2015 Grand Prix Assignments: Trophee Eric Bompard

This is the fourth of six articles detailing the Grand Prix assignments for the coming up season. As with the previous articles, I will go through all the assignments. I will detail any new countries, any returns or debuts as well as any interesting thoughts. These are bound to change in the coming up months, but these are the initial assignments.

Next up is the Trophee Eric Bompard.

Men

Patrick Chan CAN

Wang Yi CHN

Florent Amodio FRA

Romain Ponsart FRA

TBA FRA

• In my opinion, there is really only one option for this one: Chafik Besseghier. He has another assignment – the NHK Trophy – so that would give him two events.

Daisuke Murakami JPN

Shoma Uno JPN

Denis Ten KAZ

Maxim Kovtun RUS

Alexander Petrov RUS

Max Aaron USA

Misha Ge UZB

Ladies

Gabrielle Daleman CAN
Kiira Korpi FIN

• First Grand Prix competition since the 2012 Grand Prix Final.

Laurine Lecavalier FRA

Mae Berenice Meite FRA

TBA France

• Again, France has very little options in the way of ladies figure skaters. I think that Anais Ventard is their only option, though Lea Serna is the reigning bronze medalist, so they may choose to give it to her.

Haruka Imai JPN

Kanako Murakami JPN

Angelina Kuchvalaska LAT

• Grand Prix Debut

Julia Lipnitskaia RUS

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva RUS

Gracie Gold USA

Ashley Wang  USA

Pairs

Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau CAN

Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao CHN

Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres FRA

TBA FRA

TBA FRA

• Honestly, I think both of these will be given. I am fairly certain France has no other senior-level pairs teams. James / Cipres were the only team to both Europeans and Worlds.

Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise ITA

Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov  RUS

Tatiana Tarasova / Maxim Trankov RUS

Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran USA

Ice Dance

Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier CAN

Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron FRA

TBA FRA

TBA FRA

• Much like the Pairs, I am pretty sure that both of these will be given up as well. I don’t think they have any other senior-level dance teams either. They also were the only team to both Europeans and Worlds.

Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland GBR

Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin RUS

Anna Yanovskaya / Sergei Mozgov RUS

Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donahue USA

That’s it for now! Next up is the Rostelecom Cup.