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The ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating is a figure skating team competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. The World Team Trophy was held for the first time in Tokyo, Japan from April 16 to 19, 2009. Traditionally, the competitive skating season concluded with the World Figure Skating Championships.

Contents 1 Participants 2 Criticism 3 2009 Results 3.1 Team Standing 3.2 Men's final standings 3.3 Ladies' final standings 3.4 Pairs' final standings 3.5 Ice Dance final standings 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Participants

Selected skaters from the 6 countries with the best results during the season compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing in a team format following the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships. The Japan Skating Federation (JSF) paid the global prize money for the ISU World Team Trophy. ^[1] Total prize money in 2009 was 1,000,000 USD, the highest ever in an ISU event. ^[2] The participating countries in the inaugural event were (in descending order of finish) the USA, Canada, Japan, France, Russia and China.

[edit] Criticism

There were reports that some of the participating skaters did not wish to take part in the event. Canadian ice dancer Scott Moir was quoted as saying that skaters were pressured to attend.^[3]

U.S. ice dancer Tanith Belbin told an interviewer that she and partner Benjamin Agosto didn't know anything about the event until after the 2009 World Championships.^[4]

[edit] 2009 Results

[edit] Team Standing

Rank	Medals	Nation	Total Team Points
1	Gold	United States	60
2	Silver	Canada	54
3	Bronze	Japan	50
4		France	37
5		Russia	35
6		China	34

[edit] Men's final standings

Rank	Nation	Name	Team Points
1	United States	Evan Lysacek	12
2	France	Brian Joubert	11
3	Japan	Nobunari Oda	10
4	Canada	Patrick Chan	9
5	United States	Jeremy Abbott	8
6	Canada	Vaughn Chipeur	7
7	Russia	Sergei Voronov	6
8	Japan	Takahiko Kozuka	5
9	China	Jialiang Wu	4
10	France	Florent Amodio	3
11	China	Chao Yang	2
12	Russia	Konstantin Menshov	1

[edit] Ladies' final standings

Rank	Nation	Name	Team Points
1	Japan	Mao Asada	12
2	Canada	Joannie Rochette	11
3	United States	Caroline Zhang	10
4	United States	Rachael Flatt	9
5	Japan	Miki Ando	8
6	Russia	Alena Leonova	7
7	Canada	Cynthia Phaneuf	6
8	China	Yan Liu	5
9	China	Binshu Xu	4
10	France	Candice Didier	3
11	France	Gwendoline Didier	2
12	Russia	Katarina Gerboldt	1

[edit] Pairs' final standings

Rank	Nation	Name	Team Points
1	China	Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao	12
2	Russia	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov	11
3	Canada	Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison	10
4	United States	Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett	9
5	France	Vanessa James/ Yannick Bonheur	8
6	Japan	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran	7

[edit] Ice Dance final standings

Rank	Nation	Name	Team Points
1	United States	Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto	12
2	Canada	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	11
3	France	Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat	10
4	Russia	Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski	9
5	Japan	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed	8
6	China	Xintong Huang / Xun Zheng	7

There was no compulsory dance.

[edit] References

• ISU Communication No. 1490PDF

[edit] External links

• ISU Result Page.

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