Your top 10 skaters/pairs in 2016-17?

Mrs. P · Feb 24, 2017

In another thread, people are chatting about their favorites and how they come from around the world.

So who is on your top 10 list this season? They must be currently competing. And how do they range geographically?

Here's my list:

Pairs
Sui/Han
Savchenko/Masset
Peng/Jin
Denney/Frazier

Dance
Shibutanis
Bobrova/Soloviev

Ladies
Anna Pogorilaya

Men
Yuzuru Hanyu
Jason Brown
Han Yan

China -3
USA - 3
Russia -2
Japan- 1
Germany -1

andromache · Feb 24, 2017

Ladies
Ashley Wagner
Anna Pogorilaya
Maria Sotskova

Men
Javier Fernandez
Nathan Chen

Pairs
Sui/Han
Savchenko/Massot
James/Cipres
Scimeca/Knierem

Dance
Papadakis/Cizeron

People who were cut from list due to length: Gabby Daleman, Virtue/Moir, Yu/Zhang, Peng/Jin, Polina Tsurskaya (who I cut because she's a junior and I had to make this list smaller SOMEHOW). Scimeca/Knierem barely made the cut over V/M....but the sob story of all they've been through this season made me put them on the list, especially since V/M get enough love anyway. :laugh:

USA: 3
Russia: 2
France: 2
Germany: 1
China: 1
Spain: 1

Marin · Feb 24, 2017

Ladies:
Satoko Miyahara
Mai Mihara
Anna Pogorilaya

Men:
Yuzuru Hanyu
Patrick Chan

Pairs:
Sui/Han
Peng/Jin
James/Cipres

Dance:
Virtue/Moir
Chock/Bates

Japan: 3
Canada: 2
China : 2
France: 1
Russia 1
USA 1

4everchan · Feb 24, 2017

Men
Patrick Chan
Shoma Uno
Han Yan
Nic Nadeau

Ladies
Kaetlyn Osmond
Gabby Daleman

Pairs
Duhamel/Radford (the more hate they get, the more I love them)

Dance
CANADA FTW
Virtue/Moir
Weapo
Diane and Reggie

I thought the first two posters under-represented Canada

I fixed that

Japan : 1
China : 1
Canada : 8

NYA NYA

Barb · Feb 24, 2017

DANCE

1. Shibs
2. V/M
3. Sara and Kiril
4. Adria and Olivia

LADIES

1. Mao
2. Satoko

PAIRS

1. S/H
2. D/F

MEN

1. Patrick
2. Shoma U.

Japan 3
USA 2
Canada 2
Spain 2
China 1

gladiolusc · Feb 24, 2017

Pairs
Sui/Han

Dance
Papadakis/Cizeron
Shibutanis

Ladies
Satoko Miyahara
Anna Pogorilaya
Polina Tsurskaya (Jr)

Men
Yuzuru Hanyu
Patrick Chan
Jason Brown
Misha Ge

Japan - 2
USA - 2
Russia - 2
Canada - 1
China - 1
France - 1
Uzbekistan - 1

shiroKJ · Feb 24, 2017

Ladies
Anastasia Gubanova
Karen Chen
Kaetlyn Osmond
Carolina Kostner

Men
Yuzuru Hanyu
Boyang Jin

Dance
Shib/Shib
Wang/Liu

Pairs
Sui/Han
Savchenko/Massot
James/Cipres

Canada - 1
China - 2 (3)
France - 1
Germany - 1
Italy - 1
Japan - 1
Russian - 1
USA - 2

Mrs. P · Feb 24, 2017

Also juniors are cool for your lists. Heck if you have a novice skater you like, throw them in!

andromache · Feb 24, 2017

Mrs. P said:
Also juniors are cool for your lists. Heck if you have a novice skater you like, throw them in!

Don't make it too difficult :drama:

cocotaffy · Feb 24, 2017

Dance:
Papadakis/Cizeron
Hubbell/Donohue

Pairs:
Savchenko/Massot
James/Ciprès
Sui/Han
Peng/Jin

Ladies:
Satoko Miyahara
Carolina Kostner
Laurine Lecavalier

Men:
Jason Brown

France: 3
China: 2
USA: 2
Italy: 1
Japan: 1
Germany: 1

Silvia451 · Feb 24, 2017

Ice dance
Virtue/Moir :rock:

Shibs

Men
Yuzuru Hanyu
Shoma Uno
Javier Fernandez

Ladies
Anna Pogo
Satoko

Pairs
James/Cipres (surprise of the season for me)
Stolbova/Klimov
Savchenko/Massot

Japan 3
France 1
Russia 2
Canada 1
USA 1
Germany 1
Spain 1

silverfoxes · Feb 24, 2017

Men:

Dmitri Aliev
Deniss Vasiljevs
Sergei Voronov
Yuzuru Hanyu
Georgi Kunitsa

Ladies:

Evgenia Medvedeva
Anna Pogorilaya
Kaetlyn Osmond

Pairs:

James/Cipres
Stolbova/Klimov

Russia - 6
Canada - 1
Japan - 1
France - 1
Latvia - 1

This was hard, even without including ice dance, where I have no favorites. Honorable mention to Daniel Samohin, Alisa Fedichkina, Polina Tsurskaya, Andrew Torgashev, Misha Ge, Moris K., Tarasova/Morozov, etc. Probably shouldn't include Georgi since he never got to compete internationally, but I adore his skating.

unico · Feb 24, 2017

Pairs
Sui/Han
Stolbova/Klimov
James/Cipres (LP is probably the best in the field in terms of excitement)
Savchenko/Massot

Ladies
Mao Asada
Carolina Kostner
Satoko Miyahara

Men
Yuzuru Hanyu
Shoma Uno (LP more than SP)

Dance
Papadakis/Cizeron (FD more than SD)

Japan - 4
France - 2
Italy - 1
China - 1
Russia - 1
Germany - 1

Based mostly on whose programs I really love this season, so difficult to narrow down. Pairs especially has 4 teams I would all love to see on the World podium, where's the U.S. Nationals pewter medal.

ETA: If I had room I would've added Virtue/Moir's SD, Jason Brown's FS, and also would put Marin Honda and Deniss Vasiljevs up there, but I'm not sure who I would push off the list for them. But then, I also like Cappellini/Lanotte's FD and Gilles/Poirier. And Boyang Jin's enthusiasm!

Ares · Feb 24, 2017

Tough ...

Ladies:
Anna Pogorilaya
Ashley Wagner

Men:
Mikhail Kolyada
Patrick Chan
Adam Rippon

Pairs:
Sui / Han
James / Cipres

Dance:
Gilles / Poirier
Cappellini / Lanotte
Virtue / Moir

Russia - 2
Canada - 3
Italy - 1
USA - 2
China - 1
France - 1

... those who barely missed my cut.

Rika Hongo, Mao Asada, Boyang Jin, Misha Ge, Peng / Jin, Savchenko / Massot, Kaliszek / Spodyriev (the only high level skaters that make me proud from my country). Mao is still my favourite skater of all time in ladies but question was mostly about this season ...

I can't say that I enjoyed watching her struggle but her performances in Japan Nationals were again very enjoyable and with Mao in her artistical prime despite lacking jumps. Sadly Adam's season was cut short too but I become big supporter last season already.

ioanna · Feb 24, 2017

Ladies
Satoko Miyahara
Wakaba Higuchi
Zijun Li

Men
Yuzuru Hanyu
Patrick Chan
Nathan Chen

Pairs
Wenjing Sui / Cong Han
Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot

Ice Dance
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron

Japan - 3
China - 2
Canada - 2
USA - 1
Germany - 1
France - 1

QuadThrow · Feb 24, 2017

Pairs:
Savchenko/Massot (best programs ever)
Sui/Han (great comeback)
James/Cipres (no words)

Men:
Shoma Uno (his FP is superb)
Boyang Jin (because of his Spiderman Stsq)

Woman:
Carolina Kostner (great comeback)
Kaithly Osmond (best programs and 3F, 3Lz)

Dance:
Virtue/Moir (comeback)
Papadakis/Cizeron (SD!)
Shibs (SD!)

So many comebacks! Sorry. no Russian skater or pair in my list. Hope for Stolbova/Klimov and Kolyada joining this list!

desertskates · Feb 24, 2017

Hmmmm...

Men:
Yuzuru Hanyu
Nathan Chen
Julian Yee

Ladies:
Ashley Wagner
Gabby Daleman
Anna Pogorilaya

Pairs:
Sui / Han
Savachenko / Massot

Dance:
Shibutani / Shibutani
Papadakis / Cizeron

US: 3
Europe: 2
Japan: 1
China: 1
SE Asia: 1
Canada: 1
Russia: 1

sarama · Feb 24, 2017

I love many more skater, but these are the ones I'm really emotionally invested in: You know the ones who really make you nervous before they skate, break your heart when do poorly, and make you smile for the next three days when they do really well.

MEN: Patrick Chan, Han Yan

LADIES: Kaetlyn Osmond, Wakaba Higuchi, Carolina Kostner, Zijun Li, Mao Asada. (I swear I like ladies who aren't headcases too! Just not my faves at the moment...oh Yuna, why did you abandon me :drama:

? )

PAIRS: Sui/Han, Seguin/Bilodeau

DANCE: Virtue/Moir, Hawayek/Baker

They are 11, sorry, anyway... CAN-4, CHN-3, JPN-2, ITA-1, USA-1,

Now I'm going to cheat and add some junior ladies, because somehow I always get super attached to them (I have learnt nothing from experience): Marin Honda, Polina Tsurskaya, Yuna Aoki, Eun Soo Lim. (In theory also Vivian Le, but this was not her season)

TTM · Feb 24, 2017

Men
Shoma Uno
Patrick Chan

Ladies
Anna Pogorilaya
Mai Mihara
Kaetlyn Osmond

Dance
Gilles / Poirier
Hawayek/Baker

Pairs
James/Cipres
Savchenko/Massot
Peng/Jin

---

Japan: 2
Canada: 3
Russia: 1
USA: 1
France: 1
Germany: 1
China: 1

Arriba627 · Feb 24, 2017

PAIRS:
CHINA -- Sui and Han
U.S. -- Kayne & O'Shea, Castelli & Tran
FRANCE -- Morgan & Cipres

LADIES
(A tie) CANADA -- Kaetlyn Osmond & RUSSIA -- Anna Pogo
JAPAN -- Mai Mihara, Wakaba Higuchi
U.S. -- Gracie Gold, Mirai Nagasu

MEN
JAPAN -- Shoma (guess my Avatar is a dead giveaway) :slink:

U.S. -- Jason, Max Aaron, Grant Hochstein

ICE DANCE
U.S. -- Shibs

Your top 10 skaters/pairs in 2016-17?

Mrs. P

Uno, Dos, twizzle!

andromache

Marin

"Efforts tell lies, but it will not be in vain."

4everchan

Barb

gladiolusc

shiroKJ

Back to the forest you go.

Mrs. P

Uno, Dos, twizzle!

andromache

cocotaffy

Silvia451

silverfoxes

unico

Ares

ioanna

QuadThrow

desertskates

sarama

TTM

Arriba627

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