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2013–14 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

figure skating competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ3072422 ↗
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The 2013–14 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final was an international figure skating competition in the 2013–14 season, held together with the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final. The combined event was the culmination of two international series — the Grand Prix of Figure Skating and the Junior Grand Prix.

The competition was held in Fukuoka, Japan from 5 to 8 December 2013, with medals awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.

Medalists

Senior

Junior

Medals table

Senior

Junior

Qualifiers

Senior-level qualifiers

Skaters who reached the age of 14 by 1 July 2013 were eligible to compete at two senior 2013–14 Grand Prix events – including the 2013 Skate America, 2013 Skate Canada International, 2013 Cup of China, 2013 NHK Trophy, 2013 Trophée Éric Bompard, and 2013 Rostelecom Cup – where they earned points according to their results. The six highest ranking skaters in each discipline qualified for the senior Grand Prix Final.

Changes to initial lineup: Daisuke Takahashi withdrew due to a leg injury. He was replaced by countryman Nobunari Oda.

Junior-level qualifiers

Skaters who reached the age of 13 by 1 July 2013 but had not turned 19 (singles and females of the other two disciplines) or 21 (male pair skaters and ice dancers) were eligible to compete at two 2013–14 ISU Junior Grand Prix events, earning points according to their results. The six highest-ranking skaters in each discipline qualified for the JGP Final.

Changes to initial lineup: Karen Chen withdrew due to an ankle injury and was replaced by fellow American Angela Wang.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2013–14 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final” is figure skating competition. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Grand, Prix and Figure, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Grand, Prix and Figure is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2013–14 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.