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ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2017/18 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2017/18 Ladies Rostelecom Cup Skate Canada Int. Audi Cup of China NHK Trophy Internationaux de Skate America Moscow / RUS Regina, SK / Canada Beijing / CHN Osaka / JPN France Lake Placid, NY / Grenoble / FRA USA October 20-22, 2017 October 27-29, 2017 November 3-5, 2017 November 10-12, 2017 November 17-19, 2017 November 24-26, 2017 Mae Berenice MEITE Alaine CHARTRAND Gabrielle DALEMAN Alaine CHARTRAND Kaetlyn OSMOND Gabrielle DALEMAN FRA CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN Ivett TOTH Kaetlyn OSMOND Xiangning LI Carolina KOSTNER Zijun LI Xiangning LI HUN CAN CHN ITA CHN CHN Carolina KOSTNER TBD Zijun LI Rika HONGO Laurine LECAVELIER Satoko MIYAHARA ITA CAN CHN JPN FRA JPN Wakaba HIGUCHI Laurine LECAVELIER Ziquan ZHAO Satoko MIYAHARA Mae Berenice MEITE Kaori SAKAMOTO JPN FRA CHN JPN FRA JPN Kaori SAKAMOTO Roberta RODEGHIERO Wakaba HIGUCHI Yuna SHIRAIWA Mai MIHARA Dabin CHOI JPN ITA JPN JPN JPN KOR Elizabet TURSYNBAEVA Marin HONDA Marin HONDA Soyoun PARK Yuna SHIRAIWA Alena LEONOVA KAZ JPN JPN KOR JPN RUS Soyoun PARK Rika HONGO Mai MIHARA Alena LEONOVA Elizabet TURSYNBAEVA Anna POGORILAYA KOR JPN JPN RUS KAZ RUS Evgenia MEDVEDEVA Nahyun KIM Dabin CHOI Evgenia MEDVEDEVA Maria SOTSKOVA Polina TSURSKAYA RUS KOR KOR RUS RUS RUS Elizaveta Elena RADIONOVA Anna POGORILAYA Elena RADIONOVA Polina TSURSKAYA Nicole RAJICOVA TUKTAMYSHEVA RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS SVK TBD Maria SOTSKOVA Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA Nicole RAJICOVA Alina ZAGITOVA Karen CHEN RUS RUS RUS SVK RUS USA Mariah BELL Karen CHEN Alina ZAGITOVA Mariah BELL Polina EDMUNDS Ashley WAGNER USA USA RUS USA USA USA Mirai NAGASU Ashley WAGNER Gracie GOLD Mirai NAGASU Gracie GOLD USA USA USA USA USA USA TBD 12 12 12 12 12 12 As of May 26, 2017 .
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