The 2018
Grand Prix of Helsinki was held in
Helsinki
Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...
,
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
, from November 2–4. It was the third event of the
2018–19 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. Finland was chosen as the host after the
Chinese Skating Association
The Chinese Skating Association (CSA) () was founded in 1956. It was the second Asian country to join the International Skating Union (ISU).
It hosts international and manages domestic short track speed skating and speed skating competitions. M ...
declined to host their annual Grand Prix event, the
Cup of China
The Cup of China is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Chinese Skating Association (), and part of the ISU Grand Prix Series. The first competition was held in ...
.
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 competed to earn points toward qualifying for the
2018–19 Grand Prix Final. Over 20,000 tickets were sold.
Entries
The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.
Changes to preliminary assignments
Records
The following new
ISU best scores were set during this competition:
Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
References
External links
2018 Grand Prix of Figure SkatingResults
{{2018–19 in figure skating
2018 in figure skating
2018 in Finnish sport
November 2018 sports events in Finland
International sports competitions in Helsinki
2010s in Helsinki