4 | Vanessa Crone /Paul Poirier | 176.82 | 3 | 32.43 | 4 | 56.36 | 4 | 88.03 | |
| 5 | Kaitlyn Weaver /Andrew Poje | 168.76 | 5 | 30.62 | 5 | 53.33 | 5 | 84.81 | |
| 6 | Kimberly Navarro /Brent Bommentre | United States | 151.82 | 6 | 30.59 | 6 | 47.59 | 6 | 73.64 |
| 7 | Huang Xintong /Zheng Xun | 142.30 | 7 | 27.56 | 7 | 46.95 | 8 | 67.79 | |
| 8 | Yu Xiaoyang /Wang Chen | 137.90 | 8 | 24.65 | 8 | 42.12 | 7 | 71.13 | |
| 9 | Wang Jiayue /Gao Chongbo | 132.53 | 9 | 23.31 | 9 | 41.74 | 9 | 67.48 | |
| 10 | Danielle O'Brien /Gregory Merriman | 112.93 | 10 | 19.70 | 10 | 36.13 | 10 | 57.10 | |
| 11 | Maria Borounov /Evgeni Borounov | 101.35 | 11 | 17.51 | 11 | 31.15 | 11 | 52.69 | |
| WD | Cathy Reed /Chris Reed | ||||||||